Attention Protection Affirmations

Protect and Shield your Attention from the SoMed brain drain

Feeling scattered and unable to concentrate after scrolling? This 5-minute guided audio helps restore your attention's protective boundaries before or after extended social media use.

Part of the SoMed911: The Social Media First-Aid Kit system - designed to work standalone or alongside other affirmations/methods taught in the book based on theory of conservation of energy.

What's Happening to Your Attention

As discussed in the book, there are 5 elements of problematic social media use, each with 7 effects that lead to what are called the Redzone (a mental state with effects like disorientation, loss of agency, and ability atrophy.) The element of attention when doing multiple things at once requires mental and emotional demands that drain your brain's energy quickly. On social media this attention switching is a primary driver for engagement. Building your attention shield can counter and realign this paradoxical draining-energizing state thereby preventing attentional atrophy, skill decomposition, and self-neglect. Keeping you out of the social media valley of despair, the Redzone.

How This Audio Works

These spoken affirmations with hypnotic background ambient sounds aid in reinforcing the element of attention by initiating carefully crafted protection affirmations. They are designed to relieve the attention switch cost and restore your capacity for sustained focus over a 5-minute period. By making your attention itself the object of your attention, you displace the object attachment to the screen.

The language of the affirmations complement the methods and skills taught in the SoMed911: The Social Media First-Aid Kit book. For deeper dives on the 5 elements of problematic social media use and how to chart your course away from the rabbit-hole sequence, it's best to first read the book.

INSTRUCTIONS

• Standalone or integrated: Use as a quick tool on its own, or as part of methods taught in the book
• Call and response format: Listen to each affirmation, then repeat it quietly to yourself during the pause
• Active reorientation: The mantras engage you in attention alignment and protection from the switching cost
• Best used: After scrolling sessions, when feeling scattered or overstimulated, or when you've been in the attention-switching over-concentrated state

What You Get

→ 5-minute MP3 audio file
→ Hypnotic background ambient sounds
→ Carefully crafted spoken affirmations
→ Call-and-response pacing with rest periods

PART OF A SERIES

This is Track 2 of The SoMed Affirmations Collection.

The complete collection:
• Track 1: Memory Protection Affirmations
• Track 2: Attention Protection Affirmations (you are here)
• Track 3: [Coming Soon]
• Track 4: [Coming Soon]
• Track 5: [Coming Soon]

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ABOUT THE SOMED911 SYSTEM

These affirmations are one tool in a complete first-aid system for social media.

Explore the full system: → Visit somed911.com for resources, tools, and methods
→ Get the complete book SoMed911: The Social Media First-Aid Kit on Amazon