Guilt - Lessons 6 to 7

GUILT VS GRATITUDE

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INTRODUCTION

If you are caught in guilt, we
can never feel connected to
life. The only way to
overcome guilt is to start
melting with gratitude. When
you accept things as they are
you can experience the
causeless happiness and
blessings.

Gratitude is the fragrance
than can pervade your inner
space and replace the smell
of guilt. With guilt it
becomes impossible to
celebrate life. Guilt sits on
our heart like a rock. We
become heavy and frozen.
It does not allow us to be
free to dance, sing, laugh
and love. Enjoy every
moment as every moment is
auspicious. You are who
you are. Just be in the
moment and unclutch from
the past and future.

Guilt creates a dent in our
inner space but gratitude
expands our inner space. Guilt
is like being stuck in a
whirlpool while surrender is
the only way out of the
whirlpool. Guilt happens due
to reviewing the past incidents
with updated intelligence.

When we surrender
everything to the ultimate
intelligence in gratitude, we
lose the pattern that we have
created from the past and are
relieved of the guilt. When
we have gratitude we will
always have the opinion that
the grass on our side is green.
We have everything in us.
Everything happening around
us is precious and auspicious.

GOAL :

To make the children
aware of the concept of
gratitude

ASSESSMENT:

❖ What is gratitude? ❖ Can we feel happy when we are holding on to guilt? ❖ Do we feel light if we have guilt? ❖ What happens when we let go the guilt? ❖ What happens when we are thankful for the moment?

CONCLUSION:

Accept yourself as you are, totally and unconditionally. The total acceptance will bring about an active and intense relaxation in which your natural intelligence will flower.

ART OF THE DAY

ART OF THE DAY:

SPRAY OR SPLASH PAINTING

MATERIALS NEEDED: White sheet, spray painting brush, poster colors, water

PROCEDURE: Encourage the children to do spray painting or splash painting on the selected picture (picture related to guilt) or on the plain sheet and make designs with that. Give each child the materials needed. Children have to hold the brush with bristles facing down and spray with the other hand

INFERENCE: If the spray painting is done excessively on the sheet we cannot see the actual picture itself. Similarly guilt in the long run destroys our originality.

A portrait of a person in traditional attire and beads, gesturing, framed by a mandala pattern

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY: SPEAK A LIE AND DO A TEST

GOALS Make the children understand guilt.

PREPARATION Make the children sit in a circle.

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:

SPEAK A LIE AND DO A TEST

PRESENTATION

Explain clearly to the children that we are playing a game. In this game, each child has to utter a few things, some of which are lies and some are truths. The other children have to identify when a lie is being told by observing the facial expression of the child who is lying. All children can take turns and play this game.

INTERPRETATION:

When we are lying, our facial expression will show it clearly. When we do something which leads to guilt we cannot hide it.