Mindfulness Exercises, with Sean Fargo

We explore how perception is filtered by what we value most and why the right questions can change our experience of the same reality. Dr John Demartini connects values, judgment, and purpose to practical self-mastery, then shows how alignment can dissolve burnout and unlock long-term drive. 

• how sensory input becomes a personal “model of the world” shaped by values 
• using quality questions to reframe experience and neutralise emotional charge 
• the is versus ought conflict and how social pressure clouds real priorities 
• judging others as a clue to projection, injection, and moral hypocrisy 
• objective indicators of values through space, time, energy, money, discipline, goals, learning, and inspiration 
• why values alignment improves efficiency, creativity, and intrinsic motivation 
• burnout as a fantasy of a one-sided life and flow as support plus challenge 
• what the Breakthrough Experience is and how the Demartini Method reframes setbacks 
• Dr Demartini’s story of rebuilding learning and speech through daily practice, metrics, and a guiding vision 

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ABOUT THE SHOW
Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life.
Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.
Each episode offers a mix o...

Your phone isn’t just a distraction, it’s a training environment. Every red badge, breaking headline, autoplay prompt, and meeting notification can condition your nervous system to live in speed, pressure, and false urgency. We sit down with Jay Vidyarthi, a mindfulness teacher and technologist and the author of Reclaim Your Mind, to map what’s really happening to our attention and how to respond with skill rather than shame.

We dig into tech burnout and Zoom fatigue with a grounded lens: the problem is not only how much you do online, but how you do it. Jay shares concrete ways to protect your energy like building recovery time between high effort calls, taking a walk before presenting, stretching and hydrating mid session, and even hiding self view so you’re not staring into a mirror for hours. Then we explore a surprising idea: most of us don’t have “tech addiction” so much as an attachment style with technology. When you understand whether you relate to apps with anxiety, avoidance, or something closer to secure attachment, you can add the right mix of curiosity and structure to make digital spaces workable again.

We also challenge the usual screen time advice by turning boundaries into rituals. Instead of “I should stop”, we ask “what do I love here” and build a mindful routine that creates satisfaction without bingeing. Finally, we guide a slow motion phone practice that helps you notice urges in real time and drop the rope, plus a bigger takeaway for digital wellbeing: your attention is a vote for the kind of tech ecosystem you want to exist.

If this helps, subscribe, share it with a friend who feels burned out by screens, and leave a review so more people can find tools for mindful technology and reclaiming attention.
BECOME A CERTIFIED MINDFULNESS MEDITATION TEACHER 
Teach mindfulness with confidence and skill — without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. Our internationally accredited certification is for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and helping professionals. Accredited by the IMMA and CPD; endorsed by Gabor Maté and Rick Hanson. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certification/
NEW HERE? START FREE 
Explore 3,000+ free guided meditations, scripts, and worksheets — for your own practice or to share with the people you teach. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-mindfulness-exercises/
ENJOYING THE PODCAST? Follow the show in your favorite app and leave a quick rating or review. It takes a moment, and it genuinely helps more teachers and practitioners find these conversations.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life.
Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.
Each episode offers a mix o...

We talk with Dr. Sara Lazar about why mindfulness meditation can feel life-changing beyond lower stress and how that shift maps onto stages of ego development and perspective taking. 

We connect equanimity to measurable changes in meaning making and to brain regions tied to the narrative self, compassion, and self-referential processing. 

• why stress and anxiety scores miss the deeper “new perspective” change 
• Piaget-style stage shifts as a model for psychological growth 
• ego development from egocentric to world-centric views 
• perspective taking and meaning making as the core stage change 
• sentence stem testing as a window into habitual mindset 
• equanimity as pausing before defending or striking back 
• findings from meditators vs Kripalu yoga practitioners vs controls 
• posterior cingulate cortex and networks linked to self-story and empathy 
• meditation traditions and gradual awakening as a developmental path 
• pandemic and science as real-world examples of stage-like reactions 
BECOME A CERTIFIED MINDFULNESS MEDITATION TEACHER 
Teach mindfulness with confidence and skill — without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. Our internationally accredited certification is for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and helping professionals. Accredited by the IMMA and CPD; endorsed by Gabor Maté and Rick Hanson. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certification/
NEW HERE? START FREE 
Explore 3,000+ free guided meditations, scripts, and worksheets — for your own practice or to share with the people you teach. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-mindfulness-exercises/
ENJOYING THE PODCAST? Follow the show in your favorite app and leave a quick rating or review. It takes a moment, and it genuinely helps more teachers and practitioners find these conversations.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life.
Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.
Each episode offers a mix o...

We guide a simple hand-on-chest meditation with Master Ming Tong Gu that helps us feel the truth of our own existence beyond stories and labels. We leave with a deeper sense of gratitude, wholeness, and reconnection to the body as the place where life is actually experienced. 
• welcoming Master Ming Tong Gu and naming healing beyond the physical 
• setting up a safe, simple posture for practice 
• repeating three truths that anchor embodied mindfulness 
• feeling sensation directly without mental labels 
• exploring the inseparable relationship between body and soul 
• sensing energetic connection with earth, universe, and life around us 
• returning with open eyes, gentle movement, and renewed curiosity 
BECOME A CERTIFIED MINDFULNESS MEDITATION TEACHER 
Teach mindfulness with confidence and skill — without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. Our internationally accredited certification is for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and helping professionals. Accredited by the IMMA and CPD; endorsed by Gabor Maté and Rick Hanson. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certification/
NEW HERE? START FREE 
Explore 3,000+ free guided meditations, scripts, and worksheets — for your own practice or to share with the people you teach. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-mindfulness-exercises/
ENJOYING THE PODCAST? Follow the show in your favorite app and leave a quick rating or review. It takes a moment, and it genuinely helps more teachers and practitioners find these conversations.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life.
Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.
Each episode offers a mix o...

Your meditation practice might be giving you a clue you keep missing: it can be felt in the head. Sean Fargo sits down with Liam McClintock, founder of FitMind and author of “FitMind: Four Steps to Lasting Bliss”, to talk about a surprisingly concrete way to track craving, distraction, and ease through subtle sensations in the forehead, face, and skull. We dig into how the body works like a biofeedback device, and why “release” is less about controlling thoughts and more about relaxing the system so awareness can open again. 

From there, we go straight at a popular debate: mindfulness vs loving-kindness. Liam shares why, in lived practice, metta and mindfulness become hard to separate, and how a genuinely loving state naturally carries clarity, meta-awareness, and stability. We also connect this to core Buddhist training, including the Eightfold Path, right effort, and why over-efforting can quietly turn meditation into another achievement project. 

We close with real-world integration after monastic life: the shock of stimulation, the value of boundaries, and the “mental diet” idea of curating what you feed the mind each day. If you care about mindfulness, meditation, neuroscience, jhana, and building a resilient mental fitness practice that actually holds up off the cushion, this conversation is for you. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s stressed, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.
BECOME A CERTIFIED MINDFULNESS MEDITATION TEACHER 
Teach mindfulness with confidence and skill — without self-doubt, fear of judgment, or imposter syndrome. Our internationally accredited certification is for therapists, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, and helping professionals. Accredited by the IMMA and CPD; endorsed by Gabor Maté and Rick Hanson. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/certification/
NEW HERE? START FREE 
Explore 3,000+ free guided meditations, scripts, and worksheets — for your own practice or to share with the people you teach. → https://mindfulnessexercises.com/free-mindfulness-exercises/
ENJOYING THE PODCAST? Follow the show in your favorite app and leave a quick rating or review. It takes a moment, and it genuinely helps more teachers and practitioners find these conversations.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life.
Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.
Each episode offers a mix o...