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Happiness - Scientists Have Confirmed What Toltecs Have Understood For Eons. Are You Happy?
Who is Happier, a Lotto winner or a Paraplegic?
As per Harvard Psychologist, Dan Gilbert who states scientific data, after a year lotto winners and paraplegics are evenly happy with their lives. Dan Gilbert is the author of the book Stumbling on Happiness.
Toltec wisdom has stated for centuries that experience follows perception, and you have command over how you perceive life. You can either perceive life in a auspicious way or a bad way. If you perceive a problem as a challenge that will empower you and help you grow, it will do just that - serve you.
Gilbert explains how Homo Sapiens contain a Frontal lobe or Prefrontal Cortex. This awesome aparatus is an experience simulator. Human Sapiens are able to simulate experience ahead of when it occurs.
In his labs Gilbert has discovered that your experience simulator doesn't perform as well as it is supposed to. He calls this phenomenon, Impact Bias. The experience simulator causes us to have confidence that distinct outcomes are more different than they truly are. Things like winning or losing, gaining or losing a romantic partner, and so on, have far less affect, acuteness and continuance than people anticipate them to have. Gilbert cites a recent study of how major life traumas impact people suggest that, if it happened more than three months ago, it has no affect on your happiness. This is also borne out in Toltec writings such as The Four Agreements.
Gilbert states natural happiness is when we acquire what we wanted. Synthetic happiness is what you make when you don't acquire what you wanted. Particularly in Western Society we have a ardent belief that synthetic happiness is worse than natural happiness. Gilbert states that our entire economic structure is created on the belief that you must get what you crave for to be happy, that a shopping mall filled with Zen monks isn't going to be profitable because they don't want things.
Toltecs understand that it is all about how you perceive things. A man says nice things to a woman bout her hair, for example. It makes one woman happy as she perceives what he said as a compliment. Another woman, who was raised with her brothers ridiculing her about her hair and has an emotional charge about it, will perceive what the man says completely different than the first woman. Because of, what Toltecs label one's inventory, Due to emotional charges from her past being actuated by the man's words, she will have a bad encounter. The experience simulator is not working properly.
From a Toltec or Metaphysical viewpoint, I would go beyond what Gilbert states in his talk, that what he calls synthetic happiness is actually true happiness as it is not dependent on what happens to us in our lives. What Gilbert calls natural happiness is ephemeral as when we don't get what we crave for, or incur loss of what we had, we are not happy. It is a impotent type of happiness because we are 100% dependent on our outside circumstances.
Knowing this, we can no longer blame people, events or situations external to us for causing us to be unhappy. Only we can make ourselves happy by using the gifts we all contain.
Now you understand that you possess the entirety of what you need to be happy contained in you. Unless you are a Homo Habilis (an ancient man/woman), and doesn't contain a Pre Frontal Cortex, you possess all you require to be happy right within your grey matter. All you need are the tools to return it to a well running machine. The Toltec Path provides these techniques.
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