To learn to let go and forgive is a practice.

Finding compassion for those who have hurt us may seem like it is about the other person, but the truth is…  you’ll be happier and find more joy if you can let go of your own anger and pain.

It’s interesting as a Massage Therapist/Bodyworker to witness this firsthand.  While I am not a licensed psychotherapist therapist, often on the table doing the work I do,  as people stay more deeply connected into their bodies, stuck or chaotic emotions tend to arise. If the clients can stay with their experience and open their hearts, something beautiful happens. I can’t help but to notice this connection between the mind, body & spirit as I observe and connect with the person in front of me. Each session is a delightful surprise as the Unknown reveals itself, and I always trust it is exactly as it should be.  I am committed to helping my clients to let go and forgive, allowing new space to open to more kind ways of Being.

I do like to dance with the moment during the sessions by listening, through contact, and by experiencing life as fully as possible.  Sometimes this means that resentments, anger, hate and darker feelings show up.  But these are all part of the blessed realm of humanity.  I  hold the container for these to transform. The reason I like to do this type of work is because I have found time and time again that it is our resistance to love that keeps us in pain.  If we want to release this stress, the key is to change our thinking and to allow ourselves to feel whatever else that has been stored away that no longer serve our Highest Good anymore. Helping people to let go and forgive opens the door for a better life. How wonderful is that to be part of someone’s process in support?  For a few people,  life awakens spontaneously.  For most people, life is a practice about choosing to let go and opening the heart and mind for healing. We all have a choice how we want to live in each moment.

A Teacher I admire-Byron Katie, teaches that we need to question our stories and turn them around if we want to peace of mind, and the truth of all things. Mindful work about our thinking is also very helpful if we want to turn our lives around. The four questions about stressful situations are:  1.  Is it true?  2.  Is it absolutely true? 3. How do you react to the thought? 4.  What would your life be like without that thought?  Try this with a stressful situation in your life right now and see what happens.  It’s an easy experiential to open up the mind and our thinking.  While you do this, stay in contact with your body.  Notice the sensations and other information that shows up to be released.

We can’t find true forgiveness within our Selves until we forgive those we blame and feel deeply into our own resistance and soft pain.

Sometimes I ask myself why is it so easy for some people, and so difficult sometimes as a committed healer and bodyworker.  What I have found is that the benefit of facing our own challenges is a depth and a surge of experience that is unlike none other.  The meaning I have found is to let go means to be free of misconceptions and to find a way to reconnect with the rest of life.  It is in our humanity that we ride the waves of despair, jealousies and resentments.  But it is also in humanity that we remember love and compassion as a whole.  People who decide to take a journey into forgiveness in life, set themselves to a life of liberty and a not only pursuit of happiness, but the real deal.

So if you are wanting to let go and forgive… open your thinking and feel deeply into your heart.  This is for your peace, your richness, your love.  When you are anchored firmly there, join into a relationship and heal that too. It is in unity that harmony and vitality are lived.

A bit about my journey: As a licensed Massage Therapist witnessing and holding the sessions with the up-wellings of feelings during sessions, I became more curious how could I be in service to those who are in deeper stress and not healing on the different levels of consciousness. To be honest, my journey started with an interest in myself, but also with the world and all living things within it.  I wanted to find a deeper meaning and sense to this life. So I attended the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, studied at the Hakomi Institute in a two year program, which is a body centered psychotherapy,  later attended a course to help people with trauma, taught by Pat Ogden, founder of, “Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and lastly learned how to dialogue through SomatoEmotional Release at the Upledger Institute.  Integrating these practices for myself has helped me to support my clients to let go of dualistic beliefs and non-beneficial feelings by feeling deeply within themselves with a container of respect and beingness during our time together. Changing ourselves this way positively helps us to unlock unhealthy cellular memories.

Thoughts for the day,

Having Fun

Sharon Hartnett LMT, CST

Columbus, Ohio

740 966-5153