you don't remember the solution when you worry. That is one more worry . You worry thinking that you are not going to remember the solution why you worry.

A unique component is added in THE navel centre to create worry. Inauthenticity and NON-Integrity alone does not create worry. You need to add forgetfulness to it, then worry is cooked. Worry is the combination of inauthenticity, lack of Integrity and forgetfulness. When you remember your inauthenticity and out of Integrity, you reach peace. When you forget your inauthenticity and out of Integrity, you worry. So basically When you are non integrated , inauthentic and have forgetfulness you are worried!

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Worry is when your Manipuraka is locked and key is thrown in the ocean because you don't even remember that you have gone wrong somewhere you just start panicking , see if you kept the key in the locker, at least at one point there is a possibility you can open the locker, and remember the locker and get the key back and open. You have just thrown the key in the ocean means, the only way is to break the manipuraka chakra; that can be done by initiation.

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Manipuraka Chakra deals with worry. This chakra is placed just above the naval center, This chakra is locked due to worry and depression. This opens when you go beyond worrying, when you transcend the worry. If you don't worry about the worries, the worry will start worrying how to make you worry! This chakra gets locked because of worries.

When you repeat these DEMOTIVATING DISCOURAGING (LIKE "OH I CAN'T STUDY, MY LIFE IS A FAILURE ETC.) words unconsciously, these words will be a weight, a hangover on you. This will be continuously disturbing and haunting you, without your knowledge, without your consciousness. From the unconscious it will be a terrible disturbance to you. Only such words are ' worry '. These words, when they are repeated again and again, without your consciousness, without you awareness, without your knowledge and notice, they create a feeling, which is called ' worry '. If they are solidified, if they become solid in your being, that state is what is called 'depression'. You are completely in low mood. Not even a single ray of hope, a single ray of light is in your being.

The key, the mantra, to open your Manipuraka Chakra is this: have positive thinking, positive words, continuously. When you utter the positive words, the mind which is trained already in negativity is not going to agree. It is not going to allow you to be in peace. Don't bother. Don't worry. In one corner of your mind, your mind will be telling, in one corner of your being, your mind will tell, "Just by uttering a few positive words, do you think that I will become silent?!"

In the next state, neither 'I' consciousness nor the flow of thoughts exists. This is deep sleep. This is called suṣupti. The three states are jāgrat, svapna, suṣupti—conscious, subconscious, unconscious.

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Cribbing is the first stage cancer, chronic worrying is the last stage cancer, that's all. But last stage cancer always starts as first stage cancer. In the first stage if you don't do the chemotherapy of integrity and completion, the first stage is going to become fourth stage. Understand, worry is nothing but giving words to yourself thinking you will not know the words you gave it to you. Worry leads to hypocrisy.

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Everyone has his or her own set of worries! If I ask you what you worry about, you will tell me, 'I don't have a job, that's my worry.' Your neighbor will say, 'My job is my main worry!' Someone else will say, 'My children are my worry.' Another person will say, 'I don't have children, that's my worry!' One person's dream is another person's worry! You will not find any logic in it

Worry arises whenever things are not happening as you want them to happen. It is the discrepancy between your expectations and reality. For example, you feel your son should stay at home with you, whereas he feels he should be by himself, away from you. You feel your salary should be a few thousand dollars more. Your boss feels otherwise. You want to finish your project by a certain time. But things are happening too slowly and it seems an impossible task.

These are all causes for worry. What you want and expect does not match what others want and expect. You continuously expect things to happen in a certain way. Whether it is as big as your career or as small as what time your husband should come home for a meal, you continuously impose your will upon what is happening and worry about it.

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Make them aware of the topic of worry. Understand difference between planning and worrying

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• v What prevents us from being happy?
• v What is worry?
• v Can we make things better by worrying?
• v Can we worry about the present?
• v Do babies, toddler or kindergarten kids worry?
• v Why do adults worry so much?
• v What does hakkunematata mean?
• v What are all things we worry about?
• v What is planning?
• v When do we plan?
• v What are all the occasions we plan for? What happens when we are forced to do something?

} Plan life efficiently without worrying because worry is the most nonproductive activity.

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• Paper (1 each)
• Pencils (1 each)
• Clock or Watch (optional)

Have enough pencils for everyone and 2 small pieces of paper each. If you have a clock, watch or timer have it ready

Talk about what is worry. Ask them what it means to each of them. Worry is just too many negative thoughts causing high inner chatter. And whenever we think something, especially when we are in a rush, we just cause more of that as our negative track is bringing more negativity to us.

Have you ever noticed when you get out of bed in the morning and are feeling upset and grumpy, the rest of the day carries on in the same way unless we do something to stop and look on the bright side. You wake up late one day, begin to hurry!

Afraid of getting more delayed, you can't find the right school clothes, hair is not behaving itself, breakfast takes forever, the car is late, and everything goes wrong and you keep looking at the clock wishing it would stop but it spins faster and faster creating that stressed out worry. By the time you get to your destination, you feel so exhausted. You want to turn around and head home for a nap.

If you would just stop and get on the right track, not worrying about the time, believing everything will work out for the best and planning well, then it will work out!

This is an activity to show a representation of unnecessary worry.

• Give each child 1 piece of paper each and a pencil. Ask them to draw something simple but very nice. Tell them to remember what they have drawn!
• Now give them another piece of paper and ask them to draw the same picture again in 20 seconds! Countdown and say stop when time is up!
• Show the 2 pictures and let them understand how the worry about trying to fit things in the time frame caused the 2nd picture to turn out so messy! When we do something very fast we will land up doing it messy because we are not focusing on the wok but rather worrying about meeting the deadline.
  • That's what happens in our lives. If you ever want to make a mess of things, do it very, very quickly and worry that you won't be able to get it done, and it will surely come true.

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Thick pieces of string or rope (1 piece each) Preparation: Have one piece of rope or string ready so that there is enough for all

Have one piece of rope or string ready so that there is enough for all.

Discuss how worries are caused; we think of one thing and we add on so many worries like more and more knots of tension in our lives. But if we find out the source of the problem, and approach it positively, it will be quickly worked out and ready to untie the knots.

Give everyone a piece of rope and ask them to tie some knots representing things they are worried about. Then ask them to think about how these worries can be taken care of, what is the solution? What can we do to fix the problem? And as they come up with solutions, ask them to loosen the knot by taking a look at it and untying it.

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Worry takes root from your own thoughts or words. There are two things that continuously happen in you. The first is dialogue, and the second is monologue or what I call 'inner chatter'. You either talk to people outside or you continuously chatter within you. In any case, words and thoughts are the 'building blocks' that make up worry. When you speak to others, what you say is strictly governed by societal rules

You automatically don't use prohibited or 'politically incorrect' words. But what you say inside yourself, no one except you knows. The thoughts that you generate inside constitute your real worries. Khalil Gibran , a Lebanese poet, beautifully says, 'You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts!' and 'Our very verbalization is because we are not able to handle ourselves peacefully within us.' It is like this: there is a continuous current of chatter happening in you twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. From this current a few spikes rise.

These spikes are what you feel and express as worries. Worries are nothing but spikes in the current of thoughts constantly moving within you. These thoughts are mostly negative. That's the problem. If I ask you to write your life story in a few pages, you will write a few incidents highlighting how and when you struggled.

You will not highlight the many joyful incidents that happened in between. The mind is trained to record only negative things. Even when something joyful happens, you remember only the moment when it ended, never the moments when you felt joy. Because even when you are at the peak of joy, you are always worrying about when the joy will end! The mind is trained from a very young age to think that life moves from one worry to the other or from one pain to another, never from one joy to another.

To make them aware of the causes of the worry about negative thought, how worry differs from person to person

• v Why do we worry?
• v When do we have negative thoughts?
• v How is inner chatter related to worry?
• v What are the building blocks of worry?
• v Do worries differ from person to person? Is there any big worry better than small worry?
• v Does worry speed the process of solving our problems?
• v When do we start worrying?
• v What can change worrying?
• v What does a black dot on the white board signify?

• Plain sheet,
• Worry chakra picture (Manipuraka)
• Sketch pen or
• Pencil
• Poster colors

Give each child a plain sheet and ask them to draw the worry chakra by seeing the picture or give them the chakra picture and ask them to color with poster colors or crayons.

The Manipuraka chakra is located in the navel region. In Sanskrit, Manipuraka means 'The City of Jewels'. This chakra is locked when you constantly worry and it flowers when you stop worrying about your worries!

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Most of the time, we talk in the air without getting down to the actual facts. If we get down to the bottom of our so-called worries, we will understand that we are simply magnifying things that are not so bad at all.

Alright, now let us analyze what actually happens inside your mind when you are worrying. Just watch your mind when you are worrying about something.

You will see that a continuous stream of thoughts is being generated in your mind - totally disconnected thoughts - and usually negative thoughts. An influx of negative and repetitive words will be like a current in your mind.

• Ask each child to blow the balloon as big as they can and then tie it. If they want they can also create a face on the balloon using a sketch pen.
• Now explain that they are going to shout, rant and scream at the balloon, talk in gibberish about all the nonsense that is stored up inside. Then take the balloon and burst it. This is letting out with it pop all the built up stress in us and we feel free. While they are getting out all the negativity, they can be standing in separate corners in order to lessen the feelings of self consciousness.

If we keep adding on more stress, eventually it will break our system. Burst the stress and be free from worry and any thoughts, get it out of your system and you will be instantly lighter and more clear. After that let them talk about how they felt and what was their experience. Lots of noise is stored in our mind and this helps us let it out.

What was your feeling inside your stomach?

• Pieces of paper
• Pencils
• Container or Jar

Have enough pencils and small pieces of paper for everyone. Make a label "WORRY-JAR" for the Jar and stick it on. PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION:

Talk about how we are always carrying around our worries and it blocks up the path to happiness. How can we be in bliss if we are thinking like "Oh I'm so blissful! But Tommy really made me angry yesterday by calling me names!" We are constantly thinking about the past or the future, but what about now? Let's focus on what we are doing today and leave the past behind and we'll cross the bridge of the future when we get there.

Show the worry jar and give each person a paper and pencil. Ask them to write something that is bothering them right now. Ask them if it is a real worry or something that is not worth worrying about. If it is not worth worrying about, write it down and drop it in the worry-jar and don't worry about it again!

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We usually judge people by their looks. Ask the Children how they feel when they see somebody very pretty and when they see somebody not so pretty. We must judge people only by their qualities and not their look. Eventually the kids answered that it might not be true, we can judge a person only by moving with them "not by looks". We constantly judge people and mess up. It is ok to make mistakes but we have to accept and correct it. Life is about seeing the beauty in everything.

What we see is what we want to see .We miss a lot of things because we judge things. When we go to sleep with too many worries we get disturbing bad dreams. Ask the kids to tell about whether they experienced any bad dreams. One kid shared the experience that when he was worried about the exams. He got a dream that he was writing an exam! If we keep worrying it will look big, so drop the worries, they are really small Those who are weak worry a lot.

They feel so helpless that they hold tightly on to worry as their hope, worry can never be hope. When we stop worrying we make correct decisions. Nobody can hurt you unless you give them the key to your inner space. You can simply leave it closed so that your inner space is undisturbed.

The belief system is the only negativity that exists. Negativity cannot exist without words. Inner chatter more than 70% is negative words created out of ignorance and sustained by the ego. Inner space should either be filled with compassion or be empty. We fill the inner space with inner chatter and feel we are so productive. The mind is thinking about the problem and trying to give something that does not exists in the first place.

To make them aware of the fact we mustn't judge people by their looks.

• v Did you worry about something yesterday?
• v How did you overcome it?
• v What happens when we pre judge people?
• v Is it correct to judge people by looks?
• v What happens when we judge people by looks?
• v Is our judgment about people always correct?
• v How are dreams affected by worrying?
• v What happens when we go to sleep with too many worries?

} Drop the worry to make clear and correct decisions in life. The worries can be overcome by simply putting faith into every action you do.

• Plain sheet
• Sketch pen
• Pencil

Encourage the children to depict the worry emotion in the pictorial form. Give each child a turn to explain what they have drawn.

Some children might draw the worry emotion in the form of a happy face as worry has no real meaning yet for them. Their worries will be very silly also because worry does not really mean to them. What they worry for will be very silly. Some children will draw worry in a very negative format.

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• Bubble wands PREPARATION:

This is another activity to show how to approach worries. Instead of thinking so many thoughts and filling our minds and lives with worry and inner chatter, we need to pop each bubble of worry one at a time as it comes up.

Don't just keep worrying unnecessarily. When they come up like a bubble, pop it! One at a time! And you will find yourself worrying less and less if you take them as they come.

Blow a couple of bubbles and ask them to pop them one at a time. Show an illustration of a mind full of worries with tons of bubbles. Remind them to take them as they come. Then just let them jump around and enjoy popping the bubbles.

stressed people in fact do, we talk silently within. Not only is our mind not at rest, but the thoughts it generates also take shape as a monologue or dialogue within us. This inner chatter is what we call worry.

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Worry is nothing but the constantly repetitive inner negative chatter. Again and again we refer to the past and project it to the future by connecting all the negative things that have happened to us in the past. We then visualize the same thing happening in the future. Left to themselves ninety percent of your worries will never materialize. I have shown this to people who have attended our courses.

Write down your worries and review them six months later. Almost all of your worries never really happened. The ten percent that did happen was good for them!

Your strong visualization actually invites these worries to become true! If a worry constantly nags you, bring in the understanding that the worry itself is a creation of your mind. The mind itself is unreal. The connection that it makes with your thoughts is unreal. Therefore, the worry is also unreal! You can replace negative words with positive words and negative thoughts with positive thoughts. It is that easy. These words have power.

We do not realize how powerful our thoughts and words are. Various experiments like those on water by the Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto, show clearly that even water responds clearly to our words, thoughts and feelings. Over seventy percent of our body is made up of water and seventy percent of planet earth is covered with water. So you can imagine the power of words!

These experiments established beyond doubt what the Eastern mystics said centuries ago: As are your thoughts, so is your will. As is your will, so is your action. As is your action, so you become. Don't think that negative thoughts and words will only affect those against whom you express them. Understand clearly that these same thoughts and words will have an equal effect on you, the person who created them. Negativity does not merely affect others, it affects you first.

To make them aware of the fact that worries lead to stomach upsets and ulcers. Take responsibility for inner chatter and dissolving it. By doing this huge amount of energy is released and made available to you for more creative use.

• v What happens to the navel energy centre if we worry constantly?
• v How will we feel when we drop our worries?
• v What happens when we worry constantly?
• v What is anxiety and being anxious?
• v When do you feel anxious?
• v How will you feel when you have a party in your house?
• v Can we enjoy the party when we constantly worry about whether all our friends would come for the party or not?
• v Will worries cause diseases?

• Paper
• Pencil
• Sketch

Explain to the children about inner chatter. Inner chatter is the continuous flow of negative thoughts which did not allow us to be in present. Ask the children to do the pictorial representation of inner chatter.

Interpret to the children that worry is the inner chatter created by negative thoughts. The more the inner chatter the more we are away from the present.

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This is a simple way to show the representation of energy

Talk about: What is energy? We have discussed positive and negative emotions and we know that every second of every day we have a choice between doing something good or bad. But, if you are always thinking positive, you will automatically give off positive energy because it is coming from inside!

Show the two magnets; explain the force that draws the other magnet to it. Question: Have you ever noticed how happy and joyful people have a lot of friends? A happy face makes people feel welcome, they want to be near you because it makes them happy, and others will be drawn to you like a magnet. We have a magnet as well, in our inner space. When we are filled with positive energy we attract more positive things, right people and right choices.

What will happen when we have a thick plastic sheet - negative emotions - between the magnets? What will happen when we have a conducting metal - positive emotions - between the magnets? When we are open all the energy flows through from one magnet to another making it beautiful and experiencing more energy. When we are closed with our emotions we close the energy layers and then we have health issues.

MATERIALS NEEDED: Snap toys (some toy that connects.)

Worry is a funny thing, it definitely keeps us busy, but to what end? Its only mental stress and we add more and more tension to us and others.

But isn't it strange that one person's worry is another person's reason for happiness? Example: One person may say, "Oh I am so worried about my pet dog as it is always causing trouble and keeping me busy." But another person may say "I wish I had a dog to have fun with and keep me busy!" We worry unnecessarily! We always think about the negative instead of the positive!

And we clutch our worries together, like in a chain that pulls us down. We have 2 categories, what we feel is good, and what we feel is bad. But what one person thinks is bad; another considers it to be good! Like different tastes and preferences, what we consider to be correct or not. One may enjoy the taste of something, where as others think the same item to be disgusting!

This is an activity to show the importance of seeing everything fresh. And being open instead of relating everything to what we think and our past conceptions. Not judging but being open.

Take the snap toys, and have everyone snap their "good thoughts" together in one colour and their "bad thoughts" together on another. Discuss how different everyone is, but that if we un- clutch our worries and take each thought as they come, we can eliminate the inner chatter in our minds and instead of clutching all of our thoughts together and giving ourselves a lot of headache, we can first un-clutch our thoughts, one at a time, and then take each thought as it comes. Live in the present!

Have each child "un-clutch their worries" one item at a time, and then strive to live in the present, taking each thought as it comes. The past is history, The future is a mystery. But today is a gift; That is why it is called "present".

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Worry is nothing but your response to an event. Whether a situation makes you worry or not depends entirely on how you choose to react to the situation. As a child each of us is strongly centered in our own being. Have you ever seen any child worrying about what people will think of him? No!

A child is beautiful because he has no worries. Society makes us dependent on external support, certificates from others for each of our actions and words.

Without a reason to worry, your ego loses its reason for existence that is why you choose to remain in the dimension of worry. The way to worry is through the mind and the way out can also be only through the mind.

The solution cannot be found in outer world things. It can be found only inside ourselves. Depression or negativity is nothing but a collection of negative thoughts which you speak to yourself. Crying to get things shuts our inner space. By going behind the past or thinking about the future you miss the present.

When you are in the present, every moment will become a celebration and you will not be searching for past incidents to celebrate. Words are the units of worry. Happiness is different from bliss. Bliss is a beautiful and intense feeling inside you that makes you feel that you are on a different plane of existence.

Happiness or pleasure are most often related to the outer world objects and create pain continuously for us as well. Happiness is relative while bliss is absolute. Bliss is something that has no opposite.

Complaining is related to worry because you are uneasy and caught up with words. When we worry, we try to be in future. We carry our worries with us everywhere we go and feel comfortable nurturing them. Bliss attracts fortune. This is a great truth. When you are blissful, automatically, existence showers on you.

The whole of existence is taken for granted because of the so called knowledge. We run behind worldly things that give only more and more greed, worry and fear. These things make us to look outside instead of inside. They make us sway between depression and joy alternatively, instead of being centered upon permanent bliss.

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To make them aware of the fact that worries prevent us from being happy and let them make a conscious choice to be Happy.

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• v Does a child feel worry?
• v What is Depression?
• v What is worry?
• v What happens when you go behind to the past?
• v Is happiness different from bliss?
• v What happens when you cry to get things?
• v What is the solution of worry?

• Plain sheet,
• Sketch pen
• Pencil
• Poster colors

Explain the children about drawing their thoughts as pictures. Ask the children to picture what comes in their mind as thoughts. Encourage children to explain what they have drawn.

When the children analyze what they have drawn they can understand how thoughts are created, how our mind enjoys thoughts. How we connect the thoughts and create problems.

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GOALS: To make the children understand the topic of worry.

Introduce to the children the game of answering questions without negative answers

Encourage all the children to sit in a circle and each child will get his turn to answer the questions asked but he has to answer the questions without using any negative answers.

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Connect this game to the fact that negative thoughts and negative words create worry and stress. We will be very much refreshed when we use positive answers.

Same game can be played by including components like not repeating the same answer, not repeating any ones answer, no one word answers.

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Negative words and thoughts make our world dark and uncertain; it makes things messy, closes us and makes us rock like. When we are closed we won't observe and feel the fun and happiness around us. Positive words and thoughts are like a light being turned on.

It opens us up to beauty and unity, makes us open to receive love and to learn, do so many things for the better.

We are going to see how this manifests itself through water crystals. When the water was exposed to positive and loving words, the crystals were formed beautifully and had a nice hexagonal pattern. But when negative words were said in anger to the water, the crystals were formed cloudy and muddy looking.

Just like our mind, we need to constantly say good things and think positive, uplifting the effects manifested in our lives. The personality of a person is shaped by his thoughts. The negative thoughts will act like a barrier and keep all the good things away.

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To make them aware of how negative thoughts, negative words affect not only others but also us when we are using negative words about somebody.

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• v Have you seen ice crystals?
• v What happens when we expose negative thoughts on water
• v How will positive thoughts enrich us? What happens when we use negative thoughts and negative words on others?

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Worry and stress are closely interrelated; they are like parent and child. One cannot exist without the other. Stress is one of biggest destroyer of health in today's world. Conditioning of the child causes stress, when parents force a child to study it creates stress. Even clever child will not perform well when conditioned too much. For example, stress related to exams, even brilliant students sometimes fail to perform because of the stress created by the parents. The confusion between our true nature and what we pretend is stress or tension. Too much worrying leads to stress. When we are stressed out we worry a lot. Mind is not a thing as we all have been taught, it is a process. It is not a noun but a verb.

We are not stressed; we are the sources of stress. The moment we start believing that our life is depressed, your life indeed becomes depressed. Stress makes you process too many things in the mind. Even if you are thinking about the past and future, you are doing it in the present moment. If you are aware of that, you can be liberated and remain in restful awareness, you don't need to struggle or suffer to be in present moment. If you think life is only the waking stage, you will have intense stress. Breeze cannot move the mountain; time is a breeze on your inner space.

There is a part of you which is consistent and constant and can't be moved by the time passing over you. Experience that space catch the space, be in that space. The outer world follows the inner world. If you think the inner world follows the outer world you are wrong.

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To make the kids aware about a topic called stress and how stress is related to worry.

• Plain Sheet
• Sketch pen
• Chalk
• Pencil

Encourage the children to depict the stress emotion in a pictorial form. They can use a sketch pen, chalk and pencil.

Mostly stress drawing will be more of scribbling, because of the continuous Usually depicting a drawing of stress will include a lot of scribbling thought patterns that occur in the mind. Mind will experience too many racing thoughts while in a state of stress and comes out in pictorial form as intense scratch marks or as scribbling.

• Bowls
• Water
• Mustard seeds

Have the materials ready, and gather the class in a circle

Where is the mind? In our heads and in every muscle. We need the mind to perform every task. The bowl is the mind and the seeds are thoughts.

Take the bowl, and pour in some water (each child should have 1 bowl). In each bowl drop one mustard seed each. Give them 3 seconds to remove the mustard seed. Then add 10 seeds to each bowl, and give them 10 sec to remove them. Because of the time frame, they will get very stressed and quickly try to remove them, when really the easiest way is to drop the mind. Just push the mind away, un-clutch from the thoughts.

• What does mustard represent?
• How can we un-clutch from our thoughts?
• How do we feel after un-clutching from our thoughts?
• "Empty "
• Why can't we take the mustard one at a time from the bowl? Where is it we feel empty?

• Paper leaves
• Newspaper (variations)
• Safety hole
• Puncher machine

• 1. Gather the class and talk about stress, worry and negativity.
• 2. Using the safety hole puncher and with the material of choice, demonstrate how stress affects us, how worries build up and negativity spreads. It spoils our body leaving holes/wounds in our body.
• 3. As you punch holes, it affects other things. Have the children each take turns punching holes and seeing the effect.

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What they knew when they felt each emotion in each deeper layer

Explain to them to talk about each emotion in one level and then to the next deeper level and so on.

For example: I give a present to her because I like her; She is very nice; She never gets upset with me; and so on........

For Example: I am getting stressed out while doing exams because I could not remember what I studied. I have to write more. My parents scold me when I do not score well. My teacher compares my score with others. My parents compare me with my brother who always gets first, and so on.

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Ignorance means believing that floating in the past and future is relaxation and being in the present is a stressful effort. If we stop the past being projected into the future, you will be relieved from worry. If we stop the projection of the future into past, we will be relieved from greed. The best way to come out of stress is to take the whole world and life lightly. Life is not worthy of suffering. Life is to live joy fully and lightly. Inner space is very important for us. External things must not spoil our inner space

Acceptance will give the clarity. When you participate in every activity, every moment - when we are in the present our thoughts per second will be at a minimum. Connecting the unconnected – the low mood that we experienced ten years ago, the low mood that we experienced eight years ago and the low mood that we experienced yesterday are completely unconnected and independent incidents. All those happened for different purposes, different reasons, different times and situations. But we connect all those unconnected incidents and say "my life itself is a depression".

We have to understand that it is only what we believe to be our past that we will reproduce in future. So once we start believing that our past was filled with depression, we have created the unconscious faith that our future will also be depression. We need to understand that we are a process and that by our very nature; our thoughts are unconnected independent and unclutched. If we try to connect the thoughts we get stressed.

Part 4: Worry Collection_English_part_4.md

Responsibly learning is spontaneous, when we are spontaneous we will be relaxed.Learning is an amazing process. Life is like a roller coaster with lots of surprises. Spontaneous is being responsible to the moment. What we learn from life and accept, it is bliss but when we start judging and labeling, that leads to stress.

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To make the kids aware of the fact that how negative thoughts and words cause stress.

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Instruct the children to a draw a picture and include some wrong elements in the picture for example they can draw a lion face on a plant. Encourage each child to be very creative when they draw the picture

Stress is an unwanted element in our life so when stress is added to our life it changes our way of living into a negative mode.

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• 1. Talk about stress, discuss what problems stress causes to our health and lives. Explain that this is for releasing and clearing built up stress.
• 2. Explain the following instructions (you can send them to different parts of the room so they do not feel self conscious). "While standing, shout, scream, rave and rant in a language that you do not know. It should not make any sense. Be aggressive in letting out all your emotions and feelings that will start pouring out of you once you start. Cry if you so wish. Roll on the floor if your emotions drive you". Then sit down and allow the energy to spread within you in silence. During this silence just be a witness to your thoughts. Do not suppress them or chase them.
• 3. After they have completed all the points, they can open their eyes and discuss what they felt

This helps you reach the restful mind state from which you can witness events around without being adversely impacted by them.

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• 1. One thought is just a drop, but you can see the thoughts expanding once you keep adding drops of water, that is like more and more thoughts. We create a ocean of thoughts that we are so immersed in it that we are not able to realize that there is another side to this world. The same way we can remove thoughts, one drop at a time.

Use the eye dropper to add and remove drop of water signifying thoughts.

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• What happens when we add so many drops of water?
• How does the mind handle so many thoughts?
• When thinking of one thing can we do another with full precision?
• When our mind is empty how do we think? "Spontaneity "

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The thoughts we generate per second is directly related to stress. Your thoughts are always about your past or your future. You can only think about what happened in the past or what will happen in the future. Your thoughts of the past are usually regrets about what you did not do or guilt about what you did. Thoughts of the future are about what you wish to do. Neither the past nor the future is real. The past is gone. All we try to do is use our past to steer the future. The future is even more unreal, it has not happened.

Your have very little control over future.

Your thoughts are nothing but the movement of your mind between past and future. If only you allowed the mind to rest or even persuaded your mind to rest, you will find that you reach a blissful state. The state is the present moment. When thought frequency or thoughts per second or TPS comes down, we naturally rest in to the present movement.

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At any given time the greater your TPS or Thoughts Per Second, the more far flung you are from consciousness of the present moment. The point where the future meets the past is the present. This is where your thought frequency is zero and you are in a no mind state. Space changes the whole context, for example when somebody shouts at us from far away we will not have the same impact as somebody shouting at us from very near-face to face.

Similarly time also changes the context, we will not be stressed about somebody who shouted at us five days ago. But when somebody shouts at us today we will be stressed but Time and space heals

• Cotton buds
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• Coloring sheet

Encourage the children to do bud painting on the given picture. When they do this art they have to imagine themselves in a very stressful moment.

Explain to them how individual dots when multiplied many times becomes more and uncountable. Each dot represents a negative thought. Each negative thought then keeps on adding leading to unbearable stress

Filling and emptying water packets with water and tub. Materials: Water packets (empty and clean), Water, Tub.PREPARATION: This is a simple way to show the representation of energy

Get the class together and explain the activity. Show them that the Water packets. Ask them to hold them and feel the weight. Next ask them to submerge the water packets in a tub of water. Now ask them to feel the weight of the packets. It will be more.

The empty packets are our mind. The water that gets filled up is the worry, negative thoughts and emotions. Now ask them to squeeze out the water and empty the packets. Now the mind becomes light again if we let go of all negative emotions. Have them all take turns filling and squeezing the packets and to use this in their own lives by emptying the mind.

We are easily able to fill up our minds with so many unnecessary/negative thoughts and worries. If we can let go of our worries, we can be light, free and able to go on to do great things in our lives. In the present moment, everything gets dissolved.