LOVE HEALS RESTLESSNESS
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VOLUME 3
THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
LOVE HEALS 5
TYPES
OF
RESTLESSNESS
© 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved
INTRODUCTION:
The first kind of restlessness happens due to your circumstances. Sometimes, in a particular place or situation you feel restless. If you move from that place or situation, you feel more settled. Even under uncomfortable circumstances, if you just show a gesture of love to someone, or if someone shows a gesture of love to you, things can become instantly better for you! It can heal you. The second kind of restlessness is physical. Physical restlessness is nothing but a constant tension in your body for no particular reason. It is said that all such tension can be released when you express love to somebody. You may ask, 'How can love take away physical restlessness?' You can see for example, a mother who has a child to look after will feel continuously rejuvenated in spite of the child driving her crazy! Because of the love element, she will cope with the tension. Otherwise, taking care of children is not an easy job! The rejuvenation happens because of the love and care the mother feels for the child. Any tension or restlessness in the body disappears when you care for somebody, when you smile at somebody, when you express love in your body language, even if it is just once.
When you express yourself through your head, it is called intelligence. When you express yourself through your heart, it is felt as love. When you express yourself through your being, it is experienced as energy. When you relax into your being without expressing, it is bliss! Each one is the same energy but expressed in four different ways. So whenever you express love, you express energy also. Love is concentrated, caring energy. So naturally, whenever you express love you become a channel for healing energy. When you are a channel for energy, you not only heal others but heal yourself as well.
The third form of restlessness is mental. Any mental
restlessness can be healed by love. Research indicates that
when you care for pets or play with children, you reduce the
possibility of heart attacks and also reduce the risk of fatal
diseases! The fourth form of restlessness is emotional. Mental
restlessness is different from emotional restlessness. Mental
restlessness is purely intellectual and can be controlled easily.
But emotional restlessness cannot be controlled by just a few
words of consolation. It can be healed only when you
express love. When you start radiating love, it floods your
being with energy. When your being is opened to such
higher energies, it heals the emotional restlessness.
Ultimately, we come to spiritual restlessness. There are so many people who can sit with others, who can sit with the television, who can sit with newspapers, but who can't sit with themselves. This is what is called spiritual restlessness. Spiritual restlessness means that you cannot sit with yourself. You can give appointments to everybody else but not to yourself! Your love for the teacher or the master can heal your spiritual restlessness. Many people come and tell me, 'Swamiji, just sitting in your presence puts us in a calm state but when we go back home, we are not able to remain in that calmness. Why is it so?' When you are in the presence of an enlightened person, you start relating, you start expressing your love towards him automatically. This heals your spiritual restlessness.
GOALS:
Make the children aware of various kinds of restlessness and how love heals all of them, how we use our senses to experience love. Click: Restlessness.
ASSESSMENT:
- How do you use your senses to understand love? (Only through expression or experience).
- Where do you feel love? (Inside your heart-inner space).
- How do you know you are feeling love? (Empty, light, blissful).
- Boom! (Loud noise) "What happened inside?" you feel scared in your heart, something disturbing your inner space.
- Hugs, what do you feel now? You feel loved in the inner space.
- What are the different senses we have?
- How would you feel if you lose one sense?
- How would you feel if you had no
- eyes to see, no ears to hear? No mouth to speak?
- Will you feel sad? Where?
- What if instead we gained an extra sense, through love and bliss?
- How would you like to have wings to fly?
- How is it if we can feel love in 2 people or even more (the whole world)?
- Why do we prefer to go to the park/beach/temple?
CONCLUSION:
Enriching and causing others reality heals and causes our reality and ultimately heals all 5 restlessness in us.
ART OF THE DAY -
HEARTS OF LOVE
Material required:
Play dough Food color (pink or orange)
Play dough recipe:
1 cup flour
1 cup salt
22 cup water
Preparation: Create play dough out of flour, salt, and water. Knead the dough, so as to be pliable enough to be formed into shapes.
Discussion: This is a simple activity which will cement the concept of having love in our inner space.
Question: Where do we experience love?
Answer: In our inner space, inside our heart. It is not available outside. Distribute a piece of play dough to each child, add a few drops of food coloring and knead it to distribute the coloring uniformly. They can shape the dough into a heart and decorate it as they please. Else we can also have them draw and color a heart on a chart paper.
ACTIVITY -
BLOW AWAY THE ICE CUBES
Material required: Ice Cubes
Preparation:
Give everyone a block of ice, and have them blow on the ice cube and say words of love to rid themselves of the ego and watch the ice melt into pure liquid love.
Discussion: Love is being in the flow with life and everything around us, ego is like frozen ice. Talk about love, the illustration of love being like water, always moving, giving us life and health. Ego is like hard rock. It is not able to move. It is just like a frozen block of ice, closed and cold, not able to give and receive the power of love. Ego is always holding on to 'mine', 'I' and the ice cube thinks it is so important. But if we are able to let go and become "egoless", we will become love instead.
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