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A thousandpages at least.
And the author of the book, which was titledPrinciples and Techniques for Managing An Unruly Inner Beast,was Julieta Diaz.
I opened the book and perused the table of contents, not even a little surprised at what I found there.
Breath control: breathing with your inner beast
Mindfulness: being in the moment with your inner beast
Mantras and visualization: communicating with your inner beast
Meditation: becoming one with your inner beast
Movement: moving with your inner beast as if you were one being
Only five chapters for a book of a thousand pages?
I opened the book to the middle and immediately realized why it was so huge.
It was a how-to picture book. There were pictures of positions to take when meditating, pictures of how to do breathing exercises—I thought I already knew how to breathe, but whatever—and pictures of movements to practice.
Oh, and chapter three was full of actual mantras.
Things like, “I embrace my inner beast. We are one. I embrace my inner beast. We are one.” The mantras also came with suggested movements. This particular one suggested lifting one’s arms as if to offer an embrace to someone across the room while reciting the first line, then pulling your hands in, elbows out, to touch the chest while reciting the secondline, and repeat.
There were even suggestions around how to breathe during the mantra—when to inhale and when to exhale—and what tone to use when saying the mantra.
This book was crazy.
I was starting to wonder if our professor was too.
I gave Mr. Brecken a look, wondering if this was some sort of hazing experience for the new shifter gal, but he’d walked away and wasn’t paying me any attention at all.
“I am one with my inner beast?” I muttered.
“Are you?” Elliot asked as he plopped down in the chair next to mine.
Not beast. Leopard.
