LESSON: 2🔗

Introduction: Review the previous day's topic and talk about fear strokes, and about overcoming fears.

Goals: Make the kids aware of fear strokes, and how to overcome fear.

Click: Fear leads to anger.

About the topic: Fear leads to anger. When we have anger we lose the power in ourselves and we fail to understand that we have a problem. By being aware of the fact that everything is auspicious we can overcome anger. Fear is the passive form of the energy while anger is the active expression. It is said that we undergo six to twelve fear strokes every day and night, both in dreams and also in wakefulness. Fear strokes originate from unconsciousness. When they are viewed with awareness and consciousness, they can be substantially reduced. You must understand it is ok to fail, to lose something—learn from that to be more aware. What are fear strokes? Example you are walking in the garden in the dark, and you see a coil of rope. You start shivering, imagining it to be snake. That sudden shock you get before realizing it is just a rope not a snake is what is called a fear stroke. A fear stroke is like shaking a rose plant from its roots. Every fear can be used as a door to enlightenment. If you are experiencing too many fears in your life and if you know the right technique all those fears can become doors and you can be liberated. Otherwise all the fears are like walls. All you need to do is, every time you feel fear, do not lose confidence. If you are courageous enough to face the fear, it can lead you to liberation. Fear strokes are short spikes of fear. Fear strokes weaken the immune system. They release depression – inducing chemicals and even accelerate our ageing process. Fear can be changed to fearlessness and intelligence out of pure awareness. Anything suppressed only takes up another form. It doesn't set uprooted totally. So suppression is not the way to overcome fear. Awareness is the way. In fact if you suppress fear, you are missing the chance of overcoming it. Having fear is natural. But connecting the fear to an object is societal.

Assessment:

Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking questions. Ask them to elaborate their experiences of fear and fear strokes and how they overcame it.

Conclusion: Conclude the topic by reviewing the important details. Have the courage to face the fear and get liberated. The intensity and frequency of fear strokes can be reduced by deeper understanding and clarity of the origin of fear!

Materials needed: Color crayons, scary picture

Procedure: Give each child a scary picture and ask them to color the picture with different color crayons

Inference : Let them visualize the scary thing and ask them how they feel ,what is going on in them. Where do they feel the fear in their body?

Preparation: Gather the materials together.

Discussion and presentation: We have many thoughts that are so different and unrelated. Sometimes, our thoughts go together, but when you stop to analyze your thoughts, you will see how bizarre they really are. You will be thinking. “Oh, I am feeling so sad and lonely, I wish I had a new toy to play with, I wish I had this thing or that, look at that dog crossing the street with bone in his mouth”. We can stop and write down what thoughts are in our head, and instead do something constructive, instead of wasting our time as it is of no help to anybody.

Activity: Give each person strips of paper and have them write down immediate thoughts that come to mind, we are always thinking! Take the thoughts and attach them together, linking them up to form a chain

Topic of discussion: Write in which 'G' they do their day to day activity 1 G – Unknown 2 G – Anger 3 G – Greed 4 G – Fear 5 G – Happy, Creative, Intuitive 6 G – Purpose of life 7 G – Beyond

Explanation: Explain to the children to write about in which G they do their day to day activity.

For example: When they brush teeth in which 'G' they are. Whether they are working unknowingly or they are brushing out of ANGER, (or) acting out of GREED of getting something as gift (or) working out of fear of infection, or doing out of happiness or thinking that is the purpose of life or beyond that. Encourage each child to analyze in which 'G' they all do the different activities.

Inference: Explain to the children when you are doing things out of Anger, without liking it, will only lead to suffering. When we grow bigger it will become a pattern. The brain grows with patterns. Every activity we do must be in 5G – happy, creative, and intuitive. How can we be creative in our activities? When we are in 5G we will be in a happy, creative, open and intuitive spectrum.