Breath and Silence

1. Observe the body being breathed. Do not intercede. Allow the breath to be as you find it. Do not change or manipulate the breath in any way. Simply observe.
2. Flow with the breath, moment - to - moment. Be one with the flowing stream of sensation of inhalation and exhalation.
3. Feel how breath dissolves into silence after exhalation. Experience the pause when the breath ceases to be.
4. Observe how the breath dissolves into and then is reborn out of the silent stillness.
5. Feel this during inhalation as well.
6. Then remain with the stillness as each breath is reborn and moves again. Feel stillness as the background in which the breath is the foreground activity.
   
7. Then relinquish attending to the breath. Be with stillness, even as breath continues to move.
8. Relinquish observing stillness as an object. Realize that you are Stillness. Be one with Stillness and realize True Nature as Stillness beyond silence; Awareness, Stillness, Being, Presence, Empty yet full.

Integrative Restoration iRest ® Richard C. Miller, PhD