The Meditation Protocol

Read the sequence before sitting. During the sitting, let familiarity carry you. There is no need to recite the instructions internally.

1. Settle. Sit with the body comfortably supported. Allow breathing to proceed naturally. Notice the actual room and the contact of the body with its support.

2. Establish the direction. Turn your intention toward God the Father. Let the words that helped you turn become quiet. The relationship remains the center throughout the sitting.

3. Offer the clothing. Recognize the role, expectation, or attachment currently claiming you. Receive its feeling while offering it Godward. Allow the same movement to include any thought about whether you are doing this well.

4. Recognize bare awareness. Remain with the simple awareness of existing before another description is required. If a picture of an observer appears, offer that picture within the direction already present.

5. Offer the desired state. Bring into consideration the state you intend to inhabit. Be willing to release any demand attached to it. Let your allegiance remain with the Father.

6. Inhabit its felt quality. Allow the state to be present in the manner of attending: steady, receptive, dignified, or sustained. Use the real senses and the body as they are now. Let the experience be simple enough to live.

7. Return as often as needed. When thought, emotion, or self-monitoring absorbs attention, recognize and offer it simultaneously. Renew the chosen manner of being while the Godward direction remains.

8. Carry the direction outward. At the end, feel the room, stand, and take up the next ordinary action. Let the action be received and performed within the same orientation.

For the first few sittings, five minutes is enough to learn the movement. Stay with the sequence rather than trying to achieve a remarkable event. As it becomes familiar, the instructions compress into a single living action: awareness is open, experience is offered, and direction is Godward.

Afterward, a brief note can help: what captured attention, what allowed a return, and how the next action was carried out. Keep the note short enough that language serves the practice.