View Single Post
Old 03-12-2017, 01:35 PM
  # 7 (permalink)  
Grymt
All is Change
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Australia
Posts: 1,284
My therapist said once about boredom 'you are boring'. Meaning the boredom is inside me. The outside activity is still the same. The world is still the fun place it was. Inside I have an experience I choose to call boredom and then project that outside and blame outside events, people and things by calling them boring.

Nothing unusual about that. It's a common habit pattern, almost universal. But very wrong.

The way to get out of this and discover what's underneath, joy, is to let the feelings be there. Name them and continue with the tasks that are necessary for a life, not shirking the boring ones but using them as a tool to be aware of the sensations of boredom, equanimously observing them, moment to moment. In this way they rise and pass away. They might intensify for a while and seem to stay but ultimately they, like all things, change and pass away.

Likewise the need to not be boring, or bored, will pass away.

Be Happy.
Grymt is offline