LESSON: 3🔗

Introduction: Introduce kids to the topic of thoughts per second, how it is related to stress

Goals: To make the kids aware of the concept of thoughts per second, when TPS will be high and when TPS will be low.

Click: Participate in every moment, keep your TPS very minimal and enjoy life.

About the topic: Your thoughts are always about your past or your future. You can only think about what happened in the past or what will happen in the future. Your thoughts of the past are usually regrets about what you did not do or guilt about what you did. Thoughts of the future are about what you wish to do.

Neither the past nor the future is real.

The past is gone. All we try to do is use our past to steer the future.

The future is even more unreal, it has not happened. Your have very little control over future.

Your thoughts are nothing but the movement of your mind between past and future.

If only you allowed the mind to rest or even persuaded your mind to rest, you will find that you reach a blissful state. The state is the present moment.

When thought frequency or thoughts per second or TPS comes down, we naturally rest in to the present movement.

At any given time the greater your TPS or Thoughts Per Second, the more far flung you are from consciousness of the present moment.

The point where the future meets the past is the present. This is where your thought frequency is zero and you are in a no mind state.

Space changes the whole context, for example when somebody shouts at us from far away

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we will not have the same impact as somebody shouting at us from very near -face to face. Similarly time also changes the context, we will not be stressed about somebody who shouted at us five days ago. But when somebody shouts at us today we will be stressed .Time and space heals.

Meditation brings the mind to rest. Meditation disengages the mind so that the mind cannot play games.

Not even living in the present, deciding to live in the present, that is where the problem is, we are not even deciding.

Awareness, trying to live in the present work likes a load on us, even though we know the benefits of being alive and joyful. But you still decide not to live in the present; because we have a deep strong belief that the present means stress. We have to remind our bio memory to understand that awareness means restfulness and being in the present means utter relaxation.

Assessment:

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

Conclusion: Conclude the topic by asking the kids not to carry on the past to the future but to live in the present and make present a present (gift)

Material needed: Buds, Poster color, coloring sheet

Procedure: Encourage the children to do bud painting on the given picture. When they do this art they have to imagine themselves in a very stressful moment.

Interpretation: Explain to them how individual dots when multiplied many times becomes more and uncountable. Each dot represents a negative thought. Each negative thought then keeps on adding leading to unbearable stress.

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This is an illustration of a mind filled with thoughts and hence weighed down.

Activity: Filling and emptying water packets with water and tub. Materials: Water packets (empty and clean), Water, Tub.

Presentation: Get the class together and explain the activity. Show them that the Water packets. Ask them to hold them and feel the weight. Next ask them to submerge the water packets in a tub of water. Now ask them to feel the weight of the packets. It will be more. The empty packets are our mind. The water that gets filled up is the worry, negative thoughts and emotions.

Now ask them to squeeze out the water and empty the packets. Now the mind becomes light again if we let go of all negative emotions.

Have them all take turns filling and squeezing the packets and to use this in their own lives by emptying the mind.

Conclusion: We are easily able to fill up our minds with so many unnecessary/negative thoughts and worries. If we can let go of our worries, we can be light, free and able to go on to do great things in our lives. In the present moment, everything gets dissolved.

1)The confusion between our nature & what we pretend is called a) desire b)stress c)capacility

3)We are merely a bio - machine as long as we think. a)We are not the mind & the body. b)We are not the ego & the mind. c)We are the mind & the body.

5)Which is one of the biggest destoryer of health in todays world. a) Stress b)Pollution. c)Calamity

7)The moment you start believing that your life is depressed. a) You can be releived of depression b)Your life becomes depression c)Your life becomes enjoyable.

9)The moment we start believing that mind is a machine a) We become responsible b)We become helpless c)We become irresponsible.

10)The identity that your project to the outer world is called a) Active ego b)passive ego c)Engraved pattern

11)The identity that you believe as you internally is called a) Active ego b)Passive ego c)Engraved pattern

13)____________ is the food on which the mind thrives on a) love b)Sensory inputs c)gratitude

16)Which affects the way in which we perceive a) Routine b)Conditioning c)situations

18)Your thought are nothing but the movement of your mind between a) Future & present b)Past & the present c)Past & the future

19)If you live in the present moment consciously a) You will not regret your past b)You will regret your past c)You will regret about future.

22)When your Tps is zero we can a) See the entire past & future in present b)See the entire future & present c)See the entire past & present.

26)As long as people are driven by fear & greed a) they cannot be suffering b)they cannot be inspired c)they cannot be displined

27)Choose the correct statement a) Stress in an inevitable part of life. b)have a right understanding not to be get stressed. c)we cannot make ourself stress - proof.

28)When you are in the intuitive state you are in the a) future b)present c)past

29)The gap between our thought will automatically __________ when we are in present a) Reduce b)Extend c)Speed up.

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1. b) stress

2. a) no purpose

3. c)We are the mind & the body.

4. b)Process.

5. a) Stress

6. a) Big picture of worry.

7. b)Your life becomes depression

8. a) Verb.

9. c)We become irresponsible.

10. c)Engraved pattern

11. c)Engraved pattern

12. Biomemory

13. b)Sensory inputs

14. sensory organs

15. a) stress

16. b) Conditioning

17. a) everything that we know is not real

18. c) Past & the future

19. a) You will not regret your past

20. c) Thoughts per second

21. c) we are away from the present moment.

22. a) See the entire past & future in present

23. a) Clarity

24. a) Outer world follows the inner world

25. b)will be stressed

26. b)they cannot be inspired

27. b)have a right understanding not to be get stressed.

28. b)present

29. b)Extend

30. a) There is a gap between two thoughts.

1) Goals always create worry in us.

2) Most of the worries are baseless.

3) Planning causes worry.

4) Worries vary from person to person.

5) We have to judge people by their looks.

6) Stress occurs when you process too many things in mind.

7) Worry and stress are not interrelated.

8) Stress is one of biggest destroyer of health in today's world.

9) The point where the future meets the past is the present.

10) When we start thinking negatively our worries will come down.

WORRY ? work sheets

2. ARMY ANTS Two small armies of ants meet head-on along a jungle path. Both armies would prefer to pass each other rather than fight. There is a small space along the side of the path. It is only large enough to hold one ant at a time. Is it possible for the armies to pass each other? If so, how

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work sheets

3. Write the missing letters

W _ _ _ _ y

T _ _ _ _ g _ t

Ch _ _ _ te _ _ _ _

T _ _ _ s _ _ _ _

I _ _ _ _ s _ _ n

S t _ _ e s _ _

A _ _ _ _ p t

P l a _ _ n _ n _

C a _ _ e

4. Find the jumble word

ressts

pecexiatont

nispraoniti

gtnaevie

neiostn

petners

ndim

erutuf

uothgts

oispveit

1. Don't Worry - Be happy

2. Worry - Too much worrying

3. Constant worrying - Adding more worries

4. Anxiety/ Anxious - Excited in negative way

5. Judge people/situation - Resisting people/situation

6. Knots - Negative thoughts, high inner chatter

7. Attracting Magnet - Worries are small

8. Planning - Be Life

9. White board and black dot - Worries are small

10. Bad dream - Stomach upset/ Disease

11. Removing Ego in Belief - Being Spontaneous

12. Stress - Inner chatter

13. Interconnected Thoughts - Exist in every cell of the body

14. Ego - projected self

15. Bliss - Always blissful

16. TPS - Thoughts Per Second

17. Bad Dream - Negative thoughts

18. Eternal Bliss - Inner energy

19. Mind exist - TPS Zero

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WORRY AND STRESS (8-14) ANSWER KEY.

1. Say yes or no:

1) Yes 2) Yes 3) No 4) Yes 5) No

6) Yes 7) No 8) Yes 9) Yes 10) No

2. Army Ants

3. Missing letters: Worry, thought, chattering, tension, illusion, stress, accept, planning, care.

4. Jumbled word: Stress, expectation, inspiration, negative, tension, present, mind, future, thoughts, positive.

5. Match the following: 1-C, 2-G, 3-A, 4-I, 5-K, 6-J, 7-B, 8-D, 9-F, 10-E, 11-H, 12-O 13-P, 14-Q, 15-R, 16-L, 17-S, 18-M, 19-N

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1. Arrange the pictures in correct sequence

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1) ________________ is the discrepancy between our expectation and reality.

2) ________________ causes worry.

3) ________________ and ________________ are the building blocks of worry.

4) Worry is only an ________________

5) The confusion between our true nature and what we pretend is ________________

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1) Goals always create worry in us.

2) Most of the worries are baseless.

3) Planning causes worry.

4) Worries vary from person to person.

5) We have to judge people by their looks.

6) Stress occurs when you process too many things in mind.

7) Worry and stress are not interrelated.

8) Stress is one of the biggest destroyer of health in today's world.

9) The point where the future meets the past is the present.

10) When we start thinking negatively our worries will come down.

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4. See the pictures and tell the story of grasshopper and ant

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5. Cut and paste happy face and upset face

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6. Trace the following words and color the things which cause worries with brown and which makes happy with pink color.

Ego

Thoughts

Awareness

Meditation

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7. Draw ? next to the pictures that show worry

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8. Write the missing letters

W _ _ _ _ y

T _ _ _ g _ t

Ch _ _ _ te _ _ _ _ _ _

T _ _ _ s _ _ _ _

I _ _ _ _ s _ _ n

S t _ _ e s _ _

A _ _ _ _ p t

P l a _ _ n _ n _ _

C a _ _ e

9. Find the jumble word

ressts

pecexiatont

nispraoniti

gtnaevie

neiostn

petners

ndim

erutuf

uothgts

oispveit

WORRY work sheets

10.what comes next

WORRY AND STRESS (4-7) ANSWER KEY.

2. Fill in the blanks:

3. Say yes or no:

8. Missing letters: Worry, thought, chattering, tension, illusion, stress, accept, planning, care.

9. Jumbled word: Stress, expectation, inspiration, negative, tension, present, mind, future, thoughts, positive.