August 8, 2025 • 20 mins
So often, in our lives, we get bogged down in the negative thinking so much that we can convince ourselves that nothing good will ever happen, the the only thing possible is disappointment. This is because over time we have convinced ourselves to only believe in the negative. But there is another side of possibility and in there lies all the hope and good we can see in our live. The only thing that changes is what we choose to believe in. This meditation hopes to help the meditator shift their focus into the possibility of good.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to mindful meditations with calm the bleep down. As always,
I am your guide Michael Beckameier, and today we are
going to examine every single possibility. Let's get started. As always,
we have a mindfulness quote to help head us into
(00:31):
our meditation with some intent, and this time our quote
comes from Albert Einstein, and it reads, the mind that
opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
I like this quote firstly because it reminds me of
(00:51):
another one of my favorite Einstein quotes, which was the
significant problems we face can never be solved at the
same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
So he's right about having to open your mind to
discover a new possibility basically, and the pattern that I
(01:14):
find myself getting in and again, I'm more and more
seeing and more and more being able to assess the
fact that if I feel something, it more likely than
not means that I'm not the only one that feels
this way. There's nothing special about my insecurities or worries
or anything like that. A lot of people feel the
(01:35):
same way I feel. So my cynicism points me automatically
directly to the negative. I don't want to do that
because this might happen, even all the way down to
One of my biggest fears is flying. I have a
real problem flying, and I'm basically a nervous wreck, especially
(02:01):
around to take off and leading up into takeoff, because
all I can see is the possibility that the plane
will go down, and I ask I start asking myself
all the questions. If the plane goes down, would this
trip have been worth it? To never see my kid again,
(02:25):
to never achieve the goals that I'm working out for.
Is this trip all that important? Is this worth risking
my life? Okay, so cynicism takes me way down a
rabbit hole when it comes to flying. The thing about
possibility that I've been thinking about a lot lately is
the fact that possibility can be whatever we make it
(02:45):
if we choose to see the negative in something. Of course,
it's possible if we choose to see the positive in something.
For instance, how much better could this go? What good
thing can happen next? Also, that is possible, And it's
one of those if you say so type scenarios. We
(03:09):
could all die if you say so, we could all
achieve our highest goals and dreams. And blah blah blah
and all that stuff and never want for another thing
for the rest of our life, if you say so.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Mindfulness for me over the last several years has really
been about rewiring my brain to not fixate on the negative.
The negative is a possibility, of course, obvious, and just
because something happened doesn't mean it's the only thing that's
ever going to happen good, bad, indifferent, ugly, whatever. But
(03:45):
I also know when you are only looking for the negative,
you only see the negative. You ever meet one of
those people that are so optimistic and hopeful and just happy,
go lucky, and you're just sort of like, how are
you like this? I've seen people who've had family members
die and the next day we're like, this is just
(04:08):
how it was meant to be. I can't let it
ruin my life. I'm sad, i feel bad, I'm upset,
but I'm not going to let it change my outlook
on life the next day. And I admire those people.
It's a special skill to be able to just shift
into I'm going to see this, I'm going to try
(04:29):
to find a positive way to channel this into my
life instead of sitting there and wallowing and pity. So
seeing the negative in everything well well, almost always only
(04:50):
bring negative things your way because that's what you're looking for.
You miss all the good things happening around you because
the only thing you're looking for is the negative. The
only thing believe in is the negative. The other things,
the positive, hopeful things that are happening around you. Those
(05:10):
and I know this because I've done it myself, have
only only get explained away by like, yeah, that was
luck or that was you know. We can't get too
caught up on that because the good things they don't
stick around, they don't happen for they don't last forever.
But when you are looking for positive, you tend to
(05:32):
see more positive things. And it compounds like interest in
a way. You see something positive, you think see if
you start latching onto it and you think, see, good
things can happen, and then you look, then you're looking
around for it more, look prove it. You're starting to
try to prove it for yourself. It is confirmation bias
on either side. But more and more, the older I get,
(05:54):
the longer, the longer I do this, the harder I
work on rewiring my own brain, the more I want
to look for positive things because it just makes me
feel better. It just makes me feel better to believe
good things can happen. So that's what we're going to
(06:16):
meditate on today. With our breath, we can start to
see a new beginning every time we inhale, bringing something,
bringing breath in and letting breath out, and then bringing
(06:40):
it back in again. See, good things can happen. Breath
is good. It's keeping us alive, it's keeping us focused,
it's keeping us healthy. Thinking of it like this has
helped me. So get yourself comfortable. You can sit down
and lie down for this meditation as always, start to
(07:05):
scan your body head to toe, start relaxing all those
tight tense areas, and start just asking yourself if it's
possible that you could see things another way. Open your
mind so that it can grow. Open your mind so
(07:28):
it can never be the same again. Negativity is based
on rigid beliefs, no never, ever, and it's closed. Nothing's
getting in because all you see is that negative. But
(07:51):
to be hopeful and positive and encouraged and even just
happy just having a good day require is you to
be open. You have to be open to receive that.
Otherwise we're closed up, not letting anyone in, got walls up,
got the windows rolled up. No one's getting in today.
(08:13):
You're not gonna you're not gonna get to me today.
Nothing's gonna happen. Nothing, you know, I'm not gonna let
anything happen to me today. So we're going to close up.
And it's self preservation and guarded and all of those
things that I'm sure all of us have done at
least at some point, if not regularly. But for good
(08:37):
things to happen, we have to be open, and we
have to allow ourselves to be vulnerable, and we have
to open up ourselves to the possibility that bad things
may happen, negative things may happen, but to know that
they're gonna happen one way or the other, and that
they have no real control over us. It's just something
(09:00):
that happened. Let it roll off your back. So let's
start deepening our breath in and out, relaxing your body,
(09:21):
allowing yourself to get heavier and heavier with each exhale,
sinking in deeper to your cushion or seat, feeling the
weight of your body pressed up against that thing, Just
getting heavier and heavier, with each exhale. One thing that's
(10:07):
helped me over time is just thinking of each breath
as arriving into the present moment. As you inhale, you're here,
You're arriving into this moment right now, and you're exhaling,
and then you inhale again, you're arriving into the present
(10:32):
moment exhale. We just need to let go of the
belief in negativity. Have you ever noticed that just because
(10:54):
you're worried something bad might happen doesn't stop the thing
from happening. It happens anyway of the time. Worrying about
the thing has no effect. Either it will happen or
it doesn't happen. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.
I don't think you're worrying had anything to do with it.
(11:15):
It's different from being prepared. You can be prepared for
negative things, but being focused on negative things doesn't stop
them from happening. They just happen. They happen when they happen,
so what's the point I'm worrying about them in between?
(12:00):
Continue this practice, you may realize at some point that
your mind has wandered and you're thinking about something else, daydreaming, whatever,
and that's the meditation. That's the mindfulness and meditation. When
you notice your mind has wondered, and at that point
when you notice, you just observe the thought, recognize it
(12:24):
for what it was, a thought, let it drift away,
and then take another breath into the present moment arriving here. Now,
continue on this practice for a few moments.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Most un us one must us in as music.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay, the time has come to return to your body
from wherever you are in your meditation. Just take a
moment and let the silence and the stillness settle in
one last time, lingering here in this present moment of calm,
(19:11):
Let's take one last long, slow, deep breath together in
and out. When you're ready, you can open your eyes
(19:31):
and go about your day. I mustake that's it for
(20:00):
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. Be well, have fun,
(20:24):
and no mistake
Welcome to mindful meditations with calm the bleep down. As always,
I am your guide Michael Beckameier, and today we are
going to examine every single possibility. Let's get started. As always,
we have a mindfulness quote to help head us into
(00:31):
our meditation with some intent, and this time our quote
comes from Albert Einstein, and it reads, the mind that
opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
I like this quote firstly because it reminds me of
(00:51):
another one of my favorite Einstein quotes, which was the
significant problems we face can never be solved at the
same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
So he's right about having to open your mind to
discover a new possibility basically, and the pattern that I
(01:14):
find myself getting in and again, I'm more and more
seeing and more and more being able to assess the
fact that if I feel something, it more likely than
not means that I'm not the only one that feels
this way. There's nothing special about my insecurities or worries
or anything like that. A lot of people feel the
(01:35):
same way I feel. So my cynicism points me automatically
directly to the negative. I don't want to do that
because this might happen, even all the way down to
One of my biggest fears is flying. I have a
real problem flying, and I'm basically a nervous wreck, especially
(02:01):
around to take off and leading up into takeoff, because
all I can see is the possibility that the plane
will go down, and I ask I start asking myself
all the questions. If the plane goes down, would this
trip have been worth it? To never see my kid again,
(02:25):
to never achieve the goals that I'm working out for.
Is this trip all that important? Is this worth risking
my life? Okay, so cynicism takes me way down a
rabbit hole when it comes to flying. The thing about
possibility that I've been thinking about a lot lately is
the fact that possibility can be whatever we make it
(02:45):
if we choose to see the negative in something. Of course,
it's possible if we choose to see the positive in something.
For instance, how much better could this go? What good
thing can happen next? Also, that is possible, And it's
one of those if you say so type scenarios. We
(03:09):
could all die if you say so, we could all
achieve our highest goals and dreams. And blah blah blah
and all that stuff and never want for another thing
for the rest of our life, if you say so.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Mindfulness for me over the last several years has really
been about rewiring my brain to not fixate on the negative.
The negative is a possibility, of course, obvious, and just
because something happened doesn't mean it's the only thing that's
ever going to happen good, bad, indifferent, ugly, whatever. But
(03:45):
I also know when you are only looking for the negative,
you only see the negative. You ever meet one of
those people that are so optimistic and hopeful and just happy,
go lucky, and you're just sort of like, how are
you like this? I've seen people who've had family members
die and the next day we're like, this is just
(04:08):
how it was meant to be. I can't let it
ruin my life. I'm sad, i feel bad, I'm upset,
but I'm not going to let it change my outlook
on life the next day. And I admire those people.
It's a special skill to be able to just shift
into I'm going to see this, I'm going to try
(04:29):
to find a positive way to channel this into my
life instead of sitting there and wallowing and pity. So
seeing the negative in everything well well, almost always only
(04:50):
bring negative things your way because that's what you're looking for.
You miss all the good things happening around you because
the only thing you're looking for is the negative. The
only thing believe in is the negative. The other things,
the positive, hopeful things that are happening around you. Those
(05:10):
and I know this because I've done it myself, have
only only get explained away by like, yeah, that was
luck or that was you know. We can't get too
caught up on that because the good things they don't
stick around, they don't happen for they don't last forever.
But when you are looking for positive, you tend to
(05:32):
see more positive things. And it compounds like interest in
a way. You see something positive, you think see if
you start latching onto it and you think, see, good
things can happen, and then you look, then you're looking
around for it more, look prove it. You're starting to
try to prove it for yourself. It is confirmation bias
on either side. But more and more, the older I get,
(05:54):
the longer, the longer I do this, the harder I
work on rewiring my own brain, the more I want
to look for positive things because it just makes me
feel better. It just makes me feel better to believe
good things can happen. So that's what we're going to
(06:16):
meditate on today. With our breath, we can start to
see a new beginning every time we inhale, bringing something,
bringing breath in and letting breath out, and then bringing
(06:40):
it back in again. See, good things can happen. Breath
is good. It's keeping us alive, it's keeping us focused,
it's keeping us healthy. Thinking of it like this has
helped me. So get yourself comfortable. You can sit down
and lie down for this meditation as always, start to
(07:05):
scan your body head to toe, start relaxing all those
tight tense areas, and start just asking yourself if it's
possible that you could see things another way. Open your
mind so that it can grow. Open your mind so
(07:28):
it can never be the same again. Negativity is based
on rigid beliefs, no never, ever, and it's closed. Nothing's
getting in because all you see is that negative. But
(07:51):
to be hopeful and positive and encouraged and even just
happy just having a good day require is you to
be open. You have to be open to receive that.
Otherwise we're closed up, not letting anyone in, got walls up,
got the windows rolled up. No one's getting in today.
(08:13):
You're not gonna you're not gonna get to me today.
Nothing's gonna happen. Nothing, you know, I'm not gonna let
anything happen to me today. So we're going to close up.
And it's self preservation and guarded and all of those
things that I'm sure all of us have done at
least at some point, if not regularly. But for good
(08:37):
things to happen, we have to be open, and we
have to allow ourselves to be vulnerable, and we have
to open up ourselves to the possibility that bad things
may happen, negative things may happen, but to know that
they're gonna happen one way or the other, and that
they have no real control over us. It's just something
(09:00):
that happened. Let it roll off your back. So let's
start deepening our breath in and out, relaxing your body,
(09:21):
allowing yourself to get heavier and heavier with each exhale,
sinking in deeper to your cushion or seat, feeling the
weight of your body pressed up against that thing, Just
getting heavier and heavier, with each exhale. One thing that's
(10:07):
helped me over time is just thinking of each breath
as arriving into the present moment. As you inhale, you're here,
You're arriving into this moment right now, and you're exhaling,
and then you inhale again, you're arriving into the present
(10:32):
moment exhale. We just need to let go of the
belief in negativity. Have you ever noticed that just because
(10:54):
you're worried something bad might happen doesn't stop the thing
from happening. It happens anyway of the time. Worrying about
the thing has no effect. Either it will happen or
it doesn't happen. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.
I don't think you're worrying had anything to do with it.
(11:15):
It's different from being prepared. You can be prepared for
negative things, but being focused on negative things doesn't stop
them from happening. They just happen. They happen when they happen,
so what's the point I'm worrying about them in between?
(12:00):
Continue this practice, you may realize at some point that
your mind has wandered and you're thinking about something else, daydreaming, whatever,
and that's the meditation. That's the mindfulness and meditation. When
you notice your mind has wondered, and at that point
when you notice, you just observe the thought, recognize it
(12:24):
for what it was, a thought, let it drift away,
and then take another breath into the present moment arriving here. Now,
continue on this practice for a few moments.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Most un us one must us in as music.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay, the time has come to return to your body
from wherever you are in your meditation. Just take a
moment and let the silence and the stillness settle in
one last time, lingering here in this present moment of calm,
(19:11):
Let's take one last long, slow, deep breath together in
and out. When you're ready, you can open your eyes
(19:31):
and go about your day. I mustake that's it for
(20:00):
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. Be well, have fun,
(20:24):
and no mistake
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