Part of being a great massage therapist is your ability to focus on the solutions when working with clients. One of the ways to do this is to be a great listener.
If you focus on the problem – the back pain, the stress what you will be promoting is more pain and stress. That seems very basic.
When it comes to promoting your practice, consider doing the same. The problem is that you are lacking in clients or enough money to do the marketing you need to do to get the clients. Worrying about this puts you on the vicious circle – no clients, no money, no marketing, no clients, no money, no marketing…well you get the idea.
What is the solution? Start wondering about how you can find clients that you need? Start wondering about how you can make the money that you need to take care of yourself and your family. Start wondering about what marketing you can do right now- this minute.
Can you call a friend who was always saying they wanted a massage? Can you ask your family and friends to come in for a massage? Are you willing to work for free and put your all into doing each massage to see where it will take you? You say you want to be doing massage but when you start thinking you only want to do massage to make money, it sets you up to start worrying about the money rather than focusing on what you do best – massage.
I was reading a marketing book once (I can’t remember which book) but the idea was to offer Free massages for a month or whatever it takes until you get the cash clients. This involves really having passion for wanting to do massage. It is the passion that will sustain you. Right now you might be thinking about what you will be eating and how you will be paying the bills. Part of the law of attraction states that you need to trust that you are doing the right thing.
It also goes back to the story of the guy in the movie “The Pursuit of Happyness”. Would you give up everything you know and love in order to get what you desire? Do you feel the same way about massage as this guy did about becoming a stock broker. (If you haven’t seen the movie the idea is that what are you willing to do to make your dreams come true? How much passion do you have for doing massage? Is it enough to sustain you through hardships and making tough choices.)
So back to focusing on the solution. What is the solution for getting the clients that you need? It starts with knowing exactly what you want. Every last detail of your practice. Start with visualizing what you want. Then notice what feelings are coming up. When you think of all of these ideas and things does it make your heart sing? or are you feeling overwhelmed and saying yeah but I don’t have any time to do this or I don’t have any money to make this happen. While it may be true that you are lacking in funds, there are ways of getting the money you need and there are ways of doing things that don’t require much money. If your thoughts are on the ‘yeah, buts’ you aren’t clear on what you want to be doing.
Getting clear is a matter of clearing up those ‘yeah, buts’. Where is that little voice coming from? Who was it that taught you that you weren’t good enough or smart enough to do the things you want to do? What belief do you have about yourself that is telling you you aren’t good enough or that you have to do things to please others rather than yourself? (I guess I also just jumped into another category – the I want to take care of others so they won’t leave belief.)
Uncovering the beliefs underneath your thinking requires that you become aware of what it is that you are thinking. To do that all you need to do is start being aware of your feelings. Your feelings are what will tell you what you are thinking. If you are feeling anything but joy, love and happiness, you are operating on your false beliefs that you created at an early age to survive. The good news is that you can change what you are thinking to change the way you are feeling.
Studying and learning to apply the law of attraction is nothing more than the process of awakening your consciousness- becoming more aware of your thoughts, feelings and beliefs and learning to make different choices about what you are thinking and feeling and changing your beliefs. You can start learning more about this at my site www.learn-the-law-of-attraction-secret.com (which is really just starting out and no where complete, but you can start reading some of the free ebooks that are online on this topic and start creating the practice of your dreams and desires.
