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Take Your Heart in Your Hands
I like to think that archetypes are like hidden magnets in our psyche that attract and pattern our experiences and emotions. For example, if my mother is cold, distant, and secretly hostile to me and shames me for not meeting her expectations, then I will have internalized a fear of abandonment and my whole defense system will have become hyper-vigilant. It is as if I had been born with my umbilical cord strangling me…
— by Massimilla Harris PhD and Bud Harris PhD
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Please sit down, he said. Be patient. The main thing is this — when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning.
That’s a metaphor, right?
Metaphor? No, no, you can do this. In the morning, do a few little exercises for the joints, not too much. Then put your hands like a cup over and under the heart. Under the breast he said, tactfully. It’s probably easier for a man. Then talk softly, don’t yell. Under your ribs, push a little. When you wake up, you must do this massage. I mean pat, stroke a little, don’t be ashamed. Very likely no one will be watching. Then you must talk to your heart.
Talk? What?
Say anything, but be respectful. Say — maybe say, Heart, little heart, beat softly but never forget your job, the blood. You…
