Intuition – The Mysterious Gift

There are many experiences in life which go beyond our daily life understanding. Yet these experiences are handy. For instance Love and Intuition. Humans consider love to be special and personal. We are comfortable to define it, experience it and realize it in our own way. But what about intuition. Are we equally comfortable with this experience as with love? The answer is no. This article searches for “the why” of it.

About Intuition: The human mind is blessed with qualities like intelligence and imagination. It is said that the brain has two halves. The left and the right. The left half is associated with the intelligence aspect. It covers abilities like logical thinking, analysis etc. The right half is concerned with imagination like creative thinking and intuition.

Intuition is the ability to understand things without instructions. It is the opposite of the word tuition. Children have tuition to learn about subjects which they cannot comprehend by themselves. The tutor gives instructions and the child follows to finally grasp the content. But in intuition, a flash of realization presents the complete picture, the big picture with all its essence before us. Such experiences take us aback because we are more familiar with and comfortable with experience which effort to understand. Intuition is an immediate response with little or no thought preceding our feeling.

Importance of Intuition: Ask a scientist this question and he will swear by it. Though this ability cuts right across the very spirit of science, no scientist can deny the basic role of intuition in science. An artist would share similar experiences about this ability in arts. In all human endeavors, there comes a moment or a point where the tools are used up completely. And at the brink of making history stands this magical ability called intuition to guide from efforts to result.

Understanding of Intuition:

“I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.”

– Albert Einstein.

” Stop telling God what to do with his dice“.

– Neils Bohr.

Even most intelligent man in the history, Albert Einstein, had to eat his words when the field of Physics, Quantum Mechanics was introduced and firmly established around 1920′s. It was because the subject Quantum Mechanics is partly based on intuition and few experimental evidences. It was extremely tough for even a physicist like Albert Einstein to acknowledge the role of intuition in Quantum Mechanics. It took courage and conviction for physicists like Neils Bohr and his fellow collegues at that time to establish Quantum Mechanics as a solid branch of Physics.

Understanding about anything begins when we acknowlegde its existance. Our prejudices and pride untill now have been stopping us from exploring this wonderful gift of nature. Though research is underway, concrete facts about how intuition works will take more time.

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