Waking Up
I know… sometimes life feels difficult.
But you are not alone!
Uplifting
Breath
Allow Structural Integration to help you to find your breath and breathe freely again.
Breathing is actually more than bringing air into the lungs and then expelling it out. While breath is the primary life force in sustaining life, it is also a natural massager of the most internal areas of your body. When you breath in, the strong diaphragm moves and the ribcage and everything within is in a state of constant expanding and contracting. Gases and circulation are being engaged. Fluids are rushing through the veins and arteries. The wave of movement can actually reach down to the tips of your toes which you can experience if you take the time to be mindful of breath and its’ far reaching capacity to nourish life. The body is a miracle and unlabored smooth breath can keep you healthy.
Positives of Healthy Breath- sleeping better, reducing the effects of high blood pressure, when there are good levels of oxygen in the system-cancer finds it more difficult to live, anxiety and depression can be relieved with fuller deeper breathing. The heart is supported when there is less tension with the ribcage. People who practice yoga and breathing techniques feel more connected between the mind body & spirit to name a few.
One of the best things you can do to open up the breath is receive work that lengthens and softens the surrounding fascia around the ribcage and and by releasing any restrictions nearby. Gentle and more detailed work with the connective tissue under and on the ribs allows more movement and freedom and relief is often experienced. Often ribs get stuck or moved our of alignment and when freed up, global pain in all parts of the body can diminish dramatically too. With just one session of Structural Integration or diaphragm releases, you should feel more centered, healthier and flexible.
Freedom Within
To find out more benefits of finding your breath, check out Dr. Weil’s recommendation for mindful breath:
https://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART00521/three-breathing-exercises.html
Sharon Hartnett LMT
Columbus Ohio
Gentle Touch with Craniosacral Therapy
Touch is a magical way to enter into another’s space.
It is a way of expressing and nurturing life.
When this contact of touch happens, nerve cells send messages to your brain about tactile sensation. One kind of receptor is the mechanoreceptors that give you information about pushing, pulling and movement. The second group is the thermoreceptors that tell you about sensations of temperature. These are the physiological responses that occur in your body that help you to learn to navigate and live in a physical world. The body listens and it then dances with its environment through this type of dialogue.
Informational Communication
While this is a basic understanding on the physical level about our inner workings, the next question is what else happens?
When information is digested, emotions and thoughts can arise. Often unresolved patterns that are frozen and need help to complete their natural organic cycle of life show up. Everything changes in the Universe and everything concludes in itself and gives birth again when given the opportunity. Touch is an excellent way to initiate the new movement Within to support change.
As a Massage Therapist and Craniosacral Therapist, again and again, it is easy to see that gentle touch can be very heart-centered and healing. Often when clients have felt abused or traumatized, gentle touch can help clients to relax and feel things that have felt stuck. Clients often gain insights and new understanding into their beliefs and limitations. Old feelings are unleashed and are able to integrate so that people can find the balance they seek. Unlocking old configurations is freeing and unburdens us to live more in the moment.
From my Craniosacral Therapist Perspective: While the brain may be the thinker of humanity, it is the Sacred Human Heart and it’s ability to shine through that brings us back into harmony and our Divine Essence. Having the technical know how is important but learning to reach other human beings through compassionate touch is life saving to some. Allowing the mind to serve the heart rather than the other way around is important if we want to connect to Source.
As human beings, when we touch with compassion, we enter into a doorway to open our limitations into a more unitive state of being.
Not only is touch healing, but it is a remembrance that we are not alone in this world. Connection is so essential to the human soul. We always yearn for it… Many are seekers of it. In our society touch is very compartmentalized and minimal. Massage Therapy and other types of bodywork give us permission to open up again on so many levels of consciousness.
One research that I just read….left me more clear about how touch relieves pain. I’d like to share it with you-
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/hands_on_research
It’s is positive thing to have science behind the benefits of touch to remind how essential connection is…. So spread some compassion with touch today if you dare!
Warmly,
Sharon Hartnett CST and LMT
740 966-5153
www.massageincolumbusohio.com
Craniosacral Massage: Listening is the Key to Success!
How can a Craniosacral Therapist treat you effectively with good listening skills?
It’s not enough for a therapist to go through a routine with you during a session.
If your body is in pain or feeling out of alignment, it’s necessary to look and feel where the dysfunction, rotations, or twists are occuring.
Belief it or not- your body has the information it needs to reconnect to healing. You may need external help too, but by accessing your internal environment, the body gives you cues what needs to be done to get you moving toward health again.
In Craniosacral Therapy, the session begins with Listening.
As Craniosacral Therapists, we go to the Listening Stations to get an idea what is going on with the Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF). This clear and colorless liquid that bathes the brain and spinal cord is primary to cushioning the brain within the skull and also serves as a shock absorber for the central nervous system. The CSF also allows for the circulation of nutrients and the chemicals filtered from the blood and rids the waste products away from the brain. Thus, the CSF is responsible for keeping the brain and surrounding membranes and spine healthy. So when Craniosacral Therapist using mindful curiosity to gather information about flow and circulation- rich information is collected that will aid in balancing and removing restrictions that may be causing pain and other ill effects. A healthy spine and brain are key for overall health and wellness.
Craniosacral Therapy Listening
The above picture is a good anatomy representation of how the fluid moves and bathes the nervous system. It doesn’t show much about how the semi-hydraulic system operates, but it does give you a useful model to see the proximity to the brain and the basics of the CNS. It’s enough to know that by using the bones as fulcrums or just listening quietly to the rhythm anywhere on the body that by following and making small adjustments, that better balance is established, restrictions are released, and enhanced circulation and communication in the human body can take place.
Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle and non-invasive practice that creates positive changes in your life on many levels. When pain and dysfunction begin to dissolve on a physical level, the emotional and belief systems begin to shift too. As flow is increased, often clients walk away with more energy, feeling healthier, and more flexible in movement and in life as a whole.
Craniosacral Therapy works well with the following conditions:
- Back and Neck Pain
- Brain Trauma
- Headaches and Migraines
- Anxiety
- PTSD
- Fibromyalgia
- MS
- Learning Disabilities
- Colic
- Autism
- TMJ
- Post Surgical Conditions
- Scoliosis
- Central Nervous System Disorders
For more information on Craniosacral Therapy in Columbus Ohio, please give Sharon Hartnett CST a call for a free 15 minute consultation.
Sharon Hartnett CST-d
703 509-1792
www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com
www.massageincolumbusohio.com
www.upledger.com
Trusting the Wisdom Within With Craniosacral
One of the greatest things about Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is that this modality is all about trusting your own body’s wisdom to heal.
Yes it is important to find a Craniosacral Therapist who is knowledgeable and has good experience with your issues. However- the best session will be all about having faith in the process.
During a Craniosacral Session, the first thing your practitioner will do is listen to your body to find out where there might be dysfunctional patterns that lead to pain and other ailments. This is done by starting at the feet and moving up to the head in order to check for amplitude, symmetry and other qualities of the craniosacral rhythm throughout the body. Once the primary lesion is discovered, it is easy to go to that area and start the session for healing. The rest is about following the body’s response to the work.
During evaluation and thereafter, Craniosacral Therapy touch is gentle and non-invasive. There are very few contra-indications with CST, yet the effects are far reaching and profound in your healing process. The primary benefits that you will first feel are relief of pain, more flexibility and often more vitality. By working primarily with the Central Nervous System as the focus, a Craniosacral Therapist can dialogue with every other body system to support the integration of full body functioning. Often clients are unexpectingly surprised that there can be so much change in attitude, feeling and sensation after just a few session.
Craniosacral Therapy as taught by the Upledger Institute
If you would like to find out more about Craniosacral, please contact Sharon Hartnett for a free 15 minute telephone consultation: (614) 372-6598.
Craniosacral Therapy is a self-discovery process of remembering your own light! It’s always present.
Website: www.massageincolumbusohio.com
Massage Therapy
Massage Therapy Columbus (614) 372-6598
Massage Therapy is a healing art that integrates the talents of a massage therapist, including excellent listening, a compassionate heart and an ability to transmit what is needed to support the client for the highest good. An experienced massage therapist will have many years under her/his belt with a unique set of hands-on techniques learned to treat what your body needs. Included in our training, we adhere to a strict code of ethics that respects and honors our clients and their requests. If you have questions about this, please refer to: https://www.amtamassage.org/index.html .
In Columbus, Ohio, there is a Licensed Massage Therapist who fits the above criteria. Sharon Hartnett LMT has a background in Structural Integration, is an Advanced Certified Craniosacral Therapist, taught at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, graduated from the Hakomi Institute and has a professional and integrated practice after 15 years in this field of health.
Sharon’s work is focused on relieving pain and helping clients to move into a more healthy and well lifestyle. Because of her training with https://www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org she has also chosen to work with clients who have experienced trauma and has found no help elsewhere. By approaching life through the mind body spirit connection, old fears and pain can dissolve, freeing up the client to create a healthier and more joyful life. Life can be approached from a gentler light touch or from stronger and deeper touch that meets the client in the current state. Through listening and dialogue, the job is to connect and release the body from pain and tension, to open the connection to essence and wisdom.
Massage Therapy
Sharon Hartnett LMT offers a free 15 minute phone consultation at for those who want to interview or find out more about this work.
www.massageincolumbusohio.com
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Letting Stress Melt into Relaxation
Are you in stress overload?
The by-product of Stress may be affecting you in ways that you don’t even know.
Long-term chronic stress can contribute to experiences such as: digestive problems, sleeplessness, anxiety, anger, headaches and decreased immune function.
If you are finding yourself in ongoing stress, it’s time to take charge of your life with some new choices. Believe it or not- you have the ability to shift your thinking and to re-orient how your respond to life’s challenges.
Some relaxation techniques that are easy to do:
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Yoga-This mixture of exercise, mindfulness and poses can quiet the mind and enhance the body’s vitality.
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Visualization- When you find yourself reaching your limit, think about positive serene places that feel emotionally supportive and nurturing to you. Some examples may be your pet, a beach, or a meditative retreat. Changing your thinking can help you break the patterns of stress.
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Massage and Bodywork- Nothing feels better than having someone knead, and treat tight muscles and to unwind the fascial restrictive patterns of stress. When the body lengthens and feels more fluidity, so does the mind. Craniosacral Therapy and Structural Integration are especially helping in alleviating stress from the body and emotionally.
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Tensing and Relaxing Muscles Alternately
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Meditation-Allowing the thoughts to arise and flow can be very quieting for the mind body connection.
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Music can be very therapeutic and help shift a person into relaxation easily.
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Slowing down with Intention and becoming mindful of the moment can help us to feel calmer and more peaceful.
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Exercise- The body’s communication system during a workout is more sharp and active. Question Your Thinking with Byron Katie’s 4 questions: www.thework.com
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Spiritual Work and transformation
Change Your Stress Habits
Reducing stress can:
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Reduce activity of stress hormones
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Lower blood pressure
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Increase blood flow
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Decrease tension and pain levels
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Regulate the nervous system more efficiently
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Promote better health
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Relieve Depression Symptoms
Take time to re-focus your life. You deserve the best!
Sharon Hartnett LMT, CST
740 966-5153
Columbus, Ohio
www.massageincolumbusohio.com
Let Go and Let God
Let Go…
Are you one those people that is constantly searching for something?
Waiting to be awakened, to understand, to achieve the next goal? To find Success?
Acknowledging What IS…
It’s human nature to be curious and wondering about the world outside of you. You are always in a creative process of building your own perceptions about life. But did you know that it is possible that your adhering beliefs on a mind level can separate you from what is actually here and now?
The Gem to Quality Life is actually in the present …
And yes…It is possible to reconnect your consciousness to Source by allowing God to shine.
If you take the time to fully be mindful in the moment, you can actually hear the Light inside of you. As your listening deepens, You’ll remember that all you ever wanted was right there all along. Listen and Prayer can open up our world into a much bigger universe.
We are all inter-connected. Everything inside and outside of us. Tune in to the Truth.
Take a chance and Receive Grace.
Remember, as Dorothy once said, ” there is no place like Home:)”
Let Go and Let God be Known, however you are able to discover…
Sharon Hartnett CST, LMT
www.massageincolumbusohio.com
614 372-6598
Help for Sciatic Pain
Many clients have a hard time understanding Sciatic Pain.
What they do know is that they are experiencing symptoms like: possible lower back pain, pain that shoots down one side of the leg- possibly all the way to the foot, aggravated pain when standing or sitting, and possible nerve effects such as numbness or tingling.
Often this pain is the result of a disk problem. So the best thing to do when pain continues is to see your physician and find out the “root” issue so to speak. Hopefully, an integrative doctor will send you to a spine specialist, and have some referrals for some excellent massage therapists and bodyworkers in your local area. An integrative approach will often be more helpful because each individual is organized uniquely and it often takes an individualized plan to help restore corrective posture and movement to bring health back to the lower lumbars and sacral area.
An Integrative Approach
What I have found helpful with the combinations available to clients is a unique plan to practice movement such as Feldenkrais or Continuum, checking in with an experienced chiropractor, and a focus on correcting posture through Structural Integration and Craniosacral. Because the fascia contains all the cells, tissue, organs and living materials in the body, it is responsible for helping to keep a body nourished and well dialoguing for health and wellness. When the connective tissue fascia adheres, dehydrates, and stiffens, fluids and other nutrients can’t reach their destination. The flow of life diminishes in that area. People end up with bulging and herniated disks from wear and tear or imbalances that were not recognized and treated earlier.
Take charge of your self care plan. Sciatic Pain is not something to take lightly. It is possible to resolve by itself through hot/cold treatments, but is likely to show up again without making some real change in the body. Sharon Hartnett LMT has seen some very positive changes where people shift into a pain free life with myofascial massage and bodywork. If you would like to find out more, about finding sciatic pain relief, call:
Sharon Hartnett LMT at 740 966-5153
Or check out: Dr. Oz for his July 1, 2014
Recognizing the Truth of Your Soul
Whatever unhappiness rests in your life may be because you have forgotten the Truth of your Soul.
It’s so easy to get caught up in everything you believe. The outside world can be so enticing and easy to get lost in.
We are taught from an early age that this is this and that is that. We identify with objects and people so that our mind takes precedence over our sacred human hearts. We forget that love is what leads the Universe rather than our thinking.
Finding Your Truth
So how do you get in touch with your Authentic Soul, the reason of your Being?
7 ideas to help you Change your Life:
- Question Your Thinking… When you have lost your joy of life, your thinking is usually out of alignment with truth. You’ll find the truth when you truly pay attention.
- Listen to the Kindness of your Heart. So often- our minds are the master of our lives. What if we turned that around?
- Mindfulness: Slowing down into the Moment to explore your sensory and emotional relationships. When we take the time to BE with reality, it’s easier to re-discover the joy and grace that has been there all along.
- Recognize your Inner Critic. How many times have the old beliefs that you heard growing up start repeating themselves in your head? Look now with fresh eyes and a fresh outlook.
- Invite Life to BE your teacher rather than trying to control life. There is no such thing as control so best to let go of that concept.
- Try positive statements while looking in the mirror that reflect your core qualities. So often people get the wrong message about who they are. Try out life affirmations and let them drop into your consciousness with awareness. For example, say, “I am beautiful”. And watch the negativity melt away as you stay firm in your intention to know the truth rather than the negative banter in your head.
- Ask for help. So many people have been told that it is important to do it alone. Well, that simply is not the truth. While I am not advocating becoming overly attached with boundary issues, I am suggesting that when you do feel limited, to explore outside the box. This is done by asking for guidance or having someone else lead you into a more wide spiritual realm of seeing things. We are not meant to be alone.
The Truth of Your Soul is that you are love. When all illusion is dropped, we will all hold hands as individuals living in harmony, but also being in peace simply because we know we are all part of the Creative Process of Being One in Unity.
The World of Duality is a challenging way to live. But by exploring life with openness and curiosity, one is able to raise the consciousness of darkness and expand all of life into the Light.
My Thoughts for the Day,
Sharon Hartnett LMT
(740) 966-5153