One concept here may be new to you and that is the idea of money being a form of energy – though when you stop to consider it, this is logical: We work to earn money, expending our energy and putting in time in order to receive it and so the money is a 'token' or 'symbol' that represents the work and effort we have expended. In an ideal world, what we receive should be directly related to the effort we put in – though it doesn't always work that way!

When I pass on an attunement, I am passing on a gift and also energy. However, I am not charging the recipient for the Universal energy that is sent for the empowerment/attunement. But in order to pass on the best quality attunement I can for the recipient, I have to put in a lot of work in 'behind the scenes' and in my daily life.  A good deal of energy goes into maintaining myself as a vessel of Universal Energy. For me this means regular meditation, giving up drinking and smoking, avoiding caffeine, adopting a karmically sound diet (giving up meat), maintaining my physical health, avoiding heavy meals and sugar before meditation, healing sessions and sending attunements, further study of many related subjects to inform my work and ensure I have a wide overall knowledge of all aspects of the systems I teach. My work also involves a good deal of writing, organising my day around any attunements I have scheduled, work on keeping my website up to date and so on.  

So as you can see, a lot of time and energy is put in by myself to maintain and develop Mayastar and ensure my students receive the best quality tuition, attunements and support possible. In payment for the time/energy I put into their development, energy is received in payment for the courses and services I provide.

It is worth finding out how much energy any teacher or healer puts into their work:

• Do they write their own material?

• When original manuals/notes of the founder of a particular modality are provided, are these supplemented with additional information from the teacher?

• Do they provide adequate support for their students?

• Do they have the knowledge and experience to give you advice should the need arise?

• Do they maintain themselves as a vessel for the energies they channel?

• Do they regularly work with the energies and systems they teach?

*Beware of some teachers that provide tuition for literally hundreds of modalities! Do they regularly work with all of these? If not, are they qualified to teach the particular modalities you are looking for? Do they supplement the course information they are passing on with their own work where the original course information is not adequate to really get a beginner started? If you wish to learn a system fully and in detail, it is important to ensure your prospective teacher is qualified to provide this tuition and support.

If a gift is given for free and not as an exchange, there is an imbalance: the receiver of the gift doesn't recognise its value or doesn't fully accept the gift because they don't feel they have 'earned' it. In the same way, the giver of a gift for no return is 'saying' through their action that the gift they have given has no value. When it comes to energy healing attunements in particular, this may compromise the power of the attunement. Both the attuner and the attunee's perception of the value of the attunement may directly inform the quality of the experience.

So as you can see, an exchange is important; free attunements are likely to compromise the efficacy and power of the attunement – and that is not a desirable situation!