LESSON: 3🔗

Introduction: Review the previous day's topic, ask questions related to it, and introduce the various types of restlessness

Goals: Make the children aware of various kinds of restlessness and how love heals all of them, how we use our senses to experience love.

Click: Restlessness.

About the topic: Talk about the five types of restlessness.

First kind happens due to circumstances, we feel uncomfortable in some particular place or in situation... Moving into a more open area like an open beach/park/sky will make us feel comfortable. When we are in a very new place and somebody smiles at us we feel relieved of the circumstantial restlessness.

Second type of restlessness is physical due to constant work. Any tension or restlessness in the body disappears when you show causeless love for somebody or somebody shows love to us.

Third type of restlessness is mental restlessness it is due to unnecessary worry and negative thoughts of inner chatter. Our love for pets and playing with children reduces mental restlessness.

Fourth type of restlessness is emotional restlessness. This is due to the inability to handle the negative emotions which can be overcome only if we drop our ego and express our love freely; it can also heal when you experience and express love and go beyond passive or active ego.

Fifth type of restlessness is spiritual restlessness which happens when a person

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seeks the purpose of life and searches for greater fulfillment; your love for teacher or the inner space can heal spiritual restlessness. Talk about the various senses and what will be their feelings if they lose some of their senses, or how they will feel when they gain some extra senses. When in love we feel connected, it feels like we get extra senses like flying in the air. If we feel love in everything in the whole world and all the people in it, it will lead to bliss.

Assessment: ● How do you use your senses to understand love? (Only through expression or experience). ● Where do you feel love? (Inside your heart-inner space). ● How do you know you are feeling love? (Empty, light, blissful). ● Boom! (Loud noise) “What happened inside?” you feel scared in your heart, something disturbing your inner space. ● Hugs, what do you feel now? You feel loved in the inner space. ● What are the different senses we have? ● How would you feel if you lose one sense? ● How would you feel if you had no eyes to see, no ears to hear? No mouth to speak? ● Will you feel sad? Where? ● What if instead we gained an extra sense, through love and bliss? ● How would you like to have wings to fly? ● How is it if we can feel love in 2 people or even more (the whole world)? ● Why do we prefer to go to park/ beach/ temple?

Evaluation: Evaluate their knowledge of the topics discuss above by asking multiple questions.

Conclusion: Conclude by reviewing important details. Use love to heal restlessness and enjoy life.

Play dough recipe: 1 cup flour; 1 cup salt; ½ cup water

Preparation: Create play dough out of flour, salt, and water. Knead the dough, so as to be pliable enough to be formed into shapes.

Discussion: This is a simple activity which will cement the concept of having love in our inner space.

Question: Where do we experience love?

Answer: In our inner space, inside our heart. It is not available outside.

Distribute a piece of play dough to each child, add a few drops of food coloring and knead it to distribute the coloring uniformly. They can shape the dough into a heart and decorate it as they please. Else we can also have them draw and color a heart on a chart paper.

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# LOVE

Material required: Ice Cubes

Preparation: Give everyone a block of ice, and have them blow on the ice cube and say words of love to rid themselves of the ego and watch the ice melt in to pure liquid love.

Discussion: Love is being in the flow with life and everything around us, ego is like frozen ice. Talk about love, the illustration of love being like water, always moving, giving us life and health.

Ego is like hard rock. It is not able to move. It is just like a frozen block of ice, closed and cold, not able to give and receive the power of love. Ego is always holding on to 'mine', 'I' and the ice cube thinks it is so important. But if we are able to let go and become “ego-less”, we will become love instead.

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