The general definition for prodigy is anyone who becomes great in a particular field at an early age. While we find that many people have met this definition in a multitude of different fields, music seems to have more prodigies than all the other fields combined.

Although there have been slight variations in the definition of a prodigy, the best definition is ‘a child who shows early signs of extraordinary talent or exceptional ability. A youngster who is too young to be as old and talented as he is.’

Most of the early composers started out as performers and were expected to compose compositions spontaneously on their instruments.

Wolfgang Mozart (1756-1791) at the age of four years old was able to play long musical compositions from memory and he composed short works at five years old. At seven years old, Mozart spent an hour at the organ in a Heidelberg church; ‘the dean overcome with emotion, ordered an inscription carved on the organ case attesting to the name and age of the boy and the date of the modern miracle he had witnessed.’ At eight years old Mozart played in London together with Johann Bach and Mozart was billed as a ‘Prodigy of Nature.’

Having an approach of being thankful and grateful for all things that come to you, can be one of the best approaches to being healthy.

The American Indian realized that nothing in the world is free. If an animal must be hunted, or wool taken from an animal or even water used from a stream in order to live, none of these actions was performed with indifference. The concept was that you owe something for everything that you take or are given.

When any action is taken, thanks is given to the spirit of life that attends that action. Thanking the sheep for the wool it is providing, explaining to the spirit of the animals that it is nothing personal but food is needed to survive and it is not in sport that a life is taken, is an important philosophy.

Thoughts are very real things and have as much of an identity as any other matter that is visible to the naked eye.

P.P. Quimby (1802-1866) stated that “ideas contain life and may be transmitted to another intentionally or unintentionally. It these ideas contain seeds of fear, they agitate the mind, disturb the senses and produce chemical changes in the fluids of the human system.”

Quimby, who was the father of the New Thought Movement in the United States, shared that when you believe something,you make it your own. If someone tells you something and you believe what the person is saying, you create within your own mind that thing that is being explained. Once it exists in your mind you are either in it or outside of it.

The doctrine of sympathetic resemblances is an ancient concept that had to do with the idea that growing things reveal through their structure and form their usefulness to people. Through their color, aroma and form plants revealed the physical condition and organ of the body that could be benefitted.

This concept reached a zenith as it was taught in Constantinople in the 1500s. A person did not have to be smart in the sense of book learning, because even simple people discovered the healing aspects of plants through using their instinct and intuition. Through the sensing of the design of the plant structure they discovered the organs that would be assisted through some part of the plant.

The development of spiritual insight was one of the cornerstones of the ancient mystery schools. Physicians were taught to search within themselves for the spiritual insight that would help them recognize the energies in plants.

The following is a true story that Paul Harvey told about 35 years ago.

A doctor from Harvard Medical School was making his rounds in the heart ward. He had 12 interns with him. They came to the bed of a patient who was in a coma and was expected to die at any moment. The patient's heart was literally in pieces. The professor placed his stethoscope on the patient and turned to the interns and said, "Listen to that beat (which was very erratic)... just listen... to the wholeness."

Each of the interns placed their stethoscope on the patient and remarked that they heard what the doctor was talking about. They continued on their rounds. 

The next day the patient came out of the coma...