LESSON: 1🔗

Introduction: Introduce to the kids, the topic of pain; give them clues so that they can guess the topic by themselves.

Goals: To make them understand the meaning of pain, the various kinds of pain, need of pain, and how to overcome pain.

Click: Pain is the attention seeking activity of our body

About the topic: Pain is the attention seeking activity of our body. Physical pain is a basic necessity for the body. If we do not have pain at all then we may accidentally injure our body frequently; we will start styling our faces, hands and legs in the way we style our hair. It is the adults who teach children about pain. Children look at their parent's reaction when they fall down. When they receive signals like danger or fear from parents, the children become more vulnerable. Emotional pain or mental pain is the pain of losing, or being separated from somebody very close or being forced to do something which we dislike. The most frightening thing in the world is pain. All living beings are afraid of one thing and that is pain. Whether physical or emotional pain, an important thing you need to understand is that pain is always born from resistance to the present moment. Time heals, time is needed for healing only because you were not ready to face the pain and suffering in a conscious and aware manner at the time the incident happened.

Assessment: Ask questions regarding the general topic of pain. • Do you like to have a pain? • How will you feel when you have any pain? • What is physical pain? • What is emotional pain? • Name different kinds of emotions? • When do we experience emotional pain? • Tell us about the incidents when all of you experienced physical pain? • Tell us about the incidents when all of you experienced emotional or mental pain? • How can we control pain? • What happens if we do not feel any pain? • Is physical pain a basic necessity? • What are the consequences if we do not experience physical pain at all? • Focus on the worst emotional pains; imagine their feelings (emotional pain).

Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions like. What do you understand by emotional pain? Did you feel any pain by holding an ice cube? Why do we need physical pain?

Conclusion: Reiterate the topic of pain, the importance of pain, ways to overcome pain.

Materials: Plain sheet, sketch pen

Procedure: Give each child the required materials and encourage each child to depict an emotion depicting pain in the picture. Ask each child to explain what they have drawn.

PAIN

Material: hot water bag filled with hot water. Explain that we are going to do an experiment to focus on our pain and make it go away. Tell them we are going to touch the heat, and because of the focus on our fingers and the heat, we will see how much longer we can handle it until we feel no pain at all. Everyone puts their fingers on the hot water bottle without moving or removing their fingers. First it feels hot, but as we focus the pain goes from intense to rather enjoyable or not even noticeable.

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