July 7, 2025 • 20 mins
Sometimes life gets so hectic and we are pulled in so many directions at all times that it is easy to becaome detached from the reality, the purity of the present moment. It's easy to feel uprooted. This meditation hopes to help ground while repeated the mantra "I AM" to remind us that we are real. We are here and we are now. 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 reinvent who we are on the inside.
Let's get started. As always, we have a mindfulness quote
(00:26):
to help us head into our meditation with some intent
and purpose. And today our quote comes from mister Rogers
and it reads, who you are on the inside is
what helps you make and do everything in life. What
I like about that quote is so much of how
(00:47):
we come off to people, So much of how we
seem on the outside is a product of how we
feel on the inside. But our feelings aren't necessarily who
we are. Feelings are a reflection of how we feel
in that moment. It doesn't necessarily add up to who
(01:08):
we are. So much of us when we know we
might get defensive or reactive, or we might lose our temper,
we might get into an argument with somebody, And that
doesn't necessarily mean we are an argumentative person or we
are an angry person. It just means we were feeling
(01:31):
angry in that moment, we lost our cool or whatever.
That's not the truth. The truth is that's how we
were in that moment, but that doesn't add up to
who we are. But on the other side, on another
way of looking at it for me is if we
(01:53):
want to become something different, we have to think different.
And these are all internal things, and then we can't
just think different, we have to truly believe it. So
the thoughts that we are thinking and the reprogramming of
our mind actually becomes part of the hardware. Okay, So,
(02:20):
and I've talked about this before when we talk about
affirmations or mantras or anything like that. But affirmations just
sit there in front of a mirror and you say
to yourself, I am a wise, courageous, honest, abundant, and
truth seeking man. When you first say it out loud,
it might feel cheesy, or it might not feel like
(02:43):
it quite fits you. It might not feel true, and
that's because you don't believe it yet. That doesn't mean
you will never believe it, and it doesn't necessarily mean
the the affirmation that you're reciting is ultimately wrong. It
(03:06):
just means that you haven't convinced yourself yet. You haven't
believed it yet. And if you want something to be true,
let's say if you're gonna if you're studying for a
test and you don't just automatically know the information that's
on the test. You have to study it, and you
have to study it, and you have to study it.
(03:26):
You have to break out the flash cards, you have
to write about the thing, you have to study the thing,
you have to practice the thing over and over and
over until it becomes so ingrained inside of you that
you just inherently know it. That's what affirmations are, and
(03:46):
that's why people want us when they're teaching you about affirmations.
That's why they want you to repeat it over and
over and over again. I have in no way mastered this,
yet I still feel ridiculous when I say any any affirmation,
and I'm getting I'm trying to get better at it,
but you feel silly, or at least I do, and
(04:08):
it's the repetition. And you can't change the way you
are until you believe that you are something different than
how you are now, and that takes practice. So in
a way, the person you are is someone that's trying
to be different, someone who's working on being different, who's
(04:30):
working on change, but not necessarily someone who has changed.
Maybe so this is what we're going to meditate on today.
We're gonna do what I think is the most simple
affirmation there is. I think a lot of times in
(04:54):
life we feel so pulled in every direction and we
feel separated from who we really are. We feel separated
from ourselves, we feel separated from the moment, We feel
separated maybe even from reality. And every now and then,
(05:14):
when I'm feeling detached or stressed or worried or somewhere else,
I just recite the mantra I am, I Am, I Am,
(05:34):
I am because of nothing else you are. And sometimes
its Sometimes it helped me to remind myself that I
am here, I am now, I am real. So many
of our problems feel more real than we do, like insurmountable,
(05:57):
you know. So there is a sanscript version of this
Sanskrit version of the mantra, which is so hum, so hum,
so hum. And when I recite this particular mantra or affirmation,
I do it with my breath, so hum in out.
(06:24):
It works good in tandem with the breath. So you
can do the Sanskrit version, or you can do the
English version.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I am.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's the same effect. I am so just when we're
meditating today, just practice that mantra. Repeat it over and
over and over again. The practice of a mantra this
is This is more of a mantra, but I think
of it as an affirmation as well, because it is
a you can look in the mirror and say to yourself,
(06:57):
I am I am. It's a grounding to me to
remind myself that I am I am. So when you're
meditating today, just practice breathing in so breathing out hum
(07:21):
and you might find that mantra meditation actually helps you
stay present in the moment with your meditation because it
gives you something else to do, so your mind doesn't
spin out of control and wander off in thought. It's
going to anyway eventually, but it might help you stick
(07:46):
around a little longer before your mind wanders. And even
if your dumb mind does wander, and it will, all
you have to do is just return to the breath.
So to meditate. If you have never meditated before, if
you've been here before, you know what I'm going to say.
Close your eyes, get yourself comfortable. You can either sit
(08:08):
down or lie down for this, and you just want
to scan your body relax into this space into this moment.
Feel the sensations in your body, ebbing and flowing with
your breath. Feel the sensation of air up against your skin.
(08:38):
Feel the areas and the space around your body. Maybe
the pressure of the seat or the mattress pushing back
up against your body, the weight of your body pressing
up against it. Gravity taking a heavier effect as you exhale,
each exhale, allowing you to become more and more relaxed
(09:04):
and heavier. Sinking deeper into this relaxed state, Sinking deeper
into this meditation, Sinking deeper into this moment. Maybe doing
(09:36):
a quick scan of your body, relaxing all the places
where there's tension holding up somewhere forehead, your cheeks, maybe
relax your ears, the back of the neck, shoulders, torso,
(09:57):
all the way down your arms and hands and wrists, hips,
all the way down your legs, down to your ankles,
feet and toes, removing any tension. With each breath in
(10:18):
and each breath out, paying very close attention to the
(10:45):
breath coming into your lungs and back out again, breathing
in and out, recognizing the fact that you are in
control of your body in this moment. You are saying
(11:08):
when to breathe in, and you are saying when to
breathe out, and you are in this moment, right here
and right now. It's again to begin the mantra. If
(11:35):
you would like to say I am or so hum,
just do so in harmony with your breath, So.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Hum, I am.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Do that over and over and over again, each time
allowing the eye and that am to sink deeper and
deeper with your breath, deeper and deeper inside of you,
reminding yourself that you are real, You are here, you
(12:27):
are now I am. If at any point you notice
that your mind has wandered from the mantra from your breath,
all you have to do is return to your breath
(12:47):
and breathe in so I m h am, over and
over and over again, practice on your own for a
(13:12):
moment that we'll be back at the end to wrap
things up.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And us.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Okay, it is time to release the mantra, and let's
take one final breath in and out together as we
let this silence and stillness settle in for just a
few more seconds. Breathing in and out who you are
(17:46):
on the inside is what helps you make and do
everything in life. It's hard to set an have it.
It's hard to be someone different or to change something
you do or don't like about yourself. Maybe you want
(18:09):
to grow somewhere, change your mindset. Affirmations are are really
a good way of doing it. It's the repetition. It's
the over and over, it's the again and again and
again and again, until you do not feel silly saying it,
until you actually believe the words that are coming out
(18:30):
of your mouth in such a way that they just,
over time, become true again. I am talking to myself
just as much as I'm talking to anybody else. I
am no expert in this process. I still feel a
tad ridiculous when I am affirming myself, and it's a practice.
(18:57):
The idea is to be better at it today than
were yesterday. So let's do that together. 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 you next time. That's
(19:22):
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. We'll see
you again soon. Thank you for meditating with us. Be well,
(19:44):
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 reinvent who we are on the inside.
Let's get started. As always, we have a mindfulness quote
(00:26):
to help us head into our meditation with some intent
and purpose. And today our quote comes from mister Rogers
and it reads, who you are on the inside is
what helps you make and do everything in life. What
I like about that quote is so much of how
(00:47):
we come off to people, So much of how we
seem on the outside is a product of how we
feel on the inside. But our feelings aren't necessarily who
we are. Feelings are a reflection of how we feel
in that moment. It doesn't necessarily add up to who
(01:08):
we are. So much of us when we know we
might get defensive or reactive, or we might lose our temper,
we might get into an argument with somebody, And that
doesn't necessarily mean we are an argumentative person or we
are an angry person. It just means we were feeling
(01:31):
angry in that moment, we lost our cool or whatever.
That's not the truth. The truth is that's how we
were in that moment, but that doesn't add up to
who we are. But on the other side, on another
way of looking at it for me is if we
(01:53):
want to become something different, we have to think different.
And these are all internal things, and then we can't
just think different, we have to truly believe it. So
the thoughts that we are thinking and the reprogramming of
our mind actually becomes part of the hardware. Okay, So,
(02:20):
and I've talked about this before when we talk about
affirmations or mantras or anything like that. But affirmations just
sit there in front of a mirror and you say
to yourself, I am a wise, courageous, honest, abundant, and
truth seeking man. When you first say it out loud,
it might feel cheesy, or it might not feel like
(02:43):
it quite fits you. It might not feel true, and
that's because you don't believe it yet. That doesn't mean
you will never believe it, and it doesn't necessarily mean
the the affirmation that you're reciting is ultimately wrong. It
(03:06):
just means that you haven't convinced yourself yet. You haven't
believed it yet. And if you want something to be true,
let's say if you're gonna if you're studying for a
test and you don't just automatically know the information that's
on the test. You have to study it, and you
have to study it, and you have to study it.
(03:26):
You have to break out the flash cards, you have
to write about the thing, you have to study the thing,
you have to practice the thing over and over and
over until it becomes so ingrained inside of you that
you just inherently know it. That's what affirmations are, and
(03:46):
that's why people want us when they're teaching you about affirmations.
That's why they want you to repeat it over and
over and over again. I have in no way mastered this,
yet I still feel ridiculous when I say any any affirmation,
and I'm getting I'm trying to get better at it,
but you feel silly, or at least I do, and
(04:08):
it's the repetition. And you can't change the way you
are until you believe that you are something different than
how you are now, and that takes practice. So in
a way, the person you are is someone that's trying
to be different, someone who's working on being different, who's
(04:30):
working on change, but not necessarily someone who has changed.
Maybe so this is what we're going to meditate on today.
We're gonna do what I think is the most simple
affirmation there is. I think a lot of times in
(04:54):
life we feel so pulled in every direction and we
feel separated from who we really are. We feel separated
from ourselves, we feel separated from the moment, We feel
separated maybe even from reality. And every now and then,
(05:14):
when I'm feeling detached or stressed or worried or somewhere else,
I just recite the mantra I am, I Am, I Am,
(05:34):
I am because of nothing else you are. And sometimes
its Sometimes it helped me to remind myself that I
am here, I am now, I am real. So many
of our problems feel more real than we do, like insurmountable,
(05:57):
you know. So there is a sanscript version of this
Sanskrit version of the mantra, which is so hum, so hum,
so hum. And when I recite this particular mantra or affirmation,
I do it with my breath, so hum in out.
(06:24):
It works good in tandem with the breath. So you
can do the Sanskrit version, or you can do the
English version.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I am.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's the same effect. I am so just when we're
meditating today, just practice that mantra. Repeat it over and
over and over again. The practice of a mantra this
is This is more of a mantra, but I think
of it as an affirmation as well, because it is
a you can look in the mirror and say to yourself,
(06:57):
I am I am. It's a grounding to me to
remind myself that I am I am. So when you're
meditating today, just practice breathing in so breathing out hum
(07:21):
and you might find that mantra meditation actually helps you
stay present in the moment with your meditation because it
gives you something else to do, so your mind doesn't
spin out of control and wander off in thought. It's
going to anyway eventually, but it might help you stick
(07:46):
around a little longer before your mind wanders. And even
if your dumb mind does wander, and it will, all
you have to do is just return to the breath.
So to meditate. If you have never meditated before, if
you've been here before, you know what I'm going to say.
Close your eyes, get yourself comfortable. You can either sit
(08:08):
down or lie down for this, and you just want
to scan your body relax into this space into this moment.
Feel the sensations in your body, ebbing and flowing with
your breath. Feel the sensation of air up against your skin.
(08:38):
Feel the areas and the space around your body. Maybe
the pressure of the seat or the mattress pushing back
up against your body, the weight of your body pressing
up against it. Gravity taking a heavier effect as you exhale,
each exhale, allowing you to become more and more relaxed
(09:04):
and heavier. Sinking deeper into this relaxed state, Sinking deeper
into this meditation, Sinking deeper into this moment. Maybe doing
(09:36):
a quick scan of your body, relaxing all the places
where there's tension holding up somewhere forehead, your cheeks, maybe
relax your ears, the back of the neck, shoulders, torso,
(09:57):
all the way down your arms and hands and wrists, hips,
all the way down your legs, down to your ankles,
feet and toes, removing any tension. With each breath in
(10:18):
and each breath out, paying very close attention to the
(10:45):
breath coming into your lungs and back out again, breathing
in and out, recognizing the fact that you are in
control of your body in this moment. You are saying
(11:08):
when to breathe in, and you are saying when to
breathe out, and you are in this moment, right here
and right now. It's again to begin the mantra. If
(11:35):
you would like to say I am or so hum,
just do so in harmony with your breath, So.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Hum, I am.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Do that over and over and over again, each time
allowing the eye and that am to sink deeper and
deeper with your breath, deeper and deeper inside of you,
reminding yourself that you are real, You are here, you
(12:27):
are now I am. If at any point you notice
that your mind has wandered from the mantra from your breath,
all you have to do is return to your breath
(12:47):
and breathe in so I m h am, over and
over and over again, practice on your own for a
(13:12):
moment that we'll be back at the end to wrap
things up.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And us.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Okay, it is time to release the mantra, and let's
take one final breath in and out together as we
let this silence and stillness settle in for just a
few more seconds. Breathing in and out who you are
(17:46):
on the inside is what helps you make and do
everything in life. It's hard to set an have it.
It's hard to be someone different or to change something
you do or don't like about yourself. Maybe you want
(18:09):
to grow somewhere, change your mindset. Affirmations are are really
a good way of doing it. It's the repetition. It's
the over and over, it's the again and again and
again and again, until you do not feel silly saying it,
until you actually believe the words that are coming out
(18:30):
of your mouth in such a way that they just,
over time, become true again. I am talking to myself
just as much as I'm talking to anybody else. I
am no expert in this process. I still feel a
tad ridiculous when I am affirming myself, and it's a practice.
(18:57):
The idea is to be better at it today than
were yesterday. So let's do that together. 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 you next time. That's
(19:22):
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. We'll see
you again soon. Thank you for meditating with us. Be well,
(19:44):
have fun, and no mistake.
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