#319 Happiness - Don't Worry, Be Happy
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Come explore the four parts of a worrying mind and the specific steps to let go of our worries and find peace of mind and happiness.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Worry. It is a powerful emotion. |
| 0:11.0 | It can keep us up at all hours of the night. It can cause our body's illness and it can just ruin our day. |
| 0:20.0 | Worry. It is a powerful negative emotion. |
| 0:25.0 | But the good news is, I also believe there are specific things that we can do |
| 0:31.0 | to reduce the worry and with time learn to not let worry ruin our days or even our |
| 0:38.6 | lives. But I truly believe we are meant to have beautiful lives. |
| 0:44.0 | It takes work, it takes courage. |
| 0:47.0 | But if we develop these skills to overcome worry, |
| 0:51.0 | we will find that then our lives will be filled with peace and happiness instead of worry and anxiety. |
| 1:00.0 | So let's start with what causes us to worry? |
| 1:03.0 | Well, our worries come from the future, not from the past. |
| 1:08.0 | We may be worried about something in the past and how it would turn out, |
| 1:11.0 | but it's how it would turn out in the future. That's where worries come from. We have |
| 1:16.7 | things we want to go a certain way and we're concerned. We're anxious. We're |
| 1:21.6 | worried that they may not or we're not sure what's going to happen and we're worried about that uncertainty |
| 1:28.4 | And besides the future the other element that causes to worry is expectations. |
| 1:34.0 | We have desires, we have a strong urging for things to go a certain way, and we're worried |
| 1:40.4 | that they won't. |
| 1:42.3 | And then thirdly, these worries about the future that we want to |
| 1:43.0 | these worries about the future that we want things to go a certain way |
| 1:48.0 | are based upon control. With our expectations we want to control the future, but if we've lived long enough, we know that we can't. |
| 1:58.0 | And so we worry. We want that control, but we realize there are certain things, often many things that are out of our control. |
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