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[medpacksapunch]

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[doesnothappen]

The way you talk about it... "network" and "circulation" and stuff... it makes it sound like blood, if you could push your blood outside of yourself with your mind and make it do stuff on its own and... not die from it.

[medpacksapunch]

Mm, that's a decent way to think about it, I guess, for now. And you are working with a set limit-- like the way a body only has so much blood in it. Some people have more chakra than others, but if you use up all your chakra you could die from it. Chakra exhaustion is a real danger.

[doesnothappen]

That makes sense. So... with Three's limit, do you actually have less chakra, or is it partly blocked, or..?

[medpacksapunch]

Mm, I think it's a partial block. Or... everything takes more chakra and energy than it should, maybe?

[doesnothappen]

...which can't make it any easier to learn.

So you think if Neji blocked my chakra, I'd be able to feel where it should be, and maybe I could feel it when it came back?

[medpacksapunch]

Yeah, maybe? It might make you more aware of it.

[doesnothappen]

Why don't we try the meditation stuff, and then if I can't get anything at all, we'll ask him?

[medpacksapunch]

Sure. That's less potentially dangerous, anyway.

[doesnothappen]

[nods]

How do we begin?

[medpacksapunch]

Ah...close your eyes and relax, try and become really conscious of your body? In tune with every thing it's doing.

[doesnothappen]

[obeys, slowing his breathing and going very still]

[medpacksapunch]

[closes her eyes, too]

Since it's woven into your body's systems... for now I'd say try focusing on your blood. Try and track its progress through your body-- your heart, the pulse in your throat, your wrists, your fingertips...

[doesnothappen]

[concentrating on his heartbeat and working his awareness out from there]

[medpacksapunch]

[is going to meditate with him, since working on her chakra control is still a thing she needs to do herself]

[doesnothappen]

[focusing on his body is something that comes fairly naturally, although he has to push away the occasional thought of "is this going to work?" so he'll just keep following the thread of his pulse until instructed otherwise]

[medpacksapunch]

[we are probably going to meditate for a while? We are starting from square -1, after all...]

[doesnothappen]

[yes I am pretty sure this is going to be a long process]

[medpacksapunch]

[keeps her voice low, kind of murmury]

When we're really young-- children have to do this...can you imagine trying to get a bunch of five year olds to meditate..?

[doesnothappen]

[...chuckles]

Really well.

[medpacksapunch]

[some other time I will ask you about that ,but it would probably be distracting right now]

Once you have a handle on your pulse, start trying to expand your awareness; think about the energy in your body and how you're carrying it. If it helps, you can move your limbs while you do this. Like-- thinking about pushing energy to your arm [moves her arm out, then back in].

[doesnothappen]

[tries it, then blinks and falls out of concentration]

I've done that before! For real, in a way that worked! I think I know what you mean, now!

[medpacksapunch]

Ah, really? Great, great!

We're going to kind of work inside out, in a way. Since right now we're thinking about the energy and moving as well; eventually, you'll learn to send your chakra to different points in your body without having to move your limbs to compensate. Then you use it to enhance your movements.

[doesnothappen]

[nods, excited]

When I did it before, it was at home -- I was in a fight with a man, a big man, and I was underwater and he was standing on a log that was floating just above me. I had an axe, and I remember thinking of sort of... pushing all the strength I had into my axe-arm, and into the axe, as I came up out of the water. Just focusing everything I had into that arm. Is that... is it the same?

[medpacksapunch]

It's close enough if it isn't.

[doesnothappen]

I've never tried doing it on its own, though... I mean, sitting still, not in a fight or anything...