Description
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.
Other influences that shaped and formed our life script (with its ideas, beliefs and rules), were profound events and experiences – the negative or positive defining moments of our lives. Most of us have been powerfully influenced by particular people we remember fondly, whether a mentor, a parent, a friend, or a colleague. Unfortunately, most of us also probably remember someone who was overbearing, controlling, a bully, or a person that hurt us deeply, betrayed our trust or perhaps let us down in some way.
There may also be critical choices and decisions we have made in the past, which, for better or for worse, have tended to leave us with some fixed beliefs about ourselves, or have suggested certain characteristics of personality that we assume are permanent about ourselves.
Our life script is a compilation of all these things (beliefs, rules, fixed ideas, set patterns of response and attitudes) intended to afford us protection, predictability, and manageability of our everyday experience – including emotions, in a way that is most positive or least negative for our life.
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Also, see our article on “Getting out of the habit of being ourselves” here.
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