Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I don't remember how young I was, but I do remember

the first ballet I ever went to. It was called a Nutcracker, and centered on Christmas, celebrating Christmas with children.

I remember sitting in the audience, watching the ballerinas, and thinking they make that look so easy, they're so effortless in their movements, how do they do that?

Because I could tell I couldn't do that, but it was truly beautiful.

watching them in their art form. It seems so effortless, so spontaneous, so beautiful.

But if we know anything about the art of the ballet,

we know that there is a lot of work that goes into getting the point of being

so beautiful in their work. A lot of hours went into getting to that point that they could

be effortless. But when they reach that point, it truly is a magnificent performance. But we have to realize that to get there, a lot of work, a lot of work a lot of preparation went into it but when they actually

do the performance at that point they can't be thinking I need to put my right foot here

and my left foot there they would trip and fall very quickly if they did that.

It truly reaches a point where their dance becomes truly spontaneous because they can't think anymore.

They just have to flow.

And as I said, it is something worth watching

because it's so beautiful.

Most of us listening to this podcast probably will never be a ballerina, or if we are one, we won't be

one for the rest of our lives.

Our bodies just can't maintain that type of rigorous performance.

But we're here to learn about how to be happy. And I do believe that the principles

that it takes to be a ballerina are very similar to the principles it takes to find happiness

and peace, or the steps it takes to become a bellarina and the final

outcome again are very similar to the steps that takes to be happy and what it looks like

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