Hello again,
I'm Michael Beckemeier with Calm the Bleep Down,
Here again with another short meditation to help get you through your day.
This time we are gonna face the facts.
Let's go ahead and get started.
Once again,
We have a mindfulness quote to help enter our meditation with some intent and this time our quote comes from Eckhart Tolle and it reads Whatever you fight you strengthen and whatever you resist persists.
And for me this quote is talking about Avoiding your problems So Often when we have a problem that makes us nervous or uncomfortable or afraid or anything we we put it away we put it over here and I'm gonna pretend like that's not there and I'm just gonna go about my day my month my week my life and just that problems not gonna be over there Maybe it's a relationship problem.
Maybe it's you need to stand up for yourself and you aren't maybe it's a medical issue and You don't want to think about what it might be.
So you just ignore it Well,
What happens is if it was just one thing it might just be one thing but we as human beings very often we tend to Put this problem over here.
Oh,
Here's another problem.
I'm gonna put it over here that worked the last time I'm just gonna avoid all these things to the point where there's Eventually so many things That we're carrying around almost like baggage.
We're carrying baggage around with us at all times and it just weighs us down and Aung's anxiety depression it just it's it's this heavy weight that Starts to slow us down so that we can't even live our life because before we think or act or do something we have to run it through all the filters of all the things now,
Is that going to Offset this one thing I put away over here is this offset get this other thing I put over here and Before I go any further I want to say that anxiety and depression are very clearly chronic issues that some people have with chemical imbalances in Their body and there's not much they can do about it What I'm talking about is us as everyday human beings all of us When we are avoiding our problems in such a way that we can no longer function with normal flow to our day Because we have so many things that we're holding up balls.
We're juggling that we can't Just live our life.
I Heard a quote recently and I'm not gonna get this exactly right because I can't remember who said it and I've looked it up And I can't try to I can't remember Who said it and I can't remember where I heard it,
But it was something to the effect of when we are Feeling something when we're when we have a feeling and we avoid that feeling It only keeps it alive inside of us The only way to deal with our grief or our trauma or our Issues are to literally just welcome it into our life Welcome it in and acknowledge it and so many times just the just the sheer fact of acknowledging the thing Weakens its power over us because we're no longer Avoiding it.
I see you over there.
I see you Trump past trauma Past issue I see you over there.
Whatever.
I'm gonna go about my day.
It's no longer looming over us We're no longer trying to escape it It's hard because The reason we set it off to the side and try to avoid it is because it's it's we don't do that with Hey,
I gotta go check the mail.
We do that with like some Relationship problems and work problems and projects and all that stuff.
We put the we put the big stuff off so Try to just Acknowledge the issue and acknowledging it and spending some time just Seeing it and acknowledging it might actually help you Push past it Process Anyway,
That's what we're gonna meditate on today.
So we're gonna meditate Get yourself comfortable you can either lie down sit down You can meditate wherever as long as you have some quiet and some comfort I want you to come into this meditation with some calm Start to slowly deepen your breath in and out Start to slowly deepen your breath in and out As you breathe in and out sort of paying attention to the sensations in your body As you exhale Picture yourself getting heavier and heavier and more relaxed with each exhale Feel your weight pressing up against Your chair or your mattress wherever you're meditating Feel the sensation and the connection and the touch And the weight of yourself sinking in to this meditation Might start to think of those things you are Avoiding Not facing Think of it maybe as holding your breath you can hold your breath for a little while but not forever The way to deal with it is in and out again Might start to feel your mind wandering And if you do that's okay,
It's inevitable it will happen When that does happen just catch it acknowledge the thought And come back to your breath over and over and over again And that is the meditation So much easier to live your life When you start to clear out the rubble Kind of like cleaning your room Ever noticed when you're cleaning your room Or folding laundry if it's something that's piled up for a few days once you do clean the room there's this sense of accomplishment and And freeness that comes from accomplishing a task or a goal or doing the thing that you had been avoiding I feel like our life Is an awful lot like that as well You You You you You you Dealing with our problems can have the same effect You psychologically it almost is the same thing.
It's like cleaning up the rubble cleaning up the mess clearing a path What we're doing here while we meditate is we're carving New neural pathways with each breath We're making new connections in our mind with every mindful decision we make With every new breath We are leaving our old selves behind making it easier to change Really by not doing much else other than just breathing You Once again if your mind starts to wander and you notice that your mind has wondered Just simply without judgment without frustration just Acknowledge the thought witness it observe it Gently come back to your breath in And out In You and out You you Over and over again You deeper slower breaths in You longer slower exhales out to all the areas out of your lungs You It is the exhale that triggers the relaxation So the longer you can link than your exhale the deeper your relaxation can become in And out You You and out You You and out You Over and over and over again You and out Last few breaths together Let's just sit for a moment in the silence relaxation And enjoy this brief pause to our day Breathing in You and out You And out You you Let's take one last long slow deep breath in make it the biggest inhale you've breathed all day in And out One last time in And out You And when you are ready you can open your eyes and go about your day You
