You're going to be. Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff.

The Lo. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Flow.

Part of being happy, finding happiness in our lives

means that one, we have to understand who we are, our nature, our interests, our passions, and then work in the direction

of having these be a greater part of our lives.

For example, I love nature, I love being outside,

but my work as a psychologist normally occurs inside.

So what I do is when I get up in the morning, I go for a walk,

and then on my way to work, I stop along along the beach and go for a longer walk.

And then when I get to work and I see clients, when I have breaks,

you'll often find me going for a walk or just being outside enjoying nature.

This is part of my flow.

I do well and life flows well for me when I'm in nature when I'm outside, either walking in a neighborhood,

out by a park, or because I live by the ocean, walking along the beach.

This helps me flow with life. But unfortunately what I see

so many people do is they don't flow with life, they fight life and life is hard.

They may be working towards some goal of success, academic or professional, and because they're

working so hard towards this goal, they put aside

their flowing, their natural love and passions of life in order to reach this goal. Or they get caught up into some addiction, alcohol, drugs,

relationship, and instead of doing things that are good for themselves, they put their energy into this addiction.

And I think what we're going to find in both these situations

that we suffer because we're not flowing with life.

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