Without a doubt the feeling you get when you first realise that you are psychic is truly amazing. It’s exciting, and thrilling, maybe you can’t quite believe it. Naturally you want to play with your new skills. You’ll probably start offering readings to anyone passing. You delight in helping and advising people. There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you see their look of surprise when you get it right, or hear their astonished comments. Helping others to solve their problems is deeply satisfying.

It’s not long before you get the idea or someone says “You should do this for a living!”

This opens up the possibility of whole new career. You start to dream about leaving the drudgery of your boring 9-5 job, of no longer being at the beck and call of a demanding boss and leaving office politics behind.

Stepping into the world as a professional psychic can seem really attractive and easy, but for every successful psychic, there are hundreds of failed ones who struggle to make ends meet. For all the power of their psychic vision they can’t seem to attract enough clients to pay the bills. The more they struggle financially, the less confident they feel. They start to question themselves and their intuition. “If I’m so psychic, how come I don’t have enough clients to even pay my rent?”

Sadly for many they even go back to the day job, shut down their skills and keep quiet any time anyone mentions spirituality.

So what goes wrong? Why is it that over 80% of all psychics struggle to make ends meet? Here are some tips on how to get started to ensure you become a successful Spiritual Practitioner and get to help as many people as possible.

7 Keys To Psychic Business Success

1. Learn Business Skills

Many psychics’ approach to starting their business is to simply copy what other psychics are doing. They look at what others charge and charge the same or a little less. They create similar leaflets, with similar words and images. How many purple angels, piled up pebbles, or trees in grass fields have you seen?

The result is you won’t stand out from the crowd and if your pricing strategy is to try to be cheaper you’ll only attract the kind of clients who buy the cheapest, and these don’t make the best clients.

If you want to be an engineer you would learn about engineering. If you want to run a spiritual business, you need to learn about how to run a business as well as spirituality.

This might include, marketing, sales, pricing, legal issues, insurance implications and properly drawn up terms and conditions. This may sound overkill if you’re just starting out, however if your business grows you will need them very quickly, so it’s best to get things in place whist you have time and BEFORE you need them. The sad fact is we live in a litigious age and many people are looking for the next person to blame for their life not being as they want, so it pays to make sure you are protected.

2. Learn To Sell And Market Yourself

Meditating, praying and setting your intent to magnetise clients isn’t a marketing strategy. Yes it’s important, but to be successful with your marketing you need to understand the psychology of marketing. Identify your specialist niche and do some market research to find out more about your ideal clients and the problems they might have. Understand the process of converting an interested person into a loyal client.

It’s not about being a pushy sales person, rather being clear about the kinds of problems you solve, and the types of people you work with best and deliver the greatest results for. When you know this and can convey that as a clear message your clients will show themselves to you.

Make sure you focus on the results the client will get when they work with you, rather than what you DO or the techniques you use. Show your client how their life will be different after they have healed their problem. Only give them information about HOW you do that or WHAT therapies you use if they ask.

If your car broke down and you took it to the garage, you wouldn’t want to know all the details of every tool they would use to mend it. You just want to know if they could fix it and by when.

3. Get Over Your Money Hang Ups

Spiritual people often have money problems and issues. There are a lot of strongly held beliefs about spirituality, money and charging. Money and charging for your work becomes fraught with guilt and accusation.

But if you look back to find the source of these beliefs about money and spirituality, you’ll find they are actually medieval and were introduced by the church, who made poverty a noble ideal. Remember though, that at that time the church was linked to the government. Make no mistake; they had a vested interest in keeping the population poor so they would be powerless and easy to control. Notice that those people advocating the nobility of poverty often lived in lavish luxury. Could it be that they wanted to maintain their lifestyle and power?

This idea of the nobility of poverty has permeated into the heart of spiritual community right through to the present day. The result is most healers and psychics finding it hard to charge a fee that will enable them to barely live above the poverty line. If they do they come under criticism from both clients and peers. It’s no wonder that they shrink back to poverty.

But think about this. You wouldn’t expect a gifted sportsperson, entertainer, surgeon or even a plumber or electrician to provide their services for free. Would you be happy to be operated on by a surgeon who had worked all day in a call centre so they could operate in their evenings for free? Or would you feel safer in the hands of someone who could dedicate their whole life solely to their calling? So why should a gifted intuitive work for free? The answer is you shouldn’t. You should charge a karmically balanced fee based on the results you deliver. It’s high time Spiritual Practitioners let go of their money hang ups and stepped into their power around money.

Here are some useful money beliefs that will enable you to support yourself, run a thriving practice and create profound transformation for your clients.

• Money is abundant; there is an infinite amount of money. My success takes from no-one.
• Money is only energy and is neither good nor bad.
• You can help more people more when you’re rich than poor.
• True spiritual enlightenment comes from seeing the divine in everything, including that which many condemn.
• Your clients are not paying you, they are investing in themselves.
• In order for the client to get value your clients need to invest in themselves.
• You have a divine right to be rewarded for the value you give.

If you find any the above challenging then you might want to dig down into the root of this. You may find that you have some unconscious limiting beliefs about money that will sabotage the success that you truly deserve.

4. Have a Karmically Balanced Pricing Strategy

A karmically balanced pricing strategy is one where you are rewarded for the transformation you provide and the energy and attention you have put into making that possible. This includes all the hidden, behind the scene things that most psychics (and clients) don’t know about.

When psychics leave their day job and make the transition from employed to self employed they often charge an hourly rate that is similar to what they were getting from their job.

However what they soon realise is that, with those rates they can’t make ends meet and end up massively overworking. This is because as a self employed person you have to count the hours that you are NOT working face to face with your client. In addition you need to take account of all the business overheads such as room rental, marketing, website costs, travel to events, any staff or bookkeeping costs, and remember tax too!

Another way psychics create karmic imbalance is they forget to take account of the extra time it takes to run a business. When you work for yourself you need to factor in at least 30% of your time will be spent on marketing, sales, admin and growing your business. So take account of this when calculating your hourly rate. Otherwise you’ll end up overworking, stressed out and unable to serve your clients to the level they deserve.

Here are a few signs you don’t’ have a karmically balanced pricing strategy.

• You are working excessive hours, long days and weekends to catch up on admin and business tasks.
• You start to feel resentful of the time and demand your clients make of you.
• You see your clients going to other practitioners who are charging more than you. This is because the universe hates karmic imbalance so it will repel your client.
• You sigh inside when you take on a new client because of all the extra work it will entail.

The bottom line is, if you’re providing value, you need to receive a fair reward, and that might mean raising your fees.

5. Transformation Not Information

Old school psychics used to do all the talking, simply giving the client information. Much of this was of a fairly day to day level and often already known by the client. In the long term this information didn’t make much difference to the client’s life or circumstances. This type of psychic tended to focus on the WOW factor, impressing the client with the accuracy of the information.

However, increasingly clients are demanding something very different. They don’t want information. They want transformation. They come to a Spiritual Practitioner wanting to make changes to the areas of their lives that aren’t working.

This means that the Spiritual Practitioner needs to have skills that can assist the client through that change. The relationship will be over a longer term, rather than just coming for a one-off reading the client will work with the Spiritual Practitioner over a period of months to support the client through that change.

6. Continue To Increase Your Skills

Following on from above, in order to facilitate the kind of transformation clients now demand you need to have some powerful change techniques and that means investing in your training. Being a natural born psychic isn’t enough. Just like a naturally talented artist, sportsperson or even surgeon will train, practice and learn new skills a Spiritual Practitioner needs to stay right at the top of their game, and to do this they need to train, learn, read, and attend workshops, seminars and network with other Spiritual Practitioners.

Every single professional body requires training to a particular standard. To stay accredited practitioners must demonstrate continued development to ensure they are using the most up to date skills and techniques. It is high time Spiritual Practitioners took themselves seriously enough to do this for themselves and be proud of it.

7. Raise your Psy-Q

Most people are familiar with psychics who can pick up day to day information. These hard facts, although impressive, offer information that has only limited value. The Spiritual Practitioners who command the highest fees have developed the ability to access the Higher Mind.

Higher Mind psychics have a high Psy-Q or psychic intelligence quotient. Just like IQ (intelligence quotient) your Psy-Q is a measure of your ability to connect to the higher mind and pure source energy.

Whereas the lower end of the Psy-Q spectrum contains only trivial information and day to day worries, at the higher end of the Psy-Q spectrum you can tap into source itself and insights that relate to life purpose, karma, global issues, rather than simply how to get the job, the guy or where to go on holiday.

These High Psy-Q Spiritual Practitioners can facilitate truly phenomenal transformation both quickly, easily and pain free for their clients. They assist the client to CREATE their future, not predict it, which is why they are in such high demand. It’s this that truly separates the amateurs from the professionals.