We Learn by Experiencing
We experience something for the first time. It is an introduction to something new whether that be receiving bodywork, energy healing, or anything new that happens to us. We see it, feel it, enjoy it, understand it. We learn about something new and different, and in that form opinions about it. In that learning, we experience.
We Learn by Watching
As we have decided to learn something, we start that formal process. We watch the demonstrations/examples given, noticing all we can so that we will be able to do the process when we get the chance to try it. This is true for anything from massage to medicine to mathematics.
We Learn by Doing
At first, we practice what we have been shown, doing it until we get proficient. Next, once we are proficient, we continue to learn as we do the process. We know how to do it, but we continue to get better as we continue practicing, noticing little nuances that enhances what we do.
We Learn by Teaching
Once we know something, we try to explain it to others. To explain it well enough to someone else, we have to be able to break it down into small parts. When we can break it down piece by piece, enough so that someone else can understand it, then we have learned it intimately. However, when we explain it to different people, we find that everyone learns differently, and perceives differently. We need to learn the process more, so that we can explain it from many points of view so everyone can understand it in their own manner, changing things until they do it properly. And this also, is experiencing.