#336 Happiness - How to End Suffering
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
We all experience pain at various times of our lives. But how can we not let this pain turn into unwarranted suffering? Come explore how focusing on solutions to our problems is the most effective method.
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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 11 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. |
| 0:07.0 | Sometimes in life we go through really hard times that are honestly just hard to explain. Why is this happening to me? What's |
| 0:17.4 | going on? This isn't there. I didn't deserve this. Do these phrases sound familiar? You may be going through a time |
| 0:26.6 | right now where you're saying these very things. Suffering in life can be so challenging. Do we just have to grin and bear it until it's over? |
| 0:37.0 | Or will it ever end? May I have to live with this rest of my life? |
| 0:43.0 | And if that's so, do I even want to live anymore? |
| 0:47.0 | These are some of many questions that we can ask ourselves |
| 0:51.0 | when we're going through difficult times. |
| 0:54.4 | But I want to talk about ways that we can heal and move forward and address suffering |
| 1:00.8 | in appropriate ways, so one, we resolve it and two it just doesn't linger as long. |
| 1:07.0 | The first thing we want to do that's critical is differentiate between suffering and pain. |
| 1:14.0 | Pain is the actual event that is happening. |
| 1:17.0 | We may be going through a divorce right now. |
| 1:19.0 | We may be sued by someone. |
| 1:21.0 | We may have lost our job. we may have nowhere to live and be homeless |
| 1:25.7 | right now, or we may be suffering some physical pain as a result of some illness we're struggling |
| 1:31.9 | with, like heart disease or cancer. |
| 1:35.8 | Suffering, on the other hand, is the stories that we're hearing in our head about what's |
| 1:41.1 | going on. And if we've lived long enough, we know that our people out there going through what we're going through, |
| 1:49.0 | and have done it well. |
| 1:51.0 | It didn't create a lot of suffering from them. They just dealt with it and moved on. |
| 1:54.9 | Maybe not many, but we all know people like that. And as long as there are people going |
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