Go ahead, be bored.
Embrace doing nothing.
One of the worst, cringiest things happened to me this weekend. I was invited to a meditation class, and I went with a few friends. We settled on to the floor, sitting on meditation pillows, in a beautiful space that was filled with the sounds of Tibetan Singing Bowls and the scent of incense. “I am going to be soooo relaxed after this”, I told my friend as the meditation teacher started the class.
We closed our eyes to start….maybe five minutes went by and I couldn’t really clear my mind. I kept trying to ‘focus on my breath’, but my thoughts kept jumping to reminders, things I still had to do, you know - to life. Anyways, very soon I started to experience an irritability, like I wanted to class to end already, like I wanted to do something. Then, to my horror - I realized that I was bored!