Happiness - Scientists Have Corroborated What Toltecs Have Known For For Many Years. Are You Fulfilled?

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 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 command over how you perceive life. You can either perceive life in a positive way or a negative way. If you perceive a problem as a challenge that will empower you and help you grow, it will do just that - do good for you.

Gilbert discusses how Homo Sapiens contain a Frontal lobe or Prefrontal Cortex. This amazing aparatus is an experience simulator. Human Sapiens are able to simulate experience ahead of when it happens.

In his labs Gilbert has discovered that our experience simulator doesn't work as well as it is supposed to. He calls this phenomenon, Impact Bias. The experience simulator causes us to accept that distinct 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 anticipate them to have. Gilbert cites a recent study of how major life traumas affect people suggest that, if it happened over three months ago, it has no affect on your happiness. This is also ascertained 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 receive what you wanted. Particularly in Western Society we have a ardent belief that synthetic happiness is inferior to natural happiness. Gilbert states that our whole economic engine is based on the fact that you must get what you crave for to be happy, that a shopping mall full of 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 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 raised with her brothers teasing her about her hair and has an emotional charge about it, will perceive what the man says totally different than the first woman. Because of, what Toltecs refer to as one's inventory, Due to emotional charges from her past being actuated 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 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 fleeting as when we don't get what we crave for, or lose what we had, we are unhappy. It is a weak 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 forcing us to be unhappy. Only we can make ourselves happy by using the gifts we all have.

Now you understand that you have everything you need to be happy within you. Unless you are a Homo Habilis (an ancient man/woman), and doesn't have a Pre Frontal Cortex, you possess everything you require 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 tools.

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