Make a particular description and delineation of every object that presents itself to your mind, so that you may wholly and thoroughly contemplate it, in its proper nature, bare and naked; wholly and severally: divided into its several parts and quarters; and then by yourself in your mind, call the object as well as its parts, by their proper names and appellations.

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations III, 11. [@ Frederick S. Perls, Ralph F. Hefferline & Paul Goodman: Gestalt Therapy. Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972 (1951), p. 97.]

Think of some pairs of opposites in which neither member could exist were it not for the real or implied existence of its opposite.

Frederick S. Perls, Ralph F. Hefferline & Paul Goodman: Gestalt Therapy. Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972 (1951), p. 71.

Consider some everyday life-situations, objects or activities as if they were precisely the opposite of what you customarily take them to be.

Frederick S. Perls, Ralph F. Hefferline & Paul Goodman: Gestalt Therapy. Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972 (1951), p. 74.

Imagine yourself in a situation the reverse of your own, where you have inclinations and wishes exactly contrary to your usual ones.

Frederick S. Perls, Ralph F. Hefferline & Paul Goodman: Gestalt Therapy. Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972 (1951), p. 74.

Observe objects, images and thoughts as if their function or meaning were the antithesis of what you habitually take them to be.

Frederick S. Perls, Ralph F. Hefferline & Paul Goodman: Gestalt Therapy. Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972 (1951), p. 74.

With regard to every experience without exception, verbalize: 'Now I am aware that ...'

Frederick S. Perls, Ralph F. Hefferline & Paul Goodman: Gestalt Therapy. Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972 (1951), p. 114.

Walk, talk or sit down; be aware of the proprioceptive details without in any way interfering with them.

Frederick S. Perls, Ralph F. Hefferline & Paul Goodman: Gestalt Therapy. Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972 (1951), p. 119.

Pay attention to someone's voice.

Frederick S. Perls, Ralph F. Hefferline & Paul Goodman: Gestalt Therapy. Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972 (1951), p. 96.