I was just reading Antonio Lucero's comment in the question "What is the next paradigm shift in respect to neuroscience?" when something struck me. He says:
"...paradigm changes we need to discover will come from people who can use both their intuition and their logic, (i.e., both “right brain” and “left brain” processing) as is appropriate for each part of the problems to be solved."
Now, ignoring the notion of 'right brain' vs. 'left brain', there seems to be significant truth to the idea that intuition is a major component of learning and discovery. The question I want to pose is: is there a way to teach intuition? Or perhaps I mean: is there a way to guide people's intuition formation so that it is built on scientific reality? Perhaps adding a major element of kinesthetics to teaching the hard sciences? I feel like traditional lab classes try to do that now, but in my experience, they fail miserably.
Link to the original question I referenced: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_next_paradigm_shift_in_respect_to_neuroscience
There is a whole bunch of techniques, and I had the pleasure of educating groups of senior managers a number of these techniques, partly based on fighting arts and qigong, on breath techniques and yoga and on interaction-challenges, but you never can teach intuition and creativity directly, you always need to approach it tangential. At least that is what I think. Most creative and intuitive solutions come to you after relaxation and doing something totally different...think of the famous benzene structure...
I'm no expert or authority but I would like to say something from a cognitive psychological perspective.
Intuition is knowing (arriving at a conclusion or predicting an event or behavior) without "conscious" inference. This term has been often related to (scientifically speaking) insight learning and creativity. Now, lot of information that we process happens to be at subliminal level. Usually at this level we register some information but usually do not pay attention to it, thereby keeping it from our short-term memory and it is subsequently not available for higher levels processing that involve manipulating the information to solve problems or achieve understanding. However, sometimes at subliminal level, some processing may happen, some connections may be formed (between chunks of information). We may not have attended to that consciously so we may not remember, but when situational cue or demand is there- it's there, the answer or understanding- and we call it intuition. Further people who have intuition have so about things they are familiar with. Human memory is far from perfect, we keep storing information without indexing them properly, so the retrieval is tricky. If we thus explain intuition as a cognitive process with ill-defined pathway, then anything that enhances attentional bias towards certain kind of information (making sure we identify and register some information of interest from a pool of distractions) thereby facilitating subliminal registration (even processing) may make "having INTUITION" easier.
For more explore Dr. Gary Klein's research on Recognition Primed Decision (RPD) model.
I believe ,Intuition is a natural gift but to be cultivated & develop by tuning from the within with the help of our mind .It has got nothing to do any particular religion or practice .However whatever the system & practice we may follow & cultivated ,Calm & serene mind is one of the basic essence & with the help of Power of Prayer or even nature practice with the firm faith & regular practice of Meditation will certain help us to shake hand with us initial with a vibratory forces to offer stimulation .
Once has to take that under no circumstance negative vibratory instinct in our mind .If above practice is followed Intuition may surely become a nature part of our life.
This a very good question. How can ESL teachers help students use their intuition in a second language. I suggest that the concept of automaticity be considered. When a person works using a mental automatic pilote in any area, students can work intuitively.
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