Guided Meditation: Manifesting the Living Presence

Allow yourself 15-20 minutes for this practice

Preparation

Find a comfortable seated or lying position. Close your eyes gently and allow your breathing to settle into its natural rhythm. There is no need to force or control anything—simply arrive here, now, in this moment of possibility.

Opening Intention

As you settle into stillness, bring to mind this sacred intention: to make the divine presence a reality within you, not through force or duty, but through gentle dissolution into the limitless space that already exists within your being.

The Dissolving

Begin to release the edges of who you think you are. Let go of the boundaries you've drawn around yourself—the stories, the limitations, the sense of being separate or small.

With each exhale, feel yourself expanding beyond these familiar borders. You are not abandoning yourself; you are discovering the vastness that has always been your true nature.

Finding the Limitless Space

Turn your attention inward, deeper than thought, deeper than emotion, deeper than sensation. There, in the core of your being, discover a space without edges—infinite, open, completely free.

In this space, there are no restrictions. Here, the poverty of spirit dissolves. Here, pain has no foothold. Feel yourself resting in this boundless interior, where peace is not something you achieve but something you recognize as your natural state.

Encountering Divine Presence

Within this limitless space, allow yourself to sense the living presence that pervades all existence. This is not something foreign or distant—it is the very essence of what you are when all limitations fall away.

Rest here. Breathe here. Let this presence fill the infinite space within you until there is no distinction between you and the divine love that surrounds and inhabits everything.

The Safe Return

This inner sanctuary is your true home—a place of infinite love and salvation. The word "salvation" here means exactly what you're experiencing: a safe return to your essential nature, to the wholeness that was never truly lost.

Feel the absolute safety of this space. Here, you are held by love that knows no conditions, embraced by peace that surpasses all understanding.

Integration

As you prepare to return to ordinary awareness, carry this recognition with you: this limitless space, this divine presence, this safe harbor—it is always available. You need not wait for special circumstances or perfect conditions.

Resolve gently to return here, to make this reality present at least once in each cycle of your days. Not through struggle or spiritual striving, but through this same gentle dissolving, this same trusting return to what you truly are.

Closing

Take three deep breaths, each one anchoring this experience in your body and memory. When you're ready, slowly open your eyes, carrying with you the knowing that you are never separate from the limitless love and peace that is your deepest nature.

The divine presence lives within you always, waiting to be recognized in each moment of surrender.

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Tom Fox
Somerset, Kentucky