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
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Explore more resources and training at MindfulnessExercises.com and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification.
Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo
How A Three-Minute Gratitude Practice Can Rewire Your Day
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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.
• noticing a single present-moment comfort
• appreciating unseen helpers and shared labor
• honoring tools and the effort within them
• thanking a loved one and sensing the heart
• naming one bright spot from today
• exploring gratitude toward a challenge
• closing with thanks for body, mind, and practice
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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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Arriving In The Present
SPEAKER_00Mindfulness exercises dot com gratitude. Let's begin this practice of gratitude by just noticing something simple that you're experiencing right now. Could be seeing the side of a tree swing gently in the wind, feeling the warm cup of tea in your hands, feeling the warmth of sunlight on your skin. Or maybe the experience of comfort from the chair that you're sitting on. Or the simple wonder of pausing in the middle of your busy life to engage with this practice right now. Choosing one simple thing to notice in this moment. Allow it to fully absorb into your experience. Arise and fill your body and your mind. Appreciation for this one simple moment right now. And now reflect on someone who you don't know very well, but who has supported your experience today in some way. Could be a bus driver, person who stacked the fruit in the grocery store, the author of the book that you're reading right now, or maybe the inventor of the alarm clock that just woke you up. But just reflecting on someone who you don't really know who has supported you in some way. And allow yourself to feel how you've benefited from the gift of their work. And just allowing yourself to feel some appreciation and gratitude. And now thinking about the tools that you use that support your work and your life. Tools like your computer, your books, equipment, or even the buildings that you occupy. Considering all that was needed for their creation. Knowing how much these things have benefited you for your work and survival. Perhaps thinking of a particular person whose work or effort directly supports your work in life. Appreciating their contribution, their good intention. Saying in your mind to them, thank you. Now bring to mind someone who you really care about. Someone who makes your heart sing in some way. Picture them in your mind. Think about what this person means to you. What you appreciate about them. Who they are and what you've experienced together. As you imagine them, notice what feelings you're experiencing, what sensations you detect in your body, especially those in the area around your heart. And let yourself express gratitudes towards them, thanking them for being who they are, and for their presence in your life. And imagine them receiving your gratitude, feeling it. Now bringing to mind something in particular that you're grateful for today. Something that made a difference to you. Or that you especially noticed. Perhaps it was a smile of someone on the street, someone's kind words, selfless action. And as you bring these things to mind for what you're grateful for, allow yourself to rest in this experience of gratitude. And when you cultivate this practice of gratitude, you may even find yourself able to be grateful for difficult or unpleasant experiences. If you'd like, bring to mind an experience in your life that might be a little challenging. One for which you'd like to be able to express thanks for challenging you in some way. Offering your appreciation. Thank this challenge for what it may offer you. Expanding this feeling of gratitude for your body. Gratitude for your mind. And finally, appreciate the opportunity to pause and experience this very practice of gratitude for all that you brought to mind during this practice. For all the countless gifts in your life, say thank you to all the people, to all that is around you, and part of you for all that you've experienced in your life. For all of this.
