Mic:
But, there does seem to be, within that 'interior distraction that justifies itself' an energy that has the possibility of being redirected (as if it's a response to a basic misunderstanding, which forces it to effectively work against you), and then used in your favor; so it's no longer a distractive energy, but a useful one.
Explicitly, that energy that previously justified, or enlivened, the interior distraction can then become an energy that continually dismantles it.
Okay, I've got a model for the workings of this:
That 'energy' is the basic survival instinct.
It get's routed into a psychosomatic complex due to [fill in blank if you can*].
That psychosomatic complex contains, for example
The individual caught in subject/object duality and fretting over social identity issues.
The spiritual practitioner trying to get enlightened.
The spiritual adept, identified with naked awareness.
Every time an emotive thought complex is noticed and 'seen through', so that it falls away, and before you groove on the space and clarity behind it, this process itself can be seen as part of that very psychosomatic affliction, including the 'individual' who 'benefits' from the 'insight'.
In this way the entire psychosomatic complex becomes contrary to the basic survival instinct, the energy of which can now disentangle itself, and reapply to... the remainder (my week of knowing that, let's say, that there
are no distractions).
I speculate that the logical endpoint of this model would be a basic survival instinct aligned effortlessly with sensate reality (devoid of aforementioned imaginary extensions).
But I don't see this model contradicting basic buddhist practice in anyway. In fact, the description of 'The 4 steps of Right Mindfulness' in another thread called 'Vimalaramsi vs Sayadaw teachings?' overlays this perfectly.
(*Wrong Mindfulness, then)