Inspired To Create

I am up at 7.15am and my Yang part of me, my doing part of me, wants to get outside and move - to go for a walk.  And yet my Yin part of me wants to meditate, to go within.  So I enjoy a Meditation, and it is a wonderful way to start my day - in my mind's eye I see visions of myself and my Man having open hearts - it is a beautiful visual - I also then enter into a peaceful state - hmm... I could stay in this place for longer...

At work I am mostly in my Yang - the thinking part of me - and I am committed to doing my best - the competitive, high achiever part of me, wanting to be the best I can be.  Of course my Yin, my feminine part of me, is happy when I chat and laugh with the ladies from work - I am starting to feel I belong to the community - feeling home in myself - that I can just be myself - it is a good feeling.  My Yin still loves the walk outside during my breaks - I love smelling Jasmine flowers and I love that my Yin noticed a beautiful small white balled flower - I'm not sure of the name - found it hard to find on Google - but I think this image is the beautiful flower I saw today during my afternoon walk.

I leave work and go straight to the fruit and vegetable shop.  Tomorrow we have a community feast at work, and I am excited and Inspired To Create.  Christie, a friend from College, has definitely Inspired me - in reading Christie's Blog (and watching the movie 'Julie and Julia') I was definitely Inspired to start my Blog - and Christie's Follow Your Bliss Blog http://christiefischer.blogspot.com/ has definitely Inspired me to cook more and experiment and Create.  SO A BIG THANKS TO CHRISTIE.

As part of my College work - I have decided that one of my Projects will be to get my Yin and Yang in their brilliance, working together, with a synergy of 1+ 1 = 11, in creating delicious, healthy meals.  My Yin part of me just wants to Create.  While my Yang wants to look at recipes and write lists.  And I don't want to write so many lists, or be too stuck on exact recipes, that the Yin part of me is excluded in the process.  I am happy that I take a cloth bag to the shop - very happy - sometimes I forget and I get to the checkout and I am disappointed in myself - yet today I fill my cloth bag with a wonderful array of coloured vegetables.  To include my Yang I put a couple of things on a list - yet my Yin loves the shopping and fills the bag based on being Inspired - the colours, the shapes, the vegetables that call me.  I get home and love all the vegetables I have bought - and I just stand back and witness the beauty - waiting for my Yin to Inspire the process - hmmm... what should I create... where should I get started - I hold the creative tension...

         

And then I am Inspired to get started - I cut up my zucchini and make zucchini rounds - Inspired To Create from Christie's recipe and tips.  I taste them - zucchini, rocket pesto (bought - brand Inspire), a small piece of fresh basil leaf, 1/4 cherry tomato.  These taste delicious - raw zucchini tastes delicious - I am used to eating zucchini cooked.  Thanks Christe for Inspiring me.  I then cut up a large bowl of raw vegetables - green beans, yellow capsicum, carrot, celery and red capsicum - to be served with homous (I buy the homous, I am not as good as Christie - but I love that it is Organic - and I love that the brand is Mum's Choice! Foods to make your belly dance!  Nice!!!!)

             

Then time to think about dinner.  I maximise the power of my Yin-Yang. My Yin feels inspired to make a dish with a lot of raw vegetables - so my Yang part follows Yin's instruction - chop up, very small in bite sizes - carrots, beans, red capsicum, yellow capsicum, celery, 2 whole tomatos.  My Yin requests that Yang boil vegetable stock and then gets the couscous ready.  My Yang can sometimes fall into the thinker, working out what to eat - yet I love when the Yin part of me shows me how to feel into my intuition, my 'gut' feel.  My Yang, looking for some direction and ideas, Googles couscous, lime, raw vegetables.  I have made a couscous dish before - yet I don't want to follow an exact recipe.  My Yin-Yang reviews a few recipes and then is Inspired To Create my own.  I combine some lime olive oil, juice from 1/2 an orange, juice from a lime (my Yin grabbed this at the fruit and vegetable shop - love limes!), a teaspoon of cumin, a generous sprinkle of cinnamon - and I shake them all together - and mix them in with the couscous.  With still half an orange left, my Yin inspires Yang to chop it up and throw it in with the other vegetables.  I then blend in the vegetables with the couscous and dressing.  It all looks great - so many colours - so many raw vegetables.  I get why Christie gets so excited and is Inspired To Create.  I love Creating and Cooking.  I divide up the mixture - vegetarian for me - and then add some Tuna for my Man.  I love home-made.  I love Vegetarian.

I just loved cooking and creating tonight... loved it... and while I am definitely Inspired by others (thank you Christie and also thank you to my other friends who are vegetarian - as well as lovely Souls who Spread The Yellow by sharing their recipes on the internet), I am also SO excited that I am learning to trust myself in the process - using my Yin and Yang so that I may SHINE...  watch this space... I am SO VERY Inspired To Create...