Linda Adsetts and The Group are here with their weekly Go for the Joy message. Enjoy!
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Sometimes, not too often, I let my inner cook come out to play. This is not a cook who throws something together just because I have to eat or my husband has to eat. This is a cook who savors every moment of the preparation. This cook is one who will depart from a recipe just a little and be as surprised by how delicious it turns out as everyone else is!
On the whole I am ambivalent about cooking. I could eat a pot of chili for a week and not be bored. However, I live with a man who likes variety in his food and he always feels nurtured when I take the time to let my inner cook come out to play.
“Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.” Craig Claiborne
My inner cook is totally present while she the chops, sautés, and stirs the meal. Sometimes she does it to the accompaniment of good music and then the flavors and smells seem to dance with the notes that are in the air and create even more magic.
Yesterday was one of those days that every woman and man who cooks regularly for someone has. It is the kind of day where you can’t come up with your own idea for dinner. I said to my husband “Just tell me what you want!”
He wanted a white sauce over pasta with chicken in it. I promptly got on my computer to find a recipe. Turns out it was an easy one and one that I tweaked just a little by adding some white wine, garlic and herbs. Each moment of preparation unfolded like magic. Nothing went amiss. I didn’t cut myself as I chopped and diced. I didn’t spill anything and nothing burned. I was savoring each moment.
Some people naturally do that while cooking. I don’t. I sometimes get things going and then proceed to pick up a book or get on my computer and before I know it my husband smells something burning!
“I bet you cook good, huh?” Darlene asked.
“Mother doesn’t cook,” Ignatius said dogmatically.
“She burns.” John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Apparently I come by this honestly. My mother will often tell me about her mother sitting with a book in her hand oblivious to the dinner burning on the stove. Oddly enough this story makes me feel better! My family reminds me of this story when I begin to cook and then I migrate away to a book or my computer, once the pots are on the stove.
“Did you check the pot? Does it need stirring?”
I can’t say that I blame them, even if it gets a little old and irritating at times! But the times that I am in the zone the kitchen becomes miracously empty, as if they sense my commitment and enjoyment to the preparation of the meal. These times are magical as is the resulting meal!
Linda writes of her inner cook. Everyone has an inner cook, an inner writer, artist, and musician and just about everything you care to name. This is not your first time on planet earth and your experiences have been many and varied along the way. Everything that you have done before you have access to this time around. Everything that anyone has done and does, you have access to.
We know that this might seem far-fetched to you. Can you even imagine the possibilities that are available to you if this is true? Well, dear ones, it is true and the way to access all of the information that you want to and/or need to, is to become more playful about it all. It is about throwing away what you think is possible and feeling your way into something more, something bigger than even you could imagine as you read this.
Your life is not meant to be played small and if you can imagine something then you are part of the way towards it and the rest of the way is a path of playfulness and possibilities.
Will you mess up now and again as you navigate a new path? Yes, you will but you shouldn’t let that deter you from exploring it. Sometimes and often you decide that it isn’t worth the trouble. We get it but if you decide that it is we have some advice for you.
Ask what it would take to find the flow of that? What energy could you be, to access that which is a little troublesome to you, even though you find it very interesting?
What if you could call on the masters that have come before you for inspiration or even the ones that haven’t been on the earth yet? What if you could imagine yourself in their shoes and ask yourself what they would do?
We promise you that they savor many moments along the way and yes they also had their troublesome moments but here is the thing-if you chose to you could by-pass those moments by blissfully being in the moment of whatever it is you are doing, thereby finding your flow which joins up with an energy flow and voila, before you know it you have created a wonderful meal, written your book, painted your painting and even…well that is entirely up to you how what you create.
Dear ones, it is not meant to be so serious and we promise you with a more playful and curious attitude that you will find your way into territory that you considered off limits to you.
Nothing is off limits. It is all up to you because this is the play that you came for when you landed on planet earth this time around.
Welcome to your life! From this day forth will you take your life and agree to love, honor and savor each and every moment?
Yes?
We now pronounce you conscious partners with the planet and all that are on her and all that have been upon her and all that will be upon her!
May you live a long and joyful life!
Go For The Joy
Linda and The Group
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Linda Adsetts is a healer, medium, psychic reader, channeller and writer. She receives channelled guidance and inspiration from The Group, a gathering of spirit who teach that our souls’ path is best expressed when we come from a place of joy. You can read how Linda got started down this fascinating path here and on her website where she shares daily messages from The Group.
Join her each Friday on Bliss Habits for an inspiring take on each of the habits.
*Illustration information: This is an actual page cut out from a vintage edition of the 1949 cookbook, “The Fireside Cook Book” by James Beard (the book itself was too damaged and worn to be sold intact). Illustration by Alice and Martin Provensen. This handsome page of vintage illustration and culinary history would look great framed. Great gift for lovers of Italian food! Inspirational decor for a retro kitchen or restaurant. Visit ArcaniumAntiques for more details.