We are what we think.  All that we are arises with our thoughts.  With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha
Our Life Position is part of our Frame of Reference - we make a decision about ourselves at a very young age and having made that decision we filter out any information from our environment that does not fit with that decision.

As it is an unconscious decision, even as grown-ups we still fall back to that default position - indeed, some grown-ups inhabit their life position for much of the time.  This would not be a problem if it was a good place to be - but it is not a good place to be.

Once we are aware that we are keeping ourselves trapped in a never-ending cycle of negative patterns of behaviour, we can learn to break free of that self-reinforcing pattern.
Possible objectives:
  • To explore the concept as an introduction to personal development
  • To understand the ways in which we limit our growth
  • To gain confidence to meet an upcoming challenge
  • To examine how this concept fits in with other Transactional Analysis concepts