Cory Muscara

Practicing Human

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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.

Author

Cory Muscara

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Health

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www.corymuscara.com

Latest episode

Mar 23, 2026

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Episodes

ABC Model: Part 4 20.12.2019

This is the final episode in our 4-part series on the ABC model. Enjoy! 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

ABC Model: Part 3 19.12.2019

In this episode, we discuss how to work with stubborn beliefs. It is part 3 of our multi-series on the ABC model. 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

ABC Model: Part 2 18.12.2019

In this episode, we continue our exploration of the ABC model and how it can be used to change how you experience every moment of your life. 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

ABC Model: Part 1 17.12.2019

In this episode, I introduce the cognitive-behavioral therapy practice called the ABC model. This will be a multi-part series, so stay tuned! 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

A Simple Skill to Manage Emotions 16.12.2019

Have you ever heard of emotional granularity? It's the ability to differentiate between the specificity of emotions. In this episode, we explore how to do this. 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

Mindful Problem Solving Nap 15.12.2019

When I need a break from work, but am not in a place to go to sleep, I take a mindful problem-solving nap. Try it out! 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

My New Favorite Mantra 14.12.2019

Here's a simple phrase you can use to move toward greater fulfillment, peace, and wholeness. 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

How to Love with Less Attachment 13.12.2019

How can we relate to all experiences in a way that enables us to appreciate them, but not get attached? The great meditation teacher, Ajahn Chah, has some insight. You can read more about the story referenced in this episode here: https://www.stevenkharper.com/thiscupIsalreadybroken.html If you'd like to get free access to my resource library, including guided meditations, book recommendation...

How To Stop Needing to Control Everything 12.12.2019

So many of us are incessantly working to manufacture the world around us to find peace. There's a different way. In this episode, we'll discuss how. 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

3 Steps to Show Up For Yourself 11.12.2019

What does it mean to show up for yourself? In this episode, I offer three steps to do 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 (631) 337-8298

Redefining Your Endpoint 10.12.2019

Life's full range of experiences doesn't go away, even with the deepest enlightenment. So what changes? Find out in today's episode. 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

Thoughts on Fighting the Moment 09.12.2019

If we're always fighting what is present, not liking ourselves for what we feel when we pay attention to what we're feeling, or denying ourselves a moment of sadness in an effort to supplant it with joy, then we're setting ourselves up for a lifetime of tension. As always, if you'd like to get free access to my resource library, including guided meditations, book recommendation...

STOP: A Quick Technique to Find Calm 07.12.2019

STOP is a simple technique to reduce stress, reconnect to the moment, and develop presence. 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

Thoughts on Self-Care, Healing, & Fulfillment 06.12.2019

The capacity to check in, feel, and stay present to the different layers of your experience, without immediately trying to make them different, is the foundation for self-care, healing, and deep fulfillment. 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)...

How Mindfulness Leads to Happiness 05.12.2019

Mindfulness leads to a different kind of happiness than we're used to. In this episode, I share a quote from my friend, Scott Barry Kaufman, that encapsulates how we retrain the brain for a different kind of happiness. 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 addr...

Should You Meditate With Music? 04.12.2019

Is it better to meditate with music in the background? Does it help or hurt the meditation? All that and more in this episode. 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

Guided vs Silent Meditations 03.12.2019

Are guided meditations a crutch? What are the pros and cons to each? More on this in today's episode. 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

Dealing With Difficult People 02.12.2019

We all struggle with difficult people in our life, and often times we can't get away from these people. In this episode, we'll discuss how to reframe our relationship to them in a way that helps us grow. 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...

A Simple Mindset Shift that Changes Everything 01.12.2019

Have you ever been caught in the perspective of "why is this happening to me?" In this episode, we discuss a mindset shift that can change, well, everything in 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

Is Toilet Paper The Key to Happiness? 30.11.2019

There are small happiness hacks all around us. In this episode, we'll discuss one that starts with toilet paper. As always, if you'd like to get free resources, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more, text your email address to: +1 (631) 337-8298

Fulfillment without the Stuff 29.11.2019

We know our happiness doesn't reside in external things, and yet we rarely act in accordance with that understanding. In this episode, we'll explore a short practice to find more fulfillment, here and now, without needing to "get" something. As always, if you'd like to get free resources, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more, te...

Feast on What Is 28.11.2019

What can gratitude look like beyond the usual "appreciate what's good?" In this special Thanksgiving episode, we'll explore the spirit of gratitude in a new way. As always, if you'd like to get free resources, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more, text your email address to: +1 (631) 337-8298

Can Meditation Replace Sleep? 27.11.2019

Well, can it? Let's find out. As always, if you'd like to get free resources, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more, text your email address to: +1 (631) 337-8298

Meditation vs Sleep: What's the Difference? 26.11.2019

Isn't meditation the same thing as sleep? They're both about relaxation right? What's the difference? We'll address those questions here. As always, if you'd like to get free resources, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more, text your email address to: +1 (631) 337-8298

3 Tips for Deep Sleep 25.11.2019

Learn 3 strategies to soften a busy mind and tense body, and drift into deep sleep. As always, if you'd like to get free resources, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more, text your email address to: +1 (631) 337-8298

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