What’s an Ignatian technique?

for a set of spiritual practices, contemplative prayer really, that were developed by Saint Ignatius of Loyolla. He lived in the late 15th, early 16th century in Spain.

A greatly simplified summary of the technique is
1- Choose a question you wish to discern about. Yes or no type questions work best, or discerning whether or not to choose option A.
2- Become centered using some sort of centering prayer or discipline.
3- Stay centered until you reach a point of indifference, i.e. you can see value to either answer and you have reached a point where you have no agenda about taking etiher solution. Indifference is not the same as preference. You can still have a preference on which choice you take but with indifference you can see and accept either choice as valid and useful. (This is the hardest part to achieve).
4- Look or wait for a sign in your life that tips the choice to yes or no.

The Ignatian technique is difficult. But it brings you to a point where your experience of the rightness of the choice you do make is deeply profound and useful.