Another similar induction technique you can use is to imagine water
moving into the room where you are sitting, then gradually rising. Observe
(sense) the space in which the room is situated, and the space that the water
occupies. At first, the water would rise to cover your feet; move up the
shins to the knees; spill over them and into your lap; move up your
abdomen and chest, covering your arms, rising to your neck ... up past your
chin, lips, and head ... until the water fills the entire room. While some
people may not like the idea of being covered completely by water, others
find it soothingly warm and inviting.
WEEK ONE
GUIDE TO MEDITATION
As a reminder, during your Week One meditations, your job is to practice
the induction technique. If you record this induction yourself, make certain
that you repeat the same questions that I have provided in my guided-
induction instructions in the Appendices, with their emphasis on words and
phrases such as sense, notice, feel, become aware of, become conscious of,
and attend to. Also, words such as volume, density, perimeter of space,
weight of space, and so forth will help you focus your observation.
Instead of moving quickly from one part to another, allow some time to
pass (a good 20 to 30 seconds or more) for those sensory inputs and the
feelings of those parts in space to really settle in. Roughly, allow about 20
minutes to do the Body-Part Induction from head to toe, or in the case of
the water immersion, from toe to head. If you have meditated before, you
will no doubt understand that eventually you lose any sense of time passing
as your brain waves diminish in frequency and you move into that calm and
relaxed Alpha state where the inner world is more real than the outer world.