Meditation 101 (D2,MM,OPEN)

#21 Postby **Byron Mik** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 2:22 pm

All Byron can see is pain and fear... well that boded well.

OOC: I think I did that right.

Special Foresee Force die: 1eF 1 Dark Side

#22 Postby **Mir** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 2:36 pm

Mir turned his senses inwards, trying to find something. Anything. Within him there was only darkness.

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Kittens dream of Fish (Meditation D2 MM): 1eF 2 Dark Side

Zanja · #23 Postby **Zanja** » Fri Jan 18, 2019 2:43 pm

Zanja stilled her body and tried to open her mind to the flow of the Force, but the drumbeat of her own anxieties--about today's test, about her rite of passage, about the younglings from this morning--kept getting in the way and pulling her thoughts to the present place and time. She found herself returning to her foundation--breath, stillness, emptiness--only to feel it slip again over and over. She couldn't help but feel this wasn't the best sign for her combat trial that afternoon... another thought she had to make herself release as she reset her breathing yet again.

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D2 MM--Professor Trelawney says to use the Force (foresee): 1eF 1 Dark Side

#24 Postby **Esla Tor** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:29 am

Esla wasn't exactly expecting much for this exercise, keeping her thoughts light and her physical concerns non-existent. Eventually, she thought less about her crossed legs on the mat and the sensation of leather on her hands. Her thoughts drifted and she contemplated on what introspection brought her. Pushing her own concerns and reservations away, she perhaps felt the unease of others around her regarding their own. She didn't know the specifics and perhaps questioned more how she could find such things in herself, had she been looking at the wrong place. Just as she began to wonder, she lost that connection. Curious.

Day 2 - Foresee Roll: 1eF 1 Light Side

#25 Postby **Chriala Hulis** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:04 am

From where she sat, Master Chriala gave a dry chuckle. "Don't worry if you don't sense anything, darlings. Touching the Force is not an easy thing, even for those who have been doing it their whole lives."

She breathed in and out for a few moments. "Achieving the right state of mind is like building a tower. If something goes wrong, you can't try to build your way out of it. You need to stop, clear everything, start over." Her head tilted up. "Describe your states of mind."

#26 Postby **Byron Mik** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:24 am

Byron spoke, “I was trying to reflect on my actions from last night, the excitement of battle the thrill of pushing myself against a skilled opponent. I also considered the safety of my allies and making sure we all got out well and alive. I guess my mind was too scattered because I could not find inner peace, only a darkness.”

“I want to help others, like a Jedi Knight is supposed to, but I what if I come to crave battle over seeking justice and peace?”

#27 Postby **Mir** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:37 am

Mir's nose twitched as he sniffed the air rather literally. "I am hungry." he admitted. "That made this pretty hard. So I think the lesson is that my foundation was off."

Zanja · #28 Postby **Zanja** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 7:09 am

"I keep thinking about all the stuff I have to be ready for." Zanja shrugged uneasily. "I know it's stupid. If I can't focus up, I'll never be prepared, but when I'm thinking about being prepared it's hard to focus."

#29 Postby **Chriala Hulis** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:23 am

Chriala clucked her tongue, shaking her head. "Ah, well. It sounds as though you all learned something, anyway." She angled her head towards Esla for a moment, her expression curious, but she went on.

"There are those who spend their entire lives in meditation. Jedi do not have that luxury. We have to be a part of the world, while not giving in to the darkness." She clucked her tongue again. "Let us begin again. Focus and relax, look inward and outward, gather energy and let it flow through you..."

The scent of the incense was growing stronger, the room was growing warmer, the combination almost numbing on the mind.

#30 Postby **Mir** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:11 pm

His stomach growling, Mir crossed his paws in his lap and tried to focus again. Closing his eyes he imagined a large fish on a stick. Coughing softly, he erased that particular image from his mind in hopes of finding the tranquility within.

#31 Postby **Esla Tor** » Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:29 pm

Esla returned to the meditation exercises easily enough. She supposed she did manage to draw some sort of insight from the exercise but she wasn't entirely sure if it was through talent or mere fluke. Perhaps the mastery came with consistency and more importantly, understanding what the sensations and the omens could potentially mean through the Force. She exhaled and softly breathed in the incense, passing dwelling on that could thicken its intensity.

#32 Postby **Chriala Hulis** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 5:28 am

"Good, good." Chriala said as they settled again. For a time, she was silent.

She spoke again. "Once you are comfortable within yourself, try to picture the you of several hours from now. You do not know them yet, but you will. Imagine them. What are they doing?"

#33 Postby **Byron Mik** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 5:33 am

Byron smirked and said, "Looks like he is eating... a beautiful bantha dog."

#34 Postby **Mir** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 5:56 am

Mir was thinking himself eating fish soup in the cantine. "Eating soup." he replied honestly. "With all the fishy in the world in it."

#35 Postby **Chriala Hulis** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 6:25 am

Chriala shook her head, laughing softly, musically. "Oh, students, students." She said. "Could not the you of several hours ago have looked ahead, as we do now, and seen how hungry you would be during meditation?"

She shook her head again. "Well. Did anyone have the foresight to bring any snacks?"

Zanja · #36 Postby **Zanja** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 6:29 am

Zanja was picturing herself infiltrating a Black Sun cantina... which was a bit more weighty than eating lunch, but also not something she could share, since then she'd have to explain why and it would be... a whole big thing. However, all this talk of food had started to have an effect. Her stomach grumbled quietly, and she scowled in mild embarrassment.

"Jedi are supposed to be able to ignore stuff like that," she said, with a stubborn glower.

#37 Postby **Murah Bakash** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 6:46 am

"Are we?" Murah said with a bemused tone. "Nothing in the code against giving the body the nourishement it needs," she chuckled warmly, "but, it is possible to transcend such feelings and needs for brief periods of time, as you slow down your breathing and your senses..."

#38 Postby **Byron Mik** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 7:24 am

"This body needs four square meals a day, for sure,minimum," Byron quipped.

#39 Postby **Chriala Hulis** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 11:21 am

Chriala tilted her head. "Well then. Let us proceed. You have inhabited the you that is here, now. You have pictured the you of several hours from now. Can you bring them together? Can you inhabit the you of several hours from now. Breath in, breath out. Concentrate..."

#40 Postby **Byron Mik** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 11:24 am

Byron tried to do as the Master bid.

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