LESSON: 5
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Introduction: Ask everyone what the current topic is. Reiterate the things they learned in the previous class.
Goals: To make them understand the concept of pain, the different types of pain and its manifestations in our lives. How must one use pain to focus on the areas that need attention.
Click: We invite pain by the bad choices we make in life.
About the topic: We invite pain upon ourselves with our immoderate habits and stressful lifestyles and then complain when disease happens. We also invite pain by the bad choices we make in life. If we do things that are harmful, we will suffer the consequences. Rules are in place to help and guide us, if we break these rules that are there for our own good, we bring trouble unnecessarily on ourselves. As friends, we can help each other to do the right things for the good of all. Pain is due to ego. If you look deeply, every pain is because of your internal investments of your ego. Depending on where you have invested your ego, you will suffer. If you work towards dissolving those investments, you are intelligent. Working to destroy your ego is nothing but working on your pain body and expanding its boundary. Expansion means, feeling less or no pain towards the incidents that happen. We give meaning to the incidents, the happenings. Life is full of incidents -constant changing incidents. We need to adapt to these changing incidents which life presents to us without resisting it .Life is like a photo album. We have to enjoy each picture because no picture can be recreated.
[Figure: PAIN]
Assessment: • What are ways we invite pain into our lives? • What are the 3 different types of pain? (Emotional, mental, physical). • Why do we have rules? • How can we help each other to follow the rules? • When we live in an unhealthy manner, what happens? • How do we celebrate pain? • How can we rid ourselves of ego in order to live happily and without mental pain? • What are friends for?
Evaluation: Ask them questions related to their personal experiences with pain, how to overcome it etc. Ask them if someone had gotten upset with them about something and perhaps said something hurtful. If they didn't celebrate the pain and make a big deal about it and did not feel hurt, then would there be any pain?
Conclusion: We can use pain to focus on the areas of our life that is lacking and when we focus on the pain, we will improve.
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Art of the Day - Bubble wrap printing
Material needed: Paper, bubble wrap paper, poster colors
Procedure: Give each child the materials needed and explain to the children that they have to apply the poster color on the bubble wrap paper and print it on the paper.
Interpretation: Pain is the impression of our thoughts; it depicts the nature of our thoughts. When we have lots of negative thoughts we create more pain when we remain with positive thoughts we create more joy.
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PAIN
Activity of the day - Holding ice cubes in hand.
Material: Ice Cube
Preparation: Explain that each child will be given an ice cube, which they must hold for as long as they can.
Presentation: Give each child an ice cube and ask them to hold it for as long as they can.
Interpretation: If the child focuses on the pain, he can hold the ice cube for a long time.
Note: If the child is experiencing more pain or not wanting to touch the ice, they can be relieved from doing this activity.
[Figure: PAIN]
PAIN - QUESTIONS
1) Which is the most frightening things in the world a) pain b) desire c) fear of pain
2) Which manifest as pain
a) stress
b) worry
c) fear
3) Physical pain is
a) Abuse of our body
b) resistance in our body
c) Basic necessacity of the body
4) Abuse of our body eventually leads to
a) physical pain
b) emotional pain
c) psychological pain
5) Attention is
a) feeling
b) energy
c) need
6) Pain is born from ________ to the present moment a) acceptance b) resistance c) awareness
7) What are the different kinds of pain
a) Physical and physiological
b) Circumstantial & physical
c) physical and psychological
8) How is pain related to the mind a) by letter of request written by mind to the body b) by letter of request written by body to the mind c) by letter of order passed by ego to mind
9) we say time heals because
a) We were not ready to face the pain
b) We will forget everything
c) We have a short term memory
10) Dropping the past and look at everything with new perspective a) You will not have so much pain b) You will have uncertainty feelings c) You will have lots of pain
11) The root of pain and pleasure are
a) Two extremes
b) Same
c) Variable
12) Both pleasure and pain are forms of
a) Ego
b) Body
c) Mind
13) One who reacts in same way to both pleasure and pain is a) normal being b) enlightened c) magician
14) Pain and pleasure will always ________ each other a) resist b) follow c) oppose
15) ________ is your very nature
a) complaining
b) bliss
c) comparing
16) Pain ____________ when awareness falls on it a) rises b) disappears c) increases
17) Before entering into the world you are pure a) consciousness b) unconsciousness c) knowledge
18) The perception of physical pain can be changed by a) body b) mind c) ego
19) Pain in a part of body that does not exist a) Phantom pain b) Placebo pain c) Pseudo pain
20) What is a placebo effect
a) false pain
b) false pill
c) focused pain
21) Suffering is
a) inevitable
b) choice
c) unavoidable
22) With pain your usual thought patterns are a) organised b) normalised c) shattered
23) Every pain is because of your internal investments of your a) expectations b) desires c) ego
24) Pain is a
a) curse to human body
b) blessing in disguise
c) unwanted process in human life
25) You see things with the lens of
a) stress and worry
b) happiness and satisfaction
c) greed and fear
26) Pain is a great teacher of
a) tolerance
b) knowledge
c) awareness
27) ____________ is our own inner ambulance system a) awareness b) pain c) resistance
28) Pain
a) puts you in dream state
b) brings you to reality
c) brings you prepared for future
29) How is pain projected by us a) Pain is forced on us b) We invite pain upon ourselves c) There is always an external cause for pain
30) Living in the world of your desires and fears is called a a) dream state b) waking dream c) true reality
PAIN
1. Puzzle clock
1. Which when pokes causes pain
2. Cold item which causes pain
3. Which makes us feel guilt after telling that
4. Where you feel the emotional pain
5. How will you express your pain
[Figure: PAIN]
2. Circle the vowels in the following words.
1) Ego
2) Attention
3) Phantom
4) Emotion
5) Placebo
6) Emergency
7) Awareness
8) Adrenal
9) Nature
10) Pain
3. Write a short passage about the incident which made you to feel the emotional pain.
4. Find the scrambled words
1) LPCAEOB
2) TONHPAM
3) RAWSAENSE
4) TENTANIOT
5) FUERINFGS
6) RELUPEAS
7) HUTCLCNU
8) IMDN
9) REPSENT
10) FUSCO
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PAIN
5. Match the following
1) Phantom pain - a) Resistance to the present moment
2) Placebo effect - b) Choice
3) Pain - c) Focus it
4) Pain body - d) Life
5) Remove Pain - e) Imaginary pain
6) Pain in body - f) Creates a negative energy field
7) Pain appears - g) Ego is hurt
8) Pain and Pleasure - h) False tablet / Super Pills
9) Accumulated Pain - i) Emergency mechanism to bring Awareness
10) Suffering - j) Reiteration of the Pain
PAIN
1. Tick the pictures which depicts pain
PAIN
2. Puzzle clock
1. Which when pokes causes pain
2. Cold item which causes pain
3. Which makes us feel guilt after telling that
4. Where you feel the emotional pain
5. How will you express your pain
3. Colour the picture
4. Circle the vowels in the following words.
1) Ego
2) Attention
3) Phantom
4) Emotion
5) Placebo
6) Emergency
7) Awareness
8) Adrenal
9) Nature
10) Pain
5. Match the following
1) Phantom pain - a) Resistance to the present moment
2) Placebo effect - b) Choice
3) Pain - c) Focus it
4) Pain body - d) Life
5) Remove Pain - e) Imaginary pain
6) Pain in body - f) Creates a negative energy field
7) Pain appears - g) Ego is hurt
8) Pain and Pleasure - h) False tablet / Sugar Pills
9) Accumulated Pain - i) Emergency mechanism to bring Awareness
10) Suffering - j) Reiteration of the Pain
PAIN
6. Write a short passage about the incident which made you to feel the emotional pain.
[Figure: PAIN]
7. Match the following pictures to the word
[Figure: Person struggling with another]
[Figure: Blind person walking]
Guilt
Pain
[Figure: PAIN]
8. Find the scrambled words
1) LPCAEOB
2) TONHPAM
3) RAWSAENSE
4) TENTANIOT
5) FUERINFGS
6) RELUPEAS
7) HUTCLCNU
8) IMDN
9) REPSENT
10) FUSCO
PAIN
Help the hurt dog to reach the hospital
PAIN
PAIN - ANSWERS
1 c) fear of pain
2 c) fear
3 c) Basic necessacity of the body
4 a) physical pain
5 b) energy
6 b) resistance
7 c) physical and psychological
8 c) by letter of order passed by ego to mind
9 a) We were not ready to face the pain
10 a) You will not have so much pain
11 b) Same
12 a) Ego
13 b) enlightened
14 b) follow
15 b) bliss
16 b) disappears
17 a) consciousness
18 b) mind
19 a) Phantom pain
20 b) false pill
21 b) choice
22 c) shattered
23 c) ego
24 b) blessing in disguise
25 c) greed and fear
26 c) awareness
27 b) pain
28 b) brings you to reality
29 b) We invite pain upon ourselves
30 b) waking dream
PAIN (8 -14) ANSWER KEY
1. Puzzle clock needle, lie, ice, heart, cry
4. Scrambled words
5. 5. Match the following
PAIN (4 -7) ANSWER KEY
2. Puzzle clock needle, lie, ice, heart, cry
5. Match the following
1-e, 2-h, 3-g, 4-j, 5-c, 6-i, 7-a, 8-d, 9-f, 10- b
8. Scrambled words
1) Placebo,
2) Phantom,
3) Awareness,
4) Attention,
5) Suffering,
6) Pleasure,
7) Unclutch,
8) Mind,
9) Present,
10) Focus