The Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. If we've been listening to this

podcast for a while gone gone through the episodes, and are implementing some of the changes suggested here,

we're going to find that our life is going to get better, a lot better.

And that's great. It's really wonderful to find more happiness in the every day

to not struggle with so much depression and anger that so many people do. We've learned that through our attachments we're going to suffer. So if we let

go these attachments and really work towards living in the present moment, accepting

impermanence, watching our mind, and having time to be in nature, and being self-loving,

we can find that our lives really can become much happier.

But there is through all this something that we have to be aware of, be wary of, because I see

it catch so many people in so many different ways.

As now I've lived a while, I've just known a lot of people and what I see is their lives improve. They get a lot better. They do really well with self-care and then they begin to stop doing the self-care. In a few months years go by and they can't figure out why

their life isn't working as well anymore. And the first thing to acknowledge is that this can

happen to any of us. Any of us can really get to a place of just overall

happiness, well-being, enlightenment, whatever word we want to use, and life's going great

for us, and we fall from that. We metaphorically get out of

emotional health. Like physical, I often like to go back to physical, we can be

the most excellent athlete on the planet, just doing

stellar, a triathlete, exercising great at yoga, and so many different things.

But once we stop doing that, we're going to get out of shape.

Now with exercise, of course, as we get older, we are not going to be athletic.

But the great thing about happiness is we can maintain our level of happiness till the day we die.

But in order to maintain that, there's things we have to do.

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