Same is true in life. If you are not financially secure, it can be really stressful, frustrating, and draining. When you are operating from that place (a place of lack), it’s really hard to give to others or be in service to them.

Gini Diane - I see so many people with those old thought patterns coming through.

At it’s core - money is energy. And, just like everything else, it can be used for bad, and it can be used for good.

I haven’t done much professionally with my skills and talents. I’ve occasionally sold some of my herbal remedies, and a few other things. I don’t charge for my Reiki sessions (yet), because it’s often in exchange for something else, even if it’s only more experience and knowledge.

However, I’ve been thinking more and more lately about taking this to the next level and setting up a Reiki and natural healing business. I work extremely well with animals, and am thinking this will be the path I follow. I’m also considering working with others to overcome addictions. I don’t see either of these advertised locally, so perhaps it’s a niche I need to help fill.

I don’t see any problem with charging money (or bartering) for my services. I’ve always understood the idea of an energy exchange, and I see money as a distillation of somebody’s energy, provided it’s honestly earned.

Besides, if you aren’t able to house yourself, and feed your body and mind, then what good will you be to your clients?

I will check into Astrid’s resource. I’ll also be on the lookout for any other comments germane to this topic.

For our best and highest good always, in all ways…..

Gini Diane

Thanks for the book - I’ll definitely check it out.

I just led a Mindful Marketing workshop this weekend and we talked about this idea of having a spiritually conscious business operating in a system that does not honor our core beliefs.

For example, so many examples of marketing are aggressive, dis-honest, and hype-ridden. We don’t want to put ourselves in the same category as any of that.

Really - marketing is about building relationships. It’s been distorted over time, I feel, because so many business owners come from a place of lack and fear… you know - the marketing messages you see that talk about how wonderful a product is and you simply must have it or you’ll just curl up in a ball and never be seen again.

When we come from a loving place - a place of fullness - we can create marketing messages that help us build and maintain relationships… rather than trying to pull as many people as possible to our business.

Personally I hold an MBA from a leading US business school, and so I see ‘business’ as the “common sense surrounding someone’s contribution in life” - no more, no less.

One book I recommend to non-businessy healing professionals in my teaching workshops is: Attracting Perfect Customers. The book manages to convey ‘niche marketing’ concepts using holistic and healing language and methods that are pretty blissful as they are grounding.

Consider!
Astrid
http://www.therapeuticreiki.com