*Boredom And Imagination*


B:  Question?

Q:  Well, in ordinary circumstances I could understand what you just said
so well, but...

B:  In ordinary circumstances!

Q:  Yes. But lately I... sorry to be so personal, but I...

B:  Oh-oh! You do not have to apologize to me.

Q:  Well I've been in a lot of pain, and I'm not used to it. I'm not used
to having pain that I can't immediately dismiss - and this has not gone
away.

B:  Where?

Q:  In my back and in my left arm, my lower back. It's something to do with
muscles and things like that, I think.

B:  Do you mean tension?

Q:  It may be caused by tension, but I'm not even sure. I've looked at
everything and I've tried everything...

B:  Everything! Have you tried the one thing that may take it away?

Q:  Tell me what it is.

B:  Oh! Thought you had tried everything.

Q:  Well, everything that I... this has also lowered my awareness, so I...

B:  Oh, really!

Q:  Well, it seems to me...

B:  All right. Are you sure you have chosen to lower, or restrict your
awareness based upon the reasons for which it may be happening?

Q:  I could have, but I'm not...

B:  All right. Maybe; maybe not. Allow me to say first of all: how does...
not the pain make you feel, but simply when you first perceived the pain,
the very first perception of the pain, how did you feel just prior?

Q:  Well my arm... I don't quite remember.

B:  Do not remember, all right. What about just before the pain in your
back?

Q:  I only remember when it occurred that I was, I guess, tired.

B:  Tired. Tired of what?

Q:  I guess it was walking around buying Christmas presents, or something
like that.

B:  All right. Was it for you a cycle of repetition?

Q:  Not really; not of repetition.

B:  Why were you tired?

Q:  I don't know.

B:  Are you sure? Nothing mysterious about this. Why were you tired? Can be
for very simple reasons. What kind of tired?

Q:  Could have been that I was tired at that time, tired of life.

B:  Why?

Q:  Boredom.

B:  Boredom! All right. Was it a very boring boredom or a very creative
boredom?

Q:  Ha, ha. Must have been a very bored boredom.

B:  Was it a creatively boring boredom?

Q:  I don't know, maybe.

B:  All right. Do you feel that in all that walking around, that you were
walking uphill?

Q:  Not physically, but I suppose mentally or spiritually.

B:  All right. Do you feel, then, that you were more mentally or
spiritually tired than really, really having any reason to be physically
tired?

Q:  I think it was a combination of both, because I wasn't getting much
sleep.

B:  All right. You were not getting much sleep.

Q:  Right.

B:  All right. Do you feel that the sleep that you were getting was
relaxing you? Or was it also very boring to be asleep?

Q:  No, not boring to be asleep.

B:  Was it boring to wake up?

Q:  Yes, probably ha, ha. Yes, I guess it was. Yes.

B:  All right. Which arm?

Q:  My left arm. That happened rather recently.

B:  All right. Are you equally in pain in your back, on one side?

Q:  No, It's more on my left side than my right.

B:  The same as your arm?

Q:  Yes.

B:  Allow me to ask you a question. Are you now tired of being bored?

Q:  At this very moment, no... oh, oh! Tired of being bored. Oh! Well I'm
just not bored.

B:  You are not bored.

Q:  Not in this very moment.

B:  All right. Then you must have been tired of being bored...

Q:  Oh, all right.

B:  ... until you decide that you wish to be bored again.

Q:  Oh dear!

B:  Oh-oh! I am not saying you will be. Simply that if you are not bored,
then you must have decided to change your mind and be something other than
bored.

Q:  Oh, okay.

B:  Yes or no?

Q:  Yes.

B:  All right. What are you, then, if you are not bored right now?

Q:  Interested.

B:  In what?
Q:  Hopeful.

B:  What?!?

Q:  I just said a cuss word. I hear.

B:  Do you understand the idea behind hope?

Q:  If you hope something will happen, you're not positive it will happen.

B:  Very good. It implies that you are sending your energy toward the
despair.

Q:  Oh!

B:  And you feel it will not happen.

Q:  I see. I see.

B:  And that is the reality that you create: despair.

Q:  Mhmm.

B:  Now, despair can become very tiring.

Q:  Yes.

B:  How do you feel right now?

Q:  I feel so much better.

B:  How is your arm?

Q:  The pain is still there, but it doesn't bother me.

B:  Very good. What of your back?

Q:  Well, I don't feel anything in my back -- that's pretty good. It comes
and goes anyway but right now I...

B:  All right. Why does it come and go -- when you change your mind about
being bored or interested?

Q:  It must have something to do with boredom.

B:  You think so? Do you suppose it could be? Does your imagination tell
you that that feels right? Do not listen to me; my opinion means nothing.

Q:  But despair comes closer to it.

B:  All right. But that is when the boredom is there. What about when the
boredom is not there? Then what are you feeling -- interest? Excitement? A
little bit lighter? A little bit more of life?

Q:  Oh, yes!

B:  All right. Do you suppose that there is any reason really that you
cannot continue to experience life in the way that you wish to? Rather than
assuming that you must always from time to time, be bored? Do you recognize
the pattern within the questions that have been asked today about the idea
of the "still" time in between what you perceive to be the active times?
The idea that being still is not being creative -- where did you ever
create that idea?

AUD:  (Or why ever?)

B:  All right. But still, without judgment, understand that much of your
society is experiencing a transition out of that idea at this time. Allow
yourself to know simply also that you are experiencing some friction then,
within yourself, with the idea that your imagination is trying to come
through in those quiet times. Allowing you then to make those quiet times
not boring, but quietly exciting.

Q:  Oh, I get it.

B:  And understand that the friction of your imagination attempting to
fight its way through the wall of limitation and despair and judgment that
you have placed upon that side of your brain -- represented by the right
side of your brain -- will control and create the friction within the left
side of your body. You follow me?

Q:  Yes, that makes a lot of sense. That really does.

B:  Then simply allow, allow, allow your imagination to be real. And when
you find yourself in times of quiet reflection, allow yourself to then very
quietly become excited about the imaginative ideas which seem to blossom
within those quiet sides of your brain, within those quiet moments of time.
And understand that you are listening to that current of yourself and
connecting into all that you are. You follow me?

Q:  Yes. Thank you.

B:  Oh no, thank you. Again you may simply understand that the asking of
the question represents the containment of the knowledge already. Do you
follow me?

Q:  Yes.

B:  And as such you are already transformed in that way. Now, understand
that you are creating a new habit, and as such you will find that from time
to time you may still feel little tiny twinges of pain. It will be all
right. Allow them simply to act in the purpose for which they have been
created, and that is to remind you that you may once again allow your
imagination and your life and your laughter to take over and become the
reality that you truly wish to experience. And understand that boredom for
you is an old idea -- an all right idea, but an old idea.

Q:  Okay.

B:  Feel free to laugh within your boredom any time you feel like it. And
say, "Oh, what a creative boredom I have made. I am so creative at being
bored, I astonish myself. I should tell somebody to place me in the public
(--?) for the creation of boredom. That's because if you want to know how
to be bored, I can show you."

Realize that as soon as you begin to play with your boredom, you will not
be bored. You will quite quickly go on to something else. Again: realize
that when you create that idea of depression for yourself, you are really
going to where you know the answers are for what you need to unfold of
yourself, since you are not outside yourself, but within. And when you re-
emerge you will be realigned with a new idea, a new vibration. You will be
a new idea, a new vibration, and as such you will be a new you. Now, you
may take a very creative break. Thank you.

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