Aligning Your Life with the Truth of Your Body

by SharonHartnett | Sep 6, 2024 | Craniosacral Therapy, Healthy Body, mind body & spirit, mindfulness

The Truth of Your Body

Believe in the Truth of Your Body. It’s honest. It’s integrity. It is what is real in the moment. What I mean by this is that the physical is not making up perceptions. It is what it is. An expression of your human physical state of being. It lives and does its’ thing!

The mind is what perceives and creates stories. Your thoughts, experiences and learned beliefs influence the body. But the body is not the thinker. Rather, it is living physical relationships dancing cheek to cheek inside of you on a physiological level.

From one perspective, this includes individual parts. The human body can be seen as cells & their parts, tissues, organs and systems. They are all separate, yet the truth of your body which also exists is experienced as a “Whole” dynamic creative expression. The body exists in partnership through fluids and connective tissue as ONE Living Experience. It shapes based on mind and from Source itself.

When a professional and experienced manual therapist works with you, they are listening to your body primarily and also your story (if this is their practice focus) if they are to be precise and accurate in discovering and supporting the health of any physical tension areas. While a person may come in and say, “this hurts”, the therapist listens verbally but also stays curious primarily by where the body directs us. By placing our hands on the body, we allow the body to lead us to the pattern that is most significant in the encounter. This is where we work rather than on the place that hurts. Generally, the pain spot is what speaks from a mind perspective. It could feel like the weakest link. However, the truth of the body is more accurate in its’ objective communication.

I know that sometimes people do have stories and issues where they need to be heard, and understood. This IS valuable information on a different level. Often this is key in healing too. This can be addressed in Somato Experiencing type of work. It needs to be mirrored and given equal measure. Yet if we truly want to address the physical piece, we need to understand that it’s vital to address the truth of the body to remedy what ails you.

When you trust the signals of the body, it is easy to move and meet the current concern. Feeling the pull towards that area is easy with practice. Dr. Barral says, “The body hugs the lesion”. I find this to be very true in my work as well.

What differentiates a talented manual bodyworker is the ability to listen on different levels. We have to stay open minded and learn our anatomy. If you want better alignment in the body, find a therapist who listens to the truth of your body.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D
703 509-1792
www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

How to Keep Your Eye on the Dream

by SharonHartnett | Sep 2, 2024 | Craniosacral Therapy, dream, meditation, mindfulness

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Dream On

Life is a Dream. In life, we are always in relationship. Whether it is to another person, an animal friend, an object or the empty sky. Reality is the world as it is. It’s whole, the sum parts of all existance. To be in it we must be in the present moment.

The challenge is our brains are most often generating what we think is our experience before we even live it. The truth, how we understand life to be in often a quest. Until we settle down into mindful awareness and curiosity to the experience of the One. It’s not really something the brain can wrap it’s mindset around. It’s a surrender. It’s a giving up of the ego’s need to exist.

We are fortunate to awaken out of the dream. But many of us actually enjoy the dream as well. It’s part of the earth’s gift to human beings. It’s an experience. Either way, becoming aware of illusion, the noticing of the dream state is helpful if you want to navigate life with more ease.

In the dream state, there are many glimpses. Signs so to speak. When these signs come into your life. Listen. Pay attention. For example, recently I had a deep loss. The heart hurt deeply. Inside, I felt broken apart. I still do although I am feeling a bit better every day.

Anyway, just as I was walking toward the physical place of my avoidance of feeling this all, a beautiful butterfly appeared. Black with turquoise wings on top. The colors associated with the horse I lost recently. My heart horse. It just stood in front of me flapping it’s wings until I was ready to leave. At that time, I felt my horse’s life all around me. I woke up to his joy and his freedom. I felt it inside me as well. This happened with the same type of butterfly 4 times with me and those close by.

I know this can sound like a dream. Part of it is the dream in which we all live. But the essence of love and interconnection inside opened and freed me as well with each sign that showed me the way. I am still in the midst of grief. But reality is showing me out the dream by keeping my focus on the signs. Yet, the signs are from reality poking through the dream. So pay attention.

I think, being human is very tough. I suppose that is my belief I came into with this life. At the same time, it is miraculous, so precious yet fragile. It’s eternal spiritually but just a speck of temporary sand in the physical world. This life in these skins in which we live are full of potential. Life is what we make out of it, and also in how we treat others.

Enjoy this dream world. It’s an adventure. But if you want to wake up out of the suffering, it’s essention to set an intention, then pay attention, and open the door by being yourself. Your real self.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

How to Empower Yourself By Facing Your Own Fear

by SharonHartnett | Aug 31, 2024 | Craniosacral Therapy, fear, healing

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Fear Embraced

The Stimulation of Fear. Prepare to Run! Get ready to fight! What a great friend fear can be to each of us. It often moves us toward safety. Fear is a strong emotion. Human Beings, as animals, have evolved successfully thanks to the biological process within each of us that shifts our bodies into gear when in danger.

In fear, the adrenal glands prompt us to react when faced with an immenent threat. The challenge though is when we can’t fight or flee, the brain freezes.

In Craniosacral Therapy, I often work with people who live in patterns of anxiety, PTSD or panic attacks. At some point in their lives, there was an inability to act against a given threat. So in current times, sometimes the logical mind is taken over by the limbic system. Living in hyperarousal, it’s easy to be overly sensitive or to be easily triggered.

If this sounds like you, take back the reins of your own life force! There is a way through. I find that there are many good therapists out here in the world with great tools to reflect and teach how to calm and bring you back to center.

From a Craniosacral Therapy perspective, we work with the Cranosacral System (CS). Bascially, that focus is on the brain, the spine, and particularly on the cererospinal fluid which surrounds it and flows. We listen and meld with the rhythm of the CS of an individual, supporting and helping to enhance the nourishment of the nervous system as well as helping to release toxins. Most clients find deep relief and peace after they start to trust the process of receiving the benefits of their own healthy self-regulation.

A Craniosacral Therapist works in a body centered manner. In the higher level, they learn to open up dialogue to fear. There are also body centered psycotherapists who work with the body which can be helpful too. Then there are therapists like me, trained in both. All of these work at supporting the limbic system to find balance. We include the body to brain relationship, from bottom up. This acts as a doorway to transform and heal.

I do want to remind you that fear is never the enemy. I often invite my clients instead to allow whatever is happening to move through as long as they are strong enough and in a comfort zone to make room for the movement of emotions. If not, there are techniques and different ways to slow down or minimize at a healthy pace.

Fear is only an emotion. It’s not who you are. It’s just waiting to be processed and to come into completion. When that’s done. you are set free.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

Introducing You to Craniosacral Therapy

by SharonHartnett | Aug 29, 2024 | craniosacral, Craniosacral Therapy, healing, Healthy Body, upledger institute

Anyone with an open mind can enjoy the benefits of Craniosacral Therapy.

At the very core of Craniosacral Therapy, there is an Inner Wisdom Within each individual. This is where the faith comes in with this manual therapy.Trusting that the body has its own intelligence. A craniosacral therapist listens, follows, and melds with the Craniosacral System to help mirror, nourish and acknowledge the power that is held in each of us.

The Brain and the Spine are part of the information highway of the nervous system withing each of us.When a therapist blends and supports the Inner Wisdom though blending with the fluids, magical things happen. They really do. Not in an abstract way only, although that can certainly be the case. But also in a very science based methology. Craniosacral Therapy restores and benefits by enhancing the quality of the rhythm of the cerebrospinal fluid.

Cranioacral Therapy is gentle yet powerful work. It enhances wellbeing and brings strength to the whole body by enlivening the tissues and waking up new awareness within the body’s communication network. New messages are born. New information changes.

The thing is, a person must be open minded. They need to think outside the box of traditional medicine. Imagine, a 1:1 relationship where full attention is on your deepest body intelligence. What amazing things could your body do when it is acknowledged and empowered? It’s enough that it works as it does miracoulously every day. But boosting its efficiency, and optimizing its health frees one to deeper wells of inner resources.

If you want to find out more about Craniosacral Therapy, check out the Upledger Institute. Dr. John Upledger has gifted the world with this beautiful and powerful manual therapy. Learn more about how it can help you.

May the fluid flow peacefully Within You!

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

Moving Into the Light: How to Lift the Shadows

by SharonHartnett | Aug 27, 2024 | change, Craniosacral Therapy, healing, mind body & spirit, Spiritual Healing, thought for the day

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Your Sacred Light Opportunity

We are all mixtures of light and dark. Sometimes others will try and fool you. They present themselves as holy, as illuminated and high and mighty. That’s ego.

The Truth is that we are all made from the same Source, the Creator. The story of origin lives and dies everywhere all the time. We are all ordinary in our sameness. We are all extraordinary light creations in our unique experiences. We are all small. We are all great. Every soul possibility that lives with me, lives within you. That is the substance of God. It is the love of God that sustains us whether we remember or don’t.

I used to wonder when I was younger, why am I alive? What is my purpose here? How did I get here? By my 30’s, I felt such a deep dark hole near my heart. I missed something in this lifetime, and yet I didn’t know what it was. By now, in this stage of my life, I know it was the Light within. But I have to decide to take the path of truth and love many times over to wake up. We are all interconnected. We all do better when we unite.

Anyway, for me, this hole has been my teacher. The spirit which lives within me has chosen to be a spiritual seeker. I move toward the “whole “open heartedly. I am an opener of doors. Yet I also know that to constantly seek can present its own stuck dilemma loop. Therefore, I aslo love to choose gratitude as well. I tend to rejoice more in the moment.

Personally, I am a Pisces, so I am overly sensitive, creative and very emotional. This thing called life has been so easy in some ways, but internally not so much. I live inner struggles all the time by trying to understand how to fit into humanity and its polarities, and to feel, and understand how limiting my beliefs and others can be.

I recognize that in our own way, each of us suffers. We all feel pain. Nobody wins the prize for who has it worst. However, what we decide to do with all that we have been given-that’s what matters. That’s what give meaning to our lifes. That’s where we get to join into the school of human evolution.

We have two choices in life really. A “Yes” or a “No” to what life has to offer us. Being human, we identify as being individuals. These are the rules we live by. I am me. You are you. We are taught from and early age, our names, and some type of social order to which we belong. Our tribe so to speak. Yet, at some point, do we want to step out? What does he take to move away from the familiar?

Each tribe has its own resonance. It’s own ways of doing things. We belong until we don’t anymore. It is inherent in all of us that we will have opportunities to grow. Awareness is moving in and out as waves of new consciousness , intending to wake us up to something bigger than our individual selves. Alas though, we can resist change too.

These tiny brains that we are given soak up everything which is being mirrored to us. Our identify is formed by all the outer influences and how we dance with them based on our soul configuration and personality. Because we each live different lives we each end up experiencing, accepting and also confronting expriences which are Light Opportunities for us to grow and shift into the Greater Whole.

The 3 Main Core Challenges:

1. Choose Love or Move Away From It

2. Take Responsiblity for our Choices and Actions or Deny Life as It IS. Also included here is to Blame in order to avoid oneself.

3. Choosing to live authentically or to pretend to be what others want and tell you to be.

For us humans, it’s not so easy to love all the time. Conflict is inherent in indivualism at this point of our evolution. Some times we are just plain mean spirited. Often we can see ourselves and others trying to hurt each other. Underneath all of us are woundings that have never been fully met nor understood. So we repeatedly act out our lower selves. We are living in an illusion of our own making. Our social media imposes fake reality all the time. With AI emerging, even more so in the future. Still, we can choose love and light at moment. It’s available.

Often, it seems so hard to take responsibility for our hurtful and cruel choices. At a young age, most of of learn to slip the blame somewhere else. It gives us an instanteous relief. However, in our youth and until we learn, we don’t realize that the lies we tell ourselves hurts our health, wellbeing and our soul self. Pointing a finger creates nasty karma when we don’t sense and feel into the consequences of our own negative actions. Choice point moments are to accept Yourself as you are. You are Light.

One of the most painful things is to live by the standards of others. Although we train for this starting at a young age. We all do. Eventually though, as we mature, we are intended to break out and find God in our own individuality. I truly believe that is why we are all here. We have these Light Opportunities to transform and transcend beyond what we ever imageined we are capable of. Change can be found in the smallest acts or grandiose. However evolution enters into your life, you get to choose to hold onto a past that is over. Or- you can choose to be in your truth and express the true authentic you. No matter what the cost. There is profound beauty in being yourself.

This world is a low dark place on many spots. At the same time, the Brightest, Most Beautiful Compassionate Light is EVERYWHERE. Sometimes it will be more apparent. Sometimes we have to listen through our senses intently to catch sight. The best place to begin to look is Within. Learn to Trust Yourself and to be kind.

In conclusion, God is not “Out There”. God is in everything. That includes you too. Perhaps people have labeled you as “bad”, “not worthy”, or “not wanted.” But that was them. Live in your own lane, and follow your heart. Your reason will align with compassion, kindness and generosity to Self and others that way.

I’ll give you a little hint. What I have discovered is that the path is going to continue your whole life. We are not all awakened all at once. No matter what color skin, which religion, or type of job we take. We come here to journey in these skins together. So take the opporunities one at a time. Learn from your mistakes and glory in the gifts of nature. Everything is here for your taking and understanding. And when it’s enough, you’ll remember that you are embodied, whole and complete. The seeking stops.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com