July 14, 2025 • 15 mins
When we find time to relax, we also find a deeper way into the present moment. This meditation hopes to help you get to a relaxed state where there is not time, place, or thing, just pure consciousness and pure awareness observing through breath. One breath at a time.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome to mindful meditations with calm the bleep down. As always,
I am your guide, Michael Beckameier. Today we are going
to restore ourselves. Let's get started. As always, we have
a mindfulness quote to help us head into our meditation
(00:36):
with some intent. And today our quote comes once again
from Tikna Han and the quote reads, mindfulness is the
miracle by which we master and restore ourselves. I like
(00:56):
that quote because it sticks with our theme of our
recurring theme of just placing ourselves in present moment and
rewiring and resetting our brains and our minds and our bodies.
And I wanted to focus on just the quieting of
(01:22):
the self for a meditation where we just take some
time and really relax and just try to disappear into
the present moment, where we try to go to a
place where we are no one in no place and
(01:46):
no time, and we are no thing, where we just
literally close our minds and go so deep into the
present moment we forget where we are, We forget when
we are and who we are, even if it's just
for a brief few moments of breathing. So that's what
I want to do today with this meditation. So to
(02:09):
do that, we are going to get ourselves comfortable. At first,
you can close your eyes, start slowing your breathing down
and relaxing into your space. You can sit down or
lie down for this meditation, which means all you have
to do is just find a way into being comfortable
(02:33):
and putting yourself in a place where you are no place,
no thing, in no space, and no time. It took
me a while to realize what kind of that meant.
We're trying to dig down into our pure consciousness, and
the consciousness is that part of us that is always observing.
(02:59):
So it's reminded me of the quote that I heard
at some point that said I think it was a
Ramdas and the quote was something like this, when you're
feeling anxious, try to remind yourself, what is the part
of me that is recognizing I am anxious. The anxiety
(03:20):
or the depression or the anger or the rage or
whatever it is that you're suffering through it. That moment
is a byproduct of the moment, and is a byproduct
of your mindset at the time you are feeling it.
But there is always a part of you that is
observing that and is the part of you that is
recognizing what you're feeling and how you're feeling, and that
(03:45):
is you. The other things are thoughts and feelings and emotions.
The part of you that recognizes your feeling a certain
way is you. Is the true self, the consciousness, and
it's that part of you that is deep down inside
of you, always watching, always observing, and that is where
(04:14):
we're trying to find a place to when we meditate,
so we can remind ourselves that that's what's true and
that's what's real. Another way of thinking of it is
I heard someone else say, when you are imagining a
song in your head, you're not singing it, you are
(04:35):
hearing it in your head. Whose voice is that? Like,
if you're thinking the song Happy Birthday, you're thinking of
it and you hear it, you hear the melody in
your head. Whose voice is that? That's you, that's your voice,
that's your consciousness, that is always there, always observing, and
(05:02):
that's what we're trying to do when we're meditating. That's
what we're going to try to do with this meditation.
So once again, start lengthening your breath and do what
you can to quiet all of your thoughts, your mind's
worries and fretting about what happens ten minutes from now,
(05:23):
what happened five minutes ago, And we're just trying to
place ourselves in this moment, right here and right now,
to get some peace. Let's take a couple of long, slow,
deep breaths in and out, all the while lengthening are
(05:55):
inhale and our exhale, so we can trigger that relaxation
response in our body. The longer and further you exhale,
the more it triggers that relaxation. Continue deepening and lengthening
(06:35):
your breath and paying attention to the sensations in your body,
the weight of your pushing up against where you're sitting
or lying, and with each exhale, maybe imagine yourself getting
heavier and heavier, sinking deeper into that relaxed state. I
(06:57):
find that the obviously, the more relaxed I can get,
the more easy it is to feel myself in the
present moment. So our consciousness, our pure awareness, can come out,
(07:18):
come up to the front, and inevitably your mind will
(07:39):
begin wandering, and at some point you'll notice that your
mind has wandered and you'll I've lost track of time.
How long has it been since I've been following my breath.
It's actually fascinating how quickly and easily and regularly that
can happen when you sit down with the sole intent
of medical and following your breath. Sometimes depending on how
(08:05):
wired you are when you sit down or how tired
you might be when you sit down or lie down,
it's real easy to lose track of when your mind wanders,
but inevitably it will, and the trick the meditation actually
takes place, it's where mindfulness is born. Is when you
(08:28):
see that your mind has wandered, you notice it, you
recognize it, and then move back to your breath mindfully.
You choose to move back to your breath. That's where
the mindfulness happens. And that's the magic of mindfulness. Actually,
(08:48):
just by doing that more and more, you train yourself
to be more aware of when your mind has drifted
from this present moment. And the more you do that
in meditation, you'll find that the more you do that
in life. That is the magic of meditation. It's the
(09:10):
magic of mindfulness. The life altering trick that seems so
simple and uncomplicated can actually rewire your entire brain, your
entire body to be more present. Continue breathing, paying attention
(09:39):
to the sensations in your body. Scan your body, perhaps
for any tension or any tightness. Still, the idea here
is to become completely relaxed with your breath in and out.
(10:03):
If you find a place that is particularly tense, try
breathing into it. Left calf muscle feels like it's tight
or tense for some reason, just breathe into it and
imagine it relaxing when you exhale. Scan your body and
(10:27):
find places that are holding some extra at tension, and
do that in a way that's also mindfulness. You're recognizing
how you're feeling in this exact moment, and you're breathing
into it and out of it. Continue doing this for
(10:53):
a few more moments.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Set us mhm.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Okay, let's take one last final breath together. Breathe in,
end out. Perhaps congratulate yourself for taking just a few
moments to recenter, to rebalance, to place yourself more firmly
(14:17):
into this present moment. You took care of yourself in
the last few moments of meditation, which means you can
head off into the rest of your day with a
little more peace, a little more presence, a little more perspective.
(14:45):
When you're ready, you can open your eyes and go
about your day. Noma.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Stay.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
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. We'll
see you again soon. Thank you for meditating with us.
(15:33):
Be well, have fun, and no mistake
Welcome to mindful meditations with calm the bleep down. As always,
I am your guide, Michael Beckameier. Today we are going
to restore ourselves. Let's get started. As always, we have
a mindfulness quote to help us head into our meditation
(00:36):
with some intent. And today our quote comes once again
from Tikna Han and the quote reads, mindfulness is the
miracle by which we master and restore ourselves. I like
(00:56):
that quote because it sticks with our theme of our
recurring theme of just placing ourselves in present moment and
rewiring and resetting our brains and our minds and our bodies.
And I wanted to focus on just the quieting of
(01:22):
the self for a meditation where we just take some
time and really relax and just try to disappear into
the present moment, where we try to go to a
place where we are no one in no place and
(01:46):
no time, and we are no thing, where we just
literally close our minds and go so deep into the
present moment we forget where we are, We forget when
we are and who we are, even if it's just
for a brief few moments of breathing. So that's what
I want to do today with this meditation. So to
(02:09):
do that, we are going to get ourselves comfortable. At first,
you can close your eyes, start slowing your breathing down
and relaxing into your space. You can sit down or
lie down for this meditation, which means all you have
to do is just find a way into being comfortable
(02:33):
and putting yourself in a place where you are no place,
no thing, in no space, and no time. It took
me a while to realize what kind of that meant.
We're trying to dig down into our pure consciousness, and
the consciousness is that part of us that is always observing.
(02:59):
So it's reminded me of the quote that I heard
at some point that said I think it was a
Ramdas and the quote was something like this, when you're
feeling anxious, try to remind yourself, what is the part
of me that is recognizing I am anxious. The anxiety
(03:20):
or the depression or the anger or the rage or
whatever it is that you're suffering through it. That moment
is a byproduct of the moment, and is a byproduct
of your mindset at the time you are feeling it.
But there is always a part of you that is
observing that and is the part of you that is
recognizing what you're feeling and how you're feeling, and that
(03:45):
is you. The other things are thoughts and feelings and emotions.
The part of you that recognizes your feeling a certain
way is you. Is the true self, the consciousness, and
it's that part of you that is deep down inside
of you, always watching, always observing, and that is where
(04:14):
we're trying to find a place to when we meditate,
so we can remind ourselves that that's what's true and
that's what's real. Another way of thinking of it is
I heard someone else say, when you are imagining a
song in your head, you're not singing it, you are
(04:35):
hearing it in your head. Whose voice is that? Like,
if you're thinking the song Happy Birthday, you're thinking of
it and you hear it, you hear the melody in
your head. Whose voice is that? That's you, that's your voice,
that's your consciousness, that is always there, always observing, and
(05:02):
that's what we're trying to do when we're meditating. That's
what we're going to try to do with this meditation.
So once again, start lengthening your breath and do what
you can to quiet all of your thoughts, your mind's
worries and fretting about what happens ten minutes from now,
(05:23):
what happened five minutes ago, And we're just trying to
place ourselves in this moment, right here and right now,
to get some peace. Let's take a couple of long, slow,
deep breaths in and out, all the while lengthening are
(05:55):
inhale and our exhale, so we can trigger that relaxation
response in our body. The longer and further you exhale,
the more it triggers that relaxation. Continue deepening and lengthening
(06:35):
your breath and paying attention to the sensations in your body,
the weight of your pushing up against where you're sitting
or lying, and with each exhale, maybe imagine yourself getting
heavier and heavier, sinking deeper into that relaxed state. I
(06:57):
find that the obviously, the more relaxed I can get,
the more easy it is to feel myself in the
present moment. So our consciousness, our pure awareness, can come out,
(07:18):
come up to the front, and inevitably your mind will
(07:39):
begin wandering, and at some point you'll notice that your
mind has wandered and you'll I've lost track of time.
How long has it been since I've been following my breath.
It's actually fascinating how quickly and easily and regularly that
can happen when you sit down with the sole intent
of medical and following your breath. Sometimes depending on how
(08:05):
wired you are when you sit down or how tired
you might be when you sit down or lie down,
it's real easy to lose track of when your mind wanders,
but inevitably it will, and the trick the meditation actually
takes place, it's where mindfulness is born. Is when you
(08:28):
see that your mind has wandered, you notice it, you
recognize it, and then move back to your breath mindfully.
You choose to move back to your breath. That's where
the mindfulness happens. And that's the magic of mindfulness. Actually,
(08:48):
just by doing that more and more, you train yourself
to be more aware of when your mind has drifted
from this present moment. And the more you do that
in meditation, you'll find that the more you do that
in life. That is the magic of meditation. It's the
(09:10):
magic of mindfulness. The life altering trick that seems so
simple and uncomplicated can actually rewire your entire brain, your
entire body to be more present. Continue breathing, paying attention
(09:39):
to the sensations in your body. Scan your body, perhaps
for any tension or any tightness. Still, the idea here
is to become completely relaxed with your breath in and out.
(10:03):
If you find a place that is particularly tense, try
breathing into it. Left calf muscle feels like it's tight
or tense for some reason, just breathe into it and
imagine it relaxing when you exhale. Scan your body and
(10:27):
find places that are holding some extra at tension, and
do that in a way that's also mindfulness. You're recognizing
how you're feeling in this exact moment, and you're breathing
into it and out of it. Continue doing this for
(10:53):
a few more moments.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Set us mhm.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Okay, let's take one last final breath together. Breathe in,
end out. Perhaps congratulate yourself for taking just a few
moments to recenter, to rebalance, to place yourself more firmly
(14:17):
into this present moment. You took care of yourself in
the last few moments of meditation, which means you can
head off into the rest of your day with a
little more peace, a little more presence, a little more perspective.
(14:45):
When you're ready, you can open your eyes and go
about your day. Noma.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Stay.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
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. We'll
see you again soon. Thank you for meditating with us.
(15:33):
Be well, have fun, and no mistake
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