Intuitiflow: The Effortless Life of Intuitive Flow

How many times per day do you think you say "Hi, how are you doing?" How many times per day do you think you say "Hi, how are you doing?" and actually mean it? Our culture has taken this meaningful, and deeply personal question, and made it one of the most surface level things you can say to another person.  We typically ask this in passing, and have no actual desire to know "how someone is doing."  We all have our quick responses to this question:  "Good", "great", "fine, thanks and you?", "busy", or "tired". How is it that we have gotten in the habit of not only asking this question with no true intention to hear the answer, AND we answer the question with no intention of giving a real answer? Years ago, when I graduated from massage therapy school, at the graduation ceremony, I hugged one of the instructors.  Without realizing it, I naturally hugged her by putting my right cheek against hers. My ...

I went into massage for the same reasons many people do: so that I didn't have to sit at a desk all day, so I could be my own boss, so I could set my own hours, travel whenever, have a family and not miss out on all the good stuff.  I wanted to help people, and as luck would have it, I had the type of touch that people loved.  I finish school and start my own practice.  Every office move I made was an upgrade, until I was working in one of San Diego's most affluent neighborhoods.  I shared space with incredibly talented massage therapists, and was constantly learning.  I was receiving massage trades regularly, and had a great flow of paying clients.  I hardly had to do any marketing, because I received so many "word of mouth" referrals.  At this point in my life, I was still deciding whether I wanted to do massage full time or not, so I was testing the waters working in marketing during the daytime and taking evening and weekend massage clients, and ...