Harmonising The Yin & Yang In Your Business

In episode 7 of the Biz Alchemy podcast, Jacquelyn explores a foundational component of creating a new paradigm in your business - bringing harmony to the yin and yang aspects of business, or what many would call the feminine and masculine aspects. She explores why this has been out of balance in the patriarchal business model and gives some examples of where this unbalance could show up in your business.

Transcript

I'm chatting with you about the H in the Beach Philosophy.

We are here,

The final letter.

This,

The H,

Which stands for harmony,

Harmony in your business.

And this in many ways is fundamental to embodying a new business paradigm.

By harmony,

I mean the harmony between the Yin and the Yang.

Now,

I like to refer to it as Yin and Yang,

That polarity,

Rather than masculine and feminine,

Because masculine and feminine,

Even though we understand it's not gender,

But it still has that,

Those sort of gender tones,

Whereas Yin and Yang are just two different ways of being and,

And two parts that,

You know,

We all embody.

And we,

Uh,

It's about balancing those,

Harmonizing those to really bring wholeness.

Now,

Traditionally,

Business has been very Yang.

And you know,

That makes sense.

It was created by men for men.

You know,

That's for hundreds of years,

This current sort of business system,

You know,

It's evolved,

Uh,

In many ways,

Probably since the industrial revolution time.

So of course it has been predominantly Yang.

And then women have moved into the business sphere in more recent years and probably the last 50 years,

But especially the last sort of 30 years or so,

And even more so since the business has moved online for so many of us,

And are operating in this energy that's predominantly Yang.

Now,

Interesting,

One aspect of traditional business that has been Yin one,

One way that the Yin energy is present in that system is in receiving.

Receiving is Yin.

Okay.

Giving out is Yang.

So that Yin component has been there in that patriarchal,

Patriarchal model,

That Yin component of receiving.

And yet here's the irony.

It's actually one of the things that women do worse in business.

Like men are actually much better in business at receiving generally.

Uh,

But women because of our conditioning and especially a lot of the old stories and beliefs that are held in our solar plexus around our self-worth,

We can struggle with receiving.

And often we build our businesses based on this patriarchal model.

And yet the one Yin component we don't do so well at,

Isn't it fascinating?

So when we are looking at a system,

Uh,

That is balanced in the Yin and Yang,

It is a system that we as women find it so much easier to operate in.

To not operate.

That's,

That's quite a Yang word,

Isn't it?

To,

To be in,

To be in.

And today I'm going to just look at four aspects of business that we can look at.

Um,

And,

And have it,

And,

You know,

Look at objectively and see if we are showing up in a balanced way,

If we are showing up and really allowing the Yin component of ourselves to have a voice,

Uh,

And to be in harmony with the Yang.

Obviously the Yang is required.

That's very much a part.

I mean,

You know,

We are giving out in business,

So there is a Yang component anyway,

Action is required in business.

This is important,

But how do we find the harmony?

Now,

As I've already touched on,

Uh,

Giving and receiving is one aspect of the Yin and the Yang being in balance.

And as I said,

Interestingly,

Many women are in balance.

Interestingly,

Many women do not have this imbalance.

Cleverly,

When I am looking at the heart chakra of a female entrepreneur,

It is very rare for me to see it as open in receiving as in the output,

As in the giving part,

When I look clairvoyantly,

I usually just see it as the front of the heart giving out and the back of the heart receiving,

And that's just how it shows for me visually.

And so often when I am looking at the back of someone's heart chakra,

And actually not just the entrepreneur,

But their business as well,

The business's heart chakra,

Uh,

Which is also,

You know,

A bit of a worry is that there's a filter there.

There's a filter that the stories being held in that chakra are creating a filter so that it isn't fully open to receiving in the way it could be.

And yet the front is so open and clear and,

You know,

So ready to give.

And this can be just as obvious in the business as it is in my clients' chakra.

And you do not want a business that has stories and resistance in there to receiving or else it's not really a business,

Is it?

So bringing this into balance is so important.

And another part of those filters that I often see on the heart chakra of my client or their business is that there's limitation there in how much can be received and how.

I'll often see little channels coming out or going in,

Really feeding into the back of the heart chakra.

And very often there's just one channel or two channels.

And it's almost like this is the whole sort of mindset,

The belief stuff that you can only receive in through a certain channel.

It will only come a certain way.

For example,

It might be,

Uh,

It can only come through this one program in my business.

And you might have other ways money could come in,

But they're not really,

Uh,

Focused on,

They're not given energy.

Or outside of the business,

You know,

Any possibility outside of the business is just not given energy.

And this seems to be very strong in females,

Whether this is where the money must come from,

This is where I believe it'll come from.

And so I'm just going to keep this channel open,

Not pay any heed to those other channels,

Not give them any energy.

And so of course they stay closed or just a trickle going through them.

So it's really interesting,

Um,

How we've limited ourselves to receive,

How society and our conditioning has limited us to receive.

And there are plenty of people who work in this area and can support you with that,

But bringing that awareness to it is really important.

So it's quite interesting.

I've actually started with,

Um,

Here I am talking about the balancing of the yin and yang,

And probably we'd mostly go,

Oh yeah,

Business is too yang.

I have to bring money to it.

Too yang,

I have to bring more yin energy in.

Uh,

And yet the first example I've given you is the other way around.

So yeah,

Bringing harmony to the yin and the yang.

And what that also may mean is actually looking at how much you're giving out.

Are you over giving?

Okay.

Again,

This is,

This is very much tied in,

Not just with the heart chakra,

But with the solar plexus chakra and your boundaries.

Are you over giving?

And it might even be that you have to pull back a little there to bring balance into what's,

What you're receiving.

So contemplate this one.

It's a really important aspect of business.

Now the second aspect of business,

Uh,

Is to do with your third eye.

And this is to do with the harmony between the yin and the yang or the intuitive and the mental aspect of the third eye.

Now the third eye governs both the intuitive side and the mental side.

We have grown up in a society that gives great value to the mental side.

And so we have established that beautifully.

And many of us,

You know,

Women and men,

But I think women are really powerfully on this journey because of our innate intuitive side that has been forgotten.

And so many of us are on the journey to reclaim that within ourselves,

To remember it,

To trust it.

So this,

This is such an important part of the third eye energy,

Uh,

Of business.

Well,

Third eye energy,

Full stop,

But very,

Very important in business as well.

To balance the mental and the intuitive.

Now,

What can happen?

I've got a little story about me with this this week,

Actually,

But I've got a little story about me with this week,

Actually,

But what can happen is that we learn mentally how to do something through a program,

Through a coach we're working with,

You know,

We learn a formula.

It's a very mental formula.

And then,

So for our third eye,

For our visioning of our business,

For our planning in our business,

We really give strong emphasis to this mental side.

We do not allow our intuitive voice to come up and speak.

The new business paradigm gives equal weighting to that intuitive voice.

And that intuitive voice is unique.

Okay.

The mental voice is learned so we can override that intuitive knowing by that mental voice and we end up following a business path that maybe is not our unique path that our voice would have guided us to be on.

So what happened for me last week?

I decided to run a masterclass.

I am about to open the doors to my new group and I thought I'll run a masterclass to lead into that.

Partly because that's how I've always done it.

That's how I've reached more people through running a webinar or a challenge before I open my invitation period to a new program or whatever I'm offering.

So I thought,

Okay,

That's what I'll do.

I'll do a masterclass.

So I spent a day or quite a few hours anyway,

Just getting that ready,

Setting it,

Coming up with something.

Interestingly,

It took me a little while to come up with what I wanted to run the masterclass on,

Which maybe should have been a sign for me because usually I just know.

It took me a little while to think about it.

Then on the day,

So I created everything.

Well,

I got everything ready for my VA to create.

I gave her all the content so she could set it up.

So it was ready to go.

And I did that Thursday ready to start promoting on Friday.

On Friday,

I put the ad out in a group and,

Or the promotion,

The invitation,

And I put that out in a group.

And I felt really weird.

Like there was a part of me inside going,

I actually ended up rushing it because I didn't allow enough time to do it.

And I had to go out and all that day I felt really uncomfortable about it.

And what was interesting,

Um,

Because I had some blood pressure problems towards the end of the year,

And I'm very aware of sort of came down to the fact that it's stress causing it.

And what I've become aware of is that stress is when I am not following my inner voice.

That stress is when my mental is overriding my intuitive.

Anyway,

Because I'm now on some antihypertensives,

Um,

Short term,

Uh,

Just to keep my blood pressure down.

I checked it on a Friday morning and it was up and I woke with a slight headache,

Which for me was the sign I was having in December.

And I thought,

Oh,

Okay.

I don't feel so good today.

And I checked my blood pressure.

It was up a bit and I thought,

Okay.

And then I put this post out,

You know,

Inviting people to my masterclass.

And all that day,

I just didn't feel great.

And I had to have a kidney ultrasound that afternoon as part of my investigations that I'm undergoing at the moment.

And I was laying there on the table and went,

Suddenly this part of me just went,

I don't want to do that masterclass.

I,

I,

I just do not have the energy into promoting it.

Um,

And even holding that space.

I don't want to do it.

It doesn't feel right to me mentally.

That's what I've learned intuitively.

It's not right.

So I came home,

Took down the post,

Checked my blood pressure.

It had dropped and I just went,

Oh,

It was like this weight off my shoulders.

And then I was a little,

I was like,

Oh,

I'm going to die.

Was a little incredulous actually with myself.

I went,

I can't believe you just did that.

Here you are sharing with all these amazing entrepreneurs about balancing the yin and the yang,

Balancing the intuitive and the mental,

Um,

Choosing the easy path in business,

And you've fallen for it again,

You've dropped into a formula and followed that formula.

But I recognized it and pulled back before I went too far.

Uh,

So I'm sharing this with you to show it is an ongoing journey.

And,

Um,

I'm,

I actually,

It's interesting though,

Because I felt such relief as soon as I decided to listen to my intuitive voice and of course little questions came up going,

Okay,

Well,

How are you going to promote it now?

Smarty?

Um,

Not quite that,

But you know,

That was still basically there.

And,

Um,

And I went,

No,

I'm just going to do what I share with others to do.

I'm going to show up as myself.

That's all I need to do.

There are no rules around it.

That's all I need to do.

So that was a little example I wanted to share with you about that balancing of the intuitive and the mental and how that really can take your business on quite a different path.

And as you can see,

Even by doing that,

That brings more of some of those other things we've been talking about with the beach philosophy,

Start again,

The beach philosophy,

You know,

Particularly that ease side,

That attraction side,

If I'd have gone ahead with that masterclass,

My vibration would have been lower,

I would not have attracted in the women who I really want to come in on the journey with me.

So,

Um,

Really important aspect.

And,

And,

You know,

As you can see by the amount of time I've just spent talking about this,

I could easily do a whole podcast on this and probably we'll explore it much more.

Let me just cover a couple more things though,

About the,

The yin and the yang.

This is,

I mean,

In many ways,

You know,

Every,

Every chakra has a yin and yang component,

But in terms of just harmony of polarities,

I suppose,

Let's look at it that way,

And that's the upper chakras and the lower chakras.

So very often when we start our business,

We come from an upper chakra space.

You know,

We,

We have this idea,

We,

We feel excited about it.

We feel passionate.

We,

We,

Uh,

We talk about it and share,

You know,

We're,

We're really harnessing the energy of our heart chakra,

Our throat chakra,

And our third eye chakra.

And we start our business that way.

We really operate from that way.

And then it's only the lower chakras often only come into play.

I mean,

The sacral comes in a bit in the creation,

But really the lower chakras only come into play later on in business.

And,

Uh,

When you hear me talk about the chakras of business for,

You know,

Later on,

I'll,

We'll go through those.

Um,

That's where you realize the difference,

But we can either get too caught up in the upper chakras and forget to bring the lower chakra stuff in the more practical side of the business.

Um,

The,

The systems,

The,

The things I talked about before,

Like the boundaries and often we can bring those or not,

Not even bring them in later.

Sometimes we,

We just crap at it,

You know,

And we just hang in the upper chakra space,

Wonder why our business is not taking off,

But then we can also go the other way.

We can actually get caught in the systems,

Get caught in setting it all up,

But we forget about the passion.

We forget to speak about the passion and,

And the vision and that side of it,

And,

And just hang out more in the more physical energy of,

Of the chakras.

So again,

Harmonizing those,

Bringing balance between the upper and the lower,

Moving in a beautiful harmonious way between them,

Uh,

Integrating them.

This is an important way to bring the harmony that is a part of the new business paradigm.

And finally,

This again,

I will speak about on its own because I'm so passionate about it.

It's the harmony between us and the earth.

If we can bring in harmony between ourselves and our business and the earth energy through the cycles of the earth,

This allows our business to prosper in a very new and very different way.

It also creates much more ease in the business.

And so this could be that you align your business with the cycles of the earth.

So it could be that you align with the moon cycles,

With the seasonal cycles,

But you actually acknowledge the energies that the earth brings in those times and,

Uh,

Use that in the way that you set up your business in the way that you show up in your business.

This can also be done with your cycle if you're still bleeding,

But if you are honoring your cycle,

Very often your cycle is connected in with the moon cycle.

Anyway,

It's actually the earth cycle first.

So easier just to go straight to that because what you'll find is if you're focusing more on the earth cycle within your business,

Your cycle will automatically fall into sync with that.

This I am passionate about.

I am going to share more about this throughout the year because I want to implement more of this in my business.

I already have what I call a Yin Week,

Which is one week a month,

The week leading up to the new moon and me and including that time.

That's when I try and pick as my Yin Week,

Which means I'm not having clients,

So I'm not putting out energy.

My energy is turned in and I'm creating in that space.

I've been doing this for a year now and it's been such a powerful time of creation for me.

However,

This year,

I do want to move even more into honoring the earth cycle,

And the seasonal cycles.

And I will have some guests for you as well sometime in the future to discuss this.

You know,

Women who have incorporated this into their business,

This is their gifts.

This is a part of what they share in their businesses.

And I'm very excited to implement much more of that this year.

So there's some examples of the harmony that you can bring into business.

This harmony of the harmony of the harmony of the harmony of the harmony of the yin and the yang.

That is what the new business paradigm is all about.

And when your business is in harmony,

You are in harmony and your life is in harmony.

And that makes it easy.

That makes it flowing.

That makes it abundant because this is the other thing with connecting in with those earth cycles and the flow of earth energy.

That's abundance.

When we are open to the flow of the earth energy,

We are open to the flow of abundance.

Abundance comes from her.

So this harmony is what is key to bringing abundance into our business.

So I invite you to think about what parts of your business could be brought more into harmony through either bringing a little more yang in or,

Or through bringing more yin in.

And I'll talk about this much more in future episodes,

Breaking it down and spending more time on each component and giving you some tips of how you can include this more in your business.

Wishing you an amazing alchemical week.

Reviews

Thank you for sharing this! So nice to hear your personal experiences of being human in this process. I was laughing with you!

I love this way of thinking about bringing harmony into your business. We need more of this way of thinking in our lives and to include business is brilliant 💫

You mentioned about your blood pressure dropped after u cancelled some work. My blood pressure dropped to healthy level without medication 3 months after i spent 1 hour everyday in a nice cafe with a nice cup of drinks and imple snack as adviced by my doctor to destress. It actually dropped slowly within the first week, then back to normal 3 months later...i sat alone by the cafe window, enjoying soothing song in the cafe and having yummy snacks. I enjoy your talk. Thanks for exchanging energy. Xoxo.