Is it the feeling place between contentment and boredom? Or Like a meditative state with no thought?

Both of those are neutral states however there is a major difference between them which is important to realize.

The key to understanding the difference is that feelings always come in response to thoughts.

Thoughts, first. Feelings, second.

Bearing this mind, you now have two possibilities for neutral:

• Possibility 1 - There is no thought at all (meditation)

  Since there are no thoughts, there can be no feelings (since they will always come in response to thought). This is what many describe as a meditative state.

  The problem with the meditative state approach to achieving neutral is that as soon as you come out of the state, you are immediately having thoughts again and therefore you will also have the feelings again.

  So it is really just a temporary fix.

  But despite that, for some people, this still works as a way of living their life. Every time they reactivate uncomfortable thoughts, they go back to their meditative state, all thought is stopped and those uncomfortable feelings are released again until something happens once more to reactivate them...then they have to go back to their meditative state again.

  As I see it, the main problems with the meditative approach to life is that firstly, it eats up a huge amount of time (!) and secondly, you are not really living - you are just emotionally disconnecting every time a troubling issue arises...those sorts of folks give the impression to others of being a bit emotionally "dead".

• Possibility 2 - You don't have any noticeable strong feelings towards a particular subject

  ...so you still have a feeling but it does not have any emotional intensity to it...it feels neutral. To me, this is a more robust and workable approach to life than the one above and is more in harmony with your non-physical intentions in projecting into this physical reality.

  The downside to this approach is that you are going to have to find a way to change how you feel about a particular subject that might be troubling you. To put it another way, you have to mold your default vibrational setpoint regarding that subject into a better-feeling place.

As for your statement about it being easier to reach a neutral state than a positive state, I agree. That's why so many teach meditation rather than appreciation...it's easier :)

If you look at the diagram below, you can see that you have to pass through neutral (the Contentment/Boredom area) before you reach the more positive emotions.

As for how you know you are feeling neutral about something, it's probably a bit more tricky to work this out than it might first seem to be.

The problem for many people is that they quickly habituate to negative (and even positive) emotional states.

The example I usually give is that of buying a new pair of shoes that are not broken in yet. At the start of the day, you might feel uncomfortable wearing them but after a while, you forget all about that uncomfortable feeling and you can convince yourself that you are not feeling anything at all.

It's only when you take those shoes off again that you realize how uncomfortable they were.

And therein, I think, lies the key to correctly identifying neutral states...take the shoes off :)

In other words, stop all thought first (i.e. meditate) and then from that place of no thought, contemplate the subject you want to see if you are neutral about.

It should then be very obvious if you are feeling truly neutral about the subject or not.

Hope this helps.