#353 Happiness – The Mental Gymnastics of Happiness
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
As we go through life, often, it is the little things of life that trip us up. A negative comment, an uncomfortable situation, or a worrisome thought. Learning how to navigate these little and sometimes big disturbances to our happiness is how people can quickly return to their state of peace.
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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 13 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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr Robert Puff. Life is interesting. It can be going really well. You can be having a good day and then something comes along and bang it changes that good day becomes a bad day |
| 0:21.6 | And these minor or major intrusions into our happiness can come from the external world or the internal world. |
| 0:29.0 | For example, we can be at our favorite restaurant with our favorite partner, having a wonderful meal, |
| 0:35.2 | and then the waiter comes by and perhaps says something not very kind and all of a sudden our |
| 0:40.4 | beautiful evening dinner isn't so nice anymore. Or let's just say we're |
| 0:45.9 | quietly sitting at home watching something on the television or on our computer |
| 0:50.0 | enjoying ourselves and then a thought kicks in. |
| 0:53.0 | A thought about how last week at our family gathering, |
| 0:57.0 | Aunt Joyce commented on how I looked a little heavier. |
| 1:00.0 | It was putting on weight and it hurt my feelings and I thought about it and then I go on this |
| 1:05.7 | tirade am I putting on weight why would she say that that was so mean and on and on goes |
| 1:11.8 | our quiet evening of just relaxing at home, isn't calm anymore, isn't peaceful anymore. |
| 1:19.0 | This one we probably have all seen. |
| 1:21.7 | A couple, a woman is excited about her wedding day. She has all these |
| 1:26.3 | expectations that it will go just right. And then things happen and her beautiful |
| 1:32.2 | wedding day is ruined because of what |
| 1:34.5 | someone said or did. I remember once being in a wedding and the best man was |
| 1:40.2 | giving a toast. Well he was the best man so he was friends with the groom well as he was given the |
| 1:45.7 | toast when he said the bride's and groom's name he accidentally said the |
| 1:51.1 | groom's ex-girlfriend's name instead of the bride. The best man was married and |
| 1:56.0 | his wife was in the audience and immediately she shouted out the correct name of the bride. |
| 2:01.0 | There's a bit of a chuckle, but you can imagine it could have potentially |
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