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Our minds, brains and nervous systems have the amazing capacity to receive tremendous amounts of information from the environment via the senses.  With the advent of the Internet never before has there been a time where we can, at any time, access a vast wealth of information. Literally at our fingertips!  We truly live in a miraculous age!

However, miracles come with a price.  The large amount of daily sensory and mental information we are exposed to on a daily basis has overwhelmed our ability to integrate, process and apply this information to our lives in a meaningful way.  An overwhelmed nervous system shuts itself down to protect itself from overload. 

A healthy and open nervous system receives new information and processes it to be applied to daily life.  Because of the overwhelming amounts of daily information we are exposed to our nervous systems have had to become editing systems.  This creates a gap between information that is received and what actually reaches our conscious minds. 

A way that is eminently more satisfying and fulfilling is to immerse yourselves in your senses and learn experientially.  This approach provides significantly more meaning and value in our ever-changing world. 

For learning to be meaningful and more importantly enjoyable it must involve information absorption followed by its application.   It is through the process of application that true experiential learning occurs followed closely by personal development.  There is a big difference between discussing exercise (or any subject) and its actual performance. 

Information digested in this way becomes organic.  It becomes part of you.  Recollection of this information does not need to occur through the laborious route of memory retrieval but instead becomes a program in your nervous system.  Accessing the program simply requires you to imagine your body doing the activity.  Once activated this amazing machine will know what to do leaving you to guide and enjoy the experience.

Remembering takes you out of the moment and requires time.  Focusing on each and every experience as it’s happening with all your senses exercises and improves your ability to use all of your senses.   Information begins to enter through your pores and you learn on a very deep level.

Experiential learning directs your information gathering by leading you towards subjects that are important to the needs of your life.  Learning in this way evolves, eventually becoming an adventure, for you never know what subject you will find yourself researching.  

Experiential learning requires you to be consciously connected to your body.  This means breathing into your body on a daily basis and opening yourself to your senses.

There also needs to be a quiet daily integration period where you breathe into your nervous system providing it the time and space it needs to create pathways and make connections within itself.  The body is an intelligent machine that is constantly working to improve the efficiency of its operations.

Lastly and most important, experiential learning requires you to slow down and pay attention to the moment.  This too is practiced through breathing into the body and relaxing in the moment.  Allowing your body the time it needs to digest the information meal you just consumed will improve its ability to assimilate and process new information while eliminating what is no longer needed. 

But don’t take my word for it.  Slow down and focus on what is truly important to you and how your body feels.  It can be a great guidance system to help transform your life.

Mr. Sheldon Ginsberg President of FitPath Health Services holds a Bachelors of Science in Exercise Science from State University of New York at Buffalo.  In addition, he has obtained advanced certification as a Strength and Conditioning Coach from the National Strength and Conditioning Association and he is also a 12th level Reiki Master Teacher.  To learn more you can visit www.thefitpath.net or call 305-785-2936.

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