TA in Pills 2-1.6 Psychological Hungers 6 - Incident & Aspiration Hunger

Psychological Hungers 6
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(Psychological Hungers drive man to sustain the homoeostasis of the psychic organisation)
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Incident Hunger

Events make life eventful. They also cause us to remember them. It is so because the impact is at many levels - physical, emotional, social, existential and psychological levels. There is little possibility that we would forget them if the impact is at several of these levels. Some of them are:

• Emotional hurt, pain, embarrassment, insult, isolation.
• Forgetting actions, tasks, responsibilities and appointments.
• Not remembering to appreciate, praise or thank someone. 
• Thrill of doing something dangerous. 
• Joy of doing some things in secret. 
• Making mistakes, suffering losses, taking risk, doing something to  remain on tenterhook, or doing something that results in physical or emotional hurt.
• Engaging in quarrels and fights.
• Participating in risky games, betting, climbing heights, skiing, aggressive driving, driving after drinking. 
• Games generate special types of incidents in the nature of payoffs.
• Games also generate lockups at crossup which are in nature of incidents.
• Rackets in the nature of speech, action and behaviour.
• Practising stroke economy. 

All these engagements mostly happen unawarely and unintentionally. They therefore constitute psychological hungers.

Aspiration Hunger

We have the desire, urge and drive to engage in activities. They make us task, objective or goal oriented. They push us from deep within us. Here are some of them:

• Meet someone.
• Go some place.
• Participate in an activity.
• Commit to do exercise, take a walk, go for a run or stick to a diet.
• Pass a degree.
• Save money.
• Acquire a property or asset.
• Become known and famous.
• Be praised.
• Become a business owner.
• Do Social Service.
• Marry.
• Raise a family and have children.
• Look after parents.
• Serve the nation.
• Attend training.
• Commit to grow and to develop.
• Explore talents and abilities.
• Be of help to society.
• Be able to donate.
• Run for an office of responsibility or repute.
• Bring name to family, community or nation.
• Discover or invent.
• Visit places.
• Teach to share knowledge or learning.
• Become a guru.
• Become a leader.
• Reach the top of a career ladder.
• Stand first
• Win a race.

This list is indicative. 

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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