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Happiness - Scientists Have Shown What Toltecs Have Understood For Eons. Are You Happy?
Who is Happier, a Lotto winner or a Paraplegic?
According to Harvard Psychologist, Dan Gilbert who explains scientific data, after a year lotto winners and paraplegics are equally 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 beneficial way or a negative way. If you perceive a problem as a challenge that will empower you and help you grow, it will do just that - benefit you.
Gilbert explains how Homo Sapiens possess a Frontal lobe or Prefrontal Cortex. This amazing aparatus is an experience simulator. Human Sapiens can simulate experience prior to when it happens.
In his labs Gilbert has discovered that one's experience simulator doesn't work as well as it should. He calls this phenomenon, Impact Bias. The experience simulator causes us to have confidence that disparate outcomes are more different than they really are. Things like winning or losing, gaining or losing a romantic partner, and so on, have far less impact, acuteness and duration than people anticipate them to have. Gilbert cites a recent study of how major life traumas influence people suggest that, if it happened over three months ago, it has no impact on your happiness. This is also borne out in Toltec writings such as The Four Agreements.
Gilbert says natural happiness is when we get what we wanted. Synthetic happiness is what you make when you don't get what you wanted. Particularly in Western Society we have a basic belief that synthetic happiness is inferior to natural happiness. Gilbert states that our complete economic engine is built on the belief that you must get what you want to be happy, that a shopping mall full of Zen monks isn't going to be profitable because they don't want stuff.
Toltecs recognize that it is all about how you perceive things. A man compliments 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 cajoling her about her hair and has an emotional charge about it, will perceive what the man says totally different than the first woman. Due to, what Toltecs label one's inventory, Due to emotional charges from her past being stimulated by the man's words, she will have a negative experience. The experience simulator is not working properly.
From a Toltec or Metaphysical viewpoint, I would go beyond what Gilbert explains 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 fleeting as when we don't get what we crave for, or incur loss of what we had, we are unhappy. It is a powerless type of happiness because we are 100% dependent on our outside world.
Knowing this, we can no longer blame people, events or situations outside of us for making us unhappy. Only we can make ourselves happy by using the capabilities we all have.
Now you understand that you possess everything you need to be happy inside you. Unless you are a Homo Habilis (an ancient man/woman), and doesn't contain a Pre Frontal Cortex, you have everything you need to be happy right within your brain. All you need are the tools to return it to a well running machine. The Toltec Path provides these techniques.
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