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Happiness - Scholars Have Attested 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 power over how you perceive life. You can either perceive life in a beneficial 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 talks about how Homo Sapiens have a Frontal lobe or Prefrontal Cortex. This astounding aparatus is an experience simulator. Human Sapiens can simulate experience prior to when it happens.
In his labs Gilbert has seen that one's experience simulator doesn't perform as well as it is supposed to. He calls this phenomenon, Impact Bias. The experience simulator causes us to believe that divergent 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 impact, acuteness 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 more than three months ago, it has no affect on your happiness. This is also shown 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 get what you wanted. Particularly in Western Society we have a basic belief that synthetic happiness is inferior to natural happiness. Gilbert explains that our complete economic structure is created on the principle that you must get what you desire to be happy, that a shopping mall filled with 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 brought up with her brothers cajoling 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 call one's inventory, Due to emotional charges from her past being brought up by the man's words, she will have a bad 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 desire, 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 external circumstances.
Knowing this, we can no longer blame people, events or situations external to us for making us unhappy. Only we can make ourselves happy by using the capabilities we all have.
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 have a Pre Frontal Cortex, you possess all 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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