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But, lately I been trying to connect mental feelings with physical. Such as, anxiety and the "tensing up" of muscles.
I feel like, boredom.. you "feel" that your mind is empty, like an empty flash drive...
Your brain "feels" empty.
If you were out earlier, say a party, you come home.. your mind feels full... full of data...
It's like, if you go on a trip with an iPod with 500 songs on it, you got 500 songs worth of data for the long trip.. Knowing you have that data to last, well partially can remove the boredom of the trip..
But, is it really all mental?? Does our brain actually "feel" lighter or less, when there are less, uhh, say, electrical connections going on (IE, less data being stored in your brain)?
Cause my head sure feels light and empty. Literally. I wonder, if the same way a tensed up muscle makes you feel anxious, a lighter head feels bored.
Every single time my kiddo would say to me ,"Mom, I'm bored" I would reply, "That means you're a boring person". DO something, anything.....
Being 'bored' could be defined as believing we should be doing something at all times, and when there is a lull, we could imagine we're bored.
In today's high-tech world, we are surrounded by 'things' that entertain us: computers, iPods, video games, etc., and when we are not using any of these items and are completely 'on our own', so to speak, people can feel lost and 'bored'.
Many have lost, or never had, the ability to use idle time to truly 'think'. We can learn a lot about ourselves, and others, by reflecting on thing; taking time to relax and use one's mind to consider or reason about something.
How often are you asked, "What did you do this weekend?", or, "What have you been doing?". It is as though people expect you to be 'doing' something at all times.
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Being 'bored' could be defined as believing we should be doing something at all times, and when there is a lull, we could imagine we're bored.
In today's high-tech world, we are surrounded by 'things' that entertain us: computers, iPods, video games, etc., and when we are not using any of these items and are completely 'on our own', so to speak, people can feel lost and 'bored'.
Many have lost, or never had, the ability to use idle time to truly 'think'. We can learn a lot about ourselves, and others, by reflecting on thing; taking time to relax and use one's mind to consider or reason about something.
How often are you asked, "What did you do this weekend?", or, "What have you been doing?". It is as though people expect you to be 'doing' something at all times.
It's amazing how insight you gain from a few moments of quiet contemplation. That sort of thing used to keep me up at night. My brain would sort of go crazy because during the day I really wasn't using it much. It was like a bird cooped up in a cage. Action and distraction killed pure thought.
I think boredom is simply a state of mind of when someone becomes to lazy to do something to mentally interest them self. Boredom is also subjective, though. What you call fun, I may call boring.
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