Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo

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.Support the showAdd your 5‑star review — this really helps others find us. Free Mindfulness Exercises: MindfulnessExercises.com 200 Guided Meditation Scripts: Scripts.MindfulnessExercises.com Certify To Teach Mindfulness: Certify.MindfulnessExercises.com Work with Sean Fargo: Sean.MindfulnessExercises.com/ Reduce Chronic Pain: Pain.MindfulnessExercises.com Email: Sean@MindfulnessExercises.com

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.Support the showAdd your 5‑star review — this really helps others find us. Free Mindfulness Exercises: MindfulnessExercises.com 200 Guided Meditation Scripts: Scripts.MindfulnessExercises.com Certify To Teach Mindfulness: Certify.MindfulnessExercises.com Work with Sean Fargo: Sean.MindfulnessExercises.com/ Reduce Chronic Pain: Pain.MindfulnessExercises.com Email: Sean@MindfulnessExercises.com

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 skillGrow your mindfulness business or practiceReach more clients with shareable contentAdd more variety to your current meditation sessionsEach 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/Support the showAdd your 5‑star review — this really helps others find us. Free Mindfulness Exercises: MindfulnessExercises.com 200 Guided Meditation Scripts: Scripts.MindfulnessExercises.com Certify To Teach Mindfulness: Certify.MindfulnessExercises.com Work with Sean Fargo: Sean.MindfulnessExercises.com/ Reduce Chronic Pain: Pain.MindfulnessExercises.com Email: Sean@MindfulnessExercises.com

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.Support the showAdd your 5‑star review — this really helps others find us. Free Mindfulness Exercises: MindfulnessExercises.com 200 Guided Meditation Scripts: Scripts.MindfulnessExercises.com Certify To Teach Mindfulness: Certify.MindfulnessExercises.com Work with Sean Fargo: Sean.MindfulnessExercises.com/ Reduce Chronic Pain: Pain.MindfulnessExercises.com Email: Sean@MindfulnessExercises.com

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.Support the showAdd your 5‑star review — this really helps others find us. Free Mindfulness Exercises: MindfulnessExercises.com 200 Guided Meditation Scripts: Scripts.MindfulnessExercises.com Certify To Teach Mindfulness: Certify.MindfulnessExercises.com Work with Sean Fargo: Sean.MindfulnessExercises.com/ Reduce Chronic Pain: Pain.MindfulnessExercises.com Email: Sean@MindfulnessExercises.com

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 skillGrow your mindfulness business or practiceReach more clients with shareable contentAdd more variety to your current meditation sessionsEach 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/Support the showAdd your 5‑star review — this really helps others find us. Free Mindfulness Exercises: MindfulnessExercises.com 200 Guided Meditation Scripts: Scripts.MindfulnessExercises.com Certify To Teach Mindfulness: Certify.MindfulnessExercises.com Work with Sean Fargo: Sean.MindfulnessExercises.com/ Reduce Chronic Pain: Pain.MindfulnessExercises.com Email: Sean@MindfulnessExercises.com

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/applicationSupport the showAdd your 5‑star review — this really helps others find us. Free Mindfulness Exercises: MindfulnessExercises.com 200 Guided Meditation Scripts: Scripts.MindfulnessExercises.com Certify To Teach Mindfulness: Certify.MindfulnessExercises.com Work with Sean Fargo: Sean.MindfulnessExercises.com/ Reduce Chronic Pain: Pain.MindfulnessExercises.com Email: Sean@MindfulnessExercises.com

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.Support the showAdd your 5‑star review — this really helps others find us. Free Mindfulness Exercises: MindfulnessExercises.com 200 Guided Meditation Scripts: Scripts.MindfulnessExercises.com Certify To Teach Mindfulness: Certify.MindfulnessExercises.com Work with Sean Fargo: Sean.MindfulnessExercises.com/ Reduce Chronic Pain: Pain.MindfulnessExercises.com Email: Sean@MindfulnessExercises.com

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 skillGrow your mindfulness business or practiceReach more clients with shareable contentAdd more variety to your current meditation sessionsEach 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/Support the showAdd your 5‑star review — this really helps others find us. Free Mindfulness Exercises: MindfulnessExercises.com 200 Guided Meditation Scripts: Scripts.MindfulnessExercises.com Certify To Teach Mindfulness: Certify.MindfulnessExercises.com Work with Sean Fargo: Sean.MindfulnessExercises.com/ Reduce Chronic Pain: Pain.MindfulnessExercises.com Email: Sean@MindfulnessExercises.com

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.Support the showAdd your 5‑star review — this really helps others find us. Free Mindfulness Exercises: MindfulnessExercises.com 200 Guided Meditation Scripts: Scripts.MindfulnessExercises.com Certify To Teach Mindfulness: Certify.MindfulnessExercises.com Work with Sean Fargo: Sean.MindfulnessExercises.com/ Reduce Chronic Pain: Pain.MindfulnessExercises.com Email: Sean@MindfulnessExercises.com