Let it go : yogic wisdom to improve your writing

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While teaching a writing workshop recently, I realized that many of the participants were struggling with the same problem I see in my yoga students. It’s the same problem I struggle with myself, more often than not—grabbiness.

Yes, I did just make up that word, but it wanted to exist within the context of this essay. I practiced an extended version of the yoga discipline aparigraha, or non-grasping, by allowing the word to place itself instead...