Healing is like an onion…
…not because it makes you cry. Well, maybe sometimes. There have been times when I received a healing that left me crying for no reason that I could determine, or times when healings that I were a part of were so sacred and touching that it brought tears to my eyes.
The point of this post is that healing is like an onion because of the layers. When we start the process we may have a dryer, harder covering. As we peel off those layers we expose a softer, tastier and usually a more powerful layer. The onion is still an onion. It is up to you what you want to expose. You may determine to get to a certain layer and stop for a while or you may determine that you want to go deeper.
When there is an issue that we search out healing for, a physical pain for instance. We may receive a treatment or medicine that aleviates the pain but then after a while the pain comes back. It may be that the pain is caused by something deeper than just nerves being stimulated by external forces. Maybe the pain comes from our bodies reaction to stress that we are experiencing. We may may try to eliminate the stress, but there always seems to be another thing that comes up to stress over. So then we dig deeper and find that our stress comes from a belief that we are not good enough; that we are not worthy of unconditional love. We try to change our thinking and it works for a couple of days or months. Then we fall back into the old thought patterns again. So we dig deeper and find that we do not feel we are worthy of unconditional love because of some event, or a multitude of events, that happened when we were very young. We try to talk our way through these events and get a little relief, or maybe we start to uncover other memories that are painful. We may even start to question why these things happened and become bitter toward life. We may decide to just live with the original pain because it is all to hard. However, when we are able to work though our life experiences and see them as a gift given to us by our creator so that we may grow and blossom into a human with a heart filled with love and compassion, that is when the true healing begins. We then start to love and appreciate ourselves and all that we have been through. We then think differently and react differently to the world around us. We may even find that the pain we felt before is less, or maybe we just don’t notice it as much anymore.
Healing is a process that may take some time and it may require some work and honesty with ourselves. It is never a requirement and we can stop along the process whenever we desire, but when we get to the point where the layers no longer burn and make us cry, then we are healed.
May you find the courage, strength and fortitude to go a little deeper.