Humans are eradicating boredom. It’s not only possible, but now quite standard to go through your day in a constant state of engagement. Engaging with the task at hand and those around you when you’re lucky, or engaging with your phone, the TV, or some form of audio entertainment. This doesn’t Make Time for you to simply observe. Observe your surroundings, appreciate them. Observe yourself, do Interoception.
People are surprisingly bad at simply sitting with their thoughts. See the Shockingly Bored example.
I’m not great at this. Right now I’m on my phone.
Practice
- Remove technological inputs
- Take the earbuds out
- leave the screens away
- Do something mindless, or nothing at all
- Remain.
- Observe.
Where is my mind? - The Pixies