Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.
I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.
Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.