July 11, 2025 • 22 mins
Stress, anxiety, worry, frustration, rage are all lower energy vibrations bringing us down all the time. If we are not careful, we can easily get swept away by those things, all while struggling to rise above them. Through meditation and mindfulness, we can remind ourselves not to dwell on those unproductive thoughts, feelings, and emotions to raise our vibrations with things like gratitude, joy, abundance. One breath at a time.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Greetings, fellow meditators. Welcome to mindful meditations with Calm the
bleep Down. I am your guide Michael Beckameier, and today
we are going to become energy boomerangs. Let's get started.
(00:25):
As always, we have a mindfulness quote to help us
head into our meditation with some intent and purpose. And
today our quote comes from the Buddha and it reads,
what you think you become, what you feel you attract,
what you imagine you create. I like this quote because
(00:48):
when I think about what I think I become, I
think of what I very often say to myself is
when I'm having negative thoughts, or when I'm having a
bad day and I'm thinking nobody likes me. This is
never gonna work all of those things, and I start
to believe those thoughts. I very often say to myself,
(01:08):
you are not your thoughts. Your thoughts aren't real, which
I do believe is true. Your thoughts aren't real unless
you believe your thoughts. So if you believe them, they
become true because you believe them. Right. We talking about
affirmations in a previous meditation, and we're talking about energy today.
(01:31):
If you believe your thoughts, they become real. But until
you believe them. The thoughts are just thoughts, they're just
bouncing around out there. So if our thoughts aren't real
until we believe them, why do we so often believe
(01:53):
the negative ones and not the positive ones. It's because
I think over time we become and cynical and pessimistic
because we have memorized and witnessed so much negativity in
my life, your life, everybody's life, and we start to think, oh, well,
(02:16):
the only thing that's real are the things that suck.
That is not true. Fact, everything is real or everything
is not real, depending on the way you look at it.
And this is where we get to the energy boomerang.
(02:37):
I believe that energy is a boomerang. If you put
out positive energy, positive energy will come back to you.
It's just just as simple as holding a door for
somebody and getting a smile from them on the way
from them on the way out that door. You put
some positive energy out there, you got some positive energy back. Now.
(03:00):
One of my pet peeves is people who don't say
thank you when you open the door. And you get
that a lot too. This is where the cynicism comes in. Oh, people,
don't you know that? People are you know, crappy people.
Everybody sucks all that stuff. It's true if you say so,
and if you believe it. When we're talking about law
(03:20):
of attraction or manifestation or creating our future, we do
that every day. We are manifesting our future. Right now,
we're manifesting our future. It just depends on which version
of our future we are creating. If we're worried about something,
or we're negative or we're cynical, and we harp that,
(03:41):
harp on that constantly, we beat that into the ground,
and we say, this is true, this is true, this
is true, this is true, this is true. It becomes
true whatever it is. If you believe people suck because
you've seen it and over again, and you decide that
that's what you're going to put your faith in and
(04:03):
what you're going to put your energy in, you are
going to have confirmation bias that constantly boomerangs back to
you to prove to you the fact that you believe
people suck. But at the same time, if you believe
people can be great and they can be kind, and
they can be generous and peaceful and funny and incredible
(04:27):
to watch, and you harp on that over and over
and over and over again to so much to the
point where you actually believe it. You will get confirmation
bias that boomerangs back to you, proving that point to
you as well. This is just an example. Everything is
(04:49):
like that. If you have something that you would like
to create in your life, all you have to do
is convince yourself it's real. Convince yourself it's true. Convince
yourself it's p possible. So you have to convince yourself
to the point where you believe it to be true.
The problem with convincing ourselves something is true that we
(05:13):
don't quite believe yet is the fact that we not
only just have to say, oh, I believe that. Now,
we now have to unprogram. We have to uninstall the
negativity app that's running in our brain already, and then
that takes time altogether. We have to defrag all of
that and get all of that out of there, and
then reinstall the positivity app that we would like to run.
(05:37):
And sometimes that app has a lot of bugs in
it because we are still trying to purge and get
rid of all the other cynical stuff that's still bouncing
around in our head. It takes practice, It takes time.
But what it definitely takes is commitment to that positive energy.
(05:59):
We have to keep putting our belief in that positive energy.
You've heard me say this here. I am no expert
in this. I've talked about it over and over and
over again. Here I am prone to cynicism. My weakness
is you know, over time, my nearly fifty years now,
(06:19):
I had convinced myself that things just sucked and that
nothing good was ever gonna happen. To the point where
I believed that, and since I believed it, I was
proving it to be true every day to the point
where when good stuff did happen, I would just be like, yeah,
(06:40):
I can't count on that. That's not going to last.
So tomorrow we're back to the negative thought patterns again,
just negative energy. See look that I said that, I
said that wasn't gonna work. See look I proved it right.
I know I'm not the only one that does that.
It is something I'm still really, really really working on
(07:08):
trying to reprogram. So this is what we're going to
meditate on today. We have nobody's going to do it
for us. We have to be the ones to reprogram
our own brain because everybody else is running their own
programs on their own brain, running their own negativity app,
(07:28):
running their own positivity app. Their own belief systems are
running in their own brains. They're worried about their thing.
We have to worry about our thing. And if we
want to change our life, we have to change our mind.
And to change our mind, we have to start over
(07:49):
and do it every day. We have to be committed
to that. We have to be committed to change. So easy, right.
The beautiful thing about meditation is it's a perfect at
(08:10):
least for me. If you listen to this show often,
you'll catch me pretty much every episode talking about how
meditation is a good analogy for life, and what I
like about it is we get to start over with
every breath, breathing in, breathing out. Oops, my mind wondered. Okay,
(08:36):
let me start over, breathing in, breathing out. And the
beauty of that is that we get to start over
and we get to practice what it feels like to
believe in something, Because if you're meditating, you're really sitting
(08:59):
down and you're just saying to yourself, I believe I
can calm myself the bleep down, right, now and then,
with heavy breath, you try again. That's not a perfect
analogy for life. I don't know what is. So to meditate,
(09:19):
first thing you gotta do. Find yourself in a comfortable place.
You can either sit down or lie down, close your eyes,
start to lengthen your breath, breathing in, breathing out, allowing
(09:45):
yourself to sink into relaxation here slowing down, Maybe scan
(10:12):
your body from head to toe, releasing any unwonted tension.
(10:45):
For today's practice, I want you to concentrate on your heart.
They say our heart is the strongest magnetic energy center
in our body, and the problem with that sometimes is
(11:10):
our heart is also the heaviest part of us, weighed
down with disappointment, trauma, negative emotions, negative thoughts. They all
(11:30):
sort of sit in different places in our body. And
the saying I have a heavy heart just always kind
of rings true to me when I'm trying to imagine
myself being lighter and more cheerful and more positive and
(11:50):
more optimistic. The trick is, I think, for me at least,
purging all that negativity from my art. So just for now,
I want you to, as you're breathing in, imagine your
(12:14):
breath coming straight into your heart, breathing into your heart,
and as you exhale, imagine the breath coming back out
of your heart again, over and over and over again.
Just concentrate on your heart. See if you can create
(12:39):
a sensation of the breath flowing through your heart and
your chest breathing in and out. Practice that on your
(13:02):
own for a few moments. When I practice heart breathing,
(13:40):
very often, I imagine the heart filling up with the air,
so it sort of inflates a little like a balloon.
It's swelling with the breath. Just the visualization of it
really helps me picture my breath going into my heart.
(14:16):
Trying to raise the level of our vibration. Anger, frustration, depression, stress, anxiety.
Those are all low frequency vibrations, and they weigh us down,
They slow us down, They keep us stuck and bogged
(14:37):
down from where we are. Things like joy, gratitude, optimism, happiness,
those are much higher frequency energies, and we are trying
(14:59):
to create less cynical, more optimistic, technically, just a brighter future,
one that we can imagine that is filled with gratitude
and joy and abundance. In our meditations, we can even
(15:22):
if just for a moment, create that sensation inside of
our body and train ourselves to recognize it when it's
happening inside of us. Maybe you feel a little ping
in your chest when something good happens. You start to
(15:45):
recognize and memorize that feeling in your chest, memorize that
sensation in your body as it happens to you in
real time. And as we recognize it more in our
day to day life, and we create that sensation more
and more in our meditations, we can start to retrain
(16:09):
ourselves towards that higher level vibration, towards that more positive
energy filled with joy and gratitude and abundance. We're trying
(16:30):
to draw those into us and flow into us while
we are breathing in and out, and as we breathe in,
we are attracting those energies magnetically. We're drawing them into us,
(16:57):
and then we are pushing them back out again with
our breath. We are sending that higher energy frequency and
vibration back out and then once again he boomerangs back
to us on our inhale. We do this over over
(17:25):
over again to retrain ourselves and to purge the negative
energy the toxins that pile up inside of us every minute,
our week, month, year of our lives. Again, it is
(17:53):
us whose job it is to do the purge, to
re memorize, to retrain ourselves to be a magnet for
that optimistic, positive, higher vibration, so we can start to
(18:16):
believe good things can happen and better things will come.
(18:58):
It's time to return to our body, to our regular breath,
breathing in and out, just giving these silence and stillness
just a little bit longer to settle in. Maybe feel
(19:21):
the sensations in your body as your heart and chest
are buzzing. Sometimes I am not sure I want to
(19:45):
talk about law of attraction or manifestation, because again I
don't feel like I'm that much of an expert at it.
But these are things that I think about, and these
meditations are as helpful for me and figuring out what
to say or what I want to say, or how
(20:06):
I feel about a thing. They they help me remind myself,
reminding myself that energy is a boomerang, and not to
get bogged down in the negativity of the day, not
(20:29):
to allow the negativity to become true, because it is
not true unless we believe it is true. And once
we believe it is true, it is so hard to
delete that part of the program that is running and
(20:50):
add in new code that says positivity, positivity, positivity, high energy,
high energy, high energy. It's so hard to retrain ourselves
to dig new neural pathways in our brain. I guess
(21:16):
I've been feeling pretty bogged down my own self lately,
with my own concern and worry and stress and all
that stuff, just kind of in a bad mood maybe,
so I think it serves to remind all of us.
Energy is a boomerang. What you put out into the
(21:38):
world will come back to you, and how you feel
on the inside is not necessarily the truth unless you
believe it. And with that, when you are ready, you
can open your eyes and go about your day, be well,
and have fun, one breath at a time. We'll see
(22:01):
you again soon. 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 Beckamaia, reminding you to please calm the bleep down.
(22:23):
We'll see you again soon. Thank you for meditating with us.
Be well, have fun, and no mistake
Greetings, fellow meditators. Welcome to mindful meditations with Calm the
bleep Down. I am your guide Michael Beckameier, and today
we are going to become energy boomerangs. Let's get started.
(00:25):
As always, we have a mindfulness quote to help us
head into our meditation with some intent and purpose. And
today our quote comes from the Buddha and it reads,
what you think you become, what you feel you attract,
what you imagine you create. I like this quote because
(00:48):
when I think about what I think I become, I
think of what I very often say to myself is
when I'm having negative thoughts, or when I'm having a
bad day and I'm thinking nobody likes me. This is
never gonna work all of those things, and I start
to believe those thoughts. I very often say to myself,
(01:08):
you are not your thoughts. Your thoughts aren't real, which
I do believe is true. Your thoughts aren't real unless
you believe your thoughts. So if you believe them, they
become true because you believe them. Right. We talking about
affirmations in a previous meditation, and we're talking about energy today.
(01:31):
If you believe your thoughts, they become real. But until
you believe them. The thoughts are just thoughts, they're just
bouncing around out there. So if our thoughts aren't real
until we believe them, why do we so often believe
(01:53):
the negative ones and not the positive ones. It's because
I think over time we become and cynical and pessimistic
because we have memorized and witnessed so much negativity in
my life, your life, everybody's life, and we start to think, oh, well,
(02:16):
the only thing that's real are the things that suck.
That is not true. Fact, everything is real or everything
is not real, depending on the way you look at it.
And this is where we get to the energy boomerang.
(02:37):
I believe that energy is a boomerang. If you put
out positive energy, positive energy will come back to you.
It's just just as simple as holding a door for
somebody and getting a smile from them on the way
from them on the way out that door. You put
some positive energy out there, you got some positive energy back. Now.
(03:00):
One of my pet peeves is people who don't say
thank you when you open the door. And you get
that a lot too. This is where the cynicism comes in. Oh, people,
don't you know that? People are you know, crappy people.
Everybody sucks all that stuff. It's true if you say so,
and if you believe it. When we're talking about law
(03:20):
of attraction or manifestation or creating our future, we do
that every day. We are manifesting our future. Right now,
we're manifesting our future. It just depends on which version
of our future we are creating. If we're worried about something,
or we're negative or we're cynical, and we harp that,
(03:41):
harp on that constantly, we beat that into the ground,
and we say, this is true, this is true, this
is true, this is true, this is true. It becomes
true whatever it is. If you believe people suck because
you've seen it and over again, and you decide that
that's what you're going to put your faith in and
(04:03):
what you're going to put your energy in, you are
going to have confirmation bias that constantly boomerangs back to
you to prove to you the fact that you believe
people suck. But at the same time, if you believe
people can be great and they can be kind, and
they can be generous and peaceful and funny and incredible
(04:27):
to watch, and you harp on that over and over
and over and over again to so much to the
point where you actually believe it. You will get confirmation
bias that boomerangs back to you, proving that point to
you as well. This is just an example. Everything is
(04:49):
like that. If you have something that you would like
to create in your life, all you have to do
is convince yourself it's real. Convince yourself it's true. Convince
yourself it's p possible. So you have to convince yourself
to the point where you believe it to be true.
The problem with convincing ourselves something is true that we
(05:13):
don't quite believe yet is the fact that we not
only just have to say, oh, I believe that. Now,
we now have to unprogram. We have to uninstall the
negativity app that's running in our brain already, and then
that takes time altogether. We have to defrag all of
that and get all of that out of there, and
then reinstall the positivity app that we would like to run.
(05:37):
And sometimes that app has a lot of bugs in
it because we are still trying to purge and get
rid of all the other cynical stuff that's still bouncing
around in our head. It takes practice, It takes time.
But what it definitely takes is commitment to that positive energy.
(05:59):
We have to keep putting our belief in that positive energy.
You've heard me say this here. I am no expert
in this. I've talked about it over and over and
over again. Here I am prone to cynicism. My weakness
is you know, over time, my nearly fifty years now,
(06:19):
I had convinced myself that things just sucked and that
nothing good was ever gonna happen. To the point where
I believed that, and since I believed it, I was
proving it to be true every day to the point
where when good stuff did happen, I would just be like, yeah,
(06:40):
I can't count on that. That's not going to last.
So tomorrow we're back to the negative thought patterns again,
just negative energy. See look that I said that, I
said that wasn't gonna work. See look I proved it right.
I know I'm not the only one that does that.
It is something I'm still really, really really working on
(07:08):
trying to reprogram. So this is what we're going to
meditate on today. We have nobody's going to do it
for us. We have to be the ones to reprogram
our own brain because everybody else is running their own
programs on their own brain, running their own negativity app,
(07:28):
running their own positivity app. Their own belief systems are
running in their own brains. They're worried about their thing.
We have to worry about our thing. And if we
want to change our life, we have to change our mind.
And to change our mind, we have to start over
(07:49):
and do it every day. We have to be committed
to that. We have to be committed to change. So easy, right.
The beautiful thing about meditation is it's a perfect at
(08:10):
least for me. If you listen to this show often,
you'll catch me pretty much every episode talking about how
meditation is a good analogy for life, and what I
like about it is we get to start over with
every breath, breathing in, breathing out. Oops, my mind wondered. Okay,
(08:36):
let me start over, breathing in, breathing out. And the
beauty of that is that we get to start over
and we get to practice what it feels like to
believe in something, Because if you're meditating, you're really sitting
(08:59):
down and you're just saying to yourself, I believe I
can calm myself the bleep down, right, now and then,
with heavy breath, you try again. That's not a perfect
analogy for life. I don't know what is. So to meditate,
(09:19):
first thing you gotta do. Find yourself in a comfortable place.
You can either sit down or lie down, close your eyes,
start to lengthen your breath, breathing in, breathing out, allowing
(09:45):
yourself to sink into relaxation here slowing down, Maybe scan
(10:12):
your body from head to toe, releasing any unwonted tension.
(10:45):
For today's practice, I want you to concentrate on your heart.
They say our heart is the strongest magnetic energy center
in our body, and the problem with that sometimes is
(11:10):
our heart is also the heaviest part of us, weighed
down with disappointment, trauma, negative emotions, negative thoughts. They all
(11:30):
sort of sit in different places in our body. And
the saying I have a heavy heart just always kind
of rings true to me when I'm trying to imagine
myself being lighter and more cheerful and more positive and
(11:50):
more optimistic. The trick is, I think, for me at least,
purging all that negativity from my art. So just for now,
I want you to, as you're breathing in, imagine your
(12:14):
breath coming straight into your heart, breathing into your heart,
and as you exhale, imagine the breath coming back out
of your heart again, over and over and over again.
Just concentrate on your heart. See if you can create
(12:39):
a sensation of the breath flowing through your heart and
your chest breathing in and out. Practice that on your
(13:02):
own for a few moments. When I practice heart breathing,
(13:40):
very often, I imagine the heart filling up with the air,
so it sort of inflates a little like a balloon.
It's swelling with the breath. Just the visualization of it
really helps me picture my breath going into my heart.
(14:16):
Trying to raise the level of our vibration. Anger, frustration, depression, stress, anxiety.
Those are all low frequency vibrations, and they weigh us down,
They slow us down, They keep us stuck and bogged
(14:37):
down from where we are. Things like joy, gratitude, optimism, happiness,
those are much higher frequency energies, and we are trying
(14:59):
to create less cynical, more optimistic, technically, just a brighter future,
one that we can imagine that is filled with gratitude
and joy and abundance. In our meditations, we can even
(15:22):
if just for a moment, create that sensation inside of
our body and train ourselves to recognize it when it's
happening inside of us. Maybe you feel a little ping
in your chest when something good happens. You start to
(15:45):
recognize and memorize that feeling in your chest, memorize that
sensation in your body as it happens to you in
real time. And as we recognize it more in our
day to day life, and we create that sensation more
and more in our meditations, we can start to retrain
(16:09):
ourselves towards that higher level vibration, towards that more positive
energy filled with joy and gratitude and abundance. We're trying
(16:30):
to draw those into us and flow into us while
we are breathing in and out, and as we breathe in,
we are attracting those energies magnetically. We're drawing them into us,
(16:57):
and then we are pushing them back out again with
our breath. We are sending that higher energy frequency and
vibration back out and then once again he boomerangs back
to us on our inhale. We do this over over
(17:25):
over again to retrain ourselves and to purge the negative
energy the toxins that pile up inside of us every minute,
our week, month, year of our lives. Again, it is
(17:53):
us whose job it is to do the purge, to
re memorize, to retrain ourselves to be a magnet for
that optimistic, positive, higher vibration, so we can start to
(18:16):
believe good things can happen and better things will come.
(18:58):
It's time to return to our body, to our regular breath,
breathing in and out, just giving these silence and stillness
just a little bit longer to settle in. Maybe feel
(19:21):
the sensations in your body as your heart and chest
are buzzing. Sometimes I am not sure I want to
(19:45):
talk about law of attraction or manifestation, because again I
don't feel like I'm that much of an expert at it.
But these are things that I think about, and these
meditations are as helpful for me and figuring out what
to say or what I want to say, or how
(20:06):
I feel about a thing. They they help me remind myself,
reminding myself that energy is a boomerang, and not to
get bogged down in the negativity of the day, not
(20:29):
to allow the negativity to become true, because it is
not true unless we believe it is true. And once
we believe it is true, it is so hard to
delete that part of the program that is running and
(20:50):
add in new code that says positivity, positivity, positivity, high energy,
high energy, high energy. It's so hard to retrain ourselves
to dig new neural pathways in our brain. I guess
(21:16):
I've been feeling pretty bogged down my own self lately,
with my own concern and worry and stress and all
that stuff, just kind of in a bad mood maybe,
so I think it serves to remind all of us.
Energy is a boomerang. What you put out into the
(21:38):
world will come back to you, and how you feel
on the inside is not necessarily the truth unless you
believe it. And with that, when you are ready, you
can open your eyes and go about your day, be well,
and have fun, one breath at a time. We'll see
(22:01):
you again soon. 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 Beckamaia, reminding you to please calm the bleep down.
(22:23):
We'll see you again soon. Thank you for meditating with us.
Be well, have fun, and no mistake
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