eat, pray, love – a review

Hello Everyone!

In 2006 Elizabeth Gilbert published her first book, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. It has since been republished this year to coincide with the release of the movie, Eat Pray Love, starring Julie Roberts. I had the great good fortune to see the movie on Friday evening. I give it (the movie) 4 stars out of 5 (my own scoring system) because it was beautiful, well acted, and as much as any movie ever does, followed the storyline of Ms. Gilbert’s book.

The book, the story, is about one woman’s search for her true self, her best life, her authenticity. She wakes up one morning and finds she is living someone else’s idea of a perfect life. Well, hmmm. This happens whenever someone finally begins to awaken to live a conscious life. The big Self is bursting to come forth so that It can have Real Fun, Joy, so the human involved gets to live a joyful life. If you haven’t had this happen to you yet, then you very well might not like the movie. At the very least the movie might make you squirm if you’ve been consistently ignoring your inner Self.

The book is an easy read and told in a conversational tone. You get to know and love Elizabeth, root for her, and wonder how this journey to Italy and her Love of Food and Language has anything to do with a spiritual path. Next she treks off to India to stay at an ashram to silence the chatter of her unrelenting human mind. [If you haven't tried to do this yet, you're in for a real treat!] There Liz meets the perfect people to mirror back to her what the current state of her internal vibrational countenance is. Finally she heads to Bali where she now has the opportunity to put all her internal work into play to achieve balance in the world and live her joyful life.

Eat, Pray Love is Elizabeth Gilbert’s story. It’s well told. It’s well illustrated in the movie. Now,what’s your story of awakening to your best life? Time to start, eh? It’s what we’re all about here at Applied Spirituality. Living your best life in the “real” world. Ya gotta love it (your Life) or it ain’t your Best Life.

Thanks for reading!

Kath

ps If you want to read my story (at least the first part of it), check out Well Done – A Story of Applied Spirituality.