LESSON: 4🔗

Introduction: Explain to the children that intelligence is being open to life.

Goals: To make the children understand intelligence and be able to welcome people, situations and everything else in life

Click: Be open to life

About the topic: Intelligence is being open to life. It is by being welcoming to people, situations and everything in life. We are afraid to receive life with open arms. Understand, there are two things that we can do, one is collecting the data, making the argument and making a judgment. The second is forming a judgment then collecting arguments to support that judgment. Most of the time we have already formed the judgment than we pay attention only to those incidents that support our judgment. We are not open to others decisions and ideas. Operating with intelligence is the process of going back to the innocence you were born with. When you are intellectual, you operate purely from the head, from logic. When your intelligence awakens, you drop from the head to the heart, from logic to love. We rely on thinking because we do not allow the natural understanding to happen. When we allow the understanding to happen, we don't have to think any more. Understanding is intelligence, it is fresh and new. Not falling back on the answers arising from the past memory but functioning from our present consciousness is called understanding. We have to use our mind as a tool not as a master. The mind is our radio that we don't know how to turn off.

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Since the signal is continuously broadcasting, there is no silent gap for us to feel the energy of intelligence from within us that occurs between thoughts. Because of this we are unable to experience relaxation and we feel tired and exhausted. When we give the power of attorney to our mind, it takes entire control over us.

The levels of knowledge. First level, perception through senses, what you perceive. This is the first level knowledge. Second level, conclusion arrived at through the cognition, means you start calculating, if this is this, then this two together must be this. Means, development of mathematics, science. Evolution of all poetry, evolution of great things which you don't perceive with the ordinary eyes but which can enrich your life. Those things starts evolving. That's the second level of knowledge.

People understand, science can never evolve. Just from the firsts level knowledge. First level knowledge is perception through senses, means what you see. What you see. The second level knowledge, the conclusions which you can come by calculating, by understanding,

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by analyzing. That is the second level knowledge. Third, words of an enlightened Master. Third level knowledge. Assessment: • What is intelligence? • When you are intellectual you operate from the heart or head? • How do you judge before buying things? • What is 'understanding'? • What is thinking? • Which is more important understanding or thinking? • How do we have to use our mind- as a master or a tool? • What happens when we use mind as a master? • How can we use our intelligence without the mind disturbing? • What are the three levels of knowledge

Evaluation: Evaluate their knowledge on the topic by asking them multiple questions

Conclusion: Conclude the topic by reviewing the details. Awaken your intelligence, drop from the head to the heart, from logic to love.

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Art of the Day - Sticking glass paper

Explanation: Invite children to participate in this activity and provide required materials to them. Explain the pictures and ask them to apply glue by themselves inside the picture and stick the cutouts of different colored glass paper on the glue and ask them to observe the change.

Inference: 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.

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Activity- Holding a pencil in the hand without any support

Goals: To make the children understand the fact even doing simple things without enjoying can become difficult

Preparation: Have enough pencils for children and ask each child to hold a pencil in between their fingers without supporting the hand.

Presentation: Give each child a pencil and ask them to hold the pencil in between their fingers. Ask them not to support or rest the hand on a table or not to support with the other hand. At first the children will say the activity is easy but after sometime they will realize that the activity is very difficult and painful. Now connect to them and tell them even if you do simple things without enjoying it, it will become difficult and eventually it will hurt us.

Interpretation: This activity enables us to understand that when we are spontaneous, when we focus we feel the happiness otherwise simple things may become difficult to achieve if you just do it for the sake of doing it.

Extension: Give them each child two ice-cream sticks and ask them to pick up rice or noodles with the ice cream sticks.

Workshop 2-Presentation Children can have a presentation on the topic of spontaneity, awareness.

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