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Happiness - Scientists Have Confirmed What Toltecs Have Known For For Many Years. Are You Fulfilled?
Who is Happier, a Lotto winner or a Paraplegic?
According to Harvard Psychologist, Dan Gilbert who cites 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 power 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 talks about how Homo Sapiens contain a Frontal lobe or Prefrontal Cortex. This astonishing aparatus is an experience simulator. Human Sapiens can simulate experience before it happens.
In his labs Gilbert has seen 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 believe that dissimilar 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, intensity and duration than people assume 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 shown 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 strong belief that synthetic happiness is inferior to natural happiness. Gilbert explains that our complete economic engine is built on the principle that you must get what you crave for to be happy, that a shopping mall full of Zen monks isn't going to be profitable because they don't want stuff.
Toltecs know 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 brought up 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 call one's inventory, Due to emotional charges from her past being actuated 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 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 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 external 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 faculties we all possess.
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 have a Pre Frontal Cortex, you have everything you need to be happy right inside 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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