If you’re laughing at the title of this post, then you’ve seen the movie “Shreik”.

For those who haven’t seen the movie, there’s a scene when Shreik (the Ogre) is talking to Donkey and he declares that Ogre’s are like onions, they have layers. He was speaking about his emotions.

In my metaphysical circle of friends, we jokingly refer to this phrase when someone makes the statement, “But I thought I healed that!”

Healing our hearts from past hurts and emotional shutdowns are no different than peeling back the layers of an onion. There are many levels of hurt.

Sometimes, it requires the stripping away of the first level to get at the underlying levels of hurt beneath it. Emotions you may have suppressed or repressed early on in your life.

It is not unusual for people to share with me that they sat and cried for hours or days during a healing. Even though they cannot tell me what it was they were crying about.  They just say that they are overcome with some sort of unknown sadness and cry.

If this happens to you, remember that you are just like Shreik the Ogre and like an onion. The layers of hurt have been piled on since before you became a rational being.

It is said that a child experiences every emotion of the parent before the age of 5. If children don’t become rational beings until the age of 7, how screwed up emotionally do you think you are before you can figure out what to think about it?

EXACTLY!

Remember that our healing takes place on many levels and sometimes we just have to remember Shriek and his onion statement, knowing that we are healing layer-by-layer.

And when those events happen, remember to keep the tissue box nearby!

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