#116 Happiness - Dying to Wake Up
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
What if we could learn a daily technique each morning that would help us to live more present throughout the day. This is what we will explore in today's episode. To visit the Happiness Podcast, go to: http://www.HappinessPodcast.org To learn more about Dr. Puff's Corporate Workshops, go to: http://www.SuccessBeyondYourImagination.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. |
| 0:15.0 | There are many things that keep us from happiness, but one of them is just missing out on life, not seeing life, and being stuck in our head with our worries and our fears and our |
| 0:25.3 | desires that keep us from seeing the present moment living well in the here and |
| 0:30.6 | now. Today I want to talk about a technique we can use to change that. But before |
| 0:35.8 | we explore that, I want to talk about why we don't see. Why do we miss out so much of life? |
| 0:42.2 | There are so many beautiful things that we can attend to in life, but |
| 0:46.1 | what happens is, instead of being attended to life in all the beauty that it provides, we're in |
| 0:52.1 | our heads and we're having an ongoing |
| 0:54.4 | conversation with ourselves all day long that keeps us from seeing that which is |
| 0:59.1 | around us. It'd be like going on a beautiful hike in a beautiful forest with everything around this being just opulent. |
| 1:07.5 | Birds are singing, flowers are blooming, the smells are magnificent, but we're having a conversation with someone, and we're so intensely |
| 1:15.3 | involved with that conversation that we don't notice all the things around us. |
| 1:19.8 | Or imagine this, we go to a beautiful concert, perhaps at a park, outdoors, and the symphony is playing, and everything |
| 1:27.2 | about the day is just beautiful again. |
| 1:30.9 | But we're getting a text from a friend and they're upset and we're so involved in that |
| 1:36.6 | texting we're not even noticing the music playing in the background and we get so focused |
| 1:41.7 | on what the conversations about that we miss out on what life is about right now. |
| 1:47.0 | Because our focus can only be on one thing at a time and because it's with the conversation or texting with our friend, we're not engaging with the music around us. |
| 1:56.0 | Life is much like that. |
| 1:58.0 | I live in Southern California, not far from Disneyland, |
| 2:02.0 | so every once in a while we get season passes to |
| 2:04.7 | Disneyland and we really love going there for many reasons. But one of the |
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