You want to be aligned with abundance. Serious. Read all about it, meditate, spend money on marketing, share what you have with others. But when someone comes and asks: “How much do you charge for this therapy?”, you answer: “Oh, I don't have the courage to charge you!”.
Or… you are one of those who created the belief that spiritual work shouldn't be charged.
When it comes to money, you have to be consistent! You cannot ask the Universe for money one day and deny it the next (remembering that money can come in many ways: someone offers you accommodation, a trip, a gift).
We must always remember that the secret of manifestation is thought, feeling and action to be aligned. It's no use “wanting” money in your mind and then having all these beliefs. The Universe will simply say, "Okay, I was going to give it to you, you didn't want to accept it, I don't offer it anymore."
It is true that we often find it difficult to charge someone very close to us, or a person we know is in a difficult condition. Here are three tips:
1) Don't buy into someone else's scarcity
The other day a person wrote to me asking how much I charged for a Multidimensional Therapy session. And, in the bottom sentence, he wrote: "And if you can give me a discount, I would appreciate it".
Discount on what? This person didn't even know how much I charged for my work!
For me, in this case it's clear: this person has a scarcity mindset, and I'm not going to condone that. In fact, if I go along with that, I'm not being a good therapist. My role is to shed light on the way you are thinking and help you change.
In Access®, we learned this: “Don't buy someone else's scarcity”. You think you are helping, but you are only reinforcing a way of thinking and living money that will not help that individual to evolve and access abundance.
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2) “How much can you pay me?”
When a person says they can't pay you, and you feel it's true (and not that they're choosing to use the money to go clubbing on the weekend and aren't appreciating your work), you can ask, "So how much? can you pay me?”.
Better yet: "How much would you think it's fair to pay for an hour of my work?" See how this is a question that brings a person to consciousness?
Another strategy that some people have used is, “I can't lower my value, but I can split it for you two or three times. Would that work?”.
3) For those starting out
When we start an activity, we always go through that difficulty in the transition between attending for free as a training and the time to start charging.
One way to do this – and which can be used in other cases – is to say: “I will meet you, and if you think this session has brought you any benefit, you can make a contribution”. So the person does what he feels to do (in fact, it may even be more than what you are suggesting). You can even complement it with: “The suggestion is x, but feel comfortable to pay what you think is fair”, to avoid being offered R$ 10,00 for an hour of your work.
The mere fact that someone pays you anything for your work will start to change your attitude towards charging.
Regardless of the strategy, the important thing is to be coherent and open to receiving.
