Eat Pray Love

It was a lazy rainy Saturday today, so I decided to watch an English movie this afternoon from my Netflix instant queue right on my laptop. The movie I picked was 'Eat Pray Love'.....I had no idea what the movie was about but I picked it for two reasons, Julia Roberts (one of my favorite actresses) and the visuals of the movie (I had seen the trailer a while back and had seen some beautiful locations in the movie). I am glad I picked the movie because I loved it. I found out later that the movie is based on a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. The memoir is about the author's trip around the world after her divorce and her process of self-discovery through her travels. The movie shows Elizabeth Gilbert (played beautifully by Julia Roberts) travelling first to Italy (where she learns to eat....really enjoy her meals and learns 'dolce far niente' - translated as 'the sweetness of doing nothing'), then to India (where she learns the power of prayer and meditation - 'God dwells within you as you') and finally to beautiful Bali (where she learns to love - 'sometimes to lose balance for love is part of living a balanced life'). It was the visuals of Bali I had seen in the movie's trailers that I had found breathtaking...would surely love to visit the place myself someday. I think the movie's gist can be summarised in one of the lines from the movie....'When you set out in the world to help yourself, sometimes you end up helping everybody'.

I think the title of the movie is kind of an answer key to life, no? Eat - healthy, good food to nourish the 'PHYSICAL' aspect of our body. Pray - for peace of mind, inner strength and to nourish the 'MENTAL' aspect of ourselves and last but not least, Love - love others, love what you do, but most importantly love yourselves - know that you are unique, one of a kind, there is no other person in this world exactly the same as you...and nourish your 'SOULS'.

Signing off wanting to visit beautiful breathtaking Bali someday and these lines from the book 'Eat Pray Love' by Elizabeth Gilbert

'People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person that shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A soul mate's purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life.'