3 key tips to help you decide if the space of feminine business is right for you ~ an article for the woman who is exploring if feminine business is the correct approach for her creative talents.
Something I wish was more commonly known in the space of success and ambition is that not every person is meant to go into business. A part of us can find this difficult to believe especially if our media spaces are filled with stories of millionaires at 21, business owners making 6-figures in 6 months time (most of these stories not being transparent and quite misleading, to add)
Reading and listening to these tales makes those of us in the corporate leading peaceful 9-5 jobs develop dissatisfaction towards the sustainable success we already have. And those of us with evergreen businesses with an existing ease of income start doubting our enough-ness when we come across these distorted stories of success.
I can speak from my experiences of working with women, is that not every woman out there feels the inner call to go into business. And that is completely okay.
A woman can still have a fulfilling career while doing a 9-5 job. She can still have a full life outside her workplace that’s protected by her boundaries around time and availability. She can still become wealthier by not getting influenced by every consumer trend and instead putting her money in long term investments. She can still grow her career by upgrading her current knowledge to attract brighter opportunities in her field of work and move forward and upward.
When I look back on my own corporate life, this is the vision I deeply related with and was embodying at the most micro level.
For me, things started shifting when my feminine body started screaming for safety from the hustle-oriented ways I was moving her in the pursuit of success in my career.
Beneath all my material and financial success, was a body pleading me to slow down and honor her needs ~ asking me to eat on time, sleep on time, move her just enough so she feels regulated and alive.
I ignored this voice for the longest time until she gave in, landing me in my fancy hospital ward for an unexpected surgery. In the blink of an eye, I was forced to slow down and pay the overdue attention to her needs. From there onwards, began the long journey of setting boundaries within and around myself so I would never again abandon my core needs.
When I set upon that pursuit, my simple assumption was that it was only me who needed to shift the way I was showing up in my life and work, that it were my own blind spots that had led me to undermine what was needed to live a both nourished and a fulfilling life. Soon enough though, I came to learn that this was a result of a deeply embedded conditioning that had led me to believe that the only way to success is the masculine-focused hustle approach. That ingrained in me the beliefs that if I slowed down even by a little, I’d lose in the race of life. That if I took breaks, someone else will take over me and all the work I had poured my time, energy and bodily resources into would be taken away from me.
It was when I peeled back the layers of this conditioning one after the other that I started seeing how the industry and the workplace I had chosen to grow a career in, was deeply imbedded in these extractive and heart-hardening ways of operating. As a result, even after I had made all the possible shifts in my own ways of being, living and working, I could see that this was a mismatch at a deeper level, that I was choosing to slow down in a work arena that was founded on the fast-paced striving and forceful ways of working.
From that point onwards, it was a choice for me ~ to either move to another industry by upgrading my skills or to completely exit the corporate space and build something of my own. The latter idea seemed scary, especially at a time when I was at the peak of a career I had built by pouring myself into it completely. And yet this was calling me very loudly. It made sense to something deeper in me, that wasn’t very logical and rational for most around me.
Years later, having cultivated a skillset that not only pays my bills but also fulfils me so deeply, I know I made the right decision for myself. A decision that I arrived to after infusing my logical awareness about the practical realities of my world with my deeply wise intuition that was able to foresee my future without me being even slightly aware of it.
I didn’t have this level of mastery in the work I do today when i began this journey years ago. But I felt a deep conviction in this decision that led me to that one right step, one right action, one right decision at a time slowly forming the path that I covered to create a truly rich business for myself, one that nourishes and enriches not only my soul but also my bank account today (a journey that I also guide women on in my upcoming feminine business course, more details shared below)
In today’s blog, I want to share with you 3 snippets from this journey, pieces of advice that I wish were offered to me when I began walking on this path of birthing my feminine business.
These tips will help you assess where you might be on your career journey and will help you make a sound decision if you’ve been feeling the pull to translate your talents and passions into an emotionally fulfilling and financially sustainable business. (in a previous article, i have shared in detail about what a feminine business really is. If you’re new to this concept of doing business, then I recommend having a read of it first)
1 | determining what kind of a business is right for you.
The first question that a woman is faced with when she starts re-evaluating her career is whether to go into business full time or part time. This push and pull is very natural considering we don’t always have all the answers right at the start of anything. Which is why I want to reiterate here that it is very easy to watch the highlights of someone’s independent career on our mobile screens and assume that the grass is greener on that pasture.
What the same people won’t and can’t always share with you is the amount of disappointment, patience and resilience that may have gone in the process of reaching where they are today in their business. So instead of blindly following someone else’s journey in business, give yourself time to assess what would the right model of business look like for you, if you’re feeling called to walking on this path.
As an example, when I look back upon this time in my life, I didn’t care about the money or growth I had in my corporate career. I needed so much more from my life back then, that looked very different from my blingy life in Dubai. I yearned for my lost inner peace, I craved slowness, I needed a routine that didn’t involve me rushing through the most sacred part of my days that were my mornings. I wanted to wake up without alarms, I wanted to stay in bed for a few more mins without the rush or pressure of getting anything done, I wanted to spend my mornings meditating sometimes for more than an hour, I wanted to enjoy a slow and nutritious breakfast, I wanted to sit out in the sun for some time before I started my workday, and then sit down to work feeling truly inspired. This was my most heartfelt vision when I started this exploration, a vision that’s grown deeper and richer over the years where my most magical creativity flows from this part of my daily routine. Wherein the more time I allow myself to rest, the more inspiration I receive to grow my business creatively and financially.
Having supported so many women with their feminine softening & embodiment, I can tell you that..
deep within, you too know what you truly desire when it comes to expressing, working and serving the world with your energy and time. You too know what would make work feel truly fulfilling for you.
In my 1-1 work with women, more often than not, this is the first step I help them develop clarity around. Because I truly believe that we don’t need to succumb to the pressure of going into business full time if we already have a job that can allow us to slowly build a business on the sidelines. And I also believe that if the time has arrived where we are (emotionally and financially) ready to go full time into business, then it’s a disservice to our soul if we force ourselves to stay in a career that we don’t feel any fulfilment in.
This step requires the most care in my opinion, which is why it also requires us to turn down the noise around us and tune into the deeply powerful inner wisdom we women hold in our bodies. In both my private as well as self-study feminine business offerings, I help my clients learn how to understand the language of these inner cues and develop a solid understanding of what would truly serve them on this path of creating a business for themselves. So that this decision stays truly theirs and they’re not met with any regret in tender moments that will arise on the path of deepening and growing their business.
(there of course is another layer of decision making in this step where you need to have clarity around what is the business idea that’s inspiring you to take this step. A step I cover in the first module of my feminine business course, if you need support around this)
2 | the essential masculine-feminine integration when starting your business
In a lot of spaces that teach about feminine energy, there’s a sneaky resentment that is projected for our masculine essence that makes us see our rather integral masculine energy as something undesirable and unhelpful. I personally view this as almost a malpractice to be telling women to soften in their feminine essence especially in the process of building a business and not acknowledging the need for the masculine support they will need on this journey.
What I mean by this is, if someone today decided to go into independent work following the feminine business philosophy and didn’t have any kind of masculine support around them, they’re bound to fail miserably. When I use the term masculine support, here’s what it can look like for us women in the practical sense~
Having a decent savings net to protect us if the business doesn’t start growing immediately. Having a family, partner, a part time job, or a full time job that can support us financially as we slowly and naturally develop our feminine business. Having a plan B to pivot if by any chance the chosen business idea doesn’t take off. Having some kind of long term investments that you can cash out on if needed to, to support your business expenses temporarily.
These practical assessments are often reduced to labels like financial privilege, which is true to some extent. But if a woman is longing to go into business and leave the corporate path that feels suffocating to her, it is absolutely okay to receive this privilege, to make use of what’s available for her. This is a step that requires one to be wise and understanding of where they currently stand in terms of their financial well-being.
Growing a feminine business doesn’t happen in vacuum.
You will still need to pay your bills, you will still need to provide for your daily needs while growing the roots of your business. And all of that will require money. Which is why there shouldn’t be any shame whether you do or do not have the privilege of financial support.
As an example from my life, around the time when i was completing my MBA I knew that my life’s path will involve entrepreneurship one way or the other. Coming from a rather humble background, I didn’t have the courage, the knowledge or the resources to go into business soon after graduating so I knew that I will have to reach my destination through a temporary stint of corporate experience. During the placement season at my business school, by a mysterious wave of grace, I attracted an international job opportunity with the Dubai franchise of a Fortune-500 multinational company. From day one, I was earning in a foreign currency an amount that was many times higher than what my peers were earning back in India. By the time I reached the point where I was ready to exit the corporate fully, I had a large savings net of cash as well as investments that would go on to give me the peace of mind needed to build my business as slowly as I desired. (this was despite some grave money mistakes i made on this journey leading me to go deeper into healing my relationship with money, that I quite tenderly share in my money magnetism course)
If I hadn’t had this savings net, I can assure you I wouldn’t have had the peace of mind I felt on this journey of birthing my business. Because I had the masculine support of financial resources (that I wasn’t born with the privilege of, but earned through a lot of hard work in my corporate life), I was able to create and grow a truly feminine business that fulfils me emotionally and takes care of my needs financially, to this very day.
This is why I believe it is important to consider these factors practically when deciding whether to go into business full time or part time. If you hold the desire in your heart to truly take the path of building a feminine business, a path that adds meaning and fulfilment to your life as well as your career, please know that you will need the masculine-providing support of money, people, resources, and other alternate opportunities, along the way. I’d advise you to consider looking away from the glamorous business success stories flashing on your screen and make decisions that are true and right specifically for you. (if you need deeper support in tuning into your embodied wisdom, I offer support around this in my upcoming feminine business course)
3 | honest assessment of the sustainability and longevity of your business idea and the chosen growth approach
I get a special kind of ick from people who without any kind of qualifications claim themselves to be experts in a field. I think this might be because I come from a background where academics and some sort of skill-training has always held some value.
This is not to say that one has to go through the rigorous and often the long and tedious approach to cultivating mastery in their choice of work field before they create a business around it. May be they’re naturally skilled at the talent they want to translate into a business, may be they grew up learning that craft from role models in the family, may be they developed this skill through the day job the were doing for all these years.
In my work, I advise women to develop some level of a sound understanding around their gift / craft, so that the advice and the service that they offer to people doesn’t end up doing more harm than good. Especially if they’re desiring to increase the longevity of their business, doing this also naturally makes them less susceptible to the imposter syndrome that many of the most sincere businesswomen feel from time to time.
As an example, when I decided to translate my personal journey of feminine embodiment into a business, I had two choices ~ to either go through the long and tedious PhD route or to find a coach certification that could offer me the same knowledge in a simpler way. Having spent years mentoring people in leadership roles in my corporate life, I knew that coaching was the path I wanted to take despite the stains on its general reputation. And I think it was the magnetism of this heart-felt desire of mine that led me to a certification founded in scientific and embodied wisdom, that helped me develop a very sound understanding of feminine embodiment (and feminine softening, now that i have pivoted and deepened my business further in this domain based on my personal experiences).
Another thing that is important to remember when going into business, is that the world is a smaller place now thanks to the internet. Sooner than later, people will form a perception of your work and business, a negative one in fact if the business is indeed founded on the intention of extracting from people in the shortest time possible. I share this from the common feedback I receive from my clients about how there are so many souls in business who don’t actually care about the ethics of their business practices. Which is okay if that works for them. The question we need to ask here is, what kind of a business are we here to build?
The women my work attracts share similar values with my business in the sense that as sensitive-hearted women, it matters to us that we deeply honor the integrity of our businesses. It matters to us that the income we receive from our work is through deep and meaningful service to the world.
Doing business this way also creates a natural sense of sustainability in our business because even when we evolve on a personal level and want to pivot, there is an underlying skill that we have already developed and mastered over the years that will support this business shift.
Now that we have covered the ethics and integrity piece of sustainability, lets finally cover a little about the marketing and growth aspect of it.
So, when we decide to birth a business (part time or full time), we will need to find ways to share it with the world. That is a very integral part of doing business. And yet many sensitive-hearted women tend to feel a lot of shame and hesitation around selling and marketing especially because of the historical ways this has been done in the past. That “in your face, cold calling, forceful selling, penetrative marketing approaches” that can feel very intrusive to our system.
But it doesn’t have to be this way at all. There is a softer, more easeful approach available to share your craft, your passion, your skills, your artistry, your wisdom with the world.
In my work, that is through the approach of gentle marketing ~ a very feminine philosophy in nature, one that is also surprisingly supported by our inner masculine wisdom. This approach not only feels good to our inner feminine sensitivities but also help us create a sustainable flow of cash in our businesses. In fact, this approach to marketing is the complete opposite of all the ways we have seen businesses being marketed on platforms like Instagram with those undesired ads disrupting our feed, the cringy Youtube ads that make our feminine souls wither just at the mention of them.
I still remember how back in the day, so many of my past colleagues from my corporate workplace would offer me suggestions to make Instagram / Youtube ads selling my feminine embodiment business services. I eventually lost count of the number of times I would go on to say ‘no, thanks’ to these invitations. I could very clearly sense that none of these ways resonated with my inner system. And I also knew that this ‘wasn’t my fear of being seen’. Despite this being a tender time in my business birthing process when I was feeling very alone in exploring a gentler way to market my business, there was a consistent and resounding refusal to adopt these kind of selling strategies and tactics.
On this long and winding journey, I did end up discovering quite a few ways that feel more than enough to grow my feminine business today. Instead of feeling coercive or salesy in nature, they feel like a natural expression of what I have to share, and always end up attracting the people who are the right audience for my work ~ people who are out there actively looking for what I am offering in my work. This feels reassuring and calming to my nervous system and also helps me grow my business in a way that honors my feminine sensitivities (which was my whole point of going into into business!)
I have seen this in my 1-1 work with women as well wherein the more they can tune into their inner wisdom and let it guide them towards their personal best marketing strategy, the more confident they feel in using it for their business on a long-term basis. There is a very deeper sense of sovereignty they start cultivating in the way they manage their business as a result, and this ripples out in all the other areas of their business including their creative expression. There is a very powerful embodiment process that I share around this in my feminine business course, if you’d like support around this area in your business.
To conclude, the feminine way of doing business can feel deeply fulfilling for you if you’re a sensitive and high-achieving woman who holds big desires in her heart for her life and work but is not willing to extract from herself anymore, and is not resonating with the traditional ways of marketing that have been founded on a very unhealthy hyper-masculine foundation of working and operating in life and business.
If you have been feeling hesitant, overwhelmed or even intimidated by the idea of doing business in a way that is different from the usual, I want to tell you how normal this feeling is. I still remember the fears I had when I decided to leave social media for instance, and started exploring more magnetic, softer and easeful ways to share my business.
But like I discovered it in me (and so have so many women who have chosen this path), you too hold a deep reservoir of creative wisdom in your body as a feminine-essenced woman.
That holds so much power in it that you’d be delightfully surprised at the ways it helps you grow and deepen the roots of your business in the world.
This embodied way of tuning into our inner wisdom is what helped me grow my business so wildly and so far away from the traditional landscape of business marketing. And if I had to do it all over again, I would still choose this path.
If you’re at a point where you know at the core of your being that birthing a new business or growing your existing business in a different and softer way is the next right step for you, and all you need is a little more support towards being able to trust your inner feminine wisdom in this process, I currently have two resources that can support you ~
One is my private coaching offering called Feminine Business Incubator, that is a 8-week deeply intimate space for women who need a little more personalised and time-efficient support.
And the other is my feminine business course that’s launching on 15th May (with the add-on option of live support) and is available for purchase now at a super early bird price. It is called Her Rich Gifts and you can learn more about it here.
If needed, please feel free to explore and see which of these resources can support you in the current season of your creative journey and let me know if there are any questions.
The beautiful feminine art of receiving ~ an article for the woman who wants to learn how to open her heart and become comfortable with receiving love, admiration, support, abundance, and so many more gifts the world offers her everyday.
Something shifts within a woman when she starts practicing the feminine art of receiving.
Her heart melts open and relaxes in the comfort of the love, affection, support and care that is being poured into her life. Her body feels a deep exhale knowing that she is always loved, always taken care of, always provided for. Her soul blooms, grows and thrives in the belongingness she feels with God and with those who truly value her.
There is so much beauty in embodying this gift of receptivity because deep within, every woman knows that this is one of the most essential aspects of her femininity that she was never really taught to stay connected with.
In a highly-masculinised world that celebrates striving and proving, she too is taught early on that giving is noble and receiving is selfish. That asking for support means she is weak and that she doesn’t have what it takes to be a ‘self-made’ success story.
She moves through life seeing this in every layer of her society.
Her feminine nature that is designed to thrive on connection and belonging starts drifting towards the myth of individuality from a very young age, slowly disconnecting her from the very ecosystem she is a part of. Now, something as simple as asking for help feels like dependence and is often accompanied by a lot of shame.
Even if she somehow manages to escape that conditioning, she finds that receiving comes with conditions around her worth that is always tied to something outside of her. Being a good student, a girl who meets the society’s beauty standards, an obedient daughter, an independent / self-sufficient woman, a giving wife, a selfless mother.
This slowly builds a shield around her heart that dictates she is worthy only when she gives and does for others, a shield that doesn’t allow her to receive even the simplest well-meaning gestures of care, affection and service offered to her.
On a personal level, it makes her look at these acts of kindness from the lens of her perceived flaws. Because she is so deeply conditioned to attach her value to her outward appearance, to how she speaks, to whether or not she thinks or feels like most around her, whenever any form of goodness comes her way, she can’t help but question its legitimacy, its realness.
In the space of relationships, this hardens her heart and makes it difficult for her to believe that someone might want to love her with pure and true devotion. That someone might be drawn to her for who she is in her most natural state, and not for her achievements or how much she can do for others including that person.
In the realm of her career and business, this leads her to taking on the stride of “I can do it all” when she might actually be needing support underneath. It makes her equate delegation with weakness and losing control, depriving her of the nourishment that is always available through the support of those around her.
And on a spiritual level, this shield makes it difficult for her to believe in the unseen support of the grace that is always guiding her. Often leading to an over-riding of her intuitive wisdom in situations that cannot be navigated solely via logic. It makes her more impatient and less relaxed around problems that may present themselves with a solution only if she allowed herself to truly feel and receive what’s unfolding within her.
if you resonate with any of this, please know you are not alone.
So many women today are feeling this way.. They are slowly realising the cost of hyper-independence that has deprived them of the fulfilment they could feel if only they allowed themselves to truly receive, whether from the people in their life or from the divine grace of the higher power they feel drawn to.
They are paying attention to the tugging at their heart, telling them that there might a different way to living and being.
They are letting themselves feel the exhaustion that their striving and grinding culture has brought to them, slowly allowing themselves to rest, heal and restore their life force energy.
They are releasing the pressure on themselves to figure life out, to know everything (before it even unfolds!)
I have been seeing a lot of these shifts in my feminine softening work with women. And I feel that it’s necessary.
Because these initial permissions are what leads to restoring and returning to the various beautiful aspects of our femininity that include our capacity to receive without shame or guilt.
I see it as a good sign if you are longing to receive love and support without having to perform, earn your worth, over give and over work. If you’re craving to receive deeper intimacy, belonging and emotional connection in your life and relationships.
Because it’s through these desires is how we truly arrive to the heart of this feminine art of receiving. It is through these sacred callings that we allow ourselves to melt our hard masculine shield and soften into our feminine essence.
And so, continue listening to and honoring what’s arising within you, giving yourself the permission to practice this feminine art of receiving as and when you feel safe to.
And if you find yourself seeking more support with this, feel free to explore my feminine softening course or work with me in one of my feminine softening 1-1 sessions.
Navdeep 💗
P.S. looking for more articles on feminine softening in life and in love? Please visit here.
Money magnetism in times of economic shifts ~ an article for the feminine-essenced woman who wants to learn how to trust + receive from the masculine-providing energy of money no matter how turbulent the economic times in her outer world may feel like.
Almost every time when there’s a shift in the economy, a lot of fear starts getting stirred up in the world around money. With the news and every other form of media loudly suggesting an economic downturn, many of us find it difficult to believe in another, in a better reality.
This affects feminine-natured women more than others because they are usually more sensitive to their surroundings and what goes on in their living environments.
Someone who is in a salaried role takes on the fear of losing their job. Someone who is an established business owner fears a dip in their daily, weekly or monthly income. And someone with a baby business fears not being able to make their ends meet.
It is natural for these fears to exist, after all the mind believes what the eyes see and the ears hear.
But here’s something else that happens at the same time, in parallel.
Someone receives their most awaited and well deserved promotion in their corporate job. An established business owner reaches a new milestone of growth. A newbie entrepreneur records their highest income month.
So if the world really is experiencing an economic downturn or a recession as they say, why is someone receiving riches and financial abundance while someone else’s situation is the opposite?
I know this from experience that while it may feel easy to assume that this is about someone’s luck or potential being higher than the others, it is usually the belief system operating in their energy world that determines the outcomes in their physical world. It is usually their felt relationship with money that keeps their aura clear of these surface fears and keeps their belief system rooted in the feminine frequency of abundance and prosperity.
In my money magnetism work, I have seen this time and again that when a woman starts healing her relationship with money, she naturally arrives to the knowing that no matter how much fear is stirred up in times of economic shifts, the energy of money will continue to be greater than the physical paper notes (or the digital currencies) circulating in the world.
She starts understanding that any given day, money is simply a physical representation of the providing energy of the divine masculine source and that as long as she is in right receivership with money, it will flow into her life.
And so, the more she trusts and expect money to fill her life, the more mysterious and almost, magical ways it finds to fulfil her desires.
These are the simple laws of feminine-masculine polarity, after all.
When a feminine vessel, we women in this case, create the space for money to flow into our lives, it is the most natural thing for (the masculine energy of) money to flow into that vessel.
The deeper our energetic capacity to receive, the easier money will find to come and fill our lives.
I witnessed this in my business last year around the time when the world had started to feel the impact of an economic shift. The geopolitical landscape had started to look unpredictable. And as with any economic shift, one could sense the uncertainty in the energy on and off the internet.
Amidst all of this, I noticed how one thing didn’t change at all. That was my business growing and the money flowing in my life through it. If the world really was in a recession or was entering into one, why was my business not getting affected by it, i wondered.
I was working way lesser since I was now exploring the traveling entrepreneur life. Naturally then, I was putting even lesser ‘effort’ in the process of growing my business. And yet, my business income kept flowing in, money just kept supporting me.
Those of us who understand the concept of feminine embodiment will know that this was nothing but an extension of my inner money magnetism. That was fuelled and continues to be fuelled by my trust in the ever-providing energy of money.
If we really think of it, all of us have at least once experienced a time in our lives when nothing outside of us appeared to be in favor of our desires coming true, but we continued to trust in the protective, providing masculine energy of the unknown power.
This energy of our trust created the space for us to receive our prayers in ways we couldn’t possibly have imagined.
We stayed in connection with this energy of sufficiency, acknowledging the presence of the divine grace in the existing richness of our life. We didn’t obsess over the how’s and when’s and instead embodied the energy of surrender and gave over our control to this divine over-arching power.
Thus magnetising our desires sooner than we had expected. In a way that we didn’t even know was possible.
In times of economic shifts too, it is our trust in the providing-masculine energy of money that helps us tune out the noise of the outer world and tune into our wise inner voice to receive the inspiration to multiply our resources in soul-nourishing ways, while making the best use of the money we already have.
When we have repaired our relationship with money, even when economic turbulence exists on the outside, it starts to have lesser and lesser impact on our inner peace and harmony. In such times, we find ourselves becoming even more grounded in the energy of sufficiency and are able to move in life resting in the truth that money will come through and take care of us, no matter what’s going on outside of us.
I hold the memory of a time from my past corporate life when everything around me was working fine ~ the economy was great, I was taking home a big salary, the performance of the company I was working for was stable, but I was drenched in the fear of money running out on me. Since restoring my relationship with money, no matter what’s happening in my outside world, I find myself feeling safe, abundant, and sovereign with money. Living my days with a deep knowing that money always has my back. And trusting myself to make the required shifts to create more space for it to flow in my life.
In Module 6 of my money magnetism course, I talk about how no matter what season of our lives or the season of the economy, it is in the nature of money to provide for us. it would simply go to whoever is open and willing to receive it.
Through the real-life examples mentioned in this offering, I share how money doesn’t see our race, colour, class or religion. It doesn’t see even if we are business owners or salaried employees.
It just responds to our energy of sufficiency, to our energy of trust and receptivity.
As long as we have physically created the channels through which it can arrive into our lives, money will continue to fulfil its duty of taking care of us.
For women who find my money magnetism offerings while still peeling back the layers of their overly-masculinised conditioning, this often feels like a complex equation.
In such instances, I like to remind them that any given day, each one of us have access to our divine intuitive cues that guide us towards what needs to be done, what kind of channels we need to create for our financial desires to be fulfilled.
When we are relaxed in our energy of ease, trust and surrender, we become more receptive to this intuitive wisdom and are able to make decisions that lead us directly in the direction of our desires, even when the outside world is in a state of panic. (I delve deeper into this specific step in my feminine business course if you’d like focused support around it)
This step is so important because money is all the time mirroring our energy.
If we are spending our days drenched in the energy of fear, of lack and scarcity, of tough times ahead, then money will simply respond to our energy by moving farther away from us.
If we have internalised borrowed beliefs like “this is a tough time for business” or “the market is slow, so I gotta settle for the salary I am being offered” and are using the lens of these beliefs to make our everyday decisions, then money is simply going to confirm these beliefs back to us.
And on a much deeper level, if we’re carrying inter-generational trauma or patterns around money, then we will most likely feel a downward spiral of fear when things appear uncertain around us.
This is the part that requires us to do the somatic work of identifying and liberating barriers such as these and recalibrating our nervous system so we can rest in our inherent feminine state of safety, ease, trust and receptivity, pleasure and sufficiency, thus becoming magnetic to the masculine energy of money that is always on a mission to provide for us, to take care of us. (I offer focused guidance around this in my money magnetism course that you’re welcome to explore.)
Remember that even in the most unpredictable economic shifts, there’s richness available to be felt, experienced and received, especially for feminine-attuned women who are naturally magnetic to the giving, providing (masculine) energy of money and abundance. It just takes a little bit of radical transparency with oneself in assessing if our relationship with money needs tending.
Navdeep 💗
P.S. looking for more articles on money magnetism? continue reading here.
Healing your relationship with men and money ~ an article for the feminine-essenced woman who wants to learn how to identify and tend to any possible wounding she may have around receiving from men, especially when it comes to money.
I truly believe that no matter how deeply a woman has been conditioned by her hyper-masculine environments, there is a part of her that is still attuned to her natural feminine design.
The part of her that lets her know when something doesn’t feel good to her.
The part of her that instantly signals to her when she is over giving, over working or over functioning for that what her heart desires.
This inner guiding voice becomes even more louder in the space of love & romance because this is one area of her life where she truly thrives when she can receive from a masculine partner who cherishes, adores, respects and loves her.
This is why when she is operating in overdrive mode always chasing, always leading, initiating and moving her romantic relationships forward, she is met with disappointment and dissatisfaction that she can’t really explain but feels deeply in her heart.
In contrast to this, something beautifully shifts within her when she allows herself to receive from men especially in the space of love and romance.
She melts like ice, her heart opens like a blooming flower, the honey of her inner pleasure starts flowing in her body.
Her nervous system starts healing as she returns to her natural feminine state of feeling and receiving the care, love, respect, and more gestures of sincere affection and devotion that are being poured into her.
There is another layer to this that gets exposed for her own good. How deeply she can receive from men also has a lot to do with how she relates with money.
Because no matter what a man does for her, in one way or the other, it will involve some form of financial investment.
And so at a root level, if she hasn’t yet healed her worthiness for money and the goodness it can bring to her life, she will find it really hard to receive from men as well.
I can share an example from my past where I had a very tender experience of being extracted for my financial resources for quite a few years in a relationship. A time that also shook my entire energetic foundation with money despite coming from a emotionally secure upbringing around money.
After I spent the next few months rebuilding this relationship, the most natural next step for me was to tend to the wounding that made it difficult for me to trust and receive from men, especially when it came to money.
As a newly single woman in the modern dating world, I’d notice how after every date my natural orientation would be to reach for the check.
I was so used to paying not just for me but for another person in my life that sometimes even forcibly, I’d cover my share when the man in front was so eager to take care of it all.
I still send blessings to that one man who few months into my dating life during one of our dinners, looked into my eyes and said to me, “I don’t like it so much when you do all the work of planning our dates. I want to please you, not the other way round. Can you let me do that?”
An interaction that changed everything. It all felt like a puzzle at first. But with time, I started noticing how happy it made embodied masculine men to take care of me through their money. And more importantly, I observed how good it felt to my inner system to be the one receiving these simple gestures of love, affection and adoration.
(this was a realisation that also made me forgive the dis-embodied men in my past for their shortcomings because I found it so easy to accept that just as I had so many shields placed on my heart that made it hard for me to receive, these men too were possibly not connected with their masculine essence that inspired them to give to the women in their life.)
In this process of healing my relationship with men and money, I eventually came to be in right receivership with both of these masculine energy forms. And now find myself effortlessly trusting them to take care of me, come what may.
A key learning from these experiences that I share in my money magnetism course is that any given day, both men and money love us.
It is in their inherent (masculine) nature to care for us feminine-essenced women, to provide for us, to protect us, to facilitate the fulfilment of both our needs and our desires.
The innate design of their masculine nature is to pour into us, to be in service to us, to nourish our lives inside out.
But because we live in such a hyper-masculine world, receiving from men, especially if that’s money, is looked down upon, is often frowned upon.
This, as a result, either turns us into dis-embodied feminists or leaves us feeling confused around how to respond to the generosity of men.
In my 1-1 work of supporting women with their feminine softening in love, I have witnessed that as independent high-achieving women, we usually find ourselves oscillating between two feelings state when it comes to receiving from men.
One, where we feel that we are capable enough to provide for ourselves and don’t need anything from men (a classic example of hyper-independence caused by our over-masculinised conditioning).
And second, where we feel that by accepting money from men in form of paid bills, material gifts or experiences, we owe them something in return, intimacy more specifically, even when we are not ready for it.
When the truth here is, no embodied masculine man with a secure relationship with money would think or expect either of the above from a woman he is investing in, emotionally, energetically and financially.
Something our hyper-masculine conditioning keeps women uninformed about is that any man who is drawn to a woman he sincerely wants to build a future with, will give to her from a place of sincere care, respect and affection (and love, as the relationship deepens).
This also means that in instances when he doesn’t have oodles of money to shower her with things or gestures involving money, he will find creative ways to make her feel valued and cared for.
Just as feminine-attuned women feel the most fulfilled when receiving with joy, warmth and affection (not shame or guilt), men love to give to women (and to their own friends and family) because it makes them feel embodied and fulfilled in their masculine-providing nature.
Money just happens to be one of the many mediums they can express their generous, protective, providing instincts in their relationships with people they value.
The only kind of men who match the (above mentioned) fearful states of feeling are the ones who are carrying their own fears around money, and hence expect women to go 50-50 in romance, for instance. (I explain more about these dynamics in the Men and Money module of my money magnetism course.)
a self-reflection exercise
I invite you to reflect if you resonate with any of the below –
If you’re single,
you start feeling uncomfortable as the date is ending and it’s time for the bill to arrive.
you stay away from the subject of money in your discussions with your suitors, more so, if the man you’re dating comes with debt or earns less than you.
when the man covers the bills on your dates, plans and pays for everything in the dating process, you either feel guilty or feel like you owe him something in return.
And if you’re in a committed partnership,
you often feel triggered by your partner’s spending habits.
you steer clear of the subject of money fearing it might disturb the peace of your relationship.
the fear of you out-earning your partner and he possibly exploiting you for your wealth looms in the shadows.
If you relate to any of these scenarios, then instead of labelling this as something wrong with you, I invite you to consider the possibility that this might neither be about you or men, and is more often that not the result of our wounded-masculine conditioning, the kind that is rooted in scarcity.
I can speak from my experience of working with women in this area that no matter what your history with men and money has been, once you start repairing your relationship with your inner worthiness around receiving, you’ll find yourself naturally peeling back the layers of this conditioning and entering into a secure and enriching relationship with both money and men.
You will start feeling safe in communicating your preferences and non-negotiables around money to the men in your life.
Whether you’re single & dating or are in a long-term partnership, you will be able to have realistic conversations with men about money without dimming your inherent magnetism.
Having worked so closely with women witnessing them relish the fruits of reforming their relationship with both money and men, I can tell you that all of the above is possible, if that’s what you heart truly desires for your love life.
With the right skills and an emotional state restored to safety, any feminine-hearted woman can feel secure, peaceful and empowered when it comes to her money conversations with men, without affecting the romantic attraction in her relationship. This is something I cover in a lot of depth in Module 7 of my money magnetism course.
Through the lessons shared in this course, you can expect to ~
identify and tend to any possible wounding you may have around receiving from men, especially when it comes to money, and
heal your relationship with money so you can cultivate the confidence to navigate money conversations with the people (especially men) in your world, without the previously weighing feelings of fear, shame and guilt.
If you get to learn from this offering, I’d love to hear about the one big transformation your healed relationship with money has brought about in your love life.
Navdeep 💗
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An article for the woman who wants to heal her relationship with money and call in her deepest desires for wealth and abundance through the power of her feminine magnetism.
Money is a word that can make most people uncomfortable. It is a subject that can create rifts between the closest. It is a resource that can cause a lot of harm and misery in the world.
Money is also a word that can make us feel relaxed, supported and nourished just at the mention of it. It is also a subject that can create deeply impactful movements in the world. It is also a resource that can uplift communities, bridge gaps, reunite humanity.
What I have found while deepening my own money magnetism and while supporting women in healing their relationship with money, is that how we see money, how we feel about money, how we circulate money, is all a reflection of our energetic relationship with money.
This relationship once restored, can transform our reality in ways we can’t yet imagine. Once healed, this relationship can call in our wildest desires for wealth + abundance with utmost ease and pleasure.
For most women, this healing begins when we realise that we don’t need to sacrifice our life force to create a truly wealthy life for ourselves. When we start opening our hearts and minds to the possibility that we can magnetise our desires for wealth + abundance while staying drenched in our pleasure, flow and ease.
I have seen this heartfelt desire in women who are drawn to my money magnetism offerings, who are seeking a way to earn money from their feminine state of being, living and working. Exhausted from functioning in highly-masculinised systems that make them question their nature-gifted qualities of a woman, they are seeking a softer, more easeful approach to actualising their deepest money desires.
As they begin to tend to their relationship with money, liberating any shame, guilt or similar weighing emotions they feel around these desires and infusing their feminine magnetism in their relationship with money, they start discovering nourishing, soul-aligned ways to create spaces in their life that money can continue to flow into freely and effortlessly. They start unearthing easeful, creative means to transform their financial reality without ever again abandoning their heart, body and soul.
Here in this blog, i am sharing with you 6 signs you too might be feeling called to heal your relationship with money and activate your money magnetism.
sign 1 | feeling a deep desire to heal your hyper-masculine conditioning around money.
You might be someone who was taught that she needs to strive, to force, to relentlessly exert and extract from herself in order to create a truly prosperous life for herself. Perhaps this conditioning was passed down to you from the previous generations, or perhaps it was your work environments that instilled these beliefs in you.
These ideas kept you uninformed of your inherent magnetism and normalised earning money in soulless, burnout-oriented ways that dishonoured your sensitivities, heart and essence as a woman.
You are now realising how futile this conditioning, this way of working has been. Because it has only taken care of how your life appears on the outside, depriving you of the fulfilment you were hoping to find within your being.
You are now exploring the possibility of unlearning this conditioning and re-connecting with your inherent gift of feminine receptivity so you can create + multiply your wealth with ease, pleasure, magnetism and play.
sign 2 | hearing a recurrent call of your heart to create a privileged life for yourself and your coming generations.
You might be someone who wasn’t born in wealth or an environment with an abundance mindset. You may have grown up seeing resistance and acute discomfort around money and how it was earned. In the absence of the privilege of a softer life, you had to build up the masculine armor of fast-paced hustle so you could survive those environments.
You are now desiring to release this hardness you always felt around money. You are feeling called to soften and cultivate the inner safety that lets you be gentle with yourself around money. You are seeking to cultivate an inner sense of security around money and move at a pace that feels good to you.
You are desiring to nourish your starved being with so much ease and pleasure so that your healed relationship with money naturally overflows into the lives of those around you and after you. So that the financially resourced life you create for yourself (and your future lineage) feels like a true privilege, a gift that deepens with each interaction with money. So that when money arrives in your life and keeps growing its presence, your former feelings of shame and guilt are replaced by a deep sense of deservingness for this life that you have created for yourself and for the generations to follow you.
sign 3 | feeling the need to liberate yourself from other people’s beliefs and ideas about money.
Perhaps you’re someone who grew up absorbing the outside world’s rigid, limiting money beliefs that have led you to experience self-sacrifice and feelings of unworthiness, scarcity or fear around letting money in your life.
Perhaps like me, you didn’t come from a financially privileged background and grew up hearing various myths and limiting beliefs about money and how women ‘should behave’ when it comes to this area of our lives.
‘Money doesn’t grow on trees. Women aren’t good with money. Rich people are evil. Don’t talk about money, let the elders (men) in the family take care of it. ‘
And perhaps you ended up unconsciously believing these restricting ideas.
It is now that you are hearing the call to recognise + release these unconsciously borrowed beliefs so you can trust in your deservingness of your wildest and deepest money desires.
You’re desiring to enter into a sovereign relationship with money that doesn’t get influenced by how your outer world feels or thinks about money. You want to restore the sanctity of your relationship with money so you can reassign it the intended role of being your ever protecting and providing masculine energy form, so you can fully receive and enjoy its support as you create a beautiful life for yourself and your loved ones.
sign 4 | feeling the desire to break free from the endless, exhausting cycle of ‘hacking’ your relationship with money.
You might be someone like me who entered the self-development world through the path that spoke about the power of mind alone. Over time, you may have found yourself feeling worn out by the advice to ‘fix your mindset’ in order to attract your heart’s desires around wealth + abundance.
Perhaps, you have also been able to discern the ineffectiveness of this advice that leaves out the energetic, emotional and somatic aspect of your relationship with money.
You are now realising that in order to enter into a truly healed relationship with money, you need to become an embodiment of the woman who can receive and grow her wealth without the mental striving and forceful adoption of money hacks.
You are becoming aware that in order to enter into a truly healed relationship with money, your body, emotions and nervous system need to be included, tended to and attuned to safety around money, so you can become a safe space that money flows towards, freely and effortlessly.
sign 5 | noticing the silent, recurring nudge of your heart to rewrite your money story.
You might be someone like me who has experienced past dishonouring of her voice, her heart, her value through the extraction of her financial resources that has left a lot of emotional heaviness in her heart.
Perhaps this reflects in your relationships with the people in your inner/ outer circle where your heart stays closed and guarded so that no one can betray your trust again.
You are now desiring to free yourself of these distressing memories (that might be present in your body in form of frozen tension) and learn how to become an energetic guardian of your money. (I share the embodiment route to this step in Safe Woman module of my money magnetism course)
You want to heal from these experiences so you can self-assuredly navigate money conversations in your relationships with the people in your near and far world.
sign 6 | feeling the yearning to learn a new, gentler and deeply nourishing way of earning money.
Perhaps you grew up around role models who exemplified, or even glorified the dry, hyper-masculine hustle in business.
Perhaps you are depleted from following the forceful, aggressive, overly competitive ways of growing your business income.
You’re now feeling called to create a deeply nourishing and wildly abundant business for yourself by reclaiming your feminine path where your heart, your emotions, your sensitivities, your gentleness, your body’s natural rhythms – all have a place.
You’re feeling more and more ready to embody the full spectrum of your feminine gifts and learn the skills to creating a sustainably wealthy life & business from this place of being.
something to remember when healing your relationship with money
Sharing these thoughts reminds me of something I mention to women when they start healing their relationship with money through my money magnetism offerings. I advise them to be very compassionate with themselves and not fall prey to the internalised voices of shame or judgement in assuming that there is anything wrong with them if they don’t have a secure, peaceful and empowering relationship with money yet.
Because time and time again, while supporting women from different walks of life, I keep coming back to the truth that no matter what class, race or color, the paper money was never designed to be in the hands of women. Precisely why, so many of us carry some kind of an emotional charge when it comes to the subject of money. most times, without the slightest idea of it.
Through my lived + taught experience with this art of money magnetism, what I have also come to see is that once we have liberated this inner heaviness around our desire for abundance, we no more feel the need to comply to masculine-focused, extractive work systems to actualise those desires (that were never designed to work for us feminine-essenced beings).
Instead, we turn to the gift of our inherent magnetism that naturally guides us towards easeful, life-enhancing ways to create a financially resourced life that we look forward to living every new day.
I witnessed this in the lives of women who had joined the live launch of this money magnetism course last year. And I hear this feedback from women who have self-studied this work since then :
‘It is so beautiful that there is a feminine way to deal with money.’
‘I also feel an inexplicable sense of confidence in the way I have been functioning in my workspace. People have started noticing my work and they have become more gentle with me simply because I now embody my feminine traits in what is otherwise an extremely masculine environment. This feels surreal, because I always thought that I’d have to hustle like my male colleagues to have the kind of success & money my work deserves.’
..some words from the recent reflections shared by women who have taken this course.
I really think its a gift that when we women heal in any way, it ripples out into our life and the bigger world. As their emails tell me, when these women had signed up for this course, their intention was to simply heal their relationship with money. But in its unfolding, they discovered that this process also anchored them in their gentle, intuitive, magnetic feminine design as they continued to create and live their Wealthy Woman life thereafter.
If you’re at a point in life where you too are desiring to activate + deepen your money magnetism while fully embracing your natural feminine design and desires, you might enjoy learning the Wealthy Woman’s Way of living + loving + working + receiving money through my money magnetism course.
You can also access the format 1 of this course at a reduced value in the Feminine Business bundleif you’re a businesswoman who wants to grow the income of her gentle and nourishing feminine business through deeper healing of her fears + patterns around money.
Navdeep 💗
P.S. looking for more articles on money magnetism? continue reading here.
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