Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo

Nurturing Yourself While Serving Others, a Guided Meditation Mar 12, 2025

The desire to serve others is deeply ingrained in healers, therapists, coaches, and mindfulness professionals. But when giving becomes constant, it's easy to overlook the one person who also needs care—YOU. Overextension can lead to burnout, fatigue, and imbalance, making it harder to show up fully for those who rely on you.

This guided meditation from Mindfulness Exercises invites you to cultivate balance between service and self-care. Through mindful awareness and visualization, you’ll explore your desire to help others while also honoring your own well-being and finding harmony between the two.

In This Guided Meditation, You Will Be Invited To:

✔ Reflect on your desire to help others and how it impacts your energy.

✔ Explore self-care as an essential—not optional—part of your work.

✔ Embrace the truth that taking care of yourself allows you to care for others more fully.

This practice helps mindfulness teachers, therapists, and wellness professionals sustain their personal well-being while supporting others.

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How to Teach Mindfulness and Meditation | Part 2 - Presence, Humility, and a Genuine Desire Mar 10, 2025

Many aspiring mindfulness teachers struggle with self-doubt, fear of judgment, and imposter syndrome—wondering if they are truly qualified to guide others. What if confidence as a mindfulness teacher isn’t about having all the answers, but about embracing your own authenticity and lived experience?

In Part 2 of this four-part series, Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo shares personal stories and insights into overcoming fear and stepping into mindfulness teaching with confidence. He explores the second and third key aspects of teaching mindfulness, offering practical techniques to navigate imposter syndrome, introduce mindfulness in a way that resonates, and guide students with clarity and presence.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

✔ How to overcome self-doubt and imposter syndrome as a mindfulness teacher

✔ Why fear of judgment is normal—and how to move beyond it

✔ The power of presence and authenticity in guiding mindfulness

✔ How to introduce mindfulness in a simple, effective, and experiential way

✔ Why welcoming skepticism can strengthen your teaching

Sean reminds us that teaching mindfulness isn’t about perfection—it’s about presence, humility, and a genuine desire to help others. This episode offers practical guidance for stepping into your role as a mindfulness teacher with confidence, clarity, and ease.

🌿 Stay tuned for Part 3, where we’ll explore deeper strategies for leading mindfulness practices with authenticity and care.

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Trust Yourself as a Mindfulness Teacher, a Guided Meditation Mar 05, 2025

Even the most experienced mindfulness teachers and professionals face self-doubt. Often times, questioning their abilities, wondering if they are guiding others “correctly,” or feeling like they aren’t enough. But what if confidence isn’t about perfection, but about embracing authenticity?

This guided meditation from Mindfulness Exercises invites you to release the weight of self-doubt and step fully into your unique presence as a mindfulness teacher. Through breath awareness, visualization, and self-compassion, you will be encouraged to trust yourself, embrace imperfection, and embody confidence from within.

In This Guided Meditation, You Will Be Invited To:

✔ Observe self-doubt without judgment and gently release it.

✔ Reaffirm your authenticity as a mindfulness teacher.

✔ Cultivate confidence through mindful breathing and visualization.

✔ Embrace imperfection as part of the teaching journey.

This meditation is for mindfulness teachers, facilitators, and professionals seeking to step into their role with greater ease, trust, and presence.

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How to Teach Mindfulness and Meditation | Part 1 - Compassion Mar 03, 2025

The demand for mindfulness teachers has never been higher, but many aspiring teachers face self-doubt, fear of judgment, and uncertainty about where to begin. What does it truly take to teach mindfulness with confidence and credibility?

In this first episode of a four-part series, Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo lays the foundation for effective mindfulness teaching. He shares insights from his personal journey—including his time as a Buddhist monk—and introduces the first key aspect of teaching mindfulness: embodying compassion.

Through personal stories and practical guidance, this episode explores why self-compassion is the cornerstone of effective mindfulness teaching and how embracing it can transform both your practice and the way you support others.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

✔ Why mindfulness teaching is about presence, not perfection

✔ How self-compassion builds confidence in guiding mindfulness practices

✔ The power of lived experience in authentic mindfulness teaching

✔ How to overcome fear, self-doubt, and the pressure to “get it right”

✔ Why compassion—for yourself and others—is the foundation of great mindfulness teaching

This episode sets the stage for understanding what it truly means to guide others in mindfulness. Whether you're new to teaching or looking to deepen your approach, this series will provide the tools to help you lead with clarity, authenticity, and care.

🌿 Stay tuned for Part 2, where we’ll dive deeper into the core principles of guiding mindfulness sessions.

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Lead with Loving-Kindness, a Guided Meditation Feb 26, 2025

Teaching mindfulness is more than just guiding practices. It’s about forming real, meaningful connections. But when exhaustion, self-doubt, or difficult student dynamics arise, how do we continue showing up with love, empathy, and presence?

This guided meditation from Mindfulness Exercises invites you to strengthen your connection with your mindfulness students through the practice of loving-kindness. By first offering yourself compassion and care, you create space to extend warmth, presence, and deep respect to every student, especially those with whom you may experience challenges.

In This Guided Meditation, You Will Be Invited To:

✔ Turn inward and cultivate self-compassion before extending kindness to others.

✔ Visualize your students individually and send them loving-kindness.

✔ Foster deeper connection and understanding in your role as a mindfulness teacher.

✔ Embrace empathy and unconditional care for all students, including those who challenge you.

This meditation is designed for mindfulness teachers, therapists, educators, and professionals who guide others in their practice. It serves as a powerful reminder that the compassion we extend begins within.

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The Role of Mindfulness in Managing Pain and Discomfort Feb 22, 2025

Can mindfulness truly help with pain relief?

This powerful episode explores how mindfulness can shift our relationship with pain—both physical and emotional. Drawing from scientific insights, this episode dives into practical techniques that can reduce pain perception and promote healing.

We also discuss key takeaways from You Are Not Your Pain by Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman, a groundbreaking book on using mindfulness to navigate chronic pain.

Whether you’re experiencing discomfort, stress, or simply want to deepen your practice, this conversation will leave you with valuable tools to transform the way you experience pain.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

✔ How mindfulness can reduce pain intensity by up to 93%

✔ The difference between primary pain (physical sensation) and secondary pain (mental/emotional suffering)

✔ Why resisting pain can make it worse—and how mindfulness fosters acceptance

✔ The gate theory of pain and how meditation can actually change how the brain processes pain

✔ Mindful techniques like body scanning, mindful movement, and the 3-minute breathing space

✔ How habit releases can rewire your brain’s response to discomfort

✔ Why community and social connection play a crucial role in pain management

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📚 Book Mentioned: You Are Not Your Pain – Vidyamala Burch & Danny Penman

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Healing the Healer, a Guided Meditation Feb 19, 2025

Burnout can slowly dim the passion that once fueled our work, leaving us feeling disconnected and exhausted. As healers, therapists, coaches, and mindfulness professionals, we dedicate ourselves to others. But how often do we pause to replenish our own energy?

This guided meditation of Mindfulness Exercises Podcast invites you to step back, breathe, and reconnect with the deeper purpose behind your work. Through mindfulness, you will be encouraged to cultivate resilience, gratitude, and self-compassion. It helps you restore balance so you can continue to serve with presence and care.

In This Guided Meditation, You Will Be Invited To:

✔ Explore mindful breathing as a way to ease tension and cultivate presence.

✔ Reflect on your deeper purpose and passion as a healer or mindfulness professional.

✔ Visualize resilience and strength to navigate the challenges of your work.

✔ Practice self-compassion and gratitude to nurture your well-being.

This meditation is designed for therapists, coaches, healthcare providers, educators, and mindfulness teachers—those who support others and seek a practice to restore, recharge, and realign with their calling.

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The Link Between Mindfulness and Artistic Expression with Marni Freedman Feb 17, 2025

In this inspiring episode of the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, Sean Fargo explores the deep connection between mindfulness and creativity. Joined by Marni Freedman, a writing coach and therapist for artists who also runs the San Diego Writing Festival, they discuss how slowing down, creating space, and cultivating presence can unlock deeper creative expression.

Mindfulness allows creativity to flow naturally by helping artists, writers, and musicians quiet self-doubt and connect with their true voice.

What You’ll Discover:

How mindfulness enhances creativity and artistic flow.
Why slowing down and creating space fuels inspiration.
The role of self-compassion and awareness in overcoming creative blocks.
How to move beyond fear, self-judgment, and the pressure to “get it right.”
The importance of playfulness, curiosity, and embodiment in creative work.

Sean and Marni remind us that creativity isn’t just about producing—it’s about being present with the process, trusting the unfolding, and allowing inspiration to arise naturally.

Timestamps:

[00:01:00] The Link Between Mindfulness and Creativity – How awareness supports artistic expression.

[00:10:00] Slowing Down for Creative Breakthroughs – The power of stillness and presence.

[00:20:00] Navigating Self-Doubt and Fear – Mindful techniques for overcoming inner resistance.

[00:30:00] Finding Your Authentic Voice – How mindfulness helps creatives connect with their essence.

[00:40:00] The Role of Play and Fun in Creativity – Why lightness and experimentation fuel inspiration.

[00:50:00] How to Sustain Creativity Through Mindfulness – Practical takeaways for artists and writers.

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Structure Mindfulness Retreats for Both New and Experienced Meditators Feb 14, 2025

When designing a mindfulness retreat, one key question arises: Does the previous experience of the participants matter? Should a retreat for beginners look different from one for experienced practitioners? How much structure is needed versus allowing space for organic practice?

In this episode of the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, Sean Fargo explores the balance between guidance and openness when leading mindfulness retreats. He shares practical approaches to ensuring retreats are engaging and beneficial for both new and experienced practitioners—without overcomplicating the experience.

Whether you're planning your first retreat or refining your approach, this episode covers how to design retreats, support different experience levels, and help participants feel confident in their practice.

What You’ll Discover:

How to design a mindfulness retreat for both beginners and experienced practitioners.
The importance of simple, clear instructions without overloading participants.
How to support newcomers struggling with self-doubt or an overactive inner critic.
The role of self-compassion and mindfulness in overcoming fear and resistance.
Why every mindfulness experience—even a beginner’s session—is always fresh and new.

Sean reminds us that mindfulness isn’t about doing things perfectly—it’s about learning to meet each moment with awareness, curiosity, and kindness.

Timestamps:

[00:01:00] Does Experience Matter? – Structuring retreats for different experience levels.

[00:10:00] Providing Guidance Without Overloading Information – Keeping it simple and clear.

[00:20:00] Supporting Beginners – Addressing fears, self-doubt, and misconceptions about mindfulness.

[00:30:00] Creating a Retreat That Meets People Where They Are – Balancing structure and organic flow.

[00:40:00] Mindfulness as a Practice, Not a Performance – How to encourage self-compassion.

[00:50:00] Key Takeaways for Retreat Leaders – Practical tips for creating a welcoming, effective retreat.

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Lead a Mindfulness Retreat That Fits Busy Lives Feb 12, 2025

In this insightful episode of the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, Sean Fargo explores the concept of mindfulness day retreats—structured mindfulness experiences that allow participants to immerse in deep practice while returning home at night.

Sean shares practical strategies for structuring day retreats, ensuring continuity between sessions, and fostering deep mindfulness even with the break between days.

Whether you're considering leading your first retreat or looking for ways to deepen your personal practice, this episode provides essential insights on creating a meaningful and transformative mindfulness retreat experience—without requiring overnight stays.

What You’ll Discover:

The benefits of day retreats versus traditional overnight retreats.
How to structure a two-day retreat experience for depth and continuity.
The role of silence, movement, and unstructured time in retreat design.
Practical tips for guiding participants through transitions between retreat sessions.
Why mindfulness retreats should focus on being over doing—and how to create space for true presence.

Sean reminds us that retreats aren’t about checking off activities—they’re about coming home to the present moment. With the right structure and approach, even a single day of mindfulness practice can be profoundly impactful.

Timestamps:

[00:01:00] Why Day Retreats? – The benefits of a retreat without overnight stays.

[00:10:00] Structuring a Mindfulness Retreat – Balancing guided practice, silence, and movement.

[00:20:00] Creating Safe and Engaging Retreat Spaces – How to foster connection and openness.

[00:30:00] Designing a Transformative Experience – The role of nature, deep listening, and organic flow.

[00:45:00] Letting Go of Over-Planning – How presence and spontaneity enhance retreats.

[00:55:00] Key Takeaways for Mindfulness Teachers – Practical insights for leading your first retreat.

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The Role of Mindfulness in Chronic Pain Management (and Why It Works) Feb 10, 2025

In this insightful episode of the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, Sean Fargo explores how mindfulness can be a powerful tool for alleviating chronic pain. While pain itself is a physical experience, our relationship to it often creates unnecessary suffering. Through mindfulness, we can learn to soften resistance, shift our perception, and cultivate a gentler awareness of the body—offering relief without avoidance.

Whether you experience chronic pain yourself or support others on their healing journey, this episode provides practical tools for using mindfulness to ease suffering and reconnect with the body in a compassionate way.

What You’ll Discover:

How mindfulness reduces the perception of pain by shifting our awareness.
The difference between pain and the mental resistance that amplifies suffering.
Gentle techniques to explore the body with curiosity instead of fear.
Why softening judgment and resistance can help ease chronic pain.
Practical steps for integrating mindfulness into pain management.

Sean reminds us that healing is a journey and that small, compassionate steps can make a significant difference in how we experience pain—both physically and emotionally.

Timestamps:

[00:01:00] Mindfulness and Chronic Pain – How mindfulness can help alleviate suffering.

[00:05:00] Why We Resist Pain – Understanding the fear and avoidance cycle.

[00:10:00] Softening Resistance – Using mindfulness to change our relationship with pain.

[00:20:00] Practical Techniques – Guided awareness and breath-based strategies.

[00:30:00] Mindfulness for Healing Trauma – How mindfulness supports deep emotional and physical healing.

[00:40:00] A Lifelong Journey – Integrating mindfulness into everyday life for sustainable relief.

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The Real Purpose of Mindfulness Feb 06, 2025

In this thought-provoking episode of the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, Sean Fargo unpacks one of the biggest misconceptions about mindfulness: that it’s about clearing the mind, suppressing emotions, or striving for constant calm. Instead, true mindfulness is about meeting whatever arises—thoughts, emotions, and sensations—with openness, curiosity, and non-judgment.

Whether you're new to mindfulness or a seasoned practitioner, this episode will challenge the way you think about your mindfulness practice and help you embrace mindfulness as a way of being, rather than something to achieve.

What You’ll Discover:

Why mindfulness isn’t about controlling or eliminating thoughts.
The difference between being with an experience versus fixing it.
How to meet emotions—like fear, anger, or distraction—with gentle awareness.
The hidden ways we use mindfulness as an escape rather than a tool for presence.
Practical ways to integrate true mindfulness into daily life and teaching.

Sean reminds us that mindfulness is not about transcending discomfort—it’s about turning toward it with kindness, acceptance, and a willingness to explore.

Timestamps:

[00:01:00] The Myth of Mindfulness – Why mindfulness isn’t about stopping thoughts or emotions.

[00:05:00] Meeting Life As It Is – The power of presence without resistance.

[00:10:00] How We Misuse Mindfulness – Recognizing when mindfulness becomes avoidance.

[00:15:00] Exploring Emotional Layers – How to be with emotions rather than suppress them.

[00:25:00] Bringing Mindfulness into Teaching & Coaching – A guide for facilitators and mindfulness teachers.

[00:30:00] Practical Integration – How to embody mindfulness in everyday life.

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Use Retreats to Deepen Your Mindfulness and Teaching Feb 03, 2025

In this transformative episode of the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, Sean Fargo explores the profound impact of retreats on mindfulness practice and teaching. Drawing from his experience as a former Buddhist monk and seasoned mindfulness teacher, Sean shares personal insights on why retreats can be one of the most powerful ways to deepen your mindfulness journey.

Whether you're considering attending your first retreat, leading one, or simply curious about the practice, this episode offers a roadmap for understanding how retreats cultivate inner clarity, self-compassion, and a deeper sense of presence.

What You’ll Discover:

Why retreats are one of the most effective ways to deepen mindfulness practice.
How stepping away from daily distractions enhances inner awareness.
The stages of a retreat experience—from initial resistance to deep transformation.
Practical tips for preparing for and integrating retreat learnings into daily life.
The role of gentleness, curiosity, and surrender in retreat practice.

Sean emphasizes that retreats are not about escaping reality, but about coming home to yourself—shedding distractions, breaking mental patterns, and embracing a greater sense of ease and presence.

Timestamps:

[00:01:00] The Transformative Power of Retreats – Why retreats are an essential tool for mindfulness practitioners and teachers.

[00:05:00] Lessons from Silent Retreats – Sean shares experiences from his two years in retreat as a Buddhist monk.

[00:10:00] The Challenge of Stillness – How facing discomfort leads to profound inner breakthroughs.

[00:15:00] Gentle Awareness & Self-Compassion – Learning to meet yourself with kindness during a retreat.

[00:25:00] Common Retreat Structures – Exploring different formats, from silent retreats to at-home retreats.

[00:30:00] Integrating Retreat Lessons into Daily Life – How to transition back into everyday routines with presence and sensitivity.

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Meeting Your Mindfulness Students Where They Are Jan 30, 2025

In this insightful episode of Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, Sean explores the art of understanding your mindfulness students’ unique journeys. With years of experience as a mindfulness teacher and former Buddhist monk, Sean shares practical tools and frameworks to assess and support students’ growth with compassion and curiosity.

Whether you’re guiding individuals or groups, this episode offers a roadmap for meeting your students where they are and helping them deepen their practice.

What You’ll Discover:

The importance of honoring your students’ experiences and perceptions.
How to use frameworks like body-heart-head and safety-contentment-connection to assess growth.
The role of trauma sensitivity in mindfulness teaching and practice.
Tips for using language, patterns, and curiosity to explore students’ inner landscapes.

Sean emphasizes the value of approaching your students with openness, avoiding assumptions, and collaborating to uncover what’s present in their experiences.

Timestamps:

[00:01:00] The Importance of Practice: How meditation deepens self-awareness and understanding.

[00:03:00] Honoring Students’ Experiences: Avoiding assumptions and meeting students with openness.

[00:10:00] Trauma Sensitivity in Practice: Tailoring mindfulness techniques for those with trauma.

[00:20:00] Frameworks for Growth: Using body-heart-head and safety-contentment-connection models.

[00:30:00] Language and Patterns: Listening to students’ words and exploring their emotional landscapes.

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(Part 2) Reconnecting with Mother Nature through Mindfulness with Baba Mendoza Jan 27, 2025

In the concluding part of this powerful two-part series on Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo, Baba Mendoza deepens the conversation about humanity's relationship with Mother Nature. Building on the foundational insights shared in part one, Baba emphasizes the urgent need for personal transformation, collective unity, and actionable mindfulness.

Through his heartfelt words, Baba calls on each of us to embrace our role as stewards of the Earth, to reconnect with the gifts of nature, and to act with compassion and purpose.

This episode is both a profound reflection and a call to action for mindfulness practitioners and leaders to heal the wounds of separation, nurture the seeds of unity, and embody the wisdom of Mother Nature in our daily lives.

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Guided Meditation for Balance and Spacious Awareness with Sean Fargo Jan 23, 2025

In this deeply restorative episode of Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, Sean Fargo leads a guided meditation to help you reconnect with your body, breath, and present awareness. This practice gently invites you to explore balance, ease, and spaciousness, fostering a deeper sense of calm and clarity.

With Sean’s years of experience as a mindfulness teacher and former Buddhist monk, this meditation offers practical tools to center yourself amidst the busyness of life.

Whether you’re a seasoned mindfulness practitioner or just beginning, this episode provides an accessible way to ground yourself in the present moment.

What You’ll Discover:

How to tune into your body’s posture and energy with gentle awareness.
Breathing techniques that engage the belly, heart, and head for holistic mindfulness.
Ways to find balance and ease, whether sitting, standing, or moving.
Practical tips for practicing mindfulness with eyes open or closed.

This episode is an invitation to reconnect with yourself and approach your day with greater spaciousness and balance.

Timestamps:

[00:00:00] Starting the Practice: An invitation to reconnect with your body and breath.

[00:02:00] Awareness of Energy: Noticing physical sensations and carrying awareness through the body.

[00:05:00] Breathing with the Whole Body: Engaging the belly, heart, and head.

[00:07:00] Finding Balance: Allowing movement and stillness to guide your sense of ease.

[00:10:00] Spacious Awareness: Cultivating mindfulness in a way that carries into the rest of your day.

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(Part 1) Reconnecting with Mother Nature through Mindfulness with Baba Mandaza Jan 20, 2025

In part one of this special two-part series on Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo, we are joined by Baba Mendoza, a healer, activist, and peacemaker, to explore the profound connection between mindfulness and nature. Baba shares his heartfelt wisdom on how humanity can rekindle its relationship with Mother Nature, emphasizing that we are not separate from her but integral branches of her creation.

Through his teachings, Baba inspires us to reflect on our personal relationship with the Earth and how mindfulness can guide us to a more compassionate, sustainable, and harmonious existence.

This episode lays the foundation for understanding the gifts of the natural world and invites us to begin healing our collective relationship with the planet.

Stay tuned for part two, where Baba dives deeper into practical ways to embody mindfulness and honor our connection with the Earth.

Timestamps

[00:01:00] Introduction

[00:05:00] The Gifts of Nature: Baba reflects on how everything we use, from beds to food, originates from Mother Nature.

[00:15:00] The Forgotten Connection: Why humanity treats nature as a separate entity and the consequences of this disconnection.

[00:25:00] Nature as Ancestor and Creator: A spiritual perspective on the Earth as our living ancestor and provider.

[00:35:00] A Call for Healing: Baba invites listeners to reflect on their relationship with nature and take steps to heal it.

[00:45:00] Guided Silent Meditation: Baba leads a two-minute meditation to honor and connect with Mother Nature.

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Justice, Compassion and Ethical Mindfulness with Pamela Ayo Yetunde Jan 13, 2025

In this profound episode of Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo, we are joined by Dr. Pamela Ayo Yutende, JD, PhD—author, pastoral counselor, and co-editor of Black and Buddhist. Ayo shares her unique insights on integrating mindfulness with ethical leadership and social justice. Drawing from her Buddhist practice and professional experiences, Ayo dispels myths about mindfulness being separate from activism, showing how mindfulness-based ethics can empower individuals to foster equality, compassion, and healing.

Together, Sean and Ayo explore how mindfulness practitioners can engage in justice-oriented practices while staying true to the principles of awareness and social balance.

This episode is an invitation to cultivate an ethical posture that embraces both personal growth and collective healing.

Timestamps

[00:01:00] Introduction

[00:03:00] The Journey to Advocacy: How Ayo’s experiences with the Brethren Volunteer Service and anti-apartheid activism shaped her justice orientation.

[00:10:00] Mindfulness as an Ethical Practice: Exploring the roots of mindfulness in Buddhist ethics and its application in modern leadership.

[00:15:00] Justice Through Compassion: Why mindfulness encourages compassion for all sentient beings, human and non-human.

[00:20:00] Lessons from Leadership Ethics: A Buddhist perspective on compassionate governance, avoiding greed, and addressing poverty.

[00:30:00] Redistribution and Generosity: The role of generosity in ethical leadership and social transformation.

[00:40:00] The Power of Awareness: How mindfulness counters narratives of separation and conflict to build unity and truth.

Connect with Pamela Ayo Yetunde

Website: Buddhist Justice Reporter
Books: Casting Indra’s Net, Black and Buddhist

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Mindfulness, Storytelling, and the Power of Transformation with Erik Ireland Jan 07, 2025

Welcome to another enriching episode of Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo. In this episode, Sean Fargo is joined by Erik Ireland, creator of the globally celebrated Listen to Sleep podcast, for a deep dive into how mindfulness and storytelling can transform our lives.

Erik shares his personal journey and introduces his Awaken Your Myth method, a practical framework inspired by the Hero’s Journey. Erik shares his personal transformation from acting to mindfulness and storytelling, shedding light on how each of us can awaken our unique inner hero. Also, he explores how mindfulness can help us overcome resistance, embrace transformation, and connect with our inner wisdom.

This conversation delves into the ancient archetype of the hero’s journey and its relevance to modern mindfulness practices, inspiring listeners to embrace their authentic paths.

Dive into a rich conversation about the transformative power of mindfulness, the importance of storytelling, and how understanding the hero’s journey can unlock your true potential.

Whether you’re a mindfulness teacher, a coach, or someone seeking inner peace, this episode offers profound insights and actionable tools for personal growth.

Timestamps

[00:01:00] Introduction

[00:05:00] Erik’s Journey: From acting to mindfulness—how Erik discovered the limits of external success and the power of inner work.

[00:10:00] The Hero’s Journey Framework: What it is and how it relates to mindfulness and personal transformation.

[00:19:00] Breaking Through Resistance: Erik discusses how mindfulness helps us face and embrace resistance as part of growth.

[00:29:00] The Myths Method Explained: A practical breakdown of the five pillars—Mindfulness, Yielding, Transformation, Healing, and Storytelling.

[00:40:00] Guided Meditation with Erik: A visualization exercise to help you uncover your personal myth and inner wisdom.

[00:50:00] Practical Applications: Sean and Erik share how to integrate mindfulness and storytelling into daily life for lasting change.

Connect with Erik

Website: Awaken Your Myth
Podcast: Listen to Sleep

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How to Alleviate Pain with Mindfulness | Simple Techniques for Chronic Pain Relief Nov 20, 2024

Did you know mindfulness can help alleviate pain?

In this episode, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and former Buddhist monk, explains how to use mindfulness techniques to explore and manage pain with compassion.

Whether you're dealing with chronic pain or temporary discomfort, mindfulness offers a gentle, effective approach to alleviate pain without resistance.

Mindfulness isn't about ignoring pain but engaging with it gently, helping you alleviate pain and build resilience.

For best results, practice mindfulness daily or several times a week to gradually strengthen your ability to alleviate pain through presence. 🌿

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Why Meditation Can Be More Powerful Than Morphine for Pain Relief Nov 18, 2024

Can mindfulness meditation be more powerful than medication? Studies show that mindfulness meditation can reduce chronic pain by up to 40%, sometimes even more—outperforming morphine’s 25% average.

In this video, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and former Buddhist monk, explains how mindfulness meditation can help relieve pain, build resilience, and empower patients with chronic pain.

Through mindfulness meditation, you can engage with your pain in a new way… reducing both physical and emotional discomfort.

Whether you’re managing pain or supporting others in their healing journey, this video highlights how mindfulness meditation can be an effective, empowering alternative to medication. 🌱

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How to Introduce Mindfulness to Beginners Nov 16, 2024

Curious about how to introduce mindfulness effectively? In this episode, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and former Buddhist monk, shares his approach to introducing mindfulness to different groups in a simple and relatable way. Rather than focusing on theory, Sean’s method emphasizes experience, guiding new practitioners to connect with mindfulness directly.

Learn how to:

Introduce mindfulness by engaging others with real-life experiences
Guide beginners to notice sensations and emotions without judgment
Use foundational techniques to build an understanding of mindfulness

Whether you're a mindfulness teacher or new to the practice, Sean’s approach will help you see how introducing mindfulness can be both accessible and impactful.

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How to Open a Closed Heart with Mindfulness Compassion Oct 29, 2024

Have you ever been in a room filled with closed hearts, feeling the energy of resistance?

In this episode, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and a former Buddhist monk, explores how mindfulness and compassion can gently help open a closed heart.

Through Sean’s thoughtful guidance, you’ll learn how to hold space for closed hearts with presence and curiosity, creating room for healing and connection. Whether you're a mindfulness teacher or practitioner, this video offers profound insights on how to work with resistance and cultivate an open heart.

If you’re looking to deepen your practice or help others navigate these tender spaces, explore more resources from Sean Fargo below.

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Can You Really Handle Distractions During Meditation? Oct 27, 2024

How do you handle distractions during meditation as a teacher?

In this episode, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and a former Buddhist monk, shares practical advice on managing distractions in meditation practice, both for beginners and seasoned practitioners.

Whether you're leading a group meditation or practicing on your own, Sean’s tips will help you approach distractions with patience and mindfulness. This offers valuable strategies for making meditation accessible and supportive for all.

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Should Mindfulness Teachers Show Vulnerability? Oct 25, 2024

In this episode, Sean Fargo explores the question: Should mindfulness teachers show vulnerability to build trust with their students?

Sean shares his insights on how to balance authenticity with professionalism when teaching mindfulness. Drawing from his experience at Google and Spirit Rock, Sean explains the fine line between sharing personal challenges and maintaining credibility.

Learn how to navigate this delicate territory to create deeper connections with your students.

To deepen your mindfulness teaching practice, explore Sean’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program.

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How to Make Mindfulness Relevant for Daily Life Oct 23, 2024

How do you make mindfulness relevant to people’s daily lives so they stick with it?

In this episode, Sean Fargo dives into the importance of making mindfulness and meditation accessible and meaningful. He offers practical strategies for helping students integrate mindfulness into their daily routines by personalizing it to their goals, emotions, and challenges.

Learn how to move beyond cookie-cutter approaches to make mindfulness truly impactful.

For more personalized teaching strategies, check out Sean’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program to learn how to make mindfulness relevant to different audiences.

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How Do We Help Kids Feel Safe in Mindfulness? Oct 21, 2024

In this episode, Sean Fargo shares essential strategies for creating safe mindfulness practices for kids.

Whether you’re teaching in schools, at home, or in therapeutic settings, Sean breaks down how to ensure children feel safe and supported during mindfulness exercises. Drawing from over 15 years of experience, Sean explains how to create trust, use playful imagery, and keep practices trauma-sensitive while maintaining a fun and engaging environment.

Timestamps:

0:50 – The importance of safety in mindfulness.
3:30 – How to adapt different mindfulness practices
4:50 – Encouraging courage in kids
6:50 – The role of trust and building a genuine connection with kids.
8:10 – Techniques keep kids engaged in mindfulness practice
9:50 – The non-judgmental aspect of mindfulness
12:00 – Creative mindfulness techniques for kids

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Can Mindfulness Really Help You Let Your Guard Down? Oct 19, 2024

How long do you need to practice mindfulness before you feel truly safe?

In this episode, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and a former Buddhist monk, shares valuable insights on how mindfulness can help you release fear, calm your emotions, and find a sense of refuge in the present moment. 🌿

Whether you're a mindfulness teacher or practitioner, this video provides practical tools to cultivate safety and connection, both with yourself and others.

Mindfulness can help anyone—no matter where you are in your journey—find inner peace in the face of life’s challenges.

If you're looking to deepen your practice or help others feel safe through mindfulness, check out the links below for more resources from Sean Fargo.

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Teaching Mindfulness Is Simpler Than You Think - No Expertise Needed Oct 17, 2024

Anyone can guide others in mindfulness, no matter their age or experience. Even a 5-year-old can teach mindfulness better than you think.

In this episode, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises, makes a bold statement about how even a kindergartener can teach mindfulness. Through a touching story about his daughter, Sean explains why teaching mindfulness is simpler than most people realize.

It’s not about enlightenment or complicated techniques—it’s about inviting people to be present in the moment.

Sean shares how his 5-year-old daughter helps him practice mindfulness by asking, "How are you feeling? Can you bring gentle awareness to this moment?"

This episode shows that anyone can guide others in mindfulness, no matter their age or experience. Teaching mindfulness is about offering others a moment to connect with themselves, without judgment or expectations.

Discover why teaching mindfulness doesn’t require years of practice or being mindful 100% of the time. If you’re interested in learning how to teach mindfulness or want to become certified, check out Sean’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program for the tools and support to guide others with confidence.

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Finding Calm in Challenging Times | Mindfulness Hiking with Sean Fargo Oct 10, 2024

Feeling overwhelmed or stuck in challenging situations? In this episode, discover how to practice mindfulness even when life gets tough.

Through real-life experiences from a hiking journey, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and a former Buddhist monk, teaches practical techniques to release resistance, embrace the moment, and find peace.

With Sean’s wisdom and gentle guidance, you'll learn how to turn to mindfulness as a source of strength and resilience, no matter how difficult life becomes. This can help you in softening resistance and finding ease in life's toughest moments.

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Forgiveness Meditation: Let Go of Resentment and Embrace Love Oct 08, 2024

Unlock the healing power of forgiveness with this humorous forgiveness meditation. In this unique and lighthearted approach, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and a former Buddhist monk, guides you through the practice of letting go while adding moments of humor. Whether you're working to forgive yourself or others, this funny meditation will help you release tension and find peace.

Perfect for mindfulness teachers and practitioners, this meditation is an excellent tool to confidently guide others in the art of forgiveness. The mix of humor and mindfulness ensures that healing doesn't always have to be serious—it can be joyful and uplifting, too!

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Self compassion when life sucks | Mindfulness Hiking with Sean Oct 06, 2024

Today, we explore how to practice self-compassion in difficult times, when life feels tough and overwhelming.

Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and former Buddhist monk, shares his personal journey of navigating discomfort and emotional strain while hiking in Yosemite with a heavy backpack.

He uses the experience to illustrate how we can meet pain, frustration, and difficulty with kindness instead of judgment. He explores how mindfulness helps us stay present with unpleasant emotions and sensations, allowing us to care for ourselves in moments of struggle.

This episode is a gentle reminder that when life feels hard, we can offer ourselves the same care we’d give a loved one.

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Meditation: Expecting Nothing, Appreciating Everything Sep 28, 2024

Learn how to expect nothing and appreciate everything to reduce stress and anxiety. Unlock the power of mindfulness meditation with Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and former Buddhist monk.

He guides you through a powerful mindfulness meditation designed to help you release expectations and cultivate gratitude. This practice is perfect for anyone looking to reduce stress, find mental clarity, and cultivate a deep sense of relaxation and gratitude. Whether you’re dealing with a hectic day or seeking a peaceful night’s sleep, this meditation will help you find calm amidst the chaos.

If this meditation resonated with you and you’re eager to guide others on their mindfulness journey, visit https://bit.ly/m/MindfulnessExercises to explore our comprehensive resources and certification programs.

Together, let’s spread peace and mindfulness across the globe.

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Debunking the Biggest Myth in Mindfulness Meditation: Stop Forcing Feelings and Be Present Sep 27, 2024

In this insightful episode, Sean Fargo, the founder of Mindfulness Exercises and former Buddhist monk, reveals the biggest myth that many new mindfulness teachers fall for—trying to force a specific outcome during meditation.

Sean discusses why mindfulness meditation isn't about achieving a state of calm or bliss but about being present with whatever arises, whether it’s pleasant or not.

By dispelling this common misconception, Sean shares how mindfulness teachers can guide their students more effectively by embracing the present moment without judgment. Tune in to learn how to deepen your teaching practice and empower others through authentic mindfulness.

If you're passionate about teaching mindfulness and want to learn more about authentic mindfulness leadership, check out Sean Fargo’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program at Mindfulness Exercises. You’ll gain the tools and confidence to lead impactful mindfulness sessions in professional and personal settings.

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How to Teach Mindfulness with Confidence: Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Inspire Others Sep 22, 2024

In this episode, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises and former Buddhist monk, dives deep into the struggles many face when learning to teach mindfulness—especially imposter syndrome. He shares his personal journey of overcoming self-doubt, fear of judgment, and the anxiety that comes with teaching mindfulness and meditation.

Sean offers practical steps to build confidence, embrace authenticity, and teach mindfulness from a place of compassion and care.

If you've ever questioned your ability to guide others in meditation, this episode is for you.

Key Takeaways:

Understanding Imposter Syndrome: How self-doubt and fear of judgment affect new mindfulness teachers.
Embracing Your Authentic Self: The importance of teaching from a place of sincerity and presence.
Building Confidence: Learn actionable steps for growing into your role as a mindfulness teacher, one small step at a time.
Tools to Overcome Fear: Techniques such as mindfulness of breath, grounding, and self-compassion that help navigate feelings of inadequacy.
The Power of Compassionate Action: Helping others through mindfulness even when you don't feel 100% ready.

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The Subtle Art of Losing Yourself, with George Thompson Sep 19, 2024

Like many of us, George Thompson once had a running story in his head that said he wasn’t likable, wasn’t successful enough, wasn’t good enough. Upon studying Taoism and practicing the mindful movement of Tai Chi, Thompson’s inner story began to change. He now uses the transformative power of stories to help others reconnect to their own.

In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with George Thompson about how he found Tai Chi and his teacher, Master Gu. They discuss Thompson’s latest film, The Subtle Art of Losing Yourself. The film is a retelling of the story of our relationship with nature and addresses the root causes of environmental and mental health challenges.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

Why having an inner critic is a shared human experience
How Tai Chi and Taoism relate to mindfulness
Why movement is a significant part of mindfulness practice
The benefits of cultivating breath-to-movement connection
Why true mindful observation leads to self-compassion
What nature has to teach us about interconnectedness
Why it’s time to retell the story of our role in nature
How to use storytelling to help others find their own

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3 Powerful Techniques to Overcome Imposter Syndrome & Teach Mindfulness with Confidence Sep 16, 2024

Do you ever feel like you’re not qualified enough to teach mindfulness? In this episode, we tackle the imposter syndrome and fear of judgment that holds many aspiring mindfulness teachers back.

Join us as we explore 3 powerful techniques to help you overcome these challenges:

Embrace mindfulness of fear
Cultivate compassion for those you want to help
Realize that teaching mindfulness is simpler than you think

If you’re ready to expand your reach and guide others on their mindfulness journey with confidence and authenticity,

this episode will provide the insights and practical tools you need.

You don’t have to be perfect—just committed to making a positive impact. 🧘‍♀️

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Infusing Mindfulness With Love, With Henry Shukman and Sean Fargo Sep 10, 2024

This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Learn more about this online, self-paced program at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify

There are a great variety of mindfulness practices and there are benefits to each. They are not, however, the same.

A complete mindfulness practice, one that leads to awakening, is not merely a training in paying attention, but in connection and love.

In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with Zen teacher, author, and poet Henry Shukman on the benefits of meeting each moment with awareness and an open heart.

Henry Shukman is an author, poet and a teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage. He has taught meditation at Google, Harvard Business School, Esalen Institute, Colorado College, and United World College among other venues. He is the Spiritual Director Emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico and co-founder of The Way, a meditation app that guides users on a single pathway of training toward the deeper possibilities of meditation.

Shukman’s most recent book, Original Love: The Four Inns On The Path Of Awakening, is an antidote to the suffering of our times, helping us heal from hyper-individualism, divisiveness and disconnection.

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Selling Your Mindfulness Meditation Programs and Workshops Aug 06, 2024

Danny Grieco is a mindfulness teacher who has also worked as a salesperson for 12+ years, a sales trainer for 5+ years, and a mindfulness practitioner for 10+ years.

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As a salesperson, he has successfully sold for startups and Fortune 500 companies like Xerox, Lever, and Bazaarvoice, successfully selling into almost every industry, from small accounts to seven-figure deals. He has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly, so you can see the best.

He has spent the past 5+ years teaching non-salespeople the skills of corporate sales. He has trained 100’s of mindfulness teachers in sales and dozens of Silicon Valley startup founders including Y Combinator with an average rating of 4.8 out of 5.

He spent 10+ years personally practicing and studying mindfulness and meditation, including daily practice, silent retreats, and academic study. He is also a certified teacher via SIYLI born at Google and has taught programs at Facebook, Amazon, and many others. His instruction is engaging, fun, and instantly applicable.

The Mindfulness Sales Course is a comprehensive approach designed specifically for mindfulness teachers who want to make a greater impact in the corporate world.

This course is designed to address your specific challenges, giving you the tools, skills, and confidence you need to succeed.

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Byron Katie Introduces The Work Jul 31, 2024

Do you believe everything that you think? What about when you’re complaining? In this episode, Byron Katie teaches us a compassionate self-inquiry technique that invites us to kindly question our thoughts and beliefs. This process can lead us toward greater peace, ease and freedom.

Byron Katie is a renowned speaker and author, known for a transformative self-inquiry practice she calls "The Work." In this episode, Katie introduces her teachings, shares profound insights, and guides us through practical exercises to help us explore and question our thoughts with compassion and curiosity.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Byron Katie’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Learn more about this unique, online, self-paced program at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify

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Softening and Opening, a Meditation with Sean Fargo May 08, 2024

What happens when someone tells you to relax? Often, the directive to relax or let go results in further tightening. When we attempt to relax on demand, we just can’t make it happen. Stress can then increase as we wrestle with what we may perceive as failure. Things change when we view letting go as a process versus a goal.

In this mindfulness meditation, guided by Sean Fargo, we’re invited to soften our attachment to doing, to soften our need for control. In the process, we experience degrees of opening into the spaciousness of our experience. No longer wrestling with right or wrong, relaxed or not, we get closer to the calm we long for.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

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Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Trauma-Sensitive Meditation Options, with Dr. Willoughby Britton May 01, 2024

You may have been told that trauma lives in the body until we’re willing to feel it. Research shows, however, that it is counter-productive to turn toward this pain before we feel resourced, safe and supported. So, how are we to know when to apply the gas in our practice, versus when to hit the brakes?

In this episode, we hear from mindfulness and meditation researcher, Dr. Willoughby Britton. She shares helpful advice you can apply today to bring more trauma sensitivity to your practice and teaching. Her research into the adverse effects of meditation (Episode #047) has helped her understand how meditation guides can help people feel more empowered in their practice.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Dr. Willoughby Britton’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Sensing Beyond The Body, a Meditation with Sean Fargo Apr 24, 2024

Ancient wisdom traditions recognize the mind not as something limited to the brain, but as an expansive, heart-based awareness that extends throughout the body and beyond. One benefit of mindfulness meditation is that it can help us learn to connect to such awareness, for a profound experience of presence.

In this guided meditation, led by Sean Fargo, we are invited to bring an awake and alert energy to the body as a whole. Using this embodied energy, we then sense into the space beyond for a more expansive experience of the mind.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Becoming Your Own Hero, with Brian Johnson and Sean Fargo Apr 17, 2024

Brian Johnson, philosopher, founder and CEO, has spent the better part of the last 20 years studying ancient wisdom and the modern science that supports it. His new book, Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential, partners that wisdom with the practices that help people integrate it into their daily lives.

Described as “more wisdom in less time,” Areté is a collection of 451 potentially life changing ideas, presented in easy-to-digest microchapters. The book mirrors Brian’s popular online app, Heroic.us, a self-development platform that helps us become the heroes we are meant to be.

In this episode, Brian Johnson speaks with Sean Fargo about what it means to be a hero, and why Areté is the culmination of his life’s work.

This podcast is brought to you by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Cultivating Courage, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Apr 10, 2024

When we think of courage we often imagine a fierce energy. One that pushes obstacles aside, cuts through barriers and fights battles. But courage can have a gentle energy, too. Sometimes, courage can look and feel like steady, caring presence - especially during mindfulness meditation and the practice of feeling what we feel.

In this guided meditation, led by Sean Fargo, we are invited to sense into this moment, just as it is. With courage, we practice staying with our experience, allowing it to change and unfold as it is naturally inclined to do.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Hosting Your First Mindfulness Retreat, with Cory Muscara Apr 03, 2024

Mindfulness retreats are a valuable opportunity to step away from routine and apply ourselves to deepening our mindfulness. We may devote a single day or multiple days to retreat, either at home or at a retreat center.

Meditation teachers who have completed retreats of their own know full well the benefits of such focused attention on their practice. However, the thought of guiding others through this intimate, intense experience can be intimidating.

In this episode, we hear from meditation teacher and retreat leader Cory Muscara. Cory offers practical advice on leading meditation retreats and explains why it’s far more accessible than some mindfulness teachers may think.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Cory Muscara’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

Related Episode: Finding Unconditional Freedom, with Jeremy Lipkowitz and Sean Fargo
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Tending To This Changing Moment, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Mar 27, 2024

To tend to something is to show it kindness, gentleness and compassion: to offer it our caring attention. In this guided meditation, led by Sean Fargo, we’re asked to tend to our present experience with kind, loving and spacious awareness.

As we witness change in the body with love and care, the offering of space allows this moment to continue unfolding without the added pain of resistance.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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5 Essential Skills for Embodied Mindfulness, with Lynda Caesara and Sean Fargo Mar 20, 2024

What we learn from our most beloved mindfulness teachers isn’t always in the words they say, but in how they show up. Just being near someone who exudes a grounded presence and an open heart can be co-regulating and profoundly healing.

Embodied mindfulness is a lifelong practice, but it’s one we can all take part in. Bringing attention and awareness to subtle energies in the body enhances our ability to work with these energies and expand our compassionate presence.

In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with bodyworker and energy practitioner Lynda Caesara. Lynda presents us with five essential practices for connecting to, and harnessing, energy in the body.

Please listen in a safe, quiet space where you can practice along with us. To return to these practices at any time, use the following timestamps as reference.

Centering Practice (16:03)
Grounding Practice (38:25)
Me/Not Me Practice (1:05:35)
Edge Practice (1:21:23)
Tying Our Fibers (1:29:34)
A 2nd Chakra Practice (1:35:51)
A Practice For 9 Chakras (1:53:12)
The Basics - A Guided Practice (2:10:31)

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Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Grounding Down and Rising Up, a Meditation with Sean Fargo Mar 13, 2024

When blown about by life’s movement and strong winds of change, mindfully grounding can have a calming, stabilizing effect. Sensing only downward energy, however, can sometimes have a heavy, depressive effect.

In this guided meditation, led by Sean Fargo, we are invited into a state of balance by sensing two opposing energies. We ground down into the earth’s stability and support while also rising up into a dignified, spacious presence.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Feeling Cared For, with Rick Hanson Mar 06, 2024

At the very core of our being lies an indestructible, untouched goodness. No matter the suffering we’ve experienced in life, we’re never irrevocably damaged. We are worthy of the care we long for. The question is, do we believe it?

In this episode, we hear from Dr. Rick Hanson, meditation teacher, New York Times best-selling author and Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. Dr. Hanson highlights the key inner resources developed through mindfulness that can open our hearts to receiving care.

Dr. Rick Hanson has previously appeared on the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast in Episode #070, How to Hardwire Happiness and Episode #006, Neuro-Learning and Amplifying Our Meditation Practice.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Dr. Rick Hanson’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Caring Awareness Of This Moment, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Feb 28, 2024

What does care feel like? When we care for something, we offer it our attention. We tend to it with gentleness. To remain present with something or someone, to listen and observe, to let be, allow for and accept. These are all caring acts. These descriptors are also characteristics of mindfulness.

In this guided meditation with Sean Fargo, we’re invited to open to this moment, just as it is, with caring awareness. Calm and contentment arise as we turn to sensations in our body and heart with increasingly deeper layers of care.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Thinking Our Way to Health, with Ellen Langer and Sean Fargo Feb 21, 2024

Can we improve our health simply by changing our minds? Dr. Ellen Langer says it’s not only possible, but that the mind has far greater influence on our bodies than we currently imagine.

Her belief that we can think our way to better health is rooted in over 40 years of mindfulness research. With each of her 13 books, Ellen Langer has persuaded more and more people that mindfulness makes our health, and everything in our lives, better.

In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with Dr. Langer about the research behind her most recent book, The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health. Ellen shares why mindfulness is key for both preventing and healing serious chronic illness.

This podcast is brought to you by the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Loving-Kindness For A Loved One, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Feb 14, 2024

Loving-kindness meditation, or metta meditation, helps us cultivate feelings of warmth and goodwill toward others. Ideally, we extend this love to all beings, everywhere. For most of us, however, such a boundless expression of care is something we need to work up to.

In this loving-kindness meditation guided by Sean Fargo, we are invited to open the heart by practicing with someone we already have loving feelings for. By bringing mindfulness to the sensation of metta in our body, heart and mind, we encourage loving-kindness to grow and expand.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

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Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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The Tradition of Loving-Kindness, with Donald Rothberg Feb 07, 2024

Loving-kindness, or metta meditation, is a unique, thousands of years old method of uncovering the boundless warmth at the center of our being. This contemplative practice is often taught alongside mindfulness, as the awakened heart and mind cannot be separated.

In this episode, we hear from Donald Rothberg, a leading spiritual teacher and author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World. Rothberg teaches on the history and tradition of loving-kindness and what keeps this practice relevant for us today.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Donald Rothberg’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Befriending Body, Emotion, And Spirit, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Jan 31, 2024

Every emotion has value, even those we might label as uncomfortable or unwelcome. Anger, for example, can help us set healthy boundaries. Grief can help us process loss, and jealousy can provide us with deep insight. When we allow ourselves to feel what we feel, there’s always something to be learned.

In this mindfulness meditation guided by Sean Fargo, we are invited to tenderly listen to the body, the heart and spirit, to sense into what emotions are present and to practice presence with them. By befriending the entirety of our experience, we identify not with fleeting phenomena, but with the loving awareness that takes it all in.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

Related Episode: Connecting With Emotions Through the Body, with Sean Fargo
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A Mindful Approach to Imposter Syndrome, with Lou Redmond and Sean Fargo Jan 24, 2024

Imposter syndrome is felt by new and experienced mindfulness teachers alike. It is a common human experience. Of course, we’d prefer not to feel uncomfortable, and instead, to feel ever-confident in our practice and teachings. In reality, however, imposter syndrome need not be overcome.

By taking a mindful approach to imposter syndrome, we can welcome it as an indicator of our care, humility, courage and growth.

In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with Lou Redmond, meditation teacher, author, and host of the mindfulness podcast, The Art & Business of Meditation. Lou shares suggestions on how we might transform and transcend the experience of imposter syndrome, instead of overcoming it.

This podcast is brought to you by the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Bringing Curiosity to Shame, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Jan 17, 2024

Shame is the uncomfortable feeling we face having done something we don’t feel good about. Unlike regret, the mindful acknowledgment of a mistake, shame has a quality of self-judgment to it. And whereas guilt is focused on the action, shame is directed to our self as a whole. This can make it challenging to address and compassionately let go of our shame.

In this mindfulness meditation guided by Sean Fargo, we’re invited to face our shame directly. By bringing curiosity to shame and how it manifests in the body, we may find that it does not define us, nor does it have the power we once thought it did.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Finding Unconditional Freedom, with Jeremy Lipkowitz and Sean Fargo Jan 10, 2024

Life has its ups and downs. It’s just not possible to arrange our world so that we only ever experience the highs. The promise of mindfulness meditation is that it can allow us to access contentment anytime, even amidst significant career and life changes, loss, overwhelming emotions, and the many forms of suffering that we, as humans, share.

In this episode, Sean Fargo interviews mindfulness meditation teacher Jeremy Lipkowitz on his experience shifting away from a fixed identity based on unachievable standards. Mindfulness has helped Jeremy connect to a sense of freedom that is not dependent on conditions being just right.

This podcast is brought to you by the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Acknowledging Fear, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Jan 03, 2024

We all have fears. Some live on the surface, impacting our everyday lives, while others are more subtle. We may experience fear of failure, unworthiness, fear of the unknown, or fear of being alone. It’s also common to fear abandonment, engulfment, or the ultimate fear: non-existence, the fear of death and dying.

Although it may not be possible to become completely fearless, we can find more spaciousness and peace by being with and exploring our fears. In this guided meditation, Sean Fargo invites us to open to our fears. As we sit with whatever fear that arises, exploring with a caring curiosity, we might find that our fears are not what we thought they were. They may even seem less scary.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Gratitude Meditation Practices, With Sean Fargo Dec 27, 2023

There are many ways to bring gratitude into your meditation practice, and just as many reasons for doing so. Sensing into gratitude can help settle the body and open the mind. It also brings mindfulness to the infinite beauty that is available in each and every moment.

In this compilation episode, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises, shares several gratitude meditation practices. The last one is rarely taught in the context of gratitude, but may be the single most powerful means of stoking appreciation for the present moment.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk who has taught mindfulness and meditation to individuals, corporations, health and government organizations, prisons, and hospitals around the world. His website, Mindfulness Exercises, has shared free and premium mindfulness resources with over 20 million people worldwide.

This talk is a compilation of Sean Fargo’s teachings to those enrolled in his Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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A Treasured Moment, A Gratitude Meditation with Sean Fargo Dec 20, 2023

Gratitude meditation is a heart-opening practice that can soothe and relax us by bringing our attention to all that’s going well in our lives and in our own bodies. By shifting our focus from negative thoughts and harmful patterns, we make room for the positive to flourish.

In this guided meditation led by Sean Fargo, we cultivate gratitude by bringing to mind a past treasured moment. Sensing appreciation as it is felt by the body deepens the practice by moving it beyond a cognitive exercise.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

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Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

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Lucid Dreaming for Mindful Living, with Andrew Holecek Dec 13, 2023

Have you ever become aware that you’re dreaming, while still in the dream? Lucid dreaming is the act of becoming conscious that we’re dreaming. It’s a skill we can intentionally develop to become more lucid in our waking state. Those who regularly practice mindfulness meditation may be particularly adept at lucid dreaming.

In this episode, author and spiritual teacher Andrew Holecek introduces lucid dreaming, dream yoga, and how to best induce these deeply meditative states. Learn more about the benefits of nocturnal meditations in Episode #306, Mindfulness While Sleeping, or start with the preliminary practice of Liminal Dreaming, introduced in Episode #064.

Andrew Holecek teaches meditation, lucid dreaming, and Buddhist death preparation practices worldwide. His books include “Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming” and “Dreams of Light: The Profound Daytime Practice of Lucid Dreaming.”

This talk is a brief excerpt from Andrew Holecek’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Allowing for Calm, A Sleep Meditation with Sean Fargo Dec 06, 2023

Meditating regularly, at any time of day, can help us fall asleep sooner and sleep more soundly when it’s time for bed. During daytime meditation, we typically try to stay awake and alert while practicing. With sleep meditation, the invitation is to let calm and relaxation take over, to allow yourself to drift off to sleep.

This calm and spacious guided meditation with Sean Fargo can be used as a daytime practice or as a sleep meditation. To meditate yourself to sleep, practice this meditation while lying down in a comfortable position with eyes closed. Stay present with the narration, yet allow for drowsiness as it arises. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

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Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Inviting Devotion Into Mindfulness Practice, with Oren Jay Sofer and Sean Fargo Nov 29, 2023

Devotion is not a quality that’s often talked about in secular mindfulness. But perhaps it should be.

Devotion can be an inspiring means of getting out of our heads, out of our own way, and connecting to our own hearts and communities. It need not be reserved for the divine. For mindfulness teachers, devotion can also help reinforce a sense of humility and reverence that makes our teaching both more impactful and fulfilling.

In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with Oren Jay Sofer about his new book, “Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity and Love.” They discuss the quality of devotion and why we all could benefit from inviting devotion into our mindfulness practice.

This podcast is brought to you by the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Three Centers, A Body Scan Meditation with Sean Fargo Nov 22, 2023

The three centers of belly, heart, and head are often the locus of strong emotions. We experience powerful sensations in these areas, both unpleasant and pleasant. With mindfulness, we can practice feeling whatever we feel in these areas, while softening labels of good or bad, right or wrong.

In this guided meditation, Sean Fargo of Mindfulness Exercises presents a mindful body scan with a particular focus on the three centers of belly, heart and head. The practice encourages a tender presence and a graceful acceptance of all that arises in our experience.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

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Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Anxiety Awareness, with Dr. Jud Brewer Nov 15, 2023

Myths and misconceptions about anxiety can prevent us from overcoming our struggles with it, holding us back from the greater calm and ease we seek. When we don’t understand the habit cycles around anxiety we can get stuck repeating them, unable to move forward.

In this episode, best-selling author, researcher and psychiatrist Dr. Jud Brewer shines a light on anxiety. Dr. Jud combines ancient Buddhist psychology with modern neuroscience to help bring awareness to how anxiety functions and what ultimately is most helpful for minimizing anxiety-related suffering.

Dr. Jud Brewer previously spoke about anxiety in episode #041, Unwinding Anxiety. In that episode, he breaks down the steps necessary to mindfully interrupt the anxiety habit loop.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Dr. Jud’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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A Heartful Body Scan Meditation, with Sean Fargo Nov 08, 2023

A body scan meditation can be deeply relaxing, but relaxation is not the goal of mindfulness. Instead, mindfulness expands our capacity to be present with what is, whether or not what we experience is wanted.

When our mindfulness is imbued with a tender, caring, heartfulness, we’re capable of presence with that which may be uncomfortable or challenging. Paradoxically, lovingly accepting all that we experience often results in greater relaxation.

In this guided meditation, Sean Fargo, the founder of Mindfulness Exercises, guides us through a mindful body scan. The practice emphasizes allowing for whatever we observe, as we apply a gentle heartfulness to our experience.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
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Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Celebrating Mental Fitness, with John Macaskill and Sean Fargo Nov 01, 2023

The value of mindfulness isn’t always recognized in professions where high performance, mental toughness, and physical strength are celebrated. But what if we expanded our view of what it means to be fit, applauding mental fitness the same way we do physical fitness?

Jon Macaskill is a former Navy SEAL turned mindfulness coach, speaker, and podcaster. He is also a graduate of the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. In this episode, he speaks with Sean Fargo about the professional and personal fulfillment he found via mindfulness, and why, after 24 years in the Navy, he is now inspired to share it with others.

This podcast is brought to you by the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Embodied Awareness of Breath, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Oct 25, 2023

When you bring mindfulness to the breath, do you include the entirety of your body, incorporating all your senses? Mindfulness of breathing is not merely a cognitive process, one that takes place in the head.

In this guided meditation, Sean Fargo, founder of Mindfulness Exercises, invites us to observe our breathing using the body itself. Embodying awareness in this experiential manner connects us to the here and now, the only place where genuine happiness and contentment exists.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Cultivating Self-Compassion Despite Obstacles, with Sean Fargo Oct 18, 2023

Offering compassion as a response to perceived suffering is a natural, human thing to do. Why then, is it so difficult to practice self-compassion when we, ourselves, are hurting?

In this episode, Sean Faro identifies some common obstacles to self-compassion, and invites us to overcome them by slowing down and feeling our feelings with patience, tenderness and care.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk who has taught mindfulness and meditation to individuals, corporations, health and government organizations, prisons, and hospitals around the world. His website, Mindfulness Exercises, has shared free and premium mindfulness resources with over 20 million people worldwide.

This talk is a compilation of Sean Fargo’s teachings to those enrolled in his Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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A Moment of Self-Compassion, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Oct 11, 2023

When we’re going through difficult times, it’s easy to think we’re alone in our pain or that our hardships will never end. But challenging times are a normal part of being human. Embracing such moments as opportunities for self-compassion can help bring ease to our anguish.

In this guided meditation with Sean Fargo, we’re invited to journey through the foundations of self-compassion. We bring mindfulness to a challenging moment, recognize we’re not alone in our suffering, and give ourselves the same loving-kindness we would offer to a good friend.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
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Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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The 4 Pillars of Well-Being, with Dr. Richie Davidson Oct 04, 2023

Well-being can be an abstract term. We’ve all heard that things like eating well, exercising and meditating are good for us, but we might be unsure why, or if they even work.

For mindfulness and meditation researcher Dr. Richie Davidson, well-being is a measurable skill. And like any skill, it can be cultivated with practice. Well-being, he says, improves when we train in four specific areas: awareness, connection, insight and purpose.

In this episode, Davidson introduces us to these pillars of well-being that, when nurtured, result in a life of greater comfort, health and happiness. To learn more about the science behind this transformation, listen to his previous episode, #051: The Modern Science of Mindfulness.

Dr. Richard J. Davidson is a research professor of psychology and psychiatry and the Founder and Director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His non-profit, Healthy Minds Innovations, uses the discoveries and insights gleaned from research to create tools to help people around the world build skills of well-being.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Dr. Richie Davidson’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Appreciating a Moment of Body Awareness, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Sep 27, 2023

To pause, be still, and sense into the body and breath is a precious gift. These quiet moments of meditation benefit us greatly. Intentionally appreciating such moments increases their effectiveness, and further gladdens the heart and mind.

In this guided meditation with Sean Fargo, we ground ourselves in body awareness. We’re given permission to feel what we feel, and to welcome all of it. The meditation closes with a moment of appreciation for the time spent bringing gentle curiosity to our experience.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
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Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Why the Mind Won’t Stay Still, with Liam McClintock (Karuna) Sep 20, 2023

The directive to just ‘be here now’ as a solution to everyday discomfort and mental agitation sounds simple enough. But in practice, it’s not at all easy. Why does the mind seem to be inherently unstable?

In this episode, we hear from Liam McClintock, founder and CEO of FitMind and a graduate of the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. He shares both ancient wisdom, and the latest neuroscience, to uncover the causes of our discontentment.

By understanding how the mind works, we can better work with it to realize lasting stability, happiness and calm.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Liam McClintock’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Contentment with Simply Being, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Sep 13, 2023

In a state of contentment, we fully accept the truth of this present moment, just as it is. There’s nothing missing and there’s nothing here that shouldn’t be. Mindfulness meditation, the art of practicing non-judgmental presence, can help us cultivate contentment for a more satisfactory experience of our everyday life.

In this guided meditation, Sean Fargo invites us to ground ourselves in the body and in this moment by sensing into physical sensation. Having rooted ourselves in presence, we are encouraged to bring mindfulness to the quality of contentment. Familiarizing ourselves with the sensation of contentment helps us to be more aware of it outside our formal practice.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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How to Hardwire Happiness, with Rick Hanson Sep 06, 2023

Positive states, such as happiness, joy, moments of embodied presence or mindfulness are common, but they’re often short-lasting. Is it possible to transform these fleeting states into lasting traits? Even in moments of hardship or suffering, we can still be rooted in happiness by growing the good that lasts.

In this episode, psychologist, author and mindfulness teacher Dr. Rick Hanson teaches us why hardwiring happiness is indeed possible, and how to do it with positive neuroplasticity training.

Rick Hanson is a Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and a New York Times best-selling author. He previously joined the Mindfulness Exercises podcast to talk about neuro-learning and amplifying our meditation practice.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Dr. Rick Hanson’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Opening to Gladness, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Aug 30, 2023

Who makes your heart sing? Sensing into the presence of someone who loves us deeply, who offers us unconditional kindness, can help us connect to present-moment feelings of gladness. This may be someone we know personally, or anyone we look up to as a source of care and comfort.

In this guided meditation with Sean Fargo, we’re invited to bring to mind one such person, and to sense into the gladness we feel when in their (imagined) presence. We explore that gladness as a sensation in the body and breath. By doing so, we become more familiar with it, and thus potentially more aware of its presence in everyday life.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Practice with eyes opened or closed, in a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
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Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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An Apprenticeship with Grief, with Francis Weller Aug 23, 2023

How can we bring mindfulness to grief? Grief is something we all go through, for ourselves, our loved ones, our communities, and our planet. And yet, many of us are afraid to open up to the strong emotions of grief, sorrow and loss.

In this episode, we hear from psychotherapist, author and soul activist Francis Weller on how developing a long-term apprenticeship with grief can help us metabolize our sorrow and stay present for the fullness of this life.

Francis Weller, MFT, is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures and poetic traditions, a style he calls soul-centered psychotherapy. He is the author of several books on loss, sorrow, and grief, and offers a 4-session audio course, An Apprenticeship with Sorrow: Community, Ritual, and the Sacred Work of Grief.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Francis Weller’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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We Are Capable of Meeting This Moment, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Aug 16, 2023

Each of us is far more capable than we generally give ourselves credit for. This is especially true when it comes to mindfulness meditation. We may feel as though our minds are too busy or full to be still. And yet, we’ve all had glimpses of what it feels like to be fully present in body and mind. Sustaining this presence takes practice, but it’s something we can do.

In this guided meditation with Sean Fargo, we’re invited to place our attention on our natural capacity to meet this moment, just as it is, with presence and awareness. Through this practice, we strengthen this ability, allowing us to meet deeper layers of our experience with mindfulness.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Find a posture that balances comfort with alertness, whether standing, seated, or lying down. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Modeling Mindfulness, with Sean Fargo Aug 09, 2023

We are always modeling behavior for others, whether we are aware of it or not. We can choose to model a mindful way of being. When we embody mindful presence, we radiate a stable, calm energy that helps others feel safe and gives them permission to be their most authentic selves.

In this episode we hear from Sean Fargo on what it means to model mindfulness, and how we can do so not only as mindfulness teachers, but as anyone with an interest in helping others feel supported and accepted.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk who has taught mindfulness and meditation to individuals, corporations, health and government organizations, prisons, and hospitals around the world. His website, Mindfulness Exercises, has shared free and premium mindfulness resources with over 20 million people worldwide.

This talk is a compilation of Sean Fargo’s teachings to those enrolled in his Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Tending to the Body, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Aug 02, 2023

The body is our home. It carries us through our days and nights, collecting information along the way. Our bodies tell the story of past pleasure and pain, and hold the energy of our thoughts and emotions. Offering our bodies our tender, caring presence can help make this home a more comfortable place.

In this guided meditation with Sean Fargo, we’re invited to stand, sit or lie down with the body, to explore the sensation that is present and offer it our supportive, loving attention. We do so not to reach a specific end goal, but simply to practice accepting and being with what is here.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Find a posture that balances comfort with alertness. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

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Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Liminal Dreaming as a Mindful Practice, with Andrew Holecek Jul 26, 2023

What if falling asleep during meditation wasn’t a hindrance at all but, rather, an opportunity to mindfully explore liminal space? The intentional practice of liminal dreaming allows us to begin carrying mindfulness across the threshold between the waking and dreaming state.

In this episode, Andrew Holecek teaches us how to bring mindfulness to liminal states of mind. Liminal dreaming sets the foundation for the more advanced nighttime practice of lucid dreaming, but also, has its own unique benefits. For an overview of this and other nocturnal mindfulness practices, listen to Episode #036, Mindfulness While Sleeping, with Andrew Holecek

Andrew Holecek is an author and spiritual teacher who teaches worldwide on meditation, lucid dreaming, and Buddhist death preparation practices. His books include “Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming” and “Dreams of Light: The Profound Daytime Practice of Lucid Dreaming.”

This talk is a brief excerpt from Andrew Holecek’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Breathing with Curiosity, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Jul 19, 2023

How often do we pause, not merely to acknowledge the breath, but to intently set our focus upon it with a caring and curious mind? The breath is perhaps the most consistent process and presence in our lives, and yet so often goes unnoticed.

In this guided meditation with Sean Fargo, we’re invited to answer the open-ended question, ‘how does this one breath feel, right now?’ As we explore, we set the foundation for a more stable, yet spacious mind. A mind that is available for ever deepening layers of insight.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Find a posture that balances comfort with alertness, whether standing, seated, or lying down. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
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Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Leading Difficult Conversations with Mindful Presence, with Oren Jay Sofer Jul 12, 2023

Perhaps the most significant thing we can do to improve our relationships is to be more present in our conversations. But how do we train ourselves to lead with presence, especially when the exchange is difficult?

In this episode, we hear from author and mindful communications expert Oren Jay Sofer on how being present refines both our listening and speaking skills. By practicing this, we learn to express the truth of our experience in ways others can hear, and we help them to do the same.

Oren Jay Sofer is a former Buddhist monk who teaches mindfulness, meditation and Nonviolent Communication in both secular and Buddhist communities. In a previous episode, he shared about the foundations of Mindful Communication.

Oren Jay Sofer joined Sean Fargo as a guest teacher in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive weekly live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team. They are joined by the world’s most respected voices in mindfulness and meditation who present on a wide range of topics.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Welcoming This Moment, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Jul 05, 2023

At any given moment, we experience sensations, thoughts and emotions, some of which are pleasant and some of which are not. This diversity of experience is part of the fullness of being human. By allowing for the truth of this moment, just as it is, we avoid the pain of resistance, suppression or avoidance. We touch the quality of contentment and experience great peace.

In this guided meditation with Sean Fargo, we’re invited to explore what it is like to welcome each moment as it arises, with a kind and open curiosity. We practice relating to everything in our awareness as if it was fresh and new, absent of our prejudice, judgment and expectation.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Find a posture that balances comfort with alertness, whether standing, seated, or lying down. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
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Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Feeling Safe in Meditation, with David Treleaven Jun 28, 2023

Meditation can help us heal from trauma, but only if we feel safe while practicing.

By implementing strategies for safety in meditation, we learn to be present with discomfort without becoming overwhelmed. We develop agency over our practice, and in the process, we become empowered to direct our own healing.

In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with educator, author and trauma-informed meditation expert David Treleaven about the tools that can help us feel safe in meditation and how to best offer them as teachers.

For more insight into the meaning of trauma-sensitive mindfulness, listen to episode #022, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven.

Please note that any conversation about trauma can be evocative. As you listen, remain mindful and self-responsive.

This episode is an excerpt from David Treleavan’s appearance as a guest teacher in Sean Fargo’s Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive weekly live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team. They are joined by the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers who present on a wide range of topics.

Learn to help people feel safe during mindfulness meditation. In our new, 15-hour certification course for mindfulness teachers and meditation guides, you’ll learn the basics of trauma-sensitive mindfulness from world-renowned experts including David Treleaven, Willoughby Britton, and Chris Germer. Register now at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/trauma-sensitive-mindfulness-course/

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Mindfulness of the Head Space, A Meditation with Sean Fargo Jun 21, 2023

We’re often “caught up in our heads,” pushed and pulled by our thoughts. In mindfulness practice, we typically balance this thought-centered focus by directing awareness away from the head to the body and heart.

In this guided meditation, Sean Fargo invites us to take a different approach. We practice intentionally remaining in the headspace, observing sensation (versus thoughts) in and around the head with tenderness, care and a gentle awareness.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Find a posture that balances comfort with alertness, whether standing, seated, or lying down. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Overcoming Porn Addiction with Mindfulness, with Jeremy Lipkowitz and Sean Fargo Jun 14, 2023

Most addictions arise from an effort to mask, avoid or escape from pain and suffering. What’s more, the shame that is common to addiction increases our pain, making it challenging to seek treatment.

In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with Jeremy Lipkowitz, a mindfulness meditation teacher and coach who helps people overcome their addictions to porn and digital media. Jeremy is a teacher with Mindfulness Exercises and the host of the podcast, Unhooked: Breaking Porn Addiction. He explains how mindfulness and its heart-based practices can help free us not just from porn, but from any addictive behavior.

This podcast is brought to you by the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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A Meditation on Feeling Tones, with Sean Fargo Jun 07, 2023

As thought, emotion, or sensation arises in our field of awareness, it quickly gets labeled as pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. This process of classifying our likes and dislikes is not wrong or bad. But when we mindlessly, habitually react to these labels, we sometimes bring harm to ourselves or others.

Mindfulness of the feeling tones of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral is the first step in transforming this reactivity into a skillful, healthy response. This practice helps set the foundation for resilience and a balanced, stable mind.

In this guided meditation, Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo invites us to become aware of sensation in the body. Whether we feel that sensation as pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, we practice holding all of it with tenderness and care.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Find a posture that balances comfort with alertness, whether standing, seated, or lying down. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Please remember that mindfulness practice is not a replacement for therapy. Listen with care and self-compassion and practice within your window of tolerance. If this, or any other episode, triggers overwhelming, uncomfortable feelings, contact your healthcare provider.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
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Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Connecting Self-Compassion and Mindfulness, with Chris Germer May 31, 2023

Mindfulness and self-compassion go hand in hand. Each enhances the other. As practitioners and as teachers, however, understanding the differences between the two can help us discern when and how to most skillfully apply each for growth and healing.

In this episode, we hear from Chris Germer, one of the world’s foremost experts on mindful self-compassion. Chris Germer, PhD is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program with Kristin Neff in 2010. MSC has since been taught to over 250,000 people worldwide. Dr. Germer is author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion and co-author of Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Chris Germer’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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A Meditation for Frustration, with Sean Fargo May 24, 2023

Annoyance, frustration and anger can be challenging emotions to work with. We often judge ourselves for feeling frustrated, equating this emotion with negativity or perhaps thinking it makes us a ‘bad person’. Other times, we might feel so righteous about our frustration that we hold to it tightly.

By exploring how frustration feels in the body, we can learn to be present as it arises, neither avoiding nor grasping at it. In the resulting space that’s created, we can invite in self-compassion and understanding. After all, these emotions are not good or bad, nor right or wrong, they are what make us human.

In this guided meditation, Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo asks us to recall a past moment of slight annoyance or mild frustration. By sitting with this sensation and observing it, we learn we can let it move as it wants to.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Find a posture that balances comfort with alertness, whether standing, seated, or lying down. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Please remember that mindfulness practice is not a replacement for therapy. Listen with care and self-compassion and practice within your window of tolerance. If this, or any other episode, triggers overwhelming, uncomfortable feelings, contact your healthcare provider.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Mindful Weight Loss Through Habit Change, with Dr. Jud Brewer May 17, 2023

When it comes to losing weight or overcoming addiction, which is more powerful: the ancient wisdom of mindfulness or the strength of your willpower? The answer may surprise you.

In this episode, we hear from author and researcher Dr. Judson Brewer, a pioneer in the science of mindfulness-based habit change. Dr. Jud explains the neurological mechanisms behind habit formation and why losing weight is unsuccessful when we try to force change.

Dr. Jud Brewer is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and author who studies the intersection between mindfulness and addiction. He has written two New York Times best-sellers, The Craving Mind and Unwinding Anxiety. His 2015 TED Talk, “A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit” has been viewed over 20 million times.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Dr. Judson Brewer’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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How Therapy Can Evolve, with Jake Eagle and Sean Fargo May 10, 2023

Is traditional talk therapy as effective as it could be? If individualism and holding too tightly to a single identity is what ails us, perhaps reifying the past in a one-on-one setting is not the most powerful method for moving forward.

In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with Jake Eagle, licensed psychotherapist and co-author of The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose - In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day. After 30 years of practice, he now refers to himself as a meta-therapist, coaching and mentoring people to see what’s possible with just a simple shift in consciousness.

For an interview with Jake about his book, listen to episode #050, Microdosing Mindfulness, with Jake Eagle and Sean Fargo.

This podcast is brought to you by the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Seven Directions Meditation, with Sean Fargo May 03, 2023

By turning our attention to sensation and energy around and within the body, we can access increasingly more subtle levels of inner wisdom. But where does the energy of the body begin and end?

In this guided meditation, Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo guides us through an advanced body scan practice. We move our awareness clockwise around the body, above and below, sensing into the energy within and all around us.

Please listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Find a posture that balances comfort with alertness, whether standing, seated, or lying down. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
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Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 guided meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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The Modern Science of Mindfulness, with Dr. Richie Davidson Apr 26, 2023

What if you could improve your health and wellbeing, not only for yourself but for generations to come, just by practicing mindfulness?

The modern science of mindfulness took a turn with the discovery of neuroplasticity - the simple fact that our brains can change. Now, we’re learning more about the mind-body connection and how meditation influences not only our brain, but our physiology and the expression of our genes.

In this episode, Dr. Richie Davidson, a pioneer in mindfulness and meditation research, highlights the breakthroughs of modern science which have helped us to better understand both meditation and ourselves.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Dr. Richie Davidson’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Microdosing Mindfulness, with Jake Eagle and Sean Fargo Apr 19, 2023

If you could realize the stress-reducing and heart-opening benefits of mindfulness with a practice that takes less than 1 minute per day, would you practice more often?

Neuroscience has shown that when it comes to changing our brains, consistency is more important than the duration of our practice. But it’s not always easy to fit in a meditation daily. Microdosing mindfulness might be the solution we need to practice more often, and with less resistance.

In this episode, Sean Fargo speaks with Jake Eagle, co-author of The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose - In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day. For an interview with Jake’s co-author, Michael Amster, listen to episode #048, The Power of Awe, with Michael Amster and Sean Fargo.

This podcast is brought to you by the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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A Moment of Happiness Meditation, with Sean Fargo Apr 12, 2023

Most of us only want to be happy and free from our pain. But how comfortable are we with the sensation of happiness? It can be challenging to be present with this emotion, especially in the face of so much global suffering. But it’s of great benefit to both ourselves and the world to be capable of connecting to joy. When working with happiness in meditation, we do so not as a means of bypassing or avoiding negative feelings, but to spend time familiarizing ourselves with positive emotion.

In this guided meditation with Sean Fargo, we’re invited to cultivate feelings of happiness by bringing to mind a past joyful experience. By working with memory, we invite happiness into the present moment. In this way, happiness is always available, here and now.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. Find a posture that balances comfort with alertness, whether standing, seated, or lying down. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
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Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 Guided Meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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The Power of Awe, with Michael Amster and Sean Fargo Apr 05, 2023

When was the last time you lost yourself in a moment of awe? For many of us, awe is associated with life’s most significant, profound moments. But awe is ever present and always available, even in the ordinary.

In this episode, we learn about a 15-second practice that can help us become more available for the experience of everyday awe. Research shows that regularly connecting to this unique emotion reduces stress, anxiety, and burnout, minimizes chronic pain, and helps us live with more joy, clarity, ease and wonder.

Listen to Sean Fargo speak with Michael Amster about his new book, The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose - In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day.

This podcast is brought to you by the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Identifying Adverse Effects of Meditation, with Dr. Willoughby Britton Mar 29, 2023

Meditation’s benefits are often overhyped, while its discomfort, challenges, or ongoing adverse experiences tend to be little mentioned - even though the latter happens to around 1 in 10 meditators. This disparity can leave those who struggle with meditation feeling very alone and unsure where to find help.

In this episode, we hear from clinical psychologist, professor and mindfulness expert Dr. Willoughby Britton. Willoughby presents a thorough, research-based overview on how to identify the adverse effects of meditation. She explains which ones are most likely to happen during mindfulness-based meditations. Perhaps more importantly, she offers both practitioners and teachers suggestions on what to do and where to go for help with the challenges of contemplative practice.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Dr. Willoughby Britton’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Sensing Into the Heart Meditation, with Sean Fargo Mar 22, 2023

How often do we pause to ask the heart what it might want most in this moment? Most of us spend our days stuck in our heads, problem-solving and operating out of habit, disconnected from the heart and its needs. If we stopped to listen, what would the heart say?

In this guided meditation, Sean Fargo invites us to sense into the heart with caring curiosity, to enhance loving acceptance of whatever is present in the heart right now. We are guided to notice the presence of opposites - light or heavy, dry or moist, pleasant or unpleasant, numb or full of emotion. Perhaps in our hearts, we hold all of these things.

Listen in a safe, quiet place. Find a posture that balances comfort with alertness, whether standing, seated, or lying down. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 Guided Meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Easing into Self-Compassion, with Sean Fargo Mar 15, 2023

Are you able to offer yourself loving-kindness in the midst of your moments of suffering? Sometimes, we find it far easier to extend compassion to others than to ourselves. But all beings everywhere are worthy of this grace, including us.

In this episode, Sean Fargo helps us better understand self-compassion - what it is, and also, what it is not. Sean explains that self-compassion is not an all-or-nothing endeavor, and offers advice on how we might begin to ease into this feeling of self-love.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk who has taught mindfulness and meditation to individuals, corporations, health and government organizations, prisons, and hospitals around the world. His website, Mindfulness Exercises, has shared free and premium mindfulness resources with over 20 million people worldwide.

This talk is a compilation of Sean Fargo’s teachings to those enrolled in his Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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The ABCs of Mindfulness for Kids, with Susan Kaiser Greenland Mar 08, 2023

What would the world look like if all children everywhere were introduced to mindfulness? Kids as young as three years old can understand mindfulness concepts. But teaching mindfulness to kids is quite different from teaching to adults. It takes a special skill set and understanding.

In this episode, we hear from best-selling author and world-renowned expert on mindfulness for kids and teens, Susan Kaiser Greenland. Susan talks about the ABCs of mindfulness for kids - attention, balance and compassion. She offers actionable insight regarding how to teach mindfulness to children in a fun and accessible manner.

Listen and learn more about how to help kids connect to the transformative power of mindfulness.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Susan Kaiser Greenland’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Caring Curiosity Meditation, with Sean Fargo Mar 01, 2023

What’s uncomfortable or challenging in our lives tends to become the focus of our attention. This negativity bias can even arise within our mindfulness practice. But by framing mindfulness as caring curiosity, our attention becomes less judgmental and naturally imbued with more compassion and acceptance.

In this guided meditation, Sean Fargo invites us to sense into the body with caring curiosity, a gentle awareness in which whatever arises is not labeled as good or bad, but accepted, just as it is. If we can stay open with each new experience as it unfolds, we can then meet each experience with presence, grace and even a sense of awe and wonder, both within an beyond our formal meditation practice.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you are relatively free from distraction. Find a posture that balances comfort with alertness, whether standing, seated, or lying down. May this meditation be of benefit to you in your mindfulness journey.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 Guided Meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Loving-Kindness Practice, with Sean Fargo Feb 22, 2023

Do you feel you have empathy and compassion for all living beings? What about those you can’t seem to get along with? And does your compassion extend to yourself?

The non-judgmental attitude of mindfulness practice is not to be confused with avoidance or non-caring. Rather, mindfulness encourages the cultivation of empathy, loving-kindness and compassion. One way to do this is with loving-kindness, or metta, meditation.

In this episode, Sean Fargo, shares his personal experience with this compassion practice and offers practical advice to those who are practicing, or teaching, these heart-opening meditations.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk has taught mindfulness and meditation to individuals, corporations, health and government organizations, prisons, and hospitals around the world. His website, Mindfulness Exercises, has shared free and premium mindfulness resources with over 20 million people worldwide.

This talk is a compilation of Sean Fargo’s teachings to those enrolled in his Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Unwinding Anxiety, with Dr. Jud Brewer Feb 15, 2023

Worrying can give us the illusion of control or taking useful action, making it normal to mistake worrying for a helpful means of soothing our anxiety. This can lead us to repeat this behavior so much that it becomes a habit. So, when anxiety becomes a habit, how do we break free?

In this episode, we hear from best-selling author, researcher and psychiatrist Dr. Jud Brewer. He has developed a clinically-proven, step-by-step process to help us break free from the cycle of worry and fear that feeds back into anxiety. Mindfulness is a core part of this process that involves working with the brain’s reward system.

Learn why habit change starts with awareness, and how understanding how your mind works can help you live with greater calm and ease.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Dr. Jud’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Grounding, Calming Breath Meditation, with Sean Fargo Feb 08, 2023

When we’re too “in our heads”, disconnected from the body and the earth itself, we become anxious, scattered, restless and ill at ease. Intentionally bringing our attention back to the body and our connection to the ground can help us feel more stable, centered, rooted and calm. This is part of the process and benefit of grounding.

This guided meditation with Sean Fargo helps calm anxiety by grounding us in the body, and connecting us to the present moment. We’re invited to sense into the breath and our connection to the earth simultaneously. As we develop greater mindfulness of our grounded presence, we become more capable of carrying this calm and stability from our practice into the rest of our day.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you are relatively free from distraction. Practice in a comfortable posture that allows for stillness.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 Guided Meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or use them to create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Building a Workplace Mindfulness Program, with Dr. Lena Adams Kim of Mindful EPA Feb 01, 2023

Could your workplace use a little more mindfulness? The benefits of mindfulness in the office are clear, and yet it can be difficult to convince corporate leadership to set aside the necessary space and time for mindfulness programming.

In this episode of the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, Sean Fargo speaks with someone who’s overcome these challenges, successfully introducing mindfulness in a federal organization.

Dr. Lena Adams Kim is a graduate of the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program, and the founder of Mindful EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency’s nationwide workplace mindfulness program.

Share mindfulness in your workplace or elsewhere with greater confidence, compassion and skill by enrolling in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindful Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Trauma in our Mindfulness Practice and Teachings, with Sean Fargo Jan 25, 2023

We’ve all experienced some type of trauma. It’s simply part of being human. As we deepen our mindfulness practice and become more aware of what’s present in each moment, we may notice that painful, unprocessed trauma still lingers. In this episode, Sean Fargo offers practical advice on how we might expand our capacity to remain mindful, even when mindfulness brings awareness to pain or discomfort.

Sean Fargo is the founder of Mindfulness Exercises and the lead mentor of the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. The former Buddhist monk has taught mindfulness and meditation to individuals, corporations, health and government organizations, prisons, and hospitals around the world.

This talk is a compilation of Sean Fargo’s teachings to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Learn to help people feel safe during mindfulness meditation. In our new, 15-hour certification course for mindfulness teachers and meditation guides, you’ll learn the basics of trauma-sensitive mindfulness from world-renowned experts including David Treleaven, Willoughby Britton, and Chris Germer. Register now at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/trauma-sensitive-mindfulness-course/

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Finding Refuge in the Body, a Meditation with Sean Fargo Jan 18, 2023

When looking to feel safe, grounded, at peace, or joyful, we typically search outside of the body for something to help put us at ease. But tranquility is available in our own body, at all times. In this guided meditation, Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo guides us to become more mindful of the areas within ourselves that offer us safe refuge .

We’re invited to breathe, soften and allow, noticing which parts of the body feel calm, relaxed and full of presence. Becoming more mindful of these grounding sensations offers us the opportunity to take refuge in the body, from moment to moment, throughout our day.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction. You can practice this body scan meditation while standing, seated, or lying down.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 Guided Meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Mindfulness While Sleeping, with Andrew Holecek Jan 11, 2023

Mindfulness and meditation practice is not limited to day-time hours. In fact, being awake is not necessary at all. There are at least five types of meditation we can do while we are sleeping that benefit both body and mind. These nocturnal meditations have been practiced for thousands of years to help us shed light on the darkest parts of our unconscious, and in the process, enlighten us.

In this episode, we hear from author and spiritual teacher Andrew Holecek about these subtle, advanced nighttime practices, which anyone can learn to do. Andrew Holecek teaches worldwide on meditation, lucid dreaming, and Buddhist death preparation practices. His books include “Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming” and “Dreams of Light: The Profound Daytime Practice of Lucid Dreaming.”

Learn how nighttime mindfulness can enhance your day-time experience by introducing lucidity into previously unconscious moments.

This talk is a brief excerpt from Andrew Holecek’s guest teacher presentation to those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Exploring Fatigue During Meditation, with Sean Fargo Jan 04, 2023

When fatigue arises in meditation, we typically have an adverse reaction or make attempts to overcome it. After all, tiredness is among the classic 5 hindrances to our practice. But when we cannot avoid fatigue during meditation, there are other ways to work with it. In fact, meditating while tired can sometimes be conducive to a more relaxed, focused state of mind.

In this episode, Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo offers practical suggestions for working with fatigue in our meditation practice.

Sean Fargo is the founder of Mindfulness Exercises and the lead teacher for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team weekly. They are joined by the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers who present on a wide range of topics.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at mindfulnessexercises.com/certify

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Gratitude for Life through Mindfulness of Death, with Sean Fargo Dec 28, 2022

Being alive is a miraculous gift that most of us take for granted far too often. What would change for us, and how might we live, if we spent just a few minutes every day remembering that each breath could be our last?

In this episode, Mindfulness Exercises founder, Sean Fargo, shares how meditating on the inevitability of loss can illuminate the preciousness of life. Teachers and practitioners alike will benefit from the reminder that each and every breath is worthy of our gratitude and awe.

Please remember that mindfulness practice is not a replacement for therapy. Listen with care and self-compassion and practice within your window of tolerance. If this, or any other episode, triggers overwhelming, uncomfortable feelings, contact your healthcare provider.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and the founder of Mindfulness Exercises, an online platform which shares free and premium mindfulness resources for mindfulness practitioners and mindfulness meditation teachers alike.

This talk is a brief excerpt from his weekly mentorship sessions for those enrolled in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, online, self-paced certification program balances pre-recorded webinars with live mentorship. Students in the program learn directly from Sean Fargo, his team, and some of the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation experts.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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A Thanks Giving Meditation, with Sean Fargo Dec 21, 2022

Gratitude opens our hearts and minds to the fullness of our lives, allowing us to experience more contentment and peace. In this guided meditation, Sean Fargo invites us to note what it is that we value most in this life. Then we intentionally offer our thanks. Expressing our gratitude helps bring awareness to the preciousness of this present moment, just as it is.

Being thankful has the power to transform every moment of our lives into a gift, even that which we may at first label as negative. Those who practice gratitude are less likely to take things for granted, and more likely to act in caring, thoughtful and generous ways.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction, and tune in to the power of giving thanks.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 Guided Meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Presenting Mindfulness to Corporations, with Michael Taft Dec 14, 2022

Have you ever thought about teaching mindfulness to corporations, small businesses or even your own company? In this episode, Michael Taft shares advice that has helped him land work teaching mindfulness at Silicon Valley’s most well-known tech industry giants, where his practical, secular approach has been warmly welcomed.

Michael Taft is the best-selling author of ‘The Mindful Geek: Mindfulness Meditation for Secular Skeptics.’ The book addresses atheists, agnostics and doubters with step-by-step instructions on how to practice mindfulness meditation and includes the psychological and neuroscientific research underpinning its benefits.

Taft shares the keys to his success with Sean Fargo and in the process, addresses how to best train for teaching in corporations, how to market your services, and how to offer authentic, beneficial teachings in this uniquely limited setting.

Michael Taft joined Sean Fargo as a guest teacher in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced certification program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students receive weekly live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team. They are joined by the world’s most respected voices in mindfulness and meditation who present on a wide range of topics.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Tips to Teach Mindfulness in Corporations, with Sean Fargo Dec 07, 2022

Sharing mindfulness with corporations, small businesses or even your own company is a great way to impact more people who could truly benefit from the practice. In this brief episode, Sean Fargo shares practical ideas on how to begin. He covers the questions to ask before making an offer, how you might best respond, and shares tips on marketing your services from a mindset of generosity. Integrate these tips with your own mindfulness practice and check in with your heart regarding what feels right to you.

Sean Fargo is the founder of Mindfulness Exercises and the lead teacher for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team weekly. They are joined by the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers who present on a wide range of topics.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

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Connecting With Emotions Through the Body, with Sean Fargo Nov 30, 2022

We tend to live in our heads, experiencing our world conceptually. Yet wisdom, and our emotions, live in the body. So, how do we move from the head to the body? Improving interoception - awareness of the body’s internal sensations - is a good place to start becoming truly present with our bodies, our emotions, and ourselves. As we deepen our awareness, there’s no end to where the body scan can take us.

In this episode, Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo teaches us how deepening mindfulness of the body offers a better understanding of our emotions and the opportunity to heal from past trauma.

A former Buddhist monk, Sean Fargo has taught mindfulness and meditation for corporations including Tesla, Kaiser Permanente, Facebook, Ernst & Young, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and for health and government organizations, prisons, and hospitals around the world. He has dedicated himself to teaching mindfulness in a way that’s clear and practical.

Sean has also trained hundreds of others to teach and share mindfulness in their own communities. His Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program is a unique, self-paced certification program that is accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive weekly live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team. They are joined by the world’s most respected voices in mindfulness and meditation who present on a wide range of topics.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Anchoring in Breath and Body: Meditation with Sean Fargo Nov 23, 2022

With meditation, we practice bringing the mind back to this very moment. One way to do this is by gently anchoring our attention to sensations in the body and breath. What is it like to be breathing, right now? It’s a simple question for which we don’t always have an answer, for the mind is often somewhere else.

In this guided meditation, Mindfulness Exercises founder, Sean Fargo, leads us in a mindful exploration of this present moment, just as it is. We’re invited to stay in the now by holding our focus on what we can feel with the body and sense through the breath.

Listen in a safe, quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction, and connect to the profound quality of your own presence.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Enhance your personal practice or guide others in meditation with 200 Guided Meditation Scripts. These scripts are for mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, counselors, coaches, healers, yoga instructors and anyone who wants to share mindfulness with others.

Teach meditation with more confidence and skill
Grow your mindfulness business or practice
Reach more clients with shareable content
Add more variety to your current meditation sessions

Each of our 200 Guided Meditation scripts comes as a beautifully designed, separate PDF file. You can read them word-for-word, make them your own, record them or create videos for individuals or groups.

Learn more at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Distractions in Meditation, with Delson Armstrong Nov 16, 2022

“I’ll never be able to meditate, my mind is too distracted!” Does this sound like anyone you know? Perhaps you’ve experienced this type of doubt. Doubt is just one of the classic 5 hindrances to meditation, and it’s overcome with practice.

In this episode of the Mindfulness Exercises podcast, advanced meditator, teacher and author Delson Armstrong speaks with Sean Fargo on how to work with distractions and other obstacles that arise during meditation by applying the 6 Rs.

Delson Armstrong is a meditation teacher and author of several Dhamma books, including “A Mind Without Craving.” This deep dive into the principles and practices of early Buddhist meditation is transcribed from a ten-day meditation retreat led by Delson Armstrong himself.

Delson Armstrong joined Sean Fargo as a guest teacher in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced certification program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students receive weekly live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team. They are joined by the world’s most respected voices in mindfulness and meditation who present on a wide range of topics.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Welcoming Distraction During Meditation Nov 09, 2022

Anyone who has ever practiced meditation has also faced distraction. It is a natural part of the practice, yet something that many people grapple with. In this brief episode, Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo offers practical advice on what we might do when distractions arise during mindfulness meditation. Distractions are, after all, great opportunities to deepen our practice.

Sean Fargo is the founder of Mindfulness Exercsies and the lead teacher for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team weekly. They are joined by the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers who present on a wide range of topics.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

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Mindful Communication, with Oren Jay Sofer and Sean Fargo Nov 02, 2022

When communicating with others, how present are you in body, speech and mind? And have you ever found yourself in conversation with someone who was truly and fully present with you?

We all know how to speak and listen, but few do it effectively. Mindful communication helps us have truly meaningful conversations that are full of empathy and understanding.

In this episode of the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast Sean Fargo speaks with author and mindful communications expert Oren Jay Sofer on how to become a more skillful communicator.

Oren Jay Sofer is a former Buddhist monk who teaches Insight meditation and mindful communication both in person and online. He joined Sean Fargo as a guest teacher in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive weekly live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team. They are joined by the world’s most respected voices in mindfulness and meditation who present on a wide range of topics.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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A Moment Like This Meditation, with Sean Fargo Oct 26, 2022

Mindfulness invites us to observe this present moment just as it is. We practice leaving judgment behind and instead, witness what arises with a spacious sense of openness and allowance. Everything and everything in our field of awareness is welcome. By observing from a grounded, centered and equanimous point of view, we invite insights on the true nature of our mind to arise.

In this episode, Mindfulness Exercises founder, Sean Fargo, leads us in a meditation on sensing into this present moment, just as it is. Sean begins by inviting us to connect to our bodies and the support of the ground below us. We then turn our attention to the breath and observe what unfolds. Listen in a quiet place where you can be relatively free from distraction, and connect to the profound quality of presence.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, guided meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Sean is the lead instructor for the site’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program and has worked alongside mindfulness pioneers such as Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and Sharon Salzberg. He has taught mindfulness and meditation for corporations, health and government organizations, and prisons and hospitals around the world.

Download hundreds more guided audio meditations for your personal practice, or to share with others at MindfulnessExercises.com

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Dr. Gabor Maté on Emotional Wellbeing, with Sean Fargo Oct 19, 2022

Anxiety, depression, auto-immune disease, addiction and suicide have been on the rise in the United States since before the COVID-19 pandemic. So what’s going on? Typically, we glaze over this question and focus instead on labeling people with diagnoses, treating symptoms and fixing behaviors.

In this interview with Sean Fargo, Dr. Gabor Maté suggests we start by mindfully caring for our emotional wellbeing. By compassionately exploring the wounded human soul and the trauma at the source of our deepest pain, we can learn to heal ourselves and those around us.

Topics in this episode include the parallels between emotional health and immunity, and the role of healthy anger, , why Dr. Maté never advises anyone not to judge, and how those of us in helping professions can better practice self-care for sustainable compassion.

Dr. Gabor Maté is a best-selling author and sought-after speaker whose experience is rooted in 20 years of practice as a physician in family practice, palliative care, and addiction.

This interview is a brief excerpt from a presentation he gave to the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Teacher Training program. You can learn more about that program and the other world-class presenters who join as guest teachers at Teach.MindfulnessExercises.com

Learn more about Dr. Gabor Maté and the film, The Wisdom of Trauma at TheWisdomofTrauma.com

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The Value of Healthy Anger Oct 12, 2022

Suppressing our anger, or attempting to rid ourselves of it completely is something many people try in order to become ‘more mindful’. But each of our emotions, including anger, serves a valuable purpose.

In this brief episode, Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo explains how, although we might aspire to be free from anger, a healthy expression of anger can motivate us to set boundaries, or take fierce, compassionate action for what we believe to be right. For a deeper dive into the subject of healthy anger, Sean recommends Sharon Salzberg’s book Real Change.

Sean Fargo is the founder of Mindfulness Exercises and the lead teacher of the site’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced certification program is accessible entirely online. Participants learn from Sean, his team, and the world’s most respected voices in mindfulness and meditation. Guest teachers include Gabor Maté, Rick Hanson, Dr. Jud Brewer, Spring Washman, David Treleaven and more. Learn to compassionately share mindfulness with confidence and skill by registering today at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

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Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, with David Treleaven Oct 05, 2022

How many people do you know who have experienced trauma? According to research, at least 90% of us will live through trauma at some point in our lives. For mindfulness and meditation teachers, this means it’s likely that no matter the context in which we teach, someone in the room will have a history of trauma.

In this episode of the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, Sean Fargo speaks with author, educator and trauma professional David Treleaven on the importance of minimizing harm in our efforts to help others, and what it really means to be a trauma-sensitive mindfulness teacher.

David Treleavan joined Sean Fargo as a guest teacher in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive weekly live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team. They are joined by the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers who present on a wide range of topics.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Sensing into Safety Meditation, with Sean Fargo Sep 28, 2022

With meditation we can practice nurturing and growing a sense of safety for ever-present access to ease. Each of us has a memory, somewhere, of a safe place where we feel at ease, balanced, and welcomed to take refuge. This memory is stored in the body. We might feel a sense of safety in the belly, the heart or the hands, for example.

In this episode, Mindfulness Exercises founder, Sean Fargo, leads us in a meditation on sensing into safety. The practice begins with an invitation to check in and observe how the body is feeling in this present moment. Sean then gently invites us to notice where we feel a sense of safety. By placing our mindful attention in that space, we invite the sensation of safety to grow.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Sean is the lead instructor for the site’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program and has worked alongside mindfulness pioneers such as Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and Sharon Salzberg. He has taught mindfulness and meditation for corporations, health and government organizations, and prisons and hospitals around the world.

Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, guided meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Download hundreds more guided audio meditations for your personal practice, or to share with others at MindfulnessExercises.com

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Mindful Self-Discipline, with Giovanni Dienstmann and Sean Fargo Sep 21, 2022

What do you want to achieve most in this life or in this one moment? To experience more ease, to become more resilient to stress, to improve a relationship, to reach enlightenment, or to make a million dollars? Regardless of our goals, mindful self-discipline is the essential ingredient that helps us get where we want to go. This one skill is applicable to nearly everything we do in life, even as our goals shift and change.

In this episode, Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo speaks with Giovanni Dienstmann. Giovanni highlights how mindfulness and awareness contribute to sustainable self-discipline, and offers practical advice on how to build better habits, break unhelpful habits, achieve goals, and generally live a more purpose-driven life.

Giovanni Dienstmann spoke with Sean as part of a more in-depth presentation given to participants in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindful Meditation Teacher Training Program. In this unique, self-paced certification program, participants learn from Sean Fargo and the most respected voices in mindfulness and meditation. The program is accessible entirely online and combines self-study with live, interactive teachings. Learn more or register by visiting teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

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Being Consistent with our Mindfulness Practice Sep 14, 2022

Do you ever feel like it’s hard to meditate daily? In this brief episode of the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast, founder Sean Fargo shares tips on how to build a consistent practice.

When we take the time to be present with how we feel when we do (and don’t) meditate, motivation becomes less of a cognitive exercise and more of an embodied experience. Listen to this episode for practical advice on becoming more consistent with your mindfulness practice.

Sean Fargo is the founder of Mindfulness Exercises and the lead teacher of the site’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced certification program is accessible entirely online. Participants learn from Sean, his team, and the world’s most respected voices in mindfulness and meditation. Guest teachers include Gabor Maté, Rick Hanson, Dr. Jud Brewer, Spring Washman, David Treleaven and more. Learn to compassionately share mindfulness with confidence and skill by registering today at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

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Sharing Mindful Self-Compassion, with Chris Germer Sep 07, 2022

Self-compassion can be a tricky term, not to mention difficult to practice. We might mistakenly believe that it’s selfish or self-indulgent, or that compassion makes us weak. We may also have trouble extending the same loving kindness to ourselves that we so willingly offer to others.

We hear from self-compassion expert Chris Germer on why those beliefs couldn’t be further from the truth.

This episode is a brief excerpt from Chris’ presentation to participants in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program at http://teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

Participants in this program learn directly from Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo, his team, and the world’s most respected experts in mindfulness and meditation. The unique, self-paced certification program is accessible entirely online.

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Self-Compassion Meditation, with Sean Fargo Aug 31, 2022

Self-compassion is a virtue that can be cultivated through meditation. Expand self-compassion by acknowledging your pain, remembering your common humanity, and sending yourself and all others love and well-wishes.

In this episode, Mindfulness Exercises founder, Sean Fargo, leads us in a 20-minute meditation for self-compassion. The practice begins with an invitation to recall a challenging moment in our lives. Choose a workable memory that allows you to remain within your window of tolerance. Sean then guides us through a gentle exploration of this experience.

Find hundreds more guided audio meditations at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-guided-meditations-mindfulness-talks/ or download 200 meditation scripts to expand your personal practice, or to share with others at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/guided-meditation-scripts/

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Bringing Mindfulness to Our Creative Nature with Austin Hill Shaw and Sean Fargo Aug 24, 2022

Do you see yourself as creative? Or do you only associate creativity with art, performance, inventiveness or eccentricity, thinking it has little to do with you?

For author and home designer Austin Hill Shaw, creativity is at the very core of what it means to be human. Creativity matters because people are their happiest and most fulfilled when immersed in creative flow.

In this episode, Sean Fargo, the founder of Mindfulness Exercises, speaks with Austin Hill Shaw on the nature of creativity and how it intersects with our mindfulness and meditation practice.

Austin Hill Shaw joined Sean Fargo as a guest teacher in the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive weekly live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo, his team. They are joined by the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers who present on a wide range of topics.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Inspiring Courage as a Mindfulness Teacher Aug 17, 2022

Our capacity to remain present in meditation supports our ability to be present in our lives. But it’s not always easy to be with what is, especially if it’s challenging or unpleasant. As teachers, part of our role is to encourage courage. By creating a container of safety and care, we can invite people to practice being with what is, even if it’s uncomfortable.

In this short episode, Sean Fargo discusses the role of courage in our mindfulness practice. He explains how sensing into our own hearts empowers others to sense into theirs.

Sean Fargo is the founder of Mindfulness Exercises and the lead teacher for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team weekly. They are joined by the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers who present on a wide range of topics.

Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com or, schedule a 15-minute call with Sean to see if this program is right for you at https://calendly.com/sean-108/application

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Expanding Your Reach by Choosing a Niche, with Sean Fargo Aug 10, 2022

Contrary to what you might think, choosing a niche won’t necessarily limit your teaching opportunities. In fact, it can help deepen your offerings and expand your reach, allowing you to help more people with mindfulness, in a more significant way.

Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo explains why choosing a niche is more than a smart business practice; it also allows us to address tangible, relevant and specific challenges in a deeper and potentially more transformative manner.

This episode is a compilation of teachings Sean presented to the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and entirely accessible online. Participants learn from Sean Fargo, his team, and the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers.

Hone your skills and your voice, develop confidence, and courageously and compassionately share mindfulness with others. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

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Death Awareness Meditation, with Sean Fargo Aug 03, 2022

Welcome to the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast. May this be a source of inspiration and motivation for your personal practice and teachings. In this episode, we bring you a guided meditation on mindfulness of death, narrated by Sean Fargo.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Sean is the lead instructor for the site’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program and has worked alongside mindfulness pioneers such as Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and Sharon Salzberg. He has taught mindfulness and meditation for corporations, health and government organizations, and prisons and hospitals around the world.

Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, guided meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Find more guided meditations and meditation scripts for death awareness meditations at MindfulnessExercises.com

Download hundreds more guided meditations here: https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-guided-meditations-mindfulness-talks/

Access free meditation scripts here:

https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-guided-meditation-scripts/

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Sean Fargo on The Power of Breath Awareness Jul 27, 2022

Although simple, mindfulness of breathing is quite powerful. This thousands-year old practice of sensing into each breath has withstood the test of time and today, remains with us as one of the most foundational - and most profound - mindfulness practices.

Breath awareness strengthens concentration, equanimity, compassion, joy and wisdom. And because the breath is always with us, in each and every moment, it’s forever available to anchor us to the present moment.

In this episode, we hear from Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo on the power of breath awareness. Sean shares his insights on the practice of mindful breathing, what mindfulness teachers should be aware of, and tells the story of how mindful breathing once saved his life.

Mindfulness Exercises is an online platform which shares free and premium mindfulness resources for practitioners and teachers alike. This episode contains excerpts from Sean’s weekly live presentations to those in the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program.

Learn more about that program at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

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Using the Body to Identify Emotions, with Sean Fargo Jul 20, 2022

Identifying our emotions is a first step in learning to accept and work with them. But it’s not always easy to sense emotion in the body, nor to discern which emotions are present. In this brief episode, Sean Fargo offers practical advice on how we might explore sensation in the body for a deeper understanding of our emotions.

Sean Fargo is the founder of Mindfulness Exercsies and the lead teacher for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced program is internationally accredited and accessible entirely online. Students in the program receive live, in-person mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team weekly. They are joined by the world’s most respected mindfulness and meditation teachers who present on a wide range of topics. Train to share mindfulness with confidence, compassion and skill within a supportive online community. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

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Mindfulness through an Equity Lens: Building Bridges with Michelle Maldonado Jul 13, 2022

When viewed through an equity lens, mindfulness helps us connect with others and overcome unconscious biases.

In this episode, Michelle Maldonado encourages us to explore mindfulness not merely as a personal practice, but as a way of being in the world. When viewed from an equity lens, mindfulness becomes a powerful tool for transforming our judgment, unconscious bias and (often unintentional) microaggressions into opportunities for curiosity, introspection, and connection. Today’s topics include moving from judgment to curiosity, cultivating inner awareness to remove blind spots, and how to truly be anti-racist.

Mindfulness and emotional intelligence educator Michelle Maldonado is a former corporate and tech attorney turned CEO of Lucenscia, a global firm dedicated to human flourishing and mindful business transformation. Michelle has worked with the world’s most powerful organizations in the education, industry and government sectors, with the goal of elevating human consciousness and alleviating suffering. Her most recent compassion project "A Bridge to Better" centers on an open letter to humanity. In it, Michelle and her family call on us to courageously co-create the conditions for social and racial justice. This action begins with mindfulness.

This talk is a brief excerpt of Michelle Maldonado’s live presentation to our Mindfulness Teacher Trainees. You can access the full recording and learn more about that program at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

Find Michelle and additional resources for mindful connection at abridge2better.com

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Dr. Gabor Maté on Compassionate Inquiry, with Sean Fargo Jul 06, 2022

Each of us longs to be seen, heard and loved. Inquiring about our experience with curiosity and compassion lets us face old pains and strong emotions we’ve long ignored, which can lead to healing if we feel safe in our bodies, in the present moment, and in secure relationship with others.

Through the method of Compassionate Inquiry, Dr. Gabor Maté teaches therapists, counselors and individuals to uncover the unconscious dynamics that run our lives, and find freedom from these habits.

The method has gained worldwide recognition for its enlightening, empowering approach to healing. In a safe space, connected to our body, our breath and the present moment, we’re guided to gently uncover the layers of childhood trauma and suppressed emotion at the root of our illness and addiction. Although we begin with a guide, compassionate inquiry is ultimately a practice we can attend to on our own.

In this episode, Gabor and Sean discuss the relationship between Compassionate Inquiry and the kind, non-judgmental curiosity we learn through the practice of mindfulness, the 5 levels of compassion that comprise the Compassionate Inquiry process, and why being triggered is not always a bad thing, especially within the safe container of compassionate, kind awareness.

Dr. Gabor Maté is a best selling author and sought-after speaker whose experience is rooted in 20 years of practice as a physician in family practice, palliative care, and addiction.

This interview is a brief excerpt from a presentation he gave to the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Teacher Training program. You can learn more about that program and the other world-class presenters who join as guest teachers at Teach.MindfulnessExercises.com

Learn more about Dr. Gabor Maté and his Compassionate Inquiry process at Compassionate Inquiry.com

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A Deeper Mindful Body Scan, with Sean Fargo Jun 29, 2022

Just as with mindfulness of the breath, the mindful body scan is a foundational practice with unlimited potential. But a head-to-toe scan can often feel dry and predictable.

For Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo, the mindful body scan meditation came alive only after he allowed himself more creativity within the practice.

This talk is a compilation of teachings Sean shared with the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced certification program is affordable and 100% accessible online.

Learn from Sean Fargo and the world’s most respected and well-known voices in mindfulness. Receive an internationally accredited certification with weekly personal support and no pressure to meet deadlines.

Learn more about the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

For show notes from this episode, visit https://mindfulnessexercises.com/podcast-episodes/teaching-mindfulness-kevin-griffin-answers-your-most-frequently-asked-questions/

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Elemental Body Awareness Meditation with Sean Fargo Jun 22, 2022

Welcome to the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast. May this be a source of inspiration and motivation for your personal practice and teachings. In this episode, we bring you a guided mindfulness meditation on elemental body awareness, narrated by Sean Fargo.

Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Sean is the lead instructor for the site’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program and has worked alongside mindfulness pioneers such as Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and Sharon Salzberg. He has taught mindfulness and meditation for corporations, health and government organizations, and prisons and hospitals around the world.

Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, guided meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats.

Find more guided meditations and meditation scripts for body scan meditations at MindfulnessExercises.com

Download hundreds more guided meditations here: https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-guided-meditations-mindfulness-talks/

Access free meditation scripts here:

https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-guided-meditation-scripts/

Listen to the next episode, a discussion of this guided meditation for practitioners and teachers alike.

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Neuro-Learning and Amplifying Our Meditation Practice with Dr. Rick Hanson Jun 15, 2022

Dr. Rick Hanson is a psychologist and best-selling author. His latest book is titled Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. In it, Dr. Hanson presents mindfulness exercises for strengthening the neural circuitry of profound contentment and inner peace. Listen now and amplify your meditation practice by becoming more aware of the changes taking place in your brain.

This episode is a brief version of a live talk Dr. Hanson presented to the Mindfulness Exercises Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This self-paced online course offers an affordable and accessible internationally recognized teaching certification. Participants learn from lead instructor Sean Fargo and the world’s most well-known voices in mindfulness.

Receive certification at your own pace, in the comfort of your home
Get up to 4 hours of weekly, live mentorship from Sean Fargo and his team
Learn directly from the world’s top mindfulness and meditation teachers
Gain the confidence and skills you need to teach to groups and individuals

This supportive, comprehensive program can help you make a real difference by sharing mindfulness and meditation with others. Learn more by visiting teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

To see the show notes from this episode, visit https://mindfulnessexercises.com/podcast-episodes/neuro-learning-and-amplifying-our-meditation-practice-with-dr-rick-hanson/

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Sharon Salzberg on Healing Ourselves and the World for Real Change, with Sean Fargo Jun 08, 2022

We’re living in difficult and uncertain times. Meditation can help us cope with the enormity of the world’s grief, but is it ultimately self-serving, or can it influence real change?

In this episode, Sean Fargo of Mindfulness Exercises interviews meditation expert and New York Times best-selling author Sharon Salzberg to tackle this question and more. Sharon shares that meditation is not a replacement for action, but a useful means of summoning the courage to break through boundaries, reconnect to a movement bigger than ourselves, and sustain the energy needed to effect real change.

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Why Sean Fargo Recommends Mindfulness of Breathing Jun 01, 2022

Mindfulness of breath is a foundational practice, but it’s not merely for beginners. Learn why former Buddhist monk Sean Fargo recommends it as the first meditation we teach, but also, why some mindfulness practitioners spend their entire lives with this one method.

Sean Fargo is the founder of Mindfulness Exercises, one of the most well-known resources on the web for all things mindfulness. His mindfulness teacher training certification program has inspired hundreds of mindfulness teachers to share the power of this practice with others.

The unique, self-paced certification program is affordable and 100% accessible online. The comprehensive program includes self-paced courses, deep dives for teaching special populations, personal mentorship from Sean and his team, opportunities to practice teach and more.

Receive an internationally accredited certification
Join a live online community of teachers and fellow practitioners
Interact directly with the world’s most well-known mindfulness teachers
Gain the confidence and skills you need to begin sharing mindfulness with others

Learn more at Teach.MindfulnessExercises.com

For show notes from this episode, visit https://mindfulnessexercises.com/podcast-episodes/sean-fargo-on-why-he-recommends-mindfulness-of-breathing/

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Breath Awareness Meditation with Sean Fargo Jun 01, 2022

Welcome to the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast. May this be a source of inspiration and motivation for your personal practice and teachings. In this episode, we bring you a guided mindfulness meditation on breath awareness, narrated by Sean Fargo. Sean Fargo is a former Buddhist monk and founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises. Sean is the lead instructor for the site’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program and has worked alongside mindfulness pioneers such as Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and Sharon Salzberg. He has taught mindfulness and meditation for corporations, health and government organizations, and prisons and hospitals around the world. Mindfulness Exercises has shared mindfulness with over 6 million people via free and premium services including downloadable meditations, guided meditation scripts, mindfulness worksheets, courses, content and live online retreats. Find more guided meditations and meditation scripts for breath awareness at MindfulnessExercises.com

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Teaching Mindfulness: Kevin Griffin Answers Your Most Frequently Asked Questions Jun 01, 2022

Teaching meditation can seem scary. How do you know when you’re ready? What skills and qualities does a mindfulness teacher really need? The answer is the same whether teaching is your career, a calling, or just a happy accident. In this episode, Buddhist author and leader in the mindful recovery movement Kevin Griffin shares advice for mindfulness teachers and provides answers to some of the most important questions.

This talk is a brief version of a live presentation Kevin shared with the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced certification program is affordable and 100% accessible online.

Learn from Sean Fargo and the world’s most respected and well-known voices in mindfulness, including Kevin Griffin. Receive an internationally accredited certification with weekly personal support and no pressure to meet deadlines.

Learn more about the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

For show notes from this episode, visit https://mindfulnessexercises.com/podcast-episodes/teaching-mindfulness-kevin-griffin-answers-your-most-frequently-asked-questions/

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Sharing Mindfulness from the Heart, with Sean Fargo Jun 01, 2022

If and when we consider teaching mindfulness to others, it’s normal to experience fear, nervousness or hesitation. These emotions often arise from a sense of inadequacy. The collection of human emotions we often refer to as “imposter syndrome” isn’t necessarily bad or wrong. In fact, questioning our ability to help others can be a sign of grace, humility and compassion.

In this episode, Mindfulness Exercises’ founder Sean Fargo discusses his personal experience with imposter syndrome, and how for him, the solution to teaching with confidence, compassion and courage entailed moving out of his head, and into the heart.

Sean Fargo is the founder of the online resource, Mindfulness Exercises, and the lead instructor for its Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program. This unique, self-paced certification course is accessible online. It includes live and pre-recorded teaching and mentorship sessions with Sean and the world’s most well-known voices in mindfulness.

Students gain the confidence and skills needed to teach mindfulness in a way that's relevant to people's lives. The program empowers new teachers with a complete, brandable curriculum, suitable for teaching mindfulness to groups or individuals. Learn more at teach.mindfulnessexercises.com

For show notes from this episode, visit https://mindfulnessexercises.com/podcast-episodes/sharing-mindfulness-from-the-heart-with-sean-fargo/

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Welcome to the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast Apr 28, 2022

Live more mindfully and inspire others to do the same.

Go beyond listening into deeper experiences of mindfulness, evidence-based meditations and ancient wisdom. Learn from the world’s top mindfulness teachers on how they practice and share mindfulness with others.

Welcome to the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast. May this be a source of inspiration and motivation for your mindfulness meditation and teachings.

Learn more at MindfulnessExercises.com

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