#489 The Pursuit of Peace (and Why My Brain Keeps Getting in the Way)
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The Pursuit of Peace (and Why My Brain Keeps Getting in the Way)
We've all experienced the frustrating paradox: we know what habits and practices would bring us closer to emotional well-being, yet we often find ourselves doing the opposite. We understand the importance of mindfulness, healthy boundaries, or simply taking a break, but our brains seem to have other plans. This isn't simply a matter of willpower or laziness; there are complex psychological factors at play. Our brains are wired for survival, not necessarily happiness, and sometimes our deeply ingrained patterns and coping mechanisms steer us towards familiar discomfort. We may fear change, feel unworthy of peace, or simply be overwhelmed by the effort required to shift our habits. Understanding these barriers is the first step towards overcoming them and creating a life that aligns with our deepest desires for inner peace and happiness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Do you have any goals right now that you're working on? |
| 0:14.0 | Perhaps you want to lose 20 pounds for a wedding that you're going to this summer. |
| 0:18.0 | Or maybe you're single and you want to find a relationship |
| 0:21.0 | and you're looking for that soulmate you can spend your life with. |
| 0:24.0 | Or perhaps you're listening to this podcast because you want to be happier. |
| 0:28.0 | You don't find a lot of peace and contentment in your heart. |
| 0:31.0 | When it comes to working towards things, I think it's fair to say that we often |
| 0:35.3 | know exactly what we need to do in order to achieve that goal. If you want to lose weight, |
| 0:40.8 | we need to eat a little bit less, and exercise a little bit more. |
| 0:44.6 | If we want to find our soulmate, we need to get out there and meet new people that could |
| 0:48.1 | potentially be our soulmate. |
| 0:50.2 | If we want to be happier, we have to do things like live in the present moment, change our negative |
| 0:55.2 | thinking to positive thinking, and things like that. There are things that we can do to make changes |
| 1:01.1 | to improve our lives in a variety of ways. But the question is, often we just don't |
| 1:07.9 | do it. Why is that? In many ways the answers somewhat simple. |
| 1:13.0 | It's not that you don't have enough discipline, it's not that you're weak in heart and just can't do it. |
| 1:18.0 | It has to do with your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, |
| 1:22.0 | ancestors. You see a long time ago when we were just |
| 1:27.6 | getting started as humans we lived a pretty primitive life and mostly it was a survival life. We needed to do something to get by right now. |
| 1:37.8 | Otherwise we die. We weren't thinking about our pension plans. We weren't thinking about where we retire and how we |
| 1:44.5 | travel around the world. We were thinking about when our brains were being developed |
| 1:49.6 | about survival getting through the day. And the brains that were more wired to |
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