LESSON: 2🔗

Introduction: Introduce the kids to the topic of guilt and happiness; guilt a manifestation of ego.

Goals: To make them aware of how ego manifests as guilt, how being happy is itself associated with feelings of guilt.

Click of the topic: We give ourselves life-sentences.

About the topic: When the child wants to shout and jump, dance, that is his natural expression. But adults stop him and say it is bad manners, you should be civilized. By and by the notion of being free and happy is itself associated with feelings of guilt.

A guilty person can never be at ease with himself, he will always lack self confidence, and he will always look for a leader for guidance. This is where society steps in and exploits him. Guilt is actually the shadow of the ego.

When somebody says something and you become angry, it is the ego, your idea about yourself that causes the anger. But right after that you start feeling guilty about losing your temper. The ego creates the problem and the same ego goes on harboring guilt. Without allowing ego, if you allow only awareness, you will neither get unduly angry nor will you suffer for it.

As a baby we did not have an ego but slowly we start growing and developing egos. Ego disconnects us from the nature. Ego creates a dent in our self - in our inner space and again we feel guilty that we are not complete. At some point of life we feel "I am scared, nobody cares for me, I do not belong here, I am all alone - This continuous emotion creates a dent in our self. Reliving and relieving is one way to forgive yourself and be happy. Since we fail to "LIVE", life has become the reverse of live - "EVIL" and worse if we think we "LIVED" our life then we open the "DEVIL" in our life. Understanding that we were unaware & taking responsibility and saying "sorry" will reprogram the brain with intelligence to act in awareness next time. Be with life, complete and finish it till the end. Then there will be no life sentence.

Bliss starts from inside to outside.

Assessment: ● Have you felt guilty about something? ● How will you feel when you do something wrong and others find out? ● How does the ego get bigger with guilt? ● How is ego related to guilt? ● What happens when we make a big mistake for the first time? ● Why do we cover up our mistake? ● Can you feel happy when you feel guilty? ● Can you feel guilt without thinking about the past? ● Have you ever felt guilty of being happy?

Evaluation: Evaluate their knowledge on the subject by asking multiple questions. Do they understand how the ego gets affected when guilt traps them?

Conclusion: Conclude the topic by reviewing the important details. Drop ego and feel the happiness without the guilt.

Materials needed: Paper, Pen (or) Sketch

Procedure: Give each child the materials needed. Explain to the children about disease. Encourage each child to draw what they understood by disease. Each child will get a turn to explain what they have drawn about disease.

Inference: Guilt creates a dent in our inner space, Guilt makes us feel inferior. Explain to the children guilt in long run leads to diseases. Guilt affects us psychologically which leads to diseases.

This can be used as a group activity to show what happens when we are closed because of guilt.

Materials needed: ● Empty bucket. ● Plate or lid (large enough to cover the bucket) ● Water.

Presentation:

Inference; Explain to the children we fill the bucket of our mind with all guilty emotions and close the bucket with a big lid; we will not share our emotions with anybody.

5. Sharing is the only way to re-live the incident ,so share the guilt with others be aware of it, and never repeat the same mistake again.

Conclusion: Our body is not able to receive inputs and feel free if we are suffering from guilt. It is like the guilt has closed the entry points of our energy.

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