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There were some startled exclamation said that, and more than one student there wondered how than they had come to be on the Ryloth then. Aayla wasn't among them, she didn't care how they had, only that they had, and that her life had most definitely become far more interesting fun and above all safe than it had been before wen Harry and Lily became a part of it.
"All right," Lily said drawing the students' attention back to her, "we will begin with meditation. Would one of you like to describe that for me for a moment? And as you answer questions, please tell me your name, so that I get to know you all."
Another student raised his hand. "Mira, master Potter. Um, we are supposed to try and clear our mind, then sort of feel out the area around us. We have to sit perfectly still, we have to remember to clear our mind, to not allow any emotions to touch us when we reach out to the Force."
"That's interesting," Lily said frowning thoughtfully. "And it's just Mrs. Potter if you're feeling formal, or mistress Lily if you're not. Does anyone else have anything to add to that?"
"We are supposed to do it at least five times a day, at least, for an hour each mistress." said another youngster, a boy who introduced himself as Soral. "It leads us to self-discipline, self-knowledge, and the Force, the three pillars of the Order."
"Three pillars, interesting," Lily said thoughtfully, looking over to Tholme again. The two of them had this talk early on in, but she realized they would have to revisit it now that her vocabulary had come up to a level where they could go into greater depth. "Well, that is not precisely how I do things, but I can see a lot of good in the Jedi way of doing things. Self-control is important." she emphasized the word, by gesturing with a finger and at To'neen's command another message appeared on the board behind her to emphasize that point.
"Self-discipline is important among my own people, but we tend to do it a little differently." Lily moved off of the desk where she had seemed to be sitting, moving into a meditation stopped sitting position in front of them. All of them who had the human body type did the same, while Wulo, the only one there with a non-humanoid body did the same with his upper body sitting on his haunches with his legs crossed underneath them.
It looked a little uncomfortable for him, and Lily spotted that immediately gesturing him to stand if he wished. He did so quickly, smiling at her. At the sight of that the ancient Bothan master had to nod in approval. The woman certainly seemed to have at least some of the skills necessary to teach.
"When my people meditate, we tend to use the art of visualization to aid mental organization more than the Jedi seem to. We call our mental discipline Occlumency, which means to occlude the mind. This allows us to organize our thoughts into a mental representation."
Behind Lily the robot took his cue and began to go through a series of pictures, with little people labeled 'thoughts' entering a giant building of some kind, then being sorted by color into several rooms. Putting that together with Master Tholme's help had taken up half the night before, but since she didn't need sleep, so that didn't matter to her.
The children laughed, looking at the picture then at Lily as she went on. "Picture a castle, a mansion, or perhaps a starship. Each starship has rooms, and those rooms will each contain certain memories. The defenses of that starship is also important, the shields and so forth that you can imagine into being."
A lot of the students now looked very interested, happy to have a chance to use their imaginations rather than simply trying to control their minds. "But you have to build the castle, or whatever your image is, from the ground up, making certain every part of it is solid before going on. This will be the toughest portion of this lesson, and I won't lie, it will probably take weeks to get even a small mental area built before you are ready to go onto the next phase.
"First, close your eyes. Then begin to imagine your body, as you are now. Imagine it walking through the halls of this spaceship perhaps, or a castle or anything else you wish to imagine, but can imagine in detail, that's important. Then begin to build that image, filling out the detail, brick by brick. When this step is done, you should be able to feel it when I or one of the Jedi masters is trying to reach out to your mind with our own powers."
As Lily had expected none of the students were able to understand everything she was trying to teach them, but they eventually made a lot of progress with meditation, which she supposed was down to their previous training. Lily didn't like the amount of emphasis the Jedi version of meditation put on reaching out to the Force rather than protecting themselves, but she couldn't doubt that the self-discipline part was already taking hold in the students. Even Harry had a lot of trouble with this aspect.
At the end of an hour Lily clapped her hands together, bringing the students all out of their meditations with a start. Harry and Aayla broke out quickly, shaking their heads and looking up at her with smiles on their faces as did the others after a few moments.
"I believe that was an excellent first period. Now, we're going to start the second round, manipulation." A few tummies began to rumble and Lily laughed as their owners looked sheepishly around at their fellows. "First food of course," she said, floating up from where she had sat, forgetting for a moment to put her legs back down from the lotus position until she was well into the air. The sight brought a round of giggles form the kids and the first class under their new teacher ended on a high note despite not having anything not show for it just yet.
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