Breathing with Curiosity, A Meditation with Sean Fargo
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 deep...
19 Heinä 202313min
Leading Difficult Conversations with Mindful Presence, with Oren Jay Sofer
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. O...
12 Heinä 202326min
Welcoming This Moment, A Meditation with Sean Fargo
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 aris...
5 Heinä 202311min
Feeling Safe in Meditation, with David Treleaven
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 b...
28 Kesä 202321min
Mindfulness of the Head Space, A Meditation with Sean Fargo
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 w...
21 Kesä 202321min
Overcoming Porn Addiction with Mindfulness, with Jeremy Lipkowitz and Sean Fargo
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 e...
14 Kesä 202329min
A Meditation on Feeling Tones, with Sean Fargo
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 foundati...
7 Kesä 202310min
Connecting Self-Compassion and Mindfulness, with Chris Germer
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-Compass...
31 Touko 202320min
