Jack_verMieten

- I am always looking forward to the next adventure in life. Even the unknown ones because I believe every adventure or chapter in our lives have significance. Maybe we will be in a place of importance or meet a person of importance, or act in a way that will change something in the grand scheme of things for someone, maybe not quite like the Butterfly did in Ray Bradbury's " A Sound of Thunder." Providing massage definitely impacts at least two people's day; the client and myself and then and to an extent, everyone we encounter through the rest of the day and to an extent, however minuscule, the rest of our lives, so..what was the original question? Oh, YES I would miss it . I love rubbing someone down. I like the way it feels, the way it looks to see their skin shine in the low lighting and to feel it and watch it as I work it and as one example, break down the stress, the lactic acid and allow the muscle to replenish the oxygen it needs to do what it can do. very few jobs allow such a personal connection between client and service provider. Yes I will miss my masseur days but I can't wait to find out what I will replace it with!

- I will always be motivated to be a successful masseur. But success is a very subjective term. I see success as enjoying what I do, doing it well enough that people want to get massages from me, feel safe placing their body into my hands, My goal is for each client to enjoy the session, the health and mental benefits, and a strong desire to come back. I want to feel good about what I am doing. That I am always learning more about massage, studying the newest trends & techniques, trying new things, enhancing my abilities, learning to be a better masseur every day. My clients will help me do that. With the client feedback, I get. Ill know even when it isnt an intense therapeutic massage and what its right and what’s not right for my clients. Their feedback is valuable to me and might influence what I am going to do for the next client that comes through needing a massage. If I can continue to work on being successful and feeling good about what I’m doing, then yes, I’m a successful masseur.

- I do my best to map every massage in advance, based on what little I know about each client beforeI get together with them. I look at what they write and how they express themselves. I listen to the words that they say and their tone of voice if I talk with them before the event. If I am fortunate enough to see them before the session, I gather what I can from them visually. he massages I give are as unique as snowflakes. No two are the sameWhile my methods may be considered slightly unorthodox or even weird, I believe the sense of touch is an essential life need and provides an innate sense of security, community, and caring amongst many species. It is perfectly healthy, sane, and necessary, in my opinion, for people-kind in order to maintain our humanity. Only in the human species have a few misguided insecure idealogues found a way to attach some fear, loathing, and shame to it to make themselves feel superior. However, in doing so, have they have lost some humanity in themselves? I live my life the way I see fit. Not the way others think I should. Live and let live is a motto I will practice (although sometimes it is REALLY hard),for the rest of my life, God willing.