#391 - How To Be Happy
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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How to be happy: It's not about having wonderful experiences; it's about flowing wonderfully with whatever life brings.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. |
| 0:07.0 | There's a lot of different ways we explore happiness together, how to have a happy life. |
| 0:14.5 | But today I want to talk about perhaps the key component of a happy life. |
| 0:20.4 | It's not about having wonderful experiences. |
| 0:24.0 | It's about flowing wonderfully with whatever life brings. |
| 0:29.0 | I want to repeat that because it's critically important. |
| 0:32.0 | It's not about having wonderful experiences. |
| 0:36.0 | It's about flowing wonderfully with whatever life brings. |
| 0:41.0 | 99 if not 100% of our energy is going to go towards changing our |
| 0:47.1 | external world so that we like the way our life is going. There's a real propensity to think if things were different, my life would be going |
| 0:56.5 | better and when I'm having wonderful experiences, then all is well, at least for that moment. |
| 1:03.4 | And I know I have wonderful experiences, |
| 1:06.0 | so my focus, my energy is going to be going towards, |
| 1:09.7 | one, trying to recreate them, and two two sustain them all the time. But why doesn't this work? |
| 1:17.0 | Because we really think it ought to. I mean that's why so often people sacrifice so much to get things going a certain way |
| 1:27.1 | and then they'll believe that life will be wonderful because once everything's going |
| 1:31.5 | wonderfully my life's going to be going well. |
| 1:35.1 | But there's some big problems with this approach to life. |
| 1:38.7 | The biggest one is we can't control a lot of things external in our world. We can influence them a bit, but control them completely. |
| 1:47.6 | Absolutely not. For example, we may make it our goal to find our soul may someone that if we fall in love with them and |
| 1:56.2 | they fall in love with us we will live happily ever after and sometimes it works for |
| 2:01.6 | a little while we have wonderful experiences with this person. |
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