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Practicing Human

Cory Muscarawww.corymuscara.com
Practicing 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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Episodes

Why Meditation is So Powerful

In this episode, we discuss why meditation is powerful for conditioning your being to experience the states of wholeness and fulfillment that you most desire. If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 to receive free, daily text message teachings and practices delivered to your phone 📲

Mar 31, 20235 minEp. 725

Thoughts on Anger

In this episode, we discuss a short story by Thich Nhat Hanh that helps reframe the experience of anger and how to best work with it. If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 to receive free, daily text and audio message teachings, quotes, and insights delivered to your phone 📲

Mar 30, 20236 minEp. 724

5 Steps To Discover Your True Desires

In this episode, we explore a 5-step process to discover your truer, deeper desires. If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 to receive free, daily text message teachings and practices delivered to your phone 📲

Mar 29, 202311 minEp. 723

Lingering in Happiness

In this episode, we discuss the meaningful and lingering impact of good experiences. The poem that was shared is called "Lingering in Happiness" by Mary Oliver.

Mar 28, 20237 minEp. 722

Mental Fitness vs Spiritual Fitness

There are many reasons why people come to a meditation practice, and many ways that we can frame what a meditation is doing. Ultimately, they're doors into a similar room, but in this episode, we'll discuss two perspectives. If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 to receive free, daily text message teachings and practices delivered to your phone 📲

Mar 27, 20237 minEp. 721

Eliminating Thoughts

In this episode, we're going to talk about a practice that can help you reduce the intrusion of thoughts and why you should seldom use it. I send short teachings like this every day in our text community on mindfulness, life design, healing, and personal growth. They’re completely free, go out every day at 11am EST, and you can unsubscribe at any time. To sign up, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 📲

Mar 24, 20238 minEp. 720

When Plan A Isn't An Option

What do we do when we no longer have our option A? That's what we discuss in this episode. I send short teachings like this every day in our text community on mindfulness, life design, healing, and personal growth. They’re completely free, go out every day at 11am EST, and you can unsubscribe at any time. To sign up, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 📲

Mar 22, 20234 minEp. 719

Inner Change

In 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

Mar 21, 20235 minEp. 718

Intuition, Letting Go, and Trust

In this episode, we will discuss how to let go when you don't know what will come next. To join the text message community, text the word "podcast" to 1-631-305-2874

Mar 20, 20239 minEp. 717

A Tip For Making Hard Decisions

In this episode, we discuss the importance of deeply embodying your "no's" before being able to fully and cleanly say yes. I send short teachings like this every day in our text community on mindfulness, life design, healing, and personal growth. They’re completely free, go out every day at 11am EST, and you can unsubscribe at any time. To sign up, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 📲

Mar 17, 20235 minEp. 716

The Value of Daily Meditation

"The value of daily meditation is that it takes you away from the humdrum of your daily routine and reminds you that you are not what you believe yourself to be." ~Nisargadatta Maharaj I send short teachings like this every day in our text community on mindfulness, life design, healing, and personal growth. They’re completely free, go out every day at 11am EST, and you can unsubscribe at any time. To sign up, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 📲

Mar 16, 20234 minEp. 715

The Value of Going Slow

In this episode, we will discuss why slowing down helps you move faster toward your growth and healing. If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 to receive free, daily text message teachings and practices delivered to your phone 📲

Mar 15, 20235 minEp. 714

Releasing Energy

In this episode, we talk about the different ways we discharge energy from the nervous system. I send short teachings like this every day in our text community on mindfulness, life design, healing, and personal growth. They’re completely free, go out every day at 11am EST, and you can unsubscribe at any time. To sign up, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 📲

Mar 14, 20236 minEp. 713

Don't Open the Floodgates

In this episode, we discuss why you do not need to open the floodgates to do healing work (and why you shouldn't). I send short teachings like this every day in our text community on mindfulness, life design, healing, and personal growth. They’re completely free, go out every day at 11am EST, and you can unsubscribe at any time. To sign up, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 📲

Mar 10, 20237 minEp. 712

The Trap of Spiritual Practices

"Even the most exquisitely designed spiritual methodologies can become traps, leading not to freedom but only to reinforcement, however subtle, of the “I” that wants to be a somebody who has attained or realized freedom (the very same “I” that doesn’t realize there are no Oscars for awakening)." -Robert Augustus Masters 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:...

Mar 09, 202313 minEp. 711

The Healing Power of Positive Emotions

In this episode, we discuss just how important it is to let positive experiences saturate you to your core. I send short teachings like this every day in our text community on mindfulness, life design, healing, and personal growth. They’re completely free, go out every day at 11am EST, and you can unsubscribe at any time. To sign up, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 📲

Mar 08, 20235 minEp. 710

A Practice for Empathy

In this episode, we discuss a simple reflection that will help you develop more empathy. To receive free text message support, text the word "Podcast" to 1-631-305-2874.

Mar 07, 202310 minEp. 709

The Power of Single Moments

It only takes a reminder to breathe, a moment to be still, and just like that, something in me settles, softens, makes space for imperfection. The harsh voice of judgment drops to a whisper and I remember again that life isn’t a relay race; that we will all cross the finish line; that waking up to life is what we were born for. As many times as I forget, catch myself charging forward without even knowing where I’m going, that many times I can make the choice to stop, to breathe and be, and walk ...

Mar 06, 20236 minEp. 708

You're Responsible for Your Happiness

In this episode, we discuss why it's so important to take the journey toward inner peace--not just for yourself, but for everyone you care about. I send short teachings like this every day in our text community on mindfulness, life design, healing, and personal growth. They’re completely free, go out every day at 11am EST, and you can unsubscribe at any time. To sign up, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 📲

Mar 01, 202312 minEp. 707

The Difference Between Joy and Relief

In this episode, we discuss the importance of being attuned to the difference between relief and joy. If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 to receive free, daily text message teachings and practices delivered to your phone 📲

Feb 28, 20237 minEp. 706

Feeling Empty

" Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." -Rumi I send short teachings like this every day in our text community on mindfulness, life design, healing, and personal growth. They’re completely free, go out every day at 11am EST, and you can unsubscribe at any time. To sign up, text the word “Podcast...

Feb 27, 20234 minEp. 705

Feel and Release

So many of us are walking through life holding incomplete cycles of emotions, experiences we've only partially allowed ourselves to feel and thus still feel burdened by. The only way to release these emotions is to feel them fully. I send short written teachings like this every day in our text community on mindfulness, life design, healing, and personal growth. They’re completely free, go out every day at 11am EST, and you can unsubscribe at any time. To sign up, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631...

Feb 24, 20239 minEp. 704

Becoming Who You're Meant to Be

In this episode, we discuss what it would look like to not struggle to become who you are meant to become. And if you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 to receive free, daily text and audio message teachings, quotes, and insights delivered to your phone 📲

Feb 23, 20238 minEp. 703

Working With a Guarded Heart

In this episode, we discuss how to soften the walls around your heart. I send short teachings like this in written form every day in our text community on mindfulness, life design, healing, and personal growth. They’re completely free, go out every day at 11am EST, and you can unsubscribe at any time. To sign up, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 📲

Feb 22, 20235 minEp. 702

The Power of Silence

In this episode, we discuss why silence can be both terrifying and transformative. If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 to receive free, daily text message teachings and practices delivered to your phone 📲

Feb 21, 20237 minEp. 701

How to Be A Better Listener

In this episode, I share my favorite "hack" to becoming a better listener. It's simple and easy to implement. If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 to receive free, daily text message teachings and practices delivered to your phone 📲

Feb 20, 202311 minEp. 700

Fight The Old or Build The New?

In this episode, we discuss the difference between fighting the old and building the new. If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Facebook” to 1-631-305-2874 to receive free, daily text message teachings and practices delivered to your phone 📲

Feb 17, 20236 minEp. 699

Living Deeply

In this episode, we explore a Mary Oliver poem. I send short teachings like this every day in our text community on mindfulness, life design, healing, and personal growth. They’re completely free, go out every day at 11am EST, and you can unsubscribe at any time. To sign up, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 📲

Feb 15, 20233 minEp. 697

A Simple Practice To Help You Let Go

In 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. If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Podcast” to 1-631-305-2874 to receive free, daily text message teachings and practices delivered to your phone 📲

Feb 14, 20237 minEp. 696
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