Coaching practices for Focused Attention Practice
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- My attention feels welded to the inside of my own head
- When I try to lock onto one thing, my attention slides off it within seconds and I have to keep dragging it back
- My attention is locked into this tight little tunnel
- Once my attention locks onto the thing I’m scared of, I genuinely can’t pry it loose
- All day my attention goes straight to what went wrong
Practices that may help
- Attention training technique (ATT)
Practice deliberately shifting attention across sounds — a drill that builds attention flexibility and reduces self-focus.
Metacognitive Therapy, Made Practical - Selective attention to individual sounds
Deliberately focus on one distinct sound source among several and hold attention there.
Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical - Expanding to panoramic awareness
Deliberately widen attention from its usual narrow focal point to include the full field of sensory experience simultaneously.
Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical - Train flexible attention
Practise deliberately moving attention between external cues and internal experience — and back.
Detached Mindfulness, Made Practical - The Formula First-Session Task and Between-Session Noticing
Assign between-session observation tasks that direct attention toward what’s already working.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works - Daily 12-minute ATT practice
Run the full three-phase ATT session every day as a skill, not a relaxation ritual.
Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical - Practice with full, undivided focus
Short blocks of complete concentration beat long blocks of distracted repetition.
Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice - Rapid attention shifting between sounds
Switch attention between sound sources on cue, making each shift deliberate and immediate.
Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical - Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
The Attention Training Technique (ATT), developed by Adrian Wells, is a structured auditory exercise that rebuilds voluntary control over where attention goes — directly countering the self-focused, threat-locked attention that sustains anxiety and health anxiety. Randomised trials support its effectiveness as a standalone and as part of Metacognitive Therapy. - Choiceless awareness — resting without an object
Sit with attention open and receptive, letting whatever arises in experience be the meditation object — without choosing, pursuing, or rejecting any of it.
Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Flexible Attention Training
Switch attention between sound sources on cue, making each shift deliberate and immediate.
Rapid attention shifting between sounds
- Unfocused Attention Practice
Deliberately widen attention from its usual narrow focal point to include the full field of sensory experience simultaneously.
Expanding to panoramic awareness
- Attention Switching Exercise
Deliberately focus on one distinct sound source among several and hold attention there.
Selective attention to individual sounds
- Attention Training
The Attention Training Technique (ATT), developed by Adrian Wells, is a structured auditory exercise that rebuilds voluntary control over where attention goes — directly countering the self-focused, threat-locked attention that sustains anxiety and health anxiety. Randomised trials support its effectiveness as a standalone and as part of Metacognitive Therapy.
- Attention Training Routine
The Attention Training Technique (ATT), developed by Adrian Wells, is a structured auditory exercise that rebuilds voluntary control over where attention goes — directly countering the self-focused, threat-locked attention that sustains anxiety and health anxiety. Randomised trials support its effectiveness as a standalone and as part of Metacognitive Therapy.
- Attention Training Technique Att During A Big Change
The Attention Training Technique (ATT), developed by Adrian Wells, is a structured auditory exercise that rebuilds voluntary control over where attention goes — directly countering the self-focused, threat-locked attention that sustains anxiety and health anxiety. Randomised trials support its effectiveness as a standalone and as part of Metacognitive Therapy.
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