Wake Up Your Mindful Authentic Sense of Self.

by SharonHartnett | Jul 27, 2024 | hakomi, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, meditation, mind body & spirit, mindfulness

Increase Your Authentic Self-Awareness…

Kind of an odd Meme Picture Below about Being Yourself by being Authentic. However, it sort of touched me today. How many times do we take on roles or present ourselves differently in order to keep attachments? When is this healthy, and when is it not?

After practicing Hakomi for so long with my clients, I have entered into the jive of staying “mindful” on a daily basis. It’s the best way I know to live in my passion and to understand my deepest dynamic Self.

What “mindfulness” means to me is bringing awareness to my personal experience. Observing the happening of the moment this way helps me to be more clear, and more aligned with the True Self. It also helps me to navigate my response to life more easily.

This is so important because mindfulness gives us an enhanced toolbox so that we can interact with life in a more authentic way. We stop getting so wrapped up in what others think about us. Rather we make ourselves at home inside our own Self, changing and growing in more expansiveness and confidence.

If you find yourself entangled in a lot of dramas. If you feel lost sometimes. The key to finding your authentic self is through mindful exploration. You can do this yourself easily by just practicing creating space for yourself. You deserve this understanding and love. You deserve to feel anchored into the Center of your Being. Get Crazy. Have fun. Live your thread with wild abandonment!

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

Worthington, Ohio|Serving the Columbus Area

614 653-8111

To find out more about Craniosacral Therapy, check out my main page.

How to Make Good Friends

by SharonHartnett | Jul 14, 2024 | Craniosacral Therapy, hakomi, healing, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, upledger institute

Friends are Key to Your Health

Wanting Connection is a great beginning to considering how to make good friends. After all, it’s important to find interesting people with whom you can share your life and hopefully find mutual nourishment.

In order to do this, we must admit to ourselves that we have real “needs”. It’s not so simple for many of us to be this vulnerable to realize this and move forward to make new choices and build a healthy social network. Yet there are so many benefits and much value in maintaining and maturing healthy relationships.

Sometimes, we think that others are socially connected, and that it’s easy. But friendship isn’t always as it appears to be. Nor is it easy to maintain quality connection unless we put effort and mindfulness into our social lives.

To make new and deeper friendships:

1. Get to know yourself first and what turns you spark on. It’s not necessary that your friends are just like you, but being present with yourself and vital- supports joyful connections.

2. Learn to listen to others and see what you have in common or if you share similar interests.

3. Prioritize and nurture your friendships, and let your friends know that you care. This means reaching out, doing kind things, be available when they need you. It’s important to have healthy boundaries here, but it’s also heart warming to extend yourself.

4. Put yourself out there even when you feel awkward or vulnerable. You are most likely not the only one who feels uncomfortable. Develop some courage, and you’ll feel better as you learn and grow socially. In any case, someone needs to make the first move. You’ll feel good once you master “initiative”.

5. Join clubs or sports that help you feel healthy. If you do things that you enjoy, most likely the healthier and happier you are, it will be easier to connect.

I am writing about friendship today, because as a Craniosacral Therapist, I listen to my clients quite well. One pattern that I regularly notice is that sometimes people feel very alone and are not sure what to do about it. What I have realized is that everyone I have ever met likes to be acknowledged, heard, loved and nurtured. I would really like to see that we all lean more deeply into the web of life and love.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

Worthington, Ohio|Serving the Columbus Area

614 653-8111

To find out more about Craniosacral Therapy, check out my main page.

Be Yourself

by SharonHartnett | Aug 29, 2019 | Craniosacral Therapy, hakomi, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K

Normal is Overrated.

We live in a world where “normal” is overrated. So much of what we learn is how to fit in with the thinking of others. Especially when we are younger, our parents, teachers and friends ask us to memorize, to repeat, to make habits that are part of the current paradigm. Somewhere in all of this though, is you- wanting to find your own way of Being. It’s a tricky tightrope act learning to walk in both worlds between the authentic you and what is expected. Ultimately though, as we mature and grow up, for those of us who weren’t given much opportunity to be heard, acknowledged or hear praise, we must learn how to discard the package we have been sold. How to do this? 1. Be curious always 2. Step outside your box and see things from a view that comes from within you. 3. bring your awareness to your own sense of self before relating to others 4. allow yourself to receive and regulate “what’s out there” at your own pace and in whatever quantity is easiest for you. 5. practice connecting with your whole self and don’t let anything get in the way! Good luck unlearning all the bullshit, and finding the real you.

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