Article September 30, 2019 Issue

Defeat distraction

Helene Timm

In the life of a university student, assignments come along frequently. And with them—and I speak from experience—can come the tendency to feel distracted and procrastinate. But lately I’ve had the desire to deal with this habit in a more productive way: to tackle it through a spiritual approach. This has brought immediate, and good, results.

For instance, one day I was sitting in the university’s library writing an essay. But it wasn’t going as planned. I kept being demotivated and distracted by the desire to be elsewhere, doing something more exciting.

While other times I had just accepted these thoughts as normal and allowed them to take me off course, this time I didn’t. As I often do for study sessions, I had brought with me the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, both for inspiration and to test the practicality of the spiritual ideas in the book. I opened it, hoping to find a helpful idea, and the following sentence stood out to me: “Expose and denounce the claims of evil and disease in all their forms, but realize no reality in them” (p. 447).

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