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Releasing Pain

Releasing Pain

by | Oct 9, 2013 | Energy Healing, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit

How do you react to pain?

Do you try to avoid it? In order to release pain from the physical body, one has to become mindful of his/her internal environment. Because pain is a signal to help us understand that something is distorted, we must learn to listen to resolve deep underlying issues. Our bodies and the world we live in are constructed out of the creative energy pulse of the Universe. We are Energy Beings. When we allow things to flow, we are in health. When we resist, fight against harshly, we block ourselves from the Source of Life. Healing may help the body to recover from serious illnesses, and miracles do happen. But more importantly, the soul will come to peace much easier when we bring awareness to our sensations, feelings, hearts and minds. Sitting in the mystery of our humanity and living fully brings true peace and harmony.

Releasing Pain

Living in Columbus, Ohio

Have you been suffering?  Nobody can fix that, but with help…we at Lighten Up Therapies in Columbus, Ohio, can support you on your journey to wellness and health.  We facilitate your inner light to self-correct and enhance your body systems.

Sharon Hartnett LMT is a Professional Energy Healer. She studied 8 years at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and went on to teach at the school.  Sharon loves working with and teaching  healing work through mindfulness of the human energy field.  She has also had a private practice with Structural Integration, as a Certified Advanced Craniosacral Therapist through the Upledger Institute.  Call Sharon at 740 966-5153 for an in person appointment or for a long distance healing session.

Healing is actually evolving into your True Potential.  More can be found in Self-Discovery than look outward for your answers.  Yet relationships in the most positive sense will help you to embrace your experiences with more vitality and meaning.  We are all part of the Source in its Creative Wave.

www.massageincolumbusohio.com

 

 

 

Open Your Heart with Horses

Open Your Heart with Horses

by | Oct 8, 2013 | animal therapy

Judgement often keeps us from opening our hearts fully and compassionately.

How can we rediscover our inner joy and happiness?

Resourcing the wisdom of horses can reflect back the pure essence of “allowing”.  Working with our equine friends gives us an opportunity to think more freely and reflect on our habitual thinking patterns and behaviors with more clarity and compassion. Moving beyond words, and tasting life from an equine perspective often gives us insight into the constant flow of life.  When we interact with horses and nature, it is much easier to trust what is real and to allow the way of the Sacred.

Open the doorway to Nature.   Let the horses lead the way, if only for a day.

Equine Therapy

Relating to the Herd

Equine Therapy in Columbus, Ohio

Equine Therapy in Columbus, Ohio

by | Sep 29, 2013 | animal therapy, Energy Healing, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit

Horses…  Equine Therapy is becoming more popular in Columbus, Ohio

Following a Dream for a Grassroots movement toward personal and community growth and healing…

Massage in Columbus
Opening Your heart and minds through inter-species communications.

 

For many years, I had a dream to move somewhere where there was land, open sky, green grass and a change of seasons. My husband and I looked up and down the east coast from Florida to Maine, and then considered going westward to our old stomping grounds near Denver.  So we were very surprised when we discovered a nice little farm right outside of Columbus, Ohio that called to our hearts.  This farm was very close to where I attended the Ohio State University, and only a few hours away from where we were born. As soon as we situated ourselves, and with horses already on the land, I started to realize how happy I felt in their presence. Whether with one horse at a time or walking within the herd, my heart began to open and I felt great.  My appreciate for nature and all that it has been teaching me here on the farm is constantly bringing me more depth and growth on so many different levels.

So here I am, enjoying the early morning light pouring in and feeling at home with the tractor out in the fields and the gorgeous maple and walnut trees outside my windows.  I am excited to spend part of this Sunday focusing on creating my new Integrative Equine Therapy Business that is being developed one step at a time.  For the last 6 months, I have been researching Equine Therapy and have been thrilled to see that there has been some great success with these programs in the Columbus area.  I have found that that there are programs lent towards personal discovery, mental and behavior issues, job skills, social team building, sensory impairment, terminal illness and so much more.  Most of them are non-profit and based on utilizing the community resources for the betterment of individuals and groups.  My hope is to add this farm to the list of successful businesses interested in making their homes, stables and communities a place where we can contribute and make this world a better place to live. My hope is to bring meaning into a world where so much is Unknown and Unexperienced.

With this new Equine Therapy Program, my dream is to create a grassroots program where local people get involved and use their talents to produce an experiential approach to health and wellbeing. We will hold an intention to learn about ourselves through interactions with our equine friends, the horses here on the property and with those that visit.  My vision may be a little different than others.  While I admire what is already in existence, I’d like to take a more holistic apporach. From a bodyworker perspective, I find that dialoguing with horses in a therapeutic setting can  have a dramatic effect on how we feel in our bodies, as well as emotionally, in our thinking…hearts, and with our spirituality.  So this program will be a Holistic model meant to enhance all those aspects of our lives for who participate.  Included, we will offer integrative services such as education,  bodywork, acupuncture, energy healing, psychotherapy, meditation, women’s groups, corporate leadership programs, 1:1 therapy work as we grow.  These modalities will be part of the program  to strengthen and educate people about the connection between humans and our equine friends.  Indeed, with mutuality with animals and nature, we learn to live more consciously in harmony and unity.

In the last couple months, I have been studying with a very wonderful and insightful woman named Jackie Stevenson, the founder and CEO of “Spirit of Leadership LLC” about how to lead companies and individuals to coach and educate equine participants in individual and group dynamics”.  It has been an enlightening experience and I am highly anticipating my future in sharing her work along with my other skills in the near future.  I remember the first day I went there and she asked us to go out into the field and spend time with the herd.  I thought to myself after standing there for an hour, “what the heck am I doing standing out here with these horses”.  But then the land and the trees began to swallow me up and I felt myself grounding down and opening to so much more than my usual daily life.  Ever since that first day, I have looked forward to the next class.  My relationship with each horse and the group is awakening me to so many new possibilities and intimacies.  I feel met in a comprehensive way. In the meantime, I have been questioning and implementing some of Jackie’s ideas and techniques into my already strong foundation in the field of Healing Education.  For sure, the herd is based on inclusivity.  However, in order for people to come together in an order that work, a learning process takes place.  It often takes patience and observation to find out how to fit in and make something work successfully.  

I am thrilled to be part of the Cleveland Community, and furthering the process of bringing something similar to the Columbus, Ohio area.  Our equine friends, and also all other aspects of nature and inhabitants on this planet have something to offer.  We live on a planet where mutual compassion and understanding can help us to find confidence and thrive in a land that is meant to be heaven.  Earth is our home, and we all have each other.  

I am planting seeds wherever I go with my ideas and enthusiasm.  I am reaching out and asking for help and participation for whoever has a gift or a challenge that they would like to offer.  

If this sounds good to you, give me a call upon this invitation, and let me know your interests and how you might want to participate.

Warmly,

Sharon  Hartnett LMT

614 653-8111

Craniosacral Therapist

Structural Integration Therapist

Hakomi Practitioner

Former Faculty at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing

Group Leader and Facilitator

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Animal and Equine Therapy

Craniosacral Massage, the Gentle Healing Therapy for Wellbeing

Craniosacral Massage, the Gentle Healing Therapy for Wellbeing

by | Sep 28, 2013 | Craniosacral Therapy

Why Choose Craniosacral Massage?

     Craniosacral Therapy is gentle and effective.

Gentle Touch

Touching into the Intelligence of Life

 

Often clients who find their way into my Craniosacral Therapy (CST) office are frustrated because they have searched for help elsewhere without much success regarding their health and wellbeing.

In this blog, I won’t claim that CST is going to fix everything in one session.  Nothing I know of can.  But what CST does do is listen to the Craniosacral rhythm and help awaken the natural healing energy in your body to your benefit.  Your body knows how to heal and that intelligence Within leads a CST Therapist through the session to support healthy movement and integration.  If you are a person who is overstressed, gradually you will begin to relax and re-center.  If you are a person who has low energy, the nervous system usually picks up and helps you to feel more alive.  With issues of  nerve compression or stuckness in your body, the gentle techniques may remind your body how to release and open up to its natural organic functioning ability.  Some of my clients with MS feel more connected, others with learning challenges such as ADHD and dyslexia find more clarity,  one client I had with fibromyalgia felt much more free and comfortable in her body. It’s the body’s own healing ability that begins to resolve longstanding issues.

Through our studies at the Upledger Institute, we learn many skills to work with the Cranial System and the many aspect of healthy living , but our clients are our best instructors.  Believe it or not, your body is always searching to find balance and health.  We are trained at the Upledger Institute to follow a basic 10 step protocol.  But as our experience increases, we learn to blend those skills with objective listening and a more free form type of session. For example,  you might find the first session to be a general listening beginning at the feet and moving up toward the head, but by the third or fourth visit, once a deeper relationship is established, the dialogue runs the session verses the fundamentals.  We follow the CST and the energy and see where it leads. It’s an incredible experience to trust this profound process of healing.

I love being a Craniosacral Therapist.  I feel better after each session because it gives me a structure to be mindful, in respect, and using my skills to promote Health.  It is my sacred time as it is yours to be in a relationship for the highest good.  Sometimes, whether therapist or client, we need to set aside time to have the intention to be at our very best.That’s why I offer sessions and make sure that I continually receive support myself. We are all in the cycle of life together, and it is in working together that we feel our best.

If you have any questions about Craniosacral Therapy, please feel free to call me for a free 15 minute consultation: 

(614) 372-6598 

Warmly,

Sharon Hartnett LMT 

https://www.massageincolumbusohio.com/craniosacral-therapy-2/

The Creative Healing of Touch through Massage Therapy

The Creative Healing of Touch through Massage Therapy

by | Sep 16, 2013 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K

Massage Therapy is an Artistic and Healing Expression of Touch ~

Massage in Columbus

Release your tension and find your Inner Creativity

When I work with a client, I feel the artistic flow of life move through my hands. As I listen to your movement and vitality, my inner intelligence as a Creative Therapist, finds a way to make contact and awaken the life force.  When two come into unity, something new is remembered.  A spark lights up in the space of emptiness and creation redefines itself, if only for a moment before shifting again.

The tissues of the body respond well to Massage dialoguing.   

I can feel the tension let go with my clients as they breath and feel more deeply into Self.  

Are you ready to get more in touch with your Creative Force?  Working together as a team can shift things by tapping into your unlimited healing potential!

Let Massage Therapy and Bodywork open you up into Deeper Relaxation and more Energy.  

Integrating theThe Mind Body Spirit Connection

For more information, call:

Sharon Hartnett LMT  

(740) 966-5153

https://www.massageincolumbusohio.com/energy-therapy/

Stress is Your Reaction to Life… Want to Turn Things Around?

Stress is Your Reaction to Life… Want to Turn Things Around?

by | Sep 8, 2013 | Massage, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, thought for the day

Often we believe that circumstances outside ourselves is what causes Stress.  But nothing can really stress you out beside what you are thinking and feeling.  If you want to let go of stress, begin with you:)

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Massage can help relieve stress~

Turning Things Around:

1.  One of the best ways to let go of stress is to learn how to be mindful about your experiences.  Take the time to listen to your body and to feel deeply into the moment.  Be curious about how you are relating to your environment and what triggers your stresses. Observation, Experiencing and being in Inquiry can be a powerful tool to change what is happening just in itself.

2.  Set up time for Self-Care.  Find and Do things that feel nourishing to you.  This is not about looking outward for the answer, but rather noticing your relationship to pleasure and joy and indulging in it without becoming attached. Stay in the flow of harmony and kindness as all things pass.  As you begin to touch into your own light,  you create pathways to the Source Within.  Once the door is open, it is easier to step into your essence.

3.  Exercise.  You will never know how much better you can feel until you dedicate yourself to an exercise routine.  It doesn’t matter what you choose to do as long as you enjoy yourself and try different things.  It’s important to move in various ways rather than in repetitions.  Your sense of Self is intelligent, and if you listen carefully, you’ll find a way to move that feels healthy for you.

4.  Choose Love first.  When we move our attention to our heart rather than our brains, it’s easier to move more into compassion for ourselves and others.  The sense of being right trails far behind regarding what benefits our health once you experience the shift of love.  Love makes everything easier when we drop our negative thinking.

5.  Massage, Craniosacral Therapy and Healing Work offers a great opportunity to reduce stress.  When your body feels relaxed and you experience healthy relationship during your treatment time, stress seems to dissolve.  Often people get off the table with a totally new outlook on life.

Stress may be inherent in your system, but you are empowered to change that all around.  Your choices will make all the difference.  Lead your life in a way that feels supportive and healthy to you.  You deserve that!  

For more about Craniosacral Therapy, Massage and Healing work, check out my website: 

https://www.massageincolumbusohio.com/energy-therapy/

Warmly,

Sharon Hartnett LMT

 

Create the Life You Want

Create the Life You Want

by | Sep 3, 2013 | thought for the day

So What are you going to Create today?  

Healing

Unleash Your Potential

You are what you believe yourself to Be…   Trying to find yourself is the beginning of the journey.  But when all is said and done, acknowledging yourself as you are fully and intentionally will empower you create more effectively.

Create!

Sharon Hartnett LMT

Sharing the Work of Dr. Barbara Brennan, by Sharon Hartnett LMT

Sharing the Work of Dr. Barbara Brennan, by Sharon Hartnett LMT

by | Sep 2, 2013 | Energy Healing, healing, healthy, Healthy Body, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit

Over the last few decades, Dr. Barbara Brennan has seen her healing techniques and teachings spread across the globe, touching the lives of many students, clients, and people who have attended her school and/or studied her books, “Hands of Light” and Light Emerging”.  

Her four year program at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing” has continued to provide a sanctuary for people from all aspects of life in which to learn about healing and how their personal healership can support positive change in the world.There is no other setting quite like this school that can offer such a profound sense of community, bent in service to the Higher Purpose of Life.  BBSH is a unique container of intentional movement toward the evolution of the human Spirit.

Barbara Brennan Hands of Light

As a graduate of the school, I’d like to share some of my insights into the many benefits of attending this school:

A little bit about the school from a graduate’s perspective: The school is based on a four year curriculum, planned out to promote self awareness and energy transformation. In the most simple terms, the first year is very gentle and explorative in a nurturing sense.  It is an opportunity to gain better understanding of Self, and how our Human Energy Field operates. As one approaches the second a year, a different template of energy is held to deepen into our whole sense of Self by further exploring our dualistic beliefs, wounding, defense systems and how we create conflict and resolve issues in our relationships. In my opinion, this year often opens us up to aspects of self where we dared not look in a long time. However, as we learn to listen to our Higher Selves, we gain insights from our darkness, and the light begins to shine brighter and brighter revealing our true natures. The third year takes us on another turn.  This year challenges us to examine our relationship with God.  Often authority issues are revealed and our limited thinking is dropped to open us to be more closely aligned with the Divine Mind. One learns to restructure chakras, to hold the 5th level of the energy field and so much more. Finally, when one enters the fourth and last year, the students take the time to write a research project and present a Case Study. This last year pulls the work together through working with the intention of Hara and rediscovering the Core Star connection we each have to the Divine.

To enter this portal of deep transformation and change, one has to be very committed. One has to learn to trust that by letting go of our old paradigms, that new wisdom and light will lead the way through our darkest trials. Students learn to recognize their strategies and defenses that no longer serve. With all pretenses dropping away, we have learned to become transparent and reconnected to the Whole. Even after graduation, we continue to question and explore in the dance of the Light , opening our hearts and our minds.

Most people who graduate, take the work they have learned from Barbara Brennan, her teachers and community out into their regular daily lives. But something integral to our way of Being has shifted. As we continue to use the skills, we weave our insights and essence into everything around us. We wake up to Source in everything we see with fresh eyes.  Blocks that once held us frozen still dissolve easily, and the passage of life is easier to transverse.

I am not going to say that going the Barbara Brennan School of Healing is an easy journey. But it is a journey worth taking. The curriculum and support that show up at the school will help to heal your deepest wound.  It will help you to navigate through life with more ease and grace. It will loosen your ties to the past and free you up to live more fully with Presence in the Moment.

Dr. Barbara Brennan dedicated her life to teaching and sharing her work. The Template of study and experience will dramatically change how you view life no matter how you look at it.  If you are wanting to discover your True Essence, this is the place to start.  If you want to look toward doing healing work with others out in the world, this school will give you the tools and Presence. Open up to your deepest longing and allow this community to support you in rediscovering your potential and True Self.  Your beliefs are not you. You are so much more than you ever imagined yourself to be.  

A Brennan Healing Science graduate Page… www.professionalbrennanenergyhealing.com.

For more information on Energy Healing, follow this thread the the bottom of the page…https://www.massageincolumbusohio.com/energy-therapy/

To learn more about the school, check out:  www.barbarabrennan.com

 

Sharon Hartnett LMT,  Brennan Healing Science Graduate, BIP, Supervisor and  Former Faculty.   

Columbus, Ohio     703 509-1792

 

Mindfulness with Massage

Mindfulness with Massage

by | Sep 2, 2013 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K

Is your mind going 1000 miles per hour when what you really need is to relax?

One way to receive massage is to just allow touch to carry you away. And it often does.  However, at Lighten Up Therapies, we often get clients who just don’t know how to unwind and may need some help.

By bringing mindful awareness to touch and exploring your experience during your massage, the body sends messages to the brain that may help you to reframe or reorganize patterns of thinking and feeling.  This sacred space lends to releasing and renewal in so many ways.  People often feel re-energized and more centered after a session at Lighten Up Therapies, here in Columbus, Ohio.

mind body soul

Awareness

It is also very helpful to take meditation home and make it a daily practice.  This can be achieved by:

1.  Be curious. Stay in a mode of asking.

2.  Observe what is happening in the moment. Be as objective as possible with this practice.

3.  Experience life as it is.  Acknowledge your perceptions and sensations.  Be authentic in your intention.

Using these skills can help you to calm and move through anything that is negatively affecting you in your life.

A helpful article I found on mindfulness was in the AMTA archives.  If you are interested to learn more about meditation, check out: 

https://www.amtamassage.org/articles/4/eTouch/detail/2785

Sharon Hartnett LMT is trained in Hakomi, Somato-Emotional Release (SER) through the Upledger Institute, and in Trauma work, studying under well-known therapist Pat Ogden, author of “Trauma and the Body”.