Presence is when you are simply here - now! When you are present, your mind is naturally silent and still. It is similar to meditation, but there is no practice or effort to quiet the mind and no procedure to accomplish it. It is effortless. Once you are present, you realize everything is peaceful, calm, quiet and still. Everything in sight is part of God’s world and becomes more interesting and colorful than you previously noticed. It is a state where all knowing is accessible to you and all fear drops away. It is the Present Moment of Now.
Presence can be experienced by focusing your eyes on something or someone and then opening up your peripheral vision until you can see the entire room all at once. When that is done, something happens within you that is both expansive and a little mystical. It is beyond description. It is Presence.
Many words have been used to explain Presence, but none of them will ever truly express it. It is part of the infinite and the mind can only explain things that are finite. The finite can never fully comprehend or explain the infinite. Presence is simply being here now, in the present moment, without any mental involvement from the past or the future.
When you are present, your mind is no longer engaged and silence and stillness ensue naturally. Being in the present moment is being in the Presence of God - in silence.
Before you get the wrong idea and think that you must always be present, that is not the case at all. In fact, we support using the mind as well. It's important to use one’s mind for all those things that have to be taken care of in life and to get things done. However, it's important to remember when to stop using the mind and return to Presence. Most of us are caught up in unconscious behavior at one time or another and this site is intended to help others become more conscious of that type of behaviour, let go of it, and learn to live in the Present Moment.
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Before you get the wrong idea and think that you must always be present, that is not the case at all. In fact, we support using the mind as well. It's important to use one’s mind for all those things that have to be taken care of in life and to get things done. However, it's important to remember when to stop using the mind and return to Presence. Most of us are caught up in unconscious behavior at one time or another and this site is intended to help others become more conscious of that type of behaviour, let go of it, and learn to live in the Present Moment. 
