The concept of Time Line Therapy is an ancillary form of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)and Ericksonian Hypnosis. This concept was first developed in 1985, by Tad James. His ideas were then produced through his first book, "Time Line Therapy and the Basics of Personality" which was published in 1988. The basic concept followed in Tad James' theories on therapy is that it helps describe the human experience with time.

This therapy has the potential to make sense of your temporal (pertaining to time) experiences. It also proves to change your perception of negative experiences that you have endured during your lifetime. With this information, you can create a more meaningful future by understanding human temporal experience.

Everyone has their own time lines, which is basically the method your unconscious mind tends to encode and store your past memories. With your time line, you learn to differentiate between a past memory and a future dream; with the time line being an unconscious process, that you will seldom be aware of its functioning. This form of therapy keeps working throughout your life, recording and storing whatever events and memories you come across.

The benefits of Tad James' therapeutical techniques that have been discovered are that it is finally possible for one to resolve any and all significant events that occur in a person's life. Along with this, it is possible to release whatever negative thoughts or emotions a person may have associated with those memories. These negative emotions can be erased from one's memory both quickly and easily within a short period of time.

The main reason one employs temporal therapy is to release negative thoughts. If a person keeps negative thoughts pent up within them, a time will come when these feelings of anger can no longer be contained and they will release the anger from their past memories, perhaps on others or themself. This anger proves to be destructive to the person and may only bring about problems throughout their life.

With the help of this form of therapy, it is possible to eliminate limiting decisions. These limiting decisions may include thoughts that one is not smart enough or that they will never be successful. These attitudes are developed because of a wrong decision made at some point in a person's life. Everyone is sure to have gone through some incident in the past, where a different decision made then would have lead them to a different position or situation today.

So with the help of Tad James' therapy, one reevaluates their past to change decisions they are limited with as one's present behavior is usually dependant on the decisions made in the past. All the decisions one makes are stored in the time line, with which it is possible for one to access.

Finally, the most important benefit of time line therapy is helping you create your future just the way you want or picture it and then actually helping you create that experience so that it will happen in the future. It should be known that the process of creating one's future is as powerful as the process involved in the releasing of negative emotions and clearing all limiting decisions. These three techniques are collectively considered to be the major techniques of temporal therapy.

It can be said that this form of therapy is a concept in which the therapist employs the knowledge he has on the storage of memories. Consequently, the therapists use this knowledge to find out the effect these stored memories produce on the individual personalities of the person.

People involved in Time Line Therapy know that the thoughts that are stored in a person tend to mould and shape one's personality and that with therapy our thoughts can help us build a better, more positive future for ourself.