Professional support is too expensive
1. Is it true?
Yes. Just one session can be $100 or even $200!!
2. Can you absolutely know that it is true?
No. I know there are other ways like exchanging services with someone who does what I want and who I can offer what I do.
3. How do you react when you think that thought?
Frustrated. Discouraged really. Can I only get great help and have wonderful breakthroughs when I have a lot of money?!
My mind wonders to people living on the street, to families that barely make it. They would never be able to grow and work through stuff with professional help. I get sad thinking of the unfairness in the world. How some people are naturally disadvantaged by where they were born.
Boy, that feels heavy. When I think of that I get really sad. Well, there is some gratitude in it too that I am not poor or live on the street. But when I just read the thought again "Professional help is too expensive" I am right back into feeling frustrated and angry. There is also some hopelessness. Some resentment towards the high fees that some professionals charge. And resentment towards ever increasing fees.
I feel that in my shoulders. My face is tense too. I just want to shut down.
4. Who would you be without the thought?
Without the thought the heaviness is lifting some. Oh, and I seem to open up to all the possibilities to find other ways. Wow, it’s like opening a flood gate. I even notice it physically. I was kind of slumped in my chair and now I am sitting straight up. I feel some excitement about becoming creative. Yeah, lots of ideas are coming in.
Wow, what a difference. Let me jot down all those ideas in the turnarounds…
Turnarounds:
Professional support is not too expensive.
- There is the Byron Katie Round Robin. Facilitation with another person that knows the Work. Ok, most are not professional facilitators but hey it’s free. And as long as the other knows the four questions, it WORKS!
- As a coach I have (and I could, actually WILL again) find another coach to coach each other.
- Trading services with other professionals. I could offer facilitation to a massage therapist for example.
Wow, the possibilities are endless. Ooh, and another one just comes to mind. The InquiryFest that QuestionTheMind.com offers. It is unlimited private facilitation for the whole month of December with weekly breakthrough calls and a New Years Eve Celebration call. I remember how valuable that was when I did it last December!
Yeehaa! What a shift in my perception that Work has done!
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I so agree with you, Christine. I’m retired and living on social security and some savings, and professional support for inquiry at $100 or more an hour is well beyond my budget.
But like you, I’ve found some alternatives. When we can get past the “it shouldn’t cost so much … oh, poor me, I’ll never be able to afford it” thinking, it’s possible to open up our creativity and find ways to make it happen. After all, that’s what inquiry is about — loosening the hold of limiting beliefs.
And amen to what you said about InquiryFest. I participated last year and got *so* much out of being able to experience skilled facilitation day after day. I could really work and rework some of those persistent attachments in my thinking.
Thanks for the reminder.