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FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS
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the food is taken within the digestive tract, it stimulates a tremendous number of nerve channels within the body and brain. These nerve excitations result in shifting the blood supply from the outside of the body to the stomach and the inside organs. Of course, all this is a provision of nature for the adequate disposition of the food. But it also brings about the most complete compliance of the individual with a foreign substance which it is possible to experience. Think for yourself of the experience which you have after the first sharp hunger pangs are appeased. You become genial, expansive, and yield with comparative ease to the suggestions of your friends. You laugh heartily at jokes which seemed pitifully feeble before you started eating. The business world is well acquainted with the technique of feeding a customer before trying to sell him a heavy bill of goods. The same goods which he would reject without a second thought while hunger controls him, he will readily buy at the end of a satisfying meal. The food within him has compelled him to greatly increased compliance, not only with itself, but with his entire environment.
The dominant element in satisfaction expresses itself by completely controlling the food which has been taken within the body. Dominance shows itself by resisting and gradually eliminating the hunger pangs which have previously controlled the stomach. As desire progresses to satisfaction, the control which uneaten food has previously maintained over the hungry individual is diminished. When complete satisfaction is experienced, desire for food no longer exists. The initial control which food had over the hungry person has been dominated and is now passively resisted. On the emotional level, the sat