Boredom: emotional and spiritual meaning

What boredom is

Boredom manifests a deep sadness, a great grief. The hour feels empty. Nothing on offer is enough. In the long run, the source says, this melancholy can lead toward a nervous depression if you do not react. That is a reason to take a lasting, hopeless boredom seriously, and to seek help if the sun really does not come back.

The reading below looks at the grief you are fleeing, and at the strength left unused.

The emotional meaning of boredom

In French, je m'ennuie sits beside je me nuis, "I am harming myself". The source hears that. As soon as you say you are bored, you are not using your strength and your potential. Why do you always need other people's company as a stimulant? What is the grief that pursues you and that you want to flee?

It is like living in a night without end, with no hope of seeing the sun one day. The melancholy is linked to a lack, a void you feel in your life. The first move is to become conscious of that state.

The entry does not name one organ. It sends you back to melancholy, and, if it lasts, toward depression.

A gentler way to hold it

The aim is not to fill the hour with noise. The emotional perspective invites you to find the grief under the empty feeling, and then to use what is already in you.

• Hear the harm in the boredom. Unused strength is the reading of the French play on words.
• Name the grief you are fleeing. Company as a stimulant may be how you avoid it.
• If the night has no morning, get help. A boredom that becomes depression is no longer only a mood.
• Listen inward. The source says the resources are already in you, and that you can direct your own life.