How to Continue Feeling Your Best with Fibromyalgia Symptoms.

by SharonHartnett | Aug 6, 2024 | Energy Healing, fibromyalgia, healing, meditation, mind body & spirit

Were you diagnosed with Fibromyalgia?

Fibromyalgia pain is not a simple diagnosis. It can reveal itself in different ways based on the uniqueness of each individual person. What we do know is that fibromyalgia does feel like heightened pain. It can show up anywhere on the body. However, normally a physician can diagnose by pressing on certain tender points. There are nine familiar locations found from the top of the body on down.

Flares can be brought upon by stress, hormonal changes and lack of sleep. Some people say weather changes can attribute to more pain as well. Whatever the cause, people with fibromyalgia suffer from body aches and fatigue.

Once you are diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, what is next?

What is now understood is that the central nervous system (CSN) has beeen overstimulated. Of course anything that calms the CNS is helpful. Check with your physician for any recommendations they suggest. Of course, there are also integrative practices that can be helpful too.

1. Yoga

2. Tai Chi and Qigong

3. Very Gentle Stretching

4. Walking

5. Meditation

Also, I’d be remiss if I did not bring up Craniosacral Therapy as a promising modality to help with fibromyagia. The Upledger Institute has taught many therapists who work across the world to work with clients through soft and gentle listening and melding with the Craniosacral System. Often my clients enjoy this manual therapy over massage because they don’t feel pain with the touch, nor do they feel sore afterwards. Their brains feel calmer and their bodies relax.

If you’d like to find out more about how Craniosacral Therapy can help you, check out the Upledger website. Find a Craniosacral Therapist, call and interview each practitioner until it feels like the best fit for you. Let me know on my blog how it goes, because I like to hear how CST can help!

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

6797 N. High St. #333 Worthington, Ohio 43085

Breathe: Easy Fix to Feel Better.

by | Jul 27, 2024 | Craniosacral Therapy, Energy Healing, healing, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, meditation, mind body & spirit, mindfulness

Breathe Through It. An Easy Way to Begin Self-Care

Some people have to work three jobs to make things work. They hardly have the time to breathe or think about “Self-Care”. Others are focused on Success and they keep pushing theselves past many personal boundaries until they are stressed and exhausted. Then there are those who just never learned that relaxation and rest is “Needed” and “Essential” to staying healthy.

We live in a society that is all about the “push”. Of course there is a place for this. However, there is also the other side to this equation. There needs to be a place where and when it’s just fine to do nothing but breathe and take a break. A long and luxurious moment of “nothing”. We also need to find a way to build healthy relationships with friends and family. Life is meant to be enjoyed.

Our bodies can revve up too much though and our nervous system takes a hit. Eventually excess stress can lead to sleeping trouble, lack of focus, skickness and headaches, and chronic pain. The list goes on.

If you are reading this, perhaps you are one of those people who feel like your nervous system has forgotten how to calm down. Perhaps you feel like you have no options but to work work work. There’s too many things that must be done.

I’l like to suggest that taking moments, precious moments with mindful care can be a good beginning. If you are running around on high drive, take a moment every hour to go inward and breathe through your nose. Begin to connect with yourself over prioritizing everything that must be done. Mindfulness in the moment can nourish and remind you of your true life work. It helps to awaken the resources and interconnection inside and out. It may remind you that there is another reality possible where you can move through life more easily and with support.

Once you have established a positive habit of breathing with awareness and centering, start to extend that time longer and longer. Thereafter, begin to notice how things in your life begin to change. Taking care of yourself is an inside job, and all this takes is intention. When we take the time, as a priority, to get centered, things change. Believe it or not, each and every one of us holds wisdom and life purpose. Begin by giving yourself the gift of time and self-realization. Empowerment begins by knowing yourself. .

Breathe and Boost Your mood and Deepen into Relaxation.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D
703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

6797 N. High St. #333

Worthington, Ohio 43085

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Ssh! Freedom is found in the Silence

by SharonHartnett | Jul 25, 2024 | Craniosacral Therapy, healing, meditation, mind body & spirit, mindfulness, Spiritual Healing

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Adyashanti on His Silence Quote

Silence. We can search for the meaning of life in our actions, as well as in our outside experiences. However, nothing true can really be found there. Only half truths. Or shades.

I love this “Silence” quote from Adyashinti because it really strikes home with me. When I drop my thoughts and my mind quiets down, it’s like the arrival of magic and mystery rolled in together. There is no stress. There is no distortion. It’s emptiness and breath arising.

Often when we start on a spiritual path, the “seeker” in us shows up. It looks all over for the answers. Glimpses of the Glory will appear and the intrigue takes us farther. But after a long road, the path finally begins to dissolve, and there is no where else to go.

Have you ever felt totally free, and alive?

How does one describe effortlessness and ease in the nothing?

How does the crumbling of your story feel?

Life is so fun and interesting!

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

6797 N. High St. #333 Worrthington, Ohio 43085

Chronic Pain: A Treatment Which Could Change Your Life

by SharonHartnett | Jul 14, 2024 | craniosacral, Craniosacral Therapy, Energy Healing, fibromyalgia, healing, upledger institute

Are You Suffering from Chronic Pain?

Chronic Pain is a persistent state When pain lasts longer than 3 months it’s considered chronic pain.

Chronic Pain shows up in the body in people dealing with; arthritis, cancer & its’ treatments, headaches & migraines, nerve damage, lyme desease, people surviving traumas, and fibroymalgia. The list goes on.

I had had clients go to their doctors and the best thing that is offered are medications. While medication has it’s place and can be helpful, there is also an integrative approach that can be more holistic. Looking at the whole person is key to helping people deal with chronic pain on a daily basis. Having a healing team to support is vital.

As a Craniosacral Therapist, what we offer is a “Listening” to the Body’s Craniosacral System. There are rhtyms and pulses that we feel. Our hands are directed toward toward the key essence places in the essence of your nervous system. To me, it feels like everyone has a deep well of resource inside that knows how to get the body feeling better. All it needs is a nudge. The body knows what to do next.

My job as a Craniosacral Therapist is to support and help your own healing abilities to bring about self-correction and self-healing. Your body on some level has chosen to go awry. And it also needs to learn to return back to health the best it can in order for you to feel better in your body.

When the internal environment of your body is functioning better through manual work, if opens a window. But also we must look at other things like life style, nutrition and the external environment in which you live too. How is your mental state? Because often people feeling chornic pain are anxious and live in depression.

I really wished we had a health care system that looked at the whole person. We deserve a better model to really see us and acknowledge our pain. But even more importantly, we need a team of people to help us to optimize our own inner resources to turn things around. Begin where you can.

I will say, as being one part of the cogency, that I do see improvement in people who come to see me quite reqularly. With the somatoemotional support they are experiencing their connection to the whole more fully. They can feel this mentally, emotioanlly and also physically.

While Chronic Pain is a continuing set of symptoms. Craniosacral Therapy can enhance a person’s wellbeing. Get support. It can change your life!

For more information on Craniosacral Therapy, check out the Upledger Page.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

6797 N. High St. Worthington, Ohio 43031

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

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

6797 N. High St. #333 Worthington, Ohio 43085

How to Revive Your Digestion Health: Discover Visceral Manipulation

by SharonHartnett | Jul 11, 2024 | craniosacral, Craniosacral Therapy, Energy Healing, healing

Are You Experiencing Digestion Issues?

No Relief For Digestion Issues?

There are many digestion conditions that affect adults, and children too. The American diet has changed dramatically over the years, and the human body was not meant to consume the food that is being sold at grocery stores anymore. Reading a label may help but we still have no idea exactly what is being put into our foods. Which chemicals are being added, how is it genetically altered, and how it is being processed is a mystery. So we have that. Our bodies are just not getting the best nutrition they need, and overloads of chemicals, unhealthy bacteria and parasites can wreak havoc on our internal environment.

Another issue that causes problems in the digestive process is that the organs can lose their motion and motility from unhealthy diets, and also from trauma (like a car accident with a seatbelt pressing hard) or through habitual habits. The positive response to this though is to find a Visceral Manipulation Therapist from the Barral Institute who use their specialized techniques to help release organs to be freed back into healthy motion. With a healthy nudge or encouragment, things can start to turn back on. A healthy organ is living, dialoguing, and sliding against other living things inside our bodies. Functionality of the different digestion organs can dramatically improve after just one session. Movement is Life!

As a Craniosacral Therapist, I incorporate the Visceral Manipulation into sessions. With so many people coming in with Gerd, IBS, chronic constipation or diarrhea and such, visceral manipulation can be a great resource for healing. I also recommend seeing a naturopath or a functional physician to adddres the nutrition aspect of your healing journey. Each body is different based on genetics and life experience. You deserve have your body understood and your health issues addressed holistically. You deserve to take the time to have your real needs met.

Visceral Manipulation is an excellent modality to help the digestion in the liver, the stomach, the pancreas and all the viscera in the abdominal area. It’s also helful for women’s health issues in the pelvis and also the thoracic region and head too.

If you would like to learn more about Visceral Manipulation, contact the Barral Institute. If you live in the Columbus , Ohio area, contact Sharon Hartnett CST-D to try a session!

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

6797 N. High St. #333. Worthington, Ohio 43085