Bracketing the natural attitude (the epochē)

Husserl called the epochē a deliberate suspension of the natural attitude, the automatic belief that things simply are as we take them to be. In this reduction you bracket that belief and describe an experience purely as it gives itself, its appearings and the way you aim at it, before any theory. Today it works as an exercise in attention and clarity: it slows perception, separates what you actually live through from what you infer, and loosens the grip of habit.