the last entry said that the nodal point of happiness is that level of happiness that we tend, with some (not all, of course) independence from the circumstances. That 
nodal point depends on aspects of our personality that supposedly are set at the end of the adolescent stage.
Here I want to try the alleged stability of personality traits that influence our capacity for happiness. 
nodal point depends on aspects of our personality that supposedly are set at the end of the adolescent stage. personality traits, by definition, have some stability across adulthood. These features depend of these factors: Genetic factors
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- environmental factors of our early childhood (0 to 6 years).
- environmental factors of childhood and adolescence (age 6 to late teens).
The real question is whether a person knowingly and willingly, is capable of modifying these personality traits. That is, can we make significant changes to our personality? Can we make these changes impact on our level of happiness?
Keep in mind that behind every feature of our underlying personality specific neural structures, physical structures have been strengthened over time.
However, the answer to both questions is yes, human beings can alter their brain (the physical structures in it), thus changing the traits of his personality, which in turn vary the nodal point happiness.
In the West it was thought that this was very easy to do, it was enough to appeal to reason to bring about the changes we want in our way of being. And this is wrong. For some reason we can not perform many of the changes that we are interested to lead a better life. A mere voluntarism is often not enough.
The verification of this fact will tell Ovid: "I see the best and I approve, but I the worst. "
Today we know that we can change, but is not as easy as it looked. We should not appeal only to reason. We treat the deeper layers of the human brain. Thus, only through constant practice of mental discipline will achieve our goals.
Scientists have been studying the technique especially mental meditation, concluding that people who meditate with perseverance they themselves generate in specific brain anatomy, with the brain regions responsible for emotional regulation largest and active in people who do not meditate. Through meditation
find a way to "distract the mind of an obsessive search for solutions to pain and sense of threat," avoiding the "storm of thoughts and images that act adding even more stress by trying to constantly search for solutions that do not find" (quotes from book "emotional self-control techniques" ).
conclusion, that we can change, but this is not enough to appeal to reason and will.
Keep in mind that behind every feature of our underlying personality specific neural structures, physical structures have been strengthened over time.
However, the answer to both questions is yes, human beings can alter their brain (the physical structures in it), thus changing the traits of his personality, which in turn vary the nodal point happiness.
In the West it was thought that this was very easy to do, it was enough to appeal to reason to bring about the changes we want in our way of being. And this is wrong. For some reason we can not perform many of the changes that we are interested to lead a better life. A mere voluntarism is often not enough.
The verification of this fact will tell Ovid: "I see the best and I approve, but I the worst. "
Today we know that we can change, but is not as easy as it looked. We should not appeal only to reason. We treat the deeper layers of the human brain. Thus, only through constant practice of mental discipline will achieve our goals.
Scientists have been studying the technique especially mental meditation, concluding that people who meditate with perseverance they themselves generate in specific brain anatomy, with the brain regions responsible for emotional regulation largest and active in people who do not meditate. Through meditation
find a way to "distract the mind of an obsessive search for solutions to pain and sense of threat," avoiding the "storm of thoughts and images that act adding even more stress by trying to constantly search for solutions that do not find" (quotes from book "emotional self-control techniques" ).
conclusion, that we can change, but this is not enough to appeal to reason and will.
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