The world traditions teach us that being present as you are present here is what leads us to wisdom, compassion, and understanding. I invite you to take presence a step deeper.
If you feel so called you may shut your eyes and simply feel yourself standing here in the room.
Finding where in your body you can experience your breath, the breath of life, flowing in and out; perhaps in the rising and falling of the belly, the expanding and contracting of the chest, or the whisper at the tip of the nose. For once you can let your belly be soft, nobody is looking, relax your shoulders, and simply notice the breath flowing in and out. If you wish you might consider that your out breath is none other than God’s in breath, and your in breath is but God’s out breath.
