LESSON: 3
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Introduction: Recall the previous day's topic and talk about spontaneity, awareness
Goals: To make the children understand about spontaneity and the key to awareness
Click: Spontaneity is the key to awareness
About the topic: As a child, you looked at things in a very simple, straight forward way. That is why you are all so spontaneous. Because of the societal conditioning you are constantly trying to become something else, to prove something to others. By constantly trying to become something else, you try to imitate others and waste the wonderful natural energy bubbling inside you. If you blindly imitate another person's performance or behavior instead of acting from your own inner spontaneity, your own intelligence you will be cheating yourself out of wonderful possibilities. Knowledge is good only when applied intelligently. It is intelligence that gives the real result, not the knowledge.
Spontaneity is expressing our knowledge in the right place at the right time. When you don't use your intelligence you will start believing that you don't have the intelligence to handle situations. Intelligence is the ability to respond to new situations. It comes from your being, not from the knowledge which comes from the mind. With awareness you don't rely on what others have taught. You don't rely on the past; you act just out of the fresh intelligence that comes with awareness. With deep awareness you are in the present moment. The
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Living every moment in total awareness is meditation. In life, because it is easy to place responsibility on others, you blindly follow other people's direction instead of relying on your own intelligence. Living in the present moment is living in insecurity. It needs courage and intelligence. Future is an unknown gift, so it can never be predicted.
Assessment: • What destroys our spontaneity? • How is spontaneity different from logical mind? • What is awareness? • What is intelligence? • Which is an unknown gift? • Living in present needs immense courage, yes or no? • What happens when we are conditioned? • What is insecurity? • Can we predict future? •
Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions.
Conclusion: Live every moment in total awareness.
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Art of the Day - Clay Modeling
Materials required: • Dough made out of Atta with different food colors added • Moulds • Cookie cutter • Rolling pins
Explanation: Children will be provided with play dough and they can try making their own models using moulds or by rolling with hands or using cookie cutters and rolling pins.
Inference: Everybody has a natural, spontaneous intelligence inside us.
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Activity- Singing without intention
Goals: To make the children understand how spontaneous they are.
Preparation: Ask the child to sing some tunes.
Presentation: Encourage the children to sing in a group or alone, the tunes which comes to their mind. They can sing without intention with meaningless words also. They will enjoy doing this activity.
Interpretation: This activity enables them to understand that each one is spontaneous and each one has a natural spontaneous intelligence inside them.
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