Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff.

Over the years we've covered so many different aspects of happiness, what helps our lives to go better, to be more peaceful, to be more happy. And they're all important.

It's like having a beautiful diamond and there are facets and each facet looked directly into the heart of the diamond, and though they have a different

perspective on the diamond, they're each equally important.

And the same is true in the topics recover in regards to happiness.

From detachment to living in the present moment to negative visualization.

I mean the list has gotten quite long now that we're on our 151st episode.

But in today's episode, I want to cover an aspect of how to be happy that may not seem directly correlated to happiness.

But what may surprise you is the incredible power of this practice.

And this practice is one of kindness, kindness towards ourselves and kindness

towards others. I'm not even 100% sure I can explain why it's so important, but what I can do is encourage us

after we listen to this episode to start practicing kindness and then see how beautiful, how quickly our hearts find that peace,

find that happiness when we are more kind.

And perhaps a good place to start in regards to kindness is what happens when we're not kind. I think we'll find that people that aren't kind, that try to hurt others, that have a long history of abuse

towards other people and themselves, are very unhappy people.

And if you don't believe me, I like to do this test. Just try to find the

person that you grew up with that you knew as a young person was not very kind that was

mean, a bully, but a bully to the extreme case, a truly

cruel person.

And then find out how their lives turn out. See if you can hunt them down through the internet now or

through friends or family or you may be able to think of someone that you knew growing

up was not very kind. And then look look how did that turn out always and I truly

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