#395 How Does Suffering Help Us Grow
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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How Does Suffering Help Us Grow
We physically suffer sometimes in our lives, and we emotionally suffer sometimes in our lives. Is there a reason for these sufferings and ways we can grow from them? Equally as important, do our pains and sorrows have something to teach us? Come and explore.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. This may sound like a silly question, but do you ever wonder why we have physical pain? |
| 0:13.0 | I mean after all, physical pain sucks. It hurts. It's painful. |
| 0:19.0 | I remember once slamming my thumb into my car door, I closed my door and my thumb and my thumb didn't get out of the way and it |
| 0:27.0 | got squished. I was okay but there was a lot of physical pain at first. I had a friend of mine who used to get migraine |
| 0:34.5 | headaches and they were really bad and she told me one of the main things that |
| 0:39.7 | people want to do when they have a migraine headache is cut off their head. They're that bad. |
| 0:45.2 | I mean, of course, they're not going to, but she was just using it as an example of how |
| 0:49.2 | painful they were. We've all, I'm sure, gone through life where something physically painful happened and we think, why is this happening? This is terrible. It's awful and it's painful. |
| 1:01.0 | But believe it or not, there really are some benefits to physical pain. |
| 1:06.0 | The first and perhaps foremost importance of physical pain is it's telling us something's wrong and we need to do something to change whatever is happening in our bodies. |
| 1:17.0 | For example, a friend of mine recently started having chest pains and there was also pain in his arm. |
| 1:24.4 | So he went to the emergency room and thankfully he got there fairly quickly and it was a heart |
| 1:29.5 | attack and they were able to save his life. |
| 1:32.0 | But if he hadn't had that pain and gone to the emergency room, |
| 1:35.4 | he would be dead right now. |
| 1:37.2 | Or how about the people we know, and I know we know people like this, |
| 1:40.8 | that had some form of physical pain? And again, they go to the doctor and |
| 1:44.9 | discover they have some form of cancer or tumor growing in their bodies. But |
| 1:49.4 | thankfully, because they were able to find it early, they were able to get treatment, get better, and they're doing well now. |
| 1:56.0 | So the pain is there as a warning sign that something's wrong, |
| 2:00.0 | and something needs to change in order for the body to feel better. And once we realize what that is we can make the changes, get ourselves in a better place |
| 2:08.1 | and the pain usually goes away. |
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