Social science research shows that most people have a preset happiness level.
If someone wins a lottery,
They may get happy for a while,
But they eventually return to the same level of happiness.
If someone suffers a personal tragedy,
They are sad for a while,
But eventually return to the same level of happiness.
Can meditation actually reset this level and make people happier?
According to social science research,
Most people have a pre-determined level of happiness.
Someone can be happy for a while when they win the lottery,
But in the end,
They return to the same level of happiness.
Someone else experiences a personal tragedy and is sad for a while,
But eventually returns to the same level of happiness.
Can meditation actually reset the default level and make people happier?
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When people's wishes come true,
They get excited and happy.
If what you want doesn't come true.
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As you feel sad,
Your mind will calm down.
When people get what they want,
They get temporarily excited,
Their mind goes up,
As the expression goes.
If they don't get what they want,
They become sad for a while,
Their mind gets depressed.
For a little bit.
Depending on the person.
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All of a sudden,
There is a very severe person.
There are some people who are less like that.
It depends on the individual,
The range by which your mind goes up or goes down.
You know,
It really depends.
But people who usually smile and are happy even at the smallest things.
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Or self-harm.
And get angry easily.
So people who tend to be happy about little things,
Who are thankful for the little things,
Also tend to get sadder or can tend to get angrier.
So,
I'm going to end my talk here.
Other than that.
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There are many cases like that.
It's also a spectrum of ranges of emotions,
Right?
Some people actually tend to be happier more or some people tend to kind of be more sadder.
For meditation,
It weakens the emotions of being excited for something good,
And the emotions of being sad for something bad.
What meditation does,
It actually decreases that range of up and down to kind of normalize around some baseline of equitability.
If you compare it to the waves of the ocean,
It is like a calm lake.
So giving you an analogy,
If people's emotions are normally like a wave in an ocean in which there's a huge range of the depth and the height the wave can go to.
A person meditating,
Their mind will be like the little ripples on a lake.
So,
What.
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First of all,
It's not that the standard is changing.
The keyboard makes it calm,
So you don't have to suffer.
You will live a life like that.
So the default baseline of what happens means the individual doesn't necessarily change.
However,
Meditation will decrease the range in which emotions can go up and down to a baseline of equanimity that allows you to live without suffering.
And among the people.
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기쁨이점.
There are many people who are happy in their daily lives.
If there is someone who has a lot of complaints and suffering,
As a meditator,
I can say that a meditator changes themselves in a positive way because they see things in a positive way.
Also,
It is possible for somebody who meditates to actually turn their attitude towards a more optimistic,
Positive outlook in which he or she sees everything from a positive perspective rather than from a negative perspective.
If I were to summarize the answers to the questions,
The first one is,
Instead of raising the level,
You can reduce the amplitude.
Secondly,
If there is a person with a lower level,
You can raise the level a little.
If I were to follow along the structure of your question itself.
So it's not the default happiness level that you change,
But the range or the spectrum by which you kind of undulate around that happiness level.
And if you meditate more,
However,
It is possible for you to turn your approach to the world,
The attitude by which you see the world,
Into a little more positive.
If you meditate,
It is easy to maintain a peaceful mind.
Because your mind does not become excited or calm.
And secondly,
Because you look at all things positively,
Okay.
Anger,
Or dissatisfaction.
I don't get sad easily.
Second,
The level goes up a little.
So two effects that you can reasonably expect from meditation is one,
You can maintain your equanimity better.
Therefore,
There's no huge ups and downs in your emotional state.
Second,
Because you can actually increase the level of positivity or approach that you bring to the world.
You lessen the complaints,
The sadness,
And the downside of looking at the world.
