Happiness Podcast

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.

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 is chaotic.

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.

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 hurting.

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.

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."

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How Does Suffering Help Us Grow We physically suffer sometimes in our lives, and we emotionally suffer sometimes in our lives. Is there a reason for these sufferings and ways we can grow from them? Equally as important, do our pains and sorrows have something to teach us? Come and explore.

Habits for Happiness We first make our habits; then, our habits shape us. The question to ask ourselves is what types of habits we create in our lives all day long. Things that we do matter. People who find happiness and peace in their lives make specific habits too.

Happiness vs Pleasure (Why Thrills Don’t Work) Happiness isn't about seeking thrills and pleasure. Instead, creating a happy life is about living well every day, every moment of our lives. We can accomplish this by living in the present moments and focusing on the beautiful gifts of life all around us now.

Open Hearts Open Minds (How to be kind towards others) There is a natural tendency to quickly evaluate a new person that we meet on various external factors. What if we kept our hearts and minds open with everyone who met? Might we not experience a much more different and beautiful world?

How to be happy: It's not about having wonderful experiences; it's about flowing wonderfully with whatever life brings.

We all live by rules developed by our upbringing, society, and life experiences. Unfortunately, not everyone lives by our rules. How can we get along with others in life who engage with the world differently than we do? Come explore how to find peace of mind in various situations, even when others are breaking "our" rules.

Kindness is one of the noble acts we can do. We can do random acts of kindness, and sometimes we can even respond with compassion when others are treating us poorly. But besides the benefits of helping others with kindness, do you know who else benefits? Come and explore the secondary benefits of kindness.

Living a happy life sounds nice but are there any techniques that can help us? In this talk, we explore the power of observation. Learning to observe the external world and our internal reactions will help bring us back to a state of calmness when we lose all the self-talk in our heads and become observers.