Wellness
Meditation for Focus
Rebuild your concentration with a focus-first meditation practice
12 lessons4 modules8h 20m durationbeginner level
About this course
Learn meditation as attention training, the way it is studied in cognitive neuroscience, not as a generic wellness add-on. You will practise focused-attention (samatha-style) meditation anchored on the breath, learn the four-phase cycle of mind-wandering, meta-awareness, reorienting, and sustained attention that underlies every sit, and use noting to make distraction visible instead of frustrating. Each technique is tied to something measurable, such as session length, a distraction count, or a return-latency, so you can diagnose a scattered sit and progress on a deliberate five-to-twenty-five-minute ladder instead of guessing.
Curriculum
Module 1: Why Focus Is Trainable: Attention, the Wandering Mind, and the Right Technique
- Attention Is a Skill, Not a TraitPreview
- The Wandering Mind and the Default Mode Network🔒
- Focused Attention vs Open Monitoring: Choosing the Right Tool🔒
Module 2: The Foundations of a Sit: Posture, Breath Anchor, and the Four-Phase Cycle
- Posture and Environment for Alert Stillness🔒
- Choosing and Stabilising the Breath Anchor🔒
- The Four-Phase Cycle: Turning Wandering Into Reps🔒
Module 3: Working With Distraction: Noting, Labelling, and Common Hindrances
- Noting and Labelling to Sharpen Meta-Awareness🔒
- The Five Hindrances and Practical Antidotes🔒
- Dropping Self-Criticism: The Most Important Skill🔒
Module 4: Building the Habit: Progressing Length, Tracking Attention, and Going Deeper
- The Five-to-Twenty-Five-Minute Ladder🔒
- Making It Stick: Habit Design and Tracking🔒
- Transferring Focus to Daily Life and Going Deeper🔒
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