Wanara Project
Chapters 32. Ananda's Galih (Part 4) - Energy balance
While eating lunch, Galih kept thinking about the breathing exercises he had just done.
“The breathing technique I do can make the body adapt to the heat of the room. That means the breathing technique at that time naturally releases cold energy which slowly makes the body condition more stable.”
“The body that originally flowed cold energy to make it stable, will definitely get tremendous pressure when the room temperature drops dramatically suddenly. It is because the body is exposed to excessive cold energy.”
“If that is true, then all I have to do is focus on producing the appropriate type of energy, which is energy that is opposite to room temperature for balance to occur. But how do you do it? From earlier I was just doing regular breathing techniques, and this body was slowly able to adapt by itself.”
“I have to find a way to be able to speed up that process, because I'm sure the next challenge has to do with the duration of time. Maybe I won't have much time to adapt. The time span of extreme temperature changes will certainly be narrower.”
Galih is able to analyze the situation well. He managed to find a pattern that he had to do in anticipation of the worst that would happen.
In this life, everything is created in pairs. Men and women. Good and bad. Strong and weak. Light and dark. Cold and Hot. Yin and Yang.
The world was indeed made that way to create an interesting and beautiful ecosystem of life. The concept also applies in terms of energy control. In order for the energy in the body to be utilized properly and optimally, then the body must have an energy balance.
“Training this time seems a little easier for me, Ayu and Dirga because the three of us have energy that tends to be balanced. Another case with Yuna and Rama who are more inclined to one type of energy. Yuna has a tendency towards cold energy and Rama has a tendency towards hot energy.” Thought Galih.
“But why do Yuna and Rama have a more dominant type of energy huh? Is that just my perception? Maybe they also have a good energy balance, but they can make one type of energy more dominant.”
“But wait, what form of manipulation is done does it have to do with the dominance of one type of energy? Seems not. Energy manipulation is the visualization we create to be able to control the energy we have. While the heat and cold energy produced from breathing techniques is a manifestation of the body's need to defend itself.”
“Ah please.. I speculate too much. The most important thing at this time is how to speed up the process of body adaptation.”
Galih has not had time to finish lunch and get a solution to overcome the challenges of the fourth area, the break time is complete and the exercise will begin again. Galih was surprised and tried to scatter the remaining food with a rush.
But then Galih realized something. His body reacted automatically when he heard the sign the rest time was over. It is one of his natural responses to not waste the time he has.
“Natural body response? I understand.” Say Galih with a smile.
Walk back to the center of the room to continue the exercise. He sat down cross-legged and saw people tidying up where he was eating. Galih knew that the exercise would not begin before the men left the room. He took advantage of that time lag to take a few deep breaths. That he did so that the body becomes more ready when he did breathing techniques so as to increase the natural response of his body.
Not long after that the men left. At that time Galih immediately closed his eyes to do breathing techniques.
A few minutes Galih doing breathing exercises, the room temperature still feels normal. No change at all. But 30 minutes later, slowly the room temperature dropped and felt cold. Galih knows the body will try to make some reactions to warm itself. He was waiting for what kind of reaction would come.
“Shivering? Sure oes. The body reacts by making the muscles contract in order to increase body temperature.” Her thought.
Galih tried to feel the warmth that emerged from his shivering body. Although faint, the warm sensation was still felt.
Using breathing techniques, Galih triggers the reaction. Not to make his body shiver faster, but to make the warm sensation well channeled to all parts of the body. Galih tries to cut the time it takes for the body to warm itself.
It didn't take long for his body to stop shivering and start to warm up. Galih managed to do that before the room temperature touched its lowest point.
Gradually the temperature of the room continued to fall and now it became very cold as before. Cold that punched the bone. But Galih who has managed to spread heat energy throughout the body was able to adapt quickly. It also made him avoid the bad effects as happened before.
The room temperature is at the coldest point in a span of about 1 hour. During that time span, Galih learned a few things. He tried to increase his body heat again. The result of the experiment was that sweat flowed profusely even in rooms with extreme cold temperatures. Then he tried to lower his body temperature, and his body shivered again.
Galih does this not only for trial and error, but so that he can control his body temperature easily when the room temperature changes drastically. Galih always makes a plan for several steps ahead as a form of anticipation.
Soon the room temperature increased dramatically. Galih who had been practicing controlling the high and low temperature of the body, managed to adapt to changes in room temperature in a very short time. He was able to cope with that temperature change very well without experiencing the slightest obstacle.
Temperature changes occur every 30 minutes. From cold to hot, from hot back to cold. Galih is able to maintain his concentration and survive in these conditions until the training is declared over.
On the third day, in the fourth area, Galih again managed to finish the training very well.
Teeeit….
“Congratulations Mr. Galih, you successfully completed the training this time. During these three days, you showed excellent performance.” Praise Julia from behind the loudspeaker.
“There is important information I need to convey to you for training tomorrow. It is with great regret that tomorrow you will not be able to do the exercises in the fifth area as the virtual capsule machine is still under repair. There are some technical obstacles that make the capsule unusable for a while. Therefore, tomorrow Mr. Galih can do the exercises independently.” Julia gave an explanation.
“Technical obstacles? Meaning the machine was broken huh?” Ask Galih.
“More or less like that, mister.” Julia.
“Abiz once. I'm sure Julia must have designed all the exercise areas really well. He is one of the perfectionists. He was not the type of person who would let the training process be interrupted just because of the usual technical issues. Looks like something.” Thought Galih was curious.
“Alright, I understand Julia. Thanks for the information.” Call without asking further.
After that, Galih walked away leaving the training room. He headed to the medical room to find out the development of the condition of his right hand which was still wrapped in bandages. Galih hopes his hand can recover before the fifth day of training begins. He would desperately need both of his hands to finish the exercise. Close combat will be very difficult to do if the right hand is not yet usable.
It turned out that Dirga was also in the medical room. Dirga is doing light maintenance in the room. All over Dirga's body was filled with small wounds.
“Dirga, what happened?” Ask Galih who was surprised to see Dirga's condition.
“Oh hey Galih. Nothing happened. I just checked the condition of the body.” Dirga.
“Why can you get hurt like that?” Re-examining the question.
“This is due to defense training. It is very difficult to dispel all weapons thrown.” Answer Dirga.
“Three days have passed. So my condition is much better. What's more, breathing exercises the next day help speed up the recovery of these injuries.” Dirga added the answer.
“Breathing exercises help recover wounds?” Thought Galih was astonished because she had just finished her breathing exercises and remembered the pain she had experienced at the beginning of the training.
“You yourself why?” Dirga asked a question.
“This is because I overextended myself in the second area exercise.” Answer Galih.
“Oh yes, how about the exercise today? Is virtual training difficult enough?” Galih tries to find answers to dispel her curiosity about the broken virtual capsule.
“Hey, did Julia not say that we are forbidden to exchange information?” Answer Dirga coldly.
Galih was surprised and jolted by the answer given by his friend.
“Iya is right too.” Galih.
“No need to be too serious. Ha ha ha ha.” Dirga responded with a laugh when he saw the look on the face shown by Galih.
“Today I did the exercises independently. Virtual capsule is being damaged.” Said Dirga answering Galih's question earlier.
“It turns out to be really broken huh? Do you know why?” Ask Galih.
“Entahlah, maybe the machine is still in the trial stage.” Answer Dirga.
“Maybe.” Said Galih who was still curious about the cause of the damage to the virtual capsule.
“If Dirga also did not have time to use a virtual capsule, is it possible Rama? What else happened to that guy?” Thought Galih was speculating.
“Do I ask you directly? I don't think it's necessary.” Thought again.
Galih is a very anticipatory person. He will be more comfortable if he has taken into account every step he will take. The cause of the virtual machine malfunction that he did not know about, made him feel a little uncomfortable. Because then, there are variables that he cannot calculate.
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