You are listening to Episode 793.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I congratulate you for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.

I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation trainer who shares a different meditation in every single podcast.

Each meditation is customized around a weekly theme.

So these themes are organized into

seven-part weekly series with each day of the week focusing on a particular

meditation technique you can do the techniques whether you're seated in your

meditation space or whether you're right in the midst of the

busiest part of your day.

You can find all the different meditation techniques over at my website at sip and oom.com.

There, just look for this week's series in the podcast tab and you'll find the meditations,

the techniques, and all the references I mentioned in this week's meditation series.

So let's get you meditating.

In this week's series, we're focusing on an important topic I've had many requests about recently,

and that is the topic of work-life balance.

And in this topic, as I did a little research, I discovered that men and women view work-life balance in different ways.

Women often review work-life balance in regard to feeling guilt over not spending

enough time with children, in particular if you have children.

And in regard to children, men viewed work-life balance as being able to spend time,

even if it was just 10 minutes of reading their children books before they went to sleep

at night. So women often experienced guilt for not spending the time with the children, whereas

...