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  "description": "Addressing the mind's objections around flattened affect 😐",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T06:00:24.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.gilespcroft.com",
  "tags": [
    "17 days",
    "46 years",
    "fail to notice it",
    "Get In Touch",
    "An invitation to apathy?Lessons from Zen, on being and doing 🧘🏻The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft"
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  "textContent": "I was having a coaching call with someone and, in that way that I love and am very grateful for, yet again _I_ saw something for myself in a different light.\n\n✨\n\nIn the past I’ve said that the whole process of being less in our heads and more in our lives—awakening, if you like—is pretty boring. I think I’ve said this to counteract the narrative that minds can easily get sucked into, when hearing me talk about my own experiences.\n\nI had some pretty big insights. They happened over the course of 17 days (at the end of 46 years, I should add)!\n\nEverything changed completely.\n\nYou'll hear me say that on a podcast or something (Giles is a good story-teller) and the mind replies,\n\n> 📦🗣️: _“Ah, that's all well and good for him! I’m not like that, though…”_\n\n**… and nothing changes.**\n\nOr you consume 12 billion books and video clips looking for ‘how’ to do that, getting increasingly hacked off when nothing happens.\n\nSo I’ve taken to describing it as boring, because in one way, it is.\n\nAll the excitement and expectation and emotion is very mind-based: highs and lows. It’s what being human is all about.\n\nWhereas presence just kind of ‘is’. It’s so normal that most often, we fail to notice it.\n\n> 📦🗣️:_“Boring!”_ (Says a mind)\n\nAnd then for a mind, it’s a mere hop, skip and a jump (and oh how it _loves_ to hop, skip and jump!!) to then conclude:\n\n> 📦🗣️: _“Well, if I start going down this path, the end result will just be boredom. I’ll be numb. Where’s the fun in that?”_\n\n**… and nothing changes.**\n\nBut the end result is not boring at all.\n\nWhen I was on the call with the client, I caught myself about to say that it  _was_ boring, when I had a fresh new thought (just a little, ‘boring’ one 😉).\n\nI realised that these days, the emotional highs and lows in my life are ** _more_** keenly felt and life seems so much bigger and fun. A proper adventure!\n\nWhy?\n\n🛟\n\n****Because I know I’m safe.****\n\nI know that feeling **_is_** thought - they’re one and the same thing; two sides of the same coin.\n\nAnd I know that thought comes and goes and is endlessly inventive and everything I experience shifts and changes constantly (because it’s all made of thought; it’s all going on in that Thought System 📦) and _it’s all ok_.\n\nEvery thought welcome. Every feeling welcome. It’s essentially harmless.\n\nAn appreciation of which allows you to feel the rollercoaster of human emotion—‘good’ and ‘bad’—as strongly as you like… hands in the air, screamin’ like you just don’t care!\n\n🎢 🙌🏻\n\nGiles\n\np.s. the mind likes to predict what that ‘awakening’ process will be like, and what you’ll have to do, and how you’ll feel, but since it’s not involved (in fact, that’s kinda the point), you can never know!\n\nBut if you _don’t_ feel safe from your own psychological experience right now, then I’m here to help. Because things really do look completely different when you realise, for yourself, that you’re ok.  _Wherever_ you’re at right now, and however much your mind protests that somehow it’s different for you (it isn’t).\n\nWhen you're ready for that change:\n\nGet In Touch\n\n### Related\n\nAn invitation to apathy?Lessons from Zen, on being and doing 🧘🏻The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft\n\nMore on this topic, for the curious.",
  "title": "It's not boring",
  "updatedAt": "2026-07-01T15:56:30.321Z"
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