Welcome to the happiness podcast, I'm Dr. Robert Puff. As we journey through life, sometimes we hit bumps. Sometimes we hit some really big bumps. And our tendency is when things tend to go not very well. We tend to be very self-critical

and judgmental. But today, I want us to consider, instead of judging these bumps, seeing

them as wake-up calls as opportunities for growth.

And actually, not something bad, but something that's there to help us grow to say, hey, I need

to change things and get back on course.

Whether you're new to this podcast or I've been listening for a while,

the one thing that I teach over and over again is that we truly all can have beautiful lives, all of us, no matter what.

Now after hearing this, you may think, this guy is crazy.

What is he talking about?

He doesn't know what I'm going through right now, and it's a living hell.

So if I can ask the favor of everyone listening to this podcast today, just listen to it all the way

through and see if perhaps just perhaps I'm not as crazy as I seem and

maybe we really can have beautiful lives all of us.

Let me start with a physiological example. Imagine if we were able to shut

off our pain receptors and we didn't feel any pain. It sounds pretty cool, but it's really

not. A friend of mine in high school had gotten in a car

wreck and one of the consequences of the car wreck was that she was paralyzed from the

waist down for the rest of her life. I knew her pretty well and she had to be really

careful she told me about getting sores or injuries on her legs and feet because she couldn't

feel anything and because she couldn't feel anything they could occur very easily and if she

didn't notice them they could get really infected and with time could actually

cause her pretty serious damage. So as humans we've evolved physiologically in such a way

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