Dr. Anna Lembke

videos.

And I say cannot, of course I can.

And I do often, but when I do, I love how normal you are.

Oh my God.

But, but when I do, it's like, I plan to just watch for 15 minutes or I was just going to watch this one video, you know, and there I am two, three hours later.

Yeah.

And we use it to kind of relax and self-soothe, but I don't think it's actually relaxing for our brains.

So again, intentionally planning, getting together with friends or meditating or going on a walk, something where we're finding a way to calm our brains down without using our drug of choice.

Well, essentially, you know, boredom is a really fascinating emotion because, number one, it's painful because it's boring.

And we're really used to being overstimulated.

But also, boredom is kind of terrifying.

Because when we are bored, we are then confronted with kind of fundamental questions about life.

Like, why am I doing this?

Or what is my purpose anyway?

And when we wade into those existential areas, it can really...

you know, cause us to feel some degree of terror, especially since we don't tend to think about those things because we're always distracting ourselves with our drugs.

But boredom is really, really necessary because it's only when we allow ourselves to be bored and to sort of quiet our minds that, number one, we become acquainted with our own thoughts and feelings, you

And sort of acquire the mindfulness that we need in order to move at the pace of mindfulness, which is this peaceful and grounding place.

But also boredom really is kind of the midwife of invention, right?

It's only when we're bored enough...