Happiness
Happiness is neither a mood nor an emotion; it is a way of life. Mood is a biochemical condition, and emotions are just transitory feelings.
Happiness is composed of qualities such as optimism, courage, love and fulfillment. It is cherishing everyday.
FEAR: We all have a neurological fear system embedded deep within our brains, a neural network that once helped us survive as a species, but now limits our lives. This biological circuitry of fear is the greatest enemy of happiness. This fear system is our repository for past trauma, current tribulations, fear of the future and archaic instinctual terrors. Unfortunately, in modern life, what is good for survival is often bad for happiness and even for long-term health. What once saved us now slowly kills us. Even though we no longer need the neurological wiring that led us out of the Stone Age, we still have it.
Fortunately we have been blessed with an almost magical source of compensation: the human neocortex. The neocortex is the primary area of intellect in the brain, located in the cerebrum. It is creative, intuitive intellectual and spiritual. “It is the physical site of happiness.”
Feasr will always keep coming up, but we can rise about them. This is our evolutionary gift_ out way out of the darkness, the past, into the light. We need to learn how to help our neocortical brain functions, our higher thought and spirit, dominate the lower brain functions that are focused solely upon survival.
(Story of the children’s cancer ward pg.16)
Happiness never comes all at once. It is a term for the condition that comes from several indispensable qualities. It’s a by-product of 12 qualities.
1. LOVE: Love is the polar opposite of fear, emotionally and neurologically. Thus the antidote to fear is the first step toward happiness,
2. OPTIMISM: Provides power over painful events, It is when I suffered the worst events of my life, in my despair, that I realized that if I could survive cancer and my...
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