This phenomenon can be partly attributed to the common counterproductive approach to study
(making extreme efforts to memorise, tensing muscles, inducing fatigue), but it also simply reflects
the way the brain functions. Lozanov therefore made indirect instruction (suggestion) central to his
teaching system. In suggestopedia, as he called his method, consciousness is shifted away from the
curriculum to focus on something peripheral. The curriculum then becomes peripheral and is dealt
with by the reserve capacity of the brain.