7. PAST IS LIFELESS

introduction

The whole life starts with listening. When you are completely drowned inside your past, when your past is sitting on you like a dead weight, you will never be able to listen. The dead past never lets you listen. The past by its very nature does not have life and if you try to continuously indulge in the past, it repeats itself in the future.

Whether you like it or not, want it or not, by the very way in which you are hardwired, you will hold only yourself as responsible f o r y o u r l i f e . N o b o d y e ls e c a n b e responsible.

Only you are responsible for your life. When you iron out your inner space with integrity, the first thing that integrity will do to you is remove all the negative weeds that you constantly cherish, which are rooted in your past. Negativity needs the past as support to survive. Negativity is not based in the future but only in the past.

When you become integrated with your thinking, your past has no more power over your future or over your inner space.

When you become integrated, the first thing you will understand is that your past failures are not failures. Your failures do not make you a failure. It is not the failure itself that is the problem, but the number of times you remember your failure that is the real problem.

Life is just moving. But your photographic memory and you holding on to those memories is where the problem starts. The more your past occupies your inner space, the more you will not have integrity.

Make children understand that life starts with listening. GOALS

aSSESSMENT

• When will we not be able to listen? Does the past have life? Who is responsible for your life? Can negativity be based in the future? What happens when you are integrated? What is the real problem with failure? When do problems start?

ART OF THE DAY

ART OF THE DAY Straw blow painting

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Straws

Pencil

Plain sheet

Various Colours Of Paints

PROCEDURE:

Each child is given a straw and they are asked to blow the paint using the straw on the plain sheet. The children are asked to observe the flow of paint when they blow.

MINFERENCE:

Connect children to how the movement of air through the straw creates the painting, similarly life is just moving but holding on to past memories is where negativity starts.