From Good: The Joys of Absorption.
Therein lies the key to my love of Power Yoga. I am told not to think. I am absorbed.
This wondrous vacation from my head is also why I love writing. Sounds counter-intuitive, I know. But in an essay, “Why Write?” Alan Shapiro nails this addictive sensation mid-essay. He suggests that we write for the pleasure of “perfectly useless concentration.” We write, Shapiro tells us, “for the total immersion of the experience, the narrowing and intensification of focus to the right here, right now, the deep joy of bringing the entire soul to bear upon a single act of concentration.”