Being bored

Your personality can maintain itself only when there is something to bé experienced, and this means there either has to be input in some form, or a drive to do something - which can be either pleasant, useful or unpleasant, useless or such. Since both variations can supply input for the ultimate personality process of perceiving > judgment/interpretation > feeling > hold on to or get rid of feeling.

When you are bored, this means as much as: there is no input your personality can use at that moment in time to make things work for you - whatever it is that is happening, simply is not interesting enough. But also, that he cannot find in himself a drive to take the initiative to start something himself, or simply is not able to do so at that very moment (for example when you are in a theatre and find the performance very uninteresting). So now you find yourself in a kind of no-man's-land within yourself, a bit annoying-awaiting feeling until 'something' is going to happen which once again your personality can use as a useful input for his mechanism and you no longer have to face how unpleasant it is when nothing happens which your personality can use to create an experience for you - either positive or negative. Since you need not be bored for a moment as well when you find yourself in big trouble!

Yet especially this 'nothingness' is the place where you can find your inner Self, so when you are bored, this can be used as a convenient tool to determine for yourself that at that moment in time, that you are still focusing on life through your personality and not through your inner Self. Since the very pleasant experience of inner Peace is everything except 'boring', on the contrary, it is fulfilling in itself. By the way, your inner Self can be experienced in the dynamics of your everyday life as well, but in this column it is placed in the context of 'boring'

So being bored is not 'bad' in itself, and when you place it in the perspective of increasing Awareness, it definitely need not be avoided. Like every other personality issue, it can be used to become more and more aware of the mechanism of your personality and realizing that the 'solution' for being bored is not to look for something else to do, or something more fulfilling, it is about becoming aware of the mechanism of your personality, and letting this go even further, and consciously inviting your inner Self to inspire you in situations like this. So feel free to spend some 'quality boring time' every now and then, the sooner you will understand the essence of the underlying personality mechanism!