Practicing Human
656 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsPracticing Human is a daily podcast, hosted by Cory Muscara, offering insights and practices into how to live a fulfilling life. Cory pulls on his time living as a Buddhist monk in Burma, his many years as a mindfulness and meditation teacher, and his work in Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The Journey Starts with One Step
April 28, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 3.42 MBIn this episode, we discuss how the journey to where you're going is much closer than you realize, and the first step is much closer than we think. If you'd more support, text the word "Podcast" to 1-631-305-2874 for free text and audio message teachings delivered to your phone
2 Questions to Calm Your Mind
April 27, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 3.36 MBIn this episode, we explore two questions you can ask yourself in moments of stress and overwhelm that will help you re-ground. If you'd more support, text the word "Podcast" to 1-631-305-2874 for free text and audio message teachings delivered to your phone.
The Best Season Of Your Life
April 23, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.18 MBIn this episode, I share a poem by Wu-Men called "Ten Thousand Flowers" about letting go of our clouded mind. If you'd like to receive free, daily text message teachings to your phone, text the word "Podcast" to 1-631-305-2874
Letting Go of Inner Struggle
April 22, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.32 MBIn this episode, we discuss the key to rest and relaxation. If you'd like to receive free, daily text message teachings to your phone, text the word "Podcast" to 1-631-305-2874
Reparenting Yourself
April 21, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 6.17 MBIn this episode, we discuss the process of becoming a point of stability and guidance if we didn't get this in our childhood. If you'd like to do more of a deep dive into this, consider joining the upcoming online mindfulness retreat, June 11-13th, 2021: www.corymuscara.com/retreat If you'd like to receive free, daily text message teachings to your phone, text the word "Podcast" to 1-631-305-2874
Change From the Inside
April 20, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 3.51 MBIn this episode, we discuss the difference between change from the outside and change from the inside. If you'd like to receive free, daily text message teachings to your phone, text the word "Podcast" to 1-631-305-2874
Discover Who You Are
April 19, 2021 04:00 - 7 minutes - 5.21 MBIn this episode, we discuss the importance of connecting to your true nature, and why this may be our biggest work as humans. If you'd like to receive free, daily text message teachings to your phone, text the word "Podcast" to 1-631-305-2874
Compassion for Everyone: Yes or No?
April 16, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 5.61 MBIn this episode, we discuss the notion of having compassion for everyone and how to navigate the tricky territory of emotions that arise in relationship to difficult people. If you'd like to join the upcoming online retreat, click here: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
Fluid vs Fixed Purpose
April 15, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.75 MBIn this episode, we discuss why strictly adhering to a life purpose you previously declared for yourself can prevent you from feeling what is most alive and true in this moment. Click here to join the upcoming online retreat: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
What Happens When You Stand in Truth
April 14, 2021 04:00 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MBIn this episode, we discuss the impact that a person standing in their truth has on those around them. Click here to register for the upcoming retreat: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
The Importance of Love
April 13, 2021 04:00 - 7 minutes - 4.85 MBIn this episode, we discuss the importance of feeling loved and cared for in order to fully bloom in the world. Also, if you'd like to attend the upcoming online mindfulness retreat, click here: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
The Power of Permission Slips
April 12, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.68 MBIn this episode, we discuss the importance of giving yourself permission, and a technique called creating "permission slips" that can help. To receive resources by Brene Brown on this topic, click here. Also, if you'd like to attend the upcoming online mindfulness retreat, click here: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
How to Be Transformed
April 09, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.53 MBIn this episode, we discuss how going into the depths of what you don't want often gives you the very thing you were looking for when trying to avoid what you don't want. If you'd like to join the upcoming online mindfulness retreat, visit: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
How to Meditate More
April 08, 2021 04:00 - 13 minutes - 9.64 MBIn this episode, I will share the best way I've found to increase more meditation time into my schedule. If you'd like to join the upcoming online mindfulness retreat, visit: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
A Practice to Improve Empathy
April 07, 2021 04:00 - 9 minutes - 6.44 MBIn this episode, we explore more empathy, compassion, and connection with others, including those we feel frustrated and disconnected with. If you'd like to join the upcoming online mindfulness retreat, visit: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
A Method to Improve Communication
April 06, 2021 04:00 - 7 minutes - 5.22 MBIn this episode, we explore a simple practice you can use to make your communication more skillful and intentional. If you'd like to join the upcoming online mindfulness retreat, visit: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
Meditation vs Taking Action
April 05, 2021 04:00 - 10 minutes - 7.27 MBIn this episode, we explore the intersection of stillness and action, and how a meditation practice supports taking action in the world. If you'd like to join the upcoming online mindfulness retreat, click here: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
A Mindfulness Practice To Enhance Your Life
April 02, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.29 MBIn this episode, we discuss a simple mindfulness practice that can be utilized to experience your life more deeply and richly. If you're interested in attending the upcoming online retreat, click here! www.corymuscara.com/retreat
Let Thoughts Be
April 01, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.33 MBIn this episode, we discuss how to work with thoughts in such a way that actually liberates our mind. If you're interested in attending the upcoming online retreat, click here! www.corymuscara.com/retreat
Buffering Against Negative Feedback
March 31, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 5.58 MBIn this episode, we discuss a simple strategy you can use to ease the intense emotions around receiving navigate feedback. If you're interested in attending the upcoming online retreat, click here! www.corymuscara.com/retreat
Now is The Future
March 30, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 3.25 MBIn this episode, we discuss why this moment is the future of all the previous thoughts you've ever had about the future. If you're interested in attending the upcoming online retreat, click here! www.corymuscara.com/retreat
An Easier Way to Change
March 29, 2021 04:00 - 11 minutes - 7.65 MBIn this episode, we explore a more simple way to break negative habits and create more happiness. If you'd like to join the upcoming online retreat, visit www.corymuscara.com/retreat
Where Meditation Goes Wrong
March 26, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.51 MBIn this episode, we discuss a simple practice to help you avoid one of the most common pitfalls in meditation. If you'd like to attend the upcoming online mindfulness retreat, visit www.corymuscara.com/retreat
The Butterfly Hug
March 25, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 4.03 MBIn this episode, I share a simple grounding exercise to use when you're triggered, stressed, overwhelmed, or simply looking to calm down. If you'd like to attend the upcoming online mindfulness retreat, visit www.corymuscara.com/retreat
A Mind Like the Sky
March 23, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 2.9 MBIn this episode, I share a passage from the book, "How Can I Help" by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman, about connecting to the spacious part of your mind. If you'd like to attend the upcoming online mindfulness retreat, visit www.corymuscara.com/retreat
How to Follow Your Truth
March 22, 2021 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.86 MBFollowing your truth is one of the hardest things a person can do. In this episode, we'll discuss why it's so hard and how to navigate the complexities on one of the most important journeys of your life. If you'd like to attend the upcoming online mindfulness retreat, visit www.corymuscara.com/retreat
Feeling Compassion vs Feeling Responsible
March 19, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 3.31 MBIn this episode, we explore the difference between feeling compassion for a person's experience and feeling responsible for a person's experience. To register for the upcoming retreat, visit www.corymuscara.com/retreat
Why Integrity is Hard
March 18, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 3.89 MB“Integrity is an unending process of letting our inner experience and our outer experience complete each other, in spite of our very human lapses.” ~ Mark Nepo To register for the upcoming retreat, visit www.corymuscara.com/retreat
It Doesn't Matter
March 17, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 3.41 MBIn this episode, we'll explore the freedom of being in the present moment. To register for the upcoming retreat, visit www.corymuscara.com/retreat
What you REALLY want
March 16, 2021 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.8 MBIn this episode, we explore why we can get so easily misguided in our pursuit of a fulfilling life and how to check ourselves on that journey. To register for the upcoming retreat, visit www.corymuscara.com/retreat
The Wisdom of the Body
March 15, 2021 04:00 - 7 minutes - 5.12 MB"The body isn’t in the past or future, it’s not conceptual or imagined; it’s part of nature and contains all of nature’s elements. It houses our awareness...The body is a treasure trove and an exquisite vehicle for our practice of waking up and being with what is." ~ Jill Satterfield To register for the upcoming retreat, visit: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
The Process of Transformation
March 12, 2021 05:00 - 6 minutes - 4.59 MBIn today's episode, we discuss how to navigate the often difficult and restless process of personal transformation. If you'd like a dedicated space to navigate your own transformation, consider the upcoming online retreat: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
The Vow
March 11, 2021 05:00 - 7 minutes - 5.36 MB"At some point he realized he had to make a choice or his weaknesses, and his fears would dominate him for the rest of his life. The pain of being aware, of seeing the consequences of not choosing, had become more painful than continuing to giving in. So he made a vow, not about the future, but about what he would do now, in this moment, over and over again." Dennis Warren
Why We Miss Our Lives
March 10, 2021 05:00 - 8 minutes - 5.62 MBThe belief that there is some future moment more worth our presence than the one we're in right now is why we miss our lives. To register for the upcoming retreat, click here: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
Letting Go of An Agenda
March 09, 2021 05:00 - 6 minutes - 4.79 MBIn this episode, we discuss what Joseph Goldstein calls the "In Order To..." mind, and how it can negatively impact your practice of presence and mindfulness.
The Simple Things
March 08, 2021 05:00 - 8 minutes - 5.72 MB"In the hurry, In the rush, Simple things missed, Blessings denied, Beauties ignored. In the calm, In the quiet, Simple things received, Mystery unfolds, Happiness blooms." -Joyce Rupp
How to Be More Intentional
March 05, 2021 05:00 - 8 minutes - 6 MBIn this episode, I share the single question that all musicians at the Curtis Institue of Music ask before they open their instruments to make sure they get the most out of their practice and training. As always, if you'd like to get free access to my resource library, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more, text your email address to: +1 (631) 337-8298 And if you'd like to get daily inspirational text messages to your phone from me, just text the...
The Most Fundamental Aggression Toward Ourselves
March 04, 2021 16:00 - 5 minutes - 3.84 MB"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently." -Pema Chodron
The Most Fundamental Aggression Toward Ourlseves
March 04, 2021 16:00 - 5 minutes - 3.84 MB"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently." -Pema Chodron
My Nuanced Thoughts On Positive Thinking
March 03, 2021 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.54 MBIn this episode, I share different perspectives on the value of creating a positive storyline for your life. As always, if you'd like to get free access to my resource library, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more, text your email address to: +1 (631) 337-8298 And if you'd like to get daily inspirational text messages to your phone from me, just text the word "podcast" to +1 (631) 305-2874
My Nuanced Thoughts Around Positive Thinking
March 03, 2021 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.54 MBIn this episode, I share different perspectives on the value of creating a positive storyline for your life. As always, if you'd like to get free access to my resource library, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more, text your email address to: +1 (631) 337-8298 And if you'd like to get daily inspirational text messages to your phone from me, just text the word "podcast" to +1 (631) 305-2874
The Wisdom of Stress
March 01, 2021 05:00 - 8 minutes - 6.17 MBIn this episode, we discuss the often-overlooked wisdom of the experience of stress. Click here to join the upcoming retreat! www.corymuscara.com/retreat
The Conditions for Deep Rest
February 25, 2021 05:00 - 9 minutes - 6.5 MBIn this episode, we discuss the heart of cultivating deep rest, relaxation, and the unwinding of bodily tension. If you'd like to join the upcoming retreat themed "Deep Rest" visit: https://corymuscara.com/retreat/
Asking For Help
February 24, 2021 05:00 - 5 minutes - 3.57 MB"You have been the strong one for so long. Now is the time to recognize you are allowed to ask for help. Even for the things you feel like you should be able to handle yourself." -Morgan Harper Nichols
5-Part Meditation Practice
February 23, 2021 05:00 - 8 minutes - 5.93 MBIn this episode, I share my 5-part G.R.A.I.N practice that you can use as a form of meditation. Also, if you'd like to attend the upcoming online retreat, you can learn more here: https://corymuscara.com/retreat/
Reframing Discomfort
February 22, 2021 05:00 - 5 minutes - 3.48 MBIn this episode, we discuss a passage from Pema Chodron's book, When Things Fall Apart, discussing a new way to view moments of discomfort.
Maybe You Just Need a Break
February 17, 2021 05:00 - 4 minutes - 3.35 MBBefore diagnosing yourself with anxiety or depression, check to see if you just need a break from the intensity of your life. When we're overwhelmed for prolonged periods of time, we can get stuck in a fight, flight, or freeze reactivity, which can make us feel like something is wrong with us. You may just need a break, just as any other human would if they were going through your situation. To register for the upcoming online retreat, click here! www.corymuscara.com/retreat
Letting Things Settle
February 16, 2021 05:00 - 8 minutes - 6.21 MBIn this episode, we discuss how to facilitate the settling of your mind's mental activity so that you can get in touch with a more grounded, intuitive place within you. If you'd like to join the upcoming retreat, click here: www.corymuscara.com/retreat
The 1,000 Year View
February 12, 2021 05:00 - 6 minutes - 4.26 MBIn this episode, we discuss the power of taking a long-term perspective in your thoughts, actions, and deeds. If you'd like to attend the upcoming retreat, visit www.corymuscara.com/retreat
The Wreckage of Life
February 11, 2021 05:00 - 5 minutes - 3.52 MBIn this episode, we discuss why the pain of life is not beautiful, but something else is. To attend the upcoming online retreat, visit this link: www.corymuscara.com/retreat