January 20, 2025
Recently, work-life balance has been an important topic of discussion for many organizations. In close relation to this, CEOs and influential personalities have expressed a number of viewpoints around the optimal number of working hours for employees in a week.
For some years, some experts have suggested that a four-day work week instead of five might provide a better work-life balance.
Then suddenly, opposing viewpoints recently mentioned the opposite—that for someone to be successful and impactful, a 90-hour work week might be the best, setting off another storm of reactions and responses on the internet.
And then, seemingly wiser people commented that the quality of work or outcomes mattered the most. Or productivity. So, it does not matter as much as the number of hours someone works in a week.
Since meditation is closely linked to stress management and quality of life and health, it has a lot to offer in this debate around work-life balance and wellness in the workplace and one’s career.
With decades of experience in meditation and thousands of practitioners who have had long careers, we offer a simple yet powerful solution to this question of working hours and work-life balance.
We need to love our work. That can put to rest all these concerns around work hours and many other problems at the workplace.
Our view is that what ultimately matters is that you need to enjoy your work every moment. This phenomenon helps you be productive, motivated and focused naturally and spontaneously. Then, you move beyond these arguments about the number of hours of work because you don’t feel the “workload” as any type of load. And to a large extent, work-life balance as a reactionary and forced strategy becomes much less essential, although it is still vital.
Even if you’re in a line of work you don’t like all that much, meditation will lead you to a change that makes you like what you do. We have guidance about various strategies for career success to help you with this.
The solution to this problem is to fix ourselves and not depend on the world and the people around us to make those decisions.
Is it even possible to like your work and everything and everyone associated with it?
We know what you’re thinking – how do you deal with a demanding boss at work? Or just the draining and stressful long hours of laborious work?
Can you still love what you do at all times? And how could you possibly love that grumpy, uncooperative co-worker?
Typical forms of meditation may not be able to go that far, but spiritual meditation definitely does. It can change you from the inside to have more compassion, patience, and positivity. Here’s how meditation increases empathy and compassion.
Discover the Joy of working – How meditation achieves much more than reduced working hours or work-life balance strategies
How do we achieve this joy of working or at least be at peace with our surroundings and not feel the burden of doing work?
- Be guided to the right type of work through introspection and intuition.
- Full recognition of not only our potential but also our emotional intelligence and our personality – knowing ourselves, our limitations
- Learning adjustment, community, and social interaction skills – putting ourselves after the organization, the work, or the cause
- Develop Ego control through introspection and meditation that focuses on the Agnya chakra.
- Develop contentment by using meditation
- Improve our patience levels.
- Ability to spread positivity and lead people and organizations out of negativity and trouble
- Being at peace with ourselves and our surroundings
- Built-in stress management that comes with meditation
What actions can you take to take the fullest advantage of meditation for your work life and career?
At Sahaja meditation, our meditation is very detailed, deep, and specific to chakras. The individual chakras and their improvement can help us improve specific traits that can help us in our workplace and careers.
| Symptoms / Need | Action to take in your meditation routine |
| Feeling stressed at work, especially due to long hours? | Start by establishing a daily routine of meditation twice a day. Morning meditation is particularly important before you start your work. |
| Feel like you’re not doing the right job or need to change jobs or careers. | Tap into your introspection mechanism during meditation. Focus on the Sahasrara chakra to get intuitive guidance. Surrender to the all-pervading power and solutions and directions will emerge. |
| Relationship challenges with co-workers | Strengthen and clear the Vishuddhi chakra; it makes you more pleasant and congenial, helps you communicate more effectively, and builds relationships. |
| Frequently facing problems, obstacles and challenges in completing work on time, leading to delays and long hours | Our intuitive intelligence comes from the Swadishthana chakra. Strengthen and clear this chakra to improve productivity, clarity, and creativity and make good progress at work. |
| Love your co-workers, show compassion and patience | Focus on your heart chakra for empathy and compassion and on your Nabhi chakra to imbibe the qualities of leadership and those of a guru or guide. |
| Make yourself amicable and loveable to everyone at work | Focus on your Ego and Superego at the Agnya chakra. Consciously reducing their impacts will make you popular and friendly at your workplace. |