Why do people have such strange reactions when the subject of money comes up? That’s a question I started asking myself as early as 1975. Back then I was a young psychotherapist with about 5 years of experience and thrilled to be able to explore such questions.
The Age of Aquarius, the seventies, was a very exciting time for the development of new ways of understanding human growth and potential. One tool was script analysis, developed in the Transactional Analysis community. Essentially, how we create the semi-hidden life plans that we develop as children and use as an unconscious blueprint for living our lives.
Those plans are created out of both the verbal instructions from our caretakers and the things we observe going on around us and our reactions to those things.
Some of my colleagues and I began examining money scripts. We asked ourselves and our clients what we had been told about money when we were children, and whether what we observed matched the verbal messages.
Often, we were told that we shouldn’t ask questions, that it was impolite or would upset someone. Then we observed that when we asked for things, as children do, there wasn’t enough money to buy them. Sometimes we heard our parents worrying or arguing about money and figured out that we shouldn’t even ask.
Sometimes what we saw and what we were told didn’t match and it was confusing. The conclusions we reached sometimes interfered with learning to manage our financial lives.
What did you learn? How does it impact you now?
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This article is a comment I wrote about a passage on Page 19 of Embrace Prosperity: Resolve Blocks to Experiencing Abundance (Rapid Relief With Logosynthesis®) You can see the passage in the book. You can also see the excerpt here. This link will take you to Bublish.com, where I regularly publish comments on parts of several of my books. This is a site where authors share of their work. You can subscribe to my musings, there, as well as to the musings of many other authors. It’s a great place to learn about new books and I recommend that you visit.