To Pay or Not to Pay: Part 2

In the first article I copied and pasted an article from Serge King, who I have learned much from with healing from Hawaii. I have had people ask me what my personal thoughts are about "charging" for healing. Here are some questions to ask yourself:

Did you have to pay someone to learn how to do your particular style of healing? Did you attend seminars? did you have to travel to stay at a hotel to attend that seminar? did you miss work to attend that seminar or seminars? How many hours did you have to work in order to have the money to pay for all of this? Had you thought of these extra expenses when you think about the training you have worked at? I will give one example that I experienced:

I'm a Quantum-Touch instructor among other things. In order to become an instructor, this is what I had to do and the money I paid out. This does not add in how many hours I had to work in order to pay for these expenses either

Attend 2 basic seminars: $295.00 for the 1st one and $145.00 for the 2nd one.
Attend 1 advanced seminar: $450.00
Total Cost of seminars: $890.00

Then I was required to help teach at 4 basic seminars, I was not charged the seminar price, but still had the expenses mentioned below. The below expenses also covered attending the 3 above seminars listed.

Hotel Cost: 15 nites x 90.00 = $1350.00
Food Cost: 45 meals x 15.00 = $675.00
Travel Cost: @ $.45 per mile x $945.00
Lost wages to attend seminars: $2250.00

Total cost to become instructor was: $6110.00

This does not included many many hours of free sessions given for practice, for research studies and mini sessions to demostrate the technique to people. My massage training expenses are much, much more then these, but what does that tell you about my feelings of charging for healing? First of all I can't heal anyone anymore then I can digest their lunch. My job simply is to help their body do the healing in what most people think of in a very short time; seconds, minutes, or an hour or two. We forget as "healers" that what we do is much more valueable and direct then what "western medicine" can do. Has western medicine gotten rid of a head ache in 30 seconds? or a migraine in 2 minutes? what about back pain in 10 minutes? what about bringing down a persons blood pressure from 180/120 to 120/85 after only 4 distance healing session? what about setting a broken open fractured thigh bone in 10 minutes without pulling on the leg at all? And with 1 hour of healing each day the bone was completely healed in 7 days? What are those above listed things worth? I would say they are worth alot more then we give ourselves credit for.

Simple: I charge for my time, my time has value and worth. Do I charge the same amount for every person? No, but I do charge them something. I have people say "oh I can't afford that" yet I look down and see that they have been to the nail person and their hair is perfectly cut, they are driving a new car and have clothes from places that I could not afford to shop from even if I wanted to

You don't see them saying to their nail person "hey I can't afford that price, how about I pay you only this much" The nail person would say 99% of the time? here is my price take it or leave it! Your time has value and with that value comes respect for the healing you help them do.

here are two examples of how charging or not charging affected people:
2 research projects on fibromyalgia; one group of 10 people I did not charge them anything for the 8 treatments they received:

The other group of 10 I charged them my full charge. Both groups got the same self-stated 80% plus pain relief from their fibromyalgia, yet after the seminar I only saw one person from the first group, once they had to start paying for sessions, but from the group that had to pay right from the beginning, I saw 9 of them.

Responses from the first group on why they hadn't come back: "I did not want to pay, since I had gotten those ones for free" or "your price for the additional treatments were too high" "when are you doing another free study?"

Responses from the 2nd group on why they had come for more treatments "The pain relief is so worth the money I pay" "you give me more relief without meds then I have had in years" "your a real healer"

I have a client who we do a trade, when I treat her she gives me a fresh baked loaf of bread for the payment, that is what she can truely afford and I love a fresh baked loaf of bread so the energy passed back and forth between her and I is equal.

I used to give free seminars to people attending the basic quantum-touch seminar I teach, but not anymore, why you ask, simple, those who came without paying ended up not valueing the seminar and gift, also tended to be the ones asking questions that had nothing to do with what we were teaching. So what I do now is tell someone who wants to attend, that for every person they refer up to 4 students they get $75.00 off for each one. There they have the chance to earn that free or reduced seminar and they respect the students in the class and I have found those who have done that to be the most focused students of that weekend.

Don't discount your skills, time and talents. More more skilled you become in your healing the more value you should place on your time.. Think about it a family doctor makes less money then a specialist, yet depending on your skill, you can provide the place for even more healing to occur in less time and less money.

At times as healers when you ask them what they do, their answer is frankly quite out there, Explain to clients/patients what direct benefits they will receive from your treatment. And remember to do all healing out of love, for love is the greatest healer of them all.

Aloha and Mahalo