Personal Reality Check – Step 1: Take a few moments to contemplate the relationship between your body and your mind. Recognize that it is a mutual relationship, that is, the body provides a vehicle and medium for the mind to experience the world and the mind acts as the command and control center from which the actions and experiences of the body are regulated. In other words, your mind is in charge, at least it should be.
Step 2: Take a few moments to contemplate the nature of your body. It too is an integrated system of specialized and interdependent parts that ideally work together for the benefit of the whole. The heart, kidneys, liver, digestive system, spleen, pancreas, lungs, and other organs and biological systems each have their unique function. These parts also depend on and support each other in order to maintain the health and well-being of the body as a whole. Much of the inner workings of this dynamic system take place without the conscious involvement or intervention of your mind.
Step 3: Think about the structure of the body that supports your ability to interact with the outer world, especially the social world. Your body has feet and legs, hands and arms, mouth and tongue, nose, ears, and eyes, and it is these parts that are designed to respond to the conscious commands of your mind.
Step 4: Understand that since the mind is given the command and control function, all the various parts of your body lay claim to innocence.
Step 5: Call on that wonderful capacity of your mind that we refer to as imagination. Imagine that you are in a courtroom with your mind as the defendant or accused. And imagine that each of the parts of your body mentioned in Step 3 is given an opportunity to speak and to account for the actions and experiences they have engaged in up to this point in your life.
Step 6: Listen carefully as each of your parts bears witness to what they have done and as they each turn to the judge and jury and declare it was not I who chose to do these things. I was commanded to do these things by the one who is in charge.
Step 7: Sit silently, open your mind, and listen to the testimony given whether good or bad, whether uplifting or depressing.
Step 8: Imagine what your feet and legs would say about where they have taken you at your command.
Step 9: Imagine what your hands and arms would say about what they have done to yourself and to others at your command.
Step 10: Imagine what your mouth and tongue would say about what you have put into your body and about the words they have spoken under your command.
Step 11: Imagine what your eyes and ears would say about what you have fed your mind through them.
Step 12: Now ask yourself if the testimony that has been given makes you feel good or bad about who you have been and how you have acted in the world. Is the testimony something that you would proudly share with someone whose friendship and respect you value, or is it something that you would rather hide from the world and deny to yourself?
The Peaceful Space Project is about changing the condition of the world through an individual social evolutionary and developmental process. We can all make better choices and a first step in that process is a Personal Reality Check. In the Handbook On Being Human, vol. I, the Mysterious Dr. M. takes U through a series of lessons designed to help U to discover and unlock the higher potential that lies dormant in each of us. We have the capacity to create a better world for ourselves, our children, and the yet to be born. That capacity is expressed in the choices you and I make each and every day of our lives. Choose to Create Peaceful Space and to align with the Prime Directive.
Living in alignment with the Prime Directive
is a choice to which everyone should be invited!
You have been invited!
You have been invited!
Create Peaceful Space!
Trust Your Process!
Peace, Love, and Health!
1 comment:
What a wonderful PRC exercise! As I sat quietly and opened my mind to the testimony of each of my body parts (in accord to the criteria of the Prime Directive)(Step 3), I was quite pleased with what I heard.
For instance, at my command, my feet and legs reflected an exploration for novel and unfamiliar educational experiences (Step 8). My hands and arms portrayed an image of being a good leader, a positive role model, a guide, teacher, and friend. Toward others, my hands and arms portrayed an image of utilizing my talents and intelligence, as a team member, for the public good (Step 9). My mouth and tongue said that I have, for more days of the week than not, put into your body foods that cleanse and support me spiritually, mentally and physically. Furthermore, my words reflected my Ora of humbleness, helpfulness, dedication, discipline joyfulness, generosity, and appreciativeness (Step 10). As to my eyes and ears, they shared that I have fed my mind, through each of my body parts, the Reality of being a spiritual being of the past, a leader of the present/future, and a believer in integrity, equality, generosity, and dreams (Step 11).
Overall, when I ask myself if the testimony of my body parts makes me feel good about who I am and how I have acted in the world, I am proud to share with my friend, Umar, the answer YES (Step 12)! By proactively listening and applying Mysterious Dr. M’s message through the Handbook and weekly PSP Blogs, I am confident in saying that my body-mind, as an integrated system of specialized parts, is “working interdependently for the benefit of the whole” of Mankind in compliance to the Prime Directive.
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