Heralds, Harpers, and Havoc: Fundamentals Mercedes Lackey
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- A Song from the CD Heralds, Harpers, and Havoc, by Mercedes Lackey. About Talia getting her psionic Gifts under control with the help of Kris . I don't know who sung it, though.
Lyrics:
FUNDAMENTALS
Lyrics: Mercedes Lackey Music: Kristoph Klover
(Kris: Arrow's Flight)
Ground and center; we begin
Feel the shape inside your skin
Feel the earth and feel the air-
Ground and center; "how" and "where."
Ground and center-don't just frown,
Find the leaks and lock them down.
Baby-games you never learned
Bring you pain you never earned.
Ground and center; do it, child
If you'd tame that Talent wild-
Girl, you learned it in your youth-
Life's not fair, and that's the truth.
Ground and center, once again;
You're not finished-I'll say when.
Ground and center in your sleep
Ground and center 'till you weep.
Ground and center; that's the way-
You might get somewhere, someday.
Yes, I know I'm being cruel
And you're as stubborn as a mule!
Ground and center, feel the flow
Can you tell which way to go?
Instinct's not enough, my friend-
Make it reflex in the end.
Ground and center; hold it tight-
Dammit, greenie, that's not right!
(Every tear you shed hurts me,
But that's the way it has to be.)
Ground and center; good, at last!
Once again; grab hard, hold fast.
Half asleep or half awake-
Both of us know what's at stake.
Ground and center; now it's sure;
What you have now will endure,
Forgive me what I had to do-
Healing hurts-you know that's true.
Ground and center; lover, friend-
You won't break, but now you bend.
Costly lesson, high the price-
But you won't have to learn it twice!
It's set when Talia is on her first Circuit with Herald Kris. Her very strong Empathic gift lets her sense and even shape the emotions of other people... however she was never correctly trained in its use: so she is inundated by other people's emotions, and also fears that she may be altering them without consciously realising this. Kris eventually realises the problem and teaches her how to properly shield her own mind and feelings.
All *much* better told in Arrow's Flight...
the herald who was teaching her how to use her magic was killed by bandits
This song and the story behind it really helped me, when I was picking up stress and anxiety from those around me. The whole series really helped me. The book is Arrow's Flight by Mercedes Lackey.
I love this music!!! I have not had the pleasure of reading the books but I will make it on my "to do list". My husband has read the series and he's the one who introduced me to this genre of music. . .
Took me years of practice to get the hang of it, but I did basically this in my meditation practice. I can ground and center in under a second in most circumstances. I don't even believe in the supernatural anymore, but it's a seriously useful skill.
*Owen McGee*
There is nothing supernatural to most magic. Everything is perfectly natural, provided you are not dealing with a charlatan.
Grounding and centering , realigns your spine taking pressure off your hips ,(they are not for supporting your torso) You fix one small thing, dozens follow as a consequence.
Is it magic that you can think better with the correct posture? Idiots discard hard learned tricks like that, just because some con artists use them.
I suppose ,according to their reasoning ,we should all disarm since fire arms are used by criminals.
wow, im impressed
how did you achieved that?
@@valentinacherubini9381 Necessity, practice, a predisposition to dissociation (I'm Autistic). I started with guided meditation (qigong at first), later got into grounding & centering exercises, eventually went from needing 40 minutes to ground and center to under a second. No real secret. Just lots of practice.
Arrow's Flight is such a good book, though I feel bad for Talia
Talia was lucky she had criss along. Lose control in the sorrows? Later,in another book, Vanyel's ghost says Yfantes almost "thumped " her.
A ghost kick from a ghost companion and .. you got brains leaking out your nose.
so the Herald mage Van and his companion appear in front of Talia and her Companion? I have got the complete Arrow series but not yet got around to reading them. I would like to think that the Heralds of the past look after the ones in the future
It's like being a telepath but with objects. By touching an item, if I'm not careful, I know it's name, what if anything is wrong with it, what it does, how it works, and how far I can push it's operational limits. All at once.
Psychometry
I always laugh when someone says that it must be great to be Empathic. Now I can just direct them to this song, thanks!
Asperger syndrome is described as a fundamental lack of recognition of the social patterns inherent in society. Empathy serves as a coping mechanism for that. By Sensing the emotion put off by the person, you sometimes can pick up on the cue you missed in the body language, and cover that you don't understand what signals they are attempting to put out, or that you don't know yourself how to put forward those signals, by Sending those emotions directly with you Gift. It is VERY subtle...
Listening to this song on repeat while reading the scenes is just 🙌
Empathy is not a curse i would bestow upon my worst enemy, let alone anyone i cared about.
Does have a few perks though. I find it easier to get to the heart of the matter in emotions than others. Then again, most people don't want to get to the heart of the matter as it usually involves pain.
As a empath, I have to say it is a blessing and a curse although as a functionally legally blind woman, it's super helpful as I use it for navigation and so many other daily tasks to the point where I'm not even consciously doing a thing with my gift outside of here and there as a situation calls for it
OH GOD I JUST FINISHED ARROW'S FALL AND I HAVE SO MANY FEELS OVER KRIS D:
I felt more for Talia than Kris... :x
Venus Gillespie zzpj
It still squees me a bit that Lord Orthalan suggested Selenay marry Kris right after her father died.
Here I am with just 5 senses. Can't see through walls or picket fences. My girlfriend said I'm much too common, so she left me for a shaman. (Thanks to Dan Hart.)
This song is a reminder I use to keep my ground and center! I used to dragged around in the wind like a balloon.
i really want to read the whole world of the series
Almost 40 books set on velgrath and most in valdemar, lots to read
I read them all last decade, I should go and do it again before this one's over.
I only started reading Lackey a year ago. I didn't realize how much I was missing out on her and kinda wish I spent my high school years binging her instead of Goodkind.
@@craniifer As someone who did live off Lackey and McCaffrey. It is much easier to deal with people in general then Goodkind ever manages to teach.
By control I mean it's easiest to listen to them. And this would be the "Named object" thing. The TV named Bob for example. To give an idea of what it's like, if I touch something unprepared, it's like a howling wind in my ears. If I'm grounded, centered, prepared for it, and I have the object's co-operation, it's like a song. I can actually make out what it wants. Or what it's trying to get across.
Talia is aprojecting empath, (she can make you feel what she does) with low self esteem and self confidence. And she can read the emotions of others, including her partner/instructors (Kris) doubts about her. Also shehas never really learned to shield. They are isolated in a waystation by a massive blizzard, and he is bieng abrasive and triggers a killing rage in her. (which almost caused their Companions to attack each other)It took a long time to get her to calm down enough to regain some controle of herself. He is now teaching her proper and full controle. (Better late than never.)
Well, you guys seem to be little bit nuts, so I'm going to share my nutish experience too, but I will keep it short. I tried to meditate once, I did not looked how to do it, because it's obvious in itself. You clear your mind off all thoughts first and second of all incoming sensory information. You basically are sleeping, but your presence of mind is still here. First time then I tried to meditate I felt like my body began to steam. I felt like my soul had began to boil in a pleasant way, like a water boiling is a good analogy. I was terrified and broke meditation instantly. Even though, I was curious and I tried again, same thing happening, but this time I tried to accelarate it. I tried it too brutally, I wanted to use brute force and that's why I believe I failed. Then I sensed that my concentration is slipping I simply let it go and I returned back all tense. All my muscles felt that they contracted themselves. Second thing I noticed is how quickly half a hour passed. It seemed for me like 5 mins at max, most of that time was spent into focusing yourself into damn meditation.
In the end, I sought concentration and my mind remained focused for roughly 24 hours despite for me going to sleep and later waking up with same state of mind which I wanted to achieve.
It works on anything inanimate. Machines, objects. It speaks. It tells me what I need to know immediately, plus if something comes up that it hasn't told me how to deal with, it'll walk me through it. For example, if I were to use it on the controls of a plane, I'd know what to use when, and which buttons to hit for what.
Speaking as an Empath, it can be a curse, but it can be a gift. Learn as Talia did to control it. Learn to Ground and Center, shield yourself, shield for those around you and for your own sanity's sake.
Once you learn to do that it can be a great benifit to you, as most empath's I know are also at least borderline Asberger's syndrome... The empathy serves as a coping mechanism in a way.
I have just finished The Outcast so this song reminds me of Soren's colliering and weather interpretation training earlier in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.
The verse where the singer (Kristoph Klover, perhaps?) dubs over himself is excellently trippy.
I live with an Empath and I have to shield all the time sleep or awake and yet she can still pick up but its hardest when she broadcasts and gives me headaches right through my shields.
I'm an empath/healer and I live in my shields and I definitely love this song because it rings true for healers and empaths because one wrong move is sucky
Kris song from Arrow's Flight
Elspeth and Darkwind
Or being the healer on the team.
Pretty much how it feels doing training missions in any flight simulator.
@Hopanio better that than never really knowing others emotions except on an intellectual level and KNOWING it. I think sometimes that my autistic son has it better than I.
Well, let me tell you, as an empath (though nowhere near Talia's power, mind you) Empathy is a curse. To live life constantly reflecting the emotions of those around, be they good or ill...I cannot understand why anyone would want that.
I'm also an empath(pretty strong one too) and I feel like once you've mastered shielding, empathy can be a curse or a blessing. I am also a healer so sometimes my empathy aids my natural ability to heal. I can't do anything like in the herald series or in the movies but I am a pretty nice pain pill without the side effects for the person needing pain relief.
Feel free tomessage me on Instagram as missqueenbee98 or find me elsewhere as queenannabee98 or queenannabee982 and I'll teach you how to shield. This goes for anyone who wants to learn as I'm always happy to teach what I can about the different gifts/abilities out there.
I'm an Empath, very strongly with animals and some people. It SUCKS. I can also feel injuries, like if an animal is hurt, I feel it, but oddly, on the opposite side of the body. Still haven't learned to shield though. Rrrgh.
*confused* R u saying you can literally feel the pain of another living being within your own body, but on the opposite side?
Depending on how sensitive you are determines how easy it it to shut others out. Good test is sit down in the grass grab but DON'T pull it out close your eyes take a deep breath if you can feel the blade of grasses energy you very strong empath if not you can learn to push it back easy. :-) just Picture something happy have that fill your mind embrace that happy moment. WOLA you will block out another's pain.. However if you can feel the energy in a blade of grass than i truly feel for you as making a shield Becomes an ordeal. An ordeal that Requires A LOT of practice and generally another Empath to take you through.
jospeh jack
Aren't we confusing basic human capabilities with wish to be special here? It's not hard to feel others suffering nor to see then his mind is somewhere else. More often than not, you can read people like an open book if you have very high EQ or in other words, social intellect. I always trust my instincts and first impressions since I cannot recall then they ever had failed me and having some knowledge which you could describe as ''beyond logic'' is more of hidden calculations done by your brain.
So, what do you mean ''feeling energy''? You can always feel the beauty of a nature. I always loved to lay on the grass or put at least blanked on it (just hate random bug crawling through my skin). I can always feel energy being present then I'm in historical, meaningful places like in my link. It's normal from time to time to get overwhelming feeling of creepiness then you enter one or other building, but it's not because it's somehow magical. It's just complex sum of all pleasant parts working together, air, smells, birds which gives that feeling of mysticism or presence of something more that cannot be defined or grapsed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Crosses
Hi Meg, you are not the only empath here. :-) Shutting it all out won't help I'm afraid, a part will always stay in the subconcious. But you can learn to deal with it. I'm afraid you'll have to take more time for yourself than others. Anything that makes you feel quiet inside helps. Just be carefull with yourself. And you can be all. Sensitive and tough. Yin and Yang. It's just on your own terms. A lot of people find it hard to understand it when the feelings of others "settle in your bones". They simply cannot relate. Everybody is sensitive or empathic to others in a certain amount, but it's hard to apreciate someone being more sensitive.
@jospeh jack Hehe, I remember the awe I felt when I skiing in the Alpes. The mountains seemed to thrumm with energy. It was quite a thing.
i always imagined this song as more military when I read the lyrics in the back of the book rather than this song
why would you use the blanket term of psionic? her gifts are very firmly empathic, projective and receptive. on another note, it's way more upbeat than I had imagined it in my head when reading the lyrics.
Can you share story of this song?
+REgamesplayer go check out some books by Mercedes Lackey, she's the woman who wrote the books and the song. I think this is supposed to be from her Arrow's Flight trilogy, although I have yet to read it so I'm not 100%Trust me, if you like the song then Mercedes has several book series that you may very well like
as most real Gifts are. (sorry ran out of room on the last one)
That's psychometry not technopathy. technopathy is subliminal understanding of mechanical processes with a touch of telekinetical manipulation of the same.
where can i find the cd to these songs i love the books
i am guessing that this is kris singing the song
Well, the voice depends on who last used it. And what it's for. It's more me needing to get used to them then the other way round. I have the most control over named things that I've had longer then a month.
Can somebody explain me about that people are talking in comment section? Can you me short summary about that is song in the song?
Okay, sweetie, since nobody else has, I'll do it.
The character singing this is named Kris. He's a Herald of Valdemar, and he's singing it to Talia, a brand new Herald who just graduated. She has a very rare gift, the gift of empathy, and it's extremely important that she learn to control it, because she's what's known as Queen's Own Herald. In other words, she has a seat on the council and she has the queen's ear.
The problem is that nobody at the Heralds Collegium figured out what Talia's gift was before she went on circuit for her internship, and she figured it out and heard rumors that she was misusing her gift just before setting out on the circuit ride with Kris. So she's been trying to hide it for nearly a year, and now they're stuck because of a blizzard, and he's finally figured out what's going on, so he's trying to teach her how to control it.
This takes place in Arrow's Flight, which is the second book in the trilogy which is actually part of a much larger series, most of which are set in the kingdom of Valdemar. The one before it is Arrows of the Queen, and the one after is called Arrow's Fall. They're set after the Vows and Honor duology and before the stand-alone novel By the Sword.
LeAnn Anderson
Thank you.
Not quite accurate. The Heralds knew what her Gift was. The problem is that Empathy is usually paired with Healing Gift, so Talia started spending time with Mind-Healers. She had instinctive control of her Gift, so the Healers and Heralds both thought the other group had trained her, when neither actually had.
is the Herald drawing her sword meant to be Talia?
What series is this from?
To be specific about the voice of the object, well, a camera sounds different then say..an axe.
so...what is she learning to do?
Basically, how to not accidentally kill everyone around her, including herself!
You think that's bad, try being a technopath. Every object you touch screaming for a place in your head. I know ground and center. Otherwise I woulda gone nuts by now.
It's Asperger's with a P not a B.
it sounds a bit like the male singer of broceliande, but i could be wrong
I think it's Heather Alexander. A woman, though she transitioned to a man a few years ago.
Her voice is sorely missed. It's much too different now.
As a 'teaching song' I think the tempo should be a bit slower. JMO
I know its very, very late but. Kris is tying to teach a badly trained Talia, (one set of instructors assumed the other set were teaching her controle) extremly powerful projecting empath to controle her power, after her instinctive (not trained) controle fails and her power goes wild. the tempo indicates the urgency, because her empathic ability is strong enough to kill.
Fair enough. I am corrected. Needless to say, it's weeeird.