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    The Appetites of Infancy
    The Appetites of Infancy
    The Appetites of Infancy
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    The Appetites of Infancy

    By Treat Preston

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    How We Believe: The Appetites of Infancy - How We Grow Up Believing What We Believe is a book that demonstrates how for the most part we are products of our childhood, the results of how we were raised by our parents or whomever and encompasses the subjects of how to believe, dare to believe, believe in me, believe in yourself, true believer, and lies women believe. The book actually identifies many of the problems people face in adulthood but then shows you how to change your life to by embracing correct belief systems that a person holds in their subconscious minds. Written by one of the nation’s leading behavioral scientist and bestselling author, Dr. Treat Preston, Dr. Preston has been amazing his readers for over thirty years with books on the human mind and human condition.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr. Leland Benton
    Release dateMar 6, 2015
    ISBN9781311993601
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      The Appetites of Infancy - Treat Preston

      Introduction - A Deeper Hunger

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      The title of this Introduction states, A Deeper Hunger, but a hunger for what and more importantly why?  The article below begins to unlock the clues to hunger or better stated…desire.  As the article suggests, desire seemingly never goes away no matter what we do to satisfy it.  So, to begin, as I do in all of my human mind and human condition books, I have included the behavioral science study on how the mind works taken from our research unit AppliedMindSciences.com.  In Chapter 1, it describes in scientific detail where desire comes from but more importantly, how belief systems of the subconscious mind are responsible for all of our actions/behaviors/conducts including desire. It is truly fascinating reading!!!

      Hello and thank you for purchasing my book.  I promise what you learn from it will assist you in your everyday life immensely.  I am Dr. Treat Preston and along with my wife, Cynthia, we live in Auburn, California and in and amongst the fir trees, both she and I write for a living and work with hundreds of our readers to live a more satisfying and peaceful life.  The quest for contentment seems to be getting more difficult everyday but I am going to show you why this is not true so sit back and get ready to be wowed.

      I will easily admit this book contains a good amount of information but I promise to pull it all together for you in Chapter 6 and leave no stone unturned in my efforts to get you to understand the book’s content. So let’s get to the article below…

      *****

      A Deeper Hunger

      Experts mark the absence of desire as a sign of dis-ease.  I know this to be true, personally. There have been times in my life when I was so upset and so distressed that I could not eat. My desire for food disappeared as more pressing concerns occupied my heart and mind. During those times, I had all means to satisfy my hunger, but no desire to do anything about it.

      Of course, there are other times where out of a matter of principle, for special focus or discipline, I routinely abstain from food. Ironically, the desire to eat becomes more pressing and more overt when I willingly choose to forego meals. And perhaps this heightened focus on food hints at the experience of those who deal with deprivation and near-starvation. Despite not having any means to satisfy hunger, the gnawing pangs for food grow louder and louder.

      My experience of hunger and its absence serves to illustrate the complicated nature of our desires—desires that are often unwieldy and seemingly beyond our control. Coping with our innate desires is hard enough, but then we have societal values and pressures that blur the line between genuine need and want. Regardless, our desires remind us of a deep hunger and dissatisfaction that resides at the core of our being. They remind us that even when we have abundance and are seemingly well-fed, a restless hunger for something more eats at our soul.

      In the realm of apologetics, arguments from desire are invoked for the existence of a divine Desire Giver. The argument states that every natural, innate desire in us corresponds to some real object that can satisfy that desire. But there exists in us a desire which nothing in time, nothing on earth, and no creature can satisfy. Therefore, there must exist something more than time, earth, and creatures, which can satisfy this desire. This real object is a real being people call God and life with God forever. Indeed, Saint Augustine, who was no stranger to unwieldy desire, confessed that Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; Thou has made us for thyself and our heart is restless until it repose in Thee.(1)

      All the more compelling, then, is the assurance from the gospel writers that Jesus blesses those with deep desire.  He blesses those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, and who long to be filled. (2) How remarkable that the unsatisfied, both with the state of the world around them and with their own selves, are the surprise recipients of blessing! And yet, as author J.R. Miller suggests, the blessing goes beyond desire itself:

      We would probably say, at first thought, that the satisfied are the happy, that those who have no desire unfulfilled are the blessed. We do not think of intense and painful hunger as a desirable state. Yet the Lord pronounces one of his beatitudes upon the unsatisfied, those who hunger and thirst. However, it is not in the condition of hunger, itself, that the blessedness lays, but in that of which hunger is the sign and that to which it leads. It is the token of life and health.(3)

      Like Augustine before him, Miller suggests that hunger and thirst is a sign that indeed points to something larger than desire, even as a state of longing itself demonstrates the pursuit of what it means to truly live and be well. The hunger and thirst for righteousness cannot be reduced to the desire for individual satiety. Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness long for a cosmic reordering; it is the desire for all that is wrong to be set right and for a kind of justice that the world has never known. It is a desire voiced in the prayer on the lips of the hungry and thirsty: Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

      Hungering and thirsting after righteousness is the stirring for justice and for a world set right. It compels a deeper imagination for what could be, and a will to enact what we imagine. Even as we often wander hungry and thirsty through a world with unmet needs and desires, we might see those yearnings as sign-markers prompting us to move beyond the trajectory of desire that begins and ends with our own self-fulfillment. Indeed, the desires we experience are reminders that all is not quite what it should be and that we hunger and thirst for something more, and someone more than ourselves.

      Margaret Manning is a member of the speaking and writing team at Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Seattle, Washington

      (1) The Confessions of Saint Augustine, trans. by Edward B. Pusey, (New York: Collier Books, 1961), 11.

      (2) Matthew 5:6, Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness; Luke 6:21, Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied.

      (3) The Master’s Blesseds (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1899), 83.

      *****

      In the above article, it reminds us that hunger and desire can be indicators of something in our lives that we are not paying attention to and something we need to focus upon and give are undivided attention to in order to fix the problem(s). 

      This is similar to pain that forces us to determine what is causing pain, which can be disease and something we need to focus on and alleviate at our earliest convenience.  An interesting fact described in Chapter 1 is that the human mind will move to stop pain before it moves toward anything pleasurable.  The human mind always gravitates toward pleasure and the only thing that stops it is pain.  I find this amazing!!!

      But it is human nature to simply define things as desirable or undesirable.  We tend to think in black and white with nothing in between or beyond. 

      So the first lesson I will teach you is to think outside the box as you go through this book’s content.  Some of the content will attempt to shake you loose from years of thinking one way or another and point you in a direction that may seem uncomfortable at first but do not despair, this process will become easier and easier as you begin to work through the material.

      The way we think and the way we evaluate everything can be skewed from the start by not understanding something factually or truthfully but rather perceiving something to be one thing when it is completely different so perception versus reality is important.

      I want to recommend two books that will assist you first in evaluating anything to see if it is worthy of your consideration called Proper Consideration and then I want to teach you how to figure things out using deductive reasoning rather than inductive reasoning called How To Figure Things Out.

      Here are the two books that I have mentioned above…

      How To Figure Things Out cover.jpgProper Consideration cover.jpg

      Okay back to The Appetites of Infancy.  In Chapter 1 you will learn that the human mind CANNOT tell the difference between fantasy and reality and this is quite true…the human mind is very gullible and easily fooled. 

      We see this with magic, sleight of hand, manipulation, falsehoods, advertising, and much more.  We are easily fooled and the reason why will become clear in Chapter 1.

      I use an example in Chapter 1 as to why the mind cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality.  This is why you cry watching sad movies; the conscious mind knows you are in a movie theater watching a movie but your subconscious mind does not so it emotes the same feelings in you as if the situation were real…you cry!

      A few years back I had a patient who had an abiding fear of snakes.  I asked her if she had had a bad experience with snakes and she replied she had not. 

      I then asked her if

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