LESSON: 2🔗

Introduction: Introduce the topic of stress, how words cause stress.

Goals: To make the kids aware of the fact that how negative thoughts and words cause stress.

Click: Ignorance means believing that floating in the past and future is relaxation and being in the present in a stressful effort.

About the topic: Ignorance means believing that floating in the past and future is relaxation and being in the present is a stressful effort.

If we stop the past being projected into the future, you will be relieved from worry. If we stop the projection of the future into past, we will be relieved from greed. The best way to come out of stress is to take the whole world and life lightly. Life is not worthy of suffering. Life is to live joy fully and lightly.

Inner space is very important for us. External things must not spoil our inner space.

Acceptance will give the clarity. When you participate in every activity, every moment – when we are in the present our thoughts per second will be at a minimum.

Connecting the unconnected – the low mood that we experienced ten years ago, the low mood that we experienced eight years ago and the low mood that we experienced yesterday are completely unconnected and independent incidents. All those happened for different purposes, different reasons, different times and situations. But we connect all those unconnected incidents and say "my life itself is a depression".

We have to understand that it is only what we believe to be our past that we will reproduce in future. So once we start believing that our past was filled with depression, we have created the unconscious faith that our future will also be depression.

We need to understand that we are a process and that by our very nature; our thoughts are unconnected independent and unclutched. If we try to connect the thoughts we get stressed.

Our words thoughts and feelings are very powerful even water responds clearly to our thoughts words and feelings. Over 70% of our body is made up of water. So imagine the power of words.

As it is your thought, so is your will, it is your will, so is your action, as is your action, so you become.

Negative thoughts and words not only affect those against whom we express them; it has an equal effect on us.

Negativity does not merely affect others, it affects us first.

Understanding and picking up new things is learning, Learning is about new topics.

Responsibly learning is spontaneous, when we are spontaneous we will be relaxed .Learning is an amazing process .Life is like a roller coaster with lots of surprises. Spontaneous is being responsible to the moment.

What we learn from life and accept, it is bliss but when we start judging and labeling, that leads to stress.

Assessment: • Whether you felt stressed out about anything yesterday? • Do words cause stress? • Have you felt positively stressed? • Can you be stressed about someone or some situation you don't know? • Does stress solve the problem? • Can you feel others stress? How? • What happens when we use negative words on others? • What happens when we connect each thought? • What happens when we unclutch thoughts? • What they understand by learning? • What they understand by spontaneous?

Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions.

Conclusion: Conclude the topic by revising the important details. If you are stressed, it is like driving a car looking only at the rear view mirror.

Material needed: Plain sheet, sketch pen

Procedure: Instruct the children to a draw a picture and include some wrong elements in the picture for example they can draw a lion face on a plant. Encourage each child to be very creative when they draw the picture

Interpretation: Stress is an unwanted element in our life so when stress is added to our life it changes our way of living into a negative mode.

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This is a simple and yet a powerful technique to clear stress.

Material required: Background music.

Presentation 1.Talk about stress, discuss what problems stress causes to our health and lives. Explain that this is for releasing and clearing built up stress.

2. Explain the following instructions (you can send them to different parts of the room so they do not feel self conscious).

“While standing, shout, scream, rave and rant in a language that you do not know. It should not make any sense.

Be aggressive in letting out all your emotions and feelings that will start pouring out of you once you start.

Cry if you so wish. Roll on the floor if your emotions drive you”.

“Then sit down and allow the energy to spread within you in silence. During this silence just be a witness to your thoughts. Do not suppress them or chase them.

3. After they have completed all the points, they can open their eyes and discuss what they felt.

Conclusion: This helps you reach the restful mind state from which you can witness events around without being adversely impacted by them.

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Presentation: One thought is just a drop, but you can see the thoughts expanding once you keep adding drops of water, that is like more and more thoughts. We create a ocean of thoughts that we are so immersed in it that we are not able to realize that there is another side to this world. The same way we can remove thoughts, one drop at a time.

Activity: use the eye dropper to add and remove drop of water signifying thoughts.

After Activity Why are we not clear? What happens when we add so many drops of water? How does the mind handle so many thoughts? When thinking of one thing can we do another with full precision? When our mind is empty how do we think? “Spontaneity”