Yoga will make your writing better

Or wait, maybe writing will make your yoga better. Either way…

I know it has never happened to you; being obsessed with something. Micro-focused maybe, or ‘caught up’ in your work.

I happens to me, and I have reason to believe that I am not alone. Particularly with those of us that are just starting off on the path of publishing our writing.

I think it is easy to get caught up in something that you are passionate about. Especially when it is a form of self-expression like painting, or design, or writing.

While it is fine, and probably laudable as well as beneficial to be devoted to one’s craft. The line between devotion and obsession can get blurry at times.

I work on the general theory that it is possible to have too much of anything, good or bad. That is why there are words like obsession and addiction, to denote when we are focused so intently on someone or thing that it becomes detrimental in some fashion.

Cue yoga. Purely by providence, my wife and I began practicing yoga a short time before I embarked on putting my writing out there for the public to potentially see.

I didn’t come to the realization that, “Hey I am spending too much time obsessing about writing and I am stressed out”, and then brilliantly resolve that by starting yoga. It just happened that way.

But I sure am glad.

While I am in the yoga studio practicing a moving meditation, I am able to completely disregard everything else in my life. Traffic, laundry, what to get my sister for her birthday, even what to write about and how many people are reading my stuff all melt away and for an hour I think of nothing but my breathing and movement.

As I pondered how that comes about, I realized that the ability to focus on a single practice likely comes from the environment of the studio and the routine of class.

The room where we practice is declared as a “sanctuary” where noise and conversation are discouraged, allowing practitioners to focus. Also, each class begins the same way with the instructor encouraging focus and guides each of us into rhythmic and meditative breathing.

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