Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Do you ever worry about

things, things in the future that might or might not happen, I think many of us do.

So what are we to do with these worries?

Are we to feed them?

Do we spend time with them?

Is it helpful to think about our worries and our fears about the future,

or things that might or might not happen?

Or is there perhaps a better way, a healthier way to deal with these emotions, particularly when we get overwhelmed with them,

maybe late at night or trying to fall asleep.

All these worries take hold of us and they make it so it's so difficult just to live life well.

I'm going to say something right now that I think would be worthy of writing down

and reviewing throughout the day or particularly when we are stuck in these worry cycles.

And it is this, if it's out of my control, it deserves freedom from my mind too.

Let me repeat that.

If it's out of my control, it deserves freedom from my mind too.

If this skill of freeing our mind from worry is a skill that we can cultivate and develop,

I believe we'll find so much more peace and happiness in our lives, because so often we spend so much time worrying

thinking about things that are truly out of our control and yet we want to think

about them over and over again, which causes us so much suffering.

And I know sometimes these worries are very important.

That's why we keep ruminating over them. For example, let's say we don't have enough

money to make our rent this month. That's a big worry. Or we're concerned about our

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