1. Anahata Chakra - Lesson 1 to 3

'Chakra' means wheel, something circular that rotates, which is how our centers look to those who can perceive them.

The chakras lie along a central line that runs up our spine from the tailbone to the crown of the head. This central conduit for energy is called Sushumna. Entwined around it on the left and right sides of the spine are two other energy lines, the Ida and the Pingala, which carry feminine and masculine energy respectively. Ida and Pingala run from the tailbone to the nostrils, weaving back and forth around Sushumna. Wherever they meet and cross lies a chakra.

Chakras are the subtle energy hubs of our body. The seven major chakras are:

Sahasrara

Ajna

Vishuddhi

Anahata

Manipuraka

Swadishthana

Muladhara

Though they have no physical location, these energy centers are present along the length of the body.

Chakras roughly correspond to, and influence the activity of, the important glands of the body. The chakras deeply impact our physical and mental health. Chakras are, in turn, affected by our thoughts and emotions. The chakras are direct channels to the boundless energy of the Cosmos.

Immoderate lifestyles, stress and negative emotions can 'lock' the chakras, or cause them to malfunction.

Without even being aware of it, we are continuously blocking off these important sources of energy.

That's why almost all physical and mental illness can be partly or wholly cured, simply by cleansing and energizing the corresponding chakra.

These chakras were discovered a long time ago during the Vedic age. In fact, in many of the spiritual chants, you will find referen Today science has proved that there is a gland located near each of these chakras that is related to that particular chakra. These seven chakras supply energy to the glands.

These seven major chakras deeply influence our physical, emotional and mental activities.

Chakras are energy centers and if they are kept in a cleansed and energized condition, they can cause us to live an ecstatic and healthy life.

Dis-ease is only an imbalance in any one of these chakras, because our body and mind are rooted in our inner consciousness. Keeping these chakras in a healthy state, we can see a transformation happening in us at the mental and physical levels

After World War I, a biplane was abandoned near a remote tribal settlement in Asia. The tribal people had never seen an aircraft in all their lives. There was a lot of excitement and commotion about it and a big crowd gathered around it. They wondered what it might be and each one started giving some suggestion about it.

They finally concluded that since it had wheels, it must be a bullock cart! News spread in the village about the new bullock cart. There was a lot of celebration in the village and the biplane was taken around the settlement yoked to bullocks, and it served as a bullock cart.

Some weeks later, a young tribal boy who had returned from the city where he was studying, saw the biplane. He got into it and looked around. He saw all the gears and mechanisms in it. He fiddled with the switches and levers.

Suddenly, the engine came to life!

He managed to taxi the plane on the ground for a short distance and the villagers were shocked at what they saw. The boy had seen tractors being used and declared to the people that the biplane was not a bullock cart but some kind of tractor.

There was great celebration once again and the biplane started being used as a tractor!

Six months passed by and a retired army officer came to the village. He saw the biplane being used as a tractor and was shocked! He told the villagers that it was not a tractor and that the plane could actually fly. They refused to believe him because the only things they had ever seen flying were birds! The army officer got into the aircraft, flew it for a short while and landed.

The villagers were wonderstruck. Then they understood its true potential.

Understand: man is a wonderful mechanism meant to fly. But we don't know our true potentiality.

We have a very limited view of ourselves. Most of us operate only as a bullock cart, at the instinct level, surrendering to our emotions.

Just like this, there are mechanisms or gears inside us, called the chakras, which are boundless energy centers. Each of them is associated with a particular emotion within us. If we understand how to handle the emotion properly, we can function as an aircraft.

Each chakra is connected to a different endocrine gland in the physical body. The endocrine glands govern our hormones and therefore also our emotions.

Any positive or negative experiences we have had relating to the emotion of a specific chakra is stored inside that chakra.

The second chakra, lying between the navel and the pubic bone, governs fear. If we have had a deep fright at some point in our lives, the feeling of it is stored in that chakra. It determines how we react to future situations that remind us of our fear. It may block us from achieving our goals in life by interfering

whenever we need courage to face our situations. The existence and location.

It has been proven that when a person is locked with a particular negative emotion, the chakra associated with that emotion shrinks to the size of a coat button. It becomes that small.

But when the same person experiences the associated positive emotion, the chakra expands to the size of a cartwheel! This is the effect that our emotions have on these energy centers, our chakras.

Our energy flow in these chakras is blocked by our negative emotions and activated by our positive emotons and we are totally unaware of it!

So this chakra is something to do with love, sentiments, associated with emotions.

This chakra gets locked when you expect the attention of the others. If you live for the attention of the others, this chakra gets locked. When you start showing the unselfish love this chakra opens.

For instance, if you see what are all the activities you are doing to get the good name from somebody, from others. If you see and note down, you will find your whole twenty four hour is spent in signature campaign.

You have written one big book, "I am a good father you are going and keeping it in front of your son, please sign it"

Almost all our activity will be based on this signature campaign only. We are continuously in signature campaign; we are trying to get as many signatures as possible to prove that I am good, as many good opinions as possible to prove that I am good.. Just, I'm a good father, I'm a good mother, I'm a good son, I'm a good brother, we go to everybody and stand, please just sign it, please just sign it. He is standing with a big book please just you first sign it. So almost all our life if you see, we are signature campaign.

Why do we bother so much about others' opinions about us? Why can't we judge ourselves by our own strength and continue to do our work? Why are we deriving strength from others?

All this is because of two things:

one, we don't know anything about ourselves. We know ourselves only through others' opinions of us, only through others' certificates. second: when others give us their approval and attention, they are actually giving us energy to move on. Attention IS energy! That is why we feel so boosted when they give us attention.

A lady once went shopping with her husband because she wanted to buy a coat for herself. They visited many shops but she could not find what she wanted. The husband became tired.

He asked, 'Dear, do you know the exact kind of coat you want to buy?' The wife replied, 'Of course! I am looking for a drop-dead coat.' The husband could not understand what she meant.

He asked, 'What is a drop-dead coat, dear?' She replied, 'When people see it, they will drop dead!'

All the time we are looking to see how we can collect certificates from people! Every action of ours is unconsciously related to what people will say to it and how people will react to it.

For example, a bag may come reasonably within your budget and it may have a good utility value also.

But unconsciously, your mind will say that people may not appreciate the look of the bag very much. You start choosing again! But you will not agree that you are searching for certificates, because it is an unconscious process in you!

Attention need is the first, foremost thought current, thought patterns which gets created in your system All the emotions are centred on "attention need".

First thing, you need to know, your emotions are not you. Your emotions are a result of years of conditioning, that has gone into you. you have been conditioned on multiple levels; Parents, siblings, other family members, teachers, friends.

Whatever we do, whatever we think, we are subconsciously seeking concurrence and approval from the people around us in some subtle way.

We are very keen that we should earn a good name from everyone. We may not do this in a very obvious fashion, but if you analyse deeply, you will not be at ease without the appreciation and endorsement of the people around you.

This endorsement, this approval, is what we call 'attention-need'.

when you do with love and affection the anahata chakra opens. when you do with love and affection you never feel tired.

When you do it for the sake of love and affection, when you do it selflessly, when you allow it to happen, energy simply flows, you don't feel tired. When you do it expecting the result, opinion, energy gets blocked.

Real love knows no object. It is simply there whether there is an object or not. Real love is the subject itself. It does not know any object. You are the subject and you have become love, that's all. Any object that comes in touch with it,

feels it. Just like a river flows naturally and people enjoy it at the different places that they encounter it, real love exudes from a person and the people around him will be able to feel it.

Real love is something so deep, so energizing, that you will not know it unless you experience it. Love is an expression of energy, not something that is transacted. You can love the trees on the road, you can caress them and feel the energy flow from you.

You can love people whom you pass by on the road without even knowing them. Love is actually your very being, not a distilled quality that you possess. Nothing is as misconstrued as love is today.

Today, love is more of a transaction. If someone says something nice to you, you love him; tomorrow if the same person falls short of it, you don't love him that much or you probably hate him.

It means, Your job is only to do the work, not to be concerned about the result. Whatever you do should be an overflowing of the loving energy inside you. Then, you are not bothered about the results. bothered. you don't even know to expect results because you are continuously moving and expressing your blissful inner energy. So we can't even say that you don't expect results. You are just flowing joyfully, that's all! This flowing energy is real love.

IF you do with love and affection you will not feel tired, whenever you don't feel tired, be very clear you are not working for that signature campaign, you are not doing for others opinion. When you feel tired be very clear you are working with that expectation of result. Through love you can do anything, whatever is the product will be always there, great contribution to the humanity.

Emotion: love

Chakra: Anahata

Heart region In Sanskrit, Anahata means 'that which cannot be created'. Pure love can never be created. It flowers on its own. This chakra is locked when you seek attention and love from others, and it flowers when you express selfless love without expecting anything in return!

Meditation Technique to be an innocent and egoless being:

Mahamantra Meditation-a Tibetan Buddhist technique

To make them understand attention need

You will not be at ease without the appreciation and endorsement of the people around you.

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Whatever we do, whatever we think, we are subconsciously seeking concurrence and approval from the people around us in some subtle way. We are very keen that we should earn a good name from everyone. We may not do this in a very obvious fashion, but if you analyze deeply, you will not be at ease without the appreciation and endorsement of the people around you. This endorsement, this approval, is what we call 'attention-need'. Our problems are due to this asking for attention or approval. You will find that all the hours, all your lifetime, you are involved in getting approval from others.

• ¤ What do we do when we think something?
• ¤ What do we do subconsciously?
• ¤ What are we very keen of?
• ¤ When we are not at ease?
• ¤ What is attention need?
• ¤ When we need attention?
• ¤ Will attention need create problems?

Anahata Chakra picture and coloring items

Encourage the children to color the Anahata chakra.

Whatever we do, whether we think it or not, we are subconsciously seeking approval from people around us in subtle ways

Write down or talk about in a day how many things you do to get good name and from whom

A GUIDE IN THE DARK Get all the players in the group to pair off two by two. One member of each team is blindfolded and spun around several times the other is given a torch. Rearrange various objects in the room like chairs and tables, turn off the lights and pick a destination for each pair, such as the piano, the computer chair, etc. The person with the flashlight has to guide their partner to that certain spot by telling the other player to go left, right, 10 steps etc. Let each team try 1 pair at a time for practice. Then each team picks a destination from slips of paper put into a hat. Now everybody goes at the same time, the first person to get their partner to the destination wins.

Conclude the topic by reiterating the important details

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To make them understand attention is energy

CLICK OF THE TOPIC: We don't know anything about ourselves

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Why do we bother so much about others' opinions about us? Why can't we judge ourselves by our own strength and continue to do our work? Why are we deriving strength from others? All this is because of two things: One: we don't know anything about ourselves. We know ourselves only through others' opinions of us, only through others' certificates. Second: when others give us their approval and attention, they are actually giving us energy to move on. Attention is energy! That is why we feel so boosted when they give us attention. Attention in any form is alright for us. Don't think that only positive attention is energizing! Any form of attention is energizing

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• ¤ Why do we bother about others' opinions about us?
• ¤ Why can't we judge ourselves by our own strength and continue to do our work?
• ¤ Why are we deriving strength from others?
• ¤ Do we know everything about us?
• ¤ How do we know ourselves?
• ¤ Which is energy?
• ¤ Why do we feel so boosted when they give us attention?

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pencil
• 3. Eraser

Encourage the children to draw to talk about. their strengths in a pictorial format and ask them

We are deriving strength from others because we don't know anything about ourselves

Part 2: Anahata Chakra - Lesson 1 to 3_English_part_2.md

Talk about your own strengths, judge yourself.

Put a chair or a stool in the play area. Each player sits down on the chair where they are blindfolded. Then they stand up, and take 5 steps forward, turn to the right, take 5 more steps forward and turn right again, repeating the process until they are back where they started, or think they started. They then try to sit down on the chair, the player who does this is the winner.

CONCLUSION Conclude the topic by reiterating the important details

To make the children understand about what happens during aging?

CLICK OF THE TOPIC: You do not need love, you are in love with yourself

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What is attention? Do we need love? What happens when we grow older? When do we complain about our age? Why don't we need love? Why do we live life with reduced joy and energy?

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pencil
• 3. Eraser

Encourage the children to draw their family in a pictorial format.

Because we don't understand first our energy source lies within us, instead of living life with more joy and energy, we live life with reduced joy and energy.

Talk about old people's attention need..