If we don’t bring our life script into our awareness and review and revise it, we can simply go through life continually recycling ourselves and patterns of response, behaviour, and attitudes, consistent with it. This resource is about Life Script – Getting out of the habit of being ourselves.
If we are to grow and flourish and move forward as human individuals, and succeed in our relationships, there will likely be ways in which we need to get out of the habit of being ourselves!
Our task then, is to review and challenge unhelpful aspects of our life script, (refreshing and editing it), in order to permit new behavioural options and new experiences to become established. By choosing alternative behaviours and responses, and by practising them with much repetition, we can establish new algorithms, and a revised and helpful life script.
We shouldn’t be surprised when we experience dissonance or anxiety in doing this, but in time, the old patterns and rules fade as our brain rewires itself to adapt to accommodate our new emerging self, our changing behaviours, thinking, focus, attitudes, and experience.
What is a Life Script and how is it formed?
Our Life Script consists of fixed ideas, beliefs and rules which were mostly shaped and adopted in childhood and early life. These ideas, beliefs and rules developed as a result of what people said to us, what we said to ourselves in our minds after each experience – whether positive or negative; they developed as a way of us coping the best way we could with situations that were threatening, fearful, confusing, or hurtful; as well, they developed out of our positive experiences of encouragement, happiness, enjoyment, and meaning. They were our means of surviving a hostile, or potentially hostile world, and achieving the best possible experience for ourselves
Rethinking and Revising Your Life Script© is a downloadable resource available here.
