Time Line Therapy® was developed by Dr. Tad James by applying NLP process of modelling to ancient Hawaiian kahunas. It has more to do with spiritual growth and development than any other personal development approach.

For example, the process of Samskara Shuddhi in Karma Yoga is almost the same as letting go of negative emotions and limiting decisions with Time Line Therapy®. The Buddhist and Vedic theory of samskaras refers to dysfunctional patterns that trace their origins not only to childhood and birth traumas, but also to previous lifetimes. The law of Karma is related to these samskaras. According to them, every moment lived unconsciously creates samskaras, or karmic imprints, where the light from the soul gets dimmed. Samskara means "past impression recorded in mind" and "Shuddhi" means "cleansing".

By cleansing the impression the circle of events is broken and the person is freed from Karma. In this regard, samskara corresponds to the significant emotional event in terms of Time Line Therapy® that could have happens in this lifetime as well as pass down genealogically or experienced before birth in a womb or even in a past life and the cleansing in the process of releasing of negative emotion with Time Line Therapy®. Once we become aware of the roots of a dysfunctional pattern, the awareness itself can release the emotional charge which in Time Line Therapy® is achieved by getting the learnings.