would like to describe the progressive stages of sensing Primary Respiration

I in this chapter and then go through a guided meditation. The meditation

is designed to get the practitioner started in locating Primary Respiration in
himself. It is then up to the practitioner to sustain his awareness of Primary
Respiration and allow it to become the teacher and show the practitioner what
stage it wants to reveal next. Consequently, the stages I am describing at the
beginning are not a linear sequence but rather a possibility. Primary Respiration
will always show the practitioner where and what the next step will be. This is
a matter of trust and staying in the tempo of Primary Respiration consciously,
even if you cannot sense it. This means to always move slowly during session.
The first stage involves locating Primary Respiration in and around the
practitioner. This is absolutely the ground of the therapeutic relationship. In
the beginning the practitioner makes distinctions between the inside presence
and the outside presence of Primary Respiration. Typically, the practitioner
will find it easier at the beginning to sense one location or another. This is rel­
evant in clinical practice because when the practitioner starts a session there is
frequently a preference for inside or outside presence and it really differs from
client to client. I do not know the reason for this. It is an observation based on
my clinical experience. Following the discovery of inside and outside presence,
however, the practitioner begins to practice sustaining his attention for longer
periods of time on Primary Respiration. Gradually, the practitioner is able to
easily orient to one or the other, at any time, with or without a client. Frequent­
ly during my day, I will stop what I am doing and orient to cither the inside or
outside presence of Primary Respiration. It is the pause that refreshes.
'Hie next stage of orienting to Primary Respiration involves attending its
phases of inhalation and exhalation. This may also include specific vectors in
the body where Primary Respiration is choosing to concentrate its activity. The
best way for practitioners to orient to the transition between the inhalation and