He then developed a set of introspective techniques designed to make the suffering individual more self-aware, and through this self-awareness to move systematically beyond the self and its vain strivings toward a state he called nirvana.
At the Manhattan School, Karen Beardsley, a singer, presents her own introspective approach, teaching imaging techniques to help voice students overcome audition fears.
When that happens you can become introspective and focus on your technique too closely.
The pianist Jon Nakamatsu plays with the calm assurance that comes of having both a solid technique and a gentle, introspective, interpretive spirit.
Embracing Konstantin Stanislavsky's method (an acting technique that stressed the introspective approach to artistic truth), the characteristic trend of the Group's productions was primarily in the staging of social protest plays with a point of view from the left.
Marcel Proust, whose massive multivolume novel À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) began to appear in 1913, used the stream-of-consciousness technique to probe, in minutely introspective fashion, into the recesses of his own mind and memory.
One of the first examples of artificial intelligence, GPS employed means-end analysis to solve all sorts of mathematical and scientific problems, and was explicitly based on subjects' reports of how they went about solving various kinds of problems -- a technique known as protocol analysis which is basically introspective in nature.
These introspective works are remarkable for their extensive use of internal monologue before this technique had been widely explored in other European literatures.
The following night, the intriguing newcomer Olga Pericet presents "Rosa, Metal, Ceniza," a more introspective piece with well-crafted vignettes and flourishes of ballet and modern-dance technique.
One was to describe the band of somewhat introspective early Nineties columnists whose habit it was to regale their readers with accounts of their boyfriends' shaving technique and the splendid Thai takeaway they had recently enjoyed as the "New Solipsists".
In the allegories some of his greatest imaginative successes are due to his dreamlike, introspective style with its subtle personal music; but it is the workaday vigour and concreteness of the prose technique practiced in the sermons which provide a firm stylistic background to these imaginative flights.
