#436 Happiness is an Inside Job
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Happiness is an Inside Job (A candle doesn’t lighten the noon sun)
When we look externally for happiness, we must ride the rollercoaster of life. But when we realize that happiness is found within, we will flow with the vicissitudes of life with equanimity and peace. Our happiness will be like the sun, always shining, regardless of the circumstances of life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I want to share something that is very |
| 0:09.7 | silly but at the same time really relates to our happiness. |
| 0:14.0 | Could you imagine someone on a very sunny day going outside and looking at something with a candle? |
| 0:20.0 | I mean if we saw someone doing that we would think they're very silly because when the sun's |
| 0:26.1 | shining you don't need a candle and the same is true with a happy person they They are like the sun, they're shining, they're radiating their |
| 0:36.7 | happiness. They don't need external things like candles to make them be able to see or to feel happy. And yet for the majority of the people |
| 0:47.2 | on the planet at Earth, what I just said would actually flummox them because they think that happiness is external. Let me explain |
| 0:56.7 | Let's say you go on vacation to Hawaii Hawaii is a beautiful place if you haven't been. |
| 1:03.2 | And on the way getting there, it goes well. |
| 1:05.4 | Your flights on time, you get there, |
| 1:08.0 | and you check into your hotel, |
| 1:09.7 | and it's a beautiful hotel right on the water. There's lots of activities to do, the restaurants |
| 1:15.1 | seem good and everything just seems exquisite. And then we're happy and that makes sense. |
| 1:22.0 | Things externally are going well. We have our candles with us, they're burning brightly and everything is great. |
| 1:29.0 | But then you take the rental car out for an adventure. You're going to explore some of the more exotic |
| 1:34.1 | places of the island and halfway there you end up getting two not just one flat tire |
| 1:40.4 | and you have to wait for hours for the tow truck to come to bring you back to the car rental place and then your day is done. It's ruined and those candles that had been burning were all snuffed out and it's a dark gloomy day |
| 1:55.4 | inside of your heart right now. And that seems logical that makes sense. |
| 2:00.6 | For a lot of people, if something bad is happening in our lives right now, it's going to be a bad day, period. |
| 2:08.0 | The main problem with this approach is that there's just so many barables that can affect our day and they can be in our minds negative. |
| 2:19.0 | And if we interpret them that way that when negative things happen, we're going to have a bad day. Then we may have a lot of |
| 2:26.4 | bad days in our life that could culminate into a very bad life. The main problem with this |
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