September 19, 2025 • 19 mins
In this meditation we discuss the importance of dealing with your problems and not letting them pile up on you because the more you do, the harder and harder it becomes to live your life freely. Quote from Eckhart Tolle.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello again.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'm Michael Beckameier with Calm the Bleep down. Here again
with another short meditation to help get you through your day.
This time we are going to face the facts.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Let's go ahead and get started.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Once again, we have a mindfulness quote to help enter
our meditation with some intent, and this time our quote
comes from Eckhart Toll and it reads, whatever you fight,
you strengthen, and whatever you resist persists. And for me,
(00:48):
this quote is talking about avoiding your problems. So often,
when we have a problem that makes us nervous or
uncomfortable or afraid or.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Anything, we put it away.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We put it over here, and I'm going to pretend
like that's not there, and I'm just going to go
about my day, my month, my week, my life, and
just that problem's not going to be over there. Maybe
it's a relationship problem. Maybe it's you need to stand
up for yourself and you aren't. Maybe it's a medical
issue and you don't want to think about what it
(01:33):
might be, so you just ignore it. Well, what happens
is if it was just one thing, it might just
be one thing. But we as human beings, very often
we tend to put this problem over here. Oh, here's
another problem. I'm going to put it over here that
worked the last time. I'm just gonna avoid all these
(01:54):
things to the point where there's eventually so many things
that we're carrying around, almost like baggage. We're carrying baggage
around with us at all times, and it just weighs
us down. And anxiety, depression, it just it's this heavy
(02:15):
weight that starts to slow us down so that we
can't even live our life because before we think or
act or do something, we have to run it through
all the filters of all the things.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Now, is that going.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
To offset this one thing I put away over here?
It's this offset this other thing I put over here.
And before I go any further, I want to say
that anxiety and depression are very clearly chronic issues that
some people have with chemical imbalances in their body, and
(02:52):
there's not much they can do about it. What I'm
talking about is us, as everyday human beings, all of us,
when we are of our problems in such a way
that we can no longer function with normal flow to
our day because we have so many things that we're
holding up, balls we're juggling that we can't just live
(03:12):
our life. I heard a quote recently, and I'm not
going to get this exactly right because i can't remember
who said it, and I've looked it up and I
can't try to. I can't remember who said it, and
I can't remember where I heard it. But it was
something to the effect of when we are feeling something,
(03:35):
When we have a feeling and we avoid that feeling,
it only keeps it alive inside of us.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The only way to deal with.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Our grief, or our trauma or our issues are to
literally just welcome it into our life, welcome it in
and acknowledge it. And so many times, just the just
the sheer fact of acknowledging the thing weakens its power
(04:10):
over us because we're no longer avoiding it. I see
you over there, I see you, past trauma, past issue,
I see you over there. Whatever, I'm going to go
about my day, it's no longer looming over us. We're
no longer trying to escape it. It's hard because the
(04:36):
reason we set it off to the side and try
to avoid it is because it's it's We don't do
that with hey, I got to go check the mail.
We we do that with like some relationship problems and
work problems and projects and all that stuff we put
the We put the big stuff off. So try to
(04:59):
just acknowledge the issue and acknowledging it, and spending some
time just seeing it and acknowledging it might actually help
you push past it process anyway, that's what we're going
(05:20):
to meditate on today. So we're going to meditate. Get
yourself comfortable. You can either lie down, sit down, You
can meditate wherever, as long as you have some quiet
and some comfort. I want you to come into this
(05:42):
meditation with some calm. Start to slowly deepen your breath
in and out. As you breathe in and out, start
(06:16):
paying attention to the sensations in your body as you exhale.
Picture yourself getting heavier and heavier and more relaxed with
each exhale. Feel your weight pressing up against your chair
(06:36):
or your mattress wherever you're meditating. Feel the sensation and
the connection and the touch and the weight of yourself.
Sinking in to this meditation, you might start to think
(07:13):
of those things you are avoiding, not facing. Think of
it maybe as holding your breath. You can hold your
breath for a little while, but not forever. The way
(07:34):
to deal with it is in and out again. You
might start to feel your mind wandering, and if you do,
(07:57):
that's okay, it's inevitable it will happen. When that does happen,
just catch it, acknowledge the thought, and come back to
your breath, over and over and over again. And that
is the meditation. So much easier to live your life
(09:03):
when you start to clear out the rubble, kind of
like cleaning your room. You ever noticed when you're cleaning
your room or folding lingerie, if it's something that's piled
up for a few days. Once you do clean the room,
(09:24):
there's this sense of accomplishment and freness that comes from
accomplishing a task or a goal, or doing the thing
that you had been avoiding. I feel like our life
is an awful lot like that as well. Dealing with
(10:38):
our problems can have the same effect. Psychologically, it almost
is the same thing. It's like cleaning up the rubble,
cleaning up the mess, clearing a path. What we're doing
here while we meditate is we're carving new neural pathways.
(11:01):
With each breath. We're making new connections in our mind.
With every mindful decision we make with every new breath,
we are.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Leaving our old selves behind.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
We're making it easier to change, really by not doing
much else other than just breathing. Once again, If your
(12:26):
mind starts to wonder and you notice that your mind
has wondered, just simply, without judgment, without frustration, just acknowledge
the thought, witness it, observe it.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Gently. Come back to.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Your breath and an out and and out.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Over and over again, deeper slower breaths and longer, slower
exhales out till all the air is out of your lungs.
(14:18):
It is the exhale that triggers the relaxation, So the
longer you can length than your exhale, the deeper your
relaxation can become.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
In and out.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And an out.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
End an out, over and over and over again, our
(16:32):
last few breaths together.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Let's just sit for a moment in the silence and relaxation.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
And enjoy this brief pause to our day breathing in.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
M hm hm an out.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
And an out.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Let's take one last long, slow, deep breath in, make
it the biggest inhale you've breathed all day, in an out,
one last time in an out, and when you are ready,
(18:29):
you can open your eyes.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And go about your day.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
That's it for this time on Calm the Bleep Down.
If you like this meditation, please send us an email,
follow us on social media. We're on Instagram and we're
even on TikTok now dropping mindfulness and meditation tips regularly,
and let us know we'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Once again. I'm your host, Michael Bechameer.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
For reminding you to please calm the bleep Down, be well,
and have fun.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
We'll see you again next time. No mistetic
Hello again.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'm Michael Beckameier with Calm the Bleep down. Here again
with another short meditation to help get you through your day.
This time we are going to face the facts.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Let's go ahead and get started.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Once again, we have a mindfulness quote to help enter
our meditation with some intent, and this time our quote
comes from Eckhart Toll and it reads, whatever you fight,
you strengthen, and whatever you resist persists. And for me,
(00:48):
this quote is talking about avoiding your problems. So often,
when we have a problem that makes us nervous or
uncomfortable or afraid or.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Anything, we put it away.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We put it over here, and I'm going to pretend
like that's not there, and I'm just going to go
about my day, my month, my week, my life, and
just that problem's not going to be over there. Maybe
it's a relationship problem. Maybe it's you need to stand
up for yourself and you aren't. Maybe it's a medical
issue and you don't want to think about what it
(01:33):
might be, so you just ignore it. Well, what happens
is if it was just one thing, it might just
be one thing. But we as human beings, very often
we tend to put this problem over here. Oh, here's
another problem. I'm going to put it over here that
worked the last time. I'm just gonna avoid all these
(01:54):
things to the point where there's eventually so many things
that we're carrying around, almost like baggage. We're carrying baggage
around with us at all times, and it just weighs
us down. And anxiety, depression, it just it's this heavy
(02:15):
weight that starts to slow us down so that we
can't even live our life because before we think or
act or do something, we have to run it through
all the filters of all the things.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Now, is that going.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
To offset this one thing I put away over here?
It's this offset this other thing I put over here.
And before I go any further, I want to say
that anxiety and depression are very clearly chronic issues that
some people have with chemical imbalances in their body, and
(02:52):
there's not much they can do about it. What I'm
talking about is us, as everyday human beings, all of us,
when we are of our problems in such a way
that we can no longer function with normal flow to
our day because we have so many things that we're
holding up, balls we're juggling that we can't just live
(03:12):
our life. I heard a quote recently, and I'm not
going to get this exactly right because i can't remember
who said it, and I've looked it up and I
can't try to. I can't remember who said it, and
I can't remember where I heard it. But it was
something to the effect of when we are feeling something,
(03:35):
When we have a feeling and we avoid that feeling,
it only keeps it alive inside of us.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The only way to deal with.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Our grief, or our trauma or our issues are to
literally just welcome it into our life, welcome it in
and acknowledge it. And so many times, just the just
the sheer fact of acknowledging the thing weakens its power
(04:10):
over us because we're no longer avoiding it. I see
you over there, I see you, past trauma, past issue,
I see you over there. Whatever, I'm going to go
about my day, it's no longer looming over us. We're
no longer trying to escape it. It's hard because the
(04:36):
reason we set it off to the side and try
to avoid it is because it's it's We don't do
that with hey, I got to go check the mail.
We we do that with like some relationship problems and
work problems and projects and all that stuff we put
the We put the big stuff off. So try to
(04:59):
just acknowledge the issue and acknowledging it, and spending some
time just seeing it and acknowledging it might actually help
you push past it process anyway, that's what we're going
(05:20):
to meditate on today. So we're going to meditate. Get
yourself comfortable. You can either lie down, sit down, You
can meditate wherever, as long as you have some quiet
and some comfort. I want you to come into this
(05:42):
meditation with some calm. Start to slowly deepen your breath
in and out. As you breathe in and out, start
(06:16):
paying attention to the sensations in your body as you exhale.
Picture yourself getting heavier and heavier and more relaxed with
each exhale. Feel your weight pressing up against your chair
(06:36):
or your mattress wherever you're meditating. Feel the sensation and
the connection and the touch and the weight of yourself.
Sinking in to this meditation, you might start to think
(07:13):
of those things you are avoiding, not facing. Think of
it maybe as holding your breath. You can hold your
breath for a little while, but not forever. The way
(07:34):
to deal with it is in and out again. You
might start to feel your mind wandering, and if you do,
(07:57):
that's okay, it's inevitable it will happen. When that does happen,
just catch it, acknowledge the thought, and come back to
your breath, over and over and over again. And that
is the meditation. So much easier to live your life
(09:03):
when you start to clear out the rubble, kind of
like cleaning your room. You ever noticed when you're cleaning
your room or folding lingerie, if it's something that's piled
up for a few days. Once you do clean the room,
(09:24):
there's this sense of accomplishment and freness that comes from
accomplishing a task or a goal, or doing the thing
that you had been avoiding. I feel like our life
is an awful lot like that as well. Dealing with
(10:38):
our problems can have the same effect. Psychologically, it almost
is the same thing. It's like cleaning up the rubble,
cleaning up the mess, clearing a path. What we're doing
here while we meditate is we're carving new neural pathways.
(11:01):
With each breath. We're making new connections in our mind.
With every mindful decision we make with every new breath,
we are.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Leaving our old selves behind.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
We're making it easier to change, really by not doing
much else other than just breathing. Once again, If your
(12:26):
mind starts to wonder and you notice that your mind
has wondered, just simply, without judgment, without frustration, just acknowledge
the thought, witness it, observe it.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Gently. Come back to.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Your breath and an out and and out.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Over and over again, deeper slower breaths and longer, slower
exhales out till all the air is out of your lungs.
(14:18):
It is the exhale that triggers the relaxation, So the
longer you can length than your exhale, the deeper your
relaxation can become.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
In and out.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And an out.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
End an out, over and over and over again, our
(16:32):
last few breaths together.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Let's just sit for a moment in the silence and relaxation.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
And enjoy this brief pause to our day breathing in.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
M hm hm an out.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
And an out.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Let's take one last long, slow, deep breath in, make
it the biggest inhale you've breathed all day, in an out,
one last time in an out, and when you are ready,
(18:29):
you can open your eyes.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And go about your day.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
That's it for this time on Calm the Bleep Down.
If you like this meditation, please send us an email,
follow us on social media. We're on Instagram and we're
even on TikTok now dropping mindfulness and meditation tips regularly,
and let us know we'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Once again. I'm your host, Michael Bechameer.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
For reminding you to please calm the bleep Down, be well,
and have fun.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
We'll see you again next time. No mistetic
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!