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If the person has had many experiences of shame, it can be very useful to use timeline generalization to help the person reevaluate all their past experiences of shame in the way they have just learned through the shame resolution pattern.
“You have just reprocessed an experience of shame in a way that gives you more choices about how you respond to situations in which someone else has different values or standards than you do. I want you to take this capability with you back to an earlier time in your life, before you had any experiences of shame, and come rapidly forward through time, carrying this ability with you as part of yourself, reprocessing any other experiences of shame, realizing that much of this will take place at the unconscious level. Take all the time you need, and when you reach the present, see yourself moving forward through time, still carrying this ability with you.”
This timeline generalization process can have a dramatic impact on a multitude of past experiences as it installs this ability as a “through time” and cross-contextual ability that becomes part of the person’s sense of themselves, their identity. This is particularly useful if the shame was about the self, rather than just about a specific behavior.
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