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Meisner activities must be:
Meaningful to the character
Urgent (there must be a reason the activity must be done NOW)
Difficult to do
Examples of Meisner activities:
- Trying to find the burned out bulb in a string of Christmas lights
- Scattering many pages of a report all over the room and putting the pages back in order
- Gluing a vase back together
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