{"id":2610,"date":"1992-06-27T21:29:23","date_gmt":"1992-06-27T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/?page_id=2610"},"modified":"2016-06-25T21:43:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T21:43:04","slug":"blues-aint-nothing-but-a-good-soul-feeling-bad-0627","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/?page_id=2610","title":{"rendered":"06\/27"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BluesAintNothingBookCover\"<\/a>FEELING BORED can be an interesting experience. The ten thousand things that make up our experience each day are neither intrinsically interesting nor uninteresting. The same things that interest us one day can bore us the next, and vice versa.<\/p>\n

There is some evidence that continuing to do the same things in the same way may encourage us to lose interest. But what about those times when nothing seems of interest?<\/p>\n

One way we can restore our enthusiasm about a life that has lost its allure is to ask ourselves, \u201cWhy am I bored right now? What is going on within me that has so sapped my interest that I feel apathetic about the world around me?\u201d<\/p>\n

Even if we can\u2019t come up with an answer to our questions, at least we will have allowed our boredom to arouse our interest.<\/p>\n

Boredom can become interesting if only we pay attention to it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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