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In one of my classes the professor said we need to be ok with being bored!
I know one of my worse eating times is when I'm bored (and yeah, I know for awhile that will change post surgery, but one day it will rear its ugly head again!)
She said we should allow ourselves to be bored and to let our minds go where they might. That being bored did not mean we had to instantly find something to do.... that being bored WAS something! And we need to learn to just "go with it"
On another note... Yoga instructor says "Be present in the moment". We don't have the past... we don't have the future..... so if you are not present in the here and now... you have nothing!
Just some ponderings I thought I'd share! :)
I know one of my worse eating times is when I'm bored (and yeah, I know for awhile that will change post surgery, but one day it will rear its ugly head again!)
She said we should allow ourselves to be bored and to let our minds go where they might. That being bored did not mean we had to instantly find something to do.... that being bored WAS something! And we need to learn to just "go with it"
On another note... Yoga instructor says "Be present in the moment". We don't have the past... we don't have the future..... so if you are not present in the here and now... you have nothing!
Just some ponderings I thought I'd share! :)
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I am not being mean.. I hope you don't take my comments that way... But for those of us with ADD, bored is not a good option...
That is why I spend so much time on the computer.. It occupies me... And when I am bored, I try to find something that can be done... Bored... NOT GOOD FOR ME!!!!!!
But to take a moment... maybe a few moments.... and let our minds go where they might. We live in a world (society) where we expect to always fill our time with something! Our phones, our computers, TV's, work, activities, good and bad... That we forget to just be us for a bit.
I think of my parents and grandparents who would find peace and comfort sitting on the porch with a cold drink and just being still. Appreciating the moment.
These days many of us forget to do that or to appreciate this time. This mindfulness.
And yeah Kathi, I get the 'scary stuff in my head' (however do not claim to know much about ADD)... but something I think, at least for some of us... we NEED to look at that scary stuff in our heads. Not every minute, that would be too scary! :) But for a few minutes here and there.... just let our minds go where they want.
Oh and Kathi..... It takes TONS to offend me! So no worries! I consider this just talk.... opinions, thoughts, ideas.... :) :)