The Texture of the Water *in You* Is Mirrored by the Texture of the Water *You Are In*

After I got my blinding flash of insight that when you paddle you are envoking the texture of water you want, I spent a lot of time on the water, just playing. Instead of thinking about all the usual stuff paddlers are taught to focus on, I just thought about the texture of the water and nothing else. Wow! And this is what I found: my texture – the texture of the water in me – mirrored the texture I was evoking.

Now I have to say that this, in itself, is the most astonishing meditation I have ever done or imagined. And if you are doing it on a beautiful little backwater or a splendiferous lake or an alligator-filled bayou, even better. But this is also what led me to the idea of using our sense of the texture of water as another way to think about and bear witness to our own selves.

What is the texture of the water in you?