LESSON: 9🔗

Introduction: Introduce the topic of gratitude as attitude, thoughts are physical

Goals: To make the children understand the concept of gratitude as attitude

About the topic: When we work with expectations all the time, we will carry a subtle violence in our body language. It is not deliberate violence but inherent violence. If we become a little sensitive to our body language, we will be able to catch this. When you operate from your heart, you are always in gratitude. Gratitude is not any virtue. It has to be your very attitude. Only when you feel gratitude you can tune yourself beautifully to existence and then existence will reveal to you its magical splendor. With gratitude your entire body language changes. When you start experiencing deep gratitude, your responses to situations change. You start resonating with existence. Your body will flow with that resonance, with a cool grace and softness. All your actions will arise out of this grace. There will be no violence, only joy will be flowing, anything you do will only make life sweeter. Each human being is a unique master piece. But we never feel that we are beautiful enough. We constantly compare ourselves with others and try to look like them. We never make our body feel it is beautiful. Our body is influenced by the thoughts we entertain about it. Every cell responds to our thoughts and feeling and about it. If we feel gratitude towards our body, our body responds by improving our health. If we hate our body, the body responds by shrinking with disease. It is just like the effect of our thoughts on other human beings. There are people who are born blind. There are people who are born without arms or legs. We have everything and yet we take it all for granted. Sometimes people who have a physical handicap are more grateful than those who have a perfect body. The handicapped person knows what it is to miss a body part so he is automatically grateful to the other body parts.

Assessment:

Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions.

Conclusion: Gratitude is the energy that makes our life intense and exciting every moment.

Materials required: Thread of varying length, different poster colors, uncolored art sheet or plain sheet.

Procedure: Encourage children to dip the thread in the paint and keep it on the art sheet and fold the art sheet holding firmly on the table with one hand and pull the thread in various directions with the other hand. Ask them to observe the designs and patterns created on the paper.

Inference: Explain to the children that when they closely observe the patterns created by thread painting they can see so many figures in that; but when we just see it as colored paper we cannot observe anything. Similarly miracles are happening around us every moment but we will miss out on everything because we are not expressing gratitude.

Materials needed: Kaleidoscope

Procedure: Show how to hold the kaleidoscope and then by shutting one eye, how we have to view it. As we keep on turning the kaleidoscope we can see different designs that are formed with different colors. Inside the kaleidoscope there are small pieces of colored glass and the pieces are reflected in the mirror forming the designs as patterns.

Inference: When we change our view into a positive mode we can make life beautiful. When we start feeling grateful for small things, our whole sensitivity will increase we will become refined.

2. Everything values small to us when it is a) Easily available b) Rarely available c) Never available

3. We always live with a __________ attitude a) Thankful b) What next c) Satisfied

4. Any precious thing after we receive it a)becomes more precious b)becomes invaluable c)loses its value

7. What swallows everything & ask for more a)ego b) knowledge c)society

9. What is the way to live in connection with reality? a)enhancing conditioning b)dropping our conditioning c)reducing our conditioning

10. When you operate from your __________ you are always in gratitude a)mind b)logic c)heart

13. Which is the one energy which takes care of everything? a) energy of greed b)energy of guilt c)energy of gratitude

14. We feel something missing in your life a)because you do not feel gratitude b)because you feel more gratitude c)because you feel less guilt

16. Good relationships is a by-product of a)taking for granted b) appreciation c)desire

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21. when you feel truly grateful to the people in your relationship a)you will not possess them b)you will possess them c)you will ignore them

24. Self-realization is postponed because of the a)Struggle between you & me b)Struggle between you & you c)Struggle between me & others

29. When we work with expectation all the time, we will carry a a)grace in our body language b)subtle violence in our body language c)elegance in our body language

30. Which is the greatest blessing for human being? a)feeling of fulfilment b)feeling of un fulfilment c)feeling of being happy

31. Gratitude is your response to recognizing a)other's good deeds done for you b)other's care & love c)Abundance of existence

32. When gratitude happens it works beautifully through the a)law of attraction b)law of repulsion c)law of neutralization

37. What do you understand about miracles? a)miracles will not happen at all b)miracles are continuously happening in front of our eyes c)miracles happen seldom in our life

39. our outer world identities will always a)be much more than who we really are b)be less than who we really are c)be equal to who we really are

41. If you approach the suffering with acceptance and intelligence a)the very suffering gives you discontentment b)the very suffering gives you enlightenment c)the very suffering gives you disinterest

42. What is the auspicious moment? a)every moment is auspicious b)moment we do remembers things c)the moment something good happens to us

43. Natural calamities are nothing but nature's ways of a)Reducing the population b)Adjustingitself to certain actions of human beings c) Revenge taken by the cosmos

44. When can one understand love? a)you should not have any purpose from the relationship b)one should have given& take benefit from the relationship c)when we let go something to get into the relationship

45. When you feel gratitude for small things a)our whole sensitivity will be lost b)our whole sensitivity will decrease c)our whole sensitivity will increase

48 When gratitude - flowers the feeling of ________ is simply wiped away a) satisfaction b) discontentment c) fulfilment