I really had a hard time with this in the beginning. I, among a lot of healers feel healing sessions should be freely given and offer them with no charge for those who cannot afford to pay. However, I do charge for classes and certification because there is a lot of preparation and hand out material. I live in a very rural area and there are many people here who cannot afford health care. If someone lives 20 miles out in the boonies as we say here, is in extreme pain and needs Reiki, they will have it. We have a lot of Hospice patients in this area and some of them barely get by. I ask that the people that can afford to pay me, please do so. It enables me help those that cannot pay me. It is the law of exchange, it keeps things flowing. It is called interdependency. The Native American people had this down in a good and perfect way. When someone was in need of something it was given to them, and always it was the best the giver had to offer. We have lost that sense of interdependency and the way times are now, we are going to need each other on many levels of helping more than we ever have.
The client is not paying for the Reiki energy, but for the time and the effort we have put forth to learn Reiki. Payment is recognition in appreciating what it took the Master/Teacher/Practitioner to attain the knowledge that helped the client. When people receive a session for free, they can feel indebted and guilty. This way there is exchange and everyone feels they are getting something. Unless the mind puts value on something, the service isn't perceived as valuable.
The client is not paying for the Reiki energy, but for the time and the effort we have put forth to learn Reiki. Payment is recognition in appreciating what it took the Master/Teacher/Practitioner to attain the knowledge that helped the client. When people receive a session for free, they can feel indebted and guilty. This way there is exchange and everyone feels they are getting something. Unless the mind puts value on something, the service isn't perceived as valuable.
Why I Charge for Reiki Sessions and Training
We are what we
think
think
The ways of the gods are natural, the ways of men unnatural, and there is nothing supernatural, except this: that if a woman does a useless thing, none reproves her;
if she does a harmful thing, few seek to restrain her; but if she seeks to imitate the
goddess and to encourage others, all those in authority accuse her of corruption.
So it is more dangerous to teach truth than to enter a powder magazine with a
lighted torch.
Tsiang Sandup
if she does a harmful thing, few seek to restrain her; but if she seeks to imitate the
goddess and to encourage others, all those in authority accuse her of corruption.
So it is more dangerous to teach truth than to enter a powder magazine with a
lighted torch.
Tsiang Sandup
Chyenne Morning Star
Windhorse Reiki
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