fandomhigh | Healthy Diet and Living; Monday, Period Five [ 08/03 ].

"Hullo, everyone." Daisy, it would seem, had come into the classroom a bit early, to take to moving all the desks and chairs in the one part of the home ec room aside and lay down some mats, as well as brew some coffee. The good stuff, too. It's not like they were in the station. So she was having herself a giant mug of it, because she'd done her bad station coffee duty for the day, thank you. "Before we do anything, I'd like you all to help yourself to some coffee; there's tea, too, of course, if you're not a fan. Just a little something to wake us up a bit because it's been a long week and anything to help keep up up through this is probably a good thing."

"And I want to say thanks to Peyton for covering for me last week and apologize to you all for missing it, but there were some pressing matters that needed to be taken care of. If anything, I want you all to take from this class that you shouldn't try to turn old video game consoles into bombs. It only turns out badly."

"So far, we've focused, of course, a lot on staying healthy through what we eat, and this week was supposed to be the body, but I think we need a nice calming break. We're going to work a little on the mind. Keeping your head straight and healthy is equally important, and there are lots of ways to do that. Some people find their centering in a hobby or an activity, for example." Daisy would not be mentioning her own, as it was probably not classroom appropriate, ahem. "A lot of people use meditation, as well, and so we'll be taking some time to do that today. Meditation is a great way to just stop for a moment, give your brain a rest, and come out of it feeling as rejuvenated as a good night's sleep, if you get good enough at it. It'll help put things into focus if everything's seeming to get a little crazy, just by stopping for a moment, and focusing on just breathing. Our bodies tend to do that naturally, the whole breathing thing, but it's amazing how it can change us by slowing down and noticing."

"A lot of times, meditation works best by focusing on one thing. Your breathing, an object, a word, an image, a sound. Since I don't want that one thing to be our stomachs, we're going to start today by making a quick and easy snack, satisfy our stomachs before satisfying our minds. While we work on those and have some coffee, here's some information on meditation to look over,"--she had doubts about including that last one, but, come on, they were teenagers, it might be the only one they'd bother reading, and that was better than nothing-- "and if you did get a chance to get to that dinner, let's hear about it. If not, no big deal. I was gone all last week, but I could tell that it was an...off one. And then we'll hit the mats and try some meditation."

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The thing with meditation was that it was fairly easy to pick up on when someone was struggling with finding a center, and Daisy frowned, worriedly. "Griff?" she asked. "Everything okay?"

"Just can't seem to clear my head," he told her, opening his eyes and shrugging his shoulders.

"Sometimes," offered Daisy, "it helps to just think of a colour rather than a thing or nothingness. When I have trouble focusing, I try white."

"A color," he repeated. "That sounds far better than trying to clear things and remembering them all."

Daisy nodded. "Because when you think about clearing things," she said, "you're still thinking about them, and that sort of fudges with the whole clearing bit. But a colour is very simple, basic, easy. Especially if there's a particular colour you feel calms you better than most."

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