Many of us in the healing professions have a block around receiving payment, or even asking for it. The world is filled with powerful healers unable to continue their work because they haven’t created a financially viable business. They have not yet healed their inner wounds around worthiness, which every healer needs to face. 

On the flip-side, there are those who reinforce the wound by using the argument, “If you were a real healer™ you wouldn’t ask for payment for your work. It wouldn’t be about money.” (aka… you should give me your healing work for free!) 

Those who say things like this have to be looked upon as shadow teachers for us. Because if we didn’t have wounds to heal–wounds that keep us from becoming the true healers we came to Earth to be–we couldn’t be negatively influenced by this kind of manipulation.  

I see deeper patterns with our feelings of worthiness around compensation. 

First, a healer has to reconcile with their reluctance to receive. A person with a strong need to give without the ability to truly receive will run out of gas before they’ve really gotten started. The receiving part goes much deeper than just taking payment for their services. This pattern also results in an inability to receive thanks, compliments, feedback (including some negative–a normal aspect of growth), or gifts of any kind without turning away, shutting down, dissociating, or deflecting. It’s uncomfortable for somebody with this inner wound to be truly seen, so they’d rather remain anonymous or invisible.

Invisible money does not pay the bills.  

Receiving a paycheck for our living, no matter how altruistic or spiritual the work, is an exchange of energy that fuels our ability to serve and heal. In some indigenous cultures one does not even ask an elder for advice unless they are gifted a sacred offering first; something like coffee or tobacco.

Some type of energy exchange is required in all societies, and in our modern world money happens to be the primary currency. You are fabulous at what you do-just like the banker, or the lawyer, or the optometrist, or the dog groomer- and you deserve to receive, like everyone does. 

Do you feel that you might have a block to receiving? If so, I invite you to begin a journey inward to discover the roots. Wouldn’t it be amazing to be freed from such heavy, limiting beliefs?

A Prayer for Healing. 

Marianne Williamson has published a great book titled, The Law of Divine Compensation. I highly recommend it. She includes small prayers within each chapter. This one struck me as particularly powerful:

“Dear God–  May this business idea be of service to the greater good of all. If it is not the best use of my talents, please cast it from my mind. If it is the best use of my talents, please pave the way for its success. Guide all my thinking and actions. May this business be a blessing on everyone who works here and everyone it serves. May it both bring and attract prosperity and love. ~ Amen”

I will leave you with a sweet message from Nature. Sometimes payment comes in unique forms…

The image to the left is a minuscule rock given to me by a hummingbird last summer. He flew into my window and knocked his tiny self out cold. I sat with him in my hand for 15 minutes, warming him, feeding him drops of sugar water while he recovered. He came to, and stayed with me for some time, seeming to enjoy the moment. When he finally flew away, he left a tiny stone in my palm that had been clutched in his talons! Precious! I still have this adorable little amulet in a hand-beaded medicine bag that I keep close to my heart. 

It’s a daily reminder that energy exchanges and thank-you’s are universal.

Much Love,

Kristy  

P.S. ~ If you’d like to start a deeper exploration of what compensation blocks you may be subconsciously harboring, I invite you to read my first published book, The Fascinated Observer. It helps you to see the world with new eyes, transcending your own inner judgements through the formula of Surrender, Trust, Allow, & Receive.