This week I opened my new ICE Method Payment system. It’s a philosophical system of payment – also a scientific system that aligns with a faith system. Each person’s bill now reads:

Your treatment was a gift from someone who came before you.
To keep the chain of gifts alive,
I invite you to pay it forward for those who will be served after you.

Philosophically, the question is whether a person’s value is based on their ability to pay. If so, then the current system of charging a set fee for services is correct – every dollar has equal value, but people have value based on how many dollars they have.

I keep treating people who have little or no money to spare – they are on disability, unemployed, their business is hit by hard times, they are living under other conditions of stress.

Philosophically, I am choosing to act based on each person being of equal value, and an equal right to access, even though they have a different ability to pay. By opening up payment to a person’s ability to pay, it’s possible perhaps that all can be served, that payments from those with many dollars can sustain The ICE Method as a service and keep the chain of gifts alive for all people, including the people who have few dollars.

Scientifically, there is now plenty of research, on everything from a social to a psychological spectrum, and from a quantum understanding to a brain biology level, that we are wired not for isolation, but for cooperation and community. Lynne McTaggerts’ recent book, The Bond provides yet another example of the science and the anecdotes that show how much more powerful it is to cooperate than to compete. I am attempting to structure The ICE Method in this manner of cooperation.

Look around at our communities, and how greatly we’ve given in to the idea of competition and isolation. We watch our televisions alone. We strive to drive cars that confer status and separation from others. We think we’re just acquiring something desired, yet so much of our acquisition separates us rather than connects us.

Faith, Look at the faith systems of the world. Their leaders shared freely, their message was love, it was open to all, and it transformed lives.

Rather than the complicated system of figuring out how much to charge, and then how much charity work I can afford to share, this new payment system is an experiment in faith, philosophy, and science, not about how much I can acquire, but how widely can I share love and transformation.

Will The ICE Method receive enough so I can provide my family and grow The ICE Method? We’ll see. I have turned this question over and over in my mind. Please turn it over in yours, and as you feel moved to help keep the chain of gifts alive, please join in paying it forward.

 

This week I opened my new ICE Method Payment system.  It’s a philosophical system of payment – also a scientific system that aligns with a faith system.  Each person’s bill now reads:

Your treatment was a gift from someone who came before you.
To keep the chain of gifts alive,
I invite you to pay it forward for those who will be served after you.

Philosophically, the question is whether a person’s value is based on their ability to pay.  If so, then the current system of charging a set fee for services is correct – every dollar has equal value, and people have value based on how many dollars they have.

I keep treating people who have now money to spare – they are on disability, unemployed, living under other conditions of stress.

Philosophically, I am choosing to act based on each person being of equal value, and an equal right to access, even though they have a different ability to pay.  By opening up payment to a person’s ability to pay, it’s possible perhaps that all can be served, that payments from those with many dollars can sustain The ICE Method as a service and keep the chain of gifts alive for all people, including  the people who have few dollars.

Scientifically,  there is now plenty of research, on everything from a social to a psychological spectrum, and from a quantum to a brain biology level, that we are wired not for isolation, but for cooperation and community.  Lynne McTaggerts’ recent book, The Bond provides yet another example of the science and the anecdotes that show how much more powerful it is to cooperate than to compete.  I am attempting to structure The ICE Method in this manner of cooperation. 

Look around at our communities, and how greatly we’ve given in to the idea of competition and isolation.  We watch our televisions alone.  We strive to drive cars that confer status and separation from others.  We think we’re just acquiring something desired, yet so much of our acquisition separates us rather than connects us.

Faith,  Look at the faith systems of the world.  Their leaders shared freely, their message was love, it was open to all, and it transformed lives. 

Rather than the complicated system of figuring out how much to charge, and then how much charity work I can afford to share, this new payment system is an experiment in faith, philosophy, and science, not about how much I can acquire, but how widely can I share love and transformation.

Will The ICE Method receive enough so Ican provide my family  and grow The ICE Method?  We’ll see.  I have turned this question over and over in my mind.  Please turn it over in yours, and if you feel moved to help keep the chain of gifts alive, please join in paying it forward.