Why the Appeal for Eat Pray Love?

Several years ago, one of my clients sent me the book...
EAT...PRAY ....LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert.
She was sooooo excited to share it with me.
I tried to read it....
But something about it bothered me...

Last night I reluctantly saw the movie.
I respect the starring actors....Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem and Richard Jenkins.
I witnessed the interview with Julia Roberts and George Stephanopoulos...
Why did Julia Roberts act in a similar capacity to my client?
Why did Julia Roberts send this book to all her friends as a Christmas present?

Watching the movie, I thought that Julia Roberts did a brilliant rendition of Elizabeth Gilbert.
Especially in the scene in the car with her husband....
Liz looked at her husband with a look of DISDAIN as he talked about graduate school.
What kind of a woman would look down her nose at a man who was trying to better himself?
A woman with a superior/ aloof attitude that will manipulate others for her own gain.
A woman with deep unresolved issues that go very deep in her subconscious.

Interestingly, this type of character requires humility and meditation for personal positive growth. Hence, the need for this Indian guru that really didn't physically exist.
Elizabeth Gilbert's character at its highest level is service rather than silence oriented.
It made sense that Elizabeth easily aborted her pledge for "silence tag" to be the welcoming hostess for incoming converts in India.
Why couldn't Elizabeth Gilbert deliver the same compassion towards her husband?

I'm not for certain because I don't have her writing in front of me. However, I sense that her husband didn't fill her subconscious need. Elizabeth Gilbert's basic character trait is full of Pride. She looked down at her husband ....She saw him as mediocre and weak. She needed to leave....run away to a far away place. She needed to fulfill her subconscious need of depth and security....A depth and security that required a substitute father figure. The far away places masqueraded as this depth of security. She also sought a superior image that could only be met through the seductive allure of a foreign older man. Elizabeth Gilbert's Javier conquest.

I'm so haunted by the personal torment and pain that I've experienced from so many of my clients. Their personal pain stems from deep unresolved relationships that go WAY back to the early days of their lives. The problem is this: These individuals get married before they have a true understanding of themselves and then create HAVOC for those they end up marrying. And if they have kids....what a mess!!!!

Yes, Elizabeth Gilbert is on the right track by being introspective....the meditation of India. But what is the deep underlying cause of her restless subconscious? Did she find it in the father substitute exotic foreign image of her new husband?

The wake that she created is troublesome.
Life is all about the process....
What prompted her initial marriage?
Why did Elizabeth Gilbert reach her lower levels of development with her aggressive and vindictive behaviors toward her unsuspecting husband?

Does her pride stand in the way of delving deep and exposing the real truth?

Because You Deserve a Great Relationship...

Betty Rozakis Graphology
Author of Coffee with the Subconscious.
www.bettyrozakis.com

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