Making Friends with Boredom

Frequently, during the day, we run into times where we feel bored. We have absentmindedly taken a step off the treadmill of whatever path we are driven to pursue and are just standing, with no sense of moving anywhere. Our ego/mind has trained us for years to fear and detest these breaks from the drive to the future or the past. With often misdirected or ineffectual activity we just have the urge to press on, to not be present. Yet this is what our Higher Self is directing us to do; stop, be present, and experience what is right here right now. Experience who you are in this now and move into the future with a groundless sense of being, grounded only in the ever-changing now. To the ego/mind, this is a death sentence so we become bored with what is.

It takes courage and practice to break the hold of boredom. We can’t escape it, so we are required to make it our friend if we are to be free of its comfortableness, its urge to move beyond the present. We must invite our boredom to just stay with us for a while and experience this thing called the present. At first, boredom resists and intensifies our feeling of comfortableness. When, however, we are willing to just push deeper into the feeling of comfortableness, experiencing it in the now, then the comfortableness goes away and our boredom metamorphoses into a sense of freedom and well-being. 

Boredom is not a separate entity from our self. It is just a feeling that has been orchestrated by the ego/mind to keep us from the present. Make boredom your friend and you have taken away one of the most powerful tools of the ego/mind that keeps us from discovering who we really are.