SPIRIT Journey: Intuition
“Intuition” is from Late Latin "intuitionem" (nominative intuitio)
“a looking at, consideration”.
Psychology Today states that “intuition is the process that gives us the ability to know something directly without analytic reasoning.” Most people define it as a “gut feeling” or an “inner knowing”.
Everyone has intuition, but most are not aware or tapped into it because of too many distractions and exterior stressors that prevent us from checking in with the feelings and sensations in our bodies.
We are a modern society of immediate gratification and constant stimulus to the brain through technology. Thanks to technology and computers, we are a data-driven society that runs on charts, graphs, statistics and only things that are tangible and can be measured, quantified and qualified.
We ignore our gut feelings in favor of spreadsheets, bar graphs, pie charts and other computer-generated viewpoints.
Curiosity, play, creativity and the natural flow of learning
fall by the wayside in school when
everything has to be measured and quantified
and placed in a spreadsheet.
Everything becomes quite formulaic and no one is “looking at” or “considering” any other possibilities other than those presented through the data.
Where are the other variables in the equation like what the child is dealing with at home or health/wellness or who they really are as a person? What kind of children are they becoming when we are defining them as part of a spreadsheet, drawing a picture of their future in a pie chart or or measuring their worth through a bar graph?
When everything and everyone is so controlled and “data-driven”, what happens to dreams then? How are we really robbing children of their potential rather than helping them discover & grow it?
Why are teachers not allowed to “look at” and “consider” what they feel in their heart and “go with their gut” so that they can be more creative and authentic? (more…)
