[ JA & NJO group training] You will know when you are calm. At Peace

[Josh Dragovalor]

The Jedi Master was fashionably late. Of course. He ran into a bit of traffic. And a couple of Sith in disguise as Twi'lek.... "Dancers". Good times. Good times. A day full of shenanigans later, the Jedi had arrived in the area to find that the lesson had already began. His brown eyes gazed around, trying to find who was in charge of this whole endeavour.

Hopefully he could find out what was going on and catch up. He didn't enjoy missing the important little details.

 

[Pally]

waking up in his room he looks at his bedside table and see's that now might be a good time to get running for that lesson, sprinting full force through the temple almost knocking over a few droids in the process he manages to make it from the living quarters to the hallway which connected to the training area the only problem now was stopping quickly enough not to hit a man who was also arriving at the training area ([member="Joshua DragonsFlame"]).


Trying to dig his paws in the earth work didn't help as it tossed him into a barrel roll heading straight for the man's feet, tumbling into the classroom he sticks his head up and looks behind him and barks "SORRY!" (it just sounds like barking if you can't understand animals) he then gets up and walks further in the training area lowering his head at [member="Adele Adonai"] before sitting down on his back legs

 

[Adele Adonai]

[member="Cyrus'Relk"] [member="Jacen Voidstalker"] [member="Pally"] [member="Joshua DragonsFlame"] [member="Morgana Forceborn"] [member="Chiara Viren"] [member="Roth Tillian"] [member="Meeristali Peradun"] [member="Kal'n Drasco"] [member="Kaili Talith"]

In the silence, A'dele could hear the off and on sharp intake of breath. The sound of frustration. Even a groan or two. This was to be expected.

"Do not be discouraged," her serene voice would trickle throughout the group with a refreshing and soothing tone. A reminder. "Patience. Tranquility. Center your minds, take your time. The great Wonders of the Galaxy were not built in one day. " she told them.

"Breathe in slowly. Feel the Force around you. Picture it with your mind's eye. Trust in it as you build your mental shelter. Take your time." she would repeat.

"Brick by brick. Stone by stone. The Force is the greatest of allies. Find strength within it and build your mental shelter."

 

[Roth Tillian]

Build a wall around his mind. Something impenetrable and durable. Roth frowned and took a seat, shifting as he tried to sit still. That would be incredibly difficult. Deep breaths. Let the tension slide away. It was unfortunate these chairs were so uncomfortable. He would have to make sure they had better chairs at the Sullust temples and locations. Focus. That was what he needed to do know. What was a barrier that none would go through?

He considered this for several moments and then nodded. Stars. Or black holes. No, definitely stars. He visualized a starfield all around him, spinning slowly as he drifted through space. Then he pulled them all around him, arranging them in a sphere of nuclear fusion. Now he'd like to see someone try to force their mind through that. Or were the properties non-transferable in this skill? Was this all simply a metaphor? Or was there actually something to what people used to build their wall? If someone used durasteel, would it feel cold?

His own wall vanished as his concentration wandered and he scowled. Time to start again, so he began the process again, focusing on building that wall and keeping it together.

 

[Josh Dragovalor]

Deciding to try and do what everyone else was doing - the Jedi Master did exactly that. She'd said something about building a wall around your mind? Alright.... Let's see now.... Joshua would take a deep breath as he would sit down, legs across, hands on his knees. For the average person this would be a literal pain in the neck, but for some reason Jedi would be trained pretty much from birth - or initiation - whichever came first - to do this on a regular basis. So he did. And then he closed his eyes.... Relaxed... This was a familiar position for him, so he was able to relax in it just fine.

Build a wall around his mind.... A wall made of what? Jello? Bricks? Fluffy underpants? But he tried.... And in the process, tried not to get frustrated. He was absolutely aware that this was going to take quite some time. What was time to him though, huh? He'd be drinking if he wasn't here.

 

[Mantic Dorn]

There was wisdom to be gained in the masters words and it was all making sense to him.
These procedures were very similair to all those he had experienced prior to this one though.

He was a product of the (old) jedi order and had since the age of four trained to perfect his meditation and be able to calm his mind despite whatever darkness laid around. Yet, almost four decades later he still found conflict and sometimes even resentment on the various jedi splinter groups that grew up around them. This session was led by the leader of the new jedi order and Mantic was therefore here to challenge his own issues with how the jedi politics had seperated this ones united and legendary group.

Slowly he accepted the wisdom of [member="Adele Adonai"] and started to errect his wall.

 

[Adele Adonai]

@Pally @Mantic Dorn [member="Joshua DragonsFlame"] [member="Roth Tillian"] [member="Jacen Voidstalker"] and anyone else who still wants to join.


"A tower can last generations if set on firm foundation." A'dele would state to her students. "Do not rush, take your time. Breathe. Be at peace. Weak points can bring your mental wall down, search for them. Reinforce and seal them. " she would encourage. To build proper mental defenses were not just about being able to build them, but to endure with them.

"Now, as you bring your focus together, try to maintain it. Study it carefully. This is your fortress. What is your focus to maintain it? To upkeep?" she would test them soon enough, but she wanted them to be settled in and grow in confidence with what they had achieved thus far.

 

[Jacen Voidstalker]

[member="Adele Adonai"]

Jacen wiped all traces of his previous visualisation away. There was only darkness, the sensation of his incredibly slow an shallow breaking and the serene sound of Adele's voice.

Light entered his mind as she spoke, gradually revealing a new foundation of glass bricks. Not glass - he realised - diamond. The light scattered into a myriad of colours. New bricks appeared, binding in an impossibly tight patten and sealed by what he perceived as a translucent gel. He knew that mortar would be tough, but allow this new wall to bow or give ever so slightly against an external force.

The wall protected him, but it was of him. The light that shimmered through was his visualisation of external stimuli he permitted into this fortress, he realised. The light grew every time she spoke.

 

[Josh Dragovalor]

He was in no rush. Not like he had much else to do, right? So he breathed. He relaxed. It was actually kind of funny, now that he thought about it, taking orders about mental walls from a Knight after all the years he had been here. But that was the thing about being a Jedi. Even as a Master. You never stopped learning. And if someone, even a Knight, knows a way to use the Force that you don't? Well... It makes sense to learn if you can instead of questioning it based off rank. It was funny, sure, and he had a sense of humor over it, but it wasn't anything at all unheard of.

As he relaxed, he started to think of things he could use to erect as a wall... And then he found it. Bricks. The proverbial brick wall. Get it? So he started to imagine bricks. Bricks getting in the way of anything hitting his mind. Would it work? Who knows? He reinforced his wall, and sealed that force he had accumulated together...

But to maintain it... Hmm... Should he add onto it?

 

[Meeristali Peradun]

He had a different perspective on the fallibility of materials used to build a wall, a structure, due to having been born with claws that could make shreddings of durasteel - a benefit of being what he was. Just as his claws could do such a thing, so could a lightsaber. So, he tried to build this 'wall', this 'tower' with mental beskar, but found himself only capable of a few layers of durasteel. Durasteel bricks were a funny thing, in his mind, but he would do whatever he could to manage some protection, finding quickly that this might be a problem he couldn't tackle so thoroughly with the Force. Still, he did as instructed, building his 'wall', erecting his 'tower', brick by brick and searching for weaknesses, but they were hard to see.

He did what he could, and however small, it was still something.

He reinforced what he could, sealed what he could, but the feeling grew that he might need something more than what he could do alone. So this was what a true weakness felt like, and the memories he had of Manaan brought concern to this discovery. Despite this, he kept looking, kept trying to make this mental protection the best it possibly could be, though the effort was more taxing than any feat of the Force he had ever performed.

Even sweat beaded on his forehead.

[member="Adele Adonai"]