Sound Mind is a podcast that invites listeners into immersive, scripture-rich reflections on the mental, emotional, and spiritual realities of life—guided by a biblical lens and pastoral heart
The Host of Sound Mind is Jonathan Kindler is faculty professor of Biblical Counseling at the Living Faith Bible Institute, professional counselor and associate pastor at Midtown Baptist Temple.
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EP 28 | Why Does Focus Feel Impossible?
Your mind is tired. Your phone won’t stop buzzing. Your to do list feels like a browser with forty open tabs.
So what do you do when focus feels impossible?
In this episode, Jonathan Kindler redefines attention as more than a productivity skill. Scripture treats it as worship and stewardship. Drawing from Colossians 3:2 and Psalm 16:8, Jonathan explores why the Bible speaks in terms of what we “set” our minds on, and how scattered attention often reflects a scattered heart.
Through a blend of biblical insight and clinical understanding, he explains how dopamine loops, overstimulation, and decision fatigue pull us in a hundred directions at once. Then he offers a different path forward: simple, worshipful attention. You will learn practical tools like sensory resets, single tasking as worship, and the “one thing” rule from Luke 10:42, where Mary chooses the better part in a room full of demands.
If your thoughts have felt noisy, fragmented, or out of your control, this conversation reframes focus not as a personality trait, but as a way of walking with God in a world that constantly pulls your eyes away.
Because attention is never just about getting things done.
It is about who you keep before you.