{"id":9458,"date":"2017-03-03T17:25:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beejameditation.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/03\/the-luxury-trap\/"},"modified":"2023-02-23T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T10:43:00","slug":"the-luxury-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beejameditation.com\/blog\/the-luxury-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Luxury Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9458\" class=\"elementor elementor-9458\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6b034a4a elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6b034a4a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2ba4d7dc\" data-id=\"2ba4d7dc\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e79c40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-featured-image elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"9e79c40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-featured-image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.13.3 - 28-05-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beejameditation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Luxury-Trap-e1676961336601-1024x678.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-16038\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beejameditation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Luxury-Trap-e1676961336601-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beejameditation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Luxury-Trap-e1676961336601-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beejameditation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Luxury-Trap-e1676961336601-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beejameditation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Luxury-Trap-e1676961336601-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.beejameditation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Luxury-Trap-e1676961336601.jpg 1840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17128094 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"17128094\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.13.3 - 28-05-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>For most of human history, we spent our days hunting and gathering food, wherever we could find them. If a particular area was lacking in nutrient rich supplies, or if it was being made use of by another band whom we didn\u2019t want to war with, then we would simply wander somewhere else and make hay wherever the nutritional sun shone.<\/p><p>About 10,000 years ago, our ancestors stumbled across the seemingly genius idea of domesticating animals and cultivating easy to grow foodstuffs so that we could experience plentiful supplies of essential foodstuffs without having to wander the savannah.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d085ae5 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"d085ae5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beejameditation.com\/find-a-course\" class=\"elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-sm\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-icon elementor-align-icon-left\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fab fa-discourse\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Find an upcoming course<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26f693f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"26f693f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Climatic conditions at the time were ripe for this sort of development, and the Middle East began the trend by domesticating goats and cultivating wheat. Peas and lentils followed in the Levant, and later olives, horses and grapevines added a little variety to our newly sedentary lives. Meanwhile in Central America there were simultaneous movements towards the cultivation of maize, beans, potatoes and llamas and in the Far East, it was rice, millet and pigs.<\/p><p>The immediate effects of their work were greater overall supplies of food. However, the work was hard, and so these newly formed communities took advantage of the surplus food supplies by having more children who could share the load and work the farms.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div> &hellip;<p class=\"ast-the-content-more-link\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beejameditation.com\/blog\/the-luxury-trap\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Luxury Trap<\/span>Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of human history, we spent our days hunting and gathering food, wherever we could find them. 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