How do we improve our focus?
Laura DeMaria
This Thursday at 8:20 am eastern I will be on Morning Air to talk about focus. Specifically, how we can improve our focus so that our prayer is more fruitful.
I’ll talk about just two things I recommend: one is removing your phone from your bedroom at night so you’re not looking at it first thing in the morning and last thing at night. This serves two purposes: one, when we’re constantly looking at our phone it destroys our ability to focus. Attention spans are very short right now, due to all our instant, constant distractions. The other purpose is that it then clears the way for you to use that early morning and before bed time to pray, instead.
Second: practice focusing by paying attention to something beautiful. Sit and look at a stained glass window in church, a patch of sun on the trees in your backyard, a wonderful painting, and do nothing else. I believe if we practice focusing - like developing a “focus muscle” - it will become more second nature.
Find out where you can listen here.