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Happiness - Scholars Have Corroborated What Toltecs Have Understood For Eons. Are You Happy?
Who is Happier, a Lotto winner or a Paraplegic?
In the words of Harvard Psychologist, Dan Gilbert who states scientific data, after a year lotto winners and paraplegics are fifty-fifty 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 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 miraculous aparatus is an experience simulator. Human Sapiens are able to simulate experience ahead of when it takes place.
In his labs Gilbert has discovered that one's experience simulator doesn't perform as well as it should. He calls this phenomenon, Impact Bias. The experience simulator causes us to believe that divergent outcomes are more different than they genuinely are. Things like winning or losing, gaining or losing a romantic partner, and so on, have far less affect, acuteness and continuance than people anticipate 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 impact on your happiness. This is also shown in Toltec writings such as The Four Agreements.
Gilbert states natural happiness is when we receive what we wanted. Synthetic happiness is what you make when you don't receive what you wanted. Particularly in Western Society we have a ardent belief that synthetic happiness is not as good as natural happiness. Gilbert states that our complete economic structure is built 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 things.
Toltecs understand 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 cajoling 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 adverse encounter. The experience simulator is not working properly.
From a Toltec or Metaphysical viewpoint, I would go beyond what Gilbert states 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 crave for, or incur loss of 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 external to us for forcing us to be unhappy. Only we can make ourselves happy by using the gifts we all hold.
Now you understand that you possess 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 the whole range of what you require to be happy right within your cerebral cortex. All you need are the tools to return it to a well running machine. The Toltec Path provides these techniques.
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