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 home

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Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo

Experience of Gratitude

April 05, 2026 • Sean Fargo

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We guide a gentle gratitude meditation that moves from body awareness to health, relationships, money, and a sense of safety. We close by normalising mixed feelings and inviting nonjudgmental noticing that helps gratitude grow where it was missed.

• settling the body with breath and softening
• noticing health through simple, reliable functions
• recognising care and effort in relationships
• opening to appreciation around finances without shame
• naming where safety and protection are present
• integrating insights without self‑criticism

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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.

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Setting The Intention

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Mindfulness exercises. coming.

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Your experience with gratitude.

Settle Into The Body

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Let's begin today's meditation on gratitude by finding a posture that feels relaxed and alert.

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Feeling your body touch the ground or the chair or the bed.

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Sensing the points of contact with what's underneath you.

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Feeling the weight of your body. Noticing the rise and fall of your belly as you breathe. Dropping your shoulders. Softening your hands. Loosening your jaw. And relaxing the muscles of your face. And around your eyes.

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And you can look downward or close your eyes just to limit visual distractions.

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Sensing into the body.

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Softening any tension or tightness?

Gratitude For Health

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And now consider your experience with gratitude in terms of your health.

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Have you been grateful for the health of your body?

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Remembering that as long as we're breathing, there is more right with our health than what is wrong.

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What is our experience with gratitude in terms of our physical health? Our ability to move around, to digest food and water.

Gratitude In Relationships

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Where has gratitude been present with relationships? Where has gratitude been unrecognized or forgotten with relationships? How would you express this gratitude?

Money And Enoughness

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Now consider your experience with gratitude in terms of finance and money.

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Simply noticing without judgment and seeing if you can open to more gratitude around finance and money.

Safety, Boundaries, Protection

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Or connection that you value in terms of protection?

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Where has gratitude been present in terms of protection? How might you feel more gratitude for a sense of protection.

Integrating Without Self‑Judgment

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Noting your experience with gratitude can help us recognize where gratitude has been present, and where gratitude has been unrecognized or forgotten. It's important to notice our experience with gratitude without self-judgment or self-criticism. Simply noticing our experience, and seeing how we can open to more feelings of gratitude around our health, our relationships, our finances, and feelings of protection.

Sean Fargo

Host