1. Anahata Chakra - Lesson 7 to 10

'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,

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

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

Introduction Learn to love and respect

Respect is not love.

We all confuse love with respect. When you love totally, nothing that you do can appear disrespectful. You see, when you closely observe respect, you will find that when certain people do certain things, it appears absolutely normal, while the same thing, when some other person does it, appears disrespectful. The energy behind the person doing the act is what causes the act to seem respectful or disrespectful. When the energy behind you is total, when you are just a loving energy, you can get away with anything. When you are not sure of yourself, you will get caught with the problems of respect.

If you get caught with respect instead of love, you are missing the whole thing. Then instead of being loving, you will start pretending, and when you pretend, you are not total. When you are centered in respect, you will pretend because respect is societal and it keeps changing in its definition. But if you are centered in love, then respect becomes a pleasant by product. So center yourself in love and respect will automatically happen. Respect is dead. Love is alive. Respect creates a distance; Love knows no distance.

• ¤ What is Respect?
• ¤ Is respect and love same or different?
• ¤ When you can get away from anything?
• ¤ When will you get caught with the problems of respect?
• ¤ Which is societal?
• ¤ What creates a distance?

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MATERIALS NEEDED: playdough

Encourage children to make two similar playdough features and make differences based on love and respect

Respect is dead. Love is alive. Respect creates a distance, love knows no distance.

Write or talk about who you love and respect.

A game for people who like to be blindfolded a long time. Everyone is blindfolded, the leader must check everyone is in total darkness and cannot peek at all (double blindfold if necessary) the game then starts. Everyone must be totally silent and sit with their blindfold on for as long as they can. Once a player has had enough, they remove their blindfold and sit silently waiting for the others to quit. Once one player is left everyone claps them. details. game of the day:

Conclude the topic by reiterating the important

Children are still centered in themselves and they are more alive and alert than adults.

People are trained to be so fearful and respectful of God. They are never taught to love God. They are not allowed to touch the idols in the temples. They are expected to stand at a distance and bow down. They are taught to be wary of God. Understand, the first thing that children should be taught is to love God. If you cannot embrace God, there is nothing left to embrace, because God is everything! When you teach your child that you cannot embrace God, you are actually teaching him that God is different from the rest. By putting God on a pedestal, you are actually alienating the child from the whole of Existence. Children are still centered in themselves and they are more alive and alert than us.

Their innocence, their love, their body language speaks for them, not their words. Because of this, whatever they say or do always seems innocent, never disrespectful. Once the mind steps in with societal conditionings, this innocence disappears. Then we have to make it up with words and pretensions. When love becomes a duty, it becomes a burden. And when it becomes a burden, it is not more a celebration; you will be under pressure always to keep it up

• ¤ What are people trained for?
• ¤ Children are centered on whom?
• ¤ Who are more alive and alert than adults?
• ¤ Why children are innocent?

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• 2. Pencil
• 3. Eraser
• 4. Colour items.

Encourage each child to draw god in a pictorial format and color.

INFERENCE: People are trained to be fearful and respectful to god. They are never taught to love God.

Discuss within all your teammates and find out who has fear or respect or love for God. Vaakyartha sadhas

Bears have a good sense of smell, this game demonstrates that. Players are given an object to smell such as a flower, it needs to be something with a distinctive strong smell. Players are then blindfolded the object is hidden, the players are spun around and have 10 minutes to find the object. Other smelly objects should be placed around to confuse the players, the winner is the person who finds the object first.

True love always gives without asking

Parents teach children reasons to love. From a young age, love is taught with a reason. If you teach them to embrace nature, you are sowing the seeds of real love in them. If you see, when you have loved totally, you will never feel guilty or sad when a person dies. You may feel sad at the physical separation, but you will never feel that you have missed anything when they were living. Family always instills guilt in you so that it can have control over you. Guilt is nothing but a hangover or many kinds of emotions because you did not explore the emotion in totality. Never allow guilt to possess you. True love always gives without asking. It does not know any 'take'. It knows only 'give'. And you cannot create it either. It is like this: you can create a plastic rose but will it have the fragrance of the real rose? No! In the same way, true love can never be created

For the real rose to happen, you need to create the right condition, the right soil, the right amount of water, and then it will happen on its own. Likewise, for true love to happen, you can create awareness, clarity and a deep understanding within yourself, and it will blossom from inside you.

Who teaches children reasons to love?

When you will never feel guilty or sad when a person dies?

What is guilt?

What gives always without asking?

Can love be created?

• MATERIALS NEEDED: 1. Paper, Pencil, Eraser, Coloring items beautiful scenery about nature and color

INFERENCE: Love is actually your very, being not a If you teach the children to embrace nature you are sowing the seeds of seed love in them.

Do you embrace nature or abuse nature. Vaakyartha sadhas

Blindfold the person who will be the "driver" and spin them around several times. Have the other players move around the driver making car and truck noises. The driver tries to locate the players by their sounds and driving towards them and trying to tag them. The first player who is tagged becomes the driver and the game continues.

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Existence flows through you when you take responsibility

Introduce to the children that existence will automatically flow through you when you take up responsibility

Love and responsibility always go hand in hand

Love and responsibility always go hand in hand. When you truly love, you will take up total responsibility as well. People think that sannyasis are those who run away from responsibility. Understand: When you forego responsibility towards your own family, you are taking up responsibility for a much bigger family, for humanity at large, for a family which is millions of times bigger than your own. People don't understand this and they simply criticize. Responsibility is something that can be easily shrugged. The more responsibility you take up, the more you expand and the divine energy will automatically flow in you!

When you feel that you are responsible for the pain around you, you will automatically stand up to help reduce it in some way or the other. People often think that it is enough if they do things for their own family. This is a way of contraction, not expansion. You need to expand for growth to happen. Existence will automatically flow through you when you take up responsibility. Love as much as you can, without asking for anything in return. .loving for a reason is not love; it is just a business deal. When you can love without a reason, when you can love anything and anyone that comes your way, you will release tremendous energy and beauty. You will appear beautiful irrespective of whether you are physically beautiful or not.

• Is loving for a reason is love?
  • Which is a business deal?
• When you will release tremendous energy?
• When existence will automatically flow through you?
  • What happens when you take more responsibility?

Encourage the children to draw responsibility in a pictorial format and color

Love and responsibility always go hand in hand. The more responsibility you take up the more you expand.

Write the things of people you are responsible for. Vaakyartha sadhas

All the players are blind folded, they are then mixed up, in terms of height. They must then organize themselves in correct height order without speaking

Conclusion - Conclude the topic by reiterating the important details