Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Inner Peace. It sounds so nice, but how do we find it? I may be wrong, but I think there's a tendency out there for people to think that inner pieces found through external work and effort. For example, if everything in my day goes just

right, I wake up in a good mood, I have an excellent breakfast, I spend time doing things that I love. There aren't any bumps along the way.

And then at the end of the day, I lay my head down and I think to myself, all is well.

But then those bumps do come and my day doesn't go well,

and sometime my day goes horrible.

So we think, well, maybe if I study meditation or start doing yoga,

I'll find peace, inner peace. And we do that. And we do get times where it's like wow I feel so good I'm so

relaxed there's no worry at all in my mind but then our drive home someone cuts us off and we get really upset and the inner

piece is gone. So then we think well maybe if we did it longer so then we try

perhaps a weekend retreat or a whole week retreat. And we

see again that, wow, we can get so peaceful during these week retreats, and we do.

But once again, once we enter the world,

it doesn't take much to rock our world

and we lose that inner peace so quickly.

Some people even go so far as to enter a spiritual community where they can do

these steps of finding inner peace all day long. But again, if you've ever been to one, you'll know that their inner piece too can be rocked very easily

Maybe not as easily as most of us

But it still doesn't take much to change the inner peace to inner turmoil. Or maybe we don't go

the spiritual route. Maybe our approach is to get everything right in our world and then we'll find inner peace.

For example, we work really hard, we save our money, we pay off our home, we reach that point

where, wow, we made it, we have enough in our retirement account.

We don't have to work anymore and we can just explore the world.

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