00. Script and Its Cure Slide Contents

Topics List 

01 Understanding Personality, 

02 What makes Script Possible, 

03 Do I have a script 1, 

04 What is Script, 

05 Do I have a script 2, 

06 Qualities of a script free person, How is script sustained, 

07 TA Techniques to achieve script cure, 

08 Self Help Methods for Script Cure, 

09 Precautionary Measures, 

Topic 1 - Understanding Personality

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Understanding Personality

Personality rules all - our thinking, feeling, behaviour, perceiving, evaluating, assessing, drawing conclusions, generating responses, and resulting mind talk and thinking feeling log-jams and down-spins.

Topic 2 - What makes Script Possible

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What makes script possible We humans are tamed animals Our thinking, feeling, emoting, perceiving, evaluating, assessing, concluding, responding etcetera is controlled by an installed programme.

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Berne writes in Hello pg. 87 Ch. 4A Characteristics of Tamed Animals Tamed animals ..... can be taught to behave as their master wishes even when he is away. Eric Berne says that there are various degrees of tameness, and the tamest animals of all are human children.

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Then he proceeds to write that The typical human being, carries out his script because it is planted in his head at an early age by his parents, and stays there for the rest of his life. It acts like a computer tape or a player piano roll, which brings out the responses long after the person who punched the holes has departed the scene. Edited version of the content.

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Why and How does script occur Games Alcoholics Play Steiner Pg. 32 The script, then, is based on a decision made by the Adult in the young person who, with all of the information at his disposal at the time, decides that a certain position and life course are a reasonable solution to the existential predicament in which he finds himself. His predicament comes from the conflict between his own autonomous tendencies and the injunctions received from his primary family group. The most important influence or pressure impinging upon the youngster originates from the parental Child that is, child ego state in the parent of the person are the determining factors in the formation of scripts.

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Topic 3 - Do I have a script

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If I experience feeling angry, sad, afraid, pained, hurt, insulted, cornered, wronged, guilty, blamed, inadequate, righteous or triumphant and that I cannot discard or sublimate the feeling before going to bed at night. Hello 166 PTS are the currency of Transactional Rackets - parents teach how to feel when things go wrong. Hello 169

My mind is unnecessarily occupied with events that have happened or are likely to happen. 

If I cannot spend time when alone and with equal ease when in the company of others. 

I cannot forgive and forget.

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What is Script Then Script is a psychological force which propels the person toward his destiny, regardless of whether he fights it or ays it is his own free will. Hello 52 What is the solution Install a new destiny goal How By using the power of cybernetics.

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Things to remember while curing script Script has inertia and homeostasis.

Therefore it resists change and maintains its stability when one attempts to rewrite it.

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Personality and script are two faces of the same coin serviced by ‘script’ beliefs.

What we hold makes us who we become. Thinking, Feelings and feelings make that magic happen. Magic formulation to freedom from script. Change the thinking feelings and beliefs. Freedom from script is rewarded.

Topic 4 - What is Script

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1. Script is a Life Plan, a destiny generator and destiny actualiser. Script is a life plan based on decisions made in childhood reinforced by parents, justified by subsequent events, and culminating in a chosen alternative. Fate is the pre-ordained goal we are living out because we have made no effort to change it. Destiny is the preordained goal we will eventually accomplish if we do not act to change it. Script is the programme which services of fate to deliver our destiny by our ongoing choices, decisions (by choice or in unawareness - like in the games of solitaire and rummy)

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2. Script is a transference phenomenon. Scripts belong in the realm of transference phenomena that is they are derivatives or more precisely adaptations of infantile reactions and experiences. TAP 130 Ch. 11

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3. Scripts are adaptations aiding survival. TAP191

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4. Script is a psychocybernetic mechanism. It gets programmed to acquire its goal - destiny goal - script. Humans can successfully call upon the future to influence the past. Berne on the nature of communication.

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5. Script is a transference drama, played out as derivative of the childhood drama. TAP 130 Script does not deal with a mere transference reaction or transference situation; it is an attempt to repeat in derivative form a whole transference drama, often split up into acts, exactly like the theatrical scripts which are intuitive artistic derivatives of these primal dramas of childhood.

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6. Script is a childhood drama played out in a derivative form. It is not a battle between abstract forces, but reduplicates actural fights for survival between real people or at least that is the way the person experiences it. TAP 71 Scripts are like theatrical scripts whcih are intuitive artistic derivatives of primal dramas of childhood. TAP 130

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7. Scripts are derivatives of Oedipus dramas and Aristotelian Tragic Dramas. Oedipus Drama Hello 73 Aristotelian Tragic Drama Hamartetikos (Prone to failure) - Games Alcoholics Play

Topic 5 - Do I have a script

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Do I have a script 

A condensed Script Check List Hello 480-482

Am I free of a script

A Therapy Check List Hello 482-484

I am free of a script If I can go against my inhibitions and can be free of my compulsiveness. If I am free of mind talk. If I can discharge my particularly disturbing, hurtful feelings safely.

Topic 6 - Qualities of a script free person

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A script free person is 

 1. A real person who lives in a real world in a real way

2. One who normally resides in the Child and quickly moves to Adult to deal with reality situations.

3. One who successfully postpones and delays responses to urges, drives and impulses

4. One who possesses a non-talking mind

5. One who enjoys freedom from psychological time engagements

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A script free person is

6. One whose mind is engaged in activities he / she is presently pursuing

7. One who frequently moves to here-now consciously

8. One who has no urge or stalls the urge to engage with others in games and reverses the progress of game midway

9. One who is free of withdrawal in thinking and feeling logjams and down-spins

10. One who does not tarry in past events and occurrences

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A Script-free person is

11. One who is argely free of compulsiveness and inhibited living

12. One who is free from distorting, presuming, labelling and justifying, protecting and professing own view.

13. One who recognises that people are beyond blame

14. One who is free of believing in astrological, palmistry, numerological, other predictions and prophesies

15. Lives beyond cultural, social and family norms.

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A Script-free person is

16. One who is able to spend time socially and solitarily with equal ease in the company of others

17. One who sublimates day’s experiences successfully

18. Free of tangential, blocking and four crossed transactions

19. Able to generate options and then is able to decide not to respond

20. Has awareness when engaged in driver activity and process script engagements.

Topic 6 - How is script sustained

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         1. Script is sustained by :

1. Parental directives

2. A childhod decision

3. A suitable personality development

4. A real turn-on to a method of success or failure

5. A credible stance / convincing attitude Hello 55

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Script is sustained by :

2. Supply of Psychological Trading Stamps.

3. Engagements in games and rackets.

4. Thinking feeling log-jams and down-spins.

5. Overlaps of reach-backs and after-burns.

6. Letting mind think without purpose.

7. Justifying, protecting & professing own view. to be the only valid and correct view.

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Script is sustained by :

8. Dysfunctionally servicing psychological hungers.

9. Engaging in passivity, passive behaviours and thinking disorders.

10. Generating script beliefs supporting ego states.

11. Taking no action to generate a new destiny goal using the psycho-cybernetic mechanism.

Topic 7 - TA Techniques to achieve script cure

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1. By acting on script sustainers by

1. Disregarding parental directives.

2. Replacing childhood decision.

3. Installing a new personality.

4. Catching the turn-on and acting it out differently.

5. Stopping to use credible stance / convincing attitude.

Hello 362-364 Script cure happens when the person cuts loose from Parent programming allowing the Child to be freer, thereby putting an autonomous show on the road.

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2. By not allowing day’s experiencesto tarry into sleep

3. Reducing engagements in games in terms of frequency and stopping them mid-way as they progress 

 4. Discarding /discharging / sublimating racket feelings

5. Using capacities of 5-12 year old children to forgive and forget and jump to autonomy and OK-OK relating

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 6. Owning up racket behaviour and consciously withdrawing from racketeering.

 7. Withdrawing from variety of transactional rackets by focusing on noise and currencies

 8. Bringing mind into here-now again and again

 9. Consciously using the power of cybernetics

10. Thinking and feeling differently to repeating patterns of occurrences

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11. By consciously focusing on noticing and recognising who-so-ever we happen to meet without baggage

12. Stopping harvesting of psychological trading stamps

13. Developing cordiality, love and affection by recalling that personality rules all and persons are innocent

14. Remaining free of expecting and anticipating

15. Taking life as it comes

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16. Stopping assigning cause, blaming and giving back 

17. Noticing and repeating without gallows smile, laugh and gesturing

18. Giving up transferential relating and interacting

19. Taking up activities for happy living

20. Being conscious about our citizenship and sustainability responsibilities

Topic 8 - Self Help Methods for Script Cure

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1. Choosing a preplanned volitional approach based on conviction, commitment, determination and dedication.

2. Reciting commitments.

 3. Using cybernetics.

4. Postponing responses to urges, drives and impulses.

5. Reciting wonderful.

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6. Freeing the Free Child Installing Permissive Parent Empowering the Adult. 7. Stalling games on the go.

8. Sublimating Racket Feelings.

9. Creating the now and entering it.

10. Remaining free of reach-backs and after-burns.

Topic 9 - Precautionary Measures

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1. Patience is the name of the game.

2. Step back time and again.

3. Write off losses and mistakes.

4. Acknowledge allegations.

5. Measure twice, thrice, four times and then decide not to (cut) act.