#313 Happiness - Happy Thoughts, Happy Life
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Our happiness and depression depend on the nature of our thoughts. As we learn to observe our thoughts, we can learn to shift them to a more peaceful place.
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About the Happiness Podcast:
Do you ever wonder what it takes to lead a peaceful, happy life? Are you curious about the specific steps involved in a self-actualized, limitless life? Are you struggling with anxiety or depression? Or are you just plain tired and want some help? We explore all these concerns and more every week on the Happiness Podcast, which has been downloaded over 9 million times since its inception. Happiness does not happen by chance, but because we take specific actions in our lives to create it.
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D., author of 13 books, TV show host, Psychology Today blogger, and corporate trainer, has been studying the actions it takes to reach the highest levels of human achievement for decades, and he wants to share what he knows with you. Come and explore, along with millions of others from the Happiness Podcast, Dr. Puff books and Psychology Today blog, private clients and corporate workshop attendees, the specific steps to take so that you can soar in your life.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Why does it seem like sometimes it's so easy to make life go well and our lives just seem peaceful and happy and then at |
| 0:18.4 | other times almost in a blink of an eye. |
| 0:22.4 | This changes and our life can seem so hard and so difficult. |
| 0:27.0 | Why is this? I don't know about you but over the course of my life I've had some really intense |
| 0:34.9 | gnarly dreams and when I am awakened by these dreams I can feel the full impact of the |
| 0:42.0 | emotions that go along with these dreams. |
| 0:45.5 | For example, I've had several dreams over the course of my life, as you may have too, where |
| 0:50.9 | someone I deeply love has died in the dream and then when I wake up after a few moments I realize oh that was just a dream and then I relax but at the time when I wake up I can feel the full force of the impact of my emotions from the dream. |
| 1:10.0 | My thoughts create my feelings. |
| 1:14.4 | Once I'm able to readjust my thoughts, my feelings calm, and I feel better. |
| 1:20.0 | We all know how powerful these dreams can be. |
| 1:23.4 | They can seem so real. |
| 1:25.9 | And when we wake up, it can take a few moments. |
| 1:28.5 | Or sometimes the feelings last throughout the day because we're remembering the thoughts we had during our dreams. |
| 1:36.2 | But once we readjust our thinking, then our feelings subside. |
| 1:42.3 | But the question I want to ask us is, is this any different than our own lives? Do our |
| 1:49.0 | thoughts shape the way we feel? And our thoughts are far more important than what's actually happening. |
| 1:56.6 | What I want us to think about the day is how our happiness depends on the quality of our thoughts. |
| 2:05.2 | After all, sometimes we can have really good dreams and we wake up from them |
| 2:10.2 | feeling great and like, wow, we want to hang on to this feeling. |
| 2:14.0 | But again, it's preceded by our thoughts. |
| 2:18.0 | And in life, the same is true. |
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