When it comes to well-being, what do you think contributes more psychological elements or physical elements?

Because we experience our well-being psychologically, but we experience everything psychologically, including our physical well-being.

When it comes to well-being, what contributes more, psychological or physical element?

The answer is yes, because psychology is biology.

Fundamentally, psychology is biology.

What's that mean?

That means that you cannot disconnect from your brain. Now, perhaps there's some external consciousness that people are experiencing, but the truth

of the matter is that the functioning of

the limbic system of your brain where you're having positive and negative emotions all day long,

that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's biology. That's a part of the brain that was

evolved between two and 40 million years ago as an alert system to what's going on outside of you.

You perceive things, threats and opportunities. You react, your brain reacts with negative and positive emotions, which then give you a sense

of being happy or unhappy at any particular time.

And so that being the case, we should be very grateful for our negative emotions, but we also

need to learn how to manage them.

That's the great goal of life.

That's the great goal of becoming a self-managing, self-leading person when you're in a state of suffering to understand why that is, how it can be productive, what you can learn, and how you can manage it such that it doesn't disregulate you or ruin your complete quality of life. So if psychology is biology, should we just attack the biology? Well, the way that we attack the biology is by understanding of psychology and actually acting in a different way. It really does sound like the human centipede. Yeah, it really is. It really is. No, it's a, no, my whole philosophy is sort of a self-licking ice cream cone because no matter, if you say biology, I say psychology. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the truth of the matter is that once, if you want to become a happier person, the first thing you need to understand is the science, which is the reason that I teach the science of happiness to my students. I don't go in and teach woo-woo and say, you know, here's, you know, why don't we all try to manifest some sort of happiness? It's like, no, this is what's going on in your brain.

When you're feeling sad, what's happening is that you've, the dorsal anterior

singular cortex of your limbic system is highly alerted to the fact that you're perceiving

a loss.

And that loss in your life of a person or something that you love is a very normal reaction

in the ancestral environment where we lived in bands of 30 to 50 individuals to be rejected, to have a breakup, to have a schism with somebody else in your band, meant that you were at a real risk of walking the frozen tundra and dying alone. You need to be really averse to that. That's why you feel grief when you're disconnected from somebody that you love, and you have a part of your brain that's evolved to make you feel that grief. And that's completely normal. That's the most normal thing it could possibly happen. And people find a lot of comfort and saying, oh, there's nothing wrong with me. There's not something I need to cure. That's actually evidence.

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