Meditation Training

[albatross]

Meditation Training (Dante and Roan 5:30am to 6:30am)

Training Peacemaker, Dancer and Rock in meditation.

[albatross]

At 5:30 in the morning on the second day of the training, the three kids and Roan are wide awake and ready to begin. Roan telepathically asks Dante what techniques he has taught them so far while the kids review their earlier training.

[Dome]

Dante explains that he taught the students the type of meditation he practices. That of self discovery. A deep focus on ones own strengths and weaknesses. He waits to see what Roan thinks about it. He is fairly sure she probably practices the more common practice of clearing ones mind of everything.

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Roan nods and telepathically sends that she believes self discovery is a good technique for the kids and that they should also be open to other methods. She holds a short, private discussion with each of the kids and then asks Dante if he has any insight into their strengths and weaknesses so far.

[Dome]

Dante sends to her, 'I don't know enough about them to be honest. From what I have seen though, I believe Rock is overconfident in himself, not accepting his own limitations. Dancer I fear is the opposite. She doesn't have enough confidence in herself and her abilities, and thus is fearful of what may lie ahead. Peacekeeper is like a sponge trying to absorb and learn all she can about everything. She is incredibly intelligent, however I fear she may be spreading herself too thin.'

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Roan hands Rock a very small stone with no explaination. To Peacemaker she sends to imagine a stone to the exclusion of all else. To Dancer she gives a smile and asks her some simple questions about dancing. Rock is confused, Peacemaker focuses on her task, and Dancer is happily explaining Dancing to Roan. This is your warmup, Roan sends to them. Before you begin and before you try a new technique we will give you an exercise to prepare you. Right now you are in the right state of mind. Hold to that. We will revisit it if you stray. She turns and bows to Dante. Continue to train them, I will watch, she sends.

[Dome]

'Your going to watch meditation. Umm...ok,' shrugging he turns to the kids he tries to hide the confusion he has from his face, "All right kids. You heard the lady, well not exactly heard...more like thought but... never mind you know what I mean. Lets get started."

{OOC: what exactly am I supposed to do here?}

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Roan isn't psychic the way that Dante is psychic. She doesn't have to meditate to recover ISP. She does meditate as part of her Aikido training, but that is even more different than the type of meditation Dante will be teaching them. Roan wants to observe Dante's training techniques and monitor the kids mental progress. Its probable that at the beginner level they can both train them, but Roan wants to study the matter further.

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After a few days training it becomes apparent that while Rock has the highest level of mental endurance, he also has the least aptitude for psychic style training. His mind is very good at comprehending the physical, yet while he is excellent at visualization his sense of self-discovery and reflection is lacking.

Meanwhile Dancer is also so-so at meditation, owing to her high intelligence yet somewhat average mental endurance. She is learning, just more slowly than they would like.

Peacemaker does the best. High intelligence, good mental endurance, and a more spiritual worldview make her very receptive.

Roan still has Dante use his powers to monitor the students progress and Dante works with all three on occasion, but Peacemaker becomes Dante's primary responsibility while Roan gives Rock and Dante remedial lessons. Roan shifts to the meditation techniques of her chi training, which both Rock and Dancer do better at.

After training Roan asks Dante: Are there other training ideas you have to develop their meditation further? Perhaps ways for them to practice?

[Dome]

Dante has the students continue their meditation practice. At times he sends them mental messages trying to distract them. He also extends his staff and pokes them with it from time to time. Occasionally he brings in a radio and blasts the music while they should be meditating. All the while he monitors them to see if they are staying focused. When they lose their focus he uses his Telepathy to get them back on track.