This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 meditat...
Oct 08, 2024•17 min
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 ...
Oct 06, 2024•6 min
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 perf...
Sep 28, 2024•23 min
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 wha...
Sep 27, 2024•22 min
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 offer...
Sep 22, 2024•39 min
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 thi...
Sep 19, 2024•48 min
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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...
Sep 16, 2024•13 min
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 ...
Sep 10, 2024•55 min•Ep. 109
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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. https://mindfulnessexercises.com/mindfulness-sales-course/ As a salesperson, he has successfully sold for startups and Fortune 500 companies like Xerox, Lever, and Bazaarvoice, succ...
Aug 06, 2024•46 min•Ep. 108
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 transf...
Jul 31, 2024•22 min•Ep. 106
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 m...
May 08, 2024•17 min•Ep. 105
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 a...
May 01, 2024•28 min•Ep. 104
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 ...
Apr 24, 2024•28 min•Ep. 103
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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,” Ar...
Apr 17, 2024•22 min•Ep. 102
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 medi...
Apr 10, 2024•29 min•Ep. 101
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 prac...
Apr 03, 2024•17 min•Ep. 100
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 u...
Mar 27, 2024•14 min•Ep. 99
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 aware...
Mar 20, 2024•2 hr 24 min•Ep. 98
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 int...
Mar 13, 2024•20 min•Ep. 97
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 Fe...
Mar 06, 2024•28 min•Ep. 96
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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...
Feb 28, 2024•31 min•Ep. 95
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 ...
Feb 21, 2024•24 min•Ep. 94
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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...
Feb 14, 2024•23 min•Ep. 93
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 autho...
Feb 07, 2024•21 min•Ep. 92
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 Sea...
Jan 31, 2024•22 min•Ep. 91
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 w...
Jan 24, 2024•21 min•Ep. 90
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 ...
Jan 17, 2024•17 min•Ep. 89
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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...
Jan 10, 2024•26 min•Ep. 88
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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 ...
Jan 03, 2024•38 min•Ep. 87
This episode is sponsored by our Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification. Register today for 80% off at https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certify 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, sh...
Dec 27, 2023•25 min•Ep. 86
