Bring the much needed PERSONAL CHANGE with Transaction Analysis - Parag Gandhi[BT.A]

TA philosophy allows people to decide what they want to change. TA has many tools that stimulate changes we desire to see .TA is not a new kid on the bloc but all the new KIDS have developed a tool using TA as their base.

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An aim of personal change in TA is to replace these old outdated patterns with new ones which make full use of our grown-up options.

Being the earliest alternative psychotherapy introduced after Freudian and Maslow, it has influenced theories of Emotional Intelligence, NLP, Happiness.TA is different from other theories because of few ideas which form foundations of TA theory and have been borrowed by other. The ideas like Egostate give insight about personality and its adaptations, Transactions helps to understand how personalities communicate with each other, strokes is an act of recognition and timestructuring describes how we use time in spcific ways which can be listed and anlyzed, Life-scripts concept helps to do scriptanalysis of person especially focussing on how they set up probelm and go about solving the problem- productively or unproductively, redefining talks about how we fit our life-script by distorting the reality, discounting is about ignoring an aspect of situation which contradicts our reality,Symbiosis concept makes us aware how unawaredly we maintain our life-script, racket feelings  are substitute feelings to our authentic feelings, stamps, are collected while experiencing unexpressed racket feeling ,and  is stored for a later payoff by way of games - a behavior we unawaredly initiate or become part of it. Finally what TA allows  AUTONOMY to self - to update the strategies for dealing with life aka decisions which we decided upon as infants.

The last part of above paragraph means if one thought and actions lead to unproductive outcomes and loss as grown-ups then we need to replace with new ones to ensure outcomes are productive and effective. TA helps in this by moving out of stress-causing scripts and live a new script, an ability to be autonomous.

 Briefly, TA application to bring change is based on focus it helps one to develop, the premise to begin change work and values that cement the sustenance of a change and relationship.TA is better understood by knowing its goals, assumptions, and principles derived from assumptions.TA goal of AUTONOMY compromises of Awareness, spontaneity, and Intimacy. The three assumptions of OK-ness,capacity,destiny related to decision helps us to break the inhibitions about the world. Principles of Open communication and contractual method ensures frankness and commitment from all the interested members who are change-seekers.