Use All Your Senses: Tactile Learning

[Guest guest]

Good Morning!

 

Use All Your Senses: Tactile Learning

 

This week we will be discussing the Power of Our Senses!

 

The power of our senses can be harnessed as an unbelievable tool that

you can use to your life advantage! By eating well, living in a

healthy manner that works for YOU and working in a clutter free

environment are essential for living well. Diffusing essential oils

for stress stimulates our use of our acute sense of smell as does the

background sounds that we hear, help promote the " flow " of our work

and are simple little tricks that can make us better achievers in

life. The ability to use our visual skills in learning life's

lessons can be a great advantage, as well as using our tactile skills

to become better human beings.

 

Our sense of touch can make all the difference in HOW we learn.

Studies in neurophysiology have shown that physical experience

creates especially strong neural pathways in the brain. When we

participate in tactile/kinesthetic activity, the two hemispheres of

the brain are simultaneously engaged. This type of learning

experience helps assure that new information will be retained in long-

term memory.

 

We all need to have our unique styles recognized as valid and

acceptable. This may be most true of those students most likely to

fail. Research increasingly suggests that the majority of students

classified as " at risk " of academic failure fit the description of

concrete/common sense learner style, and favor the

tactile/kinesthetic mode. Kinesthetic activities make abstract

concepts concrete. This is extremely important for students who have

difficulty dealing with abstractions.

 

Moreover, whether the learner's preferred modality is auditory,

visual, or tactile/kinesthetic, it is known that none of us always

remembers what is seen or heard, and all of us remember best what we

have had an opportunity to do. An old Chinese proverb expresses

this: " I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I

understand. " Tactile and kinesthetic engagement enhances anyone's

learning!

 

The tactile system is essentially touch. It is activated through

receptors in the skin. Our tactile sense gives us information about

size, shape, texture, and temperature. In the study of science, a

well-developed tactile sense is essential. It is a sense that could

be better utilized in the other disciplines as well. The kinesthetic

system is activated through movement, with its receptors located in

the tendons and muscles. It is the kinesthetic system that

recognizes, for example, when a dance sequence you are practicing has

not been properly executed.

 

Among the general strategies by which these senses can be engaged in

the learning process are role play, dramatization, cooperative games,

simulations, creative movement and dance, multi-sensory activities,

manipulatives and hands-on projects. (For examples, charades might be

played as part of a vocabulary-building lesson; an historical event

might be role played or dramatized; learning of new information might

be demonstrated by creating a mural, diagram, model, diorama, or

decorated time line; we might be assigned to sort and arrange in

proper sequence index cards with information and dates related to the

topic being studied.)

 

This is the strength of touch and tactile learning.

 

 

Andrew Pacholyk, LMT, MT-BC, CA

Peacefulmind.com

Alternative medicine and therapies

for healing mind, body & spirit!

[Guest guest]

Hi Yogi,

 

It's good to be back, thanks for the great post.

I was FeatherMist in this group about a year ago. I sent insights

penned with this name. I finally moved and changed my life.

 

 

, " yogiguruji

<yogiguruji@a...> " <yogiguruji@a...> wrote:

> Good Morning!

>

> Use All Your Senses: Tactile Learning

>

> This week we will be discussing the Power of Our Senses!

>

> The power of our senses can be harnessed as an unbelievable tool

that

> you can use to your life advantage! By eating well, living in a

> healthy manner that works for YOU and working in a clutter free

> environment are essential for living well. Diffusing essential oils

> for stress stimulates our use of our acute sense of smell as does

the

> background sounds that we hear, help promote the " flow " of our work

> and are simple little tricks that can make us better achievers in

> life. The ability to use our visual skills in learning life's

> lessons can be a great advantage, as well as using our tactile

skills

> to become better human beings.

>

> Our sense of touch can make all the difference in HOW we learn.

> Studies in neurophysiology have shown that physical experience

> creates especially strong neural pathways in the brain. When we

> participate in tactile/kinesthetic activity, the two hemispheres of

> the brain are simultaneously engaged. This type of learning

> experience helps assure that new information will be retained in

long-

> term memory.

>

> We all need to have our unique styles recognized as valid and

> acceptable. This may be most true of those students most likely to

> fail. Research increasingly suggests that the majority of students

> classified as " at risk " of academic failure fit the description of

> concrete/common sense learner style, and favor the

> tactile/kinesthetic mode. Kinesthetic activities make abstract

> concepts concrete. This is extremely important for students who

have

> difficulty dealing with abstractions.

>

> Moreover, whether the learner's preferred modality is auditory,

> visual, or tactile/kinesthetic, it is known that none of us always

> remembers what is seen or heard, and all of us remember best what

we

> have had an opportunity to do. An old Chinese proverb expresses

> this: " I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I

> understand. " Tactile and kinesthetic engagement enhances anyone's

> learning!

>

> The tactile system is essentially touch. It is activated through

> receptors in the skin. Our tactile sense gives us information about

> size, shape, texture, and temperature. In the study of science, a

> well-developed tactile sense is essential. It is a sense that could

> be better utilized in the other disciplines as well. The

kinesthetic

> system is activated through movement, with its receptors located in

> the tendons and muscles. It is the kinesthetic system that

> recognizes, for example, when a dance sequence you are practicing

has

> not been properly executed.

>

> Among the general strategies by which these senses can be engaged

in

> the learning process are role play, dramatization, cooperative

games,

> simulations, creative movement and dance, multi-sensory activities,

> manipulatives and hands-on projects. (For examples, charades might

be

> played as part of a vocabulary-building lesson; an historical event

> might be role played or dramatized; learning of new information

might

> be demonstrated by creating a mural, diagram, model, diorama, or

> decorated time line; we might be assigned to sort and arrange in

> proper sequence index cards with information and dates related to

the

> topic being studied.)

>

> This is the strength of touch and tactile learning.

>

>

> Andrew Pacholyk, LMT, MT-BC, CA

> Peacefulmind.com

> Alternative medicine and therapies

> for healing mind, body & spirit!

[Guest guest]

Silver Spirit.

 

Welcome back to the community! You have been missed.

 

I hope you will share your new found life experiences with the

community. I know you had many obstacles to over come and I

am so glad you are back. I hopw you will share with us once again

on your insights in alternative health and healing experiences.

 

In Happiness,

 

Yogi

-------------------------

 

>Hi Yogi,

 

>It's good to be back, thanks for the great post.

>I was FeatherMist in this group about a year ago. I sent insights

>penned with this name. I finally moved and changed my life.

[Guest guest]

Yogi, Thank You. I moved from a slum in CA to quiet area in MI, the

peacefulness here is just what I needed. It happened in an unusual

way.

On another chat service, a Native woman offered to guide me. We

became friends, and I found myself being invited to MI. Things didn't

turn out as I had hoped, I was to be part of their family, which I

was for awhile, but theere was a lot of tension between us, our

personalities clashed a lot, she seemed so disappointed I wasn't what

she expected, well I could say the same. So I decided to sever the

friendship, tired of being hurt, when all I wanted was to help. She

and her husband have health problems, he's terminally ill, and I

wanted to be there for her when he dies, but when I tried to help

them, she'd say things I didn't need to hear, and when she was mad,

she would address herself by her first name, instead of " Grandmother "

which I called her in respect, but she'd be Grandmother the other

times. She'd speak of unconditional love then change her tune as it

suited her. I had enough of that so I had to turn away from her and

it hurts, because she taught me a LOT.

I'm still on the Native path, been there consciously for about 4

years, though she says I've been there longer. She acknowledged my

Native-ness, my past lives too. It was awesome for awhile, I was very

happy, till we met and she showed another side, then got mad at ME

for showing other sides, like all I should be is the person she knew

on the net. She has a lot to learn, at 61, but at 47, so do I. I feel

sorry for them, they have no friends, now I can see why, she drives

them away. It is sad, because I still love her.

I have a nice neighbor who's an artist, we talk about anything and

he helps me get around, being I can't drive, he takes me to the dr

and shopping. We visit his relatives and friends and enjoy each

other's company, though we're just friends.

My health is a little better, though the dry winter is causing my

skin some problems, I got some cream from a health store, it works

great, but I need something I can soak in too.

For now I will stay here and heal as best I can, now having more to

heal from than when I left CA. I'm still friends with my ex, who I

had to live with due to financial limitations. He's still there, and

we stay intouch.

That's most of the story, since Sept. 1st when I came here.

I still have my welsite, had a support group at the other chat

service, it was great, but that place gets hacked so much i think I

got a virus and am staying away. I'll post some more soon. Thanks

for having me back.

, " yogiguruji

<yogiguruji@a...> " <yogiguruji@a...> wrote:

> Silver Spirit.

>

> Welcome back to the community! You have been missed.

>

> I hope you will share your new found life experiences with the

> community. I know you had many obstacles to over come and I

> am so glad you are back. I hopw you will share with us once again

> on your insights in alternative health and healing experiences.

>

> In Happiness,

>

> Yogi

> -------------------------

>

> >Hi Yogi,

>

> >It's good to be back, thanks for the great post.

> >I was FeatherMist in this group about a year ago. I sent insights

> >penned with this name. I finally moved and changed my life.