You're 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 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 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 zip and ome.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. 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 men felt success as though they had accomplished quite a great deal by spending even 10

minutes reading to their children. And this has so much to do with how men and women view their careers

and view their work, their role in supporting the family.

Men view their work as

absolutely necessary,

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