Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I want us to imagine something right now. Let's imagine for our

birthday this year our friends and our family pool or money and they get us

tickets for our favorite music group. And not only that, we have

great seats so we can see here and experience every aspect of our favorite group. Now during the concert

there may be times where we have to go to the bathroom or we may move ourselves around

a little bit on the seats because we're uncomfortable, or we may get

hungry halfway through the performance, or perhaps we even get a headache halfway through the performance.

But mostly I think we could all agree that during the performance we would be having a wonderful time

and we'd be in no way wishing for it to get done and hurry up to play that last note or even that last

song because this is our favorite group and we love all their pieces.

And like I said, because we're so engaged with the music, all the small annoyances

wouldn't really bother us that much, and we definitely wouldn't want to hurry to the end song and have it be done with.

We'd enjoy the entire concert.

Or let's say when we get to the concert, we just broke up with our loved one, or we're going through

a really difficult financial time, or last week we were diagnosed with cancer and we don't

know the outcome of our treatment.

We would still during this time probably really focus in on the music and allow ourselves

to let go and be free during the time of the concert.

The wonderful gift that we have as humans is that we can suspend all that's going around us and really focus in on something when we love

what we're doing. So when we're at our favorite concert with our favorite musicians playing our

favorite songs no matter what's going on in our lives we can suspend our

concern our fears, our worries, and really focus on the music.

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