Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. One of the biggest obstacles we have to face in life is change. Life can be going along very well and then all of a sudden something changes. Perhaps we're going through a divorce and we have to move and we don't get to see our kids as often.

Perhaps we get an illness and all the things we used to do we just can't anymore.

Perhaps we live in a beautiful home, and because of financial changes, we have to move, and

we lose that home.

There's so many things in life that can change.

It's just one of the big parts of life that if we want to be happy we have to deal with

so in today's podcast I want to talk about a technique a skill that we can use in order

to improve our ability not to be so attached to things and

truly live free from all the burdens and suffering that attachment spring.

Here's what we do. Throughout our day we use the words

mine. This is my house. These are my children. These are my degrees. This is my car. This is my body. So throughout the day

we're just reinforcing our attachments towards things, towards people, towards things that we think are ours and will never change.

But the longer we live, the more we realize that just isn't so. Things change. Those things that we thought were ours aren't anymore.

Again, it can be almost anything, truly anything we can think of outside of death.

And all of us know even death is coming, but everything changes sometimes. It just can.

So instead of saying this is my house, my wife, my kids, my job, whatever it may be, my car.

What if we were to loosen that and stop saying that?

What would happen?

Then might we realize throughout the day that everything is a gift, something that we can truly

appreciate and be thankful for, but realizing that we don't own it?

So one, we'll cherish it so much better because we'll see it as a gift, a gift today that we're thankful for.

And tomorrow, if it isn't there, we're just thankful that we had it.

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