Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. In this episode we're going to

look at happiness and how it relates to having bad things happen. I do think for many of us when we think,

oh, I've reached the point where I'm going to be happy and I have really great tools in place,

so now everything's going to go smoothly.

And when I'm really happy, everything's just great.

I don't have any more problems, and I'm just happy all the time.

And it isn't that we can't be happy.

It's just that when we're happy,

still hard things happen.

What's changed is now we have really good tools in place, so when those hard things happen,

instead of lasting for a day, a week, a month, a year, or a lifetime, they last really for

only a few minutes, and we get back to living. So let's explore how we can be

happy even with travels. Well the first thing we have to do is acknowledge that things are still going to happen that we really

wish wouldn't happen.

We're going on a trip and our flight gets cancelled.

We go to the doctor and he or she tells us that we have an illness that could be pretty dangerous.

We are in love with someone and they fall out of love with us.

Are we fall out of love with them? We can be sued. We can sue others. We can go through so many tragedies in life,

the rather infinite and countless. But the real difference here is that now, instead of what we typically do,

and what we typically do is we spend a lot of energy thinking about perseverating on, worrying about these tragedies when they hit, that we deal with them and mostly we just

live our lives.

Again, they're going to come.

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