July 5th, 2007 Julie Onofrio
If you are a massage therapist you probably already know the limits of being able to practice and how it affects your income. You can only see so many people in a day or week. You can only charge so much -even if you have the highest hourly wages of $250 an hour or more the fact is that your income will be limited and dependent on your ability to work. If you aren’t working like when you are on vacation, get sick or need some personal time - you aren’t making money.
Developing multiple streams of income will allow you to have the independence to do what you want when you want. The way that I have found that allows me to follow my passions and make extra income (and almost a living!) is of course Site Build it!
Site Build It! is an all in one webhosting, webdesign, web business development tool that can allow you to help others more. How? By sharing what you know and what makes you feel alive.
It can be on any topic or concept you can dream up but the most important thing is that you are knowledgeable and passionate about it. Just take a look at what some others are doing in the proof section and case studies section. These are everyday people who have made the leap into developing multiple streams of income.
I myself have about 6 different sources of income and my goal is to have 10 by the end of this year and 20 by the end of next year:
- Google Adsense
- Kontera ads
- Amazon.com
- Site Build it! affiliate program
- Emotional Freedom Technique
- Rebuild Your Vision
The reason for having multiple streams of income is so that you can have more money and time to do what you really want to do - do massage. It allows you to do things like volunteer and start massage programs for those who need it and REALLY can’t afford it. ( I am not talking about people who say they can’t afford it and are driving a BMW!)
Making money with SBI is not a get rich quick scheme. It won’t happen overnight and it won’t be easy. You will have to put in some time writing and learning the SBI system (which is an ongoing and sometimes steep process but you are not alone- many others are doing the same and are sharing their experiences in the forums and helping each other.) Site Build it ! is also now being offered as University Classes. It is only a matter of time before it becomes a mandatory class for all students!
To read more about my experience with SBI or about what it can do for you just read the posts here on the blog or start with my website www.thebodyworker.com - Making a living online
SBI is on sale until tomorrow night - July 6th at midnight - Buy one get the second one for $100. You can have both websites for yourself -one for your massage practice and one to supplement your income or give one away as a gift to someone.
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July 5th, 2007 Julie Onofrio
Working as a massage therapist has ways of bringing out the best and worse in us. We are faced with the expectations of relieving pain and of knowing what a person should do. Massage school teaches us techniques to use to do just that. We take continuing education classes in techniques and theory.
We are trained in knowledge of anatomy and physiology and how massage affects the body and are taught to be authorities on the subject. Massage therapists are taught to fix and be responsible for others health or lack of it.
We work closely with people who are in pain which is usually much more than just a physical issue. As a result of such close encounters our lives are constantly touched which sometimes leads to our own wounds.
It isn’t so much what technique you use with a client but rather who you are as a person that will lead you to success in the massage profession. Being able to be with a client who is in pain and not give advise or try to fix -but just being present for the other and experiencing their presence and not just their symptoms allows a deeper level of healing to occur.
Our techniques are tools that allow us to communicate with the client. Working with different techniques with a client allows us to learn about ourselves. Taking a technique and making it your own requires that you take a look at what is in your heart and assimilate that technique into your own way.
The client really does not care much about the technique. They don’t care if they are getting cross fiber friction or if they are getting effleurage. They only care about how it feels.
Bevis Nathan in his book “Touch and Emotion in Manual Therapy” asks the question “What is it that heals - the technique and its tissue-specific physiological effects or the experience of being held/healed?”
“The intention of touch is to create a therapeutic physiological event in the tissues of the patient, and the rationale underlying the technique is physiological, kinetic or mechanical in nature. From the patients point of view, the touch has it’s roots in non-verbal communication or communion. She does not experience the touch as merely a technique or procedure on her body tissues, it involves her self. She is being held, cradled, stroked, caressed, valued, cared-for, healed”.
He goes on to say “If most therapeutic touches will evoke emotional responses in addition to mechanical ones, the question arises: which component is responsible for the healing?”
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July 2nd, 2007 Julie Onofrio
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July 2nd, 2007 Julie Onofrio
I am just about making a living online using the Google Adsense program and additional income from other affiliate programs.
After reading this article in the Seattle Times, I am convinced that I will soon be making more than a living!
The way Google Adsense works is that you get a free account with them that allows you to create blocks of advertisements and now blocks of referral ads. You can select the color, size and layout of the ad and whether or not you want video ads or just text ads. You can track each ad by formating what they call a channel so that you can track the results of the ad by placement, color or whatever. When someone clicks on the ads you get paid. When someone clicks on the referral ads and buys the product or signs up for the newsletter or whatever it is, you get paid again.
The whole basis for your success depends on the amount of content that you have (pages that you can put Google Ads on) and the amount of traffic you get. The way to build traffic is to write content and use Site Build It! (SBI)
SBI will teach you everything you need to know to be successful with Google Adsense or whatever monetization model you choose.
This is the last week for the SBI sale where you can buy one SBI system for $299 and get the second for $100. That means you can get one for your massage practice and one to brainstorm and create your site concept or niche on some topic that you love. I can help supplement your income greatly so that you can focus on what it is that you want to do - massage (or whatever it may be).
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July 2nd, 2007 Julie Onofrio
Empathy is one of the driving forces in a therapeutic relationship that happens between a massage therapist and their client.
Empathy is the ability to understand others in a deeper sense not only in acknowledging their pain or discomfort but actually taking it a step farther and sharing that pain with others. This requires that you have a deep understanding of yourself and be able to process the feelings that arise in you when you are dealing with someone who is in pain and not necessarily act in the way that the feeling pushes you to act.
Being able to stay present with the other person is one part of empathy. Our ability to provide empathy for another begins with being able to be empathetic with ourselves. If we don’t receive the empathy we need at an early age from others we begin to get an distorted view of who we are. If you laugh and no one laughs with you or if you cry and people tell you to get over it or grow up, you learn to stop expressing those feelings. As children we have no way of knowing what that it is ok to express those feelings. We start behaving in ways to please others rather than expressing our truth - our true self. When our feelings have been discounted at an early age, we begin don’t learn how to soothe ourselves and nurture ourselves. We don’t learn to vaulue ourselves.
Arthur Ciaramicoli and Katherine Ketchan in their book “The Power of Empathy” says
“We mirror back the neglect and inattention we were given and our focus remains on our own unmet needs and desires.”
The thing is that we often bring those unmet needs to the massage table and use the client to get them met in one way or another. Massage therapists who talk about their problems or do massage because they need to feel needed and validated as a person risk develping co-dependent relationships with a client that do not foster healing unless you can get to the other side of the codependence. Always wanting to give advice and be the expert takes away from the client’s ability to heal themselves. Fixing others takes the power away from the client.
The thing with empathy is that the only way we can get it from someone else is to first be empathetic towards others so that they can get the nurturing they need and give it back to you. This often requires going through a process of acknowledging the fact that you have been deeply hurt by not getting your needs met and learning to grieve the loss. It requires that you learn to provide empathy to yourself so that you can hold on to yourself more while others come to you in a state of neediness. It requires becoming more self aware and being able to see how you project these unmet needs on others.
It is a process of developing self esteem and learning to care for yourself in a deeper way than you ever thought. The book “The Power of Empathy” has some suggestions for practicing empathy. It requires that you learn honesty, humility, acceptance and gratitude among other things.
Joining or starting your own peer supervision group is a great way to learn more about giving empathy and receiving empathy.
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