#6 What have you learned so far that has been unexpected? What did not surprise you? How have your ideas about massage therapy and massage school changed since the first day of class?
What I have learned that was unexpected? Is that I enjoy Western-style massage and have a deeper understanding of it. In all honesty, I was going to pay much attention to it. I started off in Eastern-style Massage I had no interest in learning western methods, I never like the western approach to thought and the body, and nature of the spirit is to remove their ideas unless you're religious. But now understand their needs a balance to have to view the healing work I would like to do. What surprised me is much more western and eastern methods can overlap and give an overall approach to healing the body. My ideas about massage as a therapy have not changed much, I would they expanded more changed, I accept new techniques and ideas. I only I think is maybe I should have waited so long to go massage, I put off for 20 years I study and tried friends and family, but this could a better way to stay independent and continue working my way through school then spend...