The breath of Sacred Presence and inner sight. To Witness and be witnessed: An Invitation into the Field Where Healing Already Exists.
- Sandra O Ortiz V
- 4 days ago
- 4 min read
We have journeyed through the longing (https://www.elespiraltherapy.cothe-breath-of-longing) and the ache in the heart that awaken the spiral within. We have attuned to it, listening attentively, lovingly, with compassionate dedication (https://www.elespiraltherapy.com/post/the-listening-breath-on-prophetic-listening-and-the-healing-of ) Not to understand, not to analyse, not to fix, but simply
to be with it…
to breathe with it…
to stay within a shared silence that offers
unconditional presence.
This is the Breath of Presence, the moment when the spiral stops turning and simply is. It is the moment when the ego, lovingly, surrenders into truth, and your naked sincerity and the Beloved sit together in the same silence while He whispers: “I am with you wherever you are.”(Qur’an 57:4).
Presence is when you stop striving and finally allow yourself to become.
Where Presence Begins
Take a soft breath.
Presence is not effort.
It is not performance.
It is not “holding it together",
or “showing up well.”
Presence is the moment you stop striving and allow yourself to be held by the One who is always here.
Tasawwuf teaches that presence is the natural state of the heart because Allah (swt) is perpetually near. Healing begins when we remember this nearness within ourselves, and between ourselves and another soul.
And as Ibn ʿArabī teaches, every meeting is a meeting with the Real (al-Haqq), no matter the form in which He appears.
So in every relational encounter, personal, therapeutic, intimate, between two or between many, there is always One more:
Al-Haqq,
the Living Truth,
quietly disclosing Himself through the heart or hearts.
This presence does not need to be summoned. It needs only to be recognised.
And sometimes recognition arrives through forms we do not expect:
a wave of grief,
a surge of anger,
a breaking open of despair,
a trembling of longing.
These are also His dances, His movements within the soul,
seeking to be acknowledged,
seeking to be witnessed,
seeking to return to the embrace of presence.
You and the Beloved
Healing begins to unfold when you offer unconditional presence to what has emerged through the spiral, to the ache, the longing, the trembling of the heart.
The gaze of the Beloved becomes your gaze as you attend lovingly to the wound, to the inner child, to the heart that longs to be remembered.
Your witnessing becomes remembrance of the One who is the Seer and the Seen.
Rumi whispers:
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
Healing happens in that field, not because you create it, but because you enter it with humility, intention, sincerity, and trust.
In that place where only presence remains, healing is not imposed; it is revealed.
The revelation is an unfolding movement within you, one that shows, not intellectually but intimately, the origin of the ache and the river-path faith that can guide you toward the ocean https://www.instagram.com/p/DR0VUwcDVv1/?igsh=MWN6MXM2bzMxa3Q0NA==.
When the heart is truly seen, without fixing, without interpreting, without filling the silence, tears may rise like Mercy.
They signal that you are no longer carrying the pain alone.
You are in the Beloved’s chamber...
Presence and the Ancestral Field
and in that chamber, you are never alone…
Presence meets not only your individual heart, but the ancestral field behind you
your ancestral histories,
your parents’ stories,
the unspoken griefs,
the quiet strengths
and the fragile places of those who walked before you.
Sometimes the ache you feel belongs to someone who could not speak their truth. Sometimes your longing echoes the longing of a lineage.
Sometimes the movement inside you is older than your own life.
Presence allows these ancestral threads to rise gently into awareness, not to be analysed, not to be repaired, but simply to be witnessed with love.
For when even one heart becomes present, the whole lineage feels a breath of relief. Something settles.
Something releases.
Something stands upright within you.
Presence becomes belonging.
Belonging becomes healing.
Presence as the Heart of Healing
Healing is not an action. It is an allowing.
Presence is the soil in which the hidden rose opens, not because we pull the petals apart, but because the sun touches them from within.
Presence is the sun.
Presence is the space where Divine nearness becomes felt.
Presence is the Breath that calls you to soften into what already holds you.
Inhale:
Ya Raqīb — Loving Watchfulness
open our hearts to feel Your gentle gaze.
Exhale:
Ya Ẓāhir — Manifest Light
unveil Your nearness within our shared breath.
A Gentle Practice: Entering the Field of Presence
Sit comfortably.
Let your breath slow.
1. Let your attention drop from your mind into your chest.
Feel the weight of your heart.
Feel the warmth behind your sternum.
2. Whisper inwardly:
“I am here.”
Then: “You are here.”
3. Let the space around you soften.
Do nothing.
Allow presence to gather.
**4. Feel for the subtle warmth, stillness, or expansion
the sign that you have stepped into the field.**
5. Offer loving attention to the places within you that call.
Stay present with them softly, not judging, not analysing, follow their trail, just offering unconditional care.
6. Rest there for a few breaths without intention.
Without effort.
Without seeking.
This is the Breath of Presence
where healing rises gently like a dawn that needs no help to arrive.
Lovingly dedicated to my beautiful friend and sister Waheeda Islam for her ever loving presence in my life. https://www.instagram.com/innerrewilding?igsh=M2xmcWY5eW16ZXI=
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