TA in Pills 1-12 Putting it all together

Putting it all together

List of Blogs on TA

My blogs on TA are written for personal growth, personal development, personal effectiveness, transformational change, personality development and to live a successful, peaceful, happy, joyful life. They put forth my understanding of TA to achieve these objectives. I have single-mindedly studied and practised TA for the past twelve years to free myself of my victimisation by my life script. I have reason to claim that I have finally succeeded to live my life on my terms. I first define the terms growth, development, effectiveness, transformation, personality development and success.

• Growth: We soak pulses around noon. We then wrap them up in a moist cloth for the night. They sprout by noon the next day. This is what I mean by growth. There is a latent capacity in the seeds to sprout and grow into plants. They sprout when the necessary environment is provided to the seeds. Physis is the latent capacity in all of us to grow and to develop.  A healthy personality structure results when the positive aspects of the Child, Adult and Parent ego states are activated. Such a healthy personality structure helps structuring responses to a host of reality situations that crop up day in and day out all our life.
• Development: Farmers are seen raking up soil, engaging in de-weeding, and watering crops in fields. Doing this with ourselves is what I mean by development. To implement TA we first accept flaws, in fact get others to expose our flaws, and work to get rid of them systematically. The result is a developed effective personality.
• Effectiveness: Berne gives the example of a dentist. A dentist's assistant is capable of implementing most dental procedures he observes the dentist do. However, he is incapable of handling situations if a patient becomes breathless or faints in the chair. Berne thereby differentiates between being efficient and being effective. The dentist's assistant may be efficient but not effective. Becoming capable of handling difficult situations, becoming adept in constraints and disaster management, adopting a system and method controlled self management system, being professional at work are the rewards TA practice awards its practitioners.
• Transformation: Transformation is marked by a shift in beliefs, values, principles, perceptual frames and attitudes. A transformed person is a new person as opposed to a reformed person whose habits change but nothing much changes at the core.
• Personality Development: TA addresses personality development from two perspectives. One is to explain how we have come to possess the personality structure that controls, manages and gets us to experience and express our thinking, feeling, opinions, perceptions and to respond to people, events, situations, problems, difficulties, conditions and challenges. The other is to present personality development as re-organising the existing structure and strengthening the healthy response structural components (healthy ego states) to come to possess an effective personality.  
• Success: Is achieving what we set out to do despite difficulties, challenges and constraints. Berne calls this fulfilling the contract one makes with oneself and with others. 

1. Success is having social control. Social control is being able to control the urge to manipulate others and to resist the manipulation others impose on us. 
2. Success is ending situations and solving problems sanely, safely and effectively. 
3. Success is delaying the fulfilment of urges, drives and impulses by waiting, postponing, being patient. 
4. Success is being at peace with oneself, with others and with situations of life. 
5. Success is having the ability to say Hello, responding to the Hello of others and to the extent possible returning to live life happily and joyfully as we did, when we came home from the maternity ward. This in comfort, ease, care, acceptance, nurture, love, and cosiness. 
6. Success is having the ability to be free of psychological time engagements.
7. Success is to be largely free of rackets be they as thinking, feeling, emoting, experiencing, expressing, speaking, doing, acting, performing, behaving, reasoning among many others and racket take overs.
8. Success is being organised, methodical and system controlled at work.
9. Success is having a professional approach in all we do.
10. Success is having the ability to interact level, OK-OK with others.
11. Success is being free of game and racket engagements. 
12. Success is being able to roll back at cross-up in a game and revert to intimacy.
13. Success is being adept in decision making, problem solving, game free interactions and script free living. 
14. Success is being able to implement intimacy in interactions with self and others.
15. Success is possessing the capacity for reality testing.
16. Success is the ability to be comfortable being alone and equally comfortable in the company of others.
17. Lastly success is making living worth living for a personal, family, social, national purpose worthy of being born a human being.
18. Success is engaging in noticing, recognising, engaging with another.
19. Success is being self and other person accepting.
20. Success is assessing people, things, events and situations realistically.

TA has made an important contribution in the field of psychology. It has helped to explain mental, emotional, behavioural, self-other person management, characterological aberrations in terms of activated personality structures. These systems manifest in dysfunctional behaviours as :

1. Structural and Functional Pathology;
2. Four types of crossed transactions, ulterior transactions, and redefining transactions;
3. Stroke Economy;
4. Rackets;
5. Games;
6. Script-boundedness;

I have made contributions in my blogs to share how to be free of these tendencies.

This wraps up the blogs so far posted.

The coming blogs deal with six auxiliary topics of TA.

• Psychological Hungers
• Life Positions
• Discounting, Passivity, Passive Behaviours, Symbiosis
• Frame of Reference and Redefining
• Injunctions and Drivers
• Script System

Many thanks to each one of you and to you all collectively

for participating in my blogging enterprise.

This blog comes from Ajit Karve from Pune. I am a qualified TA Practitioner. I specialise in using TA for personal growth, personal development, personal effectiveness and for transformational change. I can be reached on +919822024037. Please feel free to seek clarifications by writing to me on ajitpkarve@gmail.com or taforyouandme@gmail.com. 

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