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

Over the years, I've talked a lot about kindness, kindness and regards to happiness.

Why is that?

There are so many reasons to be kind, but I do think the big one is, is so often when we're

upset at another person and we feel like lashing out, and we do. When the death settles, there's a lot of remorse, there's a lot of guilt over what we've said and done. So if we act in a kind way with boundaries, I think there's a lot less of that that we have to deal

with when the dust settles.

And the reverse is true also.

When we're kind, I think our heart just feels lighter, happier, full of just love

because kindness has that way of making our world and the world around us a lot happier place to live in.

And I know the immediate objection to kindness is, well Dr. Puff if I'm kind other people will walk all over me or

they'll take advantage of me or fill in the blank I need to stand up to them

or life will just be hard and people can be very cruel.

And to be honest, all that is true.

But today we want to talk about more advanced techniques we can use in regards to kindness

so that when we're being kind, we don't put ourselves in situations where we hurt others

or let others hurt us.

That's why I entitled this podcast,

Advanced Kindness Skills

Because being kind can be very hard at times and that urge to lash out to say something to get actively involved

can be really strong on us and if someone is saying or doing something harmful to us, we really want to do

something harmful back to them.

But when the dust settles, we do have to look at what we did.

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