Practicing Human

In this episode, we discuss the difference between "good wanting" and "bad wanting." What are the "wants" that lead to freedom, happiness, and expansion? What are the wants that lead to pain, tension, and separation? We will discuss. 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 teachin...

In this episode, I share the contemporary fable, Upstream Downstream by Donald Arnell. 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 📲 

In this episode, we discuss how our most painful, broken moments are often the catalyst for the greatest growth and clarity. 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 📲 

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 📲 

In this episode, we discuss the importance of taking time to metaphorically exhale.  To join the masterclass, click here: www.corymuscara.com/masterclass 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 📲 

In this episode, I share a simple practice for stepping out of your inner turmoil and into a state of love and compassion. To join the upcoming masterclass, click here: www.corymuscara.com/masterclass 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 📲 

In this episode, I share some thoughts and perspectives for starting 2022 on the right foot. If you'd like to join the upcoming "New Year's Resolutions" masterclass, click here: www.corymuscara.com/masterclass 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...

In this episode, we discuss what may be your biggest life's work. To try out the 31-Day course, click here . If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Instagram” to 1-631-305-2874 to receive free, daily text and audio message teachings, quotes, and insights delivered to your phone 📲 

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 realize, and in this episode, we discuss why some of the deepest wisdom and insights come from just being where we are. If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Podcast” to 1...

"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 despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees,...

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. 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 📲 

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 well. When pain arises in meditation--an itch, knee pain, etc--should we alleviate it if we can, or should we practice being with it? Listen on to find out. If you’d like more support and guidance,...

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. 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 📲 

In this episode, we discuss how cultivating concentration leads to greater restoration and ease in the mind, body, and soul. If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Instagram” to 1-631-305-2874 to receive free, daily text and audio message teachings, quotes, and insights delivered to your phone 📲 

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. 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...

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. 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...

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 increase life that meditation addresses more directly, and much more immediately. We'll discuss what that is in this episode. As always, if you'd like to get free access to my resource l...

"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, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from Yourself..."  -U. G. Krishnamurti If you’d like more support and guidance, text the word “Instagram” to 1-631-305-2874 to r...

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. 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 de...

"[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. Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right...

In this episode, we're going to talk about how to mindfully work with urges, impulses, and addictive tendencies. 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 fr...

In this episode, we discuss the power of boredom to change how we focus, inspire how we pay attention, and spark new creativity. 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 yo...

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. 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 (6...

Have you ever felt stuck? You don't know what decision to make? Where to go next with your life? Whether to stay in or get out of a relationship? Whether to quit or stay at your job? In this episode, we'll explore the feeling of being stuck, why it's a blessing in disguise, and how to navigate it. Also, if you're interested in the upcoming online retreat, you can register and l...

In this episode, I share a simple heuristic for parsing the mind's ideas from your soul's truth. To join the upcoming online retreat, "Meeting Your Purpose," visit: www.corymuscara.com/retreat