Attention Training Experiment
Attention Training Experiment helps clients shift their focus from internal to external stimuli, reducing self-consciousness and anxiety during social interactions.
Attention Training Experiment
If you struggle with social anxiety, there are probably times when you feel self-conscious. For example, you might be very aware of yourself and how you act in social situations. This happens because your attention becomes focused inwards rather than outwards.
This Attention Training Experiment will help you explore how focusing on yourself increases your anxiety. By practicing shifting attention between yourself and the world around you, it shows how your attention can affect how you feel. This tool can help reduce your self-consciousness in social situations.
Overview
Self-focused attention can make people less likely to see their social performance in a positive light, and contributes to the maintenance of social anxiety. The Attention Training Experiment is an exercise designed to help your clients learn to direct their attention outwards, so that they are more able to benefit from social experiments, and able to feel less anxious in social situations.
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