#374 Happiness - How To Let Go Of Regrets
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Regret is a feeling of sadness about something sad or wrong or about a mistake you have made and a wish that it could have been different. There are ways to overcome regrets and move on with our lives. In this talk, we explore understanding, forgiving, healing, and penance as ways to address regrets.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Regrets. They are part of life and they are one of the greatest challenges of our lives. |
| 0:15.4 | Because the truth of it is we're going to make mistakes during our lives. |
| 0:19.8 | We're going to do things that we wish we hadn't done and regret can creep in and sometimes it can |
| 0:26.4 | permeate our lives and truly destroy the happiness that we feel inside. But what is a regret? I found this definition on the internet. |
| 0:37.0 | Regret, a feeling of sadness about something sad or wrong or about a mistake that you have made and a wish that it could have been |
| 0:45.7 | different or better. There are so many things we can regret. We can regret that after |
| 0:52.4 | we finished school we didn't go on to university. Instead we got a job and we so wish we could go back and go to that university and wouldn't have missed that time. |
| 1:04.0 | We can have regrets about when our parents get older |
| 1:07.6 | and they're sickly and dying. |
| 1:09.7 | And for whatever reason, perhaps we're estranged from our parents, perhaps we are just busy with our |
| 1:15.3 | lives. |
| 1:16.5 | We weren't there when they died, and we feel so much remorse and regret over not being |
| 1:21.9 | there. |
| 1:23.2 | We can perhaps have a regret over being with the love of our life, |
| 1:27.1 | the person that we were hoping to spend the rest of our life with. |
| 1:31.2 | But one night we were drinking too much and in a fit of anger we lashed out of |
| 1:36.8 | them and they left us and we lost them. Regrets are powerful and they can truly affect our lives in not good ways. |
| 1:49.0 | I've worked with thousands of people over the years as a clinical psychologist and you would be amazed at how many people have regrets. |
| 1:58.0 | But perhaps you're not surprised by that because you too are struggling with regrets. |
| 2:04.0 | And regrets have so much emotional power behind them |
| 2:08.0 | that can truly impact us every day of our lives. |
| 2:12.0 | One of the most powerful examples I regret I ever saw |
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