Three Mindful Ways to Respond to and Overcome Boredom

You're reading Three Mindful Ways to Respond to and Overcome Boredom, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. "Live the mystery by beginning to perceive what average eyes fail to notice." - Dan Millman We live in a world of incredible opportunity: we can travel like no other generation in history; we can communicate with each other in more ways - and with a greater ease-- than we were capable of even 10 years ago; and we can access a seemingly infinite amount of literary, educational, artistic, and recreational content at virtually anytime we want. Yet, many of us still complain that we are bored - maybe now more than ever before! Perhaps we encounter boredom when we are sitting around the house, despairing that there is “nothing good” on the television. Or maybe it sneaks up on us when we are stuck in a meeting (or lecture) where the content of the session is not as engaging as we expected. Our tendency is to react to these unpleasant experiences by either avoiding them or by compensating for them in some way. This can lead us to overeat, shop for entertainment, abuse video games, or even resort to more serious addictive behaviors. But, these endless attempts to make our external experiences more arousing, stimulating or “satisfying” never lead to long-term solutions to the problem of boredom. So next time, instead of seeking a temporary fix to your pers...
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