Introduction to Meditation | Tuesday | Period 1

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Because it was thunderstorming outside, Bruce had had to shelve his plans to have class meet outside today in favor of meeting in the Danger Shop, which was programmed to look a whole lot like the outside. And in the interest of being true to the source material, the scene of nature that the Danger Shop was simulating was indeed a stormy day on the school lawn, though without the actual lightning or rain.

"Today we're doing nature meditation, but the weather isn't ideal, so we're just 'outside,'" Bruce said, making awkward air-quotes with one hand. "It's another eyes-open technique, which should give some of you something to focus on. Just find a place to sit or stand wherever looks comfortable, take in your surroundings, and try to absorb the sensory details of your surroundings without processing the meaning of it." He paused. "That's, uh, harder than it sounds. What that means is basically to notice what things look like, sound like and smell like, but not actually think about what you know they actually are."

Sounded fun, right?

"We'll do forty minutes today, which should give you some time to find somewhere to sit," Bruce said. "So... let's begin."

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Outside!

Listen to Bruce

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Meditate

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Anywhere you want in the Danger Shop scene, which is simulating a pretty large radius around the school building.

Discuss

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How was that?

Talk to the TAs

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Should they be around.

Talk to Bruce

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OOC

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I maintain that this is basically lockestheway IRL.

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Anna Korlov

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Raven Darkholme

Re: Meditate

[tigerundercover]

Raven found herself a nice quiet spot . . . and then proceeded to mostly get caught up thinking about how nice it was that there weren't any real bugs.

This one might take practice.

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Natalie Adams

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Korra

Re: Meditate

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Natalie found a quiet spot behind the school, and took a seat. But her head was full of various thoughts. Meditation was not going to be to successful today.

She'd be happy with just managing to shut up some of her thoughts, though.

Re: Talk to the TAs

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie was around to be talked to when she wasn't somewhere in the school grounds trying to meditate.

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Jackson Whittemore

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Jim Kirk

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Paddra Nsu-Yeul

Re: Meditate

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Jim found a spot in the grass and laid down on his back. He started clearing his mind so he could take in what was going on around him but his mind get looping back to trying to take a nap because he was comfortable.

He had to force himself out of that and try and focus elsewhere.

Re: Discuss

[pursuedthestars]

"That was pretty comfortable," Jim admitted, stretching a little. "I think I picked somewhere too comfortable because it was hard to focus on details of where I was when my body wanted to take advantage of the comfort levels."

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Billy Kaplan

Re: Meditate

[selfhelphero]

Okay, Bruce had said to sit, but Billy laid down instead under a tree and watched the way the leaves moved. That brought him a lot more peace than he'd expected.

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Mordin Solus

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Mercy Thompson

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Darcy Lewis

Re: Talk to the TAs

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Darcy was a round. She was not in fact a square.