[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].
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.
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?
Well, most of the practical applications for chakra are combat or action based anyway. But it's harder to focus on controlling your chakra if you're trying to focus on a fight, too, when you're learning.
Eventually the chakra control will become more instinctive.
Mm, it's more that my skills are all tied together. I have the ability, but how good I am at it depends on how good my chakra control is. So while I've gotten back some ability to control my chakra and the skill to heal, I haven't yet won really good chakra control... so my ability to do mednin stuff is limited right now.
[settles himself down again and takes a few deep breaths. time for more meditation! this time after he's mentally traced his pulses for awhile, he's going to try imagining the fight he was in again, and the feeling of pushing all his energy into one hand]
[doesn't respond other than to try and keep his focus -- he's very aware of his body in general and has a lot of strength of will, as well as the visceral memory of the fight to help him figure out what he's doing, so there's probably something going on, although he is of course completely untrained and from a different world, so... probably not a whole lot of something, I would guess?]
[pushes herself a little harder, trying to grab onto that feeling and really get a read on it; might unconsciously lean her weight a little heavier on his knees]
...Well, I can sense some change in the direction of your energy. It's faint, but it's there.
[sits back, thoughtful]
I guess... you should probably keep this up for a while-- meditating, practicing. Once you feel like you can really tell, we'll try some more directed practice, okay? I'll keep practicing too, so I can be of more help.
Mm... well. Typically you can feel it, when you manipulate your chakra. If you're not getting much right now it's probably because it's weak and unpracticed.
I'm hoping that with enough practice you'll eventually really be able to notice the feeling, when you move your chakra through your body.
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Really well.
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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].
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I've done that before! For real, in a way that worked! I think I know what you mean, now!
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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.
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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?
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Eventually the chakra control will become more instinctive.
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I mean... as a mednin, eventually I'd be able to sense disturbances or abnormalities in your chakra network, but I'd probably have to be touching you.
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Well. Should I try again?
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I'm going to see if I can feel your network now, okay?
[very slowly places her hands on his knees]
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...Well, I can sense some change in the direction of your energy. It's faint, but it's there.
[sits back, thoughtful]
I guess... you should probably keep this up for a while-- meditating, practicing. Once you feel like you can really tell, we'll try some more directed practice, okay? I'll keep practicing too, so I can be of more help.
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All right... but how will I know?
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I'm hoping that with enough practice you'll eventually really be able to notice the feeling, when you move your chakra through your body.
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