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Do you often feel a need to have
an answer for every question that your client has about their health and
life?
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Do you feel uncomfortable when a
client expresses their feelings or the client has an emotional release?
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Do you have a difficult time
seeing people in pain and feel that is your responsibility to make it better
or fix it?
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Do you have a specific religious
affiliation that you feel everyone must know about?
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Do you often see the problems of
others more clearly than you own?
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How did you help in your family
situation? What role did you have in your family?
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Did you often find people drawn
to you to tell you their problems?
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Do you feel like you always need
to be available to your clients (and friends/family)?
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Do you often find yourself
telling clients to stretch, eat better, take better care of themselves and
realize that you don't do that for yourself?
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Do you often find yourself
telling clients your personal problems?
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Do you feel like you need to
make a difference in your clients lives and in the world?
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Do you often put others needs
before your own?
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Do you feel guilty if you can
not reduce or eliminate a client's pain or injury?
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Do you feel like your clients
have a higher status due to income, gender or profession?
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Do you constantly look for new
techniques that will treat the physical symptoms of clients?
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Do you feel unappreciated when
clients don't give back to you? Do you feel you get enough just from giving?
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Do you feel it is always better
to give than to receive no matter what the cost?
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Do you feel guilty charging for
your services?
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Do you find yourself taking on
the symptoms of the clients and find yourself over-identifying with their
pain?
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Do you often put off getting
care for yourself? Weekly massages, peer groups.
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Do you feel depressed when your
schedule is not full?
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Do clients often trigger feelings
in you?
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Do you often find your mind
wandering during a session? ( What will I have for lunch? What am I
going to do about this?)
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Do you charge lower rates,
thinking that people can't afford your services or do you charge what you
need to make a living?
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Do you feel like every disease,
condition, injury or problem can be helped with massage?
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Do you feel like there is
competition among massage therapists?
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Do you often feel you don't have
the necessary financial resources and enough time to take care of yourself?
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When you do take time to get a
massage, do you find yourself analyzing the session rather than just letting
yourself experience the session?
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Do you often feel you are the
only one who can help your clients and others?
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Have you ever taken time off and
had feelings of separation anxiety from your clients?
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What does it feel like when you
are fixing a client?
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What does it feel like when you
are facilitating healing?
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How does fixing serve the client?
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How do you facilitate healing?
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How do you fix clients?
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Do you find yourself giving your advice
when the client hasn't asked for it?
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Do you get discouraged when clients
symptoms seem worse or don't get any better?
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What does facilitating healing
mean to you?