Trust our intuition

Dr. Wayne Dyer had a famous quote, "If prayer is what we speak to God, then intuition is what God speaks to us."

Children are more intuitive than the grown-up because God speaks to them more often even they still don't know what is God. Let me tell you a story about music learning to illustrate about this.

I was at Whitewater Recorder workshop last weekend. One of the persons in my class is Miss. Judy. She teaches music to the preschool children, ages 2-5. No these kids have learn how to read the music. Nevertheless, these kids learn the music by the ear and their rhythm are always correct. It is very natural for children to learn music because every children has such intuitive ability to learn the music.

As we grow up, we rely more on reading music. The more we read, the more we are confused especially when the music has an unusual rhythm.

During the class, our recorder teacher gave us a music to read and play. The music was written in the notation of 13-century style. None of us knew how to count the beats. I made a request to the teacher.

"Laura, could you play the first 2 measure so that we know how to play the rest?"

She did. After she played the first 2 measures, now everybody sees the connection between the real music and the music written on the paper.

We all have intuitive ability to play and appreciate the music. Yet somehow, through our education, we gradually replace our intuitive music ability with the literally written music notes. We fool ourselves saying that we are more educated. But in fact, we gradually lose our intuitive ability to play and appreciate music.