How To Stay Present When Opting Out Looks Less Painful with Cory Muscara
Uncover Your Magic
Ashley Gonor
5 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Whenever you realize you've been consumed by your phone, lost in mindless scrolling, do you show yourself compassion, or are you as harsh as you can with yourself? Regardless of how skillful you get at being present, it is hard to avoid being sucked in by a world that has become a true master of distraction, a relentless, thirsty-for-attention machine.
In today's episode, we discuss all things meditation, mindfulness, and personal growth with the magical Cory Muscara. He is a mindfulness and meditation teacher, keynote speaker, coach, and best-selling author of "Stop Missing Your Life," the Practicing Human podcast host, and former monk.
During a life-changing trip to Burma in 2012, Cory spent six months in silence practicing Vipassana meditation (14 to 20 hours per day), ordained as a monk under the late Sayadaw U Pandita within the Mahasi lineage of the Theravada tradition. Since then, he has been on a mission to bring mindfulness and meditation to people in practical and usable ways.
Throughout our conversation, you'll hear Cory's compassionate and wise approach to mindfulness practices, details of his trip to Burma, and how he got into mindfulness, moved from both an egoic place and the intrinsic knowledge of the practice's benefits in the long haul. He shares his thoughts on meditation, oneness, emotional healing, relationships, and good and bad fortune.
Additionally, Cory talks about the importance of embracing life's unpredictability, the difference between primary and secondary pain, the power of curiosity, and more.
Tune in to Episode 201 and let Cory teach you how to remain present when numbing out looks the less painful choice.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
When trying to impress a girl opens a life path (11:30)
A trip to Burma that changed everything (18:30)
How hard silent retreats really are? (27:20)
How long does it take to get the "oneness thing" (35:00)
What happens when we start to eliminate rumination's time and space (43:20)
Back to the real world. How did Cory's journey evolve after the monastic life (49:10)
Good luck, bad luck, who knows? (57:00)
Resources Mentioned:
Book: Cory Muscara - Stop Missing Your Life
Book: Richard Schwartz - No Bad Parts
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| 0:00.0 | I believe everyone has a story to share. I'm on a journey to discover the magic inside each person's story. Each week I will introduce |
| 0:16.3 | you to guess where I will dig deep and uncover the beautiful miracles from |
| 0:21.6 | life and experiences to inspire and |
| 0:24.8 | encourage you to live life to the fullest. |
| 0:28.2 | My goal is to give each guest a platform |
| 0:31.7 | to share their lives with the world in hopes that someone will be |
| 0:35.8 | inspired to take action and live life with passion and purpose. Welcome to the Uncover Your Magic Podcast with me, Ashley my guest. His name is Corey Muscara. |
| 1:05.5 | And I was introduced to him by a friend |
| 1:09.1 | who has been taking his classes. |
| 1:11.7 | Gosh, I think, for the last last couple years and she kept telling me what a difference he was making in her life and that I should interview him, which I encourage all of you to do if there's someone that you think I should interview, please reach out because I didn't know about |
| 1:25.8 | Corey until she told me about him. So gosh, what an amazing rabbit hole to go down. I looked at his Instagram and then I ordered his book, |
| 1:36.2 | Stop Missing Your Life, and then I went to his podcast, it's called Practicing Human, |
| 1:42.1 | and it's all down our alley and you're going to love him and it's going to be his story that will I think kind of shift your perspective on discipline and dedication to really finding your purpose. |
| 2:00.0 | He studied in a monastery in Burma for six months. |
| 2:05.8 | He did silent. |
| 2:07.2 | He was meditating for 14 hours a day, |
| 2:10.7 | like sleeping three hours, barely eating. |
| 2:14.0 | I mean, we're gonna get into that, but yeah, so when I started learning about him, |
| 2:19.2 | I really recognized what he would bring to the show and open your eyes to help people really dedicate |
| 2:26.5 | themselves to finding their purpose and going to that extreme, which is amazing and you're |
| 2:31.2 | going to love him. He's absolutely adorable. But before I bring |
| 2:35.4 | Cori on, I want a few things. First Monday call, last Monday's call was amazing with Kate Rossi. If you haven't, if you didn't get to go and it's on my YouTube channel, please go watch it. It was magical and she's amazing and I will have her on again. She's become my dear friend and everyone was just in awe. |
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