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How to Dissolve Challenges
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Fear and worry are surefire ways
to spoil an otherwise trouble-free life. We cannot escape fear by avoiding situations we believe will produce fear. This merely shifts this negative emotion to other situations, persons or objects. How to neutralize: Courageously confront your fears and worries and realize how unnecessary they are.
Boredom Boredom is nothing other than lack of inner growth.
Feelings of boredom inform us that we've grown out of one particular job or a limiting situation. Certainly - it might feel more comfortable to cling to the current (stagnant) circumstances, yet this doesn't make life interesting again.
Boredom certainly ends when this particular life ends. We then get new chances to change to more exciting experiences. Yet if we decide to hang on to stagnant conditions till we leave our body, a long time of tedious monotony might be ahead of us.
On the other hand it's perfectly 'legal' to explore boredom. Deeply entrenched ennui often comes from past turbulent experiences where we intensely craved stability and steadiness. Yet we sought it in the permanence of our (material) surroundings - instead of in continuous growth, as nature shows us. Our current present now shows us this (material) stability, but also the immovability and stagnancy it subjects us to.
