21. Learning what it takes to be happy
Raw & Uncovered
James Middleton
3.3 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
When someone asks "What is happiness?" I don't believe there is a single definition. It's different for everyone. But I do believe there are methods we can apply and definitions we can explore to open up our minds as to what happiness is and isn't. I take a look at some key components of happiness: what being in a flow state is, having inner peace, why being fully present is fundamental and also why things are only perfect or imperfect based on what we desire.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to the bouncing back podcast with me, James Middleton. |
| 0:11.8 | It's good to be talking to you again, I must admit. |
| 0:15.3 | And just a little pre-warning, I have had a coffee this morning. |
| 0:23.1 | No big deal, you might think, but it is a big deal for me because I have actually stopped drinking coffee for two weeks because I read that |
| 0:30.4 | our bodies become used to caffeine and our caffeine threshold basically increases and then we need more and more caffeine to give us |
| 0:42.0 | the same effect as if it were you know when our sort of caffeine threshold is at its normal level so |
| 0:48.5 | I was thinking right okay well there's only one way to find out if this is actually true or not by doing |
| 0:53.0 | it myself so haven't drunk coffee for two weeks because I wanted to almost reset my system and I don't |
| 0:58.9 | like using that term because we're not a car, we're not a machine. |
| 1:02.3 | You can't, when people say, oh, take this diet to boost your metabolism, you can't |
| 1:07.1 | boost your metabolism or reboot your metabolism. |
| 1:10.2 | But what you can do is take things |
| 1:12.0 | out your diet and then reintroduce them again and see what happens. So I've done that and I am |
| 1:18.7 | absolutely flying this morning. The caffeine has sent me for six. So two things. It's worked. And |
| 1:25.6 | secondly, I've got a lot of energy. So let's hope that I don't fire through this episode talking absolute nonsense and go too fast. |
| 1:33.5 | Okay, so bear with me. |
| 1:35.0 | I am shaking a little bit, but everything is okay. |
| 1:38.4 | I'm okay and I'm ready to do this episode. |
| 1:42.2 | So today, we, I am going to be talking about the topic of happiness |
| 1:48.9 | again. Now, it's a funny one because happiness is one of those topics or when you ask someone |
| 1:57.4 | or when you get asked, I don't know if you find this, but when I get asked, |
| 2:06.4 | James, what is your definition of happiness? It always takes me a good couple of seconds, |
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