3272: (What Your Dentist Knows) About the Secret to Life by Dr. Kelly Flanagan on Resiliency

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🗓️ 3 August 2024

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3272: Dr. Kelly Flanagan reveals that the secret to life isn't about avoiding pain but embracing it. By acknowledging and walking through our pain, we gain freedom and power, opening ourselves to the full experience of living. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://drkellyflanagan.com/what-your-dentist-knows-about-the-secret-to-life/ Quotes to ponder: "Our pain is the secret to life. We can’t even eat unless we’re capable of feeling it." "The willingness to walk into our pain sets us free, and I think that kind of freedom makes us a powerful people." "The whole wide world is a banquet table, and there is a feast waiting for you." Episode references: Peter Rollins: https://peterrollins.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is optimal living daily episode 3272.
0:04.0	What your dentist knows about the secret to life by Dr Kelly Flanagan of Dr Kelly Flanagan.
0:10.3	And I'm Justin Malik your very own personal narrator today and every day.
0:15.0	Me narrating means there are no interviews, just a short podcast where we can both
0:20.1	improve our lives one day at a time.
0:23.0	So with that, let's get right to today's posts
0:25.4	and start optimizing your life.
0:28.0	What your dentist knows about the secret to life by Dr Kelly Flanagan of Dr Kelly Flanagan.com?
0:38.0	We think the secret to life is achievement and status and comfort and painlessness but we're wrong.
0:49.0	The secret to life lies elsewhere.
0:51.9	I know because my dentist told me until you can completely
0:55.1	feel pain again don't eat anything. Sitting in the dental chair last week the
1:01.0	right side of my face numb and drooping when he said it when my dentist
1:04.9	told me the secret to life.
1:07.9	Our pain is the secret to life.
1:11.0	We can't even eat unless we're capable of feeling it.
1:14.0	Yet we're people obsessed with avoiding our pain.
1:18.0	The DEA reports sales of prescription painkillers increased 16fold in the last 10 years.
1:25.9	Oxycodone and hydrocodone are the two most popular painkillers. In 2010,
1:30.9	pharmacies distributed 111 tons of those pills in the US alone.
1:38.5	We build our lives around comfort and safety and ease. We feel entitled to painless living, both physically and
1:46.7	emotionally. We will go to great length to avoid our interior pain, our sadness, grief, powerlessness, fear, despair, shame, and anger.
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