Coaching practices for Enneagram Attention Bias

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• People who know me keep pointing at some pattern in me that I genuinely can’t see in myself
• At the end of the day all I can recall is everything that went wrong, even when plenty went fine
• I know exactly which one thing in that room is going to set me off, and once I’m in there my eyes go straight to it and I’m gone
• I tend to overthink every decision into the ground and completely lose touch with what my body or my heart is telling me
• Lately all I seem to register is what my partner does wrong

Practices that may help

1. The Enneagram blind-spot inquiry
   Use your type’s characteristic blind spot as a daily question: "How might I be doing this without knowing it?"
   The Enneagram
2. Deploy attention deliberately to positive present-moment experience
   Train the habit of noticing what is going well — not as toxic positivity, but as a correction for negativity bias.
   Attentional Deployment, Made Practical
3. Attentional deployment
   Direct attention away from the emotionally provocative element of a situation before the emotion fires.
   Cognitive Reappraisal vs. Suppression, Made Practical
4. Body center awareness — gut, heart, or head
   Identify whether you default to body instinct, emotional intelligence, or mental analysis — and practice leading with the others.
   The Enneagram
5. Track what your partner does right, not just wrong
   Deliberately notice and record positive partner behaviors to counteract negativity bias.
   The 5-to-1 Positivity Ratio in Relationships
6. Notice the pattern without becoming it
   When you catch your type’s automatic pattern mid-stream, name it internally without judgment — observation interrupts identification.
   The Enneagram
7. Attention training technique (ATT)
   Practice deliberately shifting attention across sounds — a drill that builds attention flexibility and reduces self-focus.
   Metacognitive Therapy, Made Practical
8. Notice which data you selected — and which you ignored
   Your conclusions are built on a sample of the available data — ask what the sample excluded.
   The Ladder of Inference
9. Gratitude practice
   Deliberately notice and name what is genuinely good — shifting the brain’s habitual negative scan.
   Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical
10. Train flexible attention
    Practise deliberately moving attention between external cues and internal experience — and back.
    Detached Mindfulness, Made Practical

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