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In the very beginning of mankind, we started off on the wrong foot! We wanted more than what we had. Selfishness became the norm for mankind, and relationships with others became problematic. You know how it is, don't you? We are still like that today. If there's something within view of us, something that is or isn't good for us, we want it if it catches our eye and tickles our fancy. We tend to have the hardest time staying away from what we know we shouldn't have because it will hurt us. We just have to try it, even if it's taboo. To children, if the forbidden "do not touch" looks attractive, they long to get the object in their hands. And once we have what we desire, we have to have more, and there we go down the path toward self-pleasing and narcissism.

The set-up for our continued suffering occurred at the beginning of time and continues its trek down through time in each generation and in every family. Our genes carry within them the characteristics of the generations before us—at least four generations prior to ours. Our environment from conception onward, combined with those genes we inherited, determines who we are, how we tend to think and feel, and, most definitely, how we behave. And our genes have been, according to fairly new science, designed to be changed. Several important ingredients combine to facilitate change.