#385 Happiness - Your Opinion Matters
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The one opinion we have to listen to all day long is our own opinion. The question is, what do we hear throughout the day? No matter what others think of us, our opinion of ourselves matters most. Explore the power of our internal dialogue.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr Robert Puff. Do you know whose opinion matters most? Yours does, But do you know why? Perhaps not. So in today's talk I want to explore why your |
| 0:20.0 | opinion is so important, particularly in regards to your happiness or unhappiness. |
| 0:26.9 | Why is our opinion so important particularly about ourselves? |
| 0:32.1 | If I'm raised by a loving family and I have good friends that treat me |
| 0:36.2 | well, shouldn't I be happy because their opinion of me is positive they're showing me love and kindness. And the opposite is also true. If I have a family that really is cruel to me and treated me unkindly, and now the people in my life do the same I'm repeating that story |
| 0:56.5 | doesn't that mean I necessarily have to be miserable but we all know examples of people who seemingly have everyone that loves them and yet their |
| 1:09.1 | lives are miserable and they seem |
| 1:14.0 | it may even commit suicide and other people who it seems like the world hates them |
| 1:16.6 | and yet they seem okay at the same time. |
| 1:19.2 | I'll go through very difficult challenging events where lots of people lash out of them and yet they seem |
| 1:26.4 | okay. Why is that? I want to share a story, a true story that illustrates this point. There's a famous monk, a Zen Buddhist |
| 1:36.4 | monk from Japan called Hakween. He lived during the 18th century and even during his time was really looked on as a wise enlightened |
| 1:46.3 | human being but there's also a story that happened to him for a while during his life |
| 1:51.0 | where that changed he was head of a monastery near a village and one |
| 1:57.1 | day a village girl got pregnant and when the parents pressed her who's the father who's the |
| 2:02.4 | father she finally confessed that it was |
| 2:04.9 | hakoween the famous abbot who was revered throughout the region well the parents |
| 2:09.9 | went up to hakoween with other villagers and they were enraged and they challenged him. |
| 2:16.4 | And they said, how dare you did this to our daughter? |
| 2:19.7 | And he just answered, is that so? Well when the child was born they brought that child to |
| 2:25.6 | hakoween and he had to hire a nurse to take care of that child and many of |
| 2:30.1 | his disciples who were following him stopped following Hoccoine. Well time went on and the village |
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