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

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

Give Yourself the Best: Why Not?

by SharonHartnett | Jul 23, 2024 | Energy Healing, mindfulness

,What is the Best Life You Can Live?

First, in your best life, you would have to know what you want, and what you deserve. I am not necessarily speaking about material things, although those can be part of the equation. But those things are the afterthought.

What truly matters for you when you get down to the nuts and bolts? Imagine in the future, after a life well lived. What would be the most important thing on your mind and in your heart when you look backwards? What made that heart of yours transform into something better, more vital and full of love? What experience made your heart feel like singing?

In this physical life, it is true that we need the basics to exist. We need food, water, a shelter and such. But the next stage after existence leads us more into passion and into healthy relationships. We all deserve more than just existing. Although to exist is a priviledge indeed.

As people, we have the potention to sense and to feel so many things. The significance is in the experience which brings us more meaning. Much more than any objects beyond what it takes for us to live in sustainability. It’s in our growth through reaching out, learning and taking the essence of life back into our deepest core where we stir the deepest internally.

This is a short post, an invitation, to remember to question values and what contributes to living the best life one can. While life circumstances help shape us, it’s up to us, through intention and our choices and actions, where we will end up, and how we decided to live. What can be better than to Live Our Best Life. Knowing that we always have a choice.

Your best life is right now. Take that mountain of past experiences, and chose wisely your next step. At the end, that is what will count. That is what we will remember in the end when we leave with nothing else.

Joy to you! Some poems about life.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D
703 509-1792
www.craniosacralatherapistcolumbus.com

6797 N. High St. #333

Worthington, Ohio 43085

Chronic Pain: A Treatment Which Could Change Your Life

by SharonHartnett | Jul 14, 2024 | craniosacral, Craniosacral Therapy, Energy Healing, fibromyalgia, healing, upledger institute

Are You Suffering from Chronic Pain?

Chronic Pain is a persistent state When pain lasts longer than 3 months it’s considered chronic pain.

Chronic Pain shows up in the body in people dealing with; arthritis, cancer & its’ treatments, headaches & migraines, nerve damage, lyme desease, people surviving traumas, and fibroymalgia. The list goes on.

I had had clients go to their doctors and the best thing that is offered are medications. While medication has it’s place and can be helpful, there is also an integrative approach that can be more holistic. Looking at the whole person is key to helping people deal with chronic pain on a daily basis. Having a healing team to support is vital.

As a Craniosacral Therapist, what we offer is a “Listening” to the Body’s Craniosacral System. There are rhtyms and pulses that we feel. Our hands are directed toward toward the key essence places in the essence of your nervous system. To me, it feels like everyone has a deep well of resource inside that knows how to get the body feeling better. All it needs is a nudge. The body knows what to do next.

My job as a Craniosacral Therapist is to support and help your own healing abilities to bring about self-correction and self-healing. Your body on some level has chosen to go awry. And it also needs to learn to return back to health the best it can in order for you to feel better in your body.

When the internal environment of your body is functioning better through manual work, if opens a window. But also we must look at other things like life style, nutrition and the external environment in which you live too. How is your mental state? Because often people feeling chornic pain are anxious and live in depression.

I really wished we had a health care system that looked at the whole person. We deserve a better model to really see us and acknowledge our pain. But even more importantly, we need a team of people to help us to optimize our own inner resources to turn things around. Begin where you can.

I will say, as being one part of the cogency, that I do see improvement in people who come to see me quite reqularly. With the somatoemotional support they are experiencing their connection to the whole more fully. They can feel this mentally, emotioanlly and also physically.

While Chronic Pain is a continuing set of symptoms. Craniosacral Therapy can enhance a person’s wellbeing. Get support. It can change your life!

For more information on Craniosacral Therapy, check out the Upledger Page.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

6797 N. High St. Worthington, Ohio 43031

How to Revive Your Digestion Health: Discover Visceral Manipulation

by SharonHartnett | Jul 11, 2024 | craniosacral, Craniosacral Therapy, Energy Healing, healing

Are You Experiencing Digestion Issues?

No Relief For Digestion Issues?

There are many digestion conditions that affect adults, and children too. The American diet has changed dramatically over the years, and the human body was not meant to consume the food that is being sold at grocery stores anymore. Reading a label may help but we still have no idea exactly what is being put into our foods. Which chemicals are being added, how is it genetically altered, and how it is being processed is a mystery. So we have that. Our bodies are just not getting the best nutrition they need, and overloads of chemicals, unhealthy bacteria and parasites can wreak havoc on our internal environment.

Another issue that causes problems in the digestive process is that the organs can lose their motion and motility from unhealthy diets, and also from trauma (like a car accident with a seatbelt pressing hard) or through habitual habits. The positive response to this though is to find a Visceral Manipulation Therapist from the Barral Institute who use their specialized techniques to help release organs to be freed back into healthy motion. With a healthy nudge or encouragment, things can start to turn back on. A healthy organ is living, dialoguing, and sliding against other living things inside our bodies. Functionality of the different digestion organs can dramatically improve after just one session. Movement is Life!

As a Craniosacral Therapist, I incorporate the Visceral Manipulation into sessions. With so many people coming in with Gerd, IBS, chronic constipation or diarrhea and such, visceral manipulation can be a great resource for healing. I also recommend seeing a naturopath or a functional physician to adddres the nutrition aspect of your healing journey. Each body is different based on genetics and life experience. You deserve have your body understood and your health issues addressed holistically. You deserve to take the time to have your real needs met.

Visceral Manipulation is an excellent modality to help the digestion in the liver, the stomach, the pancreas and all the viscera in the abdominal area. It’s also helful for women’s health issues in the pelvis and also the thoracic region and head too.

If you would like to learn more about Visceral Manipulation, contact the Barral Institute. If you live in the Columbus , Ohio area, contact Sharon Hartnett CST-D to try a session!

Sharon Hartnett CST-D
703 509-1792
www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

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