LESSON: 8🔗

Introduction: Introduce the concept of contentment to the children

Goals: Make the children understand contentment.

Click: Learning 'contentment' is a very simple and straight forward opening.

About the topic: Learning contentment is a very plain and straight forward opening. There is no other way. Anything else leads to more and more complication. When you decide to be content, the carpet will seem good but then you will decide to pull the carpet a bit at the corner to make it better Don't think there is an army of enemies in your inner space. Your inner space is more intelligent. It will show only one enemy. The moment you accept one enemy you are done. By the time you fight that enemy your great friendly mind is ready with another, by the time you fight that, your great friendly mind will make you finish all thoughts about contentment. Decide, now you are going to practice, no question of allowing even one enemy. I am content from now out of that content feeling I will work. Contentment is like a huge snow capped mountain, glide in it, ski in it, the moment you hit a rock go back to the space of contentment. Use your bio memory to get back to contentment. Your bio memory is very responsible, when you withdraw from your day to day activities, the bio memory feels threatened. It will say, I can't be like this and get back to contentment. Say I am going to move my body only if I am contented, your mind will find some reason; so many people are in worse situations etc. When you put your bio memory in a survival threat, it will support you. Do the self strike. Non co-operation movement with your life, let your bio memory bring you contentment, then it will become a system in you create chaos in you, that is the only way to find a solution.

Interpretation: • What is contentment? • What happens when you pose problems? • What brings contentment for our self? • What is best way to achieve contentment? • What happens when we have contentment?

Evaluation: Evaluate their knowledge on the topic by asking them questions

Conclusion: Use your bio memory, achieve contentment and be happy

Materials Required: Carbon paper, Pencil, Plain sheet, shapes or alphabet blocks

Procedure: Give each child paper and carbon sheet Guide them to place carbon sheet in right position. Place the inked side on the paper. Ask children to choose their shapes or alphabets ask them to place it on the carbon sheet and ask them to trace it. Show them the impressions created on the white sheet.

Inference: Carbon paper gives the impression of what we trace, when we trace beautiful structures we get beautiful designs. Our mind is like carbon paper when we have gratitude we radiate grace and courtesy.

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Procedure: Encourage children to walk with eyes closed on the drawn line. They must walk on the line without moving away from the path. Now ask them to walk on the line with eyes open. Ask the children which is easier? Walking with eyes closed or walking with eyes open?

Inference: Ask them if they have ever felt the importance of eyes before doing this activity. Since we get everything easily, we take everything for granted and we miss gratitude.

Conduct a quiz program on gratitude questions for the children

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