What if home isn’t a location but a feeling you can access anywhere? On a quiet stretch of California’s Central Valley, we explore how mindfulness turns a long drive into a place of safety, gratitude, and deep belonging. Instead of rushing from one address to the next, we lean into breath, body, and the living world around us—the weight of the seat, the warmth of the sun, the whisper of wind, even the tumbleweeds—and discover a home that doesn’t depend on walls.
We get honest about the old habit of racing to arrive: optimizing departure times, passing at the perfect angle, pushing for speed. Then we slow down, sense into the ground that holds us, and let presence soften the road. Through simple practices—feeling the inhale and exhale, grounding through contact points, widening awareness to include sky and land—we learn to relate to the environment as part of our inner home. Safety stops being a future destination and becomes a moment-to-moment experience in the body.
Along the way, we ask a few powerful questions: Can I be at home in my body right now? Can I trust the earth beneath me? Can I welcome the air and space around me? With each question, the heart opens to care, and gratitude naturally rises. That gratitude eases transitions—new places, uncertain paths, and the in-between miles feel less like exile and more like belonging. If you’re moving through change, traveling, or simply craving steadiness, this conversation offers a gentle map back to yourself.
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Episode Transcript
Just realize that the more that I practice
mindfulness and meditation, themore I feel like I'm already
home.
(00:23):
Hey everyone, Sean Fargo herewith Mindfulness Exercises.
Hope you're doing well.
I am in the middle of thecentral valley of California
right now, driving fromBakersfield to Berkeley,
California.
I live in Berkeley, but was downin Bakersfield visiting my folks
and my sister and her family.
(00:45):
And so I am in the middle ofnowhere, discharging the car and
just realize that the more thatI practice mindfulness and
meditation, the more I feel likeI'm already home.
In other words, when I used tomake this trip between one town
(01:10):
to another, I would always tryto race to the next town, try to
race to where I was going to besleeping that night, or racing
back home, because I didn't feelat home on the journey itself.
I would feel like I needed to beefficient with my driving, like
(01:32):
I needed to maximize my speed,leave at just the right time,
pass people at just the rightangle, and try to get to my next
destination.
Because I felt like I wasn'tquite at home on the journey.
(01:53):
And, you know, in the middle ofCalifornia, it's really just
like farmland and desert.
There's not much to look at, nota lot of trees, even though
where I where I am right nowthere happens to be a tree.
But you know, most of it kind oflooks like this, where it's just
dirt.
(02:15):
And I used to not reallynecessarily want to be in the
middle of it.
I mean, and I think part of medidn't feel like I was safe.
And but the more I practicemindfulness and meditation and
really sense into the groundunderneath me, and the life and
(02:40):
the energy of the air and thewind, the sun, and even the
weeds, and the even thetumbleweeds, the more I
recognize that the earth is myhome, my body is my home, and
that the life around me is partof home.
(03:03):
And so when we're really sensinginto the subtle energies of
wherever we are, and we senseinto the energies of our own
bodies and our breathing, themore we we realize that we're
already home, that we don'tnecessarily need to be in the
(03:24):
structure of where we normallysleep, or even necessarily
around our family.
Can we be at home in our bodies?
Can we be at home with the earthbelow us?
Can we feel at home with the airand the space around us?
(03:46):
And can we welcome that energyof care and groundedness into
the heart and into the body?
And can we feel safe where weare?
(04:06):
This has been very healing forme to be able to be at home even
though I'm kind of out in themiddle of nowhere.
Even if I'm in a new place, canI still access that feeling of
home, of safety, of connectionwith myself, with spirit and
(04:29):
energy around, home in theheart, and really be grateful
for having this earth and thisbody and this breath in this
space that I can find refuge inand find a sense of home in.
So wherever you are right now,whether you're in between
(04:54):
structures or in your home, Ihope that you're able to find
something here that can behelpful to find some ease and
some groundedness or connectionwherever you may be and not
necessarily feel like you're notat home, even if you're in a new
(05:18):
place, and to help you to feelmore at home wherever you are,
and that can help us find someease in our transitions, help us
find ease in our movement fromone place to another.
So hope that's helpful.
(05:39):
I just wanted to share myjourney with this and wish you
well.
Take good care.
Thank you.
Goodbye.
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