Welcome to the happiness podcast.

The happiness podcast.

I'm Dr. Robert Puff.

Over the years of producing the Happiness Podcast, I often talk about how we all can have a beautiful life.

Well, just the other day, one of our listeners named Victor who's listened to every

single episode of the happiness podcast asked me a question he said Dr puff you

talk about a beautiful life but I'm not sure what you mean. Can you please explain what you mean by a beautiful life?

Warm regards Victor.

I do think that when people think about a beautiful life, they think about if they had these certain things like their soulmate, a beautiful home overlooking the ocean, unlimited resources, being able to travel anywhere in the world, that they think that's a beautiful

life. And that actually is not what I mean at all. A beautiful life is far more about subtraction than addition. Let me use an example

to illustrate the point. Think about if we're in a lot of pain, when we're suffering in a lot of physical pain when for some reason

we're able to remove that pain instantaneously that subtraction of now feeling our body

feeling good or without the pain is such a relief.

It's like, oh my goodness, it finally went away that horrible pain and I feel well. It isn't that we've added something, it's more that

we've taken away something, we took away the physical pain and that release makes

it feel so good inside.

But really what we get back to is just feeling our bodies without pain.

We can see that as boring sometimes, well I feel fine. It's until we lost that feeling of

comfort, that feeling of not having pain, that we then realize, wow, it doesn't

feel good to have pain.

But when the pain is taken away,

it's not like we're in bliss.

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