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Creating Bridges: Spirituality & Philosophy:
Living With Your Intuitive Child:
A Place Where Your Intuitive Child Learns
by Sherry Healy |
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All intuitive children love to learn. Hands on activities are usually their favorite means of play and education. While books and videos are a fabulous tool for learning, they are not the best way to instruct the intuitive child. Intuitives grow bored quickly. In the mind of the intuitive child, reading about the lives and adventures of others is a small substitute for actually participating in ones own adventures. Although reading, writing and arithmetic are crucial to ones education and ability to be successful in today's world, the intuitive child will usually prefer to perform these tasks only when necessary in the completion of his own agenda. The intuitive child who is designing his own home business (lemon aide stand, yard sale, magic show) will more easily learn and use the necessary math skills to help him obtain his own goals. And the intuitive child who has told a wonderful story will be happy to learn and practice his own literary skills in the efforts of creating a more beautiful fable.
Encouraging the intuitive child to study math and literature is most easily done when you have incorporated these lessons into his daily life's activities. And the best way to integrate these lessons into his daily life is to combine study with physical activities. Moving from one-dimensional study into physical hands-on practice and back again into one-dimensional study is the best way to educate the intuitive mind. While the intuitive mind is willing to review information that is presented, it quickly becomes excited and prepares to apply and incorporate new information into practice. A twenty-minute lesson should be sufficient for any intuitive mind. Followed by a twenty-minute hands-on practicum, a twenty-minute lesson will stimulate the intuitive child sufficiently. All hands-on activities will help the intuitive mind to create that which his mind is attempting to understand.
Once the intuitive mind has grasped a concept, it becomes bored with wordy and repetitive information and begins to send messages to the body. The body prepares to take physical action. It desires to move and begin creating that which is newly learned. The body wants to move, build and design. Working with the natural habits of the intuitive will prevent the child from becoming bored, frustrated or angry. Allowing the child to construct and move will alleviate stress and channel the newly learned energy into positive directions. While allowing the intuitive to learn in his own manner, one establishes a healthy educational attitude and eventually environment. The world, community and home are the school house for the intuitive child once he is permitted to discover his intrinsic methods of learning.
An intuitive mind can easily learn in where ever he is motivated; in his home, in his workplace or in his community. Teaching an intuitive child in his own home is easy once his interests and talents have been established. The home can be a haven of academic motivations. A newly planted garden can become a kingdom of insects, rocks, and varieties of soil, roots, stalks, vegetables and plants. A laundry basket filled with clothes can be a lesson in sorting, counting, dividing and organization. Cleaning day can be a thrilling adventure when the dust bunnies found behind the sofa are placed under the lens of a microscope or the crumbs of yesterday's dinner are examined for texture and changes in color. In fact, the home can be the grooming ground for all sorts of adventures; the mundane occurrences of flushing, draining, vacuuming, heating, cooling and maintaining of all appliances can keep an imaginative mind busy for weeks. And when paper, pencil and ruler are supplied, the intuitive child will surprise all by attempting to redesign his own set of house hold appliances. If allowed to his own devices, he will eventually invent new appliances with capabilities far beyond those found in his own home or in our imaginations. And once the intuitive child has determined an interest in inventing an object of his own imagination, he will become inclined to learn and use the skills of mathematics and literature to help him in his endeavors. He will ask for books and magazines to help him in his own pursuits of knowledge.
Because the intuitive child possesses the gift of seeing and intuitively knowing how most things work, he can easily imagine the creation of new devices. His imagination might be peeked at the thought of designing airplanes, spaceships, cooling or heating devices, automobiles, calculators, computers or audio and video equipment. And, all of these imaginative thoughts can be provoked from the inside of ones own home or community. An innovative parent simply needs to learn to motivate and cultivate her child's intuitive mind. The first step in motivating an intuitive child is to allow the child to express his creative thoughts. Usually an intuitive child expresses himself physically as well as verbally. He desires to touch, feel, open, close, shake, stir and investigate that which interests him. As his intuitive mind develops a relationship with that which interests him, he becomes motivated to learn more. While many parents discourage children from touching and experimenting with things, the wise parent understands that the intuitive child thrives from physical contact with objects that interest him. Allowing the intuitive child to investigate through physical touch in his environment is the first step toward allowing creative expression. To cultivate the learning process often a parent should supply new stimulus to the home environment. Posters, textured materials, paints, a variety of brushes, sponges and rags, video games and on-line classes, electronic equipment, wood and nails and paper and pencil are necessary elements for the home of an intuitive child.
Once a home is well supplied with interesting learning devices and the child is motivated, the learning process continues as the parent sets healthy academic goals. Intuitive children love to obtain goals and please a loving parent. While most intuitives refuse to follow an authoritarian voice, they will delight when praised for hard work and success. The parent of the intuitive child simply needs to voice a goal and then allow the intuitive to work toward and reach the goal within his own time frame. When the goal is achieved, then the parent should praise the child. As this process of setting goals and praising becomes routine, the intuitive child will become more agreeable when working with parental goal setting. An intuitive mind will easily obtain the goals such as; one must read and learn often or one must use proper grammar. Because intuitive children love to please adults who respect and understand them, setting realistic and obtainable goals is a positive means of guiding the intuitive mind.
When an intuitive mind discovers a means of which to set academic goals his educational environment increases. He can develop safe and healthy interests in the community and eventually anyplace on the planet. He simply needs to follow his own interests, trust his own genius and study that which he loves. Following his intuitive hunches and developing interests that stimulate his imagination will lead him toward success. He will find the ability to study necessary information and become skilled in his area of concentrations. And as he studies information presented to him his intuitive mind will take him to insights never before instituted.
While learning through intuition is considered to be non-traditional in today's world, many highly skilled and innovative individuals have been intuitive learners utilizing the very methods of education of which we have spoken. Christopher Columbus, Amelia Earheart, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, John F. Kennedy, Isaac Newton, Leonardo Da Vinci and many other great leaders of our time were intuitive learners. And each of the individuals stepped beyond what was expected of them and developed new ways of looking at present situations. Many intuitive learners will step into greatness in the years to come either inventing, curing, discovering or planning methods and means that our planet desperately needs; if only they are allowed to follow their intuitive-means of living in the world.
Fostering an environment where you intuitive child learns his own method of understanding the world is most crucial in the early stages of his development. And as he grows it is necessary to continue to ally with him in his learning needs. When the public school system falls short of meeting his needs, your home must become a safe and stimulating environment where he can grow and understand himself. When his neighbors or community misunderstand him, you must be the voice teaching others of the ways of the intuitive child. With positive reinforcement from your home, your intuitive child will develop his own personal style of educating himself and learn to cultivate his own needs. He will more easily assimilate into the traditional methods of education as he matures and develop into an amazing and innovative thinker; one that may heal the planet. For the intuitive mind, the world is a wonderful classroom. We simply need to open the doors to instruction.
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Sherry Healy,
Author & Artist
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sHEALy (Sherry Healy) holds a BA in theology/philosophy. She is a well known intuitive, artist and author working from the town of Annapolis, Maryland. In addition, sHEALy works as resident artist with Head Start children and is trained and has worked with the public school system as a one-on-one reading instructor and resident artist.
Much of her time is dedicated to using intuition as a means to spiritually heal others. She is the author of Living Your Intuitive Dreams, a book designed to help individuals create the life of their dreams through the use of intuition.
In addition sHEALy is the author and illustrator of Confident Child, a children's book designed for young readers. Confident Child, a Tale and Affirmations is designed to help little ones learn to look within themselves for the answer to the tough questions of life.
sHEALy (Sherry Healy) is a lecturer, workshop leader and expressionist painter. Her art work is highly coveted and known for its beauty and healing qualities.
Her intuitive insights have given her a name that is known in metaphysical and healing circles.
To schedule an appointment with sHEALy contact:
maryandtinsel@
comcast.net
To purchase or view original or print artwork:
www.visually
yoursart.com
Bernie Siegel quotes; "sHEALy's methods are life affirming
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