September 1, 2025 • 20 mins
When we are overcome with emotion it is very easy to lose sight of the fact that the pain is temporary but if we can learn that our pain and emotions come and go in waves, perhaps we can gain some mindfulness and perspective as we experience those things in the moment. This meditation aims to help the meditator remember to ride the wave of the present moment. One breath at a time.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to mindful meditations with calm the bleep down. I
am your guide, Michael Beachameier, and today we are going
to ride the waves of emotions. Let's get started. As always,
we have a As always, we have a mindfulness quote
(00:29):
to help us head into our meditation with some intent.
And today our quote comes from the great spiritual teacher
ram Das and it reads, emotions are like waves. Watch
them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
(00:50):
At first glance, that quote may seem like it's suggesting
that we don't feel anything, ah, that we allow our
emotions to come and go without any regard. But what
I think it's suggesting is very much like our thoughts.
(01:11):
Like our thoughts come and go through mindfulness. How many
times have you been so mad you couldn't see straight?
You were like, you know the phrase seeing red, I
was seeing red. I just lost all control. I just
said something that that you really can't take back, Or
did something like punch a hole in a wall, or
(01:32):
some some you know outburst like that. We get wrapped
up in those feelings when they're happening to us, and
we get consumed because as it's happening to us. We
are so there's like we can't see anything else not
(01:53):
this is the worst thing. This is the most infuriating thing.
This is the saddest thing, the most grief ridden thing
out there, and we, if we're not careful, can lose
sight of the fact that this too shall pass. Now,
the cynic in me really hates when people say that,
(02:16):
because I know it's going to pass right now. What
you're saying to me, this too shall pass is just
like asking me to blow off what's very important to me.
What you're saying sounds like bullshit. This too shall pass? Oh,
thank you, Oh it's going to pass. Okay, so I'll
stop having the worst day of my life. Then, Okay,
(02:36):
it's going to pass. But the mindful Michael Beckameier is
trying very hard to remind himself that this too shall
pass without that phrase, because I still that phrase. It's
right up there with it is what it is. That's
(02:59):
one of the most effutiating sentences that the human race
has ever concocted, in my opinion, and I think that
as we practice mindfulness, it becomes easier for us to
sit in our emotions because we start to appreciate them
for what they are in that moment, and we do
know that a few minutes from now we might not
(03:20):
have this. If we spend all of our time trying
to avoid our emotions, we don't even let ourself experience
the good ones, happiness, joy, gratitude, being proud of yourself,
or being proud of a spouse, partner, kid, anything, because
we're so convinced that nothing lasts, where nothing good is
(03:40):
going to happen, that we don't latch onto the good
things either. But it is through latching onto the good
things that carry us through to the next good thing.
I had a friend once say that they had hurt
their hand on something like with a hammer to nail
(04:01):
or something like that, and they smashed their thumb something
like that, something ordinary, and the pain was so strong
that she, you know, couldn't concentrate on anything else. But
she had been practicing meditation for a while and decided
(04:23):
to just observe the pain. It hurt. She couldn't think
of anything else. So what she did was she just
focused on it. And she said, in that moment she
noticed that it ebbed and flowed, it would swell up,
and then it would fade off, and then it would
swell up again, and then it would fade off in
(04:44):
little pulses. So it didn't like come and go and
come and go. It would ebb and flow and come
up a little bit and it would be like, oh,
that really hurts, and then it would fade a little
bit and go, oh, okay, I think it's gonna be okay,
and then it would fade off. Over time, like a waveform,
drifted trended downward, and she started thinking, oh, my pain
(05:10):
is temporary. I see that it is coming and is rising,
and it's a little better each time it rises. It's
a little it hurts a little less each time it
rises up. Eventually it will go away. So she didn't
lose her cool. She didn't throw the hammer, she didn't
go kick a wall or anything like that. In that moment,
she just like sat in it and realized, like everything
(05:35):
that it drifted, this is a good practice. It's hard.
It's very hard. So the next time you feel sad
or depressed or angry or melancholy in some way anything
like that, instead of trying to avoid it or wallowing
(05:56):
and it, just just observe it. That's sitting in it,
and observing it is different from wallowing in it if
you just focus in on it. I've had some of
the most incredible epiphanies about myself through doing this. I
just one day sat down, I'm like, I'm going to
concentrate on my It was emotional pain, like what is
(06:17):
my sadness? And I zoomed in on it in my
brain and I just sat there and I dwelled on it,
and it hit me, your pain comes from the fact
that you let everyone off the hook except yourself. Your
pain is coming from the fact that no one is
(06:38):
harder on you than yourself. You'll forgive everybody for every
little infraction with compassion except you. That was that kind
of blew my mind because I knew that, but I
didn't know that. So the next time you're feeling that way,
(07:04):
instead of like getting consumed by it, try to head
just like a little space of mindfulness goes, Oh, this
is an opportunity to observe my pain. Let's see what
this is all about. It isn't easy, it isn't fun necessarily,
but the stuff you can get out of it, that
what you can learn out of that is fascinating. These
(07:26):
are insights to ourselves that sometimes go unnoticed for our
entire lives because we're so busy trying to skip forward
to the next thing instead of experiencing the moment for
what it is anyway, So that's what we're going to
(07:46):
meditate on today. So to begin, you can get yourself comfortable.
You can lie down or sit down as always for
this meditation, and you want to just start taking some slow, long,
deep breaths in and out. And you could think of
your breath as a wave. It comes in and it goes,
(08:10):
It comes in and it goes, And just knowing that
the next breath is coming for me is calming. I
know that i'm as I'm exhaling, and maybe I'm holding
my breath for a little bit longer, I'm breathing out
for a little bit longer than is comfortable. I know
(08:33):
that what I'm doing is inviting the next breath to
be even better because of that. So take some long, slow,
deep breaths, take a moment with yourself and scan your body.
Observe the tension that you are holding in various places.
(08:57):
Relax your job, relax your shoulders, your torso feel yourself
getting heavier and sinking deeper. Into the seat or cushion
or mattress that you're lying in. Keep scanning all the
(09:17):
way down to your hands, your hips, your thighs, your calves,
your ankles, feet, Just sit with your breath in and out, in, out,
(10:13):
Just ride the wave of calm, Ride the wave that
is only here and only now, that present moment, the
never ending present moment. Our breath is only here now.
(10:38):
Riding that wave presence and gratitude. Maybe, if it helps,
you can picture yourself floating effortlessly as waves come and go, rise,
(11:01):
rising under you and falling under you. You're just floating, effortlessly,
relaxed and calm, just drifting. Maybe at some point you
notice that your mind has drifted to some random thought
(11:26):
unrelated to this meditation. And this is normal, this happens
to all of us. But when you do notice that
your mind has wandered, just observe that thought for what
(11:46):
it was, and come back to your breath and continue
riding the waves in an out, an.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Outstay us one.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Must us in as music.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Okay, wherever you are in space and time, it is
time to come back into your body. Now take one
last long, slow, deep breath together as we let this
silence and stillness. Settle in for just a little longer.
Let's breathe in and out. This be a reminder to
(19:04):
you that no matter what it is, no matter how
catastrophic or minuscule, it is just a wave, and it
will come and it will go. There will be another
one right behind it, just as your breath comes and
goes in and out within this present moment, and with that,
(19:35):
when you're ready, you can open your eyes and go
about your day. Now, mistake. That's it for this time
(20:01):
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, and no mistake,
Welcome to mindful meditations with calm the bleep down. I
am your guide, Michael Beachameier, and today we are going
to ride the waves of emotions. Let's get started. As always,
we have a As always, we have a mindfulness quote
(00:29):
to help us head into our meditation with some intent.
And today our quote comes from the great spiritual teacher
ram Das and it reads, emotions are like waves. Watch
them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
(00:50):
At first glance, that quote may seem like it's suggesting
that we don't feel anything, ah, that we allow our
emotions to come and go without any regard. But what
I think it's suggesting is very much like our thoughts.
(01:11):
Like our thoughts come and go through mindfulness. How many
times have you been so mad you couldn't see straight?
You were like, you know the phrase seeing red, I
was seeing red. I just lost all control. I just
said something that that you really can't take back, Or
did something like punch a hole in a wall, or
(01:32):
some some you know outburst like that. We get wrapped
up in those feelings when they're happening to us, and
we get consumed because as it's happening to us. We
are so there's like we can't see anything else not
(01:53):
this is the worst thing. This is the most infuriating thing.
This is the saddest thing, the most grief ridden thing
out there, and we, if we're not careful, can lose
sight of the fact that this too shall pass. Now,
the cynic in me really hates when people say that,
(02:16):
because I know it's going to pass right now. What
you're saying to me, this too shall pass is just
like asking me to blow off what's very important to me.
What you're saying sounds like bullshit. This too shall pass? Oh,
thank you, Oh it's going to pass. Okay, so I'll
stop having the worst day of my life. Then, Okay,
(02:36):
it's going to pass. But the mindful Michael Beckameier is
trying very hard to remind himself that this too shall
pass without that phrase, because I still that phrase. It's
right up there with it is what it is. That's
(02:59):
one of the most effutiating sentences that the human race
has ever concocted, in my opinion, and I think that
as we practice mindfulness, it becomes easier for us to
sit in our emotions because we start to appreciate them
for what they are in that moment, and we do
know that a few minutes from now we might not
(03:20):
have this. If we spend all of our time trying
to avoid our emotions, we don't even let ourself experience
the good ones, happiness, joy, gratitude, being proud of yourself,
or being proud of a spouse, partner, kid, anything, because
we're so convinced that nothing lasts, where nothing good is
(03:40):
going to happen, that we don't latch onto the good
things either. But it is through latching onto the good
things that carry us through to the next good thing.
I had a friend once say that they had hurt
their hand on something like with a hammer to nail
(04:01):
or something like that, and they smashed their thumb something
like that, something ordinary, and the pain was so strong
that she, you know, couldn't concentrate on anything else. But
she had been practicing meditation for a while and decided
(04:23):
to just observe the pain. It hurt. She couldn't think
of anything else. So what she did was she just
focused on it. And she said, in that moment she
noticed that it ebbed and flowed, it would swell up,
and then it would fade off, and then it would
swell up again, and then it would fade off in
(04:44):
little pulses. So it didn't like come and go and
come and go. It would ebb and flow and come
up a little bit and it would be like, oh,
that really hurts, and then it would fade a little
bit and go, oh, okay, I think it's gonna be okay,
and then it would fade off. Over time, like a waveform,
drifted trended downward, and she started thinking, oh, my pain
(05:10):
is temporary. I see that it is coming and is rising,
and it's a little better each time it rises. It's
a little it hurts a little less each time it
rises up. Eventually it will go away. So she didn't
lose her cool. She didn't throw the hammer, she didn't
go kick a wall or anything like that. In that moment,
she just like sat in it and realized, like everything
(05:35):
that it drifted, this is a good practice. It's hard.
It's very hard. So the next time you feel sad
or depressed or angry or melancholy in some way anything
like that, instead of trying to avoid it or wallowing
(05:56):
and it, just just observe it. That's sitting in it,
and observing it is different from wallowing in it if
you just focus in on it. I've had some of
the most incredible epiphanies about myself through doing this. I
just one day sat down, I'm like, I'm going to
concentrate on my It was emotional pain, like what is
(06:17):
my sadness? And I zoomed in on it in my
brain and I just sat there and I dwelled on it,
and it hit me, your pain comes from the fact
that you let everyone off the hook except yourself. Your
pain is coming from the fact that no one is
(06:38):
harder on you than yourself. You'll forgive everybody for every
little infraction with compassion except you. That was that kind
of blew my mind because I knew that, but I
didn't know that. So the next time you're feeling that way,
(07:04):
instead of like getting consumed by it, try to head
just like a little space of mindfulness goes, Oh, this
is an opportunity to observe my pain. Let's see what
this is all about. It isn't easy, it isn't fun necessarily,
but the stuff you can get out of it, that
what you can learn out of that is fascinating. These
(07:26):
are insights to ourselves that sometimes go unnoticed for our
entire lives because we're so busy trying to skip forward
to the next thing instead of experiencing the moment for
what it is anyway, So that's what we're going to
(07:46):
meditate on today. So to begin, you can get yourself comfortable.
You can lie down or sit down as always for
this meditation, and you want to just start taking some slow, long,
deep breaths in and out. And you could think of
your breath as a wave. It comes in and it goes,
(08:10):
It comes in and it goes, And just knowing that
the next breath is coming for me is calming. I
know that i'm as I'm exhaling, and maybe I'm holding
my breath for a little bit longer, I'm breathing out
for a little bit longer than is comfortable. I know
(08:33):
that what I'm doing is inviting the next breath to
be even better because of that. So take some long, slow,
deep breaths, take a moment with yourself and scan your body.
Observe the tension that you are holding in various places.
(08:57):
Relax your job, relax your shoulders, your torso feel yourself
getting heavier and sinking deeper. Into the seat or cushion
or mattress that you're lying in. Keep scanning all the
(09:17):
way down to your hands, your hips, your thighs, your calves,
your ankles, feet, Just sit with your breath in and out, in, out,
(10:13):
Just ride the wave of calm, Ride the wave that
is only here and only now, that present moment, the
never ending present moment. Our breath is only here now.
(10:38):
Riding that wave presence and gratitude. Maybe, if it helps,
you can picture yourself floating effortlessly as waves come and go, rise,
(11:01):
rising under you and falling under you. You're just floating, effortlessly,
relaxed and calm, just drifting. Maybe at some point you
notice that your mind has drifted to some random thought
(11:26):
unrelated to this meditation. And this is normal, this happens
to all of us. But when you do notice that
your mind has wandered, just observe that thought for what
(11:46):
it was, and come back to your breath and continue
riding the waves in an out, an.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Outstay us one.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Must us in as music.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Okay, wherever you are in space and time, it is
time to come back into your body. Now take one
last long, slow, deep breath together as we let this
silence and stillness. Settle in for just a little longer.
Let's breathe in and out. This be a reminder to
(19:04):
you that no matter what it is, no matter how
catastrophic or minuscule, it is just a wave, and it
will come and it will go. There will be another
one right behind it, just as your breath comes and
goes in and out within this present moment, and with that,
(19:35):
when you're ready, you can open your eyes and go
about your day. Now, mistake. That's it for this time
(20:01):
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, and no mistake,
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