I am coming up on a 1 month anniversary this Tuesday of no online news or news period. I was spending 2-3 hours reading the news for the past few years. Now as a way of self preservation and to find inner peace and celebrate bordom, I have pledged to myself no more news period. Now I must find new ways to spend the hours, getting up before sunrise and watching the sunrise most days am feeling more calm and am once again motivated, to create, sew, paint, cook, clean, walk, etc. Thank you for this post Heatherash so timely and true.
This is what I teach my grandchildren. My daughter used to get bored and complained. I said how lucky you are go to your room and be with yourself. After a while she started to sing. She immedeately came in contact with her own inner song and became happy and content.
i love to listen to the world around me. maybe it’s the engine running or the fan of the central heating. if i’m lucky, the sounds of the wind through the trees and birds across the grass. but all of these moments allow me to realize that the world is alive. that i am alive.
I spend much of my time just listening to the world around me as well; I rarely play music, though I have started listening to more audiobooks. But there is something so soothing about being with the sounds of life and letting them rock us, without covering them up.
I’ve deleted instagram recently and notice myself getting bored throughout the day. But I’m missing the dopamine hit less and less, as my stimulation standards adjust. I’ve flown through a book faster than ever before. I’m appreciating beautiful sites without feeling the impending need to take a photo. I’m finding magic in the mundane. Boredom for the win!!
Yes! It is an adjustment to undo the need for the immediate dopamine hit that social media brings; and this is exactly why I love learning how to be bored again, and making that a goal. Magic in the mundane : )
Starring out the window and watching the slowly falling snow flakes. With no where to be or no one to interrupt, just me and the flakes.
Love that: just you and the flakes. I feel how soothing that easy sweetness is.
I am coming up on a 1 month anniversary this Tuesday of no online news or news period. I was spending 2-3 hours reading the news for the past few years. Now as a way of self preservation and to find inner peace and celebrate bordom, I have pledged to myself no more news period. Now I must find new ways to spend the hours, getting up before sunrise and watching the sunrise most days am feeling more calm and am once again motivated, to create, sew, paint, cook, clean, walk, etc. Thank you for this post Heatherash so timely and true.
Beautiful, Amy.
This is what I teach my grandchildren. My daughter used to get bored and complained. I said how lucky you are go to your room and be with yourself. After a while she started to sing. She immedeately came in contact with her own inner song and became happy and content.
Nice! I love that you are teaching your grandchildren, and taught your daughter how to be with themselves... so much creativity arises naturally then!
i love to listen to the world around me. maybe it’s the engine running or the fan of the central heating. if i’m lucky, the sounds of the wind through the trees and birds across the grass. but all of these moments allow me to realize that the world is alive. that i am alive.
I spend much of my time just listening to the world around me as well; I rarely play music, though I have started listening to more audiobooks. But there is something so soothing about being with the sounds of life and letting them rock us, without covering them up.
I’ve deleted instagram recently and notice myself getting bored throughout the day. But I’m missing the dopamine hit less and less, as my stimulation standards adjust. I’ve flown through a book faster than ever before. I’m appreciating beautiful sites without feeling the impending need to take a photo. I’m finding magic in the mundane. Boredom for the win!!
Yes! It is an adjustment to undo the need for the immediate dopamine hit that social media brings; and this is exactly why I love learning how to be bored again, and making that a goal. Magic in the mundane : )
Daydreaming in bed. Walking my dog without distractions or a timetable. Listening to the wind. Closing my eyes feeling my heartbeat.
Hmmmm, yum. Thanks for sharing Gila