How To Do What You Love and Create Financial Abundance

How To Do What You Love and

Create Financial Abudance

by Jennifer Taylor, CEO Quantum-Touch, Inc

Integrating Love and Money I used to hate my job; I worked as a Software Developer after graduating with a Computer Science degree at Cal Poly.  Even though I had a high salary, I received little, if any, spiritual satisfaction from my work. The work felt meaningless for me and sometimes completely at odds with my values but yet I needed the money to pay the bills. Then I discovered my calling: Energy Healing! But like so many people in this field, the whole idea of trying to make a living doing healing work seemed like a complete fantasy. So I felt torn between work that feeds my soul and work that pays the bill.

In my position as CEO of Quantum-Touch, Inc, I've worked with many people who have the heartfelt desire to make a living doing what they love. And yet...

• Many healers (or Massage Therapists, Reiki Masters, etc) have a deep desire to serve, yet struggling to make ends meet. I have seen healers living out of their van!
• Many people try to fit their dreams into the few hours they have remaining at the end of the work day or the weekend.
• Many spiritual healers struggle with the idea of charging money for healing work.
• Some people feel that love should be "free" and have expressed anger about the idea of charging for healing work.
• Many healers have trouble marketing their services and attracting clients. Many people feel that marketing and service work are incompatible!

A Solution That Works... Back in July 2007, I started working with Brian Whetten of Core Coaching. Brian made it his mission to address the challenges and conflicts of both being in service and making a good living doing it. He developed Selling by Giving: a step by step practice building system to address these issues. By working with Brian, I developed new perspectives, insights, and tools to deal with the following concerns:

• Love Should be Free

  Somebody said to me recently, "Life Force Energy is from God and therefore it should be free."  But are we really charging for love? Love may be free but what we are really charging for is our time to provide the healing work, set up the room, etc. Also, we are charging for our time and investment in our training to provide energy work.

  Lastly, and most importantly, we are charging for the client's commitment to their own healing. One of the core concepts that Brian Whetten teaches is that MONEY IS TIED TO COMMITMENT.  People pay for what they find valuable and for what they are willing to commit to.

  In addition, part of the healing process for the client is the willingness to invest money in their consciousness by saying, "Yes, I'm worth the investment and I am committing to myself by paying for healing work!"

   

• But if I charge enough for my sessions to make a living, no one will be able to afford it

  Are you merely projecting your limiting beliefs around money onto your clients? Working with these inner conflicts can help you come from a place of abundance when asking your clients to pay for your services. The Selling by Giving program has truly helped our practitioners and instructors overcome these conflicts.

   

• I'm really not serving if I have to charge money; true service work is a freely given gift from the heart...

  The question I would pose here - are you freely giving from the heart or are you fostering co-dependence? What part of "service" requires you to sacrifice a part of yourself to serve? True service comes from a place of wholeness.

  Unless you are independently wealthy(!), most people need a paying job in order to support themselves. I feel that if you can support yourself full time with your healing practice, then you can actually serve in a greater capacity then if you gave away your healing work for free.

  Let me explain... If you have a full time job in the United States, this leaves very little time left to do healing work. Given my experience in the corporate world, most people are so exhausted from their job that they have very little energy or time to do healing work on top of a job. Whereas if you make a living doing session work, you could do 20 sessions per week; doing 20 sessions a week is nearly impossible with a full time job.

I believe that if we can support people in building successful careers as lightworkers, we can create more credibility for the healing community and ultimately more momentum supporting lightwork on the planet.