Post by JediKaren on Nov 27, 2006 17:29:59 GMT -5
Athough this is a psionic site, this Article thread is really for any articles. Anyhow those who know me know I'm hugely into Star wars and really into Jedi. So here is a 3 parts essay I'm writing and here's part one. Please enjoy:
The Force User Guide
Part 1
Meditations and Basic Skills
Flowing with the Force
Like all meditations, the first step is calm yourself. You will need perfect peace of the mind and body in order to do this meditation. This meditation will require you to be able to do the basic Force skills.
Open yourself to the Force as much as you can. Let it flow through and around you. Get comfortable with the feeling and flow of the Force. This is very important because you will have to trust the Force enough to let go and let the Force carry you along its current.
As you feel the Force flowing through you, be aware of the grip your mind as. Your mind will cling to yourself, resisting the current of the Force. Let go and drift along with the Force. At first you will be very conscious that you are drifting and will notice things through the Force. This is normal, but not the point of the meditation. Do not think about what you are doing or going. Don’t think and just feel the Force. You should, after a few times, should remember nothing except the Force.
This meditation will help you feel the Force more and will let you see the more subtle connects of life. You can this meditation to help you solve problems or come up with ideas.
Emotional Meditation
This meditation is for finding, confronting and getting rid of negative emotions. These emotions will block you from the Force.
You will want to sit or lay for this. You will need to first calm yourself and blank your mind. You might try visualizing a blank, black chalk board. Do not let your mind wander. Once both your mind and body are still, bring up an emotion. It can be any emotion, but it is recommended to pick one that is bothering you or keeping you from the Jedi peace. Feel that emotion to the fullest. Let the emotion fill you up until you think are going to be taken over it. Then take a deep breath, feeling the strongest part of the emotion and let the emotion out.
Imagine the emotion as a red mist that will flow through you to the ground or bed. As you breathe out, have that emotion flow out of you. You should notice a change in how you feel. You should feel calmer, but not calm. This is normal. Repeat the steps of feeling, breathing, visualizing, and directing the emotion out until you are calm.
Another version of this is the let the emotion keep rising through your body until it gets to your head. Do not stop there. Let it continue out of your body. This is the natural and healthy flow of emotional energy and it will get rid of the negativity.
If you are in a rush and are walking you can still meditate. This should be done if you are unable to stop for a minute you can still do a quick emotional meditation if you need some calm. Feel the emotion and imagine it as light and movable. Think of a breeze flowing through you. Let go of the emotion so that it can flow with the breeze and out of your body and mind.
Basic Skills
A Jedi is taught to feel and trust the Force, but this is harder than it sounds. There are many steps to achieve this. All Jedi should be able to feel, recognize, gather ground and control the Force. This is known as the basic skills. With these skills you should be able to do abilities like empathy, telepathy and even telekinesis. This will allow you also to understand the flow of the Force. You can perceive the living Force, or the connection that life and the Force has. By opening and understanding the Force your life will improve. Your relationships, health and career will improve. You can perceive the living Force, or the connection that life and the Force has. Your strength and physical skill will improve along with Force control.
The Mind
Before a Jedi student can learn about the Force and how to use it, one needs to get their mind in shape. The mind of a Jedi is very organized and centered. They can think ahead quickly. A Jedi can make huge decision extremely fast. They are always aware of everything, everyone, themselves and the Force. In order to have this mind a Jedi must be able to focus and silences their mind. If one is always thinking and feeling, one can’t hear the whispers of the Force. If a Jedi lets their mind wonder, they will not be aware of what is around them and may miss a warning or a feeling from the Force. In the world of today, many people have trouble focusing due to the noise, the lights, the colors and the many other distractions society had created. We are so busy being entertained by the multi media that we have almost completely lost of concentration and therefore have lost our connection to nature and the Force. So learning to focus is the key to the Jedi mind.
Focusing
Find a quiet room with no distractions. Get into a comfortable position, but beware of lying down; falling asleep won't help. You may close your eyes or you can leave them open. Image a blank piece of paper or a blank wall. Keep thinking about that image and do not allow any other thoughts enter. If you find yourself beginning to think about things just tell yourself that you are and try again. See how long you can keep your mind blank.
You do not have to use the blank wall. Try listening to music and pick on instrument to focus on. You could focus on the drums for starters. As you get better at this you can add some distractions in. I strongly suggest that you add one at a time. Turn on some the television. Think of the blank wall while in a loud crowed room.
This exercise can be useful in many ways. This could be the start of your meditation. It will quiet your mind and shape your mind to be able to feel the Force. You can use stop another Force user from knowing your surface thoughts while you get a shield up. Blanking your thoughts may stop you from dreaming or from having nightmares.
Visualizing
The focusing exercise talked about above involves visualizing, which can be a hard skill for some beginners. Visualizing is the ability to picture a mental imagine in your mind. It is not a Force skill, in that you must use the Force in some way, but an everyday skill that is related to Force skills. Visualization can be done using all senses. When you stare out a window in class thinking about that car you have always wanted, that is visualizing. For an example try thinking of a car that you have always dream of owning. It can be a real car or a made up one.
Picture the whole car. Maybe it is tiny or maybe it's really long. Now mentally walk around the car. Look at all the sides. Now go inside the car to the driver's seat. Is the seat made of out leather? What are all the cool new features? Turn around and look at the back seat. Can you see it? If you can, you have just done visualizing. You can also try using your other senses. What does the metal feel like? The seats feel like? Does your car have that new car smell? Using as many senses as possible will greatly improve the lucidity of your visualizations.
This skill is greatly used by many Jedi. The technique will be used in feeling, gathering, grounding the Force, telepathy, scanning, and even telekinesis, so it is highly suggested that one makes sure they have mastered the skill.
Feeling the Force
There are many ways of feeling the Force. All Force users learn to feel it a different way. The constants seem to be that for beginners, they need a blank, calm mind that is not focused on anything. This leaves them open and willing to the Force.
Most people have felt the Force as a kid, but due to society, they have closed their mind, setting up mental barriers to keep the Force out. In order to reopen yourself up to the Force you will have to take down these barriers. Here is one technique that has worked for many other people.
Think of a song, one that is calming. Play it through your head, or turn it on, but have the volume on quietly. Relax your mind and body. Stop thinking and feeling. Do try to feel the Force or do anything. Just sit there and enjoy the moment of peace. If you are one of those who can't sit still or be quiet try taking a breath, holding it for three seconds and then blow all the air out and then breathe in slowly. Repeat the song and breathing until you are calm.
Now, stare at air. Try looking at the space between you and your hand. You won't see anything, but that is not the point. Do not strain yourself and just space out a bit. Let the music help you by calming your mind and body. Let the music help you let go of anything thoughts or stresses. Now pay attention to what you feel. Do you feel something around or in you feeling warm, tingly, good feeling, possibly like your blood is rushing, but it isn’t? You may feel an energy field that seems very close to you. If you feel any of these descriptions, you are feeling the Force.
Some people have found that strong emotions like anger, fear, and love can help you feel the Force. Although this is true, these emotions come from the dark side. Jedi find that with these emotions, it is hard to feel and control the Force. These emotions will cause uncontrolled reactions with the Force. When a new Force user is angry, objects around them or even in another room, tends to fall and break. With peace you will find it is easier to control the Force.
Recognizing the Force
Another skill there is essential to learning the basics is recognizing the feeling of the Force. People will feel the Force without noticing it. This happens because you are not aware of the Force and should teach yourself to recognize its feeling. Religious people say what you are feeling is the power of God. Some people feel it when they have a gut or strong feeling.
In your first few months of training you will find that you often feel the Force for a few seconds without trying. This is a good sign. This means you are naturally starting to open yourself to the Force. This shows that you are learning how to quiet your mind and letting go of those barriers. Some people will find that at random times they will feel a strong, sometimes overwhelming surge of the Force. This happens because you lack control and will pass as you keep training.
Some people have the ability to see the Force around a person, object or place. They see an energy field that is called an aura. An aura will give you information about the person or energy. The aura of people can tell you the person’s mood. Generally green means calm, growing, happy and so on. Blue is calm or tranquil. Red means emotional upset and dangerous. Black is the most dangerous, generally hinting the breaking point of someone.
Gathering the Force
As you probably know the Force is all around us. We are able to feel and call this energy to us. Because the Force is all around us there is no limit to how far we can gather from. So you can feel and gather the Force from all over the world, but that is impractical. For starters it is suggested that you practice on gathering energy from inside of you and then moving on to outside of you.
There are two ways of feeling the Force. The first way is one you have already learned. It is the passive, opening, yourself up. The second one is the natural, but harder way. It is the active and conscious calling and gather of the Force to and around you. Imagine energy around you and in you. You may want to imagine it was a mist. Envision this mist coming to you, by your own will. If you have trouble imagining the mist, make it green or blue. Open yourself to the Force and connect the feeling of the Force to the mist. Gather the Force from around and inside of you.
It is suggested that a Jedi learns not to gather the Force too much. This will lead to overloads, which can do damage, or in extreme cases kill people. One should never gather more energy than one’s body and mind can handle. One should also never try to force the Force to do anything that the energy should not do naturally because it leads to the dark side. It is better than one opens oneself to the Force, rather than bringing the Force to them.
One exercise you can practice is making a Force ball. Calm and open yourself up to the Force. Feel the Force flowing through and around you. Imagine the mist again and gather the Force to your body. Hold out your hands and hold them like you are holding a medium ball. When gathering the Force, focus the energy to inside your hands. Keep the Force in your hand tight and compact. You should be able to feel this. It may not feel as solid as it could. This is ok and will improve with practice. Some Force users have described their Force balls to feel like heat, or cold, and sometimes like a magnet, pulling your hands together.
Grounding the Force
There will be times you will not want to feel the Force, or not feel so much. Everyone has their own level of awareness to the Force. Some feel it more than others. Some end up feeling too much or will accidentally gather too much. We call this overloading.
The signs for overloading usually are marked by unexplained headaches, tiredness (if the overload lasts for a long time), breaking things unnaturally, or extremely energetic. If you do not get rid of the excess your mind will automatically block you from feeling the Force in order to protect you.
If you find yourself or a friend feeling overloaded you need to go to a quiet, peaceful place and focus sending energy to the ground. Although there are many ways of getting rid of energy here are two methods. One is the golden roots method. Image standing still and image golden roots of energy coming form you into the earth. Then picture the extra energy going from your body into the roots and to the ground. The second method is imaging the excess energy in you and moving it through your body, towards the ground. Remember to never panic when being overloaded. It can sound hard, but fear will only make the situation worse and will make it harder to get rid of the energy.
Grounding will teach you how to recognize the feeling of the Force and how to control it. You don’t have to get rid of all your energy. You can just get ground some of the way. This is good controlling practice because sometimes a little of the Force can go a long way.
Controlling the Force
For the first few months your control over the Force will have it ups and downs. Some days you will have near prefect control and some days you can’t even feel the Force. This is perfectly normal. It is like walking. Sometimes the baby can stand, sometimes the baby will fall. Eventually the baby will be able to stand all the time, but it will take time. New Force users are no different. Some days your grip over the Force is going to be better than other days. This does not mean you have lost your skill. It means you need to keep practicing to fine tune your control.
Should you find yourself struggling with one skill take a break and then practice on another skill that you are better at. This will boost your confidence and will mentally make the skill you are having trouble, seem easier.
Like any type of exercise you can get tired and need to take a break and get some water. Practice psi is mental exercise. If you find yourself getting tired or sleepy, take a few hours break.
Like exercise you can hurt yourself, and possibly hurt your abilities for a long time, though you really have to push the limits. Headaches are the first and most common signs you need a break. Feeling drained all the time is another sign. Unexplained weakness in abilities is a major sign that you need to take a month off from practice. You can really hurt your mind and I know this because I did. Even after months and months of not practicing much I still got bad headaches. If you keep practicing beyond what your mind can handle, you can cause long term damage. Some signs of long term damage are your connection to the Force will weaken or at time disappear. Headaches will come constantly and will increase with intensity. This damage cane be healed, but it won’t be easy.
Patience
Going with the idea of the baby learning to walk, a new student will not be able to everything at once. Practice is much need, but even more importantly, patience is required for using the Force. No baby can learn to run until it has learned to crawl. No Force user can learn telekinesis without learning how to feel the Force. There are no true short cuts when it comes to learning to use the Force. Even if a student finds a way to skip several steps, it is not a good thing. Some of these steps may seem pointless, but there is always a point. Gathering the Force into a ball in your hand does not seem like a big deal, but it increases your control. Being impatience brings greed which is part of the dark side. Force users that are impatient for more access and ability to use the Force. This means that they are power hungry. It is not unusual for a beginner to have a brief period of power hungry. This will be out grown, but such behavior should be carefully watched in case it is not out grown.
Remember, the Force will always be there. It is up to the Jedi to be aware of the feeling and the flow. If a Jedi listen to the Force, they can learn quite a bit, but in order to do, a Jedi student must learn their basic skills. It will take time, energy and commitment, but it is well worth it. May the Force be with you and your journey.
The Force User Guide
Part 1
Meditations and Basic Skills
Flowing with the Force
Like all meditations, the first step is calm yourself. You will need perfect peace of the mind and body in order to do this meditation. This meditation will require you to be able to do the basic Force skills.
Open yourself to the Force as much as you can. Let it flow through and around you. Get comfortable with the feeling and flow of the Force. This is very important because you will have to trust the Force enough to let go and let the Force carry you along its current.
As you feel the Force flowing through you, be aware of the grip your mind as. Your mind will cling to yourself, resisting the current of the Force. Let go and drift along with the Force. At first you will be very conscious that you are drifting and will notice things through the Force. This is normal, but not the point of the meditation. Do not think about what you are doing or going. Don’t think and just feel the Force. You should, after a few times, should remember nothing except the Force.
This meditation will help you feel the Force more and will let you see the more subtle connects of life. You can this meditation to help you solve problems or come up with ideas.
Emotional Meditation
This meditation is for finding, confronting and getting rid of negative emotions. These emotions will block you from the Force.
You will want to sit or lay for this. You will need to first calm yourself and blank your mind. You might try visualizing a blank, black chalk board. Do not let your mind wander. Once both your mind and body are still, bring up an emotion. It can be any emotion, but it is recommended to pick one that is bothering you or keeping you from the Jedi peace. Feel that emotion to the fullest. Let the emotion fill you up until you think are going to be taken over it. Then take a deep breath, feeling the strongest part of the emotion and let the emotion out.
Imagine the emotion as a red mist that will flow through you to the ground or bed. As you breathe out, have that emotion flow out of you. You should notice a change in how you feel. You should feel calmer, but not calm. This is normal. Repeat the steps of feeling, breathing, visualizing, and directing the emotion out until you are calm.
Another version of this is the let the emotion keep rising through your body until it gets to your head. Do not stop there. Let it continue out of your body. This is the natural and healthy flow of emotional energy and it will get rid of the negativity.
If you are in a rush and are walking you can still meditate. This should be done if you are unable to stop for a minute you can still do a quick emotional meditation if you need some calm. Feel the emotion and imagine it as light and movable. Think of a breeze flowing through you. Let go of the emotion so that it can flow with the breeze and out of your body and mind.
Basic Skills
A Jedi is taught to feel and trust the Force, but this is harder than it sounds. There are many steps to achieve this. All Jedi should be able to feel, recognize, gather ground and control the Force. This is known as the basic skills. With these skills you should be able to do abilities like empathy, telepathy and even telekinesis. This will allow you also to understand the flow of the Force. You can perceive the living Force, or the connection that life and the Force has. By opening and understanding the Force your life will improve. Your relationships, health and career will improve. You can perceive the living Force, or the connection that life and the Force has. Your strength and physical skill will improve along with Force control.
The Mind
Before a Jedi student can learn about the Force and how to use it, one needs to get their mind in shape. The mind of a Jedi is very organized and centered. They can think ahead quickly. A Jedi can make huge decision extremely fast. They are always aware of everything, everyone, themselves and the Force. In order to have this mind a Jedi must be able to focus and silences their mind. If one is always thinking and feeling, one can’t hear the whispers of the Force. If a Jedi lets their mind wonder, they will not be aware of what is around them and may miss a warning or a feeling from the Force. In the world of today, many people have trouble focusing due to the noise, the lights, the colors and the many other distractions society had created. We are so busy being entertained by the multi media that we have almost completely lost of concentration and therefore have lost our connection to nature and the Force. So learning to focus is the key to the Jedi mind.
Focusing
Find a quiet room with no distractions. Get into a comfortable position, but beware of lying down; falling asleep won't help. You may close your eyes or you can leave them open. Image a blank piece of paper or a blank wall. Keep thinking about that image and do not allow any other thoughts enter. If you find yourself beginning to think about things just tell yourself that you are and try again. See how long you can keep your mind blank.
You do not have to use the blank wall. Try listening to music and pick on instrument to focus on. You could focus on the drums for starters. As you get better at this you can add some distractions in. I strongly suggest that you add one at a time. Turn on some the television. Think of the blank wall while in a loud crowed room.
This exercise can be useful in many ways. This could be the start of your meditation. It will quiet your mind and shape your mind to be able to feel the Force. You can use stop another Force user from knowing your surface thoughts while you get a shield up. Blanking your thoughts may stop you from dreaming or from having nightmares.
Visualizing
The focusing exercise talked about above involves visualizing, which can be a hard skill for some beginners. Visualizing is the ability to picture a mental imagine in your mind. It is not a Force skill, in that you must use the Force in some way, but an everyday skill that is related to Force skills. Visualization can be done using all senses. When you stare out a window in class thinking about that car you have always wanted, that is visualizing. For an example try thinking of a car that you have always dream of owning. It can be a real car or a made up one.
Picture the whole car. Maybe it is tiny or maybe it's really long. Now mentally walk around the car. Look at all the sides. Now go inside the car to the driver's seat. Is the seat made of out leather? What are all the cool new features? Turn around and look at the back seat. Can you see it? If you can, you have just done visualizing. You can also try using your other senses. What does the metal feel like? The seats feel like? Does your car have that new car smell? Using as many senses as possible will greatly improve the lucidity of your visualizations.
This skill is greatly used by many Jedi. The technique will be used in feeling, gathering, grounding the Force, telepathy, scanning, and even telekinesis, so it is highly suggested that one makes sure they have mastered the skill.
Feeling the Force
There are many ways of feeling the Force. All Force users learn to feel it a different way. The constants seem to be that for beginners, they need a blank, calm mind that is not focused on anything. This leaves them open and willing to the Force.
Most people have felt the Force as a kid, but due to society, they have closed their mind, setting up mental barriers to keep the Force out. In order to reopen yourself up to the Force you will have to take down these barriers. Here is one technique that has worked for many other people.
Think of a song, one that is calming. Play it through your head, or turn it on, but have the volume on quietly. Relax your mind and body. Stop thinking and feeling. Do try to feel the Force or do anything. Just sit there and enjoy the moment of peace. If you are one of those who can't sit still or be quiet try taking a breath, holding it for three seconds and then blow all the air out and then breathe in slowly. Repeat the song and breathing until you are calm.
Now, stare at air. Try looking at the space between you and your hand. You won't see anything, but that is not the point. Do not strain yourself and just space out a bit. Let the music help you by calming your mind and body. Let the music help you let go of anything thoughts or stresses. Now pay attention to what you feel. Do you feel something around or in you feeling warm, tingly, good feeling, possibly like your blood is rushing, but it isn’t? You may feel an energy field that seems very close to you. If you feel any of these descriptions, you are feeling the Force.
Some people have found that strong emotions like anger, fear, and love can help you feel the Force. Although this is true, these emotions come from the dark side. Jedi find that with these emotions, it is hard to feel and control the Force. These emotions will cause uncontrolled reactions with the Force. When a new Force user is angry, objects around them or even in another room, tends to fall and break. With peace you will find it is easier to control the Force.
Recognizing the Force
Another skill there is essential to learning the basics is recognizing the feeling of the Force. People will feel the Force without noticing it. This happens because you are not aware of the Force and should teach yourself to recognize its feeling. Religious people say what you are feeling is the power of God. Some people feel it when they have a gut or strong feeling.
In your first few months of training you will find that you often feel the Force for a few seconds without trying. This is a good sign. This means you are naturally starting to open yourself to the Force. This shows that you are learning how to quiet your mind and letting go of those barriers. Some people will find that at random times they will feel a strong, sometimes overwhelming surge of the Force. This happens because you lack control and will pass as you keep training.
Some people have the ability to see the Force around a person, object or place. They see an energy field that is called an aura. An aura will give you information about the person or energy. The aura of people can tell you the person’s mood. Generally green means calm, growing, happy and so on. Blue is calm or tranquil. Red means emotional upset and dangerous. Black is the most dangerous, generally hinting the breaking point of someone.
Gathering the Force
As you probably know the Force is all around us. We are able to feel and call this energy to us. Because the Force is all around us there is no limit to how far we can gather from. So you can feel and gather the Force from all over the world, but that is impractical. For starters it is suggested that you practice on gathering energy from inside of you and then moving on to outside of you.
There are two ways of feeling the Force. The first way is one you have already learned. It is the passive, opening, yourself up. The second one is the natural, but harder way. It is the active and conscious calling and gather of the Force to and around you. Imagine energy around you and in you. You may want to imagine it was a mist. Envision this mist coming to you, by your own will. If you have trouble imagining the mist, make it green or blue. Open yourself to the Force and connect the feeling of the Force to the mist. Gather the Force from around and inside of you.
It is suggested that a Jedi learns not to gather the Force too much. This will lead to overloads, which can do damage, or in extreme cases kill people. One should never gather more energy than one’s body and mind can handle. One should also never try to force the Force to do anything that the energy should not do naturally because it leads to the dark side. It is better than one opens oneself to the Force, rather than bringing the Force to them.
One exercise you can practice is making a Force ball. Calm and open yourself up to the Force. Feel the Force flowing through and around you. Imagine the mist again and gather the Force to your body. Hold out your hands and hold them like you are holding a medium ball. When gathering the Force, focus the energy to inside your hands. Keep the Force in your hand tight and compact. You should be able to feel this. It may not feel as solid as it could. This is ok and will improve with practice. Some Force users have described their Force balls to feel like heat, or cold, and sometimes like a magnet, pulling your hands together.
Grounding the Force
There will be times you will not want to feel the Force, or not feel so much. Everyone has their own level of awareness to the Force. Some feel it more than others. Some end up feeling too much or will accidentally gather too much. We call this overloading.
The signs for overloading usually are marked by unexplained headaches, tiredness (if the overload lasts for a long time), breaking things unnaturally, or extremely energetic. If you do not get rid of the excess your mind will automatically block you from feeling the Force in order to protect you.
If you find yourself or a friend feeling overloaded you need to go to a quiet, peaceful place and focus sending energy to the ground. Although there are many ways of getting rid of energy here are two methods. One is the golden roots method. Image standing still and image golden roots of energy coming form you into the earth. Then picture the extra energy going from your body into the roots and to the ground. The second method is imaging the excess energy in you and moving it through your body, towards the ground. Remember to never panic when being overloaded. It can sound hard, but fear will only make the situation worse and will make it harder to get rid of the energy.
Grounding will teach you how to recognize the feeling of the Force and how to control it. You don’t have to get rid of all your energy. You can just get ground some of the way. This is good controlling practice because sometimes a little of the Force can go a long way.
Controlling the Force
For the first few months your control over the Force will have it ups and downs. Some days you will have near prefect control and some days you can’t even feel the Force. This is perfectly normal. It is like walking. Sometimes the baby can stand, sometimes the baby will fall. Eventually the baby will be able to stand all the time, but it will take time. New Force users are no different. Some days your grip over the Force is going to be better than other days. This does not mean you have lost your skill. It means you need to keep practicing to fine tune your control.
Should you find yourself struggling with one skill take a break and then practice on another skill that you are better at. This will boost your confidence and will mentally make the skill you are having trouble, seem easier.
Like any type of exercise you can get tired and need to take a break and get some water. Practice psi is mental exercise. If you find yourself getting tired or sleepy, take a few hours break.
Like exercise you can hurt yourself, and possibly hurt your abilities for a long time, though you really have to push the limits. Headaches are the first and most common signs you need a break. Feeling drained all the time is another sign. Unexplained weakness in abilities is a major sign that you need to take a month off from practice. You can really hurt your mind and I know this because I did. Even after months and months of not practicing much I still got bad headaches. If you keep practicing beyond what your mind can handle, you can cause long term damage. Some signs of long term damage are your connection to the Force will weaken or at time disappear. Headaches will come constantly and will increase with intensity. This damage cane be healed, but it won’t be easy.
Patience
Going with the idea of the baby learning to walk, a new student will not be able to everything at once. Practice is much need, but even more importantly, patience is required for using the Force. No baby can learn to run until it has learned to crawl. No Force user can learn telekinesis without learning how to feel the Force. There are no true short cuts when it comes to learning to use the Force. Even if a student finds a way to skip several steps, it is not a good thing. Some of these steps may seem pointless, but there is always a point. Gathering the Force into a ball in your hand does not seem like a big deal, but it increases your control. Being impatience brings greed which is part of the dark side. Force users that are impatient for more access and ability to use the Force. This means that they are power hungry. It is not unusual for a beginner to have a brief period of power hungry. This will be out grown, but such behavior should be carefully watched in case it is not out grown.
Remember, the Force will always be there. It is up to the Jedi to be aware of the feeling and the flow. If a Jedi listen to the Force, they can learn quite a bit, but in order to do, a Jedi student must learn their basic skills. It will take time, energy and commitment, but it is well worth it. May the Force be with you and your journey.
