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Spiritual mentor Dianne Horton, claims she doesn't suffer…not because she was born that way, but because it's a skill she learned and believes anyone can develop. At one point she even says she enjoys eating an ice cream as much as being in a car crash, so I challenged Dianne harder than I usually would to understand how she cultivates this state of mind, whether a life without suffering is really teachable, and whether we'd actually want a world without suffering if it also meant losing some of the drive behind progress, productivity, and innovation

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After 100 interviews with gurus, doctors, and scientists chasing the same question...what actually makes happiness stick...I've landed on four things we can do to win at life. And by win at life, I mean not be depressed. It's working. I call it the Proof of Life. Have a squiz at this one, I think it's really helpful.

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I seek council from one of the wisest people I know, Jitindriyā, a Buddhist nun. Jitindriyā helps me out with understanding death, depression, love, karma, apologising, and much more.

If you are navigating depression, anger, anxiety, grief, fear, you can check out more of Jitindriya's work below.

https://vivekahermitage.com/embodying-awareness-metta/

https://vivekahermitage.com/working-with-challenging-emotions/

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When pain refuses to go away, many of us start to believe we're permanently broken. That was my story too. I used to suffer from chronic daily migraines that were basically life ruining.

I recovered in part through the mind-body approach pioneered by Dr. John Sarno, which sees chronic pain as a nervous system signal that can be changed. It changed my life, and it has changed the lives of thousands of Dr. Tovah Goldfine's patients. For over 40 years, she has helped people understand and overcome chronic pain from a physical, physiological, and psychological perspective. She’s pretty cool.

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When I hit something uncomfortable, I suffer in my head. My guest Paul Attia is an overexaminer too, only when he faces a problem, he doesn't just get crippled by it. He analyses it, contextualises it, and builds a framework to solve it according to his values. Then he lives by it, deliberately, nothing left to chance. As an ex cross-examiner turned counsellor, Paul's methodologies are so powerful that some of the world's wealthiest families trust him to navigate their most difficult interpersonal problems. Today he's sharing those frameworks; on relationships, parenting, gratitude, and how to close the gap between who you are and who you're capable of being.

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When confronted with devastating grief, perhaps the most visceral pain humans can experience, most of us hide. We numb ourselves, distract ourselves, and do everything we can to avoid it.

My guest today is Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, who chose a different path. After the loss of her daughter, she turned toward grief rather than away from it, transforming her pain into a life's work helping others navigate loss. Joanne is one of the world's leading grief experts, a professor at Arizona State University, founder of the MISS Foundation, and author of the bestselling Bearing the Unbearable. She has supported grieving families around the world and served on a mental health advisory board for Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry.

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OK so. Earlier this week I spent 10 minutes examining every inch of my naked body in the mirror…an exercise in extreme suffering I undertook in the pursuit of enlightenment because Stephan Bodian told me to.

Bodian is a former monk, psychotherapist, pioneering Western Zen teacher, and the original author of Meditation For Dummies. He also has a brand spanking new book out called Infinite Awakening: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/infinite-awakening-9780834846494

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Recent science has told us that gratitude has the power to do something nothing else in the world can. It can get you off the hedonic treadmill. We go deep into what that means, and look at said science :)

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Here are all the studies with their links:

Emmons & McCullough (2003) — Gratitude journaling, well-being, and physical health

• PubMed
• Full PDF

Wood, Joseph, Lloyd & Atkins (2009) — Gratitude and sleep quality

• PubMed
• ScienceDirect

Mills et al. (2015) — Gratitude and heart failure (mood, sleep, inflammation)

• PubMed

Redwine et al. (2016) — Gratitude journaling RCT, inflammatory biomarkers, heart rate variability

• PubMed
• PMC Full Text

Grant & Gino (2010) — Gratitude expressions and prosocial behavior

• Harvard Business School
• Semantic Scholar

Wood, Froh & Geraghty (2010) — Comprehensive review of gratitude and well-being

• ScienceDirect

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