Has anyone ever told you that you have healing hands? Do you have an uncanny ability to make others feel at ease? If so, a career as a massage therapist may be in your future.

You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who didn’t like massage. Very few things relieve stress and anxiety and even heal injury the way massage can.

In this sagging economy, massage therapy is one of the fastest growing careers in the United States, according to the Department of Labor and Industry. Demand for massage therapists is expected to rise steadily through 2014.