Distraction is not a problem of attention. It is the ego's active deployment of the body's systems to escape what threatens its structure.
When you sit to read something challenging, drowsiness descends. The shoulder tightens. Hunger arrives. Restlessness takes over. These are not the body's independent reports. They are the ego placing an order with the body: produce a state that allows avoidance.
You cannot avoid distraction through technique — through better focus, better environment, better willpower. These are horizontal solutions to a vertical problem.
The only thing that addresses distraction at its root is honest seeing: noticing that the distraction arrived precisely when the text began to threaten something you have built your identity around. The moment you see this clearly — not as a thought but as a direct encounter with your own operation — the distraction loses its blind conviction.
This does not mean distraction stops. It means you are no longer unconsciously collaborating with it. You see the ego using the body as a shield, and in that seeing, the shield becomes visible as a shield rather than as necessity.
The rest is intent: the continuous choice to stay with what disturbs you rather than flee toward comfort. That choice cannot come from outside. It can only come from you, again and again.
What thought appears the moment you stop reaching for stimulation?