Loving the Silence of the Heart

Loving the Silence of the Heart

Discover the Power of Silence

The absence of sound. Stillness. Quiet.  There is such a rich quality of life that is found when we stop talking. It’s a black velvet void. It’s peace of mind. Yet, silence can’t quite accurately be described in words.  Words are too limiting.  The best way I suppose, simply put, it’s an experience of nothingness.

To discover silence,  although nothing can take us directly there really.  There are guidepost points  that can make helpful suggestions.  Here is a list of 5 things I recommend.

1.  Mindfulness.  Mindfulness is practiced by each person indiviudally.  To begin though, it’s wise to bring the attention of awarness inward. Bring your open attention to the present moment in a “listening” mode.  With an intention of open awareness, the quiet has an entrance point to come to you.

2.  Go out into nature. Being outside gives us an aesthetic sense of the the beauty of life.  It also allows us to quiet down into silence to observe the natural order of life as well.  With the different moments, different seasons, we witness the cycles of life from birth to death. This can be a great learning experience. It can also bring forth spiritual transcendence experiences, along with joy and wonder.  Also, being out in nature can make us feel more safe in our emodiment because of the deep meanings we find in the silence of nature.

3. Breathing.  Breathing is at the core of keeping us alive. There is something so intrinsicly important about being connected to our breath.  The best way to help us reduce stress is to breathe naturally.  If you breathe shallow, breathe shallow.  Visa Versa, if you breathe deeply, breathe deeply.  Observe the experience of the breath without alterning.  However, if the breath change on it’s own accord, be with the change.  The breath takes us deep into the core of silence.  Trust in the breath!

4.  Stop talking for a certain amount of time each day.  Sciecne has actually shows that this can help nourish brain cells.

5.  Art.  Expressing ourselves through art can be a very quiet endeavor.  Finding our creative wave and allowing it to move through us,  quiets the mind, and bursts forth expressions of life’s experience.  The more immersed we are, the deeper rooted we can become in the engagement of the dance of silent exploration.

Silence is an experience of nourishment.  I think that when we stop the busyness and give ourselves some space to be, that the rest in silence is so vitally important to our health and wellbeing. Yet so often overlooked in our daily schedules.

Be kind to yourself.  Balance out your list of “to do” things with some empty quiet time.  You’ll feel better. You’ll feel more rested.  You may find yourself actually feeling more full in the emptiness.  When the mind quiets, the heart sings.

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

Grounding: 7 Fun Ways to Start Your Day Afresh

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

How to Live Well With a Positive Intention of Mutual Connection

Connection

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

 

Ssh! Freedom is found in the Silence

Ssh! Freedom is found in the Silence

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

 

 

 

 

Surrendering Into Our Higher Selves

Surrendering Into Our Higher Selves

Surrendering To the Greatest Existence

(Which Exists and Doesn’t Exist)

Nothing could be better than being human. Surrendering. Do you feel that deep inside? A flame burns Within, and these makeshift bodies in which we live are candles of soft wax, living and breathing as skin. A sparkle of birth and an eagerness ebbing in and out of us like the ocean tide. Our fluids inside nourish and clear away the old, tasting of sea salt and blood. We are renewal itself. We are night and day, and we are indeed all the seasons.

We are constantly reaching internally through the tides of life and then testing the waters as we expand to the farthest distance of our comfort zone. We are a pulse. We are a particle. We are a wave in motion. We are experience Itself. We are Whole. We are pieces of the puzzle which all inter-connect to each other. We are one thing, and then we are another, ever-changing. We are still. We are active. We are organisms. We are stardust living an earthly life. A sparkler burns, with flickers of light landing in air, and we meld with the elements, transforming from one form to the other. We are souls living a very human existence. Deciding our level of surrendering.
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This life as a human faces pain and suffering. Not one of us escapes such an encounter. So many of us look away, trying to pretend life is not as it is. We fight trust. We battle acceptance. We stop acknowledging the Truth which looks us in the eye. We build weapons, and start wars. We lie. We cheat. We steal. Sometimes we murder and we don’t look back. Calloused from the past and fear, we freeze in time. Numbness is the extreme state of loss. Complete forgetfulness. We lose our senses and know not why we came here. We dampen our glow. We try to fit in, even when it makes no sense. Cruelty and bullying. In our inconsequential smallness, we try to hurt each other. But mostly we hurt ourselves. Humanity is dimming. It’s lost its direction in so many ways. That first breath is withering. The air is dirty. The options have run out. Or so it seems.

The Light And Darkness. Yes, the tango seems to be slowing down. Movement comes to a halt, but underneath is the flickering longing to exist and to crawl. The need to grow. It’s so strong. It never dies. It can takes us through any challenge. It can place us high on a mountain top. It can have us walk through fire or miles of snow deep and bitter cold. It can be a mother’s embrace that nurses her baby back to health. It can be expressed in innumerable shades of human love and effervescence. The essence which lives inside this shell of a body is eternal. We are so much more than we have ever imagined. We are not isolated. Rather life gives us a rich unfurling chance at time and space. It gave us an opportunity to identify and to believe. Life is about expression and creativity.

We get to pretend that we are individuals, living independently and cut off. And then something whispers to us to wake up. What will we choose? The potential. We gain a rich understanding of self and relationship. We think that we have discovered truth and freedom. It feels real. It feels like we can touch reality. But what are we really doing here?

What is real? And who else could be the leaders, if not you and me, that make things happen for the best? Do we have any iota whether any of this is of our own doing? Or are we puppets on a string. Are we being played out. Or are we the the One? Wow that feels so overwhelmingly big to consider. Could it possibly be that we are more than our make believe limited human Self? Do we dare to imagine? Do all the possibilities of all of existence exist for us? Are there ways to navigate humanity in this day and age that lead us out of the possible extinction which knocks on our door every second by the darkness in which we swim?

I pause. I contemplate the feasibility that we can move into another direction than our past repetitions. What I do know, is that while I wonder if I can do it alone, the most important question really, is AM I Alone? I ask Existence to Show me more as I gratefully bow down to Greatness Before Me. When we consider how we are born, live and die alone as an individual person, are we really only about “me”? Or is there something larger, more grand in the scheme of life that is cheering us all on, wanting our evolution to be more than just empty space. Something that encourages unity over independence. I am not sure.

Something Created Us. Even if we are just a fragment of the Whole being brought through the human lungs. Maybe this adventure of being here on earth is an infusion of the Holy wanting to laugh in joy, and cry in the depths of sadness. Maybe the Oneness lives in us all, and also in the stars beyond with no expectation or outcome. What if we have the right to live as individuals, but also are awakened or not in a state of Harmony, Peace, and Compassion based on our soul’s yearning?. What if we are birthed to find a way to have it all? To feel that and to know that?

Today, I have learned to accept that I have no control. All there is for me in surrender. This body is aging. So much appreciation for it now. Placing my belly on the earth and feeling the solidity beneath. If I turn my head and look at the sky, I know that there is space forever beyond. I breathe in and breathe out. I feel myself. I gather my senses and say thank you. I try to live another day being the best person I can be. Even when the shadows envelope my sight. I keep thinking about the dance between me and the other. All the while feeling the mighty All singing in my veins. To live fully until I die into the Majesty. And wander into the Next.

 

Surrendering into ourselves in the Way…

I end. I begin.

 

Meanderings in the morning by Sharon Hartnett
Sharon Hartnett CST-D
7035091792
6797 N. High St. Worthington, Ohio
Surrender
Experiencing The Power of the Witness in Craniosacral

Experiencing The Power of the Witness in Craniosacral

Witness

One of my teachers from the Upledger Institute Posted something about Witnessing, written by Dr. John Upledger. It made me take some time to reflect on the how powerful this Craniosacral Therapy is simply by offering each person on the table a witness. When we stay by the side of our clients, we bring our presence, our listening, and a person who can witness what may have been hidden in the dark for so long.

The body holds cellular memory, and when the Craniosacral System is touched, it realizes when it is being held in a sacred space with care.  It understands that it is being understood in a fresh perspective.  The body responds, and so do emotions and beliefs that arise as a result.

How many secrets need to come to light? And what would it feel like to trust someone who can touch us in a way that we can express all that has been hidden?

Craniosacral Therapists do this by staying neutral.

If you have more question, please call Sharon Hartnett at 703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

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