So many people are talking about spirituality, doing spiritual work and having spiritual experiences and get the word spiritual confused with something religious.

All spiritual really means is that it is coming from your soul. Spiritual work and relationships are about doing work for the purpose of learning about yourself and becoming more aware of you self. It is about wanting to learn about yourself and deepening your relationship with yourself. It is about wanting to heal those places in your personality through the process of your work or relationship.

Spirituality is about learning to become more aware of what you are thinking and feeling and being more present in your massage practice and life.

Many people choose the massage profession as another way of becoming more aware of themselves. The process of massage school does that just by the fact that you have to get massage yourself and have to learn to touch people who are strangers and almost naked.

While I am sure there are some people who would deny that massage is a spiritual experience, I think they are just getting hung up on the semantics of it all.

The Spirit of Massage - Massage Today Retta Flag

“I was talking to a colleague one day, and he mentioned that he liked Thai massage best because it was the most spiritual technique he’d learned. I stood there and thought, “But they are all spiritual.” For me, touch is a sacred act.”

The Art of Being Grounded - Massage Today

Touching Heaven - By David Lauterstein Massage and Bodywork

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