Ocean in a Jar
A reading from my book, Your Caring Heart: Renewal for Helping Professionals and Systems
Peace for you today, dear soul. Today, we drink from part of a passage titled, Ocean in a Jar, from my book, Your Caring Heart: Renewal for Helping Professionals and Systems. Available at booksellers worldwide.
OCEAN IN A JAR
If we do not become better at releasing our soul through the pure emotion of feeling, crying, and tears, we become the ocean cramming itself into a jar. There can be no hope for such a jar (our body), straining to hold the immensity. Glass does not bend, it shatters. This is the fate of those who suppress their emotion. Ocean has no hope forced inside a jar. It cannot complete its work that way, reduced and bottled. Ocean has one way: consume and drown the jar so the jar becomes ocean. Order your emotional strategy. Now destroy your order. Imagine what it feels like for the jar, swallowing and hoarding an elephant into its glass acorn. Live the feeling ocean feels: its enormity stuffed impossibly. You jumping into a thimble. Feel the acute abrasion.
The house you are has openings. Use them. Water surges inside your plumbing. Tap that pressure before your pipes cry Uncle. Emotional outpouring is the rush of a garden hose in summer. You know the outcome for the grass, those human blades who are your brown parched lawn of social world. This is a matter of what you owe the baker who made you as bread. Your rising would be a start. Be a child who leans over an old well in day’s heat looking for something cool and clear. Give up your illusory balance that only keeps you still unnaturally, a straightjacketed soul. Instead, fall in the well and stay there. Learn to weep like its damp walls and satisfy your thirst internally. Become a pupil, a glass jar who drowns in the ocean. An amnesiac who completely forgets how to hold things in. This may be the opposite of what your workplace teaches you to be. Be it anyway.
Dr. Jaiya John
Your Caring Heart: Renewal for
Helping Professionals and Systems
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What a beautiful excerpt from your book. It really resonated with my spirit as a care provider. Thank you so much for sharing.