Hello again,
I'm Michael Beckmeyer with mindful meditations for calm the bleep down a show where each episode we bring you a brand new meditation to help get you through your day.
Today,
We are going to accept this present moment as it is.
Let's get started.
As always,
We have a mindfulness quote to help get us started.
And this time our quote comes from Tara Brach.
It reads,
What would it be like if I could accept life,
Accept this moment exactly as it is?
I have many thoughts on this quote.
What would it be like if we could accept this present moment exactly as it is?
I think we'd probably be happier.
I think we'd be more settled and calm,
Probably more grateful,
More peaceful,
More at peace.
It's deceptively simple.
I mean we talk about it a lot.
If we're sitting here,
Right here,
And right now,
Everything's fine.
Everything's normal,
Everything's fine.
So I can accept this moment.
And in a way,
This moment is all we have.
The whole tomorrow never comes concept.
Actually,
The next second never comes because it's always right now.
I know I talk about present moment a lot.
It's because it resonates so much with me.
You're watching seconds tick on a clock.
Oh,
In five seconds?
That,
But the five seconds never comes.
It's always just right now.
We might be five seconds later,
But we're always just right now.
And if we can accept this current second,
This current moment,
I do think we could find more grace,
More peace,
More gratitude,
More acceptance.
Except it's really hard because there is so much coming down on us at all moments.
Tomorrow we got to do this,
Tomorrow we got to do that.
This thing that happened yesterday really messed up the thing that has to happen tomorrow.
And it's hard.
I need to make money.
I got to pay my bills.
The power bill was,
It's summer,
So the power bill was $80 more this month than it was last month.
How are we gonna pay for that?
It's just a constant cycle.
But if we could,
If we could just accept the moment as it is,
Accept this life,
I think we could be happier.
That's the trick.
That's the rub,
As they say.
That's the trick though,
Is finding a way to be at peace in this moment.
And I think that at peace in this moment there's a balance because it doesn't necessarily mean,
Oh this is the way things are,
I'm gonna sit back and just let things happen the way they happen because I'm supposed to be,
So supposed to accept it.
It's not,
That's not it.
There's discipline and working hard and pushing towards things,
But being able to accept this moment now as it is,
There's a balance between the two.
I'm terrible at this.
This is something that if I have,
One of the things that gets me a lot is not being where I think I should and feeling like I'm constantly running out of time to get where I think I should be by the time I'm 45,
50,
55,
Like I'm running out of time.
So this is something that I work on and think about a lot.
I don't know if I work on it quite as much as I should,
Otherwise I'd be happier,
Right?
But that's why this quote stuck out to me.
So we're gonna meditate on acceptance.
So to do that we got to get ourselves situated,
Get yourself relaxed,
Get all the kinks out,
Sit down or lie down,
You can do whatever makes you comfortable.
Comfort is the most important thing here.
Start to get settled,
Start to recognize that there is a present moment happening that you might have been missing because you were worried about something else.
Take a couple deep breaths in and out.
In and out.
Start to feel yourself sinking deeper into relaxation,
Deeper into this moment.
And it might feel strange to think of it like this but when we're meditating we're actually trying to get to a place where we are nameless,
We are timeless.
We are no person,
No one,
No thing and we are in no space and no time.
We are just aware of our existence.
So with every breath in and out,
If you focus on that breath in and breath out,
The easier it is to lose sight of how long you're sitting here,
How long you're breathing.
You're just following it in,
Following it out,
Just aware,
Pure consciousness in this moment.
Sinking deeper to that relaxed state,
Feeling yourself get heavier and heavier in this moment,
Sinking in,
Sinking deeper with each exhale.
Follow that breath out all the way until your lungs have nothing left in them.
Studies have shown that when you exhale and you empty your lungs all the way out it triggers something like almost like pushes a button in your diaphragm and that triggers relaxation.
So we're trying to get to that point,
It's a little trick.
Breathe in,
Breathe out,
Exhale all the way.
The more you exhale,
The more you relax.
You'll find that the longer you exhale,
You'll feel yourself entering into the present moment because your body starts to feel out of breath.
When you feel that presence of being out of breath,
You're in that present moment.
It's a little trick in and out all the way.
Maybe you're feeling it right now as you exhale all the way out,
Maybe you're feeling what the present moment feels like.
You're present in that moment as you exhale.
As you concentrate on pushing your breath all the way out,
That takes concentration.
You can only concentrate on something when you're in the present moment.
You can't concentrate on something and be distracted.
Turn to your regular comfortable breath now,
Breathing in and out,
Settling in deeper,
Heavier,
More relaxed.
Deeper,
Heavier,
More relaxed.
Deeper,
Heavier,
More relaxed.
Deeper,
Heavier,
More relaxed.
Deeper,
Heavier,
More relaxed.
Deeper,
Heavier,
More relaxed.
Now in our last few remaining breaths together,
Let's take a couple cleansing long slow deep breaths in.
Breathe in and out.
In and out.
Let the silence,
The stillness settle right here,
Right now.
Take one more long slow deep breath in and out.
And when you are ready,
You can open your eyes and go about your day.
Now in our last few remaining breaths together,
Let's take a couple cleansing long slow deep breaths in.
Breathe in and out.
In and out.
Let the silence,
The stillness settle right here,
Right now.
Take one more long slow deep breath in and out.
And when you are ready,
You can open your eyes and go about your day.
That's it for another mindful meditation with Calm the Bleed Down.
I am your host,
Michael Becklemeyer,
Reminding you as always to please calm the bleep down.
We thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you for meditating with us.
We will see you again next time.
Thank you,
And namaste.
