Self Help Transactional Analysis - Philosophical Assumptions, Purpose and Goals

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Self Help Transactional Analysis SHTA

What is SHTA

Philosophical Assumptions

Purpose

Goals

What is Self Help Transactional Analysis Self Help Transactional Analysis (SHTA) is a name for practices that help to achieve Mental Good Health and Psychological Well-being. They help achieve the goals of Transactional Analysis and six Goal Lists of SHTA. 

How does it work? It works on the principle that where health is, un-health is not. Therefore, when the human organism - body, mind, spirit and psychic energies - is restored to health need for anomalies ceases to exist.

What are the nature of practices? The practices are unrelated to TA. As yet they help to restore the human organism to health.

How long does it take? It takes at most a year to put all things right. For most the restoration to health takes at most three months.

What are the sources of this thought process? 

Here are the list of sources that helped the founder of SHTA work out the processes.

1. Eric Berne - TAP - One may not say that social control results in cure. It helps to give up the principal games. Then a new problem arises of how to structure time. SHTA prescribes a method to be in 'no mind'. It assures freedom of boredom, stereotypy and monotony when not involved in any of the six time structuring engagements. 
2. Eric Berne - Hello Book - Script becomes ineffective when the person has permission to disobey the Parental injunctions and provocations. SHTA provides a method to give permission to act in ways which make injunctions inoperative.
3. Eric Berne - Hello Book - Of the five items required for the script to proceed to its payoff is a suitable personality development. Script becomes inoperative when personality is restored to health.
4. Fr. George Kandathil - Personal Interaction - Every person needs to install positive aspects of personality to restore mental health and psychological well being.
5. Fr. George Kandathil - Personal Interaction - When I asked 'the' five year child who she was, she replied "I am my mother's daughter". Therefore mother-child relationship pins on mother-child identity. Therefore psychological growth and well being has a lot to do to cure the early Child.
6. Ajit Karve - The unfulfilled age and stage needs are latent in every person. Once the unfulfilled needs are fulfilled person is restored to health. 
7. Ajit Karve - Nature teaches many lessons. We can know first hand what personal growth, personal development, personal effectiveness, personal transformation and personality development is by observing nature. 
8. J. Krishnamurti - Talks - If you change the world, change yourself. The world will follow suit. [The world or people in it can hook on if there is a gimmick. In the absence of a gimmick all attempts fail.
9. Ajit Karve - Our life is lived in years, years in days, days in hours, hours in minutes and minutes in seconds. A second is 'l  o  n  g'. The length of a second is the time we take to say 'one hundred and one'. It typically has five moments. The moment is available, every moment to be used for restoring our life to health. There is a formula to create a moment, enter the moment and stay in the moment without thought and without experiencing boredom. This exercise provides an opportunity to experience thoughtlessness. In Berne's language, the person has nothing to say. For Berne says that only the level of insanity differs between a person whose mind is engaged in mind talk and the insanity of a person walking on a street and talking aloud about something, event or happening. There is a practice that makes a person skilled in remaining in the moment without thought. This also helps to be free of psychological time engagements. 
10. Ajit Karve - Activities happen in the brain. Their effects show up as drama on the stage of the mind. We are unmindful that no matter what happens in our brain we give permission to our mind to run the programmed show. All it takes is to give permission in positive terms. This permission allows the mind to use the desired patterns of thinking - feeling to replace the undesirable ones. As an example if one is angry all one needs to tell the mind is this: "I give you permission to be loving and caring toward the other. You are free to use Non Violent Communication methodology to express your anger." Presto the anger vanishes. 
11. Ajit Karve - Our thinking, feeling, behaviour, action, perception, evaluation, assessment and response is triggered from within the psychic structure - Script in TA. The core of the psychic structure comprised of a feeling and a related thought can be reached by following a process. Ajit Karve has discovered this process. It gets defused by Noticing-Connecting-Recognising-Accepting and becoming comfortable. Imagine a pail of water on a flame. The water keeps being heated by the flame. We try to cool the water by adding ice. It is better to put off the flame. the Script Healing Exercise helps to put off the flame. The results are magical and show up in a month's time.
12. Ajit Karve - Many processes help to achieve Good Mental Health and Psychological Well Being. (1) Promoting neuro-genesis and neuro-synthesis  by consistently implementing SHTA practices. (2) Promoting telencyphalisation by generating, entering and staying in the moment and using it to patiently waiting, delaying and postponing any urge, drive or impulse for up to a minute. Then fixing mind on some other object. This empowers the Adult and helps to implement Adult Reality Testing.  
13. Ajit Karve - A three-fold approach helps to make the personality healthy. Installing a Permissive Parent, an Acquiescent Free Child and an Empowered Adult. The script becomes inoperative in a person with a healthy personality. Practices to do this are given in SHTA.
14. Ajit Karve - Game proceeds to its payoff because the 'players' do not know what happens at switch. In most cases the topic under discussion undergoes change. Awareness helps to identify this occurrence. All one needs to do is to roll back by saying . . . . "We started by discussing about cars, now we have moved to you and I dialogue. Now let us return and complete the discussion about cars." Presto there is no need to proceed to the game payoff.
15. Ajit Karve - We have learnt to dislike, hate, be resentful, hold guilt, become steeped in sorrow, become anxious, distressed and many more emotional varieties. These can be handled with ease when we learn to be loving, caring, friendly, forgiving and forgetting. Once we know these and get ourself to hug others we are able to forget past events. We do not need to unlearn what we have learnt. All we need to do is to practice what we are naturally gifted by nature. We can use these in our close associations and relationships. Script is thus rendered ineffective.