All of the points that me her posted are great ways to direct the audiences attention. If you want to study audience direction further I would suggest buying the books of wonder. Not only do they contain great magic but they a full of this type of theory.
As far as practice goes you can start by trying to direct the attention of others in all the magic you do. Especially in tricks where it does not matter where they look or in non magical endevors as well. While you are doing normal activities and such. Once you can control their attention then start trying to apply those techniques to your presentations that require it.
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Five Points in Magic by Juan Tamariz is also a good source as far as misdirection goes... Especially the part under "eyes" where it explains "crossing the gaze". Fun stuff to do, works all the time.
FYI, Apollo Robbins doesn't misdirect. He directs elsewhere, and while it's hard to physically describe it, there is a difference between the two. All of his misdirection is purely motivated, whereas some of the suggestions (namely saying their name or looking up) are, by themselves, somewhat useless because there was no point in doing it.
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