{"id":23620,"date":"2020-08-13T08:47:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T08:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/13\/attention-to-detail-how-yoga-makes-me-a-better-editor\/"},"modified":"2020-08-13T08:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T08:47:59","slug":"attention-to-detail-how-yoga-makes-me-a-better-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/13\/attention-to-detail-how-yoga-makes-me-a-better-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention to Detail: How Yoga Makes Me a Better Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had to smile when a friend\u00a0thanked me for my attention to detail recently. I\u2019d simply mentioned\u00a0he could track a\u00a0package he was waiting for with the FedEx tracking number\u00a0so\u00a0he\u2019d know when to expect it. Though it seemed obvious to me, my friend hadn\u2019t thought of it. His comment got me thinking about my yoga practice and how it helps me pay attention to detail when I need to (and not worry about it when it\u2019s not important).<\/p>\n

Attention to Detail and Yoga<\/b><\/h3>\n

I\u2019m not sure\u00a0why people describe me as detail oriented. I consider myself more of a dreamer, more interested in the big picture than details and more drawn to possibilities and ideas than to facts and procedures.<\/p>\n

Yet I often have to pay attention to detail. And I will admit, it feels great to get details in order. Maybe my ability to notice things is a skill I was born with, but I\u2019m sure my yoga practice has something to do with it too. <\/p>\n

A short while after my friend commented on\u00a0my eye for detail, I wanted to avoid some complex technical editing<\/a> I needed to do. It\u00a0was a beautiful day. And I had an idea for a blog post about yoga and attention to detail! I\u2019d rather be outside writing something creative than inside editing something technical.<\/p>\n

Since I\u2019ve been a technical editor for years, I suppose it\u2019s true I have natural eye for detail. But paying attention takes practice. In fact, it is a practice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

How Yoga Helps me With Technical Editing<\/b><\/h3>\n

Yoga teaches us many things<\/a>, and one of those things is how be present and notice what is going on around us and within us. In yoga, we learn to pay\u00a0attention\u2014to our bodies, to our thoughts, to the universe, and yes, even to the details of technical documents we may need\u00a0to edit.<\/p>\n

Often when I do my editing work, ideas for blog posts fill my head and try to distract me. I usually want to stop editing and write the post\u00a0first, saving the boring work for later.<\/p>\n

But I need to do the work, so I use\u00a0my yoga to not only do my work, but to watch<\/i>\u00a0myself using yoga to do\u00a0it. This kind of yoga often saves the day when I have to examine an especially\u00a0dry\u2014and therefore challenging\u2014set of documents.<\/p>\n

One-Pointed Attention (to Detail) in Yoga<\/b><\/h3>\n

How do I use my yoga to stay focused? By using\u00a0my work as a meditation!\u00a0The meditation practice called\u00a0one-pointed attention, <\/em>where\u00a0we continually come back to a sacred object or mantra, helps me do this.<\/p>\n

Sure the mind will wander, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot, but the goal of meditation is to bring the mind back to a focal point.<\/p>\n

When I\u2019m editing, the focal point is the document on my screen. My mind keeps thinking of ideas to write about or reminding me I want to get away from my desk and go to a yoga class. It says things like, \u201cThe garage is too cluttered; you need to get out there and organize it.\u201d<\/p>\n

When these distractions happen, I can use one-pointed attention to get back to the task at hand\u2014over and over again\u2014until the task is done.<\/p>\n

And then I moved on to the next task. Amazingly, by the end of the afternoon (for example), I\u2019ve finished my editing, enjoyed a short yoga practice, tidied up a section of my garage, and written a new blog post.<\/p>\n

Maybe in the future\u00a0I\u2019ll explore the yoga of house cleaning (I still haven\u2019t done the windows), but for now, my point is this: Yoga<\/i> offers tools we can apply to anything life presents us with, whether by choice or by necessity.<\/p>\n

Sometimes my yoga is technical editing and sometimes it\u2019s standing on my head!<\/p>\n

What about you? How do you use your yoga practice to pay attention to detail?\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The post Attention to Detail: How Yoga Makes Me a Better Editor<\/a> appeared first on Yoga Circles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I had to smile when a friend\u00a0thanked me for my attention to detail recently. I\u2019d simply mentioned\u00a0he could track a\u00a0package he was waiting for with the FedEx tracking number\u00a0so\u00a0he\u2019d know when to expect it. Though it seemed obvious to me, my friend hadn\u2019t thought of it. His comment got me thinking about my yoga practice … [Read more…]
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I had to smile when a friend\u00a0thanked me for my attention to detail recently. I\u2019d simply mentioned\u00a0he could track a\u00a0package he was waiting for with the FedEx tracking number\u00a0so\u00a0he\u2019d know when to expect it. Though it seemed obvious to me, my friend hadn\u2019t thought of it. His comment got me thinking about my yoga practice and how it helps me pay attention to detail when I need to (and not worry about it when it\u2019s not important). Attention to Detail and Yoga I\u2019m not sure\u00a0why people describe me as detail oriented. I consider myself more of a dreamer, more interested in the big picture than details and more drawn to possibilities and ideas than to facts and procedures. Yet I often have to pay attention to detail. And I will admit, it feels great to get details in order. Maybe my ability to notice things is a skill I was born with, but I\u2019m sure my yoga practice has something to do with it too. A short while after my friend commented on\u00a0my eye for detail, I wanted to avoid some complex technical editing I needed to do. It\u00a0was a beautiful day. And I had an idea for a blog…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23620"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}