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Happiness - Scholars Have Corroborated What Toltecs Have Known For Eons. Are You Fulfilled?
Who is Happier, a Lotto winner or a Paraplegic?
As per Harvard Psychologist, Dan Gilbert who cites 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 control over how you perceive life. You can either perceive life in a positive 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 - benefit you.
Gilbert explains how Homo Sapiens possess a Frontal lobe or Prefrontal Cortex. This astounding aparatus is an experience simulator. Human Sapiens are able to simulate experience before it occurs.
In his labs Gilbert has found that our experience simulator doesn't perform 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 truly are. Things like winning or losing, gaining or losing a romantic partner, and so on, have far less affect, intensity and continuance than people expect them to have. Gilbert cites a recent study of how major life traumas affect people suggest that, if it happened more than 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 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 strong belief that synthetic happiness is worse than natural happiness. Gilbert says that our whole economic structure is built on the belief that you must get what you want to be happy, that a shopping mall filled with Zen monks isn't going to be profitable because they don't want things.
Toltecs know 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 grew up with her brothers teasing her about her hair and has an emotional charge about it, will perceive what the man says completely 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 bad encounter. The experience simulator is not working properly.
From a Toltec or Metaphysical viewpoint, I would go beyond what Gilbert shows 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 wish, or lose what we had, we are not happy. 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 external to us for causing us to be unhappy. Only we can make ourselves happy by using the faculties we all contain.
Now you know that you have the entirety of what 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 all you require to be happy right inside your grey matter. All you need are the tools to return it to a fine running machine. The Toltec Path provides these tools.
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