For example:
Can you see the giraffe in the picture on the right?
You have to stare at it for a while before you can see it.
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Chocolate is an anti-depressant and if you are a chocoholic DO NOT visit the Chocolate
Trading Company because they have the most succulent, delicious, exotic and wonderful array of chocolate confectionary you could imagine.
On a more serious note boredom is actually a form of distress. To get a perspective on this consider all those relaxed lions dozing in the mid day sun on the African plains. You won't see a bored one. But in a zoo they can (unfortunately) sometimes be seen neurotically pacing backwards and forwards. That is a bored lion. When you are feeling bored it is usually because the natural activities that you want are not available as choices in your conscious mind. You are in some sense caged. The typical reason for this is that you have been restricted in your past by figures of authority, your parents, your teachers, or other people looking after you. See the educating children page for more about how we stifle our children. It's called oppression and you learn to comply to stay safe and survive. Eventually you are doing it to yourself without being conscious of it. So it seems a mystery why you feel unhappy and stuck. Although there is lots of literature on this subject and there is lots you can do to begin to un-repress yourself, in the short term a very good thing to do is to get outside and exercise. Go for a walk or cycle. This is both useful because it is healthy exercise and it generates all those hormones that make you feel good. Eating healthy food like fresh fruit or juicing wheatgrass also helps. See the looking after your body page.
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