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Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo

Sean Fargo
Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo
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  • Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo

    What If Hunger Isn’t A Problem To Solve?

    2026/05/28 | 20 mins.
    We explore mindful hunger, silent monastic meal rituals, and how attention shifts taste, mood, and choice. Practical tools include raisin and chocolate meditations, body-based regulation, and tea practices that turn comfort into conscious care.

    • setting a clear intention for mindful eating and drinking
    • monastic meal rituals as training for presence
    • discerning hunger, thirst, emotion and habit
    • raisin and chocolate exercises for sensory awareness
    • reducing resistance to hunger to reduce suffering
    • mapping how foods affect clarity, mood and energy
    • body scanning to soften held tension
    • integrating tea ceremony as everyday presence
    • applying mindfulness to personal stories for regulation
    • Q&A on guiding storytellers and building steady practice

    Teach mindfulness without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. 
    Learn about our Internationally Accredited Certification Program:  https://certify.mindfulnessexercises.com/
    Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life.
    Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — this podcast explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.
    Each episode offers a mix of:
    Practical mindfulness and meditation teachings
    Conversations with respected meditation teachers, clinicians, authors, and researchers
    Real-world insights for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and caregivers
    Gentle reflections for anyone navigating stress, anxiety, burnout, grief, or change
    If you’re interested in:
    Mindfulness meditation for everyday life
    Trauma-sensitive and compassion-based practices
    Teaching mindfulness in an authentic, non-performative way
    Deepening your own practice while supporting others
    …you’re in the right place.
    Learn more at ...
  • Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo

    Gratitude As Your First Wealth

    2026/05/23 | 8 mins.
    What if the fastest path to feeling rich is learning to see what’s already here? We take a clear, grounded look at abundance as a felt experience and show how mindful acknowledgment—not accumulation—shifts your baseline from scarcity to sufficiency. Guided by a simple quote and a handful of precise prompts, we map the places where real wealth hides: in relationships that show up, routines that steady you, spaces that protect you, and skills you’ve quietly earned over time.

    We break down the difference between passive gratitude and practiced attention, then offer ways to make noticing a daily habit. You’ll hear how naming one person who supports you, one resource that keeps life running, and one recent win can rewire your focus toward what’s stable and supportive. Rather than chasing more, you’ll practice savoring enough—without ignoring ambition or reality. That shift often softens stress, improves decision-making, and opens room for wiser moves. We also highlight overlooked forms of wealth like a sense of safety, community ties, and the contribution you make to others through presence, reliability, and care.

    By the end, you’ll have a light, repeatable framework: morning savor, midday acknowledgment, evening contribution. Use it to strengthen bonds, reduce noise, and feel grounded where you stand. If this conversation helps you see your world with kinder eyes, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs a reframe, and leave a quick review telling us the one “quiet good” you’re acknowledging today.
    Teach mindfulness without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. 
    Learn about our Internationally Accredited Certification Program:  https://certify.mindfulnessexercises.com/
    Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life.
    Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — this podcast explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.
    Each episode offers a mix of:
    Practical mindfulness and meditation teachings
    Conversations with respected meditation teachers, clinicians, authors, and researchers
    Real-world insights for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and caregivers
    Gentle reflections for anyone navigating stress, anxiety, burnout, grief, or change
    If you’re interested in:
    Mindfulness meditation for everyday life
    Trauma-sensitive and compassion-based practices
    Teaching mindfulness in an authentic, non-performative way
    Deepening your own practice while supporting others
    …you’re in the right place.
    Learn more at ...
  • Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo

    Guided Loving-Kindness: Wish Others And Yourself Well

    2026/05/21 | 7 mins.
    We guide a short loving‑kindness meditation that begins with softening the body and ends with offering yourself the same care you give others. Simple phrases and steady breath help shift tension into goodwill you can feel.

    • settling the body with relaxed, alert posture
    • softening shoulders, easing belly, limiting visual input
    • finding a natural breath rhythm
    • visualising loved ones and wishing them happiness
    • repeating phrases of kindness and ease
    • turning compassion inward with May I be well, safe, at ease
    • letting benevolence permeate the body and close with a deep breath

    Teach mindfulness without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. 
    Learn about our Internationally Accredited Certification Program:  https://certify.mindfulnessexercises.com/
    Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life.
    Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — this podcast explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.
    Each episode offers a mix of:
    Practical mindfulness and meditation teachings
    Conversations with respected meditation teachers, clinicians, authors, and researchers
    Real-world insights for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and caregivers
    Gentle reflections for anyone navigating stress, anxiety, burnout, grief, or change
    If you’re interested in:
    Mindfulness meditation for everyday life
    Trauma-sensitive and compassion-based practices
    Teaching mindfulness in an authentic, non-performative way
    Deepening your own practice while supporting others
    …you’re in the right place.
    Learn more at ...
  • Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo

    When Love Meets Vulnerability, It Becomes Steady

    2026/05/19 | 14 mins.
    We explore equanimity as a heart practice that meets vulnerability without armor and shifts our relationship to identity, praise and blame, and social media reactivity. We offer practical steps to steady the nervous system and act with clarity in an age of fear.

    • identity as a source of reactivity and friction
    • the worldly winds of gain, loss, praise, blame
    • equanimity as undefended openness across traditions
    • the skydiving with no ground metaphor
    • love transforming into compassion, joy, and equanimity
    • caring without the fantasy of control
    • small experiments to test catastrophic thoughts
    • balancing activism with steadiness and clarity

    We highly recommend the book Quiet Strength

    Find “Quiet Strength: Find Peace, Feel Alive, And Love Boundlessly With The Power Of Equanimity” and more at Margaret’s website.

    Margaret's New Book --> Quiet Strength: https://a.co/d/029xEshE

    Margaret Cullen's website: https://margaretcullen.com
    Teach mindfulness without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. 
    Learn about our Internationally Accredited Certification Program:  https://certify.mindfulnessexercises.com/
    Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life.
    Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — this podcast explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.
    Each episode offers a mix of:
    Practical mindfulness and meditation teachings
    Conversations with respected meditation teachers, clinicians, authors, and researchers
    Real-world insights for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and caregivers
    Gentle reflections for anyone navigating stress, anxiety, burnout, grief, or change
    If you’re interested in:
    Mindfulness meditation for everyday life
    Trauma-sensitive and compassion-based practices
    Teaching mindfulness in an authentic, non-performative way
    Deepening your own practice while supporting others
    …you’re in the right place.
    Learn more at ...
  • Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo

    Reclaim Your Mind: 7 Mindful Strategies For A Healthier Phone Habit, with Jay Vidyarthi

    2026/05/17 | 32 mins.
    We talk with mindfulness teacher and technologist Jay Vidyarthi about rebuilding a healthier relationship with attention in a world engineered for distraction and speed.

    Jay's Book: Reclaim Your Mind

    We move from tech burnout and Zoom fatigue to practical strategies that replace guilt with choice, including a guided practice that makes the “pull” of the phone impossible to unsee. 

    • noticing false urgency and how language triggers the nervous system 
    • working with tech burnout through rest, recovery time, and small in-call adjustments 
    • understanding your attachment style with technology as a non-shaming map for change 
    • adding curiosity and structure when apps create avoidance or stress 
    • setting boundaries that become positive rituals rather than deprivation 
    • spotting design patterns like red badges, autoplay, and countdown timers 
    • “voting” with attention by supporting tools and creators that promote clarity and wellbeing 
    • practising “drop the rope” with a slow-motion phone audit to build urge immunity 

    Check out Jay’s book, Reclaim Your Mind: Seven Strategies to Enjoy Tech Mindfully. 
    You can check out his website at jayvidarthy.com. 

    Teach mindfulness without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. 
    Learn about our Internationally Accredited Certification Program:  https://certify.mindfulnessexercises.com/
    Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life.
    Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — this podcast explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.
    Each episode offers a mix of:
    Practical mindfulness and meditation teachings
    Conversations with respected meditation teachers, clinicians, authors, and researchers
    Real-world insights for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and caregivers
    Gentle reflections for anyone navigating stress, anxiety, burnout, grief, or change
    If you’re interested in:
    Mindfulness meditation for everyday life
    Trauma-sensitive and compassion-based practices
    Teaching mindfulness in an authentic, non-performative way
    Deepening your own practice while supporting others
    …you’re in the right place.
    Learn more at ...
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About Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo
Mindfulness and meditation for everyday life — and for the people who teach it. Expect grounded guided meditations, evidence‑informed tools, and candid conversations with leading voices in the field.Hosted by Sean Fargo — former Buddhist monk, founder of MindfulnessExercises.com, and a certified Search Inside Yourself instructor—each episode blends compassion, clarity, and real‑world application for practitioners, therapists, coaches, educators, and wellness professionals.What you’ll find:• Guided practices: breath awareness, body scans, self‑compassion, sleep, and nervous‑system regulation • Teacher tools: trauma‑sensitive language, sequencing, and ethical foundations for safe, inclusive mindfulness • Expert interviews with renowned teachers and researchers (e.g., Sharon Salzberg, Gabor Maté, Byron Katie, Rick Hanson, Ellen Langer, Judson Brewer) • Clear takeaways you can use today—in sessions, classrooms, workplaces, and at homeUpdated 2-3x weekly. Follow the show, try this week’s practice, and share one insight in a review to help others discover the podcast.Explore more resources and training at MindfulnessExercises.com and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification.
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