A couple of years ago I had a revelation with a little boy in my family. When he moved from kindergarten to primary school, he had a really difficult time for the first two years adjusting to a new way of learning. In kindergarten he was used to learning by moving his body and exploring with all five senses. He learned easily by doing and having fun. The challenge for him was learning the way teachers wanted him to learn: placed at a desk trying to absorb all of the information served to him.

After a while the learning methods began to shift. The teachers integrated techniques to guide students into α–state. The techniques were all movement exercises to guide students to their full learning potential by balancing both hemispheres of the brain – the emotional and creative, as well as the rational and logical part.

The teachers practiced those techniques during class and right before exams to help the students gain and recall their knowledge. The results were truly...