Life is eternal change and continuous movement. It is an endlessly circling, spiralling created by expansion of consciousness.
Living connected to the natural flow of life, gives you the impression that your personal life, too, is an upwards turning spiral. Although it is a circling movement, you are continually moving onwards, because each time you are reaching the same station again, it is an arch higher up than the last time. A sensation of boredom, therefore, has no occasion to creep in, because your life is re-newed afresh with each passing moment.
Boredom can only be, where there is stagnation in life, it is a purely personal feeling induced by your Mind. The Mind being your only faculty that is not naturally attuned to the process of life and therefore the only part in a position to stagnate. Be this felt as sensation that you are not moving from the spot at all in life, or that you are moving in a circle where sooner or later you are always back in exactly the same place, makes no actual difference. Because the latter, although giving a semblance of movement, too, marks a halt in the development of personal consciousness, since all movement is only taking place outwardly.
However, because the Mind is very closely linked up with the emotional and physical level of your being, boredom is often felt as an overall state and its root remains hidden and thus untraceable. Especially in someone who is as yet untrained in practising conscious awareness, Mind, Body and Emotions influence each other imperceptibly and differentiating between them proves impossible. To the effect, that instead of only having a Mind, that feels stuck in one place, the body feels heavy as well and on the emotional side a feeling of frustration is uppermost. If distraction from boredom is sought however, their close connection is of advantage, because stimulus working on either the sensory, mental or emotional level have the effect of creating temporarily release in all three of them. Since boredom originates from the Mind, of course, distraction of the Mind is usually the most effective remedy. Yet, unless the problem is tackled and torn up by its roots, no amount of distraction is going to get you truly out of it, but only serves to lighten the present moment. The only effective way to get out of it, closing the door upon boredom forever, is to turn your attenion to actual life taking place around, within and through you.
As a matter of fact, a great part of humanity is still living entirely in a reality created by their Minds and because modern society and technology are offering such a wide variety of distractions to induce a semblance of movement, some of them so subtle you do not even notice them, hardly anyone is noticing their actual stagnation in life/development of consciousness. To seek distraction, easily turns into an addiction because if you stopped, boredom and a sensation of stagnation would overwhelm you.
These days, television is the most common way to relieve boredom and to create the illusion of movement, for it also plays on the emotions. (A wildlife program in this case, being an amalgam of real and illusionary life.)
But maybe the morden computer games are even more trapping, because through your identification with the game-character you gain the illusion to be truly living and creating changes, whereas in actual fact it is solely taking place on the screen and in your Mind.
However, since the Mind is a part of our personality self, a certain amount of stimulus to it is not only necessary but also productive to personal development. But any surplus of attention the mental level receives, topples the balance in its favour and thus proves life-hindering.
Living connected to the natural flow of life, gives you the impression that your personal life, too, is an upwards turning spiral. Although it is a circling movement, you are continually moving onwards, because each time you are reaching the same station again, it is an arch higher up than the last time. A sensation of boredom, therefore, has no occasion to creep in, because your life is re-newed afresh with each passing moment.
Boredom can only be, where there is stagnation in life, it is a purely personal feeling induced by your Mind. The Mind being your only faculty that is not naturally attuned to the process of life and therefore the only part in a position to stagnate. Be this felt as sensation that you are not moving from the spot at all in life, or that you are moving in a circle where sooner or later you are always back in exactly the same place, makes no actual difference. Because the latter, although giving a semblance of movement, too, marks a halt in the development of personal consciousness, since all movement is only taking place outwardly.
However, because the Mind is very closely linked up with the emotional and physical level of your being, boredom is often felt as an overall state and its root remains hidden and thus untraceable. Especially in someone who is as yet untrained in practising conscious awareness, Mind, Body and Emotions influence each other imperceptibly and differentiating between them proves impossible. To the effect, that instead of only having a Mind, that feels stuck in one place, the body feels heavy as well and on the emotional side a feeling of frustration is uppermost. If distraction from boredom is sought however, their close connection is of advantage, because stimulus working on either the sensory, mental or emotional level have the effect of creating temporarily release in all three of them. Since boredom originates from the Mind, of course, distraction of the Mind is usually the most effective remedy. Yet, unless the problem is tackled and torn up by its roots, no amount of distraction is going to get you truly out of it, but only serves to lighten the present moment. The only effective way to get out of it, closing the door upon boredom forever, is to turn your attenion to actual life taking place around, within and through you.
As a matter of fact, a great part of humanity is still living entirely in a reality created by their Minds and because modern society and technology are offering such a wide variety of distractions to induce a semblance of movement, some of them so subtle you do not even notice them, hardly anyone is noticing their actual stagnation in life/development of consciousness. To seek distraction, easily turns into an addiction because if you stopped, boredom and a sensation of stagnation would overwhelm you.
These days, television is the most common way to relieve boredom and to create the illusion of movement, for it also plays on the emotions. (A wildlife program in this case, being an amalgam of real and illusionary life.)
But maybe the morden computer games are even more trapping, because through your identification with the game-character you gain the illusion to be truly living and creating changes, whereas in actual fact it is solely taking place on the screen and in your Mind.
However, since the Mind is a part of our personality self, a certain amount of stimulus to it is not only necessary but also productive to personal development. But any surplus of attention the mental level receives, topples the balance in its favour and thus proves life-hindering.
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