03-26-2013, 09:15 PM
I essentially agree with everyone on this point, Xise especially. No use being a hungry healer - it does you or they little good.
As was previously stated, you can always waive or reduce a fee in order to be of service to someone with limited funds.
Take into consideration that no one would be forced to pay - each would see your cost up front and of their own volition decide whether your service was worth theirs.
Further, I'm sure that you would not be the type to charge exorbitantly for your service, or be driven by the desire for profit. Your only goal in receiving payment is sustenance - sustaining yourself. And you could always use Groupon.
In short, yes, you are worthy of financial remuneration for healing offered. Consider it an exchange of service, or a way of saying "thank you" by the person receiving the service.
Now, if you determine a way to live without money and meet your living requirements - whether because you've become humble servant of all who is sustained by divine manna alone, or because you won the lottery, or you just have a means to support a reasonable lifestyle outside of healing - then by all means prohibit the giving of money, and encourage the paying forward.
Until that time, your outer existence, so long as you have an outer existence, transpires within a context. For the most part, that context requires your payment for its services to you, and for your participation in it. You only cut yourself off at the knees to disallow payment to you, imo.
: ) GLB
As was previously stated, you can always waive or reduce a fee in order to be of service to someone with limited funds.
Take into consideration that no one would be forced to pay - each would see your cost up front and of their own volition decide whether your service was worth theirs.
Further, I'm sure that you would not be the type to charge exorbitantly for your service, or be driven by the desire for profit. Your only goal in receiving payment is sustenance - sustaining yourself. And you could always use Groupon.
In short, yes, you are worthy of financial remuneration for healing offered. Consider it an exchange of service, or a way of saying "thank you" by the person receiving the service.
Now, if you determine a way to live without money and meet your living requirements - whether because you've become humble servant of all who is sustained by divine manna alone, or because you won the lottery, or you just have a means to support a reasonable lifestyle outside of healing - then by all means prohibit the giving of money, and encourage the paying forward.
Until that time, your outer existence, so long as you have an outer existence, transpires within a context. For the most part, that context requires your payment for its services to you, and for your participation in it. You only cut yourself off at the knees to disallow payment to you, imo.
: ) GLB
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi
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