Jimmy Petruzzi, author of the best-selling NLP book Excel at Sports, will guide us through the Neuro Linguistic Programming concept of Time Lines and how they can be used by Energists to help a client overcome limiting decisions and program a positive future.

Jimmy writes: In NLP we refer to time lines to describe how people spatially store information about events which occurred in different times (our unique way of internally representing chronological time). It is supposed that if we did not have a system for coding time in this way, it might be difficult to differentiate between something which happened last week and something which happened, say, six months ago.

It can be very obvious where people spatially store their memories. How often do you notice that when people refer to past events they gesture to their left, or behind themselves? And when people refer to the future, they often gesture to their right, or in front.

Time lines, like all experience, have structure and therefore have submodalities. These may easily be manipulated to change the meaning of events which occurred in the past, or to influence events which may happen in the futu