Inspiration From Kristopher Raphael

Happy!

Scientists have proved that happiness lies within.

What leads to greater happiness, winning the Lotto or becoming a Paraplegic?

Actually, after a year, lotto winners and paraplegics are equally happy with their lives. This is according to Harvard Psychologist, Dan Gilbert who cites data on happiness and is author of the book Stumbling on Happiness.

You have a built-in experience simulator that creates happiness

Homo Sapiens possess a Frontal lobe or Prefrontal Cortex. The amazing thing about this is it is an experience simulator. Human Sapiens can simulate experience before it happens. This is something that neither ancient man/woman (Homo Habilis (2,000,000 years B.C) or animals could do. The Prefrontal Cortex wasn’t developed yet.

Major life traumas have no impact on your happiness

Gilbert found in his labs that our experience simulator doesn’t always work as well as it should. He calls this phenomenon, Impact Bias. The experience simulator tends to cause us to believe that different outcomes are more different than they really are.  Things like winning or losing, gaining or losing a romantic partner, money and so on, have far less impact, intensity and duration than people expect them to have. Gilbert cites a recent study of how major life traumas affect people suggest that, if it happened over three months ago, with only a few exceptions, it has no impact whatsoever on your happiness.

Happiness can be synthesized

Why is this so? It is because happiness can be synthesized. The problem is that while you have the ability to synthesize happiness, you believe that happiness is something to be found. You have the belief that synthetic happiness is not of the same quality as what Gilbert calls natural happiness.

Natural happiness is when we get when we get what we wanted. Synthetic happiness is what you make when you don’t get what you wanted. Particularly in Western Society we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness is inferior to natural happiness. Gilbert says that one of the reasons for this is that our whole economic engine 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 stuff.

Synthetic happiness is every bit as real as natural happiness

In the video below, Gilbert goes on to prove scientifically that what he calls synthetic happiness is every bit as real and enduring as the kind of happiness you stumble upon when you get exactly what you are aiming for. It is a very interesting experiment.

From a Spiritual or Metaphysical viewpoint, I would go beyond what Gilbert shows 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 want, or lose what we had, we are unhappy. It is a powerless type of happiness because we are 100% dependent on our external world.

Science proves happiness lies within

What is fascinating about Gilbert’s video is that it scientifically proves the old adage that true happiness lies within. Quoting Og Mandino:
“Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

Our brain is designed to create happiness

Our ability to create happiness has a physical counterpart in our brain, the frontal lobe or prefrontal cortex. Knowing this, we can no longer blame people, events or situations outside of us for making us unhappy because our brain is designed to create happiness.

Only we can make ourselves happy by using the brain faculties we all possess. Now, granted, this amazing tool called the frontal lobe doesn’t always work as well as it should. Due to emotional wounding, beliefs and other things we have stuffed in our subconscious it can run amuck manufacturing experiences in our inner world that make us unhappy instead of happy. But that is what healing and growth is for. We heal our emotional wounding, clean out old beliefs that no longer serve us and bring our subconscious conscious so that our frontal lobe is restored to the well running machine it was meant to be.

Now you know that you have everything you need to be happy inside of you. Unless you are a Homo Habilis, and don’t have a Pre Frontal Cortex, you have everything you need to be happy right inside your brain. All you need are the tools to return it to a fine running machine.

Here is the video:

What are your experiences with ‘Synthetic Happiness’?

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Relationships are vitally important to not only your well-being and happiness, but to your spiritual growth and evolution. This is because part of Who you truly are is about the people you love and that are close to you.

For the average person, relationships are misunderstood. They lack true love and connection from their Source energy. Often they are riddled with fighting, frustration and a general feeling of being disregarded by another.

Relationships are meant to be something different. They are intended by your Source to be a place where you extend and receive love, compassion and the joy of taking a life journey together.

This is part of a message from The Oracle. To read the full message, and to listen to an audio download of an Oracle Gathering, a live forum where the Oracle gives an inspirational message and participants ask questions and receive answers on how to make life work in miraculous ways.

Here is the link to the message and live Oracle Gathering.

The Importance of Conscious Relationships

Sally Moore - Lost at Sea

“When the persona (personality self) is disconnected from the bigger Self you are, it loses its compass. It is like a ship adrift at sea without a sail. It has no direction. Choose for Self and you will reconnect with Self. Take your power back and you… will connect to Who you are, which is a powerful being of light. Life looks very different in this light.” Kristopher Raphael

So many people try so hard to make life work, simply because they have forgotten one simple thing. They try to create the life of their dreams over and over again, but their dreams always seem to be out of their reach. They become frustrated and disillusioned. They keep pushing and pushing but a part of them feels like giving up.

Are you one of these people?

It doesn’t need to be like this. In fact, life was never meant to be this way.

So what is missing? What have you forgotten?

Did you know that there is a bigger part of you that is, at least from the personality’s standpoint, all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving, all-abundant? This part of you is so much bigger, wiser, and more powerful than you the personality. But, what is most important is that this part of you is here to serve you. It is here to serve you because it is you.

This bigger part of you goes by many names – Higher Self, True Self, Core Self, Soul, Source Energy…the Toltecs call it your Dreamer. It is Who you are before, during, and after you come into body. It contains your Life Purpose and all the tools you need in this lifetime to fulfill it.
You the personality self are a piece of this bigger Self (with a capital S). You the personality self are necessary for your bigger Self to function and experience physicality. You are a piece of It and It is you.

The bigger Self that you are has the power to create in ways the personality self can hardly imagine. If we were to put a ratio to it, you could say that 80% of the power to manifest lies in your bigger Self. The personality self has only 20%. Most people, unaware or having forgot Who they are, only use the 20%. This is why life is so challenging and often frustrating for them.

To exacerbate this even more, most people only use a small percentage of the 20%. You have probably heard that people only use a small part of the potential their ‘mind’ has. This is true. But what is even more impactful than this is that their ‘mind’ is the 20%. Their ‘mind’ is only a small percentage of their total Self, their total potential. If you use only 5% of your 20%, you are really only using 1% (100% x 20% x 5% = 1%) of your total potential, of the bigger Self that you are.

Just think, if you could tap into your 100% potential, you could create in one year what normally takes you 100 years to create (1% x 100years = 1 year).

So the question is, how do you tap into your Source Energy, your Higher Self, Who you truly are?

And I will speak to that in my next article.

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