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I think that body fat is like a pearl. We encase assaults in it to soften the irritation. When we lose weight, we wear away at the lucre that buffers the irritations - they then have to be addressed and flushed. How is that done?
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There are four nourishments - physical nourishment, emotional nourishment, social nourishment, and spiritual nourishment. Maybe emotional and spiritual nourishment are the same thing.
We have given over the most intimate part of our lives to corporations that only seek their own profit. “Food” in a bag is an evil – it isn’t any of the nourishments – physical, emotional, social, spiritual. It is a corpse devoid of a soul.
Preparing food, eating food, and sharing food is a great good. The profit motive should only enter the equation when it serves to permit the preparation, eating, and sharing of food for one of the nourishments, not as an end in itself.
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The question isn’t so much as “What is the universe trying to teach me in this situation?” as “What can I learn from this situation.” We humans have no way of knowing if there is a supernatural consciousness outside our own experience, and even then it’s possible that we fool ourselves. There is no way to know if God or Ishtar or the Great Corn Mother or The Universe (as a conscious entity) exists and has intention – we can only have beliefs regarding these concepts. When we take the onus off The Universe to teach us things and put it on ourselves to find things to learn from our situations, we take a powerful position.
Of course, the teach/learn dichotomy is also an illusion since it’s all in our own heads. Perhaps switching back and forth between the two questions to see what works best in our own lives is useful. YMMV.
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