Category: technique...

visualization, meditation, relaxation, breathing techniques
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music-his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting-that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal. (Oscar Wilde)
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion. (E. Hoffer)
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas. (R. Chandler)
techniques of concentration, contemplation, and abstraction regarded as conducive to heightened spiritual awareness or calm
The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness. (Gail Sheehy)
A thousand teachers; a thousand methods. (Chinese proverb)