Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I don't know about you, but I like things kept simple.

Because when things are simple, when I have a lot of emotions running through me,

I can fall back on these simple principles and know what to do. Because I do, like you, want my life to go well.

And one of the things that I've learned in order to help life go well is treating

others kindly. I talk about it so often on this podcast, but it's not always easy to do, particularly with people that we interact with

all the time, our loved ones, and we have a lot of emotions, and these emotions can get the

best of us. So if I keep things simple when the

emotions are running through me, I can run them through filters and say, okay, what

do I do?

Because I'm a bit overwhelmed right now and I need help knowing how to go forward.

I care for this person and I don't want to hurt them.

But these feelings are overwhelming and I just don't know what to do.

So today I want to talk about what we can do in regards to others when our feelings get the best of us, when they're just so much and

we don't know what to do with them.

It's a very simple plan, one that I think if we really abide by will make our lives with others go so much better.

Because in life, sometimes people that we interact with hurt us, do things that upset us, make us feel uncertain at times, not sure

what's going on.

And I think if we use the plan that we're going to talk about the day, when these events occur,

we will find that our response will be one that will feel good in our hearts and may have the opportunity to open up the other person's heart too.

Because in relationships, things happen.

Misunderstandings occur. Hurtful things are said. Things that we just don't

understand sometimes need to be talked about. But then at other times we talk about things and we wish we hadn't. We realize if we just

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