#372 Happiness - Resentment is Like Drinking Poison
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Resentment is like a poison we carry around inside us, hoping that we can deposit it where it will harm another who has injured us when we get the chance. The fact is that we carry this poison at extreme risk to ourselves. We will explore ways to let it go in this talk so that we can find peace and happiness in our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Have you ever heard the |
| 0:08.2 | quote? Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. |
| 0:14.3 | Whether you have or not, there's a lot of wisdom in this quote. |
| 0:18.8 | But how, Dr. Puff, how would holding resentment |
| 0:22.3 | towards someone who terribly hurt me cause me pain? |
| 0:26.0 | It's because of what that hatred, that resentment, that anger, does to us. It eats us alive. And this is so easy to prove. For example, if you know |
| 0:40.4 | someone who is a very resentful person hanging on to a lot of things, ask them |
| 0:46.4 | or watch and see how is their life going. |
| 0:50.1 | You won't find happiness there. |
| 0:51.9 | You won't find joy there. You'll find a lot of pain and suffering because of that resentment that they're hanging on to. |
| 0:59.0 | Now let's say we know someone else who went through a horrible experience growing up, perhaps by parent or a relative or even |
| 1:05.9 | a stranger. If they're going to be better, they have to let that go and heal. The key word is heal because if we don't heal from our resentments, |
| 1:16.0 | they will destroy our lives and subtle and sometimes not so subtle ways. |
| 1:22.0 | But again, why is that? How do we prove ourselves that this is true? |
| 1:27.0 | Again, it's simple. Think of an example in your life where someone really did you wrong |
| 1:31.9 | and you felt so much anger and resentment towards that person. |
| 1:36.2 | We probably all have had examples of this in our lives. |
| 1:39.8 | And then ask yourself at that time, how is going how are you feeling were you happy were |
| 1:45.9 | you joyful or are you in so much rage and anger now one ounce of pleasure of |
| 1:51.9 | happiness could exude from your pores. |
| 1:55.0 | Think of it this way as a form of a metaphor. |
| 1:58.0 | If you have a pot on the stove and there's water in that pot and you turn the stove up to very high, what's going to happen? |
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