Ramana Maharshi had one technique: ask 'Who am I?' Not as a philosophical puzzle but as a lived investigation. Turn attention back on itself. Where does the 'I' thought arise from?
I tried this properly for the first time six months ago. I expected an answer. Instead I found a gap — a moment where the question ate itself and there was just quiet.
The 'I' cannot find itself because the seeker and the sought are the same.
What I've noticed
Every time I get tangled in a problem — a hard debugging session, a tense conversation, a deadline — the knot loosens immediately when I ask: who is tense? Not as a trick, but genuinely. Something drops.
I don't have a neat conclusion. The practice isn't about arriving somewhere. It's about noticing that you were never lost to begin with.