How can boredom affect my eating habits?

When we're bored, we tell ourselves the unhappy story that whatever is happening is uninteresting and not what we were hoping for from life. We feel restless and dissatisfied. The ego doesn't like what's showing up, yet it has no clarity about how to remedy it.

Boredom is a muddled, stuck state that the ego creates, agonizes over, and turns into a problem. Oftentimes, when we tell ourselves a story that results in boredom, we move into default mode -- reaching for something tasty. We allow the Child to take over, and see food solely as a source of pleasure.

One way to avoid reaching for food when boredom strikes is to say to the ego's Child (pleasure-seeking impulses), just as we might to a persistent two-year-old, "Not now -- maybe later.

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