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Happiness - Scholars Have Corroborated What Toltecs Have Known For Eons. Are You Fulfilled?
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 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 power over how you perceive life. You can either perceive life in a positive way or a adverse 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 explains how Homo Sapiens possess a Frontal lobe or Prefrontal Cortex. This amazing aparatus is an experience simulator. Human Sapiens are able to simulate experience prior to when it occurs.
In his labs Gilbert has seen that our experience simulator doesn't function as well as it should. He calls this phenomenon, Impact Bias. The experience simulator causes us to have confidence that different 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 continuance than people assume 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 borne out 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 explains that our whole economic system is built on the belief 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 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 brought up with her brothers teasing her about her hair and has an emotional charge about it, will perceive what the man says absolutely different than the first woman. Due to, what Toltecs label 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 desire, or lose what we had, we are not happy. It is a powerless type of happiness because we are 100% dependent on our outside 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 contain.
Now you understand that you have all you need to be happy inside you. Unless you are a Homo Habilis (an ancient man/woman), and doesn't contain 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 well running machine. The Toltec Path provides these tools.
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