'distracting thoughts' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to thoughts that take your focus away from a task or activity. For example: "I had trouble concentrating on my work due to distracting thoughts."
Mantra meditation involves repeating a calming word, thought or phrase to prevent distracting thoughts from entering your mind.
These rituals allow kids to develop the optimal mental strategies on their own, which means they'll figure out which distracting thoughts work best for them.
When I make an extended effort to smile, my initial pleasure is extinguished, first by the squinting of my left eye, which distorts my vision, and then by a concatenation of distracting thoughts, emotions, and mental images.
It takes the same mental focus, deep state of calm and peace, and ability to block out all distracting thoughts to dive deep, or hold our breath for long periods of time.
The publication suggests sitting quietly for 20 to 30 minutes, using a repeated phrase, breathing, or focusing on an image; this will help you focus your attention and free your mind of distracting thoughts.
As he fasts, the distracting thoughts of congratulation and reward melt away, honors and salary, blame and praise, skill and clumsiness, even his awareness of having a body and limbs.
As they drive to her apartment in the suburbs and throughout the evening, her brash, commonsensical voice constantly intrudes on Adam's distracted thoughts.
The vocal lines seem the distracted thoughts of a bereft woman for whom every mundane thing in life is a painful reminder: "The sun comes up, I think about you./ The coffee cup.
Stress, anxiety, insomnia, distracted thoughts, inability to concentrate, emotional issues and more have been the result of these companies' desire to keep users glued to their devices.
I think about you when I drive home and there's no distracting my thoughts from how much I hate you.
Prior research has provided support for the relationship between behavior (difficulties becoming aroused and reaching orgasm) and cognition (i.e., distracting cognitive thoughts) (e.g., Beck, Barlow, Sakheim, & Abrahamson, 1987; Dove & Weiderman, 2000; Elliot & O'Donohue, 1997; Nobre & Pinto-Gouveia, 2008).
