LESSON: 7🔗

Introduction: Introduce the topic of guilt vs. gratitude. Goals: To make the children aware of the concept of gratitude.

Click of the topic: Guilt Vs Gratitude

About the topic: 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.

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?

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

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.

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. .

Goals: Make the children understand guilt.

Preparation: Make the children sit in a circle.

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.

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

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1) When suffering comes we have to approach it with a) Resistance b) Happiness c) Acceptance

2) When we work with expectation all the time, we will carry a a) Subtle violence in our body language b) Elegance in our body language c) Negativity in our language

3) When you cannot forgive yourself it is called a) Guilt b) Passive ego c) Vengeance

4) When you cannot forgive others it is called a) Active ego b) Passive ego c) Guilt

7) How do you fit in desire and guilt in time. a) Desire is about the future and guilt is about the past b) Desire is about the past and guilt is about the future c) Desire is about the present and guilt is about the future

9) Guilt is a wedge inserted in to your inner space which a) Makes you feel you are inferior b) Makes you take right decisions c) Makes you take on double standards

10) Which is the shadow of borrowed desire a) Guilt b) Fear c) Empathy

11) Whether it is beauty or intelligence, everybody is a) Same b) Different c) Unique

12) When will you find a tremendous upsurge of energy a) When expectation meets the purpose b) When expectation is less than purpose c) When expectation is more than purpose

13) How do we perceive guilt a) Guilt with courage removes guilt b) Guilt with purpose removes guilt c) Guilt with understanding removes guilt

15) Perfectionism is never possible because a) No body is perfect b) It is in your mind c) everybody's view are different

16) Most of the times we justify our guilt by saying I am a) Being aware b) In awareness c) Not in awareness

17) Which is termed as a sure killer of intelligence a) Desire b) Guilt c) Comparison

18) Which is the way to achieve bliss a) Accept all guilt, all mistakes and all failures b) Accept all mistakes and failure but not compare c) Accept all mistakes and guilt but not fear

20) What type of emotion is guilt and jealousy a) Guilt is subjective emotion and jealousy is objective b) Guilt is objective emotion and jealousy is subjective c) Both are subjective emotion

21) What happens when you force some rules on somebody they will learn a)How to follow the rules b)How to cheat us c)How to listen to us

23) No' actually creates _____in children a) Courage b) Guilt c) Upset

24) Who breeds the guilt a) We create a shaft of all the guilt b) Society creates a shaft of all the guilt c) Parents create a shaft of all the guilt

25) ___ is a wonderful tool to relieve yourself of the pull and push between the past and future a) Resistance b) Acceptance c) Ignorance

27) Which is termed as useful guilt a) There is no such useful guilt b) Guilt which is pursued with intelligence c) Guilt which makes us take double standards

28) If you get into a low feeling when you think about your act it is a) Responsibility b) Mistake c) Guilt

29) If you get into a feeling of integrity and intensity it is a) Responsibility b) Desire c) Guilt

30) Knowing the other person's weakness should make one___ a) Resistance b) Arrogant c) Compassionate

31) When you can avoid the guilt a)When you take full responsibility of the situation b)when you take responsibility of all the failures c)When you did not take responsibility

33) Imposed morality always causes you to feel a) Comfortable b) Resistance c) Obedient

34) Rules without understanding is coming from your a)Consciousness b)Conscience c)Both consciousness and conscience

35) Entire struggle in life is the struggle for a) Ego b) Freedom c) Power

38) Which causes you to spontaneously take the right action in the right situation. a) Knowledge b) Guilt c) Awareness

39) What is termed as integrated personality a) Being a combination of conflicting personalities b) Being one solid personality c) Being a ever changing personality

40) Residue of any action will not exist when a) Living the experience fully b) Comparing the experience c) Judging the experience

41) Guilt created by family and society is called a) Borrowed guilt b) Natural guilt c) Imposed guilt

42) Guilt is your a) Past decisions and actions being reviewed with your updated intelligence b) Present decisions and actions being reviewed with your past intelligence c) Future decisions and actions being reviewed with your present intelligence

43) When are you life sentenced a) When something runs you b) When you have control over your life c) When others have control over your life

45) Guilt is the way to a) Commit the same mistake again b) Never to commit the same mistake again c) Occasionally commit the same mistakes

47) Why do we have guilt towards community a) Failing to react b) Failing to act c) Failing to reward

48) If the mind is living in the present, you become a) Unified b) Confused c) Disturbed

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