August 18, 2025 • 20 mins
Our life can carry us away when we aren't looking. The mindfulness we get from practicing meditation can very easily point us back in the direction of the present moment that we can loose sight of so easily. The breath is our compass. In and out. In and out. One breath at a time.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Welcome to mindful meditations with calm the bleep down. I'm
your guide, Michael Beckermeier. And today we are going to
be right here, right now. Let's get started. As always,
we have a mindfulness quote to help us head into
(00:34):
our meditation with some intent. And today our quote comes
from Eckhart Toll and it reads, wherever you are, be
there totally. When I started meditating, I had heard the
term present, be present in the moment. I'd heard all
(00:57):
of those phrases that people say when they're talking about
paying attention. You seem like you're not in the room,
like where are you? Your mind somewhere else, stuff like that.
And the world we live in is very distracting. If
nothing else. We have these computers in our pocket that
(01:18):
are constantly buzzing. Read this email, read this text, reply
to me, dating apps, wipe left right, all that stuff.
And if you're not careful, you can easily be swept
away into mindlessly sort of wasting time. But if you
(01:40):
want to waste time, it's your life. You can waste
however much time you want. However, one of the real
issues is when you're in the room with somebody and
you're talking with them, or you're listening to them or
paying attention to them, even if you're in a lecture,
in a meeting, in a conference call, any of those things.
(02:01):
If you're not careful that phone or whatever it is
other thousands or infinite number of distractions we have in
our life coming at us at all times. If we're
not careful, our mind can wander off while we're sitting
there nodding our heads and smiling at someone, but are
we actually listening to them. I noticed this myself when
(02:27):
I first started meditating, and I became aware of how
distracted just we all are, and how distracted I was
by my persistent thoughts about something. I'd had a particularly
long day. I was particularly worried about not making my
daughter's soccer game, and I rushed and I rushed, and
(02:50):
I was grumbling, and I was like, I got out
of there ten minutes late. I couldn't get to traffic,
this thing, that thing, all that stuff, and I just
wanted to get to my daughter's soccer game. And then
I got to my daughter's soccer game, and I was
so distracted and frustrated. Still I was carrying around all
that other stuff. I was texting people. It took me
forever to get to the soccer game, and I realized
(03:13):
that I'd been at the soccer game on time, and
I'd been there for an hour, and I wasn't paying
attention to it because I was too busy complaining about
all the stuff that had happened in my frustrating day.
I was there, but I wasn't there. So then I
started noticing when I was having dinner with someone like
(03:34):
my daughter, or we were sitting and having a conversation,
how many times I was my mind was wondering off
or however many times I was interrupting the conversation to
bring it back to something that I was particularly worried about.
We all do it. It's not evil of us. Is
just not being present. We're somewhere else. We're letting something
(03:55):
else or someone else's problems control us so that we're
not present in this moment. And I made a conscious
effort to put my phone down when I'm talking to people,
and to this day, I still feel weird a little
bit if I pick my phone up while I'm having
a conversation with somebody. The phone is just a perfect
(04:19):
example of it. It's not the only example, however, for
the purpose of this meditation. That's what I'm talking about
is the phone. Just think about it, how distracted we
are all the time. With meditation and with mindfulness, the
(04:39):
mindfulness that comes from meditation, we can slowly, slowly start
to get our life back. We can share a moment
with someone because we are training ourselves to be here
right now, or as Eckart totally put it, to be
(05:05):
there fully. So that's what we're going to practice today
and our meditation, and as always, we're going to do
this with our breath. So get yourself comfortable. You can
either sit down or lie down. And again, as always,
you've heard me say this many times on this podcast.
(05:27):
The breath is such a perfect way to train yourself,
to teach yourself, to show yourself what it feels like
to be in the present moment. You ever been driving
down the road and you know the way, so you
kind of zone out, you're thinking about something else, and
the next thing you know, you're pulling into your driveway
(05:48):
and you're like, how did I get here? I wasn't
even paying attention. If somebody had pulled out in front
of me, who knows what would have happened. You weren't present.
But when you're driving down the road and you are,
you see and hear all kinds of things. You see
the car coming up beside you, you're like, that guy
is gonna, you know, try to cut me off. You
can hit your brakes, you can pull over, you can
(06:09):
you are hearing the sound of the cars whizzing by,
or you're actually listening to a song because you're in
that moment with that song. Otherwise it's just this sort
of white noise that's happening around you. Mindfulness is gonna
(06:31):
help us experience our life more fully because we can
pause and say, I am here right now. So start
lengthening your breath. Slowing your breath. Take some long, slow,
deep breaths in and out. Start feeling yourself relaxing. Start
(07:01):
to loosen the tension in your neck and shoulders and
face and torso and all the way down your body
to your arms and legs and feet. Just feel yourself
softening into your breath with each inhale and exhale, and
(07:21):
each time you breathe out, feel yourself getting heavier. In
that moment, pay close attention to the sensations in your body.
Just take a few moments and breathe in and feel
what the breath coming into your body feels like. What
does that feel like?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Then?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What does it feel like when you exhale the sensations
in your body? Where does the breath enter your body?
Where do you feel it? Is it cool? Is it relaxing?
Is it calming? Or you maybe still a little tense.
(08:04):
Just feel yourself for a moment as you breathe in
and out. I found that when I am in the
(08:34):
present moment, I am no longer worried about running out
of time. I am no longer worried about how old
I am, how rushed I feel. I might be in
a hurry, but I'm mindfully in a hurry. I'm not
anxiously in a hurry. I'm in the present moment. I
(08:59):
hear things, I feel things. I can share a moment
of Catharsis with another human being because I'm in that
moment with them instead of distracted. But most importantly, we
want to be in the moment with ourselves so we
(09:20):
can enjoy our own life with our self instead of
worry about things that have or haven't happened yet get
consumed by that. And there are always things to be
concerned about. There are always going to be things that
(09:42):
are going to happen that we need to be aware
of and maybe even worry about. But we don't want
to be consumed by it because that's not life. That's anxiety,
let's worry, that's frustration, that's anger. Rage. So let's take
(10:11):
another couple of long, slow, deep breaths in and out,
feeling ourselves enter into the present moment with each breath.
It's a new arrival into the present moment with each
(10:32):
new breath, in out, in out. As you continue to practice,
(11:00):
if you find your mind is wondering, it's totally normal.
In fact, the mindfulness cannot take place without you noticing
that your mind is wondering. So you're actually succeeding. A
lot of people get frustrated when they find their mind
(11:21):
is wondering and they think, I can't meditate, I can't
do it. My mind is all over the place. Well,
everybody's mind is all over the place. The fact that
you noticed that your mind is all over the place,
that's the meditation, without frustration, without getting annoyed, without giving up,
Just observe that last thought and then return back to
(11:43):
your breath and breathe in, feel that breath come into
your body, and then breathe out and feel that breath
leave your body. That is presence, that is mindfulness, that
is meditation. Continue to practice for a few.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Moments on your own.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Most us one must us in as music.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Okay, it's time to come back into your body with
another long, slow, deep breath in and out. Take a
few moments here and enjoy the stillness and silence and
let it settle in for just a few much longer.
(19:01):
Just feel what right here and right now feels like,
so you can carry that with you throughout the rest
of the day. So when you're ready, you can open
your eyes. I mistake. That's it for this time. Uncomm
(19:58):
the bleep down. If do 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 Beckamaia reminding you to please calm
the bleep down. We'll see you again soon. Thank you
for meditating with us. Be well, have fun, and no
(20:21):
mistake
Welcome to mindful meditations with calm the bleep down. I'm
your guide, Michael Beckermeier. And today we are going to
be right here, right now. Let's get started. As always,
we have a mindfulness quote to help us head into
(00:34):
our meditation with some intent. And today our quote comes
from Eckhart Toll and it reads, wherever you are, be
there totally. When I started meditating, I had heard the
term present, be present in the moment. I'd heard all
(00:57):
of those phrases that people say when they're talking about
paying attention. You seem like you're not in the room,
like where are you? Your mind somewhere else, stuff like that.
And the world we live in is very distracting. If
nothing else. We have these computers in our pocket that
(01:18):
are constantly buzzing. Read this email, read this text, reply
to me, dating apps, wipe left right, all that stuff.
And if you're not careful, you can easily be swept
away into mindlessly sort of wasting time. But if you
(01:40):
want to waste time, it's your life. You can waste
however much time you want. However, one of the real
issues is when you're in the room with somebody and
you're talking with them, or you're listening to them or
paying attention to them, even if you're in a lecture,
in a meeting, in a conference call, any of those things.
(02:01):
If you're not careful that phone or whatever it is
other thousands or infinite number of distractions we have in
our life coming at us at all times. If we're
not careful, our mind can wander off while we're sitting
there nodding our heads and smiling at someone, but are
we actually listening to them. I noticed this myself when
(02:27):
I first started meditating, and I became aware of how
distracted just we all are, and how distracted I was
by my persistent thoughts about something. I'd had a particularly
long day. I was particularly worried about not making my
daughter's soccer game, and I rushed and I rushed, and
(02:50):
I was grumbling, and I was like, I got out
of there ten minutes late. I couldn't get to traffic,
this thing, that thing, all that stuff, and I just
wanted to get to my daughter's soccer game. And then
I got to my daughter's soccer game, and I was
so distracted and frustrated. Still I was carrying around all
that other stuff. I was texting people. It took me
forever to get to the soccer game, and I realized
(03:13):
that I'd been at the soccer game on time, and
I'd been there for an hour, and I wasn't paying
attention to it because I was too busy complaining about
all the stuff that had happened in my frustrating day.
I was there, but I wasn't there. So then I
started noticing when I was having dinner with someone like
(03:34):
my daughter, or we were sitting and having a conversation,
how many times I was my mind was wondering off
or however many times I was interrupting the conversation to
bring it back to something that I was particularly worried about.
We all do it. It's not evil of us. Is
just not being present. We're somewhere else. We're letting something
(03:55):
else or someone else's problems control us so that we're
not present in this moment. And I made a conscious
effort to put my phone down when I'm talking to people,
and to this day, I still feel weird a little
bit if I pick my phone up while I'm having
a conversation with somebody. The phone is just a perfect
(04:19):
example of it. It's not the only example, however, for
the purpose of this meditation. That's what I'm talking about
is the phone. Just think about it, how distracted we
are all the time. With meditation and with mindfulness, the
(04:39):
mindfulness that comes from meditation, we can slowly, slowly start
to get our life back. We can share a moment
with someone because we are training ourselves to be here
right now, or as Eckart totally put it, to be
(05:05):
there fully. So that's what we're going to practice today
and our meditation, and as always, we're going to do
this with our breath. So get yourself comfortable. You can
either sit down or lie down. And again, as always,
you've heard me say this many times on this podcast.
(05:27):
The breath is such a perfect way to train yourself,
to teach yourself, to show yourself what it feels like
to be in the present moment. You ever been driving
down the road and you know the way, so you
kind of zone out, you're thinking about something else, and
the next thing you know, you're pulling into your driveway
(05:48):
and you're like, how did I get here? I wasn't
even paying attention. If somebody had pulled out in front
of me, who knows what would have happened. You weren't present.
But when you're driving down the road and you are,
you see and hear all kinds of things. You see
the car coming up beside you, you're like, that guy
is gonna, you know, try to cut me off. You
can hit your brakes, you can pull over, you can
(06:09):
you are hearing the sound of the cars whizzing by,
or you're actually listening to a song because you're in
that moment with that song. Otherwise it's just this sort
of white noise that's happening around you. Mindfulness is gonna
(06:31):
help us experience our life more fully because we can
pause and say, I am here right now. So start
lengthening your breath. Slowing your breath. Take some long, slow,
deep breaths in and out. Start feeling yourself relaxing. Start
(07:01):
to loosen the tension in your neck and shoulders and
face and torso and all the way down your body
to your arms and legs and feet. Just feel yourself
softening into your breath with each inhale and exhale, and
(07:21):
each time you breathe out, feel yourself getting heavier. In
that moment, pay close attention to the sensations in your body.
Just take a few moments and breathe in and feel
what the breath coming into your body feels like. What
does that feel like?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Then?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What does it feel like when you exhale the sensations
in your body? Where does the breath enter your body?
Where do you feel it? Is it cool? Is it relaxing?
Is it calming? Or you maybe still a little tense.
(08:04):
Just feel yourself for a moment as you breathe in
and out. I found that when I am in the
(08:34):
present moment, I am no longer worried about running out
of time. I am no longer worried about how old
I am, how rushed I feel. I might be in
a hurry, but I'm mindfully in a hurry. I'm not
anxiously in a hurry. I'm in the present moment. I
(08:59):
hear things, I feel things. I can share a moment
of Catharsis with another human being because I'm in that
moment with them instead of distracted. But most importantly, we
want to be in the moment with ourselves so we
(09:20):
can enjoy our own life with our self instead of
worry about things that have or haven't happened yet get
consumed by that. And there are always things to be
concerned about. There are always going to be things that
(09:42):
are going to happen that we need to be aware
of and maybe even worry about. But we don't want
to be consumed by it because that's not life. That's anxiety,
let's worry, that's frustration, that's anger. Rage. So let's take
(10:11):
another couple of long, slow, deep breaths in and out,
feeling ourselves enter into the present moment with each breath.
It's a new arrival into the present moment with each
(10:32):
new breath, in out, in out. As you continue to practice,
(11:00):
if you find your mind is wondering, it's totally normal.
In fact, the mindfulness cannot take place without you noticing
that your mind is wondering. So you're actually succeeding. A
lot of people get frustrated when they find their mind
(11:21):
is wondering and they think, I can't meditate, I can't
do it. My mind is all over the place. Well,
everybody's mind is all over the place. The fact that
you noticed that your mind is all over the place,
that's the meditation, without frustration, without getting annoyed, without giving up,
Just observe that last thought and then return back to
(11:43):
your breath and breathe in, feel that breath come into
your body, and then breathe out and feel that breath
leave your body. That is presence, that is mindfulness, that
is meditation. Continue to practice for a few.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Moments on your own.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Most us one must us in as music.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Okay, it's time to come back into your body with
another long, slow, deep breath in and out. Take a
few moments here and enjoy the stillness and silence and
let it settle in for just a few much longer.
(19:01):
Just feel what right here and right now feels like,
so you can carry that with you throughout the rest
of the day. So when you're ready, you can open
your eyes. I mistake. That's it for this time. Uncomm
(19:58):
the bleep down. If do 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 Beckamaia reminding you to please calm
the bleep down. We'll see you again soon. Thank you
for meditating with us. Be well, have fun, and no
(20:21):
mistake
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