Timeline therapy is a simple yet powerful visualization process that can be used to obtain fast relief from anxiety producing events. This method is most effective if there is a specific event in the future that you have anxiety about. It can also be used effectively for events that have occurred in the pastalthough I do not describe that here.

In this article I outline the technique you can use for specific future events that are causing you anxiety.

Timeline therapy uses the power of your unconscious thinking, along with conscious visualization, to help you overcome anxiety that you may have about past and future events.

Have you ever meditated before? This will be different.

Have you ever used hypnosis before? This will be different.

Have you ever done creative visualization before? This will be different.

Have you ever daydreamed before? This will be different.

Timeline therapy could best be described as a cross between hypnosis and neuro linguistic programming techniques (NLP).

This process requires that you be in a safe comfortable and relaxing place. It takes about 10 minutes. Only do this process when you can turn all of your attention inward.

Are you ready? Here we go. Do this after you’ve completely read these instructions.

First, you will close your eyes. Close your eyes, and think of the event which you have anxiety about. What is the specific day, and time, that the event is going to occur? If you’re not sure of the time just pick a reasonable time.

Now, with your eyes closed, imagine that you can float out of your body, and directly up above your body, float right up into the air.

Now, float out into your future, just imagine you can float into your future, right above the day and the time of the specific event that your anxious about. Just looked down and notice the event.

Now, float further into your future, to 15 minutes after the event has successfully concluded.

Turn so that you’re facing the event, successfully concluded.

Now, where is the anxiety?

It’s gone isn’t it?

Float back to now, and back down into your body, and take a deep breath, let it out, open your eyes and come back into the room.

Now that you’ve read this complete process, and even seeing how it ends, regardless of whether you’re skeptical or not, I invite you to do the process.

If you’re not sure about where your future is, then before you start this exercise, think about something that you know you’re going to do in the future. Like take a vacation or go to a party, or perhaps an appointment you have next week.

Now thinking about that future event, from what direction relative to your body does that future event come from?

Did that help? Remember, you are using your unconscious conception of time. So we are most interested in allowing this sense of the direction of your future to arise, naturally, from your unconscious.

If you are not used to working with, or communicating directly with your unconscious mind, then this may take a little practice. You can practice by relaxing, closing your eyes, and just thinking about a future pleasant event that you know you are going to be doing.

You can practice doing this with events at different time intervals, like one day, one week, one month, three or four months, you get the idea.

I have found that doing this just one time with something I’m anxious about can help to relieve the anxiety. This gives great relief, very quickly, to those who are able to use their imagination in the way I have outlined here. I know you can do all the things I’ve described here today.

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