Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Right now, listening to this

podcast, we may be suffering. Suffering comes in many forms, takes on many masks, and we can experience it throughout our lives.

Sometimes it's intermittent and sometimes it's long-lasting.

But we don't like to suffer and we spend a lot of energy alleviating

suffering when we're going through it. Right now we may be listening to this

podcast and be going through a breakup or divorce.

We may be suffering something physical and be in the hospital.

We may be struggling with our finances and have worries about whether we're going to be able to keep what we have or get what we want.

There's so many ways suffering manifests and it's something that we have to face throughout our lives.

But we're also taking our precious time to learn about how do we alleviate the suffering so our lives can go more smoothly and be less

painful?

How do we do that?

Because we don't want to suffer, as I said earlier, we expend lots of energy fighting off ways when we suffer if we're

struggling with depression. We may do lots of things to make sure that depression abates. If we're having a physical sensation that is causing

this pain, again, we may do many things to make sure that that is alleviated as fast as possible.

If we have goals that we haven't reached

and things that we want,

then suffering can occur, not because we are suffering for something,

but because we're suffering because of lack of something.

And we all know what suffering is.

It's about being discontent, unhappy with what is.

So, what do we do? How do we alleviate the suffering so that we can find

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