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Please give me your views on the following situation i happened to be..
Recently i became a Reiki Master and decided to work with patients on professional basis... and as usual i decided to charge for my services, not higher than accepted or charged by some practitioners..
Before i was against charging for reiki energy considering it divine power... But i got to understand that the patients from whom i did not charge received a treatment only once or twice.. and stopped coming to my sessions.. I thought the reason would be that i did not charge money.. They did not value the gift and the healing i gave..
recently i was invited to smb's place that needed help.. i told her about reiki.. she agreed that i gave reiki.. i told her that i should charge for my service.. she said no problem.. she was a well-off person.. and she could afford it... i gave the first session of reiki.. and she paid for me.. i told her she needed a couple of sessions, she said she would call me to arrange for the next day.. she did not. she said she was short of money and so on..
So i dont know what to do, to charge for my services or not do it.. they say if a person does not want or cant pay for reiki, it means she/her is not ready for such kind of treatment.. Is that so?
Please share your views on this....
I've often found that people who practice healing without accepting money are a little strange and have these bizarre self-deprecating beliefs dictating how they shouldn't earn money from a spiritual practice. It is like denial of themselves, and for this reason their power in their practice is diminished.
If someone genuinely comes to me and cannot afford the full fee, I will happily offer a reduction. But to think one shouldn't be paid at all....!!!
I am sure there are places on earth, and times past when it was a different matter to be offering healing without exchange of money, but in our society now it is perfectly harmonious to charge for a healing service.
Havin said that, I also feel, outside of ones business practice, it is a good and important personal practice to offer acts of generosity and healing without any desire for recompense, or even acknowledgement. I was recently introduced to the idea of doing things for people, in secret, without your identity known - you just sit back and watch as someone is overjoyed to find someone is thinking of them and has left a gift, whatever it might be! That must be special....
I feel a lot of the spiritual healers who feel they cannot charge for their services have some fundamental troubles with their sense of self.