The Asceticism of Happiness

In this podcast lecture, we explore the human tendency to avoid pain and how self-growth more embraces all aspects of life.

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Wiser

Thank you 🙏

Thanks for wise thoughts to begin my day.

Made me think about our relation with pain and suffering. Thanks a lot.

This was a very interesting and uplifting talk. 🌈

Very interesting 🙏

I’m loving these podcasts. Such lovely reminders. I could relate to all the examples. I’m feeling happier already. Thank you. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Thank You 🙏🏼

I love that mantra ‘accept what is, love what is’. Thank you.

Accept what is. Love what is. What a powerful podcast. Really sung to my soul. Thank you for sharing a new way of looking at pain 🙏🏻🙏🏻

This speaks to my soul. Thank you. 🙇

Thank you

Nice perspective on pain & pertinent timing! Thank You 🙏🏽

Thank you for your insight, gentleness, and hope! What an enlightening podcast. Namaste 🙏🏽

Thank you

Makes perfect sense! And unlike other practices, this one is much easier to do do in real time. It’s a charm at the dentist or headache. And I can also personally endorse the sleep technique. 😴 Many a good book I’ve been eager to read or articles to catch up on have been way more pleasurable than not being able to go back to sleep after having been woken from a deep sleep. What really struck me is this notion of the tendency, hope or expectation of continuous happiness that has crept into our society. Perhaps it stems from anxiety fatigue from financial, political uncertainty. At any rate, many thanks for an intriguing and wise talk.

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Thank you.

I gained a kernel of life truth from this pod cast. Thank you.

This is exactly what I needed to hear as I was lying awake hours before I intended on starting my day and worrying about how tired I would be because of this.

I’ve always had the tendency to make things inconvenient for myself or more difficult than they needed to be. That led me to suffer and believe this to be a characteristic I need to change in order to suffer less. I’ve always been taught to embrace pain, but it finally sunk in that pain isn’t bad.

Thank you, and may anyone reading this have a wonderful day

Loved this 💕 thank you. Embrace life and all that it brings 🙏🏻 Namaste x

Impressive.

Amazing experience..whole mind and body are in peace..

Wow!

A very interesting and enlightening perspective.

Loved the talk!

Really enjoyed this. I feel that today people get so caught up in the drama of pain they make it so much worse! Our mind is so powerful, people forget how powerful their perception is 😊

Absolutely amazing-thank you!!!

This podcast is so true for me! I've had times of not sleeping well & I made myself miserable during my work day constantly thinking of how tired I am! The same with pain! It's all about what story I tell myself about what I'm going through! Essentially, what I resist persists! What I push against can appear to get worse because I'm saying, "I shouldn't be going through this! It's so bad!" Thank you for this reminder, that I can choose how I feel about whatever is in front of me!

I really enjoyed the option in dealing with pain. It just makes sense! Thank you🙏🏻

I loved this Podcast because I have been learning how to to embrace my pain, both physically ( migraines) and emotionally. The more I understand what the pain is trying to teach me and just accept “ what is” the better I feel!😊 Thank ~you💗

I absolutely agree and love what you just said. However I am a sissy and when I have neck pain for months on end I end up at the doctors for some help. Next time I will embrace it and I will say this spasm has something to teach me. Thank you so much for this and I believe it is so important for all of us to grow!