Visualizing Time: Individuals create a timeline, past to future.This makes thoughts and emotions relate to past experiences and future goals.
Revisiting Events: Thru memories their timelines can reprocess emotions and beliefs. This can help in reframing negative experiences to create positive ones.
Goal Setting: Timelines can be used to map out future goals, to achieve identify potential obstacles.
Changing Perceptions: By altering the way an event is positioned on the timeline you can change your emotional response to that memory.This technique is often employed to help gain insight into clients.