Fall in Love with the Part of You That Is Holding On and Watch Your Entire Awakening Process Shift (Cory Muscara)

Cory Muscara is a former monk, bestselling author of Stop Missing Your Life, host of the Practicing Human podcast, and an instructor of Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. With over one million followers, Cory makes mindfulness and inner work accessible. His six month silent Vipassana retreat, practicing meditation 14 to 20 hours daily, transformed his understanding of the awakening process and what it means to come home to yourself.

In this episode, we explore why falling in love with the part of you that is holding on is the key to shifting your awakening process. Cory shares how most people try to force letting go from resistance, when the real path is bringing warmth to the fears underneath. We discuss how desires in stillness point toward the soul while desires in agitation come from ego, and why that matters for inner work and spiritual transformation. We also explore entrepreneurship as a path for inner transformation, and why the "waiting room" between life chapters is a misunderstood stage of the awakening process.

Who This Episode Is For:

• Entrepreneurs and founders integrating inner work with professional life
• Anyone navigating a life transition or releasing old patterns
• Seekers deepening their connection to inner wisdom
• People interested in how presence practices and meditation inform decisions

What You'll Learn:

• Why you must fall in love with the part holding on before letting go happens
• How to distinguish between desires rooted in ego and desires rooted in the soul
• Why personal transformation requires unwinding patterns not adding new ones
• How to use business as a spiritual path without spiritual bypassing
• Ways to build trust with your inner knowing through experimentation

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Chapters:

(00:00) Finding Your True Self as an Act of Love and Rebellion

(06:00) The Unwinding Path and Six Months of Silent Meditation

(17:00) Entrepreneurship as a Spiritual Practice

(25:00) Desires in Stillness vs. Desires in Agitation

(39:00) Falling in Love with What Is Holding On