1. CELEBRATE EVERYTHING

WHAT IS GRATITUDE? The key to true happiness in today's world, any action needs a reason. When there is utility there is action, or else justifying the action becomes difficult. Real gratitude can never have a reason. It happens as a causeless flowering within you. Does the flower bloom for a reason? No! It blooms because it is its very nature. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved Gratitude is our real nature. Layers of conditioning from society have covered it. Society doesn’t know the language of gratitude. It knows only the language of utility. It straightaway instills greed and fear in us, so that we will give it the needed results. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved Society doesn't know there is a path of gratitude that will give much better results than the paths of fear and greed. That is the problem. There are endless reasons to feel gratitude. This life itself is a gift that we have received. To be born with human consciousness is the first blessing we have received. Our gratitude should start right from there. Just for being we should feel grateful. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paranashivam. Understand, if ever you feel life is dull, that it is not as juicy as it should be, it is because gratitude has not happened in you. Gratitude is the energy that makes your life intense and exciting every moment. When you carry causeless gratitude in you, life will be sweet all the time irrespective of external circumstances 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved When you miss gratitude, very often you will be gripped with the feeling that life is sour, but you won't know the real reason for that feeling. Receive every small thing in life as a gift. When you take your plate to eat, see the plate as a gift. When you serve food on the plate, see the food as a gift. When you sit down on the chair to eat, see the chair as a gift. When you wash your hands after eating, see your fingers as a gift. 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved Every morning as soon as you wake up, before getting out of bed, just try to feel deep gratitude for just being, for just living as a human being in this wonderful Existence. Similarly, every night before you go to sleep, bring in deep gratitude for just being. Feel it in your whole body and mind. Put all judgements aside and feel gratitude. When we start feeling grateful for small things, our whole sensitivity will increase. When sensitivity happens, every moment will pass in deep awe of the happenings in Existence. 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. Source: nithyanandawikipedia.org

HOW WiLL GRATiTUDE HELP YOU? Gratitude gets you more and more blessings and boons. It showers you with Health gratitude even physically it alters the structure of your brain, not just physiological, psychological transformation. gratitude makes you manifest the best things of Paramashiva. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. Source: Nithyananda.net WHAT DiDN'T KNOW ABOUT GRATiTUDE All your life, you use the words Thank You. Right from childhood, you are taught to say Thank You. By the time we grow into adults it has become a part of us. We use the words mechanically, in a businesslike way. The words Thank You rarely carry the emotion that they are supposed to: gratitude. In fact, we base our whole life on the opposite emotion: expectation. In our relationships, we demand love. In society, we demand attention. From ourselves, we demand better and better performance. And from God, we demand everything that no one else can give us! We keep on asking, demanding - without giving thanks for what we already have. Gratitude is not some kind of morality that is imposed upon you. It is a basic principle for your own happiness! As long as you keep wanting, you are under the control of external events. When you live in gratitude, no one or nothing else can touch your happiness © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved Gratitude is not some kind of morality that is imposed upon you. It is a basic principle for your own happiness! As long as you keep wanting, you are under the control of external events. When you live in gratitude, no one or nothing else can touch your happiness. When you are loving, flowing, filled with gratitude, you will always feel the tremendous energy of Existence flow through you. 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved

Don't say thank you, be a thank you! Don't pay gratitude, become gratitude! This is Truth - accepting whatever life gives you with reverence and gratitude. Gratitude is the most effortless path to lifelong happiness © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramasivam. All Rights Reserved 2020Sri Nithyananda Paramasivam All Rights Reserved Source: Nithyananda.org GRATITUDE CAN CHANGE YOUR BODY LANGUAGE When we work with expectation all the time, we will carry a subtle violence in our body language. It is not deliberate violence, but inherent violence. If we become a little sensitive to our body language, we will be able to catch this. With gratitude, your entire body language changes. When you start experiencing deep gratitude, your responses to situations change. You start resonating with Existence. Your body will flow with that resonance, with a cool grace and softness. All your actions will arise out of this grace. 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved Source: Nithyananda GRATITUDE CAN BURN YOUR KARMAS! Understand, whenever the one simple quality of gratitude, if it starts, gratitude is like a small fire which can burn all your karmas. What is Karma? It is an unfulfilled action on your part that pulls you again and again to fulfill it. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved In order to fulfill and exhaust all such karmas that we have accumulated, we take birth again and again on this planet. Just by being with the energy of gratitude, these karmas get burnt! All the karmas, anything which you carry on; which you brought, which you are accumulating, anything can be burnt A simple remembrance of gratitude; not only to the Master, to every being, to everything, it brings so much of sensitivity. It brings so much of love and so much of settled feeling, so much of connected feeling. It can burn away all your karmas. Such is the power of gratitude. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved Sahasrara chakra opens by gratitude. When you live with gratitude, when you feel that you have showered enough by the existence, God has given you more than your qualification, when you feel the deep satisfaction, and gratitude, this chakra opens. Sahasrara chakra also known as the crown chakra is placed on the top of the head. This chakra 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved CELEBRATING EVERYTHING GOALS Make the children aware of the fact that everything and every moment is auspicious when we have gratitude Welcome the children to the topic of 'Celebrating Everything', considering every moment to be auspicious INTRODUCTION 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam.

The whole of existence is an auspicious happening. Nothing that happens in existence is inauspicious. Everything is only a blessing. You are a part of existence, so everything happening around you is also auspicious. When we understand this we will not complain about life. When we realize this everything appears extra ordinary to us. 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam All Rights Reserved 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam, All Rights Reserved 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved Everything appears as a miracle. Miracles are continuously happening in front of our eyes, but we continuously miss them because of this our lives becomes dull. You will never be able to realize or understand yourself until you accept yourself and celebrate what you are. We carry two identities within ourselves. One is outer world identity, what we present to the world. The other is the inner world identity, what we believe we really are. The outer world identity will always be much more than who we really are. 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved The inner world identity will usually be much lesser that what we actually are. Our whole life is nothing but the struggle between these two identities If you celebrate whatever you are you can stop this struggle. If you continuously use your to logic to analyze and judge and try to bring things under control; you will miss the whole thing. Just accept and celebrate existence with all its different dimensions and paradoxes. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved Don't judge anything. Every incident raises our intelligence, raises our frequency of consciousness. All we need to do is look at the world as a story, as an intelligent mystery. If we approach the suffering with acceptance and intelligence, suddenly you will see that the very suffering gives you enlightenment. It adds joy and experience to your life. 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved ASSESSMENTS What do you mean by auspiciousness? When do our lives become dull? What would happen when you relent to suffering without acceptance? What is outer world identity? Is there anything that is considered inauspicious? What is inner world identity? How can we make every moment auspicious? When do miracles happen? When did we not complain about others? 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved CELEBRATE EVERYTHING VOLUME ART OF THE DAY © Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved ART OF THE DAY: SAVE THE UNIVERSE MATERIALS NEEDED 1. Paper 2. Sketch pen or Pencil PROCEDURE Give each child the materials needed. Ask each child to draw the universe including the solar system and other neighboring galaxies INFERENCE Connect to the fact that we are a part of the universe. We must have gratitude towards the universe for providing an opportunity to be a part of it. We must save our universe. We must not waste nature's products. When we take the universe for granted and abuse the natural resources, it will lead to natural calamities like floods, tsunamis, and earth quakes. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved EVALUATION Evaluate their knowledge on the topic by asking multiple questions. Ask them to share their experiences. CONCLUSION Conclude the topic by summarizing the important details. Follow up with reinforcing that Success is nothing but you having confidence in yourself and others having confidence in you. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved

DON'T TAKE THINGS FOR GRANTED © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved 2020 Sai Nithyananda Source of Nitya INTRODUCTION The main reason why we miss experiencing gratitude is that we take everything for granted. Others do things for us out of love, as a kind gesture; but we take these things for granted. Each individual plays an equal part in our life; no one should be taken for granted. We take our parents, our friends as granted and we think whatever we receive from them is our birth right. This thought prevents us from expressing gratitude towards them. There are people who are born with deficiencies or are differently able, but we have everything. Yet we take it all for granted. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved When we see things with gratitude we become one with the galaxy and our inner space expands like a galaxy. When we take things for granted, appreciation will never come spontaneously to us. We always take relationships for granted. Learn to treat every individual as a part of the whole and feel gratitude towards him or her. Your response to recognize the abundance of existence is being thankful. It happens as causeless flowering within us. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved Gratitude is the best service rendered to oneself. Our focus merges me to the oneness. When focus merges me to the oneness. When you are able to look at things with a wonder filled attitude and awe you will be simply resonating with your heart. 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved GOALS To make the children become aware of the fact that we lose gratitude towards everything when we take things for granted. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved ASSESSMENTS What would you mean by taking things for granted? What would happen when we take things for granted? What are the things that we usually take for granted? What would happen to our inner space if we take things for granted? © Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved CONCLUSiON When we are in now and in the present, we are able to notice and observe things all around us. Every moment is wisdom. The way we see things is called perspective, and if we see things as is, life will be enjoyable. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved ART OF THE DAY © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved ART OF THE DAY: MAKING A SCENERY MATERIALS. MATERIALS NEEDED

1. Chart
2. Poster colors
3. Safety Scissors
4. Plain Sheet
5. Glue. PROCEDURE Give each child the materials needed and encourage each child to cut different structures using safety scissors towards building scenery. Children can stick the cut out in a plain sheet and using their creativity, color it beautifully. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved ACTIVITY OF THE DAY © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved ACTIVITY OF THE DAY GLASS AND WATER EXPLANATION This is a very simple activity to illustrate the difference in perspective and how we see things. MATERIAL REQUIRED: Glass and water PRESENTATION: Discuss with the class the different ways people see things. When we are happy or positive, everything looks bright and happy. When we are upset, or angry, everything seems to go wrong. Now take a glass and fill it with water to the half way mark Ask each child in turns: Is it half full? Or half empty? It is just a point of view about how we see things differently. When we see a rose with thorns, do we admire the beauty and fragrance? Or do we complain about the thorns? Explain how our positive outlook and gratitude is very important. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved WORKSHOP OF THE DAY Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved WORKSHOP HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND EACH EMOTION TOPIC OF DISCUSSION How do we understand each emotion in each person EXPLANATION Allow them to explain what they understand from each emotion in each person For Example: Ask each child how they can express the gratitude emotion One Person will say thanks just for the sake of being polite. One Person will present a gift or write a letter. One Person will personally express thanks to the person. One Person expecting something in return. One Person present an appropriate gift. One Person will be in awareness while doing the presentation. © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved © 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved