Hello :O)
Is it really only day 5??!! he he!
Today has been interesting. This morning I really felt sick of brown rice. For breakfast I had gomasio and brown rice and I didn’t find it so appetising. I also had a cup of fresh ginger tea which I really loved (mmm, yin!). This afternoon I couldn’t face brown rice and gomasio again so I ate the brown rice on it’s own and ate a little spoonful of gomasio on it’s own. Then this evening, I had brown rice with a sprinkling of ume vinegar which was yummy and some fresh carrot and ginger juice that I heated up a little bit. That probably sounds pretty grim, but it was sooo delicious. It felt like I was drinking some kind of zingy milkshake type drink (mmm, I love the way carrot juice is so soft and kind of creamy!).
Well, it seems after yin this evening, it caused some of my emotions (emotions - the meaning of the word is basically energy in motion…) to come to the surface pretty swiftly. I find this incredibly interesting how if I don’t have any yin for a while and then I have some, it suddenly brings some of my emotions to the surface very quickly. I guess it’s kind of helpful in a way as it highlights some areas of my emotional life that I need to work on and resolve. But it’s not very balanced!
It is just further proof to me how the food we eat can really determine how we feel and where our energy goes. Does it come up and out quickly or does it stay inside? or does it not know where to go?? Now I feel like I must really contact a deep place within me (some inner strength) in order for me to deal and heal the emotions that came up today. So, it seems from yin back to yang…of course!!
I have made some rice cream for tomorrow and I’m just baking in some rice with shoyu. I am very keen to brown rice cooked in a different way tomorrow. 
yayy!
Nothing much else seems to be happening at the moment. I was looking forward to getting up early this morning and going to yoga but when my alarm went off at 5am I felt too tired to get up then and opted for longer in bed. I haven’t felt as tired today but I am really loving sleep.
My elbow feels a little itchy and I wonder if psoriasis will make another appearance (like what happened on the last rice fast? Hmmm, we’ll see!).
4 more days to go…
Time to prepare another bath for my hips!!
Lots of love & energy in motion!
Sharlene
