Hello, Healers!  As we finish our tax returns here, this has been a powerful time for me to reflect on the many past money mistakes I've made in my healing practice.  For too many years to admit, I mismanaged and misunderstood my income and expenses.  I had no money management systems for figuring out what was working and what wasn't, or even for dealing with money.  Today, I give you three stress-busting tips to heal your money systems.

Money is a flow of energy and information, and like all other energy, money loves to be loved.  Take a look: how do YOU love money in your practice?  Here are a few practical tips I've implemented over the years that really helped me:

(1)  Welcome money with an attractive, organized way to collect receipts.  If you hand a shoebox of receipts off to an accountant, decorate that shoebox!  If you have a tray or bowl for new, unprocessed receipts, make it beautiful.  Some traditions suggest red and gold to build money, others like green.  What is the color of abundance and wealth to you? 

I now keep my receipts in a golden 3-ring binder covered with glittery holographic stars, separated by 12 monthly tabs you can buy anywhere.  Bank statements have bank recepts paperclipped on.  Small cash receipts for the month get taped by date to yellow sheets of 3-hole-punched paper.  Receipts for trips get taped to and notated on blue sheets of paper.  When I collect all the receipts on a statement, I staple them and remove the paperclip.

(2)  Welcome money with an Income Received sheet.  When my practice was small and growing, I struggled to remember what went into my deposits.  Then one year a chiropractor showed me her Income Received sheet.  Every check or credit card charge she received was jotted on the sheet, and the month tallied.  I bracket the items I deposit together and date it.  My form had these column titles:

Date  -  Amount  -  Check/Cash/CC  -  Services Rendered  -  Notes (Client Name)  -  Deposited

Don't forget to print your sheets on a pleasant color and use your favorite font.  Make it fun.  Enjoy writing down the income you receive!  Fill it out after each client appointment if you can, or else the end of the day.  What a great system to give incoming money the attention and gratitude it deserves.  You can even jot a prayer or heartfelt thank you at the bottom of the sheet. 

(3)  Welcome money with an organized way of processing your bookkeeping and receipt-organizing.  Put bookkeeping time in your schedule every week — and I mean SCHEDULE IT and treat it like a client appointment, healer!  Keeping this appointment is a key to your accounting freedom.  Sit with your receipts each week and organize them, catalog your car mileage, and/or enter everything in Quickbooks or your spreadsheet.  After two insane years of leaving 100% of my bookkeeping to do at the end of the year, I now do these tasks weekly.  It's amazing how little time is needed to keep on top of everything!

Want a really good reason to systematize like this?  It will save you money and time.  You will write down income and expenses you would have forgotten if you'd put it off.  You will save on your accountant's hourly charges if you are more organized.  And you will have SO much more peace of financial mind. 

Systems like this make your practice run smoothly.  Try it out and let me know what you think.

Do you have any other money systems that have really worked for you?  Please share with us in the comments!  And let me know if you have any more questions about healing your money mind. 

If you’ve had a healing, coaching, or counseling practice for a while, I’m sure you’ve heard a client say about coming back or taking the next step, “Sorry, I don’t have the money for that right now.”  It kills the conversation about future care instantly.  What do you do?

Recognize a few things:

(1)  It’s not true.  The universe is abundant.  If you promised them $1 million back to come up with that money, they could and they would.  Something else is up.  Something big and scary to them.  What to do about it:  Let go of your need to fix them.  Let go of your healer’s ego that says you know better than they do.  Love and appreciate them for where they are in their journey and the intrinsic beauty of human coping mechanisms.  And bless them for helping you let go of one more tiny sliver of that ego.

(2)  They are uncomfortable speaking their truth.  Have you ever sold something on craig’s list and heard people who clearly don’t want your item after they see it say, “We’ll think about it and call you.”

Your client may be claiming no money instead of discussing another issue with you, eg. “We are moving too fast.”  “It scares me to get better; it’s unfamiliar.”  “I don’t see what these sessions are doing for me.”

Sometimes what they are trying to communicate is buried so deep they aren’t aware of it.  Things like “I don’t want to to get better and lose the benefits and attention I’m getting from having this condition.”   or  “Really truly deeply healing scares the bejeebies out of me.”  or  “I’m not sure I’m this valuable and I’d rather give up than try and fail.” 

In any case, what I find is helpful is to let go of my need to fix them.  Let go of my healer’s ego that says I know better than they do.  Love and appreciate them for where they are in their journey and the intrinsic beauty of human coping mechanisms.  Bless them for this opportunity to get rid of one more sliver of my healer’s ego.

(3)  This potentially frustrating exchange is a gift to you.  If you recognize stubbornness or fear or unwillingness to move forward in them, then you have some of your own in your life.  Take a look.  You can only perceive in the outer world that which you have in your inner self.  That’s how energy works.  Take a good honest look, especially on those weeks when you have a FEW clients pulling this one on you, hmmm. 

When you find this energy inside you, honor it and thank it for protecting you in its way.  Ask it to help you learn to cope consciously with the issue it’s protecting you from.  When you do, your clients will stop exhibiting this tendency, too.  And that will be a very nice coincidence.

On top of that, you guessed it:  Let go of your need to fix your clients.  Let go of your healer’s ego that says you know better than they do.  Love and appreciate them for where they are in their journey and the intrinsic beauty of human coping mechanisms.  And bless them for helping you let go of one more tiny sliver of that ego.

The Secret To Success for Healers  (from March 2008 Healer to Healer Newsletter)
Are you doing what you are meant to do… and thriving?  Are you thrilled with every aspect of your career, office, family, and romantic situation? 

If you are called to healing, teaching or another form of service, you are meant to be able to do it from a place of abundance and joy!   Not from a place of stress and wondering how to pay the bills.

You are so needed on the planet right now!  If you are called to healing, coaching, or creating, there is a way for you to succeed while serving your Life Purpose and loving it.  And yes, there is plenty of money and clients to go around for everyone.

But so many of you are still hiding, enduring a job that doesn’t feed you, thinking you have to be certified or take more classes before you start, assuming you aren’t good enough, not starting because you couldn’t do it right, dealing with illness and family issues, etc.  Oh, I could fill pages with the insecurities and challenges of natural born healers!  Healing is about empowering others, and the truth is — we all still need a little healing ourselves.

Know the truth:  What is holding you back are the stories your mind has created to cover your fears of expressing the brilliant healer you are inside.  And I find that the most powerful healers, who are really meant to get out in the world spotlight, are often the most stuck and fearful. 

There is no need to be afraid.  Your past or current challenges are your ticket to helping others.  If this is your path then you can do it!

As a healer, channel and business mentor, I have worked with healers, creatives and those who empower and inspire others.  I know you and the ups and downs in your spiritual path.  I help you see and express your brilliance, who you are.  I am living my life’s purpose to mentor natural healers into their Potential.  (Please join me here!  Sign up for the freebie at the top there and get our newsletter.)

Before this, I had every insecurity and made every mistake in the healing book.  These experiences turned out to be gems — based on my mistakes and successes, I have to put together fabulous practical, proven strategies and energy tools to get healers to the happy place where you are meant to be — healing, helping, serving, and loving!

Did I mention I used to be a fancy marketing and finance exec in New York City?  Even a fat paycheck couldn’t overcome my unhappiness and desire to help the world in a much bigger way.  This background and 10 years of spiritual mentoring and healing experiences with natural healers, helps me do so uniquely what I do right now, and helps me live an abundant life!  How can you do this?

I understand your calling, your can’ts, your love for the world and its beings, and your insecurities.  I am the Healer to Healers™.  How can I help you?

Walk or Suffer
If your Spiritual Path is healing, then you must walk it!  If you don’t, you suffer from blocking your natural gifts — the energy still comes out, but backwards in money worries, loneliness, lack of joy in life, insecurities, blocked communications, bad client experiences or other trauma drama, the feeling of brick walls around you, sadness, and more.

These penalties are hints that you are not doing what you came here to do!  I know they are unpleasant because I suffered them in spades for a long time.  Then I figured out who I was and what I was here to do, and things really started changing for me.

Revel in the luxury and satisfaction that comes from aligning with your Spiritual Path the way you were meant to!  Bliss and abundance will follow.  I can help.

~  Try my one-on-one personal mentoring (a unique combination of intuitive reading, channeling, coaching and consulting), where I see why you are blocked, how to overcome those blocks, and how to build your business efficiently while making sure you are nurtured, too.

Are you tired of the runaround and all your “haftas”, or do you want your work to be your play, and feel like a gleeful child again?  Please help yourself today.

Dear Daria,

At $333, why is your service “The Reconnection” so expensive?

     Yours Truly,
     Ms. Don’t Have Enough

Dear Don’t,

Yes, when I talk about The Reconnection with someone who is drawn to this work… well, sometimes it all changes when they ask, “How much?”   Their light goes out.  They shut down faster than a Furrier next to a PETA convention.  Worst of all, they let this bit of logical information get in the way of their intuitive draw to this work.

Ah money.  Have you met your WalMart mindset — how much can I get for how little?  Sometimes that’s appropriate, but sometimes not.  What happens to us when we see high prices?  Do we flash back to every time we felt foolish or duped or swindled in the ever-so-useless past?  (And you know we ALL have felt that way.)  Why is it so hard to invest in ourselves?

An Investment in Your Well-Being
The Reconnection® is a once-in-a-lifetime, permanent reconnection to your higher, multidimensional self, in a way that was not possible until 14 years ago.  It gives a turbo boost to your spiritual growth.  It helps shift us from tending toward chaos, to tending toward order.  The other service I offer, Reconnective Healing®, brings through these new frequencies all at once, for a full half hour, to allow your body to advance closer to its underlying, full-capacity energy blueprint.  Healing may occur to get you there, depending on what you need.  Dr. Pearl offers a few testimonials and healing stories here:

http://www.thereconnection.com/dr_eric_pearl.html

They are so powerful there is a recommended limit on having Reconnective Healing services.  Typically, after 1, 2, or 3 healing sessions, you are encouraged to give it time to percolate.  This is NOT something to do regularly, like massage or Reiki.  And “The Reconnection” itself is done just once.  (You can only plug in a lamp once, right?)  This work is long-lasting, permanent.

It clearly falls in my “investment” category for well-being.

What else falls into this category?  Many things that cost more than $333.  A treadmill.  An annual retreat for spiritual renewal.  Organic food and supplements for the year.  A relaxing vacation.  Recreation.  Classes in creativity, healing or self-exploration.  Fill in your favorite.  These can add up to hundreds and even thousands of dollars a year.  AND all of these examples are investments you have to repeat!

What Is “Expensive”?

When practitioners ask Eric Pearl (founder and teacher of The Reconnection) at seminars if we can please offer discounts for clients that we think “can’t afford” the work, he points out that we practitioners are discounting our own self-value.  This is what the work is worth — at least.  He has set the price of a Reconnection at $333 nationally (£333 in the UK, €333 in Europe, something like ¥33,300 in Japan). 

Personally, I believe The Reconnection is worth over $3,330 US based on the changes I’ve seen it make in people’s lives!!!  Remember: it does work for the rest of your life!  And chaos theory proves that a small positive change can really snowball into a big difference over a few years!

To make his point, Eric Pearl then asks the questioner to think of five specific people who “can’t afford” this work.  People who may be living paycheck to paycheck or who have told the practitioner they can’t afford it.  (Go ahead, try this — think of a few specific people yourself, then read on.)

He asks, “How many have TVs?”  Usually all.

“How many have cars?”  Usually all.

“How many go out to eat?”  Usually all, and more than occasionally.

“How many have their hair dyed or nails done regularly?”  A couple.

“How many go out to movies a few times a year?”  Usually all.

You get the idea…

It’s a question of priorities.  They aren’t ready to prioritize healing themselves.

I know clients who have paid $360 for three Reconnective Healing sessions and have turned their lives around, 360 degrees.  Life has the potential to flow with greater ease once you are exposed to these frequencies.  If life is difficult and tedious and troublesome and you feel you can’t do what you are drawn to, um, how can you afford NOT to reconnect with your higher self, your abundant and true self?

Moreover once you interact with these frequencies, they also continue to work after you leave my office, and you are connected for life.  In my opinion, this is truly priceless.

Where in your spending priority list is “spiritual evolution”?  Where is “ease and grace”?  Where is opening up to “your full potential”?

How to Afford It

If you really feel strapped, I suggest this:

Get a fresh clean envelope and write your goal on the front, “My Reconnection” or “My Reconnective Healing session(s)”.  Put it where you see it every day, visualize it filling up fast, and when you have a few extra dollars, drop them in.  Put something in every day.  This is an investment in your future.

How can you generate additional funds to put in, too?  Try skipping going out to eat, and depositing what you would have spent on food.  Forgo a fancy coffee drink or snack one day.  Do you really need that pair of shoes that caught your eye or that pretty figurine or the most expensive version of that gadget… or is your spiritual well-being calling?  Can you go camping once instead of taking a trip to Vegas?  You be the judge. 

Abundance is everywhere once you start to look.  With the right intent, you will find the funds.  ANd likely more quickly than you believed possible.

So going forward, yes my prices have gone up and I may have fewer appointments, but they will be with clients that truly appreciate and value this connection with the Source of all Healing.  They will be more open to it and appreciative of the changes.  Best of all, both my clients and I will be in fair exchange.  Thank you.