Someday I want to meet Ketut Liyer

Someday, I want to meet Ketut Liyer. I want my own magic drawing from him like what he gave Liz Gilbert as mentioned in the book "Eat Pray Love".

As explained in the movie and book, eyes were made to be at the location where the heart is so Liz can see through her heart; and the figure had four legs instead of two to keep her grounded.

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Here's an excerpt from Oprah.com's Liz's Remarkable Journey Article:

While sitting with Ketut, Liz says she learned a more simple type of meditation. "He said, 'Why do they make it so complicated in India with the meditation?' He said, 'I'll give you a meditation. Sit and smile,' he said. Even smile in your liver," Liz says. "Smile all the way through. Sit there and smile all the way through and see if that doesn't work a little bit to start to change your life and cause a little revolution in your mind."

When I first saw it's trailer, I instantly told myself that I have to get the book before I see the movie. And I did. I remember telling my friend Mina about that book and movie and she said: "That's you!"

Anyway, she's one of the people that first learned about my plans of putting my so-called established life on hold to take on a journey. I wanted something new, I wanted  to change my life. I had this decision coming from somewhere that finally made me stop complaining and start doing something about it. So I did.

I cannot really afford to travel to Italy, India and Indonesia, just like Liz did. What I can do is work with what's given. I remember wanting something so bad that I really whisphered to the Universe that I want to change my life in 2010, so I did. And it did.

So instead of me traveling to three countries to find balance, I went back home after being away for 10 years, and got my self a, literally, an education. Athough instead of a year, it's taking me more than that. Maybe another 12 months. We all have our own individual recuperation period.

To some of us who have secret desires of having our own secret Eat, Pray, Love journey, here's a nice excerpt from the same article:

You can take your own spiritual journey every, single day. Liz has three daily rituals that anyone can do anywhere.

Start a journal and answer this question every morning: What do I really, really, really want? "You have to say really, really, really three times or else you don't believe it. And answer it truthfully and do it again the next day and the next and the next," she says. "Because you can't set your journey if you don't know what you're for."

Write down the happiest moment of every day in a happiness journal. "It's a way of reminding myself what really makes me happy and what doesn't," she says, "and learn and study and look back and see what is it consistently."

Refine your mantra. "I say refine, not choose, because we all actually already have a mantra. We just might not realize that we do. Whatever you repeat constantly in your head is your mantra whether you know it or not, and that is leading you on your way," she says. "So if you're repeating, 'I'm a moron, I'm an idiot, I'm a failure, I'm a jerk, I'm a loser,' it's your mantra. So decide whether that's working for you. Maybe it's not and then maybe you might want to choose a different thing to try to say whenever you remember that you're thinking what you're always doing."

Liz says the most important thing to remember is that you can take your own spiritual journey without traveling the world. "You don't need to go and do exactly the things that I did," she says. "The only thing you need to do is ask yourself the questions I was asking myself. That's what you need to do. If you listen to that, I guarantee that you'll get your own journey and it will not look like mine. Although I do hope that it involves pizza."

Anyway, I'm done with my first year and I have another year to go. I have stopped keeping tracks of my progress because  it wears me down. I've been bugging my friends about what the heck am I supposed to do next, after this grace-finding-yourself-period is over, but I do hope that I will surpass this. I am hopeful.

My friends and I have this crazy idea of seeing a fortune teller just to take a peak of what it would be like. We all get a little anxious when talking about the future and what we'll be doing next.

But I really hope, someday, I will get to meet Ketut Liyer.