Timelines

There are real neurological structures that support our experience of time, past, present and future. In NLP, understanding timelines is critical to our understanding of subjective experience.

Eliciting Timelines

Everyone has an intuitive notion of time, distant past relative to recent past, the present, the near future or distant future are all arranged in some manner for each of us.

In Time vs. Through Time

In Time:

• Your time line goes through your body
• You are associated in the now
• You are not aware of time passing
• You tend to have associated memories
• You tend not to plan you avoid deadlines or are not good at keeping them

Through Time:

• Your time line passes outside your body
• You are dissociated from the now
• You are aware of time passing
• You tend to have dissociated memories
• You tend to plan ahead
• You are aware of deadlines and are good at keeping them