August 29, 2025 • 20 mins
Negativity can pile up on us through out our life. So much so that it is very easy to start to believe that nothing good will ever happen. People will suggest affirmations and law of attraction and many are skeptical that those things will ever work for them. The trust is that they will work only if we believe they will. They won't work, if we believe they won't. We have to retain ourselves to not feel silly thinking positively. That silly feeling is resistance and cynicism creeping back in. This meditation aims to help the meditator regain some peace and balance while reminding them that good things can happen, if only you just believe they can. One breath at a time.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome to mindful meditations with Calm the bleep down. I'm
your guide, Michael Beckermeier, and today we are going to
believe good things can happen. Let's get started. As always,
we have a mindfulness quote to help us head into
our meditation with some intent. And today our quote comes
(00:33):
from Jack Cornfield and it reads, decide what you want,
believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, and
believe it's possible for you. I've been thinking about law
(00:56):
of attraction lately and manifestation and how really if you
believe in manifestation at all, that means what you believe
in is that your thoughts can be powerful, and your
thoughts are what can create the path that you were
(01:19):
walking down to get to where you want to go.
My built in cynicism has made me feel kind of
cheesy when I sat down, I mean go over the years,
not just recently, but over the years. When you sit
down and you hear someone giving you a mantra or affirmations,
(01:41):
affirmations really kind of trigger my cynicism. Sometimes I am
not shitting on affirmations. What I'm saying is I struggle
with them. So if you are talking about manifestation or
law of attraction, or affirmations, which are things as you
do like many times you'll hear people say, stand in
(02:03):
front of a mirror and say these affirmations over and
over and over again while looking directly into your own eyes.
I can do this. I can pump up all those things.
And yes, they do feel silly at first, but part
of the reason for that, it's hit me recently. Part
of the reason for that is that I feel silly, cheesy, whatever,
(02:29):
ridiculous saying those things to myself because I don't believe them.
Maybe I'm better at convincing myself to feel that way
now than I ever have before. But the reason I
feel silly affirming myself is because I don't necessarily believe it.
(02:52):
And if you don't believe it, it's not that it
won't happen. The struggle is still there and getting down
the path to the thing you want, because if you
don't believe it, no one else is gonna believe it
for you. You might get lucky with family members that
believe in you, or friends that believe in you, or
a partner or a spouse that believes in you, but
(03:15):
they can't believe they could believe it a million times
infinity and if you don't, it won't happen. So it
triggers my cynicism. And I hate saying that because for
years I deny that I was a cynic. I would
(03:35):
say things like, I'm not a cynic I'm a blunt pragmatist.
I'm being very practical. And it started out that way.
Cynicism sounds practical, that's not gonna that's not gonna work.
Let's be honest with ourselves. And it sounds like you're
being practical. Really, what you're doing is you're shitting all
over everything. Again, I'm way better at this now than
(03:59):
I was three months ago, six months ago, a year ago.
It's a process. But I think when we're talking about
believing good things can happen, there's saying it and there's
(04:21):
thinking it, and you can say it. Somebody can make
you say something, you can make yourself say something. It's
like kind of like when you get brought into a
room and you're a little kid and your parents tried
to get you to apologize and they're like, say you're sorry.
You said you're sorry because you didn't want to get
in trouble, but did you believe it, did you mean it?
(04:43):
Most of the time, no, because kids don't, you know,
even adults, they don't like apologizing for things that they
don't feel sorry for. I'm sorry, I got caught, Sorry,
I got in trouble for this, but I'm not sorry
I you know, took your ball, or ate your food
either refrigerator or whatever. So it's we just have to
(05:04):
do it until we're comfortable with it. I have a
friend that always says, one of their favorite quotes is
it's uncomfortable. So what you have to do is you
have to get comfortable being uncomfortable so soon and eventually
you're comfortable. And then if you're comfortable with that thing,
you push yourself one step further. And we need to
keep trying to keep ourselves uncomfortable in situations like that.
(05:29):
Do things that are hard physically hard, challenging, but also
mentally emotionally, you know, things that are hard, because otherwise
we will stay the same person we are right this
very second. And even if we're positive, mindful, working on meditation,
(05:51):
we are constantly affirming ourselves. We're doing that because we
don't necessarily want to stay where we are. We might
enjoy our life. We might love who we're with and
what we're doing and all those things, but it doesn't
mean we want to stay exactly this person. We want
(06:11):
to keep getting better, we want to keep growing so
we can experience new things. So we are not going
to do affirmations today. We're not going to do mantras today.
I just want to head into our meditation with the
thought that we need to believe that good things can happen.
(06:39):
And if you start thinking positive thoughts and you get uncomfortable,
that's just a sign your body is giving you that
you do not quite believe it yet, And that's okay,
because you're only going to get there by practicing. Some
people are so over overtly optimistic, and I admire them greatly.
(07:01):
People who's grandfather died the night before and are truly
they're sad, they're upset, but come in truly trying to
move forward in a positive way. You look at those
people and you think, how do you do that? They're
(07:24):
just wired that way. But the thing is it's because
they choose to be that way, because they could also
wallow in their you know, their grief or sadness or whatever.
And there are those of us that are wired the
other way, but it is also a choice. We choose
(07:48):
to see the world cynically. So that's what we're going
to try to meditate on today. I know it was
a lot, so what we're really going to do is
we're just going to try to bring ourselves some peace
of mind, because I also know there's no way we
can start to remove our cynicism, or our negativity, or
(08:10):
our belief that nothing good will ever happen if we're
stuck in the place of negative, unproductive thoughts. The best
way to get myself out of that, for me and
perhaps for you as well, since you're listening to this
meditation is meditating and the breath. So we're going to
(08:34):
do that. Get yourself comfortable, take a long, slow, deep
breath in and unwind. Start to feel yourself getting heavier
and heavier and heavier with each exail. Are paying attention
(08:58):
to the sensations inside of your body. Have you ever
just breathed in and held it for just a second
and felt the sensation of having breath in your body?
You feel it everywhere if you're really paying attention. Most
of the time we're sort of an autopilot. But if
you're really paying attention for me at least, I feel
(09:22):
it everywhere. I feel it in my toes, if I'm
truly concentrating on the breath, if I'm trying to merge
myself into the breath, I feel it everywhere. There's a tingling.
That's life, that's life happening to us. We did that.
We brought that breath into our lungs. We brought that
(09:42):
breath into our body. We created that feeling by paying
attention to it. If we weren't paying attention to it,
we wouldn't have felt it. It would have been distracted
somewhere else. We are creating the sensation, the tingling, the
energy of life when we bring breath into our lungs.
(10:03):
Let's do it again and out do it again, and
at the top of the breath, hold it and pay
attention to the sensation in your body with that oxygen
bouncing around inside your skin. Breathe, then hold it. Feel
(10:34):
the energy of life happening to you. As you hold
your breath, let it out. You are meditating, you are breathing.
(10:54):
You have the energy of new breath and life bouncing
around inside of you. If nothing else, that is proof
that good things will happen. As you continue breathing. You
may notice at some point that your mind has wondered.
(11:17):
And when you do notice your mind has wondered, it
will happen. When you do notice. Just recognize that thought
and observe it, Leave it and come back to your
breath in and out, in.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And out at.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Us one.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Must us in as music.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
H Okay, wherever you are, it's time to come back
(18:45):
into your body. Return to your breath in and out
not the serene and peace and stillness. Settle in for
a moment longer. Good things can and will happen if
(19:25):
you believe. And with that, when you are ready, you
can open your eyes and go about your day, not mistake.
(20:00):
That's it for this time on calm to bleep down.
If you like this meditation, please feel free to send
us an email, post a comment, hit us up on
Instagram or TikTok, where we're posting a lot these days.
We'd love to hear from you once again. I'm Michael
BECAMEAIA reminding you to please calm the bleep down. We'll
see you again soon. Thank you for meditating with us.
(20:20):
Be well, have fun, and no mistake
Welcome to mindful meditations with Calm the bleep down. I'm
your guide, Michael Beckermeier, and today we are going to
believe good things can happen. Let's get started. As always,
we have a mindfulness quote to help us head into
our meditation with some intent. And today our quote comes
(00:33):
from Jack Cornfield and it reads, decide what you want,
believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, and
believe it's possible for you. I've been thinking about law
(00:56):
of attraction lately and manifestation and how really if you
believe in manifestation at all, that means what you believe
in is that your thoughts can be powerful, and your
thoughts are what can create the path that you were
(01:19):
walking down to get to where you want to go.
My built in cynicism has made me feel kind of
cheesy when I sat down, I mean go over the years,
not just recently, but over the years. When you sit
down and you hear someone giving you a mantra or affirmations,
(01:41):
affirmations really kind of trigger my cynicism. Sometimes I am
not shitting on affirmations. What I'm saying is I struggle
with them. So if you are talking about manifestation or
law of attraction, or affirmations, which are things as you
do like many times you'll hear people say, stand in
(02:03):
front of a mirror and say these affirmations over and
over and over again while looking directly into your own eyes.
I can do this. I can pump up all those things.
And yes, they do feel silly at first, but part
of the reason for that, it's hit me recently. Part
of the reason for that is that I feel silly, cheesy, whatever,
(02:29):
ridiculous saying those things to myself because I don't believe them.
Maybe I'm better at convincing myself to feel that way
now than I ever have before. But the reason I
feel silly affirming myself is because I don't necessarily believe it.
(02:52):
And if you don't believe it, it's not that it
won't happen. The struggle is still there and getting down
the path to the thing you want, because if you
don't believe it, no one else is gonna believe it
for you. You might get lucky with family members that
believe in you, or friends that believe in you, or
a partner or a spouse that believes in you, but
(03:15):
they can't believe they could believe it a million times
infinity and if you don't, it won't happen. So it
triggers my cynicism. And I hate saying that because for
years I deny that I was a cynic. I would
(03:35):
say things like, I'm not a cynic I'm a blunt pragmatist.
I'm being very practical. And it started out that way.
Cynicism sounds practical, that's not gonna that's not gonna work.
Let's be honest with ourselves. And it sounds like you're
being practical. Really, what you're doing is you're shitting all
over everything. Again, I'm way better at this now than
(03:59):
I was three months ago, six months ago, a year ago.
It's a process. But I think when we're talking about
believing good things can happen, there's saying it and there's
(04:21):
thinking it, and you can say it. Somebody can make
you say something, you can make yourself say something. It's
like kind of like when you get brought into a
room and you're a little kid and your parents tried
to get you to apologize and they're like, say you're sorry.
You said you're sorry because you didn't want to get
in trouble, but did you believe it, did you mean it?
(04:43):
Most of the time, no, because kids don't, you know,
even adults, they don't like apologizing for things that they
don't feel sorry for. I'm sorry, I got caught, Sorry,
I got in trouble for this, but I'm not sorry
I you know, took your ball, or ate your food
either refrigerator or whatever. So it's we just have to
(05:04):
do it until we're comfortable with it. I have a
friend that always says, one of their favorite quotes is
it's uncomfortable. So what you have to do is you
have to get comfortable being uncomfortable so soon and eventually
you're comfortable. And then if you're comfortable with that thing,
you push yourself one step further. And we need to
keep trying to keep ourselves uncomfortable in situations like that.
(05:29):
Do things that are hard physically hard, challenging, but also
mentally emotionally, you know, things that are hard, because otherwise
we will stay the same person we are right this
very second. And even if we're positive, mindful, working on meditation,
(05:51):
we are constantly affirming ourselves. We're doing that because we
don't necessarily want to stay where we are. We might
enjoy our life. We might love who we're with and
what we're doing and all those things, but it doesn't
mean we want to stay exactly this person. We want
(06:11):
to keep getting better, we want to keep growing so
we can experience new things. So we are not going
to do affirmations today. We're not going to do mantras today.
I just want to head into our meditation with the
thought that we need to believe that good things can happen.
(06:39):
And if you start thinking positive thoughts and you get uncomfortable,
that's just a sign your body is giving you that
you do not quite believe it yet, And that's okay,
because you're only going to get there by practicing. Some
people are so over overtly optimistic, and I admire them greatly.
(07:01):
People who's grandfather died the night before and are truly
they're sad, they're upset, but come in truly trying to
move forward in a positive way. You look at those
people and you think, how do you do that? They're
(07:24):
just wired that way. But the thing is it's because
they choose to be that way, because they could also
wallow in their you know, their grief or sadness or whatever.
And there are those of us that are wired the
other way, but it is also a choice. We choose
(07:48):
to see the world cynically. So that's what we're going
to try to meditate on today. I know it was
a lot, so what we're really going to do is
we're just going to try to bring ourselves some peace
of mind, because I also know there's no way we
can start to remove our cynicism, or our negativity, or
(08:10):
our belief that nothing good will ever happen if we're
stuck in the place of negative, unproductive thoughts. The best
way to get myself out of that, for me and
perhaps for you as well, since you're listening to this
meditation is meditating and the breath. So we're going to
(08:34):
do that. Get yourself comfortable, take a long, slow, deep
breath in and unwind. Start to feel yourself getting heavier
and heavier and heavier with each exail. Are paying attention
(08:58):
to the sensations inside of your body. Have you ever
just breathed in and held it for just a second
and felt the sensation of having breath in your body?
You feel it everywhere if you're really paying attention. Most
of the time we're sort of an autopilot. But if
you're really paying attention for me at least, I feel
(09:22):
it everywhere. I feel it in my toes, if I'm
truly concentrating on the breath, if I'm trying to merge
myself into the breath, I feel it everywhere. There's a tingling.
That's life, that's life happening to us. We did that.
We brought that breath into our lungs. We brought that
(09:42):
breath into our body. We created that feeling by paying
attention to it. If we weren't paying attention to it,
we wouldn't have felt it. It would have been distracted
somewhere else. We are creating the sensation, the tingling, the
energy of life when we bring breath into our lungs.
(10:03):
Let's do it again and out do it again, and
at the top of the breath, hold it and pay
attention to the sensation in your body with that oxygen
bouncing around inside your skin. Breathe, then hold it. Feel
(10:34):
the energy of life happening to you. As you hold
your breath, let it out. You are meditating, you are breathing.
(10:54):
You have the energy of new breath and life bouncing
around inside of you. If nothing else, that is proof
that good things will happen. As you continue breathing. You
may notice at some point that your mind has wondered.
(11:17):
And when you do notice your mind has wondered, it
will happen. When you do notice. Just recognize that thought
and observe it, Leave it and come back to your
breath in and out, in.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And out at.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Us one.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Must us in as music.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
H Okay, wherever you are, it's time to come back
(18:45):
into your body. Return to your breath in and out
not the serene and peace and stillness. Settle in for
a moment longer. Good things can and will happen if
(19:25):
you believe. And with that, when you are ready, you
can open your eyes and go about your day, not mistake.
(20:00):
That's it for this time on calm to bleep down.
If you like this meditation, please feel free to send
us an email, post a comment, hit us up on
Instagram or TikTok, where we're posting a lot these days.
We'd love to hear from you once again. I'm Michael
BECAMEAIA reminding you to please calm the bleep down. We'll
see you again soon. Thank you for meditating with us.
(20:20):
Be well, have fun, and no mistake
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