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.
In this episode, we discuss an aspect of healing and growth that we can often miss.
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In this episode, we explore two questions you can ask yourself in moments of stress and overwhelm that will help you re-ground.
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In this episode, we will discuss why slowing down helps you move faster toward your growth and healing.
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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.
In this episode, we talk about the different ways we discharge energy from the nervous system.
In this episode, we discuss how, if there is such a thing as the life that you are "meant to live," how we would go about discovering and living that life.
"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 …
In this episode, we discuss the importance of being attuned to the difference between relief and joy.
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In this episode, we discuss the importance of deeply embodying your "no's" before being able to fully and cleanly say yes.
In this episode, we discuss why each person should, at some point in their life, try going all in on something that makes them feel both inspired and terrified.
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In this episode, we talk about a different kind of gratitude that you won't get from creating a gratitude journal. It's unprompted gratitude that is connected to truth, wisdom, and suffering.
To regis…
Concentration is a happiness superpower, useful in both good and bad times. In this episode, we'll discuss why concentration is so powerful and how to practice employing it in your life.
As always, if…
In this episode, we discuss a simple reflection that will help you develop more empathy.
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"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
In this episode, we discuss a counterintuitive way to unwind deep tension and conditioning from the body.
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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…
In this episode, we discuss just how important it is to let positive experiences saturate you to your core.
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In this episode, we discuss how to soften the walls around your heart.
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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…