Re:Much of the research around meditation and mindfulness ha...
by titzer on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:41AM
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> As such it is a practice in not letting yourself be affected by things you do not want to be affected by.
Meditation can be a lot more, but yes, I agree that this is an important lesson that can come from it.
E.g. you're doing dishes. It may be boring, but boring is a judgement. Set aside the judgement and there is just the act of doing the dishes, which is neither good or bad in itself, it just is. The outcome may be good (clean dishes), but the act itself is just sensory input and muscular impulses that you let rise and fall in your mind.
As such it is a practice in not letting yourself be affected by things you do not want to be affected by. The feeling of boredom that may arise if you let it, is just another object to meditate on. Learn to set it aside, and a lot of objections to doing "boring" tasks falls away.