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Eat, Pray, Love, Change!
By Dr. David Jernigan of Hansa Center For Optimum Health
I just went to see the movie “Eat, Pray, Love” with my teenage daughters. I didn’t know much about the movie except that it was based upon a true story of a woman traveling the world to find peace within her self. On the drive home with my daughters, now fifteen and seventeen, if reflected upon how much life had changed for all of us in their short life. It seems the only reliable constant is that everything will change. We all know that everything will change, but somehow we are never ready for it when it happens. I seem to live my life so much in the now-moment, with very little thought for the past or tomorrow, that on some level I feel like this luscious moment of post-movie bliss with my daughters in the car with me is somehow always going to be this way. “This life is good,” I think to myself. I have been Dad for seventeen years and even beyond my persona as a doctor and writer, I am first and foremost a dad. I love being a dad. Change is inevitable. My oldest daughter will soon leave and go to college and live her own life, then my other daughter, and eventually my son. I know each step will feel like a surprise, like “How did that happen?” In smaller ways, and sometime larger ways, life is perpetually changing. The trick is to adapt instantly and correctly on the heart and mind levels to these changes so that at all times we are confident in Divine perfection of the master synchronicity that is life. Our task is to readily open our hearts and minds to allow love to continue its guidance within us, brought about by change, towards greater inner maturity, joy, and peace. It is an awareness and a purposeful and conscious decision we must make to put up no resistance to change, to see Divine-perfection in all things, to gracefully allow our self and others to change, and to know the work to be done while on this earth is within our own self. Change is a constant of all healthy growth. To resist change is to create turmoil. Okay life, I am ready, and if you don’t mind…I think I will keep the change!
Dr. David A. Jernigan is the founder of Hansa Center for Optimum Health in Wichita, Kansas. http://www.hansacenter.com 316-686-5900 Dr. Jernigan is also the President of the American Biological Medicine Association.
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I just saw the movie, too and loved it. People in the theater were laughing and crying, lots of connections with universal feelings of letting go. I enjoyed reading your intel. ***** stars!
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It was the same for all the people in theater when I saw it. Very emotional for all. Thanks for the comment and the ***** ! 
Thank you for sharing these great thoughts on eat, pray, love, David. We haven't been to a movie in years, but I think we'll have to change for this one.
Best wishes.
Frederick
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I highly recommend you do. Thanks for the comment.
Thanks for sharing your intel. Sounds like a movie I'd like to see. Change is inevitable. Unfortunately most people hesitate to embrace it.
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I am glad you embrace change with grace. Enjoy the movie!
Khalil Gibran provides a wonderful passage on how we should think of children in his book The Prophet: The Prophet: Children
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Thank you for the referal to The Prophet: Children.
wonderfully said. I have read the book but not seen the movie yet, hope to see it soon.
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Thank you Lotus. I never read the book but enjoyed the movie. I had to laugh at myself since my intel was not specifically about the movie but about what happened on the drive home from the movie, so I wonder how many people will go to the movie and wonder how I got to what i wrote, but I guess the movie was somewhat about life changes. Blessings!
I have not seen that movie, but I chuckled aloud at your last sentence, which was undoubtedly inspired by the mood left from this outing. I always enjoy the positive tone of your articles and wish that everyone approached life with such confidence and enthusiasm. So many people still seek out pain and sorrow without realizing that health and happiness are our birthright.
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Hi Janet! I am so happy that you noticed in all of my writing that I strive to help others approach life with confidence and enthusiasm. In recent years I watched many movies and thought 'Hmmm! Of all of the possible endings to the movie that could have been done...why did they feel a happy ending couldn't be done?' Life truly can be joy-filled or ugly...by our moment by moment choices. Thx again for noticing. :)
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