Nod.

"'Kay, back to meditative trance," he says, closing his eyes once more and breathing. Once he's in it he says, "Now I'm going to stand up, eyes still closed, and feel. As I feel, the Force will flow around me. As it flows, I will move with it, aligning my body with its fluxes, trying to be one with it. This will make me have more emotions. The cycle goes."

This is definitely in the top five weirdest things she's ever done.

He laughs. "I know it's weird, but bear with me. So, emotions aren't the only thing that affects the Force, right?"

"If you say so."

"I don't have to feel anything at, say, a pebble, to make it float. It also responds to will. To thought, to action, to all of it. You've noticed it before, I'm sure. An intuition that something is wrong, a second's foresight to evade an opponent's attack, an anticipation about what someone's about to say or do, how they feel about it, what they want from you..."

"Maybe..."

"So, do that. Add will to your movements. Your emotions are making the Force move in a certain way, and your body is following it. Now will it to move a different way, independently of your emotions; make the Force go with your flow, rather than the other way around."

Okay so she can track emotions. And then apparently separate-but-not from that is the Force itself, like a background, and she's supposed to will it to twist-

Nothing happens.

"I don't understand what you mean."

"Hmm, okay, so... The emotions you're feeling, the intuitions I mentioned, that's all the Force. The Force is everywhere. The thing you can feel with your emotions is the Force. Your will, your thoughts, your intentions, your emotions, they're none of them different, to the Force, and it reacts to all of them. Does that make more sense?"

"Sort of? But I don't think that helps."

"Hmm, what are you having trouble with?"

"What to- do."

"Okay, I think I see, no, you don't have to do a thing. It's—you have to want it, only, don't try too hard. It shouldn't be fundamentally different than emotions, you don't have to try to feel emotions, they just happen to you. It's more or less the same thing, make your want into an emotion, into something that's happening to you but under your conscious direction. I know it's confusing, but just—try to frame it like that, or something close to it, in your head. Maybe just continue doing the emotions thing for a while, watching how your body interacts with the Force and how the Force interacts with you. Find that balance."

Watching. She can do that.

Probably.

"I'm gonna do it some. If you can watch me do it, you might be able to get it. And it's alright if you don't get it today, this is a skill."

"Okay."

So he does it. First emotions, anger, hate, loathing, indifference, warmth, care, happiness—

—and then a different thing, not an emotion. His body moves with it, so that it's not clear which is causing which, but the movement is more purposeful, less chaotic, more guided.

That's very cool and a little hot. But it doesn't really help her.

"Now your turn to try it?" he says, relapsing back to flowing with emotions.

Flowing with emotions is... hard. Katas are much easier to do, to drift along with, and she falls into those long-engrained patterns almost unconciously. It's a lot easier to focus, like this. She can almost see-

The Force begins gently pulsing around her, swirling in time with her movements. Brin doesn't appear to notice.

He doesn't comment on it, then, just smiles and does his own exercises.

She mimes a thrust and a nearby box topples over.

She blinks.

He laughs. "You did it! Were doing it, rather."

"I was."