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Superlearning or Global Learning
Sahana gets ready to school. With her school bag as backpack she is waiting for the school bus. This image inspired me to reflect on the alternatives to the prevailing educational methods.
We live in a world where 'education' and the accumulation of skills have assumed astronomical proportions. We comment vehemently at heavy school bags, but continue putting noses to the grindstone. Always in the hope of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Dr. Georgi Lozanov, a Bulgarian psychiatrist, in the 1960s first applied suggestion and relaxation techniques to classroom learning and termed these methods 'Suggestopedia'. These pioneering techniques engendered and gave impetus to what we now know as Suggestive – Accelerative Approaches to Learning.
Accelerated learning believes that the human brain can work at least two to five times faster ('superlearning') and retain more and for longer periods ('supermemory' or 'hypermnesia') if it is put into the 'right state' of 'relaxed alertness' (therefore non-stress, therefore pleasure) for learning. In a nutshell, aiding in accessing what are termed as the 'success patterns' in our bodies, minds and emotions.
Significantly, 'superlearning' shows us how to relax our body and calm our mind at will. It is sometimes described as 'global learning' since it involves our entire inner world, including parts repressed in older styles of education.
There is a close link between 'Superlearning' and Sound Therapy. This is because the learning method employs rhythm, relaxation and special music to achieve its ends. Mozart's music is exceptionally rich in brain energizing sounds. The right kind of slow Baroque music by 17th and 18th century masters such as Vivaldi, Corelli and Bach, and Mozart activate both the left and right hemispheres of the brain and this simultaneous activation maximizes learning and information retention. Activities that engage both sides of the brain (like playing an instrument or singing) make the brain more capable of processing information. None other than Albert Einstein was asked by his school to give up studies and take up manual labor because he was too 'stupid'. Einstein learnt to play the violin, particular favorites being Mozart and Bach. A friend says Einstein figured out his problems and equations by improvising on the violin. “Rhythmical walking is an everyday activity… Night follows day rhythmically; season follows season rhythmically; food is chewed rhythmically… It (rhythm) is a part of everyday living.”
The mantra expand our self-understanding, and develop memory and creativity because it intensifies the mind's focus, concentration, and energy levels. The ragas as “mathematically perfected patterns of tonal series which match and attune our vibrations” have a profound impact upon our thought and behavior.
So, why are we tormenting and torturing children in the name of education and skill-accumulation?
Superlearning or Global Learning
Sahana gets ready to school. With her school bag as backpack she is waiting for the school bus. This image inspired me to reflect on the alternatives to the prevailing educational methods.
We live in a world where 'education' and the accumulation of skills have assumed astronomical proportions. We comment vehemently at heavy school bags, but continue putting noses to the grindstone. Always in the hope of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Dr. Georgi Lozanov, a Bulgarian psychiatrist, in the 1960s first applied suggestion and relaxation techniques to classroom learning and termed these methods 'Suggestopedia'. These pioneering techniques engendered and gave impetus to what we now know as Suggestive – Accelerative Approaches to Learning.
Accelerated learning believes that the human brain can work at least two to five times faster ('superlearning') and retain more and for longer periods ('supermemory' or 'hypermnesia') if it is put into the 'right state' of 'relaxed alertness' (therefore non-stress, therefore pleasure) for learning. In a nutshell, aiding in accessing what are termed as the 'success patterns' in our bodies, minds and emotions.
Significantly, 'superlearning' shows us how to relax our body and calm our mind at will. It is sometimes described as 'global learning' since it involves our entire inner world, including parts repressed in older styles of education.
There is a close link between 'Superlearning' and Sound Therapy. This is because the learning method employs rhythm, relaxation and special music to achieve its ends. Mozart's music is exceptionally rich in brain energizing sounds. The right kind of slow Baroque music by 17th and 18th century masters such as Vivaldi, Corelli and Bach, and Mozart activate both the left and right hemispheres of the brain and this simultaneous activation maximizes learning and information retention. Activities that engage both sides of the brain (like playing an instrument or singing) make the brain more capable of processing information. None other than Albert Einstein was asked by his school to give up studies and take up manual labor because he was too 'stupid'. Einstein learnt to play the violin, particular favorites being Mozart and Bach. A friend says Einstein figured out his problems and equations by improvising on the violin. “Rhythmical walking is an everyday activity… Night follows day rhythmically; season follows season rhythmically; food is chewed rhythmically… It (rhythm) is a part of everyday living.”
The mantra expand our self-understanding, and develop memory and creativity because it intensifies the mind's focus, concentration, and energy levels. The ragas as “mathematically perfected patterns of tonal series which match and attune our vibrations” have a profound impact upon our thought and behavior.
So, why are we tormenting and torturing children in the name of education and skill-accumulation?