How does Elizabeth Gilbert use imagery in Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia?

Example of Imagery:

"The chattering, negative thoughts in my mind scattered in the wind of this statement like birds and jackrabbits and antelopes—they hightailed it out of there, terrified. Silence followed. An intense, vibrating, awed silence. The lion in the giant savannah of my heart surveyed his newly quiet kingdom with satisfaction. He licked his great chops once, closed his yellow eyes and went back to sleep.
"And then, in that regal silence, finally—i began to meditate on (and with) God."