The importance of practicing happiness

Happiness is expressed in an internationally understood language, elation, laughter or jumping for joy. Because it is implicated with well-being, health and even longevity (the famous Minnesota nun study and others), it has become an essential field of study, known as positive psychology. Happiness builds trust, and inversely only a comfortable, trusting mind can be happy. So belief underlies and supports happiness. Even laughing is the result of a tense or puzzling situation being resolved to be innocent, comprehensible, a relaxing feeling of confidence and trust. However, the quality or strength of belief or the degrees of satisfaction, courage, and joy, can significantly differ. The first, most basic level is money or power. These two are so closely connected; historically they were invariably one and the same. The second level is trust through knowledge, and the third is love. We will examine them in order.

The resulting differences are based on the level of emotional gravity, an emotional analog of gravity, which is analyzed in detail in earlier posts. Emotional (i.e., temporal) gravity corresponds to the strength of connection to things or people. Small emotional gravity leads to trust, which takes things granted and verification unnecessary. Emotional gravity is generally inversely related to confidence and education level. Insecurity makes it necessary to accumulate things and form a tight connection with family members, which can lead to abusing relationships. Children and young people are more trusting and adapt quickly to changes. Emotional gravity increases with age, and changes are stressful for the elderly. Trust increases with more access to 'things,' so trust is a cultural (trust also increases with democratization), as well as wealth issue. An extensive 2012 study examined happiness as a function of financial means in various countries. Not surprisingly, the study found a positive relationship between income growth and overall satisfaction. However, there is a dark side of wealth, because the satiation 'richness' point is continuously re-positioned. Striving for greater and greater wealth is a tilted viewpoint, which always denies full happiness. A sudden change of financial means, such as winning the lottery generally does not change the mind, therefore the attachment to possessions (the emotional gravity). People who suddenly find themselves awash in money not necessarily become trusting. In fact, it is often found that lottery winners are usually back to their prior financial state and the happiness of the recipients also returns close to its original level. The reversal of fortune of the prize recipients probably can be explained by the difficulty or mental change.

Completion of a problematic task involves hard, systematic work is very different from the sheer luck of lottery winners. Persistent work and study lead to positive mental transformation (Csikszentmihalyi) via trust, generosity (less attachment to possessions) and results in long-term satisfaction. This mental state, in turn, leads to decisions, which positively influence a person's social, professional status and health. Consequently, it is regularly found that people with higher education level are more trusting and they tend to make better financial and health decisions. In other words, learning leads to long-term happiness.

Love is the most important and most significant source of trust. Those who trust are trustworthy. Thus love is a two-way street. This is why we tend to find dedicated people in occupations, which requires love. Love exists in emotional animals, mammals, and birds (and even crocodiles). Love will allow a bird to risk her life to protect its progeny. It fortifies the hero's determination to win in a difficult undertaking. In children stories and literary classics, it is love that transforms and moves toward a moral upper ground. To love is to trust the beloved. Thus love can be directed toward God or abstract mathematics. Love and trust lead to generosity, honesty, and cooperation.

Who does not follow his heart, cripples his soul.

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Quantum entanglement is characteristic of the mind

In the material world, apparent randomness often conceals the underlying determinism. The fusion of predictability with the unexpected creates a fractal structure in nature. Surprisingly, the temporal rhythm of mental phenomena also represents a fractal structure. The mind forms resonance and interference, indicating that cognitive processes obey the laws of quantum mechanics. Therefore, a social laser can model social unrest as a coherent energy transmission.

Entanglement is a phenomenon in which changes in one part of the system instantaneously influence the state of another part, even across large distances. Applying entanglement in a cognitive context can model emotional behavior. For example, entanglement activates associative target words simultaneously. In the social context, social entanglement refers to a perceived power difference in human interaction. It leads to domination, empowering one partner and subjugating the other. Thus, social entanglement plays a role in shaping social structure.  

One person can even create an entanglement between two separate events! When two events are separated in time, nonlocality encompasses fictional time travel to the past. This recollection updates comprehension by pushing understanding into the past and the future. This timelessness indicates that understanding can be influenced by significant temporal spans. In this way, childhood memories transform into adult understanding within an adult's mind. 

Similar to the quantum mechanic's particle experiment, new information can entirely overturn a solidified mental reality. When we uncover a secret, our comprehension expands to the past, envisioning the time of the first experience. Ideas in the hidden corners of the mind can be reshaped by information years or even decades later. For instance, sexual harassment and abuse are demeaning and degrading for the victim. However, even years later, a new understanding can reverse the relationship dynamics and empower the victim. Often, revealing or constructively processing past abuses, victims of sexual or social misconduct experience healing and liberation. 

We have more power over our personal history than we realize. By creating a positive meaning for the past, we give rise to a better future.  

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The role of family in the internet age

Bald eagles, which mate for life and raise their young together, are among the very few animal species with some form of family structure. Human intellectual abilities make a social and family structure with inter-generational consequences possible, which plays a vital role in preserving culture, behavioral patterns, and even social stability. In hierarchic societies, families were the bastions of safety and security, the means to hold onto power, position, and wealth. It was the life insurance policy for the middle class and the poor. The family could be a tool to increase social influence and spread political power (kleptocracy). 

In families, not only money but occupation and titles were handed down. The family could cushion the individual from natural and social dangers, hooligans, bandits, and local rulers. Like creating walls in the ocean, inherited money and nepotic influence often extinguish creative energy, originality's spark, and lead to mediocre comfort. Since in difficult times, the family provided security, it needed to be beyond criticism. Individual problems had to be hidden from the outside, and nonconforming members need to be shunned and disgraced. The large role of the family significantly restricted personal freedom. 

In democratic societies, the economic role of the family has decreased. The societal safety net provides pension, health, and end-of-life care to the elderly on a level unmatched by family care. Instead of being handed down, occupations are becoming the expression of individual talents and creative mental potential. Young people do not expect nepotism and family connections to help them. They chart their own path, far from their hometown.

As connections and inherited finances will play a less important role in individual success, the family's institutional role will undoubtedly continue to decline. When the family is not a source of financial security or societal position, covering up weaknesses and deficiencies is no longer necessary; the family can open up to become safe islands of nurture and love. The love and caring within the family that flows out into the community lifts up everyone. 

Trust in the social environment and future allows some intellectual billionaires, such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and others, to give away their wealth. If everybody feels supported by our social institutions, then medical and technological progress are only limited by our imagination.

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What is temporal gravity and why should you care?

Gravity has a powerful influence not only on the inanimate matter; in biological systems, it governs growth and balance. For this reason, gait (the degree of side-to-side movement during walking) is a reliable indicator of a mental decline in elderly people. But gravity also creates the pressure that slows the biological clock: the body ages faster in free space. Changes in gravity also regulate our mood, which is present in infancy. Children the world over enjoy swings and rocking in a cradle.  Even adults enjoy rocking chairs, free falls during parachuting, and bungee jumping. Rollercoasters simulate gravity by an upward vertical motion, giving a feeling of heaviness. At the top, there is a sudden transition from a contracted feeling to weightlessness, the sense of expansion. 

Emotions also imitate gravity. Relationships are analog to the hold of gravity. Our attachments, i.e., temporal or emotional gravity, generate an emotional rollercoaster, which intimately regulates our mood, the degree of mental comfort. As gravity constricts the body, emotional gravity is a feeling of tightness. Throughout history and all cultures, the transitions from emotional gravity (tension) to emotional release (feeling of spaciousness) have been recognized as pleasurable. It is no accident that we simulate this transition in so many ways. Even crying in difficulty or after a tragedy is such a process. Children’s stories from ancient times depict this transition from the emotional tension to release. The hero suffers and, the greater his suffering is, the more enjoyable his glorification afterward. Adventure, horror, cliffhangers, and suspense operate on the same principle. We suffer through every averse predicament and emotional tension, and the payoff at the end gives us emotional release. This is also the secret to the success of the twenty-four-hour news channels.

Therefore the environment intimately regulates our mood by controlling emotional gravity. Lack of temporal gravity is formed by low-entropy conditions (order, beauty), producing the feeling of satisfaction, happiness, well-being, relaxation, and excitement of the new. Interest and the body position are open, trusting. The excited dog smelling around or enclosed monkeys are willing to pull a lever to take a peek at the outside world: the new. The child curiously moves forward in a unique situation with excitement (this represents the original energy) or pulls back in worry or fear (meaning temporal gravity, the need for safety). 

Although the new is an elementary need, overwhelming and fast-paced information such as flickering light, strongly delineated patterns, or repeating mechanical noises provoke stress. In addition, the temporal tightness of emotional gravity constricts the mind, forming emotions such as anger, negligence, fear, paranoia, running, freezing, and adherence to the past. Even the language describes fear and guilt as demanding and heavy. This is why meditation is a powerful practice for those who experience stress, including most people. If you feel stressed, you should serve yourself beauty and joy. Even taking a deep breath should expand a constricted soul and mind.

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Multistage evolutionary process is supported by recent data

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Evolution produced highly ordered biological systems, particularly the human brain. Our incredible self-aware mind is capable of comprehending and understanding the world and itself. The widely accepted evolutionary drive toward increasing complexity is hard to reconcile with our everyday experience that disorder increases in nature. The book, The Science of Consciousness, introduces a cosmological view of evolution. After the Big Bang, physical evolution formed the elements, followed by organic molecule synthesis, particularly the chemical building blocks of life. Biological evolution transpires as a step-wise process, divided into distinct periods and eras, each characterized by special flora and fauna. 

Mass extinctions create an evolutionary opening that accelerates genetic innovations. In a fast-changing environment, genes and proteins acquire new functions and find new uses. At the beginning of the evolutionary period, new organisms, bizarre morphologies, unexpected features, and new species appear from almost nowhere in seemingly arbitrary evolutionary jumps. The brisk changes of early evolution give way to stable ecosystems; species form an interconnected and interacting structural web, such as predator-prey cycles, symbiosis, and others. The evolutionary period eventually becomes unstable; the environment cannot support the ecosystem, which inevitably moves toward an irreversible, final stage and collapse.

The idea of such a multistage evolutionary process is well supported. Important pieces of evolutionary innovations appear well ahead of their organizational importance. For example, a substantial part of the molecular architecture necessary for the evolution of the nervous or muscle system evolved in advance. Moreover, mutation frequency is related to population number! When the mutation frequency as a function of the population was examined, the entropy initially decreases during periods with low genetic concentration (increasing order of genetic innovations). Subsequently, it changes parallel with the increase in population (an arbitrary spreading of genetic material). 

The social aspects of evolutionary change also support the above idea. During the first vibrant, energetic stage of evolution, species from bacteria and fish to humans appear to lean toward generosity, leading to cooperation and altruism. The generosity appears most prevalent when mutations occur at an appreciable rate, which is only true for the first stage of evolution! With the increasing population number, the insufficient recycling of the nutrients frustrates the population. After a tipping point is reached, generosity disappears. In the third stage of evolution, cheating becomes the only feasible choice. The above findings can arise due to the three-staged evolutionary process introduced earlier. The latest computer modeling of evolution overwhelmingly shows that niches vacated by mass extinctions are quickly filled by newly emerging species. The conclusion is that repeated extinctions actually enhance the evolutionary fitness of surviving species, accelerating evolutionary change.

The evolutionary process is described here for animal systems, but the same should hold for all eukaryotes. Today, many species of wild animals are perfectly adapted to their living environments. As a result, they have small genetic diversity, making survival difficult or impossible during large environmental changes. Thus, their survival is easily challenged by global warming and the degradation of the environment. This understanding underlines our responsibility toward the environment and its inhabitants.

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Why do we need consciousness science?

A 17th-century illustration of consciousness By Robert Fludd 

In recent years, neuroscience has gone through accelerated progress and transformation. However, establishing the physical basis of consciousness is necessary to turn it into a respected scientific field. The book The Science of Consciousness is a new contribution to this ongoing discussion, proposing a new physical worldview incorporating consciousness and evolution.

It has become increasingly clear that quantum approaches can explain consciousness. Today, the quantum-like modeling of cognition, such as the human mental lexicon, is a mainstream scientific idea. Psychology and other social sciences have increasingly turned to quantum mechanics tools in the past century. My theory builds on and supports these ideas but goes even further. I audaciously claim (and hope to prove) the brain’s electromagnetic balances give rise to the self-regulating mind. This physical entity is an elementary particle that interacts through emotions, the elementary forces of the mind. 

The idea might be strange or even shocking. However, radical ideas require a jump in conceptual thinking. Although a new scientific vista generally involves inexact details and concepts that are not fully worked out, data for this original scientific thought is amounting, to name a few:

1. It is challenging to retrace our thoughts, and we have minimal control over them in the first place. The mind seems to h‘ve a’‘mind’ of its own. People occasionally carry out actions they have difficulty explaining or regret afterward.

2. Why is quantum theory a superior predictor of human behavior in psychology and economy?

3. What role do emotions play in intellect, and why are we so powerless over our emotions?

4. Our temporal closeness to events can change our conceptual vista to the point of reaching a diametrically opposite decision about a project (for example, most people have grand plans for their life or retirement but carry out almost none of them).

5. The findings by esteemed scientists show the role of positive emotions in success and health and the opposite effects of negative emotions. These highly consistent findings are difficult to explain in any other way.

Understanding consciousness gives you the tools to reach ambitious, wholesome goals. It opens the book on human motivation, allowing a deeper understanding of others and the self. The book is available on Amazon.

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The Science of Consciousness, a hypothesis

'The Science of Consciousness' details the first scientific synthesis of theoretical physics, cosmology, consciousness, and evolution. The idea concerning the universe's organic unity started with an intuition about gravity. What does gravity have to do with consciousness? It is a fascinating and twisted story that goes back six years from the idea's conception to the book's publication in 2015.

Gravity is the most elemental force in the universe. No place can be insulated from it: it traverses space as it forms its fabric. Gravity appears to pull us toward the Earth, resulting from two opposing forces operating like a seesaw between gravity and anti-gravity. The closer we are to the center point of the seesaw, the smaller the force is. This is why flying out into free space reduces gravity until it seems to disappear altogether. Thus, 'gravity-free' space is gravity neutral. 

Shockingly, our emotional attachments operate similarly over time. Emotional attachments to loved ones and even inanimate objects make losses so painful; the emotional difficulty of separation is due to the emotional gravity of the situation. Just as gravity gets weaker with increasing distance, time heals the pain of loss. Recognizing the analogy between these seemingly different phenomena formed my first intuition, which grew into an overarching hypothesis through diligent study and work. The fundamental knowledge base is as broad as an ocean: theoretical physics, neurology, physiology, cosmology, evolutionary biology, economics, sociology, and everything else that provides an answer to the pressing questions I had. Throughout all this time, the original intuition has remained unchanged. The hypothesis, supported by contemporary scientific research, grew into an encompassing whole with intricate details.

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