Ben Neil

Timeline Therapy, from the perspective of NLP, begins with a quiet yet radical understanding: the past does not live behind us in fixed form. It lives within us as meaning. Every memory we carry is not a recording of what happened, but an interpretation shaped by emotion, belief, and the level of awareness we had at the time. NLP teaches that we move through life along an internal timeline, unconsciously organizing experiences into “before,” “now,” and “after.” When painful events remain...

Belief systems, according to the NLP model, are not abstract philosophies we carry passively in the background of our lives. They are living frameworks through which we interpret every experience. What we believe determines what we notice, what we ignore, what we attempt, and what we quietly decide is impossible before we ever begin. In this way, beliefs act like invisible lenses shaping the quality of our inner world. Two people can face the same circumstances and live entirely different...

There is a quiet misunderstanding woven into much of our language around growth and transformation. We speak of becoming , becoming wiser, becoming awakened, becoming whole, as though something essential is missing and must be acquired. Yet initiation does not move in the direction of accumulation. It moves inward. What we call transformation is not the creation of a new self, but the remembering of what has always been present beneath conditioning, fear, and forgetting. What falls away along...