Bored? Find Some Meaning.

Are you bored? With your home? Work? Life? The lack of real spring? Occasional moments or a day of boredom is normal but staying in that mindset isn’t in your well-being.
According to Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, a Hungarian psychology professor who introduced the idea of flow states, boredom sits between apathy and relaxation and across from arousal. Flow is when you are feeling fully immersed in what you are doing with a sense of fulfillment and pleasure. Below is a chart he developed.

It is awfully hard to move straight from boredom to flow. Moving to relaxation is one avenue, such as reading a book or watching a movie. Some people force their way through it by using self-control to say, “I will go do the raking now, even if I don’t want to.”
I prefer to move to arousal (intellectual and emotional, that is). For that to happen you need to move up the left hand scale by identifying something that is more than moderately challenging, but still in your skill level. You might stop first and explore, “What does this boredom mean? What am I bored with? Is it inner boredom or outer boredom?”
If you’re bored with your home, try this. Find the right place to view your home. It could be outside looking at the front or inside looking at the sweep of your home from the front door. Use your intuition to find your “seat of observation.” Then, take it all in, close your eyes, and ask your home what would be exciting for you to do together. Expect an idea to come, perhaps right away or maybe over the next 48 hours. This will have planted a seed. I’d love to hear what happens. You could leave a comment below.
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Inspire your boredom.
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