the thing to know about concentration is that it often feels really good which is why people love TM because it is a concentration meditation you're using this mantra that you're getting really focused on it's less it's more focused on concentration that it is on mindfulness and so being able to stay awake and concentrate it on something feels really good and I find that my daily meditation actually is much more pleasant because there's like a body high associated with it it's called there's a word for it in the ancient language of Pali the word is Pt piti and it I think the grandiose translation is something like rapture but it really just means like all the kind of like body tingling and high that you can get from meditation