The idea of PESD isn’t to destroy the serenity vampire. It’s not to emotionally

“shoot someone so you can get away with it.” The main goal of PESD is to

avoid ending up in an emotional gunfight at all costs, but being prepared to use our Jedi-knight mental and spiritual Judo only when no other option is available.

Not all violence is physical. Anyone trying to make you do something you don’t want to do, be it by threat of violence, or by using mind tricks like withholding love, is guilty of a form of violence.

People who truly understand physical self-defense are willing to use it, but it’s a very last resort. To this end, smart people have other precautions in place. They don’t go to dangerous neighborhoods. They don’t wear flashy clothes or jewelry.

They do not walk around in “Condition White” (the oblivious state that most

people are in when they get mugged).

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In our PESD system, we will not only train you in last-resort mental and spiritual Judo. We’ll also train you how to “not go to dangerous neighborhoods”

emotionally, and how not to wear the flashy emotional jewelry that will attract serenity vampires. SVs, by definition, initiate force. It’s emotional force, but it’s still force. Again, anyone who does something to someone else that the other