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 a short story by Thich Nhat Hanh that helps reframe the experience of anger and how to best work with it.
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In this episode, we discuss the importance of taking time to metaphorically exhale.
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In this episode, I share a simple practice for stepping out of your inner turmoil and into a state of love and compassion.
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In this episode, I share some thoughts and perspectives for starting 2022 on the right foot.
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In this episode, we discuss what may be your biggest life's work.
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The meditation teacher, Munindra-ji, used to say to his students "Sit and know that you're sitting, and the whole of dharma will reveal itself." Sometimes the practice is much more simple than we rea…
"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about des…
In this episode, we discuss why there is no amount of "fixing yourself" that could possibly make you more whole than you are right now.
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As humans, it's inevitable that we will encounter pain in our life. Much of this pain is out of our control, but some of it we can influence and soothe. This is true in our meditation practice, as we…
In today's episode, we discuss when it may not be appropriate to meditate, and also what you might do before you meditate as a way to improve the experience.
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In this episode, we discuss how cultivating concentration leads to greater restoration and ease in the mind, body, and soul.
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Lao-Tzu had some great words about how to best practice human, and in this episode, we explore a passage that reminds us of the importance of the moment that we're in.
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In this episode, we dive into the differences between short bursts of deep mindfulness versus longer periods of weaker mindfulness. Which is better? Listen to find out.
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Can meditation extend your life? There's a lot to say on how it can increase your lifespan, but nothing that confirms we could double or triple our lifespan. However, there is a different way we can …
"You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total "surrender"... It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out ... Any movement in any direction…
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…
"[When we meditate], we often think that somehow we’re going to improve, which is a subtle aggression against who we really are...We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness.…
In this episode, we're going to talk about how to mindfully work with urges, impulses, and addictive tendencies.
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In this episode, we discuss the power of boredom to change how we focus, inspire how we pay attention, and spark new creativity.
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In this episode, we discuss the difference between "safe fear" vs "unsafe fear" and how you can use this to guide your navigation of when to take on pain and discomfort and when to avoid it.
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