00.09 Qualities and Attributes of a Script Free Person

9.  Qualities and Attributes of a Script-free Person

A script free person has the following attributes and qualities:

1. Autonomy: An autonomous person has the capacity for conscious awareness and a capacity to generate a variety of responses to choose from. It also includes use of options and capacity for intimacy. Intimacy is marked by the ability to express one's thinking, feelings, opinions freely, candidly, openly and without put-downs.

2. Script Free Living: Script free living is having the capacity to be in control of one's own life and have awareness for the surfacing of script directives. Script Free Living is also manifest by person doing no harm - not to self, not to another, not material, not financial, and also by generating sane, safe, effective, appropriate, win-win outcomes.

3. Decision Making and Problem Solving: These are evident when a person is free of discounting.

4. Capacity for Adult Reality Testing: Reality testing is manifest when a person is largely free of pathology. The person is able to test subjective view of reality on the touchstone of objective reality.

5. Capacity to spend time in solitude and in the company of others with equal ease.

6. Attitude: The person is able to wait patiently for a better time when things are not favourable or not going right. This means that the person is able to wait, delay and postpone acting on urges, drives and impulses. He is however able to make haste when the time is opportune.

7. Free of Power Plays: The person upholds OK-ness in self as also in others during normal, stressful and challenging times.

8. Own good and general good: The person is conscious about his responsibilities toward himself, his family, his profession, his clan and his nation without overlooking his responsibilities toward others.

9. Upholds universal values: The person upholds universal values of citizenship and sustainability. He does work in ways which causes minimum ripples in the lives of others.

10. Freedom from Psychological Time Engagements, Thinking Feeling and Emotional lock-jams, Sense of Purpose: These attributes are self-explanatory. He / she is also loving, considerate and inclusive in his approach to life.