"beat oneself" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an idiom that means to blame or criticize oneself for something, usually as a form of punishment or retribution. For example, "You don't need to beat yourself up for not getting a good grade on the test - everyone has off days sometimes."
Other liturgical gestures found in many Christian churches are crossing oneself, genuflecting, beating oneself on the chest, and kneeling during prayer or when receiving the eucharistic elements.
Others would say they are realistic about their own needs, and that there is no use beating oneself up about one's preferences: some things cannot be changed.
But Grimaud strove to restrain the aggressive inclinations of many individual policemen and their senior officers, and in a letter sent to all Parisian police on 29 May he wrote: "Beating a demonstrator on the ground is like beating oneself, and brings the entire police force into disrepute.
Spend more time correcting and showing a better way to handle issues and emotions, than beating oneself up.
Sure beats strapping explosives to oneself just to get into paradise.
It's not easy, distinguishing oneself as a beat producer in a world in which any kid with an iPad, headphones and a funny moniker can make music as sonically sophisticated as the "professionals".
"I'm good!" Then he did "Beauty and a Beat," a highlight from "Believe" about losing oneself in the music; Bieber actualized the concept by sitting down behind a drum set and bashing out a hectic solo.
I am also: a suggestible little soul who follows Kylie Jenner on Instagram (one of those things that feels less like a choice – what to have for dinner, what time to go to bed – and more like a mandatory part of life. How else does one keep a handle on what the teens are into, coddling oneself into the illusion of beating mortality?).
When pressed on how old one should be before one stops referring to oneself as a kid, LeBron slipped on his Beats headphones and walked away.
