Further thoughts on Transactional Analysis based on a personal studying of Thomas A. Harris' "I'm Okay, You're ok"

We are not hearing each other out enough with the input/in take of our minds. Listening takes patience, it takes effort, and it doesn't end with our ear canals, it begins there. Making a distinction and separating our emotional minds from our intellectual minds might be one of the biggest challenges we face today. We need to discover ourselves and view it as a process of self discovery rather than of digging up dirt, and that helps to engage our intellectual minds with our emotional mind (child). The intellectual mind (the adult) expresses itself in curiosity and imagination and in maintaining an awareness, at least, that we are complex creatures with conflicting emotions and thoughts and that anything is possible. The intellectual mind (adult) expresses itself in words with questions, who? what? when? where? why? how? ,etc. It's interested in an objective understanding of things. An aspect of the Parent (recordings of external/recieved data) are the enforced rules both familial and societal on what we should think, how we should act, and what we are "allowed" to feel etc., often has a strong hold on our child (emotions). The adult (intellect) can step in and be there for the child, giving us the strength and courage to challenge these "rules". Harris speaks about how the EMANCIPATION of the adult (intellect) in its true objective state is key in understanding ourselves and others so much better.