Nurturing the soul is essential to personal and professional success. Balance is not a luxury, but a necessity.

Simply put, “work-life balance is the essence of existence,” says Ron Knaus, a physician and psychiatrist with the Peak Energy Institute in Tampa, Florida, that helps corporate executives enhance their job performance.

One of the oldest and most consistent truisms societies pass on to each succeeding generation is the notion of balance, says Nat Irvin, assistant dean for MBA Student Development and Executive Professor of Future Studies at Forest University’s Babcock Graduate School of Management in. “It’s Biblical,” Irvin says. “It’s moderation in all things. Yin and Yang, breathing in and breathing out, to use the Eastern metaphor.” Read the full story