Are you always
bored? Do you find yourself
day-dreaming most of the time? Are things you need to do not getting done
because you can’t focus because of boredom?
Life doesn’t have to be that way. You can find personal peace in a simple and
effective way right there in the privacy of your home computer, laptop, iPad,
or smart phone.
Does your life feel something like this?
No matter
how hard I try to focus, I keep thinking about other things. I’m so distracted
that I can’t do the things I need to do. My mind is so cluttered with thoughts,
sometimes I think I’m losing it. I’m at the point I don’t care anymore. I’m
bored!
Similar scripts are played out countless times
every day. Playing the script doesn’t mean that the person is really multi-tasking
or superior. It means that they are
often distracted by all the thoughts that flood our mind every day. We are
so distracted that we often don’t get things done that need to be done.
Studies show that you have over 50,000 thoughts a day. And it seems like all
of them are in your mind at the same time. Your thoughts become your own worst enemy. Your thoughts interrupt other thoughts.
They keep you from thinking about the things you need to think about.
Maybe you use your thoughts as an excuse for NOT doing the things you need to do.
You can just as easily be distracted by “good”
thoughts that pop up at the wrong time.
If the distractions
and boredom lead you to anxiety, to becoming chronically bored, or to being
incapable of dealing with the daily routine of life; if you can begin to think
that you’re a loser because you’re not achieving anything, you need to do
something about it.
Boredom is not so much when
you’re thinking about nothing; it most likely is when you’re thinking a little bit about everything and you
don’t focus on any one thing enough
to get engaged.
And since you don’t accomplish very much when
you’re bored, you start to feel down
on yourself.
Right now, I want you to pause and think about
something that leaves you bored. But DON’T
dwell on it. Immediately say out loud to yourself, out loud, “I’m not going to think about that.” If
the thought comes back, say it again, out loud, , “I’m not going to think about that.”
You’ll quickly discover that the distracting thought
disappear, maybe only for a moment at first. It will go away every time you
demand that it go away. When it
reappears, you say again, out loud, “I’m
not going to think about that.”
Dealing with boredom in this way is so simple that many people have trouble
accepting it. The most effective way to control distracted thinking is to say
to yourself, out loud, "I will not
think about that." Do it as often as necessary and do it out loud.
Someone said, “That’s easier said than done.”
Not really. You have the innate authority to decide what you want to think about. If a
thought bores you, DON’T think that
thought. It’s your choice! As you make that choice again and again, your
subconscious remembers how you like to respond and will start to make your
response automatically.
The amazing side-effect of dealing with all
these distracting and boring thoughts
is that you will begin to have free time that you can use to accomplish the
things that you need to do.
Furthermore, you have the gift of a subconscious
mind that has over time formed the opinion that you like being bored. And your subconscious, the
ever-faithful helper will give you more and more thoughts to distract you and
help you be bored.
The process of choosing not to dwell on boring thoughts will, over time, convince your
subconscious that you, in fact, do not like being bored. It’s this process that
creates the habit of peace and
breaks the habit of boredom.
At some point, you won't even realize you are
thinking distracting and boring thoughts
because your subconscious is automatically
responding to the thoughts before
they become conscious thoughts. How cool is that?
Nothing could be more effective than having your subconscious mind control your boredom before you even think about it.
Resources
you can use
Help someone you love deal boredom simply and
effectively. Take 3 minutes to learn more at http://findingpersonalpeace.com/s024.
You can use this idea for just about any
negative emotion or habit that bothers you including boredom.
I hope Finding Personal Peace helps you with
chronic boredom as much as it helped me with my anger.
Rod Peeks
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