I Am Presence.

Question:

Dear Deepak Sir, 8 years of meditation and reading your books for 6 years helped me a lot in transmuting shadow energy. The purification process was very valuable/enriching. That was the focus of my meditation and even though in your books you urge, ” don’t let a day go by without asking ‘who am I’ “, I did not follow this advice till recently. However , for last few months , I have been integrating this practice also along with watching my breath and body sensations all the time. When I ask ‘who am I ‘ or ‘who is watching breath’ or ‘who is having these body sensations /emotions’ or ‘who is having these thoughts’ etc., immediately identification happens with some presence which feels localized in my torso (from around naval to chest area usually). I feel as if I am this presence. Is this presence consciousness/’I amness’ /Being? If yes, does everyone have the same experience as I am having as one gets deeper in meditation with time? If what I am experiencing is consciousness (our true nature), then it cannot be localized in body, so maybe initially it feels localized in body and later on as one goes deeper in meditation with time and sadhana/practice, this presence feels everywhere (omnipresent)? And maybe later one feels it so strongly that there is no doubt and no need of validation (as I am needing validation from you presently)? I would greatly appreciate your inputs, sir. Thank you very much.