The term direction can be applied to various topics.

• For the management, supervision, or guidance of a film, see film director;
• For the guidance and cueing of a group of musicians during performance, see conductor;
• For determination of position, see navigation, compass or left and right; also note that a direction may be shown by a vector;
• For finding the direction to a radio source, see radio direction finder.
• "Direction" is also the name of a major political party in Slovakia.

• Direction (a term for a principle tool used in practicing Alexander Technique) - The principle of Direction is a substitution response practiced to prevent habitual solutions from becoming more exaggerated and ingrained over time. Someone directs by visualizing or stating the more constructive means and manner of reaching their temporarily suspended objectives. Direction is used with a temporary suspension of goals, (termed Inhibition,) because suspending goals postpones habitual remedies, allowing the newer directions to have a chance to happen.

Some ways of directing are to give consent for exploration and "feeling odd;" to learn to connect one's anatomical knowledge of the structural capacity of design for movement to the demonstration of it. This is sometimes done by stating the incremental steps of what you intend to do as you begin the action - and continuing to state them to yourself as you do them as long as your attention can continue. The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Conductor can mean different things in different contexts: In science and engineering, a conductor is material which contains movable electric charges in which an electric current can be produced. ... There are several traditions of navigation. ... This article is about the navigational instrument. ... A right-handed Cartesian coordinate system, preseting the z (up) vector and y (forward) vector, the right is defined to be the positive x vector. ... In physics and engineering, the word vector typically refers to a quantity that has close relationship to the spatial coordinates, informally described as an object with a magnitude and a direction. The word vector is also now used for more general concepts (see also vector and generalizations below), but this... A radio direction finder, or RDF, is a device for finding the direction to a radio source. ... The Direction (the Third Way) party (Slovak: Smer (tretia cesta), often just Smer) is a political party in Slovakia, led by Robert Fico. ... The Alexander Technique is a method intended to allow a person to better understand and use their body, with the goal of improving posture and removing tension. ... An inhibitor is a type of effector that decreases or prevents a chemical reaction. ...

Rather than gunning the motor by trying harder and muscling our way through an activity, people who direct use strategic forethought to conduct and coordinate more constructive responses as they are discovering. Directing in Alexander Technique is mentally guiding the flow of force through the body, instead of trying to do it. Since the body responds to giving directions by perparing to move at a miniscule response level, the body's reflexive coordination seems to handle the action by itself, gracefully and effortlessly. Continuing to direct builds easier responses over time, eventually completely replacing short-sighted habitual knee-jerk solutions.