LESSON: 3
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Introduction: Reiterate the before topic and introduce about Becoming vs Being.
Goals: To make the child understand about Becoming vs Being and the healing touch.
About the topic: When you are intense, you just are, you don't need to become, you just need to be. We know so many ways of becoming. Becoming is totally different from being. All our knowledge is all about becoming. Becoming is directly related to the mind. Being is directly related to your nature. Becoming is related to society, being is related to you. We know only how to become something. We forgot an important factor, how to be. Because our inner space has become too much corrupted with the concept of becoming, we lost touch with the idea of being. We lost touch with our very truth which is being. If you can experience your being at least for one moment, so many negative things that you accumulated when you wanted to become will be washed away. Even becoming something will be a great success if you start after experiencing being.
'Being is intensity' – being is complete, total, integrated, expressing your full energy. Your anger is hypocritical. You just choose whether to express your anger or not. Your anger is also directly related to your logic.
When your logic manages your anger, you will have new problems. First you unnecessarily show your anger when it is not necessary. Second,
even when you are not expressing, you will be suppressing. Suppressing and expressing both are not going to help. If everyone you can just be without moving your body, without co-operating with your emotion, you will be liberated from that emotion.
Assessment:
- Being and becoming are same or different?
- Which is needed being or becoming?
- All our knowledge is all about being or becoming?
- Which is related to your free nature?
- Which is related to the society?
- What happens when you experience being at least one moment?
- Why we have lost touch from the very truth? When all our stored negative things will be washed away? Your anger is directly related to what? When our logic manages our anger what will happen? Suppressing anger is good or bad? Expressing anger is good or bad?
Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions.
Conclusion: Being complex total, integrated, expressing your full energy is called being.
Art of the Day: Cutting the drawn shapes
Materials required: Safety scissors, paper with shapes drawn on it.
Explanation: Encourage each child to use the safety scissors and cut out the shapes nicely in the given paper.
Inference: Connect them to the fact intense person will always be in awareness.
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INTENSITY
Activity of the day: TRANSLATION
To make the children understand about awareness and being in now.
Preparation: Ask each child what are the languages they know clearly. Encourage the children to play the game of translation.
Presentation: Each child must say a sentence and translate the same sentence into an another familiar language. When they are doing that they have to very alert.
Inference: When they are alert only they will be able to translate each and every word correctly. So this activity enables them to be more aware.
INTENSITY
LESSON: 4
Introduction: Introduce to the children the concept of living intensely.
Goals: To make the child understand about living intensely Click of the topic:
About the topic: You cannot feel fulfilled by offering sense pleasures to the senses. Living intensely does not mean fulfilling your senses. Pairing pleasures into your senses or living as you wanted. Be intense, eat intensely. When you are eating, only eat. When you are sleeping, just sleep. When you are drinking, only drink. When you are making merry, just be merry. When you live intensely, automatically you will be liberated. If you really want to experience life, if you really want to know the ultimate mystery of existence, then the way into it is intensity. Intense in whatever you do. Let you dissolve in it. Do not be partial, be integrated in yourself. If you dance, dance so totally that you become the dance. There will be no dancer remaining then, only the dancer remains. When the ego dissolves, the false sense of identity disappears and you can see the flow of the intelligent and total energy of existence through you. We can achieve bliss when we have intensity in our action, intensity in every moment. I ntensity decides age. What matters is not the quantity of life, but the quality, the intensity of living.
Assessment: • What does living intensely means? • Living intensely does not mean what? • What happens when you live intensely? • Can we be intense in what we do? • What happens when we are partial in doing activities? • What happens when the ego dissolves? • When we achieve bliss? • Which is important in life quantity or quality?
Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions related to the topic.
Conclusion: Live intensely in the moment and taste the real life. Else you are not living.
Art of the Day: Chalk scribbling
Materials needed: Chalk piece, plain sheet
Explanation: Encourage each child to hold the chalk piece and scribble on the paper. Ask them to do the scribbling till the chalk piece is completely over.
Inference: Intensity is doing the job completely with awareness.
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Activity of the day:
Copy writing a page looking at it upside down. To make the children unclutch and be in the moment. To make them be illogical. To make them right brain oriented.
Preparation: Give each child plain sheet, pencil and a picture with few paragraphs, sentences written on it.
Presentation: Encourage each child to hold the page upside down and copy right the contents give in it by looking at it upside down.
Inference: This activity needs lots of concentration and awareness. This writing is a right brain activity.
Workshop:2 Debate
Children can a debate on the topic of Becoming versus Being
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