How did Edmund Husserl use the phenomenological reduction?

Edmund Husserl utilized the phenomenological reduction as a foundational method to shift the focus of philosophy from the natural-empirical world to the study of consciousness itself.12

The process involves several key steps:

• Bracketing (Epoché): The philosopher performs a "suspension of judgment" regarding the existence of the external world. By placing commonsensical beliefs and the natural world in brackets, Husserl did not suggest doubting reality, but rather setting aside the assumption of its existence to focus on how knowledge of the world is constituted within consciousness.21
• Reorientation: This technique reverses the "natural attitude," turning the direction of sight away from objects and toward the conscious acts—such as perception, judgment, and imagination—through which those objects appear.12
• Transformation into Phenomena: Through this reduction, everything given to the mind is transformed into a phenomenon—that which is known directly in and by consciousness.1

This reduction serves as the first step toward a pure phenomenology, allowing the philosopher to eventually move toward the eidetic reduction to grasp essential structures and the transcendental reduction to reach the transcendental ego.13