Welcome to the happiness podcast, I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I think when most of us think about

happiness, we don't think about silence. And yet I've called this podcast, The Silence of Happiness. Why? What am I talking about?

This is going to be one of those more complex podcasts, so you may need to listen to it more than once. But let's begin.

When we sleep at night what happens? When we're really still, when we're really quiet.

All is well.

We're in that very peaceful place,

which we call a good night sleep.

Without a good night sleep, we go mad.

Our lives are terrible and we struggle.

But when we sleep well, when we've been quiet throughout the night, we wake up refreshed and say, I had a good night's sleep. Why is that?

Well we know now that we really do need sleep or we will go mad. Sleep is an essential part of human

beings. We need it. We need it to live a healthy, happy life. If we don't get enough sleep, we're going to struggle. If we really get deprived of sleep,

we're going to go mad. So sleep is something that is desperately needed in order to live well in life. And what happens is sleep is one thing.

Our minds are still, the quiet, the quiescent. And from that quiet we find peace. And that's what this

podcast is about. Finding the peace and quiet, but it's not just about sleep. It's about living a life of more quiet.

Where we're not constantly engaging with life with our egos with our thoughts.

But we're more living in the zone, living in the present

moment without these thoughts. Of course this is easier said than done. So how do we do it? How do we live in the present moment without thoughts?

Or why do we even do it for that matter? Again, it gets back to we suffer when we think about things in negative ways. What happens is

something happens in our life like we lose our job, a relationship ends, we're

worried about our financial situation, and then we create a story

about that.

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