In her wonderful book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Betty Edwards discusses in detail how to purposefully switch from the linear, language bound part of your brain (sometimes called left brain) to the non-linear, spatial part of your brain, (sometimes called right brain).
Specifically it means turning off that part of your brain that quickly assesses and names the things in your world; that looks, comprehends and then dismisses what you see. Learning to draw means, instead, to see the objects in your world in terms of line direction, shape, value, and spatial relationships. These things do not have to be named; merely observed, attended to, and transcribed onto paper.
Blind contour drawings are one way to facilitate this switch.
Yet another way is to take another drawing, turn it upside down and redraw it. This helps us see the spatial relationships rather than the objects we are drawing.
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