Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo
Practical, trauma‑sensitive mindfulness 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 home
Updated 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.
Episodes
271 episodes
Following The Lights That Make You Shine
We guide a short meditation into Howard Thurman’s reminder to ask what makes you come alive and act on it. Through questions and a poem about quiet usefulness, we show how to find patterns that reliably light you up and turn them into simple, r...
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9:05
Mindfulness Of Death Helps You Live More Fully
What happens when you stop treating death like a problem to avoid and start meeting it with mindful attention? We explore mindfulness of death as a grounded, breath-based practice that can jolt you out of autopilot and back into wha...
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10:33
Softening & Steering (A Guided Meditation)
We guide a short meditation that begins with birdsong and ends with a steadier, kinder presence in the body. We soften tension and resistance, then steer our attention toward care, values, and the life we want to live breath by breath.
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8:52
Mindful Grief
Grief doesn’t only hurt because we miss someone or something. It also hurts because we keep arguing with it. If you have ever thought, “I should be over this,” or “If I stop being sad, I’m forgetting them,” this conversation offers a different ...
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21:45
How Self-Compassion Softens Meditation Resistance And Fear
We explore how to meet resistance to the present moment with compassion instead of force, especially when mindfulness starts to feel scary. We work through what to say when a client wants to stop because they do not want to “see” themselves, an...
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12:58
Overnight Meditation, Self-Compassion, And The Honest Work Of Letting Go
We explore an overnight meditation that turns into a lesson on pain, compassion, and balance. We trade strategies for naming sensations, breathing with discomfort, mindful eating at home, and finding ease through wise effort and progressive rel...
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31:37
Resting With Breath: A Guided Practice For Gentle Presence
We guide a short meditation on gentle awareness, using breath, body, and emotion as anchors for presence. We explore how simple awareness can hold chaos, restore balance, and connect us to values and care.• setting the intention to stop...
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7:19
'Just Like Me' Meditation (one of my personal favorites)
We guide a short, focused meditation that settles the body, opens awareness, and trains compassion through the “Just Like Me” practice. By recognizing shared emotions, pain, and joy, we reduce reactivity and end with a clear wish: may they be w...
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9:49
Realizing Your Best Moments Almost Never Happened
Ever notice how your best memories start to fade into the background until they feel ordinary? We flip that script with a guided mindfulness practice built around mental subtraction—the science-backed move of imagining your treasured moment nev...
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8:34
How A Three-Minute Gratitude Practice Can Rewire Your Day
We guide a step-by-step gratitude practice that starts with one simple sensation and widens to unseen helpers, trusted tools, loved ones, and even challenges. The session closes with thanks for body, mind, and the chance to pause.• noti...
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12:53
How To Meet Pain, Sit With Temptation, And Practice Self-Compassion
We explore how to meet physical pain, temptation, and tension with gentle awareness, and how to find a practical middle way between forcing and avoiding. Stories from overnight sitting lead to tools for mindful eating at home, progressive muscl...
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32:29
Quiet Strength: The Power of Equanimity (with Margaret Cullen & Sean Fargo)
Today we explore equanimity as a living, heart-based steadiness that holds passion, pain, and joy without collapsing or numbing out. Renowned teacher and author Margaret Cullen offers practical gateways through feeling tone, identity, and simpl...
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43:37
From Monastic Bowls To Kitchen Tables: How Food Shapes Awareness
We explore mindful eating through monastic stories, simple practices with raisins, chocolate and tea, and how intention changes what food does to our minds and bodies. Listeners share how mindfulness supports storytelling, therapy and daily med...
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18:45
One Minute To Settle The Mind
Ever wish you could shift your whole mood in the time it takes to breathe twice? We share a simple, one‑minute practice designed for those edge moments—right after waking, before bed, ahead of meditation, or just before stepping into a tough co...
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3:32
Feeling More Gratitude And Gladness :)
We guide a short mindfulness practice to cultivate gratitude and gladness and explain how these feelings lift mood, increase satisfaction, and build resilience. We balance appreciation with honest contact with loss, then show how to embody warm...
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6:24
Loving Kindness Before Sleep
We explore why the mind bounces at night and teach a simple, four-phrase practice that builds calm and focus. By repeating kind wishes for safety, health, happiness, and ease, we train attention to settle and let sleep come naturally.• ...
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8:40
Morning Mindfulness For A Brighter Day
We guide a short morning practice to build calm, focus, and purpose through breath, visualization, and a clear intention to care for the body while contributing to others. We reconnect with values and the quiet mystery that brightens the day wh...
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3:00
Daily Practice for Love & Happiness (Meditation)
We guide a short mindfulness practice that centers our shared human needs for happiness, love, and connection. Through a steady breath, we soften harsh judgments, balance self-kindness with care for others, and carry appreciation into daily lif...
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8:36
People Crave Presence, Not More Content
We trace why people want human mindfulness teachers and how embodiment turns abstract practice into real connection. We share stories, simple techniques, and global signals pointing to a growing need for presence in a noisy world.• risi...
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15:07
Beauty Of Your Breath
We guide a gentle mindfulness practice that softens the body, anchors attention in the breath, and trains a kind return from wandering thoughts. The aim is a reliable home base in presence that eases anxiety without force or judgment.• ...
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14:50
Manifesting Intention
What if just one minute could gently shape your entire day?In this short, guided intention-setting practice, you’re invited to pause, breathe, and consciously choose how you want to show up today. In just 60 seconds, we’ll plant a simple...
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1:00
Affirmations of Gratitude
A calm, guided gratitude practice uses sevenfold repetition to help the words sink in and shift our attention. We move through receiving support, self-compassion, openness to love, and releasing hurts with kindness, closing with appreciation fo...
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10:52
Wishing Care For Self & Others - Dealing With The Inner Critic (Day 7 / Last Day)
Ever wish your inner critic would finally give you a break? Sean Fargo closes our seven-day journey by teaching a simple, reliable practice that replaces self-attack with grounded compassion. We start where warmth is easiest—thinking of someone...
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4:54
How To Stop Ruminating - Dealing With The Inner Critic (Day 6)
Ever catch your mind replaying a cringe moment on loop? We take you inside that spiral and show how mindfulness breaks the pattern—not by arguing with thoughts, but by starving the loop of fuel and returning attention to the raw, steadying deta...
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