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Can You Hack Your Own Happiness? - Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani

The Mindvalley Podcast

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Preventing Painful Experiences

Our natural desire to make people that we love happy leads us to try to prevent them from any painful experience. When my son was a little younger, i came into his room at night and he was crying. But then i said to myself, no, i'm not going to do that my child. Because what am i doing? I am trying to create an environment which is happy for him. And by that, i am depriving him of developing necessary skills to deal with adversity in the safety and comfort of me being still in his life.

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