Innocence & You Are Intelligent: Surrender with Trust

LESSON: 1

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Introduction: Give them clues to figure out the topic and introduce the topic. Commence the session by introducing clues to figure out the topic.

Goals: To make the children aware of the fact that everybody is born intelligent.

Click: Intelligence is not something to attain

About the topic: Intelligence is not something to attain. Every single being is endowed with intelligence. It is an inherent, inborn quality of life; just as fire is hot and ice is cold. Most of us have lost touch with our natural intelligence. That is why we are not able to live life to its fullest potential. We mistake our acquired knowledge as intelligence. From the caterpillar to the chimpanzee, every animal lives its life beautifully using the natural gift of intelligence. By nature, we have all the intelligence in our human body. The difficulty is we strongly believe we are limited. All children are born intelligent. They are so spontaneous and enthusiastic. Undue importance is given to logic and analysis which are activities related to the left side of the brain. Because of this, the right side of the brain which is related to creativity and art is less stimulated. Both the brain need to be balanced. Allow your complete being to simply express itself and you YOU ARE INTELLIGENCE

will see your natural intelligence flowering beautifully.

Illumining your comprehension; means seeing things properly, with a proper light, with awakened vision. Your mind leads you to bondage; your mind leads you to freedom; mind can make anything out of anything. Any situation can be experienced as any situation. It can either enjoy or suffer the same situation. It can experience joy or being defamed in the same situation; It can comprehend pleasure or pain in the same situation. It can make you experience anything out of anything.

Right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep and memory; these five can be the reason for your pleasure or pain, for your anguish or joy, for your peace or restlessness. You can use these five towards anything. What really needs to happen inside us is the cognitive shift, means your comprehension should be illumined; straightaway able to relate with the truth, without difficulties, complications, torturing; straightaway ability to relate with the truth.

Imagination, same way can lead you to joy or pain, suffering or ecstasy. Memories which you don't want to cherish, some suffering will raise. You can't even ask, why did it come, and your whole day is gone. Your whole day is gone. Just one wrong awakening; your whole day will be in depression, low mood. Memory is such a powerful thing; it can come up by itself and put you in you in suffering, put you in anguish or peace, put you in bliss or suffering.

Memory means, the ideas, thoughts, imaginations, visualizations collected which is still alive inside your system. One important thing,

if your memory is complete, it won't lead you to suffering, it will lead you to joy. It is not complete. If your memory about your past, if it is complete, you will have knowledge about your future, please understand. I'm not giving you false promise. Stating simple straight truth.

If your memory about past is clean and pure and complete, you will have a clear idea about your future. Because, your future is nothing but the reproduction of the past in different dimension, that is all. May be, some of the quantity will be different. But, basic structure will be the reproduction of your past. Earlier, you might have had one car in the past; in the future, you may have few cars. But, the future is going to be the reproduction of the past. But the big problem is we don't even have the right idea about our past. We remember our past only after editing.

Your miscomprehension, your wrong idea about the past is responsible for the wrong idea about the future. If you think you are not able to plan your future; be very clear, you don't have a clear vision about the past.

Right knowledge, with right knowledge you don't need to work on it. If

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you just allow it to be there, it will lead you to joy. With wrong knowledge you need to work on the content, you need to change the direction. With fantasy, not just changing the direction you have to completely change the very content itself. Sleep, not only content, even the container has to be changed. He is taking us to deeper layers. Fifth is memory, today we will see the fifth modification. I have already explained all the other modifications Today we will see the fifth modification, memory.

Assessment: What is intelligence? Can we attain intelligence? Does everyone have intelligence? Do plants have intelligence? Do animals have intelligence? Why are we not able to feel our intelligence? Name some of the right brain activities Name some of the left brain activities Why do we label children 'as born intelligent'? What is memory? What does illumining the comprehension mean?

Evaluation: Ask them to talk about the right brain and left brain activities

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Art of the Day : Spray Painting

Materials required:
• Uncolored art sheet
• Tooth brush
• Different colored poster colors
• Comb

Explanation: Encourage children to attend the art class, explain and present the different techniques of spray painting. Ask the children to each take a tooth brush and dip it into their favorite colors. Ask them to place the tooth brush bristles pointed down, towards the paper. Guide the children to use their thumb to move the bristles of the tooth brush or they can move the tooth brush on a comb. When they move the bristles of the tooth brush, the paint is sprayed on the art sheet.

Inference: Children realize that by being very creative, we can express our intelligence

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Activity: Focusing on the stick

Goals: To make the children understand the fact that intelligence is the ability to respond to new situations.

Preparation: Take a small stick and place it in a bowl of water and inspire the children to focus all their attention on the stick.

Presentation: Ask the children to sit in a circle.

Now place a bowl of water with a stick floating in it. Ask the children to focus on the stick and to try moving the stick from its position just by focusing on it.

Inference: When you really unclutch from all thoughts and start focusing on the stick you can make it move.

Extension: Ask a child to make some movements like folding hands, tapping hands etc and another child to focus on it. The other child watching him will also do that movement automatically. We can now explain

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