Monday DE: Om

[bjornwilde]

Let’s talk meditation. Can yor pup(s) do it? Or do they have their own way of finding inner peace? Would they work better with a guided visualization or just prefer basic instructions if guided? Can they do it on their own? How loud is their mind when they try? Do they get visuals or ideas, or replay random conversations?

Do you think meditation would help them, even if they don’t?

Comments

[a1enzo]

Enzo has actually been meditating (or at least trying to) since he was 10! He's always tended to be... emphatic with his emotions in general, and having Matrix as an example (and a few incidents of his own) made him aware that he needs to be careful of that when it comes to anger, so he did his best to learn how to calm himself. He's not great at clearing his thoughts, but he's gotten better; I think his technique is to mentally review players' stats from his old jetball card collection. And of course breathing exercises help.

As for Zecora...

[have_no_mercy]

Tess meditates and does yoga on the regular. It's something she learned from Oliver way back when they were an item.

Rose would probably benefit from it, but she's a bit too high strung.

Kylo is big on meditation, though it doesn't seem to help his temper any.

Creed only meditates when X makes him, though he's learned over the years how to remain pretty laid back unless a violent rage is required.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka is good at meditation, though her younger self is much better with moving meditations )think martial art forms/katas). She tends to get the mental emptiness and doesn't get visualizations...unless the Force feels like she needs to know something. She enjoys meditation, even her younger self, and will do it on her own from time to time, though her older self does it more.

Sabine doesn't seem like one for meditation. Her mind is too active and it doesn't seem a Mandalorian practice. She'd likely try it if Kanan wanted her to try or if Hera suggested it, but she'd squirm and have trouble until she started visualizing art. Honestly, I think her art is her meditation. She can lose hours to it.

As dynamic and fiery as Danny is, he is very practiced at meditation and reaches for it daily, or anytime he has a spare moment and is feeling troubled or uncentered. He could likely meditate on a noisy subway and still gain something from it.

Sam likely knows how to meditate and suggests it for those who have emotional or stress problems. I don't know if it's something he'd reach for as a matter of practice but I think he'd be decent at it if asked to join in. He sees the value in it, but I think he's more comfortable with doing things like knitting to get some calm time.

Meditation seems like something Jessica Drew can do but doesn't practice. I think she'd have a struggle with getting the active/monkey brain to shut up.

Viv would be very good at meditation, being able to sit for hours without speaking or moving. It's a cheat though, as her processors would still be active and she might even be playing a game online. I think she'd benefit from meditation and might need to figure out how to get her to try.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

-- Well, now I have an idea for something to happen later in the Expanded-Chapter-4-of-Tri OOMs, when the kids are trying to get their Crests working again.

Yamato doesn't try to meditate, but it'd be fair to say he'd be bad at it. He can sit and be quiet no problem, but it wouldn't be meditation as such, since the chances of him managing to clear his thoughts or find any kind of inner peace are approximately zilch.

Eden could meditate, but there wouldn't be any point. When you're empty on the inside, attempting to find inner peace or clear your mind is a pointless endeavour.

[thebattycakes]

Cisco: He would be terrible at any type of structured/formalized meditation. Sitting still and shutting up just don't last very long for him, and he has a hard time taking serious things seriously.

He does find quiet time for himself, though, with activities that relax him. Model building is one, and while he may talk to himself in the imitated voice of Scotty while putting together a replica Enterprise spaceship, the larger part of his brain is shut off so silence may not be achieved, but peace can be.

K-2SO: Kay has the cheat of being able to power down, but I don't think he does it ever in the name of meditation. He likes getting words in too much and hates being left out which becomes easier to have happen if he's not alert.

Barry: Barry doesn't meditate, or think about it on his own, but he could/can, although it would take a great effort on his part. There is actually a novel where Oliver Queen teaches Barry to mediate for reasons, and while Barry finds the practice pointless and frustrating at first, he eventually forces himself into it (by locking himself in a pipeline cell so that he can't get away from it) and achieves some form of quiet peace for a short while.

The main problem is just energy and action. He wants to be doing something and doesn't see himself as a person who would benefit from hitting pause and meditating and mostly that's because he doesn't really know what the benefits could be. For him, meditating is for Kung Fu masters and yogis and that's definitely not him.

Matt: Does mediate, and often (possibly surprisingly). Mostly he uses it for the healing benefits to speed along the process from his night activities. He does it alone, and the hardest part is just shutting out all the literal noise around him. He's practiced at it, though, and so as long as he's not too keyed up and agitated he manages pretty well. Peace isn't generally something he finds, but he's successful in at least centering himself and channeling the energy needed for the next fight.

Logan: Logan mediates and enjoys it. Like most things he prefers to do it alone, but will begrudgingly (or not so begrudgingly) allow company. It's best when it's out in nature, and he's very good at quieting his mind and just being for the period.

Hellboy: On the rarest of occasions Red will take to silent prayer alone and that's about the closest he'll ever get to meditating. Otherwise you'll never get him to sit down and shut up or hold his focus long enough for it.

[inlovewithwords]

N/A for Eriond and R2, I think.

Lois would suck at it, nor does she want to do it.

Evelyn would not really think to do it. A little every so often might be useful, and might be really specifically useful in ritual contexts with magic. But, like, it's not a thing for her.

Tavi might do some when he has a really, really massive furycrafting to work, the kind that's so massive most people don't even know it's happened and think it's just a fluke of nature. His family used to have an entire place for exactly that, along with the gestalt AI interface, but not so much anymore. But other than that, Tavi... has a remarkably well-regulated mind, but it's also a mind that literally never shuts up. Not so great for meditation.

Anakin thinks he's not so great at meditation because he often doesn't really think of going through kata or lightsaber forms as meditation, nor compulsive mechanics tinkering. But really, besides moving meditation being something he frankly excels at, mechanics also serves that purpose for him, as his mind will quiet and clear as he just has the task at hand. But thanks to Jedi rigidity he doesn't think of either as a skill/meditation form, and thus loses some of the benefit.

[fairy_fixit]

Fairy Fixit goes into a sort of meditative state when she is carving something. Most of the time her mind is going a mile a minute so it's a nice break for her. She likely doesn't do it often enough.

Amascut doesn't even try at all. There are too many monsters in her head.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Bastion does not know how to meditate in, like, a sitting-quietly-and-thinking-about-nothing sort of way without bad thoughts and worse memories bubbling up from the bottom of their mind. They might do better with guided visualization. (While they have the option to cheat by going into power-saving mode like K-2, they don't like being oblivious to their surroundings and avoid doing so even for recharging.) Their way of finding inner peace is to immerse themself in some handy nature and really focus on a plant or an animal or somesuch.

[for_everyone]

Kanan, being raised in the Jedi Order, was trained to meditate regularly. When he was young, he did have some difficulty focusing and quieting his sometimes-overly-inquisitive mind, though as he entered his teens, and especially once he became an apprentice and entered the Clone Wars, he appreciated the time he could set aside for just a fleeting bit of peace. He stopped meditating altogether after Order 66, though it was actually one of the habits he had the hardest time breaking at first - in that he'd occasionally instinctively think something like, 'time to meditate,' before pushing that out of his mind. But that also faded over time, until he joined Hera. Now he meditates regularly, particularly as a way for him to continue to reembrace the Force. He generally finds focus pretty quickly, though whether anything in particular is accomplished through it - inner peace, some kind of knowledge he didn't have previously, etc., varies a lot.


Hera doesn't meditate. She's not particularly good at setting aside time to sit still and do nothing, and never runs out of tasks she could be doing, so. But, it is my headcanon that she does start meditating after um, [SPOILER].