What Are Timelines?
Timelines create a pathway and a frequency that affect our lives
The following notes were taken by me after listening to Jennifer Hoffman’s video about Timelines: at
https://www.facebook.com/likejennifer/videos/1178424349754882.
A timeline is an energetic outcome of a linear event or a linear expression of a genetic imprint.
The one with the strongest energy is the one affecting us in the moment.
Timelines create a pathway and a frequency that affect our lives. They are not always linear in the sense of one after the other, but are a line of events and our interpretations of the events.
These timelines radiate out from us and can be joined by lines of outcomes from other events.
Triggers are an event that sets off a particular unhelpful Timeline.
Our subconscious may tend to choose events, people, and places that trigger the Timeline that has the strongest hold on us.
For example, “Any time I — — , ____ will happen.”
“Any time I try to help somebody, I fail” is an example of a Timeline.
A timeline is the energy or concept around an event !
Timelines are from the past and present and can be inherited.
A Timeline is made up of your beliefs and emotions around an event, e.g. “I can’t do anything right.”
This is the context. Events are expressions of this timeline concept.
Think about the story you are telling yourself about an event.
For example, once Jennifer told her children to set the table or else they would be sent to bed with bread and milk. Later they would tell the story “remember that day when mum wouldn’t feed us?”
This is a STORY they chose to tell but Jennifer would never not feed her kids. She was fed up and tired and the kids were squabbling about whose turn it was to set the table so she merely told them they wouldn’t get a full meal unless the table was set.
Other kids would have told the story “We weren’t helping Mum so she told us we wouldn’t get our dinner, just bread and milk, and that made us learn that we should actually help mum.”
You must be in alignment with the energy that you want or that is supportive by finding and telling the right story. YOU choose in the moment based upon your energy signature or way of relating to the world.
For example, Jennifer’s kids, rather than telling others “Mum punished us for nothing” could have said:
“Mum does a lot for us and we are grateful and should help her, but we didn’t that day and she was tired and fed up and that’s why _____.”
The foundational energies in the world are LOVE and an absence of LOVE. Where there’s an absence of loving understanding or compassion toward others, your Timeline tends to propagate distressful feelings because you are being restrictive or closing yourself to the world of possibilities.
How timelines work
Jennifer Hoffman says that an outcome of an event may be that you feel betrayed, and then your reaction will be to think and believe:
“I’ll always be betrayed by someone”
CHANGE YOUR TIMELINE THROUGH —
AWARENESS
ALIGNMENT
ACCEPTANCE
- Awareness — what happened and why?
- Alignment — choose what energy you want to embody or learn. Will you choose to be the victim or choose to be empowered even if by learning what shouldn’t be done if you were neglected or otherwise hurt. What did you learn, e.g. empathy for people going through similar events. Are you meant to help others based upon what you’ve learned?
- Acceptance — accept what happened and how you are feeling now related to what happened. The event was real, it happened and you can’t change the past. But you can accept that it happened AND you can say “I’m going to stop being — [ negatively affected by the past ], e.g. fill in “stop being — angry / disappointed / frightened — because of the past.”
For healing and closure and different outcomes, choose or decide to stop handing over your energy to the past.
Understand that a lot of people do things — in spite of you or us — for themselves.
This means that people may project (act like) they want to help you, but they may be doing it completely THEIR way and not fulfilling your needs.
If they are not respectful by doing this, then you can choose to not give your energy to them — to ignore them and not let yourself get upset by them. They are doing it to make themselves feel good or better, inherently.
Instead, focus on the energy, events, and people who truly care for you, and support them!
Dissolve unhelpful timelines so that they are not running through you currently, causing energy blockages and stress.
Timelines can repeat themselves, e.g. “I was hurt — abandoned / neglected / ridiculed / disrespected ___ “ and when you engage with this energy consciously or subconsciously, you propagate it !
Joy and happiness are energies that we must be able to allow and receive freely.
Trauma and put-downs result in you becoming like an ember, i.e. you fuel other’s “fire” or help others, BUT your own potential and life is in the background, not growing — it smoulders and is weakened.
You need to expand your energetic sense of events, e.g. “I can drive a car” may mean you drive automatics only but you are really confident you could drive a manual if you had to. You may believe or attach yourself to the thought “I can drive an automatic car only” which is restrictive, because there are possibilities for you to be taught to drive a manual or to learn if you had to.
Why we Self-sabotage
Self-sabotage is due to 2 reasons, one because you dislike yourself and are subconsciously punishing yourself. The other is to make a declaration to the world, that “this is what it is like for me” or the sense that “I’ll show you ___ “ to a perpetrator. However, the thing is the perpetrator won’t know this is what you think or are trying to do, and even if they did, they might not care.
You are thus wasting your energy by running old unhelpful timelines.
The key is how you interpret the energy around your past!
Choose the story that you tell yourself around getting hurt in the past. Your viewpoints may be subtle but they contribute to either supporting and uplifting you or continuing the old damaging timelines.
Jennifer Hoffman says the following are key to working with your timelines.
WISDOM
WORTH
WEALTH
Understand the “wisdom” or the learning from events.
Believe in your self-worth and transmute the energy of sadness, fear, etc. into happiness. For example, say out loud or to others how well you have managed your challenging life. Celebrate your achievements or write or sing about them. Use decrees or other tools to lessen unwanted heavy emotions.
Consciously generate WEALTH, which doesn’t mean money abundance but means a rich, happy or satisfying life — from community, connection, self-worth, and self-esteem.
Change your Timeline
How you use Timelines matters ! Jennifer suggests to focus on the following:
REVISE
RENEW
RE-VIBE
Revise and change “bad things happen to me” to “good things happen to me.”
Renew by finding the pearl of wisdom in your experiences and choosing the energy or perspective from an event that supports you. It’s okay to say out loud or silently what your thoughts are about someone who is disrespectful to you, to vent that energy. BUT don’t dwell or get stuck in that energy of anger, indignation, righteousness, and revenge.
This is coming from a Timeline that tells you a story like “People should always be nice to me, that person wasn’t, it’s not fair, people are not nice to me” where you feel that you are the victim.
And you may even pad this out by thinking something like:
“Why should I be nice to people? I am nice to others but they aren’t nice to me.”
But this just tangles up your energy and leaves you in awful knots.
Re-vibe yourself.
The truth is that you don’t have to be nice to anyone who doesn’t respect you. You can be civil toward them, but you are not responsible for them. They can look after themselves and self-love and self-care for YOU is essential for your well-being!
And this requires you to disengage from the energy (feelings) of an event, i.e. to tell yourself supportive things in relation to it, but nothing that is a put-down to either yourself or the other (which is a Timeline of “I am right and they are wrong”).
Re-vibe or change the “truth” around events that have happened. For example, yes, you were abandoned or hurt in the past, but the TRUTH is NOT —
“Bad things happen” or “People are horrible”
The truth is that something happened, but your mission is to treat this as a Timeline or something that you can learn from, whether that be helping yourself if your family neglected you or something else undesirable happened, or applying what you learned to help others.
Turn your ailments into fuel for your powers.
For example, if you experienced neglect, you will be able to empathize with and help others who are going through similar situations. Choose to expand your learning or lessons from your past events / experiences as widely as possible, to connect to and support and uplift others, AND to GROW spiritually.
For example, you know what it’s like not to feel unappreciated, so when someone does something you don’t like DON’T then turn around and purposely unappreciate them!
Integrity is about always being in alignment with your values in all ways!
The “higher path” would be to actually find things you appreciate about someone who has rattled you, for consolation for yourself and to stay on the Timeline that “we can both learn from this experience.” It’s not up to you to FORCE the other person to learn anything, but you can rest in the fact or know that there’s the potential for it.
Practical Steps for moving into your higher Timeline
Embrace the feelings and the turmoil that you went through as something that makes you stronger and aware of intense events and outcomes, thoughts, and feelings, which you CAN manage.
Moment to moment self-awareness is critical to look out for triggers.
Find and ditch your emotional baggage i.e. the thoughts, demands, wrong thinking, resistance or unacceptance, and intense and unnecessary emotions which you have generated by past events.
Look at your most important Timelines that you are attached to and clean them up. This is what is meant by stepping out of unhelpful and unhealthy timelines and following or stepping into a Timeline that supports you.
It can be surprising just how many self-defeating thoughts you have that put yourself down, especially if you are a kind person and care about others. Pay attention to all of your thoughts.
For example, you may fleetingly think “she hates me” or “that person doesn’t like me” but this could be you dipping into a certain timeline.
For example, if a family member did something to you that made you think and feel this, a current event may trigger that memory and feeling. You immediately decide “that person doesn’t like me”, BUT you CAN pull away from that immediate unhelpful energy.
You can dip into another Timeline such as “I do my best and I can’t please everyone.”
It could be that the person doesn’t like something that you did or the person thinks you were careless, but it may NOT be a case that the person dislikes or hates you. Ask yourself is there irrefutable evidence of the latter?
And even if the person gets something wrong about you, is overly attached to you, or is unnecessarily critical of you, you get to CHOOSE the Timeline that you walk in !!
You may spend some money then tell yourself off for being spendthrift. Whenever you have a “bad” or unsettling feeling or emotion, pull back (distance yourself) and ask what is at the bottom of it. In this example, it could be that you felt guilt over something as a child.
Could the Timeline “I can’t do anything right” or “I don’t deserve happiness” be running for you right now? If yes, choose to dissolve it and step into a supportive Timeline, such as: “I am enough and it is great to feel happy and safe and satisfied in all ways.”
Take stock and be wise — revise — re-vibe.
Use your wisdom, worth, and wealth to disengage. For example, think about other possibilities — try distancing yourself from the event — as though you are an onlooker or observer !!
Working consciously with your Timelines through self-awareness, healthy perspectives, looking for the foundational energy behind a timeline, and managing your emotions will increase your health, wealth, and happiness.
Here’s to a peaceful, happy, healthy timeline!
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