LESSON: 3
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Introduction: Ask everyone what topic we are in. Reiterate the things they learned in the previous class.
Goals: Completely understand pain, how to focus on it and go beyond. To understand that ego is behind pain.
Click: Pain is actually the absence of attention.
About the topic: When someone says something hurtful to us, our ego gets bruised. When we get corrected for something and we feel guilty- we feel hurt and offended, or sad when we are told something we don't like and don't understand why we get angry. If we are able to drop our ego and go beyond, nothing will be able to hurt us. In fact, if someone points something out to us, it gives us awareness and we should thank them for bringing it to our attention. When we feel pain in our body, it's like that part is asking for attention as well. It wants to be healed and needs more focus and energy. When we lack attention, then pain happens. The term 'bruised ego' comes from the feeling of being hurt and our self esteem goes down when told that we lack in some area. When we focus on pain it disappears. Also when our space is expanded, we feel expanded and less in pain such as looking at the sky. The residual accumulated pain creates a negative energy field around you, which we call the 'pain body'. The pain body constantly attracts the same kind of people and situations that make you feel hurt. By the very law of nature, you attract similar situations in your life. What you think, you create in your life as reality. So the more pain you harbor, the more pain you attract. Suffering is not a state of life. It is a state of mind. It is not an event in your life. It is your response to an event. In a particular situation, whether you suffer or not depend entirely on your reaction to the situation. Pain is actually the absence of attention. So the solution is giving your presence. The more you want to feel pain; the body will create everything necessary to feel it. What you create around you is actually what you want to create. We have to create love body not pain body. When somebody shouts at you think about the moments where they have been nice to you. This very thought changes your response to your moment.
PAIN
Assessment:
- Ask questions related to the topic and questions about previous classes.
- Who can tell me what the emergency call of the body is?
- What is phantom pain?
- How do we invite pain to our bodies?
- What does 'bruised ego' mean?
- Does our inner space feel pain?
- What can we do when we feel pain?
Evaluation:
- Check how well they understood the lesson and activity by asking questions.
- What is a bruised ego?
- Have you seen how pain disappeared when we focused?
- What did you feel when you were tugging the rope?
- Did it help you to tug longer when you focused on the pain in your hands?
Conclusion: When we drop our ego and go beyond pain, we won't get 'hurt', we will only learn and grow.
Art of the day - Designs or pattern
Materials needed: Paper, pencil, paint
Procedure: Instruct the children to draw any design or pattern that crosses their mind. Encourage them to color the designs or patterns with nice poster colors.
Interpretation: Pain follows a particular pattern, negative thoughts creates pain Their inner space can be expressed and revealed through the art that they create. Their inner thought flow really creates the patterns and designs that they exhibit.
PAIN
Activity of the day - (Tug of rope – feeling the pain)
Materials: strong smooth rope Have two children try this activity. Each takes one side of the rope and wraps it around their hands. Make a line between them and at the count of 3, they both start tugging the rope. Once either crosses the line between them their turn is over. Ask them to both focus while they are playing the activity and after. When they focus their attention, the pain disappears.
