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Hosted by Melli O'Brien and Cory Muscara, these intimate conversations with world-renowned mindfulness teachers are an exploration of their own personal journeys with mindfulness and the inspiration behind their respective courses.

In-Depth Teacher Conversations

Dive into the wisdom of The Mindfulness Summit with our exclusive playlist. Experience transformative insights and practices from leading experts in mindfulness and self-discovery.

The Mindfulness Summit 

Boost your mental resilience and explore powerful insights and strategies from Mental Strength expert, Melli O'Brien to build inner fortitude, overcome challenges, and thrive in any situation.

Q&A on Mental Strength

Find peace amid chaos with Shamash Alidina, as he uncovers his expert advice and coping techniques to conquer anxiety and stress, restoring calmness and balance to your life.

Q&A on Anxiety and Stress

Transform your mindset as you dive into expert insights and strategies to conquer negativity and foster a more positive, empowered outlook on life.

Q&A on Negative Thinking

Find healing insights with and discover expert advice, coping strategies, and support to navigate the challenges of pain and illness allowing yourself to embrace resilience and well-being.

Q&A on Pain and Illness

Nurture your inner self and explore profound insights and guidance to cultivate self-love, kindness, and resilience. Embrace a more compassionate journey within.

Q&A on Self-Compassion

Explore expert insights and strategies to navigate life's ups and downs, fostering resilience, and empowering your emotional well-being.

Q&A on Emotional Resilience

Unlock your full potential with Work Performance Q&A with Rich Fernandez. Expert insights, practical tips, and real-life answers to boost your productivity and excel in your professional journey.

Q&A on Work Performance

Cultivate inner harmony and gain profound insights and expert guidance to find serenity, balance, and mindfulness in the midst of life's demands.

Q&A on Inner Peace

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Judson Brewer shares how the practice of mindfulness for addiction can also teach us how to untangle ourselves from what is said to be the biggest obstacle to mindful living—our attachment to craving.

Mindfulness for Addiction 

In this talk, we'll explore the deep evolutionary and spiritual currents that shape our lives—the pull of fear and separation, and the quiet, persistent call toward love, compassion, and belonging. Drawing on stories, reflections, and contemplative practices, this talk invites us to remember that caring is our true nature, even when it feels distant or obscured.

Through mindful awareness and heart-centered practices, we begin to sense how our awakened heart calls us—through both the pain of disconnection and the longing for love. As we learn to turn toward our inner experience with kindness, we naturally widen our circles of compassion and deepen our capacity to meet others with presence and care.

In this talk, Tara explores:

✨ How compassion is the foundation of human connection and collective healing
✨ The two forces within us: fear-based reactivity and the call of the awakened heart
✨ Why "caring about caring" is itself a doorway to love and transformation
✨ Practices for turning toward vulnerability and deepening empathy (including Tonglen)
✨ How widening our circles of compassion can help heal both personal and global suffering

 

Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

Your Awake Heart Is Calling You: Healing Separation and Returning to Loving Presence

Rich offers proven ways to exercise renewal and recharge your reserves of energy and focus, all which can help with burnout. 

How Can I Avoid Burnout?

Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, 

the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,

who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-‐

who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should l have done?

Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?

-Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

A Contemplation on Life

The way our minds evolved means that we naturally experience psychological suffering, but there is a way to train and transform it.

Why Do We Struggle With Our Minds So Much?

In this episode, we discuss why it's absolutely imperative to learn to stabilize the mind if we want to develop inner wisdom and freedom.

To join the "Working with Thoughts" course, visit: https://corymuscara.com/course/ 

Why Focus is So Important

How to live a more balanced, sustainable and fulfilling life—even when things get busy, stressful or overwhelming. 

Are You in the Exhaustion Funnel?

2013-11-13 - Part 2 - Vulnerability, Intimacy and Spiritual Awakening - We each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned to avoid feeling or expressing that vulnerability. Yet intimacy with this unlived life is the gateway to connecting authentically with others, full aliveness and spiritual realization.  These talks explore the ways that we defend ourselves, and the pathway to gently, wisely and intelligently disarming and freeing our hearts.

Part 2: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening

Join Shamash and Melli as they explore Transforming Your Relationship With Anxiety.

Melli & Shamash Explore Transforming Your Relationship With Anxiety

In this episode, I share a short, simple invitation to bring out the best of yourself in each moment. May it offer you a map for living more fully, deliberately, and authentically.

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

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Do The Best You Can

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Do you ever struggle with anger? Vidyamala shares helpful perspectives that have helped her life.

How Do I Work With Anger?

Rich reflects on how we can draw on internal and external resources to spark motivation.

How Do I Get Motivated When I Don’t Feel Motivated?

Let’s take a look at the practical ways in which we can support children’s motivation for meditation and empowering their voice.

Motivation for Meditation

Is a past failure holding you back from being resilient? Kelly offers two valuable ways of viewing failure.

How Do I Bounce Back From Failure?

Rhonda shares how self-compassion is a loving alternative to the negative voice of the inner critic.

Won’t Self-Compassion and Acceptance Take Away My Ambition to Improve Myself?

Mental strength involves your ability to think, act and perform at your best in any given circumstance. 

What Does It Actually Mean to Be Mentally Strong?

Do you ever wonder where the inner critic comes from? Mark shares a reflection on the power of our early childhood experiences. 

Where Does the Inner Critic Come From?

Is the feeling of anxiety normal? Shamash shares an important lesson.

How Much Anxiety Is Normal?

Do you find it hard to deal with negative thoughts and emotions? Vidyamala shares some practices to stay connected to inner peace. 

What if I Have Loads of Negative Thoughts and Emotions?

Do you ever feel like you don't have the energy to be resilient? Kelly shares two powerful mindfulness-based pointers.  

What if I Don’t Have the Energy to Be Resilient?

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Mindfulness tracks to listen to throughout the day as you work, study, or commute.

Talk Playlists

In-Depth Teacher Conversations

The Mindfulness Summit

Q&A on Mental Strength

Q&A on Anxiety and Stress

Q&A on Negative Thinking

Q&A on Pain and Illness

Q&A on Self-Compassion

Q&A on Emotional Resilience

Q&A on Work Performance

Q&A on Inner Peace

Daily Wisdom Mix

Mindfulness for Addiction

Your Awake Heart Is Calling You: Healing Separation and Returning to Loving Presence

How Can I Avoid Burnout?

A Contemplation on Life

All Talks

How Do I Work With Anger?

How Do I Get Motivated When I Don’t Feel Motivated?

Motivation for Meditation

How Do I Bounce Back From Failure?

Won’t Self-Compassion and Acceptance Take Away My Ambition to Improve Myself?

What Does It Actually Mean to Be Mentally Strong?

Where Does the Inner Critic Come From?

How Much Anxiety Is Normal?

What if I Have Loads of Negative Thoughts and Emotions?

What if I Don’t Have the Energy to Be Resilient?

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