ACCELERATED LEARNING (SUPERLEARNING)
You can find quite lots of information about accelerated learning but unfortunately it would take you lot of time to find information that are important. Usually you will find commercial advertisements. Most popular term for accelerated leaning is Superlearning but you can also hear words as Brain Friendly Learning, Alpha Learning, Holistic Learning etc. No matter how you call it if Superlearning or Accelerated learning because the differencies between them are minor. But there is a big problem. Everyone claim that they use Accelerated Learning but the truth is different… And that’s why I looked for what is accelerated learning about, what principles accelerated learning you will use using accelerated learning. By the way, can you recognize from a word Superlearning or Accelerated Learning what are they about? Of course not. A word super is just a commercial word: this car is super, our bank is super… And accelerated learning? I don’t know how fast I will learn, what principles I will use… And that’s why I prefer using a term relaxed learning because then everyone know what is this method about. About relaxation.
Learning or teaching is always about mental techniques so accelerated learning is about using some mental techniques. It is not about memorizing. For example if you want to learn a foreign language you don’t have to repeat foreing words many many times because it is not natural for our brain. Accelerated learning is perfect for learning foreign langugages but you can use it for learning everything. I would love to get accelerated learning in martial arts, that would be great, wouldn’t be? And now there are some very important principles:
Very important is to get to know what is natural for our brain. No matter how you want to learn but how you brain really learns. It is also called as Naturally Learning(Teaching).
1. Relaxation
When you want to learn something it is highly recommended to relax your body and mind. Then your learning will be fun and much easier. It is absolutely differently from learning in schools where you are mostly stressed learning something and that’s why lots of students leaving a school don’t want to learn anything anymore; Our brain has four brainwaves types: Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta. Accelerated learning is about learning in Alpha brainwaves.
2. Concentration
Is very important no matter what you do. Without concentration you can’t be successful. So in accelerated learning except of relaxation techniques you will also learn some concentration techniques.
3. Imagination
Imagination is about using your internal senses. Most used is internal eyes=vizualization. But much better is to use all your senses. Just imagine what you see, what you hear, what you smell, what you feel or what you taste. Use as much as you can all of our five senses.
4. Emotions, Feelings and Thoughts Managment
Everything what will happen to you is strongly influnced by your emotions, feelings and thoughts. If you want to be rich change your mind= change your emotions, feelings and thoughts and you will change the way you think and then it is highly probably you will reach your goals.
5. Connecting Theory and Practice
Mostly theory and practice are thought separately but this is not natural. Don’t you remember how you learned when you have a kid? No learning first theory and after some time to practice what you learned but as a kid you learned theory and practice at the same time. This principle used John Amos Comenius: learning by game
6. Knowledge about your brain
How fast you can learn what means how many information you can learn, how long you can remember what you have learned, what type of student you are etc.
And now I will give you some links:
http://www.jwelford.demon.co.uk/brainwaremap/holist.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/medbrain.html
http://groups.msn.com/Suggestopedyacreativeholisticwayofteaching
lozanov.hit.bg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
www.brainfriendlylearning.org/
But best way to learn principles of accelerated learning is to attend a NLP class, it is easer to find a teacher, it is faster and I guess even cheaper.
Tags: accelerated, brain, holistic, learning, relaxation, suggestopedy, superlearning
