'I just guessed it": "guessed" is the only word she knows that came even a little bit close to what she did as she considered the chakras.
She was probably aware on some level that the word "guessed" didn't really fit what she was doing. That's almost certainly why you couldn't get any more out of her -- she didn't know how to explain it in words.
There are so many unusual abilities (and other things) like this for which there are no words in English (or other Western languages). As she gets older, and comes to rely more and more on language as a means of thinking, and as a replacement for doing, she'll probably lose or suppress all her abilities for which she has no words. (That's one of the really negative things about growing up and learnign to talk around anything: your language can become a prison cell in which you will live the rest of your life.) You might explain to her how inadequate any language is as a pattern for life, and encourage her to pay attention and cultivate things for which there are no words -- and also not to talk much about such things with outsiders.
As Maurice Sendak said in a drawing he did. "I remember my childhood vividly. I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let the adults know I knew ... It would scare them." This is very wise counsel for any child of youer daughter's age when it comes to unusual abilities. (Sendak's was memory and insight. Other children may lack that particular ability, but have other unusual abilities instead.)
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Re: Children knowing the chakras
Date: 2023-04-10 07:40 pm (UTC)She was probably aware on some level that the word "guessed" didn't really fit what she was doing. That's almost certainly why you couldn't get any more out of her -- she didn't know how to explain it in words.
There are so many unusual abilities (and other things) like this for which there are no words in English (or other Western languages). As she gets older, and comes to rely more and more on language as a means of thinking, and as a replacement for doing, she'll probably lose or suppress all her abilities for which she has no words. (That's one of the really negative things about growing up and learnign to talk around anything: your language can become a prison cell in which you will live the rest of your life.) You might explain to her how inadequate any language is as a pattern for life, and encourage her to pay attention and cultivate things for which there are no words -- and also not to talk much about such things with outsiders.
As Maurice Sendak said in a drawing he did. "I remember my childhood vividly. I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let the adults know I knew ... It would scare them." This is very wise counsel for any child of youer daughter's age when it comes to unusual abilities. (Sendak's was memory and insight. Other children may lack that particular ability, but have other unusual abilities instead.)