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

Grounding: 7 Fun Ways to Start Your Day Afresh

by SharonHartnett | Aug 3, 2024 | Craniosacral Therapy, Energy Healing, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, meditation, mind body & spirit, mindfulness, Spiritual Healing, thought for the day

What is Grounding?

In all the years I have been doing healing work, whether energetic or geared toward embodiment, I have heard a lot of talk about grounding. But what the heck does that word, “grounding” mean?

In current times, grounding means reconnecting to the earth’s electric energy. I have often read and observed that when done properly, grounding can help calm anxiety and stress. As a Craniosacral Therapist, while I am sitting at the feet of a person who comes into awareness of their body, it’s easy to sense their ” grounded presence’ down to the toes. It feels very integrated, and full.

Here are a few ideas you can try to have your own experience of grounding:

1. Breathe into your body with awareness. Mindfulness wakes up the body communication between the brain and the rest of yourself. Start by breathing in your head, and work downward until you embrace the sensation down to your toes.

2. Walk barefoot outside. I know that when I walk outside, I feel my feet being supported by the earth. I listen to what the earth sounds to me, and it feels so structured, nourishing and strong. It’s great!

3. With loose wrists, do percussion slapping lightly around your whole body. It’s sort of like cupping very quickly to a rhythm. It’s stirs the nervous system into attention.

4. Jump into some water. Either a shower, bath or a pool. Soak and feel the sensations. Water can help us to feels refreshed and awake.

5. Play with your dog or cat. Animals are naturally grounded. Interacting with them can bring such joy and groundedness.

6. Jump rope or jump on a small trampoline, or sit on a bounce ball. All of these help to connect the feet and legs to the earth. Of course waking up our lower part of our bodies well.

7. Dancing: Anything that is done through movement with the body can be very grounding. It’s fun, creative and opens us up to the more physical parts of ourself.

I can’t tell you how many times people lose their connection to the ground, especially as they get older. It’s important to connect to the physical part of our being. It helps us to feel like the earth is here to provide us with what we need. It helps us to trust in life.

So when you are feeling afraid, or stressed. Set your intention to reconnect again by grounding. Make it a daily practice. Notice how much more secure and happy you feel. Pull yourself up from your bootstraps and take off!

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

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

How to Live Well With a Positive Intention of Mutual Connection

by SharonHartnett | Aug 1, 2024 | Craniosacral Therapy, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, meditation, mind body & spirit, mindfulness, Spiritual Healing

Human Mutual Connection

Connection is so important. You know that you were never meant to be alone, right? Not in your life. With close to 8 billion people on the planet, there are too many of us to ignore or to be totally isolated unless very difficult circumstances lock you up.

Isolation though can feel brutal. When you feel cut off from resources, that can feel painful. Right?

There are an estimated 4 million teenagers who are depressed. 280 million people across the globe. People who feel this way don’t usually feel supported and nurtured in their relationships. We have to start considering how this can be when we are surrounded by so many beautiful humans and such a grand planet.

As a Craniosacral Therapist and Energy Healer for close to 30 years, I have seen many people who are full of anxiety, depressed and really struggling. As a manual bodyworker, it’s not my job to be a psychotherapist. Although I have a 2 year Hakomi Training background (body centered psychotherapy), Somato Emotional Release training and Trauma Training. With all the people I have met, my education and experience has taught me how to listen and support a person when feelings come into a session. It’s clear to me that we have to make more of an effort to help each other feel, “in connection”.

It is vital that we feel connected to ourselves first, and then also to others. We are part of an interconnected web of life. Nothing escapes us, and we don’t escape life- even when we try.

So to feel connected, we have to bring our awareness to ourselves. It behooves us to question and discover, “Who Am I”?. Next we have to ask how to connect to our deeper resources and qualities. Breathe into our cells and wake up the Inner Wisdom. Thereafter, as we discover what’s inside, we can begin to take new actions to build connections that are meaninful. Facilitaton with an experienced guide is very helpful.

As a Craniosacral Therapist, I do this by helping people connect most often internally through the Craniosacral System. This is so nourishing to the nervous system. Quite often people deeply relax and feel more whole and full.

Usually people tell me that this therapy helps them. Whether they are quiet during a session or when they talk- this works help them to form healthier relatioships in many areas of their lives. When they find and anchor into their deepest calm and they feel free to process through manual bodywork, great shifts can happen.

I love doing Craniosacral Therapy Work. It’s the way I help in the world. Also, I want to encourage others to make fresh efforts to make a connection with someone new. Especially if that person is always alone or needs help. We all need each other really. What a great difference we can make on this planet if we cared a little bit more and made a postitive heart centered effort.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D
703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

6797 N. High St. #333

Worthington, Ohio 43031

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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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
Craniosacral Therapist & Visceral Manipulation
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