Can't stop scrutinizing bodies!

Ever since I undertook this profession as a bodyworker, massage therapist I'm constantly "people watching", not in the amusing sense where you look people over and try to guess how old they are, why they dress the way they do or how quirky they behave. I find myself looking at their structure, or more precisely the lack thereof. From stooped shoulders, cantilevered forward head positions, knock-knees, bowed legs, limps, shuffles, you name it, I'm seeing it, constantly! I can't help but assess everyone's structure, even with layers of clothing the body still expresses itself. It is the years of conditioning that makes this happen, listening to clients lament about their bad backs or the stressed-out neck and shoulders from driving a desk for 8, 10 hours a day, but more insidiously it has been the last 5 years of venturing in my new bodywork profession as a Structural Integration practitioner. Structural Integration, also known as Rolfing is a method of releasing, differentiating, organizing and integrating the human body's omnipresent connective tissue called fascia, which literally holds us up and together inside. It is referred to as the "organ of support" by the brilliant visionary and biochemical scientist Dr. Ida P. Rolf PHD who developed Structural Integration as far back as the 1950's. Her theory was that if you can change the form, you can change the function. The work is all about body-structure, how it is "stacked-up" in an balanced, ordered and communicating design. But no one is this way. Why? One word, GRAVITY. The constant pull towards the earth will take any slight deviation from vertically neutral into a twisted and contorted mess. The fascia, our support glue yields, binds, shortens and re-positions itself in compensatory instructions from gravity and our distorted movement or postural habits. My job, if I choose to accept it, is to undo all the damage and instruct the body to let go by using deep muscular pressure with my hands, knuckles, fists and elbows into areas of the body until the fascia releases. It sounds painful, and I won't lie, it can be! But it is also highly effective and permanent. When I'm out and about my eyes are like metal detectors to iron, and I go through the internal thought process of "Oh this poor chap needs session 1, she really needs session 2 with those heels she's wearing" and on and on. Don't misunderstand me, I love my profession and to be in service of others who suffer with chronic pain and stiffness. Maybe I should visit the museum more and observe the beautiful poised sculptures and the perfect dimensional space, although I know my eyes will undoubtedly find other visitors who shift their bodies side to side trying to find comfort and balance in a simple position of standing!