Why charge for Reiki?
People do not value what they do not pay for. Although most of the time it is, payment is not necessarily monetary. If someone is unable to pay, most Reiki Practitioners offer scaled fees or will barter for the healing. Although I will not turn anyone seeking healing away, I firmly believe that the recipient needs to offer something in return or it will have no value. And usually when Reiki is given no value, it is far less effective. On a personal note, I think we as a society need to stop placing lesser values on those things that are “good”; getting paid to do good work does not make that work somehow tainted. If we pay phenomenal amounts of money for professions we consider “unethical” and expect our teachers, spiritual leaders and healers to be poor, what are we saying about who we want to be as a society?
