by SharonHartnett | Dec 8, 2014 | Energy Healing, Massage, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit
The Healing Power of Energy Healing
Exploration through the Human Energy Field can be life transforming.

Barbara Brennan
Open up to your Authentic True Self through Brennan Healing Science. As you let go of your old negative beliefs and painful energy blocks, you will be able to connect with deeper self-awareness and clarity.
Brennan Healing Science© is a powerful tool that has helped thousands of people to shift out of painful life paradigms into more acceptance and a compassionate state of being. It supports life in its many different aspects from the physical to the spiritual. This is done by working with the four dimensions of the physical body, auric field, Hara, and Core Star©.
At Lighten Up Therapies, Sharon Hartnett LMT, works with therapeutic touch through Massage and other forms of bodywork to help heal the physical body. In the auric field: Chakras – Sanskrit for “circles” or “wheels” – there are energy centers which can become blocked or unbalanced. This can lead to physical illness or other forms of dis-ease. These can be worked with by restructuring, clearing, charging and other methods that bring the chakras back into health. The dimension of hara is the level of intention which can be strengthened and aligned, and core star is the spark of divine essence in each of us. Reconnecting to this Source is magical and life changing. Working with these dimensions of human experience can help you find your soul’s task and live with a clear connection to your own divine qualities.
If you are looking for someone who can offer Integrated Holistic Support in regards to the mind, body & spirit connection, you have come to the right place if you call Sharon Hartnett LMT at: 703 509-1792 in Columbus, Ohio. She has a rich background in Energy Healing through eight years of study and being a faculty member at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. She has had a practice in the field of Healing for 15 years, and uses her healing energy therapy along with psycho-spiritual skills to help awaken that precious spark that lies in each of us.
Testimonial:
Sharon has made a profound influence on my life. Words cannot begin to express the love and genuine support I experience when we work together. Sharon is so intuitive and her energy so present and authentic that she often senses my feelings before I do. I am forever grateful for Sharon’s commitment and willingness to help me find my own spiritual path in a kind and loving way. I have a true love and admiration for Sharon and her work. – Tracy D.
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by SharonHartnett | Dec 6, 2014 | Craniosacral Therapy, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
Repetitive or Acute sports injuries can take their toll on athletes.
Most accidents only lead to bruises and mild soft tissue injuries, however, about 25% can be serious. Especially in contact sports such as football, hockey and such, more and more athletes are facing PTSD and other emotional stress.

Supporting sport injuries with Craniosacral Therapy.
When to call the doctor: If you are experiencing persistent pain or anxiety, which is interfering with your daily life, make sure to contact your physician before things get worst.
Once you have followed your physician’s advice, explore some Craniosacral Therapy options as the work can be very helpful.
On a physical level, Craniosacral Therapy supports the nervous system by directly working with the brain, spinal, membranes and fluid within. The Craniosacral System has a rhythm that allows the CS fluid to nourish and keep the nervous system balanced. Releasing restrictions and working to help the body let go of fascial dysfunctions can improve overall functioning throughout the body, reducing pain and helping with other disorders such as digestive issues, TMJ, migraines, fibromyalgia, just to name a few. On an emotional level, when there is any flow disruption, the mind can become anxious resulting with tension, headaches, and difficulty breathing. Nowadays, we are hearing more and more about football players ending up with PTSD and other brain disorders. Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle, non-invasive type of therapy that is restorative and can re-educate clients to feel more relaxed and centered.
If you are local to Columbus, Ohio- and you have questions about how this therapy can help you, call Sharon Hartnett CST at: (740) 966-5153.
*For Massage Therapists with Advanced training in Craniosacral Therapy, while they are not necessarily trained in psychotherapy, if they have studied with the Upledger Institute through the higher levels of Somato-Emotional Release, they can support you to express repressed feelings without judgment or analysis.
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by SharonHartnett | Dec 1, 2014 | Craniosacral Therapy, Energy Healing, mind body & spirit
Inwardly we can change our Reality.
We can do this by questioning our beliefs, trying new things while being mindful of ourselves, and by creating positive new intentions and following through.

Craniosacral Therapy
We can’t change our own world by blaming others, living in habits or denying the truth.
If we want to know reality, the way we identify with life needs to change. And when our own personal negative filters dissolves, reality becomes more clear in our outer relationships. The truth is revealed.
If you are stuck… and want to move out of that place- call Sharon Hartnett LMT and CST at (613) 372-6598.
With a longstanding practice in Brennan Healing Science and Craniosacral Therapy, The Work by Byron Katie, Structural Integration, she has helped others to grow and evolve into their potential.
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by SharonHartnett | Nov 30, 2014 | Massage, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
Looking for a Massage Therapist in Columbus, Ohio?
You have come to the right place if you are looking for an experienced massage therapist offering skills in therapeutic touch and healing. Call: 740 966-5153

Massage Therapist
Sharon Hartnett LMT ( licensed massage therapist ), CST (Cranialsacral Therapist) is a nationally licensed professional Massage Therapist with over 16 years of experience, who specializes in pain relief, posture re-alignment and mindful body awakening. What this mean for you is that she works holistically to bring you back to center and feeling better in your body.
When you come in for a session, the first 15 minutes is oriented toward intake and learning about your history and what brings you into the office. This is offered for free during the first massage session so that your needs and background can be expressed. No rushing within this timeframe. The quality of the sharing helps Sharon to set a basic format for the session, yet at the same time stay open to the moment for whatever needs to happen during the table work.
The three areas where Sharon focuses are the:
- Fascial System
- Craniosacral System
- The Energy System
The fascia is key is helping to relieve physical pain. It is the material that holds all the contents in your body together. Without it, we would be a liquid puddle on the floor. That’s how important the fascia is to our wellbeing. By listening and following the fascial diaphragms and layers, it’s easy to hydrate and differentiate the tissues to allow the body to release and come back into natural balance. It also helps circulation, lymphatic flow, and basic body dialogue to enhance overall body functioning.
The Craniosacral Therapy is geared toward listening to the activity around the brain and the spinal cord. By following the cranium’s bones rhythmic motion of the cerebral spinal fluid, one can support the body, especially the nervous system, to balance and feel enlivened.
The body is full of energy movement. Whether it be the liquids, the nervous systems or connection between the organs. When there is a block, it feels disordered. By connecting and releasing the “energy cysts” one can restore vitality and flow. This can feel like pressure is relieved or that more space is available for the body to relax.
Sharon Hartnett has been a practicing massage therapist columbus. Her current locations are in Upper Arlington and Johnstown, Ohio.
If you would like more information, please call (740) 966-5153 for a free 15 minute phone consultation.
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by SharonHartnett | Nov 20, 2014 | Craniosacral Therapy, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
Why do people feel so great after Massage?
In my opinion, it all boils down to connection.
Touch is such a key component to our health. It really is fundamental to life and happiness. So are we getting enough of it?
Increasingly, people are looking outside of their normal daily lives to find this type of connection in a safe and healing environment. Approximately 35 million Americans have found their way to massage.

The depth of Touch type of Therapies can go way beyond releasing physical pain and discomfort.
Massage Therapy can support a person when compassionate and invigorating contact is absent from life. I think in this day and age, many people have forgotten what it is like to hug, to hold hands or just to reach out a reassuring hand. With this type of connection missing- it’s easy to become isolated, to ignite feelings of frustration, fear, and anger. It’s easier to stay in conflict with a family member, friend or associate when touch is not involved. The intimacy of safe touch is literally sorely missed when absent in relationships.
Massage Therapy can help relax the body, the mind and spirit. When appropriate and intentional contact happens, it’s amazing how much better one can feel. The blueprint of your genetic expression can actually alter toward wellbeing.
There is nothing better than feeling relaxed, fluid and energized at the same time.
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by SharonHartnett | Nov 18, 2014 | Craniosacral Therapy, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
Judgment seems to make up a good part of our thinking. So much of our energy is spent on evaluating ourselves and others with our stressful jobs and things that need to be done during the day. The result is a body that forgets how to relax and Let Go. This can lead to pain, illness, and injuries…
By treating the body with Craniosacral Therapy, processing of the sensations, emotions, and thoughts can become more balanced. This can happen by listening to the wisdom of the body rather than focusing on our Inner Critic. When the tensions of the body can quiet down, enlivened movement and awakened sensation can support deeper realization and bring a smile to your face.
Why see a Craniosacral Therapist?
People are often unaware of the the effects of life challenges and how it affects the body’s tendency towards rigidity and muscular tonicity. The body gets numbed, stuck or develops pain patterns. A Craniosacral Therapist who is Certified by the Upledger Institute is trained to bring mindful awareness to the client with a very gentle yet awakening touch. By following the rhythm of the cerebral spinal fluid and the surrounding bones and tissues, restrictions and adhesions can release, allowing more free flowing dialogue between the body from a cellular level to the larger systems within.
Clients often relax so deeply that they start to snore on my table.
If you are the type of person that is always on the go, in the long run- you’ll stay healthier by learning to balance with the quiet meditative state of being. Extremes are only meant to be short-term in regards to health and wellness. Let us help you to Let Go of your stress.
Why not take a break and come in for some soothing of the mind, body & spirit?

Wellness
You will be amazed at how much better you are able to function when the body has released tension and is allowed to be at peace.
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by SharonHartnett | Nov 3, 2014 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
Myofascial Release has helped many of my clients to feel revitalized and more alive!
Yes, those membranes that contain, wrap around and support all the material in the human body are key in helping you to let go of dysfunctional patterns that keep your energy limited.
Myofascial Release is a holistic treatment that focuses on finding those tight restrictive areas of the body that keep pain internalized. By listening with our hands, fascial therapists can find those difficult places in the more superficial outer layers to deep inside at the core. By focusing on improving posture through releasing the fascia, the body can relax and find optimal efficiency in fluidity of movement.

Myofascial Release
When you feel better in your body, everything in your life changes. Your outlook brightens and the way that you interact with your world feels more positive.
Some of the symptoms that have been relieved through fascial work are:
- Headaches and Migraines
- Neck and Back Pain
- Fibromyalgia
- Menstrual Pain
- Pelvic Floor Tightness
- Sports Injuries
- Jaw Pain
- Scoliosis
- Neurological Disorders
- Chronic Fatigue
- TMJ and other Jaw Pain
- Carpel Tunnel
- Bad Posture
Myofascial Work can be approached with light touch to a deeper more penetrating contact. It’s up to the Myofascial Therapist to dialogue with clients to find out what level of pressure best suits the session. Sometimes as a physical restriction is addressed, the response can be painful even with only 5 grams of pressure. So make sure that you communicate what your level of feeling into sensation is to your therapist. Because if you tighten up in reaction, that is counter-productive. The best work is all about Myofascial Release.
What is so great about Myofascial Release is that once the restriction dissolves, it’s gone. Yet other layers must be addressed if you want a whole body approach to healing. It’s best to talk to your Therapist about a series of sessions to unwind or help the body let go of tension patterns. It often takes years or a trauma to bring the body out of balance. Patience, feeling with awareness and letting go can change your life if you give it a chance!
If you have more questions about Myofascial Release, contact Sharon Hartnett CST and Structural Integration Therapist at (614) 372-6598
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by SharonHartnett | Oct 12, 2014 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit
The Journey
When Clients come to Lighten Up Therapies, it’s the beginning of a Journey. A Journey to Wellness.
Our hope is to support people to find the answers they seek, whether in relief of physical pain, emotional processing, opening belief systems, matter of the heart to spirituality. Yet, our claim is not that we have what any answers, rather that we have a seasoned set of experiential tools that are offered for facilitation of your own healing.

The Journey Inward
The Basics:
1.. By learning mindfulness, one can find his/her own answers…
Active, Open Presence by the Therapist and Client can change everything!
While our practice is based on Massage Therapy, the act of touch can awaken many aspects of life. New information shows up giving clients more awareness and a better ability to make better choices for health and wellbeing. At Lighten Up Therapies in Columbus Ohio, we emphasize mindfulness as a way to self-educate.
2. The intention of the Massage Therapist and Client are key.
Intentions set a specific purpose into action with commitment and expression.
Entering into Another’s Human Energy Field with a positive healing intention can open the door to new possibilities.Our hope is that through Craniosacral Therapy, Structural Integration, Massage, and Brennan Healing Science® that our skills will help support Self-Discovery, a more balanced alignment and a Deeper Sense of Embodiment. When you feel healthy in your body with grounding and fullness, life brightens up and its easier to navigate through challenges.
3. Dialogue with non-judgmental focus in the moment without analysis is healing.
Open Listening means open relationship.
Sessions are not about giving answers but instead held with the possibility of client’s finding their own truth. For real change and empowerment, the client must find what he/she seeks within. At Lighten Up Therapies, the work is about listening, mirroring, and offering new perspectives in the question. Sharon Hartnett LMT, CST, has completed the Hakomi program, studied Trauma Therapy with Pat Ogden at SPI, and worked with the Upledger SER model to facilitate this process for her clients.
4. All things are made up of Energy.
Brennan Healing Science® promotes Personal Growth through working with the Human Energy Field
The powerful combination of leading-edge techniques, High Sense Perception, and gentle self-awareness brings benefits to clients. Each healing session teaches and transforms the the client by balancing, aligning and harmonizing the chakra system. Clients often find themselves with a greater understanding of the intelligence and mystery of the body, of the higher dimensions of consciousness, and of life itself.
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The Deepest Healing comes from letting go of fixed beliefs and dysfunctional patterns so that the authentic Truth can shine its light front the inside out.
Wherever you are in your life, on your path, if you are looking for someone to help you in your journey, take a chance to find someone who will help you discover your own power and wisdom!
For more information, please call Sharon Hartnett LMT and CST at 740 966-5153 for a free 15 minute consultation.
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by SharonHartnett | Oct 10, 2014 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, thought for the day
Dr. Andrew Weil has been a huge influence in bringing attention to Integrative Medicine in the US.
Recently I was reading the October 2014 Natural Awakening magazine, and he was asked, “What influence can the public have in supporting a shift” ?
Personally, I have been sitting with this question myself for quite a while. The allopathic part of medicine is so helpful and supportive in some ways, but sorely missing in regards to the connection to humanity as whole beings. It feels like one goes to a physician and is slotted a 15 minute appointment, and on to the next patient. Insurance companies don’t compensate doctors for listening to a complete history for an hour. Not to mention- have you noticed how medications are handed out a lot easier than a prescription for massage or acupuncture. They are covered by insurance easier, that’s for sure. I am not pointing my finger at physicians, as they are having to fit into something that only partially works. What I am suggesting is that the system needs to be restructured.
For me, it is nice to hear a medical doctor interested in changing the healthcare system. However, change is not going to have to be only coming from people like him. It’s up to us as patients, but more fundamentally as full human beings to create this shift.
Dr. Weil wrote, “Our dysfunction healthcare system is generating rivers of money flowing into very few pockets. Those are the pockets of big pharmaceutical companies, medical devices manufactures and big insurers;interests that control legislators. So, I don’t think any real change is going to come from the government.”

Integrative Medicine
If you would like to see changes, I’d invite you to research alternative and integrative therapies. Help make connections between these fields and western medicine. We need rainbow bridges to help bring the best qualities of all the various health protocols together. This requires a grassroots movement. I don’t always agree with all of Dr. Weil’s assessments on all things, but he does have a clear vision in bringing this about. We need to all put away the need for there only being one method to heal…instead let’s come together to create a new system that addresses holism and quality of life.
Right now, we have more people living longer, less doctors to meet their needs. Let’s work together and write to our government, but more than that… get involved and support the wellness programs that help you feel healthier and happier. Find out more about physicians who believe in integrative and functional medicine. You deserve that!
Thought for the day,
Sharon Hartnett CST
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by SharonHartnett | Oct 9, 2014 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, Structural Integration
Structural Integration by Ida Rolf, is not the most mild type of bodywork.
It’s not meant to be…

Evolution
The ten sessions are intended to help clients to find better alignment in relationship to gravity. Not only in standing or quiet poses, but also in movement. The idea is to help people find more fluidity, flexibility and range of motion through effective touch and thorough manipulation.
One thing that is important to address, is that this type of work often gets labeled as being uncomfortable. With Ida Rolf’s work- in most cases, as pain is sometimes encountered and touched, clients will feel things that have been avoided. It’s natural for people to compensate when they have injuries or emotional patterns holding them out of alignment. As such, as things open, deeper sensations do occur. However, if a professional and respectful dialogue is kept, the session can weather the storm with proper care and efficient contact. With healthy touch, the work can go slowly at the client’s rate and comfort level. During and after the sessions, clients will often be surprised at how they can feel grounded into their bodies and the earth both energetically and physically in a whole new way.
One of the biggest considerations when deciding if Structural Integration is right for you, is to ask yourself if you are looking for a pleasurable massage session or a more long-term and holistic approach. Some clients enjoy light touch effleurage massage. It can feel warm, invigorating and healing. On the opposite side of the spectrum though, the Ida Rolf Structural Integration type of work focuses on the ability to work deeper without working harder. A good Structural Integration Therapist will apply pressure to touch into the different levels of the fascial web to help you unwind and lengthen dysfunctional patterns. The fascia softens and hydrates allowing time to awaken and integrate.
Without question, at Lighten Up Therapies, our goal is to help you to achieve your goals for your health and wellbeing.
If you would like a free 15 minute telephone consultation with Sharon Hartnett LMT, please give her a call at: (740) 966-5153
https://www.massageincolumbusohio.com/structural-integration/