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

Over the years, I've been arguing that we are influenced by what we are exposed to, and the more we're exposed to something, the more we're influenced by that. I think most of us would agree

that on the eating level, we are what we eat. If we're eating a lot of healthy fruits and

vegetables that are organic on a regular basis, we're going to be

healthier. If we indulge in fried foods and sugars, we're going to have a different type of effect.

Our body is going to feel whatever comes in.

It's going to influence us.

And when we make choices that are good for our body, we live a healthier life.

In the exact same way, I do believe what we expose ourselves to affects us.

And if we're not careful, we can be deeply affected in negative ways

by what we expose ourselves to. From the music

we listen to to the news we watch to the radio, TV, movies, all the things that we watch, and listen to affect us. It isn't that we need

to judge them, we just need to be aware that they do affect us. For example, I doubt any of us would judge a really good chocolate cookie or

a wonderful cheesecake or our favorite candy bar from the local market.

These are things that we enjoy,

but we also know that if we ate them all the time,

it would not be good for us.

Too many cookies is not good for the body. In the same way, what we expose ourselves

to matters and we have to ask ourselves is what are we exposing ourselves to throughout the day?

And today I want to share something that happened in history

to I think really validate this point

because it changed our world when this event happened. And if we can see and agree with,

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