A Script is a personal life plan decided upon in the childhood in response to the stimuli received from others. This plan is made, as an interpretation of external and internal events, with an urge to make sense of the external world, to come to terms with it and secure one's place in it.
This life script might not remain constant, and therefore gets modified with every influential exchange of transactions with others. However, the basic core of the life script a person carries throughout his life gets decided upon at the tender age of seven as per TA analysts.
It gets strengthened or reinforced by parents and teachers in early life. It is generally decisional and responsive outcome of transactions. These scripts are developed by a person in the Child ego state with I am Not OK, You are OK life position.
Generally, life scripts carried by most of the human beings are destructive and limiting in nature, they could also be equally positive or beneficial and depends on the choice of the persons.
The best part about a life script is that it is not a pre-determined or a characteristic feature coming by birth, but is something that is acquired with experience. Therefore, a life script can be modified by conscious effort and positive and useful scripts can be developed and followed by choice.
Although the life plans are a product of the childhood, they are usually reflected at the core of the transactional exchanges in the adulthood also, coming from any of the Ego States - the Child, the Adult or the Parent.
Life Script Analysis helps us to revisit our beliefs and redefine them in order to grow as mature individuals by transferring Life Scripts across the Ego state ladder. Life Scripts can be modified in tune with the changing developments in life. This will help us to transact from the Adult Ego State, as a mature person, initiating fruitful and complementary exchanges with others in everyday life.
Life Scripts need to be identified, and analyzed before deciding on the necessary changes for creating a successful and fruitful life plan.
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