Most of what is available on my website is offered on a pay-what-you-choose basis. Occasionally people have a difficult time with this since it’s not the norm.
First, I would encourage you to see this as an opportunity. We are very much an outside —> in society. Our first action when we are unsure about something like this is to check and see what others think. When starting a new business, we are told to check what our competition is charging before setting our prices, for example. I fell into this myself when I first started.
But I am continually looking for more areas in my life where I can flip this and be an inside —> out person, to first check with my inner guidance instead of relying heavily on other people’s opinions.
I was once asked what others have paid on average for a particular session that someone wanted to book. I certainly understand where they were coming from. They were trying to get an idea of what the “right” amount to give me would be. But I would ask that people consider that if you asked me this and I said that everyone in the past had given me $0.50 would you also pay that amount? What if I said that I received on average $5000 per session? I think for many people neither one of these amounts would seem like a good fit, so you would be back to having to decide on what amount feels right for you.
Here is one little exercise that a spirituality teacher named Bashar once shared that I find quite useful. This exercise was suggested to help people realize how much time they truly believed something would take, but it can be easily modified for other things too.
Bashar said to start with a ridiculously high (or low) number. So, for example, if you want to find out how long you truly believe it will take for you to be able to afford your own home, you would first start with something like 300 years. If 300 years feels way too long, you would then reduce the number to 100 years, let’s say, and see how that feels. If, “It will take me 100 years to be able to afford a house,” still feels way too long, then drop down to 50, then 20, then 5 years. Maybe once you get down to 5 years that feels like too little time. Then you know your number is somewhere between 5 and 20 years. So you just bounce back and forth (17, 7, 15, 9) until you arrive at a number that doesn’t bring up any push back in you. A number that feels right.