Self-Focused Attention Questionnaire: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Self-Focused Attention Questionnaire, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
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 - 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 - Shift attention outward during social situations
Direct your focus to what the other person is saying and feeling, not to how you appear.
The Spotlight Effect: Why You Think Everyone Is Watching - Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical
Focusing, developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin, is a structured inner-listening practice that attends to the "felt sense" — a bodily, pre-verbal knowing about a situation. Small clinical studies and therapist-outcome research suggest people who can access the felt sense make more therapeutic progress, though large controlled trials are lacking. The self-inquiry skills Focusing teaches are low-risk and widely applicable. - Shift to task-focused attention under performance anxiety
Redirect attention from self-monitoring and outcome worry to the specific process cues of the task at hand.
Attentional Deployment, Made Practical - Situational attentional refocusing: shift from self to situation
In anxiety-provoking situations, actively redirect attention outward — to the task, the other person, the environment.
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 - Give Self 2 a concrete focus anchor
Occupy Self 1 with a specific sensory observation task so it stops issuing unhelpful instructions.
The Inner Game: Quieting Self 1 - Keep an attention capture list during hyperfocus
Write down every impulse, distraction, and off-topic idea that arises during a session rather than acting on or suppressing it.
Hyperfocus: Directing Intense Attention to What Matters Most - 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
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- My attention feels welded to the inside of my own head
- All day my attention goes straight to what went wrong
- In any conversation I’m so busy watching myself
- The moment I’m up there performing, my head fills with "how do I look, am I blowing this, what are they thinking"
- The moment I’m in a room with people I’m trapped watching myself
Related concerns
- Self Focused Attention Scale
Practice deliberately shifting attention across sounds — a drill that builds attention flexibility and reduces self-focus.
Attention training technique (ATT)
- What Is Self Focused Attention
Practice deliberately shifting attention across sounds — a drill that builds attention flexibility and reduces self-focus.
- Focus Of Attention Cbt
Practice deliberately shifting attention across sounds — a drill that builds attention flexibility and reduces self-focus.
- Self Focused Attention
Practice deliberately shifting attention across sounds — a drill that builds attention flexibility and reduces self-focus.
- Attention And Self Attention
Practice deliberately shifting attention across sounds — a drill that builds attention flexibility and reduces self-focus.
- Center Of Attention Counseling
Direct your focus to what the other person is saying and feeling, not to how you appear.
Shift attention outward during social situations
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