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Unlimited Horizons
Unfortunately boredom is not a particularly attractive emotion. Thus - once we fully understood this lesson, - it's advisable to switch back to inner growth.
If boredom clouds our life, it's high time to check if what we live for does justice to our higher aspirations, - and whether discarding our ideals is not immobilizing life into monotony.
As long as we seek ever new and broader horizons, we never experience boredom. How to neutralize: The only sure way to break up boredom permanently is to start growing (again).
Disgust / Indignation / Aversion Disgust, indignation and aversion are derivates of boredom. We 'insist' that our reality should 'behave itself' within highly limiting conditions. We are convinced that life is only acceptable and worth living if the standards we set are met (political or religious imperatives, luxury, privileges, certain social conduct of others, etc.). Yet this locks the bandwidth of our experiences into extremely narrow bounds.
If our demands are not met, disgust and indignation veils our emotions. We strive to stay clear of 'undesired' (unfitting, unforeseen, uncomfortable) events and steer our life along known, controlled and sealed-off paths. We don't like to encounter anything we cannot imagine or control.
Yet what we are able to imagine and control is only a minute part of all the kaleidoscopic, colorful existence around us. The focus and energy we direct towards monitoring, filtering and
