Bob Hutchins
@BobHutchins · 1:09
The benefits of being bored! Have we lost it?
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Have you ever noticed when you're waiting in line or have a few seconds of boredom that your reflex is to pick up and scroll? Real life used to be full of meditation, but it was called boredom. We sat in waiting rooms with nothing but outdated magazines. We drove with nothing but a radio and the view. We waited in line and just had to well, wait. We had no idea how essential those boring moments were until we no longer had them
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 2:04
And so I've learned from cats by doing what I call let your thoughts go meow, which is don't do anything. Literally, don't do anything and just sit there and not even like, meditate, because meditation requires you to empty your head or think about, like, just this one thing, which is to focus on something specific. No, none of that. Just let it be. Oh, would you look at that? That's a window. There's a lizard sitting there
Daniel Dayao
@Mr.Dan · 3:00
But then when I think about it, I also start to feel guilty because the same things that I say to her, I realize that I have a lot of the same things. Like, I have things I could be doing, I have books I've bought, I have projects I could be working on. And I'll just sit there and just think of mindless things to do because I feel like I'm bored, but I know I have stuff
I mean, I've had my greatest periods and moments of transformation in those spaces where sometimes against my will, I had a lot of time to be just in the moment with my thoughts and what I'm experiencing. And in a way, I think that is kind of meditative, right?
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 1:31
That's absolutely it. What you said reframing what we refer to as boredom, which is boredom is not the word that this is, right? When we sit with our thoughts and just let them do their thing. Love the analogy of flowing along in the thought over because that's it. You just let the moment control you rather than you reacting the way that we have been taught to react, which is hyperventilate overthink, try to control things
Okay. I'm so here for the thoughts sauna. Letting my thoughts go. Meow in the thought sauna. This is it. Thank you. Brilliant
Marco Lobo
@EnLaBocaDelLobo · 1:09
You're absolutely correct. I call cell phones Adult Digital Pacifiers. It's like we have conditioned ourselves to think that if we have some time in our hands, that we're bored and that we immediately need to be entertained. That having nothing to do with sort of of a bad thing
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