Ramana Maharshi has counselled: apply effort until it happens spontaneously. If it doesn’t just “happen” then one might want to do something about that. Methods like this don’t produce a result so much as they engage the mind and heart so that they dont keep creating problems (such as the sense of being trapped)

When Buddhist teachers (the ones I have worked with) use a term like “cultivate” this or that they dont mean bring something like compassion or awareness into being, rather they mean stop interfering.

If you dont need to use a “method” then thats damn fine but for myself I find that I have so much subconscious conditioning which obscures and distorts that I find using certain methods to be of great value.

This method of turning back onto what is aware of the object for me is to suddenly become aware of the negative space around a condition that it then releases of its own accord. When I put all my focus on the condition then I get involved in trying to manipulate the condition or object and negotiating with it (such as “i feel trapped, how can i get out if this trap” or even “how can i learn to accept this trap”) turning back is my way of doing nothing about the trap at all (it is a dream)

For me method is stretching the canvas and getting the paints and tools ready. Method does not PRODUCE the art.