1. Anahata Chakra - Lesson 4 to 6

'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. What are chakras?

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,

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

Location: 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

GOALS:

To make the children understand about their castle.

CLICK OF THE TOPIC: People who suffer from depression are actually suffering from attention need.

When you are dependent on external sources for energy, you become psychologically handicapped. When you need physical support, you are physically handicapped. When you need psychological support, you are psychologically handicapped. We build our own self-image like a castle, out of people's opinions of us. We collect certificates or signatures from our father, mother, teacher, friends and what not, and arrange all these certificates and build a castle to form our self image. The image will look beautiful and we will feel happy. But if even one person withdraws their certificate, what happens? The castle collapses! You start feeling miserable about yourself. You feel depressed. You feel that the whole world has come to an end.

At least in the case of the children, they build their castles with their own cards. But we build our castles with others' cards, with others' certificates! We don't have control over the castle because it is built with other people's certificates. We start working hard in maintaining the castle; in guarding it well. We start behaving in such a way that people don't remove their certificates. We start doing things to get their continuous approval, because their approval has become our very survival. People who suffer from depression are actually suffering from attention-need

• ¤ When we become psychologically handicapped?
• ¤ When you are physically handicapped?
• ¤ What castle do we all build?
• ¤ When will our castle collapse?
• ¤ When you feel depressed?

MATERIALS NEEDED: Pencil, paper, eraser

Encourage the children to draw in a pictorial format.

We build our own self-image like a castle out of people's opinions of us

How children and adults built their castles out of others opinion (self image).

The player sits at a table and memorizes the items in front of them. They are then blindfolded and the items are mixed up. They then have to sort all items into their correct alphabetical order. The player who does it in the quickest time is the winner

Conclude the topic by reiterating the important details

Introduce to the children about not making others the source of your energy

To make the children understand there will be no end when you start expecting from other people.

CLICK OF THE TOPIC: We need to stop asking and start giving.

When you start expecting from other people, there will be no end to it. The most difficult thing is to satisfy all the people around you. Never. It is the most impossible thing to do on planet earth. It is never possible to make another totally happy! First of all, Try to satisfy yourself; find fulfillment in yourself. That is enough. And let this fulfillment have nothing to do with the people around you. Let it be just a bubbling energy inside you, irrespective of the conditions and people outside. That is enough. It is good to do something for others; it is good to give attention, give respect- but out of a deep energizing love, not out of fear; not because we are afraid that they will take away their certificates.

We need to stop asking and start giving. We need to radiate energy instead of asking for energy. But we don't even know how to shift the focus from us to the other. We are so used to seeing ourselves as the center of attention. We need to start seeing the world outside as the center of attention. It is not worth investing so much in others' opinions that they become the center of your life. Don't make others the source of your energy. all of us seeking attention all the time. And when we don't get it, we are upset. This is the root cause for all anger, disappointment and frustration in our lives.

• ¤ When there will be no end?
• ¤ Which is the most difficult thing to do?
• ¤ Is it possible to make another totally happy?
• ¤ Which is more than enough?
• ¤ Is it good to do something for others?
• ¤ Can we make other's source of our energy?
• ¤ Which is the root cause for all our disappointment and frustration in our lives. What do we need to stop?

Part 2: Anahata Chakra - Lesson 4 to 6_English_part_2.md

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pencil
• 3. Eraser

Don't make others the source of your energy. It is not worth investing so much in other's opinions that they become the centre of your energy.

Do you make others the source of your energy. Vaakyartha sadhas

The players form a circle. One player is taken into in the middle and is blindfolded, they are the bat. Two more players are then taken into the middle and are blindfolded; they are the moths. The bat has to catch both moths. To do this the bat shouts "BAT" and moves one step. The moths shout "MOTH" and move one step away from the bat's sound. When a moth is caught they are out and pick someone to be a moth for the next game, when the bat has caught the last moth they choose someone to be the next bat. Everyone should be a bat and a moth at least once.

CONCLUSION Conclude the topic by reiterating the important details

There is absolutely no room for conditioning in real love

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. 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.

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. There is absolutely no room for conditioning in real love.

The energy in you should overflow and express itself as love. It is then that you can break through the highly knotted boundaries of relationships and express yourself beautifully, as a loving being! When you are able to love without a reason, you will expand like anything. Your world will suddenly seem larger than life. It will be so ecstatic. You will become an energy source to yourself and to others. You will be so overflowing that the energy in you has to touch others. There is no other way. Others will be naturally drawn to you.

What is real love? Which is an expression of energy? Which cannot be transacted? Where there is no room for conditioning? When will you expand like anything? When will others be continuously drawn to you?

• 2. glue
• 3. chart

PROCEDURE: cut the chart into a heart shaped structure and do collage with color papers and gift the card to an unknown person.

Love is actually your very, being not a disturbed quality that you possess when you are able to love without a reason you will expand like anything.

Do you do conditioning in real love. Vaakyartha sadhas

One player sits in a chair and is blindfolded. Other players then come up and talk to the blindfolded player, saying anything they choose, disguising their voice. The blindfolded player has to guess who the player who just spoke is. If they are right, the players swap places otherwise another player takes a turn at disguising their voice.

conclude the topic by reiterating the important details