Video: Visualizing the Mandorla

Script

Meditate on your own or with a group

Settle into a comfortable position.
Tune into your natural cadence of breath.
Find the part of you that’s listening, maybe located in your head, and invite it to relax.
Now, shift your awareness to feel into the space outside of your body.
Feel the space reverberating from your feet and legs...your hips and chest...shoulders and arms...and finally out from your head.
Breathing in and out, feel the space reverberating from outside of your full body all at once.
As thoughts come, welcome them and return to this Presence.
Having sensed this presence outside of you, be aware of the Presence inside of you.
Presence is aware of every sensation inside your body.
Now, let the space inside your body, and the space outside your body, be one space. One interpenetrating presence.
Notice that it’s difficult to tell where you end and where you begin.
Rest here, in the Mandorla. This both/and, this overlap, the interpenetration of Presence encompasses who we are and who we think we are.
Every part of you, and every part of me.
We are one, resting in harmony.