Think with the whole body!

We register the environment through our five senses; sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Of these the most important are sight and sound and the brain utilizes these most often to encode environmental stimuli and store them in our memory bins. Thus the visual and phonological/audiological loops are most strongly used to encode and store memory traces. We remember words and pictures best.
Smells, tastes and the memory of touch are fleeting and more strongly associated with an environmental prompt; they tend to be recalled by a cue.
Nevertheless since we overuse our visual and audiological loops in our daily life, our memory loops tend to get saturated. If we can balance it out by involving the other senses in our learning process, then the encoding of memory will become easier.