Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I like words and there's some really good ones out there.

And the one I want to talk about today if you haven't heard it is called sauntering.

If you look it up, the definition for it is walking in a slow, relaxed manner without hurry or effort.

I like that. As we get more askance in the 21st century with all the technological

changes, the internet, and all the access we have to so many different things.

Sauntering is one of those things we see less and less of.

There are so many new things out there to keep us entertained, to keep us excited, to keep us engaged.

But here's the question that asks ourselves, if they work, if these gadgets, if these activities, if these frenetic paces that we keep up work,

then why aren't we happier? Why are we struggling?

And it doesn't take long to figure out as a people on planet Earth. We're struggling right now.

The busyness, the activity, all the frenetic things that we can get involved with aren't making our lives happier. So when the

weekends come or vacations comes we do try to slow down and if we're able to slow

down then our lives do go a little bit better, but it's so easy to

get back on that frenetic-paced will of busyness, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go go and it's exhausting and yet we keep getting on that

will of busyness we do it because it's much like an addiction our lives aren't going that well. Our busyness isn't making us happier,

but that's painful. And we don't like to feel that pain. We like to think that this is working.

So we get back on that wheel again, being busy, getting

on our phones, checking things out, going, going. And then every once in a while, we have those

opportunities to slow down.

And they're good for us.

So in today's podcast, I want to talk about songtering through life,

taking time not just once in a while, but taking time to live a life in which

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