…is a quote often credited to Einstein. He was on to something. Neuroscience has now been able to map the brain and observe the neurons firing, the brain lighting up, when certain functions occur. Thanks to this we now know that intuition and imagination are the same neurological function. If you can’t imagine it, you can’t manifest it (the old red car theory.) What if earth is God’s playground?
Take the issue of intuition, then. Without it, we literally would not have survived as a species. Your gut tightens and your thoughts prompt you in a different direction: don’t take off when the light turns green, that kind of thing. I’ll bet we don’t know how many times our intuition has saved our life. I can think of a few that I know of, but how many more am I not so aware of?
As it happens the way to develop a strong trust in our intuition is to play with our imagination. To play at creativity. That does not necessarily require making art – baking bread for a neighbor is creative. Have you ever read to a child and made up voices? How do we literally “come unto him as little children?” Open-hearted, empty-minded, both sides of the brain engaged? The answer is: WE PLAY.
The woman in this film actually looks a lot like the younger me. Oh how I miss her. She’s still inside of the wrinkled old me and I’m going to let her play today. I will simply follow her lead. Won’t you join me?
A Painterly Home 