Think of how your life experiences would have been different if everyone around you, if everyone in your world was seeking pleasure and avoiding pain for themselves and others. The Mysterious Dr. M. talks about the many people who reach out in their dreams because of the pain they are experiencing in their everyday lives. Think back into your own childhood or youth and ask if the Prime Directive could have made a difference in your actions or someone's actions towards you. Now imagine how different your world would be if everyone had internalized the second element of the Prime Directive - to transform negative energy into positive energy through your conduct in the world. The key words here, the key reference is your conduct. Do you still suffer from hurts that were never given the treatment they needed to heal? And how many others are suffering today because of your attitudes and behaviors in the past? Life is simply too complex for us to imagine a world where there are no slights, no mistakes, no mishaps, no offenses to others, no insults or rebuffs. But you can imagine a world where wrongs are righted and where mistakes, mishaps, offenses, insults, and rebuffs are acknowledged and genuine efforts and practical steps are immediately taken to heal the hurts before they fester into wounds from which chaos can emerge. According to Dr. M. it would be a world in which every individual would understand the nature and power of the Quantum Entities that emerge from our social interactions.
The directive of practicing transformative conduct applies to all aspects of your existence, that is, your relation to the earth, to the other life forms that share this planet with you, to the ecosystem that supports your existence, and to the many individuals to whom you are directly and indirectly connected. Can you live up to the expectations of the Prime Directive? Do you have a heart big enough to care for a world?
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One of life’s experiences that would be different for me if everyone in my world was “seeking pleasure and avoiding pain for themselves and others” has to do with my avoidance of social interactions amongst my peers throughout the elementary and high school years. This was a choice that I made for myself based on the notion that ‘I was one to be disliked’, in essence a negative space. The basis for this belief came from participating in a student class-presidential election. At the time, the student I ran against chose to inflict emotional pain as a means to win her campaign.
At the present time, I do not suffer from the hurtful experience in my childhood. This is because, as a college student, I chose to follow my second Prime Directive as Dr. M states, by taking the negative emotional energy (feeling “not good enough”) and transforming it into a positive energy through my conduct. This pro-active step included adding classes in my academic core that build social-emotional skills (i.e., self awareness, self-management, social awareness), seeking counseling, and exploring my spiritual nature and its resourceful energies.
I truly believe that the power of the Quantum Entities that emerge from my social interactions are reflective in my undergraduate leadership experiences and in my doctorate program as a scholarly practitioner serving the community as a crisis specialist.
I believe the following Chinese proverb underscores the second Prime Directive:
"If there is light (knowledge) in the soul, there will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world."
References:
Higher Education Research Institution. (1996). A social change model of leadership. University of California, Los Angeles
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