#418 Unhealthy Attachments: “Yes, But Not That”
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Unhealthy Attachments: “Yes, But Not That”
Though most of us are seeking to live a happy life, unfortunately, there is a high price for happiness. All attachments need to be preferences or things we would prefer but can live without. We tend to say, "Yes, but not that." Any attachment can ultimately be unhealthy, that is, if our goal is unqualified happiness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Do you ever wonder why everything |
| 0:09.3 | can be going well? It can be a really good day, maybe even a good week, even a good month. |
| 0:15.9 | Which for some of us doesn't happen very often, but when what happens, we notice it, and it's wonderful. |
| 0:23.0 | But then it doesn't last. |
| 0:25.0 | Why is that? |
| 0:27.0 | Maybe you're someone who's always wanted to be a mom |
| 0:30.0 | and you finally have that first baby and initially everything is truly wonderful. |
| 0:38.2 | But then fear start creeping in. |
| 0:40.6 | Things start making you worried. and you wonder what happened I so much wanted to be a |
| 0:46.2 | mom and yet now I'm not happy what's causing this or let's say you worked really hard to accomplish your goals and you've made |
| 0:56.6 | it. You now live in a beautiful home with a lovely family and there's not too many |
| 1:02.1 | worries about finances anymore because you have a good |
| 1:04.6 | stream of income coming in and yet you're unhappy why is that or let's say you've worked really hard, you've saved your money, you paid |
| 1:15.6 | off your home, and now you've reached a point where you can retire. You get a form of a pension, |
| 1:21.0 | social security, a little bit extra money for traveling, and all seems well. |
| 1:27.1 | And yet, in the back of your mind, you're still not happy. What's causing this? It has to do all about attachments. Attachments |
| 1:38.0 | are things that we want in order to be happy. So our happiness is very much based on our attachments. If we're attached |
| 1:45.8 | to something, we need them there, and if they're not there, we're going to be unhappy. |
| 1:50.9 | So let's go back to the three examples I just gave and the first one this woman has |
| 1:55.8 | her first child something she'd wanted her entire life she's reached her |
| 2:00.2 | goal she's reached her attachment she hasn't now. But here is where the attachments |
| 2:05.0 | creak been. She's now attached to her child living a full life, a healthy life, |
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