by SharonHartnett | Aug 17, 2015 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, Structural Integration
Avoiding your pain at all costs?
My guess is that most people would prefer not to feel their pain. It makes sense though, doesn’t it? Who would want to feel pain? Perhaps-that’s why we have so many defense mechanisms in place to supposedly protect us. We are like walking miracles where much of our pain is suppressed…. until it resurfaces or is found out!
Feeling Deeply into Pain to Heal
When people come in for a massage at my office, they are usually feeling some type of discomfort or pain that continues to call for attention. I often hear about chronic pain that doesn’t resolve and the stress and sleep deprivation that makes things even worst. My clients biggest wish is they would like to feel better. Yet, it’s hard to do this alone when we have learned to avoid our pain. Whether you go to a Massage Therapist, a Psychotherapist, a Chiropractor, whoever, it’s good to receive help from another perspective. You may not find the solution up front, but if you stay with it, and trust your own inner sense to guide you, you will get help that best suits your individual needs.
As a licensed Massage Therapist for 18 years, my observation after working with many clients, is that the truth is that the longer we are organized against feeling the “soft” pain, all the energy that is kept in protection to support this dynamic, starts to lose it ability to keep us separated from the pain. Eventually, the pain seeps through and one symptom start to show up, and another and another. Pain is only meant to be temporary to let us know when we are in real danger. Afterwards, we need to learn to shake it off or process it efficiently.
When I first started working, I was drawn toward Structural Integration Work, developed by Dr. Ida Rolf. When I received my first 10 sessions of this myofascial therapy, I felt great. In my thinking and experience, working with fascia became key to gaining a sense of wellbeing. Working with releasing dysfunctional fascial patterns has helped many of my clients release pain and find better posture. Then I found myself attracted to Energy Therapy. I know this sounds far out to many people, but in fact everything is made out of energy. Some people are born with a gift to perceive it and work with healing, and others can learn this. So I attended the Barbara Brennan School to study Brennan Healing Science. While there, I learned that soft pain was held in the Human Energy Field. There are many tools a “healer” can use to facilitate healing this way: clearing energy, charging the field, helping clients to awaken to their “Inner Wisdom”. As with most Massage Therapists, I went on to study another course to study “Hakomi” to add to my toolbox. Most of my class mates were Social Workers, Psychotherapists and such, but I enjoyed learning new and deeper skills to help people with emotional pain based on beliefs that were long held. Hakomi is an organic and gentle type of therapy that is kind and organic. The compassionate standpoint of this work has helped my clients try new things without any judgment or harshness. My last great passion was to study at the Upledger Institute, to gain a more extensive understanding of how to work with the brain, the Craniosacral System, and SomatoEmotional Release. With all of this and more said and done, what I have realized is that people have unique make-ups of how they run their living patterns. When they become stuck on one level, if it is not able to be cleared, pain stays in that system. So if someone truly wants to heal, they need to meet that place of suffering and/or pain with an open heart and a willingness to feel the “soft” pain in order to transform it.
Loving our pain is not a new concept, but I suppose most people might not have thought about it this way. All things are derived from Love. Our defenses only kick in because something is painful in the moment and we did not find a way to complete itself. Yet the mind, body, spirit connection is always waiting to complete itself into the next cycle of growth. So whether you come in and need deep fascial or muscle work, or light touch, give yourself a chance to work with a therapist long-term to explore your relationship to pain and finding ways to release it. In my opinion, the easiest way to feel good is to acknowledge what is present and feel it at your comfort level until the patterns dissolve. Using a SomatoEmotional approach can be very telling, as the body is always dialoguing what it needs, if we only listen and respect what is communicated.
Sometimes, during a first session, even after all this time, I am not spot-on, but I do learn something with every touch, sound, and exchange. I gain knowledge and compassion for the highest good of my clients on my table. So we try many different approaches to resolving pain issues, and happily I can say that I have seen many clients leave my office astounded by how much better they feel. But it’s important to remember that if you are just off the table, the endorphins will wear off, but if you stay with the clarity, staying committed to the work that is needed, and the homework that your MT’s give you, the long-term result are quite possible.
Remember: Love your pain because it is telling you something needs to be addressed. Something deeper than you probably know.
Imagine your life if you stopped thinking pain was “bad’ and learned to flow and dance with it in life.
It might actually change into something special!
Sharon Hartnett LMT
740 966-5153
www.massageincolumbusohio.com
by SharonHartnett | Jul 11, 2015 | Energy Healing, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit
Reiki is probably the most well known Energy Healing method in the US.
The reason for this is that Reiki is fairly easy to get an attunement for each of the first two levels with a week-end class. No previous experience with energy healing is necessary. Over 1 million people in the USA have received this ability transferred from Master Reiki teacher to student, so that they use Reiki on themselves or others as a healing modality. Practitioners of Reiki often feel a deep sense of relaxation and healing. The work is subtle and nourishing.
While I personally enjoy Reiki Treatments, I have found that there are many other schools of energy therapy out there that are quite supportive to the healing process as well. After researching, I decided to attend the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. It is a 4 year college program based in Florida founded on the work of Dr. Barbara Brennan, author of the books, “Hands of Light” and “Light Emerging”. It was there that I studied and eventually taught this amazing transformational work. Because I could see the benefits of Energy Therapy as well as working a program to help the Awakening process, I then studied the advance course for an additional 4 years. I soaked all of it in so that I could share these techniques with others. Brennan Healing Science® is a comprehensive program that teaches students to become compassionate healers to serve others on their path. And now- I like to incorporate this healing modality into my Craniosacral Therapy and Structural Integration sessions. It is a gentle hands-on healing process that has helped thousands of people across the world.
Reiki Energy Healing
In addition to Reiki, Brennan Healing Science®, while I was living in Florida, my friend Joann Rahl, introduced me to the https://www.seraphimblueprint.com. At first I didn’t think that is would be much with all my other training. But I still went, and was pleasantly surprised. It felt wonderful to sit in and receive the energetic initiations. I felt new frequencies opened up that I have added to my healing work through intention.
While this has been my path in studying and implementing energy healing, there are many other schools that are second generation, and are very appropriate to healing what is going on now here on earth.
I will say, that my experience has shown me over and over that we are energy being, with human energy fields. When we can align our auric fields, we can find deeper balance and move through life more effortlessly.
If you have an interest in Energy Healing, please go out and investigate. There is something waiting to help you open up the door.
Blessings,
Sharon Hartnett LMT, SI, CST, Brennan Healing Science®
740 966-5153
www.massageincolumbusohio.com
by SharonHartnett | Dec 9, 2014 | Energy Healing, healing, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
Brennan Healing Science® (BHS) is an Energy Therapy based on Healing Touch that brings us back to Source.
Activate healing by working with the 4 Dimensions of the Physical, Auric Field, Hara, and Core Star© Therapy. Discover how to Awaken to the Healing Essence of Life Within. Typically, Re-Connecting to the Deeper Potential of Human Purpose and Creativity through energy work will wake up your life. By working with a trained Brennan Healing Science® practitioner, you can expect to find a compassionate presence. Someone who will hold and guide you in the Light as you come into balance and re-alignment on many different levels. Often, disturbances in the energy field will release, often helping you to feel more clear and grounded. This brings new awarenesses that can help you to feel empowered and free.
A Healing Touch Energy Session can be as easy as using healing touch through a chelation- clearing, balancing and recharging the Human Energy Field© . From the Barbara Brennan School perspective, with this technique, the clients lies on a massage type table, fully clothed and relaxed. Starting at the feet and moving up toward the head, the healing touch is applied at certain points. Attention is specially focused on the chakras. Once the basic field is addressed, more in depth techniques may be used to clear up historical, lineage, trauma types of energy that is hindering your life. Other healing applications might include chakra rebalancing, spine cleaning, hara strengthening, astral clearing just to name a few. This dynamic hands-on healing system is a wonderful opportunity to gain a deeper sense of self and facilitate the awakening of the mind, body & spirit connection.
Energy Healing
Barbara Brennan Graduate
While each client has his or her own unique experience, below are some of the benefits you may experience during the course of or even after a BHS session.
• Increased sense of well-being or feeling lighter
• Deep states of relaxation
• Heightened clarity and focus
• Balancing of the body systems resulting in a feeling of being grounded in the physical body
• Increased energy and vitality
• A sense of safety to express feelings and thoughts
• Conscious awakening and mindfulness
• Renewed sense of self-acceptance and opening to personal power
• Reduced stress and increased pleasure
• Healing and transformation of relationships
• Healing of chronic conditions
• Deeper contact to creative movement and expression
• Personal evolution
• Ability to heal more quickly
• Recovery from trauma
• Sense of life purpose and alignment with life task
• Reversal of the dis-ease process
Brennan Healing Science® Practitioners respect your fundamental personal journey. As healers, we maintain a level of integrity that serves the Highest Good in each session. Our mission is to guide and support you in your sacred journey of transformation.
Healing Touch through the Energy Field is based on something as old as time- interconnection. Yet the foundation of this work is on the edge, as more and more people are enjoying a more mindful way of living with the help of Brennan Healing Science®.
If you are living in Columbus, Ohio and are interested in a session, please call Sharon Hartnett LMT at 703 509-1792 or check out the following website: www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com. She is a graduate of the 4 year Professional Practice program as well as a previous faculty member. With over 25 years of training and experience with energy healing touch, she offers a free 15 minute one time consultation to answer questions.
For more information of Energy Healing, check: www.barbarabrennan.com
by SharonHartnett | Jan 17, 2014 | Energy Healing
Energy Healing
The Barbara Brennan School has been thriving for over 25 years, bringing healing and integrative transformation to each individual student, graduate, the community of the Sacred Human Heart, and all clients touched by these healers.
Graduates are spread across the globe in fields of private integrative health care, reaching people through music and arts, integrating healing into corporate environments, and currently in hospital rooms. Our intention as a school is to teach, learn and grow in order to make this planet a better place left by our footprints of life’s experiences. As part of the intensive curriculum, students must work on their own process and healing in order to reach out and help others. By opening and cleaning ourselves, we open the life force to move freely and to heal. Healers are here to help you to find your sense of health, purpose and potential!
Question: Are you wanting to heal yourself? Have you felt like you have searched but found no answers to your deepest prayers? Is it possible to open up to the vast intelligence of Being to integrate into Wholeness and Health? Is it time for you to allow a paradigm shift to help you expand beyond your current way of living?
There are many Barbara Brennan Healers available to assist you on your healing journey!
We are dedicated to our work and to connecting its benefits to all who all who come our way. For many of us who have practices, it is our job to facilitate your process and help you uncover the Truth of your Being. We are trained to be present, supportive and confidential in our work. With over four years of study, we know how to perceive the Human Energy Field, how to correct and balance the system, and to lead the client’s own intelligence to self-correct and find alignment. We work privately and also often with full healing teams in the medical field to help you achieve your goals.
If I have your attention now… if something is interesting to you, then I invite you to check the Barbara Brennan School for a graduate in your area. We are thrilled to bring our energy healing work out into the world. We want to make sure you know about us so that we can serve for the Highest Good. Also, a new website is coming alive for all the different Country Associations. Stand by for information coming your way.
In Columbus, Ohio, there are plenty of graduates to choose. But as you have found me, Sharon Hartnett LMT., I’d invite you to call me for a free 15 minute telephone consultation. I have been practicing energy work for over 15 years, studied at the Barbara Brennan School and am a former faculty member there. I love this work as I have seen people go through extraordinary changes as they commit to their mind body & spirit journey.
Healing through the Human Energy Field
Brennan School of Healing
For more information, look at www.massageincolumbusohio.com
or call Sharon Hartnett LMT in Columbus, Ohio:
740 966-5153
by SharonHartnett | 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.
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
