What Is “Sequential Timeline Therapy”? Part 2 of 3 : How To Create Your Timeline

Also read: What Is Sequential Therapy?

This is Part 2 of a 3-part series.
Part 1 of 3 : Sequential Timeline Therapy – Its History, and How We Practice It Today
Part 3 of 3 : Sequential timeline therapy – What it looks like in real life?

Video Transcription

Jeff Korentayer
Hello, and thanks for joining me. Today, I’m going to be going into part two of our three-part series on “What is ‘Sequential Timeline Therapy’?” And today’s topic is on the practical question of how to construct your timeline at the beginning of your treatment. So let me just switch my screen over to my slides. Oh, before I do that, please, if you have any questions, feel free to type them into the comment box. And if you’re watching live, I will address you right here now today. And if not, I will come back around to your comment and incorporate the question and answer into a future video. So let me switch my screen as I said.

Okay. So as I said, this is the second of three parts of our series on “What is ‘Sequential Timeline Therapy’?” The first part last week was on the history of sequential therapy. Today’s topic is on how to create your timeline. And next week, we will conclude with a look at some of the practical fallout as someone is going through their timeline treatment and some of the case examples (some of the things we see there), just to give you a little bit of an idea of what the timeline treatment is like in real life.

So for today’s topic (How to Create Your Timeline) the first thing before we dive right into the practical, I just want to remind you of a bit of the conceptual framework we’ve talked about in other videos, and that’s the idea of ‘tonic versus pathic’. Those are a little bit of technical jargon or words that we use in terms of the whole Heilkunst understanding of disease, but I’ll just spell it out a little bit here in terms of the timeline. We have, if you recall from that previous video, when we talk about pathic diseases, those are what a lot of the modern homeopaths mostly focus on (or almost entirely focus on) and they are the diseases which are expressing in a very specific symptom expression. So, the classic example, we talk about somebody with hay fever or seasonal allergies. They may have itchy, burning eyes and a runny nose and sneezing and these kinds of symptoms. Take down all their exact symptoms and then you will match the homeopathic remedy that matches those symptoms. So that’s well and good. That is effective and it works on those pathic diseases. But when we get into the tonic, or sorry, into the timeline, we’re getting into the other kind of diseases which are the tonic diseases. And those are what you could call almost a kind of an ‘invisible’ disease. You know, they can often exist even without any symptoms, maybe even barely a functional disturbance. But there’s something there, but it’s barely manifesting in the sensory visible world. So when we’re getting into the timeline, that’s precisely what we’re going after is all the history of someone’s shocks and traumas that they’ve experienced in their lifetime, as well as even going back into the family tree and into the genetic inheritance. We get all these certain set of chronic diseases which have come down genetically through the family line. So those are what we call the “chronic miasms”. So as a whole, when we’re looking at your individual timeline, shocks and traumas, as well as your family inheritance, all of those are tonic diseases. And that’s really the the primary focus when we’re getting into the timeline treatment.

So some of the examples of the timeline events that you will put on your timeline related to the physical level. Those could be any accidents or physical traumas, such as a car accident or a sports injury. It can be a broken bone or a sprain (an ankle sprain, something like that), surgeries and other invasive medical procedures. As well as any drug use, which includes both pharmaceutical or recreational drugs.

On the other side of the timeline, we have mental or emotional timeline events — what we call emotional shocks or emotional traumas. And the main examples, as I say here on the slide, when we have significant experiences of grief, loss, victimization, frustration, anxiety, fear, guilt, jealousy — a lot of the emotions kind of directly related to these. These are kind of primary. . . Back to my previous slide when we’re talking about the tonic diseases, a lot of the nature of these emotions and that the experiences that go with them, they create a kind of a tonic disease in the emotional body. And examples can include a sudden job loss, bereavement, an abusive relationship or a job, situation of extended stress or anxiety, or schoolyard bullying. So these are just some examples. But, essentially, anything which has a strong emotional impact, a strong shock or trauma at the emotional level, which in another language (I didn’t write this on the slide, but) the acronym we use is NBWS (never been well since). So again, if somebody had a big job loss or a big emotional event like these, they may have started to have a health problem that began there. And I’m always listening for the patient to use a phrase like that, you know, “I’ve never been well since __,” whatever their life event was. Or “I’ve never quite felt like myself,” or something like that.

Now, when you are beginning your treatment, when we’re setting up your file, this is one of the first things that you’re going to do. You’re going to go to our website here, arcanum.ca/timeline. And you can download this document. And it outlines a lot of the things I just said, but it goes into some other categories such as severe infections, I mentioned the drug use that also includes birth control pills and other hormone interventions. I mentioned the accidents, the surgeries, the birth event (that’s actually a huge thing). We would probably even do a whole separate video just on all the birth interventions, the forceps and the induction, the drugs given to the mother, so on and so forth. As I said, we could probably do a whole video just on that part of the timeline. But it’s definitely becoming one of the biggest categories of significance as we go through someone’s timeline when we’re working back. And by the way, maybe I should have said that at the beginning, the way we treat the timeline is in reverse chronological order. So, when we’re talking about the birth, that’s one of the very last things we treat on the timeline. We work our way back to that. So we start in present time, then we work all the way back.

The second page that you’ll download when you’re creating your timeline. This just gives kind of a sample of what the format could look like (something like this). As you see it’s very point form. It’s very concise. It just gets to the what’s the essence of the shock. And don’t worry if you feel that there’s not enough detail there. As you work with your practitioner, that’s part of the whole process is more of the dialogue about these things — to get more detail as necessary, to expand on what happened, to get more of a picture of what that event was and how it impacted on you. A lot of that will come out in the dialoguing. But as long as you get the best chronological account that you can to the best of your memory — what the year even what the month or day was. If you can get it down to that level and you could just put it in chronological order — whether you put it in reverse chronological order or forward chronological order (starting with the birth and working back up to the present), either way, as long as it’s in sequence – that’s the main thing. And as you can see, some of the examples here like “2002 August laid off from work, period of high stress — headaches began”. So that gives us some really good concise information about that. We would probably ask in the dialogue part of it (one on one), What kind of headaches? Were they in the left or the right? What were some of the descriptive words that describes those headaches? So just for example, that would be a detail we may go into further expansion on. “2001 January severe bronchitis — 4 weeks in bed, antibiotic use, exhaustion”. Okay, so that outlines both a pathogenic disease as far as the tonic diseases, as well as an iatrogenic disease in terms of the antibiotic use. So we’d get a little bit of a complex timeline event there with more than one thing happening simultaneously. So anyways, I’m not going to go through everything here. But you’ll see this in your sample. This gives you a little bit of an idea of what kinds of events we’re talking about, and how we write them down, how we put them in chronological sequence. And of course, you can model your timeline to be something similar to this.

Now, another thought I have here is “Where to source your timeline info”. Obviously, for most of our childhood and early adult life, we have memories of most of what we’ve gone through. But when you get back before the beginning of learning language, we don’t generally have many memories of from the time we were born up until the time was started to talk, or very little people may have a few fleeting things. But this is where you may want to call your mom or maybe dad to find out more about the actual birth events — what you and mom went through during the birth, as well as the pregnancy. You know, did your mother go through any, any kind of pregnancy shocks or things that were going on in her life that were stressful or things like that? So anyway, the things that are not directly in your memory, as I say, you could pick up the phone, call your mom or dad. Or, as I say, you can also look more deeply into your medical records. If they’re in your doctor’s office, or your original. If you were at a hospital birth, the original hospital records. So some of the phone calls, you can start to track some of those things down. As well as when you get into the genetic history in the family. Aside from talking to your mom and dad, then maybe a call to an aunt or an uncle or cousin or grandparents. Anyone like that who may be able to answer some of your questions, fill in the gaps of the general family history, what seems to be some of the patterns that seem to have been in past generations and what exists in some of the current generations today, some of the current living relatives that you can still talk to you directly.

And the other last topic also, this comes up in different facets. I say the question here, “What if key information is missing?” And the extreme example of that, let’s say if someone has been adopted and there’s no known family history from the birth family. Then we’re kind of dealing with a big blank slate there. At a similar level, sometimes we might have forgotten periods of our life. Or for specific reasons, the memory has been lost as kind of a medical condition due to a shock or trauma as a direct outcome of that. Or again, just a more of the garden-variety level of just simply forgetting things, like if we’re prompted later, they may come back into our memory. So all of the above, including the adoption and no written down known history, we will use other diagnostic methods to fill in the blank. So, between the way we diagnose the tonic diseases through general signs and symptoms and the person’s health history, through the state of mind, as well, we can use our core energetic system (something I’ve explored in other videos, I’m not going to explain it here). (But it’s basically a way we can diagnose some of those missing unknown pieces.) And through that we can. . . it’s a little bit like a forensic detective or something like that. We can kind of reconstruct the timeline events that we don’t have written down just because we have other means to get it. Now, as I say to the degree, when someone does have memory and does have a written history, of course, we always use that as our basic map. But even there, even with or without any of these situations here, we still have other means to reconstruct some of the missing elements in the timeline. So, as I said, all is not lost. We do have other avenues to get the answers that we’re looking for there.

So that’s the end of the formal presentation. As I say, if you are watching live with me right now, I can certainly entertain any questions if you post them into the comment box below the video. And otherwise, if your comments comes in after the fact, I will incorporate that into a future video. Oh, and I always forget to click this button. I mean to come back on screen so I can say hello again. Here I am. And I do have a question that’s come in. Give me a moment. Let me just read this here.

The question. . . I’ll just read it out loud just so you can all hear this. You may be are not all seeing the same comment box, depending on where you’re watching the video. It says, “Could pathic diseases also be described. . .” Actually, here, I can put this on the screen. “Could pathic diseases also be described as the pathological expression (symptoms) off the root tonic cause? A dynamic polarity? The dropper bottles addresses the pathic noise while timeline addressed the root cause from the present back to one’s birth and right into the inherited miasms.” Yes, that’s more or less correct. And we’re kind of getting a little bit into a technical distinction there, which is good to make. I have gone more into detail into this into a previous video. I’ll add that link in when we publish this video after the fact. Let me just unhide my face there. But yeah, that whole idea of the pathic being directly related to the tonic, exactly. The other way to say that is there would be no pathic disease if there weren’t any tonic disease. Let’s say, there would be no tree roots to take hold in the soil from which the tree and the branches and the leaves could sprout from. So as an analogy, we could think of the pathic that way. Yes, they are a disease that’s kind of sprouted out of the soil of this deeper tonic disease. So I hope that answers the question you’re getting out there. But yeah, I think that is a good distinction to keep in mind, especially as we’re navigating the whole map of the timeline. And we will also go more deeply into that in the third part next week, when we use some more real life examples. So we’ll kind of see those concepts play out.

And the next question or comment here says, “Also, I find that adopted kids will most often have the same inherited issues as adoptive parents due to resonance.” Yeah, that’s a fascinating insight and observation, and that’s very true. Of course, we’re all focused on biology and genetics and everything and what a baby inherits from their genetic parents. But yeah, that’s a fascinating observation, Allyson, which is that they’re no accidents, right? The fact that a baby is adopted by a given set of parents, it wasn’t just a roll of the dice, or just happenstance. But there’s a broader principle of resonance which governs the universe as a whole and how people interrelate and who comes into whose life and that itself was a very, very fascinating topic. So, I do thank you for that very, very good expansion on the topic as well.

So I will leave the window open for another moment. I know there is a delay between when I’m speaking and then when you hear me. I think that maybe something like 30 seconds later. So we’re in a little bit of a time warp here with each other. But yeah, I’ll give it a few more seconds in case someone is typing a final question. But otherwise, in a moment, I will be closing the video. And I’ll, of course, leave this up. We can continue to have questions and answers after the fact. And when we’re out of real time like we are now.

Part 1 of 3 : Sequential Timeline Therapy – Its History, and How We Practice It Today
Part 3 of 3 : Sequential timeline therapy – What it looks like in real life?

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