This method is is found in many esoteric schools. Essentially, you allow your body to find its own natural rhythm of breath and rest your attention gently on the breath. According to Genesis, God breathed a Living Soul into the First Human Being, who was both male and female. All words for the parts of the Soul in Kabbalah mean “air,” “wind” or “breath", with the exception of Yechidah, which means “Divine Spark”. Thus, there is an intimate connection between the breath and the power of our Soul. In connection with these ideas you may recall what it is written: “When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained” (Gospel of St. John 20:22-23).

There is power in our breath and in our breath we are connected to all that lives and the Spirit of God. Primordial Meditation using the breath as our focus can facilitate the Enlightenment Experience as well as activate psychic and spiritual gifts. When you meditate using this method, breathe naturally, with even inhalations and exhalations, just as you ordinarily do. Focus your awareness very gently on the out-breath, and when you exhale just flow out with the breath. Every time you breathe in, let go and let be, and imagine that at the end of the out-breath your breath dissolves into the infinite spaciousness. At the end of every exhalation, before the next inhalation, you will find there is a gap – let go and enter into the gap. In the gap is the “place” of Pure and Primordial Being.

Whatever thoughts or emotions might arise, neither grasp at them nor push them away. Just let them be, and let them naturally arise and pass away, without doing anything with them. If you find that you have become distracted or daydreaming, merely restore your focus to your breath and continue. Do not focus too tightly upon breath, but focus upon it lightly. Basically, you want to place about ¼ of your awareness on breath and leave the other ¾ free. In this state one is essentially aware of oneself and what is happening in consciousness and environment.

Instead of watching the breath, as though separate from breath, identify with your breath, as though you are becoming your breath. Breathe and let the breath and the one who is breathing gradually merge in a natural way without unnecessary force. In this practice you will find that as the Presence of Awareness grows you will experience the mind becoming more and more silent and the vital-emotional being becoming more and more quiet.