The Two Games Of Life - Survival Versus Happiness As A Game

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We have impulses of what to do, physically and via the primitive mind, but many of the impulses are not valid in today's world - as they evolved for the world 10,000 years ago, with almost zero evolutionary changes!

Many of the impulses in that survival game do not actually increase survival at all.  They are simply outdated and not true.

Because of this, we need to engage our higher brain in order to actually test the impulse (emotion) to see if it is valid for gaining us some benefit and then decide if the underlying beliefs and physical impulses are still valid.

If they are not valid or provably true, then you would switch from the survival game into the "metaphysical" game, where the end purpose is enduring, deep happiness.  Our higher brains made up in our mind world that "higher game" which would  give us more "happy chemicals" than we would get if we only played the survival game.

It is essential that you learn to distinguish between what gives you "life value" and what actually doesn't - even if you believe that something will work to get what you want - if it produces a poor result it is, of course, a bad belief.

We must stop depending on false beliefs that either do not get us much of value and/or which produce bad results!!!

And we MUST, as our elevated life quality depends on it, correct all of our beliefs and practices which do not get us more of what we want.

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