Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I don't know if you'll agree with this or not,

but I think as human beings in the modern age, we have a tendency to really want to feel good and feel good all the time. We go to school, we get our first

job, we start making money, and we want things to go well. We kind of expect things to go well, and if they don't, we're not very happy.

And when it comes to physiological sensations, I think we can go quite extreme.

Let's use an example. Let's think about sleeping. I don't know about you, but I've known a lot of people when they miss that good night of sleep. They're pretty upset. They're pretty distraught.

They create a lot of stories about their day going to be going really poorly.

And if they don't sleep for two nights in a row, oh my goodness, it can be a horrifying experience.

Now mind you, I'm not discounting their discomfort, but the stories

they create about that discomfort can be pretty intense. Let me use another example.

I think it was about six months ago, I had just come home from yoga class and I was

pulling on my pants and all of a sudden my back went out and I could barely move. I think it took

about a good four months from my back to get back to shape and I don't think

I'm that uncommon that sometimes most of us experience times where our backs go out.

But what happens here with some people, not all, but some people,

quiet as story is going to be created about that back pain

and they're not going to like it and they're going to do things to create suffering

because of that back pain, not internal suffering from the back pain, but

mental suffering about being in pain.

I mean in life, we're going to have times where we experience physiological pain and it hurts.

But the big difference today is that we want to explore is how do we deal with that suffering,

that pain, and isn't necessarily something that we have to suffer from.

This is something we've all probably seen at some point in our lives.

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