LESSON: 4🔗

Introduction: Ask everyone to identify the topic we are handling? Reiterate the things they learned in the previous class.

Goals: Understand clearly about pain and the different types of pain. To familiarize the different terms related to pain and to completely understand the concepts. How to perceive pain and the steps to go beyond it!

Click: Life encompasses both opposites like pain and pleasure.

About the topic: Pain is a funny thing; we invite it by labeling and conditioning ourselves and those around us, and then get upset and hurt when it comes to us. When we let go and carry on, we don't feel pain. But if we get angry, hurt and upset, the pain will continue to be repeated and will get related together. Pain is a mental reaction, and an energy that can be directed. Pain is the emergency vehicle of the body. Life offers both the opposites like pain and pleasure. Both pleasure and pain are from the mind. The mind always moves from one extreme to the other. It rarely falls into the middle part. Something may seem like a pleasure to you while the same experience may be painful to someone else. Pleasure also creates a pain body because we keep on wondering when the pleasure will end, or how long it will persist. Example-Every time the child fails parents must tell them to be in awareness. A pain whether it is physical, mental or emotional has only a negative existence like darkness. Pain exists only in the absence of awareness. We have been told from child hood, heat is dangerous it will burn our hand. Nobody told us cold is dangerous, it will burn skin. The mind only conditions us. Pain exists only in the absence of awareness. The mind has tremendous influence over the body. Even the perception of physical pain can be changed by the mind.

Assessment: Reiterate all the lessons previously. ● Who can tell me what the emergency vehicle of the body is? ● What activities have we done for pain? ● How did you feel after doing the activities? ● Which was your favorite activity? ● How has it helped in your life? ● Why we say pain has a negative existence? ● When does pain exist?

Evaluation: Ask them what they learned from this lesson?

Conclusion: We need to apply this concept of pain and focus it to our lives.

Materials needed: Paper, pencil or sketch

Procedure: Encourage children to draw the outline of specific structures and ask them to color the outline using sketch pens.

Interpretation: Pain is the outline of our mental setup. When we create a positive mental set up we will be happy and we will enjoy pain also without resisting it.

Go around and ask the children what their favorite sweet is? What do they love eating the most? Take that item and ask them all to visualize it. For example: if the item is chocolate, ask them to lie down or relax comfortable. Close their eyes and imagine a big bar of chocolate. Visualize every part of your body becoming that and go from area to area focusing and visualizing that each area is a delicious and lovely chocolate. After finishing for about 5 to 10 minutes, go on to next activity.

Children can have a quiz on pain questions.