Happiness Podcast

Secret to a Happy Life What is the secret to a happy life?  Happiness is an exclusive club that few can join.  Instead, we can all be happy if we do two things.  First, we need to fully engage in the here and now.  Second, we need to call life play, not work.  Happiness will be ours if we do these two things throughout the day. New Happiness Podcast episode with Dr. Robert Puff, Newport Beach Psyc...

When Someone You Love Is Hurting When someone you love is hurting, there are four things you can do to be helpful and kind.  Be present.  Don't judge them for their struggles.  Be careful not to get burnout or overwhelmed.  And finally, don't feel guilty for their pain.  These four things are easy to do, but when we do them well, we can support our hurting loved ones. New Happiness Podcast episode...

Unhealthy Attachments: "Yes, But Not That" Though most of us are seeking to live a happy life, unfortunately, there is a high price for happiness. All attachments need to be preferences or things we would prefer but can live without. We tend to say, "Yes, but not that." Any attachment can ultimately be unhealthy, that is, if our goal is unqualified happiness. 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happi...

Carpe Diem: Stop Putting Hope in the Future When we put our hopes in the future, we often stop living now. The end is, at best, uncertain and sometimes different from what we were expecting or wanting. If we, instead, carpe diem or seize the day, we will find happiness throughout our life journey instead of in the future hopes that may never come true. 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Po...

The Happiness Formula (How do I make this work?) A formula for happiness is based on some simple yet challenging principles. First, we exhaust every option to improve our current situation. Second, once we have exhausted our options and nothing has changed, we ask a critical question: "How can I make this work?" Happiness is always an option as long as we can accept the current situation and make...

How to Deal with Negativity There can be a lot of negativity that we get exposed to throughout the day. A stranger flips us off as we are commuting to work, and we watch ugly human behaviors that show up on our phone scrolling. The key is to not dwell on the negative behaviors of others and redirect our focus on the "positive" events around us. 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Podcast NO...

When Bad Things Happen To Good People What are we to do when bad things happen in our lives? Is it helpful to look for causes and find blame? Or is there a healthier way to deal with bad things happening to good people? "I am not responsible for what happens to me, but I am responsible for how I handle it." 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Podcast NOW! https://www. HappinessPodcast.org...

Are Expectations Good or Bad? Are having expectations helpful or harmful for us in the long run? The danger with expectations is our expectations is that sometimes they aren't met, which can cause us stress, anger, and anxiety. And even life fulfills our expectations; they only give us a little satisfaction. Explore positive ways to live life with or without expectations. 🎧 Listen to all Episodes...

Optimists Live Longer (New Research Say Yes) New research describes how optimistic people, on average, live 15% to 20% longer than more pessimistic persons and have a 50% to 70% chance of reaching 85 years old. How do we change our negative habits and live longer? Come and explore the beautiful possibilities. ---Lewina O. Lee, Peter James, Emily S. Zevon, Eric S. Kim, Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Av...

Does Money Buy Happiness (New Research Say No) A recent research study found that people are happy even in more impoverished areas. More importantly, people are more content in these places than in more affluent areas in the same countries. In other words, "happiness is not in principle related to economic outcome." More critical to happiness are feeling safe, spending time in nature, and living i...

When Boredom Strikes Boredom is a problem that many of us face. Because when we feel bored, we often look for things that remove that feeling, yet sometimes our choices that remove our boredom come with negative (even dire) consequences. Explore healthy ways to address our boredom and live a healthy life. 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Podcast NOW! https://www. HappinessPodcast.org 💛...

The Power of Our Words The power of our words is genuinely astonishing. With our words, we can ask someone to spend the rest of our lives together, and at the same time, our words can destroy a decades-old relationship. Not only do the word we share affect others, but they also impact us based on what we hear in our heads all day long. Most importantly, our words can create love, kindness, and joy...

Karmic Consequences (How Our Thoughts and Actions Reap Results) If you plant poison ivy seeds, you cannot expect blueberries to grow from those seeds. Our thoughts and actions that we engage with throughout the day reap consequences. The question is, what are we going to reap? Because everything we think and do matters. Explore ways to plant happiness in your life and those around you. 🎧 Listen t...

How To Avoid Burnout Many of us love to help others in various ways, from caring for elderly parents to assisting those struggling with emotional or physical disabilities. But you might need to learn how often helping others can lead to burnout. Let's explore ways together to avoid burnout and keep assisting others for whom we care. 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Podcast NOW! https://w...

How To Be In Harmony With The Universe When we slow and listen to our hearts, we will find a flow to our universe that is unique to our interests and abilities. If we get caught up in other people's thoughts, we stop listening to this flow. But when we self-reflect and listen to the nudging of the universe that is unique to our lives, we will find harmony in our lives, even if the world around us...

Benefits of Spending Time Alone If you want to get to know someone, you must spend time with them. Spending time with someone is also true of us. Unfortunately, we only make a little time to be alone and self-explore. This talk explores the benefits of spending time alone and ways that we avoid being alone. 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Podcast NOW! https://www. HappinessPodcast.org...

When Someone You Love Is Hurting One of the most challenging aspects of finding happiness is when someone we love is suffering. How can we be happy if our child is suffering from terminal cancer? Is it possible to be joyful when our adult son or daughter is going through an acrimonious divorce? Or what do we do when our parent develops dementia? Life can still be good, even when others we love are...

Living Life To Its Fullest There are four things we can explore about how to live life to the fullest. First, how is my life going now? Second, why should I make changes in my life? Third, finding others who are living a beautiful life to learn from. Fourth, commit to working towards living a good life. 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Podcast NOW! https://www. HappinessPodcast.org   💛...

How To Be Happy With What You Have The wealthiest people aren't the ones who have the most but are most satisfied with what they have. Happiness is available to all of us, especially when we learn to accept and even love what life gives "now." 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Podcast NOW! https://www. HappinessPodcast.org 💛 Do you ever wonder what it takes to lead a peaceful, happy life...

Using Your Time Wisely We can lose all the money that we have and get it back. But the one thing we can never get back is time. Our time on Earth is limited. How do we use that time wisely to find and keep happiness in our hearts? Come and explore this new Happiness Podcast episode 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Podcast NOW! https://www. HappinessPodcast.org 💛 Do you ever wonder what...

Stop Chasing Happiness   Are we there yet? Chasing happiness can cause a plethora of unhappiness because we seek something permanent in an impermanent world. Seeking no adversity will cause suffering. Instead, wish for the fortitude to withstand any hardship, and happiness will be there. 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Podcast NOW! https://www. HappinessPodcast.org Do you ever wonder wh...

Saying Yes To Life We struggle with life on so many levels. However, there is a beneficial "skill" or "technique" that can alleviate our suffering. It involves "saying yes to life" in all circumstances after we have done everything we can at the moment to improve our lives. Embracing what we can't control frees our minds from suffering, and we don't have to struggle so much. 🎧 Listen to all Episo...

Finding Peace in an Anxious World In an ever-increasing world of change, how do we adapt to these changes without feeling anxious or overwhelmed? We discuss 3 keeps steps for dealing with the growing complexity of our world and ways to do well with all the changes. 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Podcast NOW! https://www. HappinessPodcast.org   Welcome to the official YouTube channel of...

Effortless Action Are you tired? Do you find that your life is a constant struggle? Life can be so much easier when we take the time to listen to our hearts and move in the direction of effortless action. By flowing with life and doing things daily that bring us joy and peace, we will find that life can be a wonderful adventure. 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Podcast NOW! https://www....

How to Stop Being Upset With Someone When we get upset at others, it can ruin our days or lives. This talk explores an effective technique to avoid being so upset with others. When we do this, our lives go more smoothly and peacefully. 🎧 Listen to all Episodes of the Happiness Podcast NOW! https://www. HappinessPodcast.org ************* Welcome to the official YouTube channel of Dr. Robert Puff –...