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Happiness - Scientists Have Attested What Toltecs Have Known For Eons. Are You Happy?
Who is Happier, a Lotto winner or a Paraplegic?
In the words of Harvard Psychologist, Dan Gilbert who explains scientific data, after a year lotto winners and paraplegics are synonymously 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 auspicious 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 possess a Frontal lobe or Prefrontal Cortex. This astonishing aparatus is an experience simulator. Human Sapiens are able to simulate experience prior to when it occurs.
In his labs Gilbert has found that your experience simulator doesn't perform as well as it should. He calls this phenomenon, Impact Bias. The experience simulator causes us to believe that disparate 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 affect, acuteness and duration than people expect them to have. Gilbert cites a recent study of how major life traumas impact 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 says natural happiness is when we get what we wanted. Synthetic happiness is what you make when you don't receive what you wanted. Particularly in Western Society we have a basic belief that synthetic happiness is worse than natural happiness. Gilbert says that our entire economic structure is built on the principle that you must get what you want to be happy, that a shopping mall full of Zen monks isn't going to be profitable because they don't want things.
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 grew up with her brothers ridiculing 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 stimulated by the man's words, she will have a negative encounter. 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 ephemeral as when we don't get what we want, 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 world.
Knowing this, we can no longer blame people, events or situations outside of us for forcing us to be unhappy. Only we can make ourselves happy by using the capabilities we all carry.
Now you know 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 have everything you require to be happy right within your grey matter. All you need are the tools to return it to a fine running machine. The Toltec Path provides these techniques.
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