In Activity 3: Identifying Your Life Script you were able to identifying which of the life script forms best represented a pattern of how you engage with the world. The key point of this activity was to increase your awareness of some of the motivations driving your behaviour. Reflecting on Life Scripts is not about judging yourself as good or bad. We share a human experience of all having underpinning stories and we each arrived at our ways of being in the world because of the events and people in our lives. We all have
Monthly Archives: May 2016
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." Joseph Campbell
"I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you." Tina Turner
"If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?" Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
"Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time." Malcolm X
"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse." Florence Nightingale
"All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides." Gloria Vanderbilt
Finding patterns that run through our lives can help us better understand how certain behaviours or repeating thoughts occur in our life story. If we want to consciously move into a new behaviour and a more enriched story for our lives, we need to spend some time looking at our patterns. The father of transnational analysis, Eric Berne, discovered that there are what he called life scripts that recur across the human family. The ways these scripts come into being are of course diverse, but there are similarities in the patterns
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
Henri Matisse