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Happiness - Scientists Have Shown What Toltecs Have Known 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 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 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 talks about how Homo Sapiens have a Frontal lobe or Prefrontal Cortex. This amazing aparatus is an experience simulator. Human Sapiens can simulate experience prior to when it takes place.
In his labs Gilbert has discovered that our experience simulator doesn't perform as well as it should. He calls this phenomenon, Impact Bias. The experience simulator causes us to believe that diverse 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 continuance than people anticipate 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 shown in Toltec writings such as The Four Agreements.
Gilbert states 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 not as good as natural happiness. Gilbert states that our whole economic structure is built on the principle that you must get what you desire 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 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 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 call one's inventory, Due to emotional charges from her past being brought up 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 impermanent 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 external circumstances.
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 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 have a Pre Frontal Cortex, you possess everything you need to be happy right within your cerebral cortex. All you need are the tools to return it to a fine running machine. The Toltec Path provides these tools.
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