Why you should Live with gratitude

CONCLUSION

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Desire blocks gratitude from flowing.

ART OF THE THE DAY

ART OF THE DAY:

MAKING PLAY DOUGH SHAPES WITH EYES OPEN AND CLOSED.

MATERIALS NEEDED

Play dough

Moulds

PROCEDURE Give each child play dough and different moulds. Encourage them to make different shapes with their hands with eyes open and with their eyes closed. Ask them to express how they felt while doing the activity? Which one was easier? They can also do this activity using moulds to make different structures

INFERENCE Eyes are very useful to us. It helps us to do many activities. There are some people who are visually challenged we must have the gratitude towards our eyes.

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

ICE CUBE AND WATER

MATERIALS NEEDED
✓ Ice cubes
✓ glass of water bowl.

PRESENTATION: ❖ Discuss about ego that is represented by ice. And gratitude is represented by water. ❖ When a person has ego, it is like holding ice in our palm. After sometime our palm feels uncomfortable and it hurts But when the ego ice is added to the water of gratitude it dissolves. Gratitude overcomes ego. ❖ Ego does not enter when we are happy and overflowing with love. When we have ego, we separate ourselves from others but gratitude unites us.

CONCLUSION Ego is not worth holding on to. Gratitude overcomes ego bringing joy and happiness. Ego is not flexible; gratitude is the wonderful energy that takes care of us. The best thing to do when you have ego Let go!.

Learning contentment is a very
plain and straight forward
opening. There is no other way.
Anything else leads to more and
more complication. When you
decide to be content, the carpet
will seem good but then you will
decide to pull the carpet a bit at
the corner to make it better Don't
think there is an army of enemies
in your inner space. Your inner
space is more intelligent. It will
show only one enemy.

The moment you accept one enemy you are done. By the time you fight that enemy your great friendly mind is ready with another, by the time you fight that, your great friendly mind will make you finish all thoughts about contentment.

Decide, now you are going to practice, no question of allowing even one enemy. I am content. from now out of that content feeling I will work. Contentment is like a huge snow capped mountain, glide in it, ski in it, the moment you hit a rock go back to the space of contentment. Use your bio memory to get back to contentment.

Your bio memory is very responsible, when you withdraw from your day to day activities, the bio memory feels threatened. It will say, I can't be like this and get back to contentment. Say I am going to move my body only if I am contented, your mind will find some reason; so many people are in worse situations.

When you put your bio memory in a survival threat, it will support you. Do the self strike. Non co-operation movement with your life, let your bio memory bring you contentment, then it will become a system in you create chaos in you, that is the only way to find a solution.

GOALS

Cause contentment in the children.

Illustration of a young deity, possibly Shiva, in a meditative pose

ASSESSMENTS

What is contentment?

What happens when you pose problems?

What brings contentment for our self?

What is best way to achieve contentment?

What happens when we have contentment?

CONCLUSION

Use your bio memory, achieve contentment and be happy

ART OF

THE DAY

ART OF THE DAY:

CARBON PAPER ART MATERIALS

MATERIALS NEEDED

Carbon paper

Pencil

Plain sheet

Shapes or alphabet blocks

PROCEDURE Give each child paper and carbon sheet Guide them to place carbon sheet in right position. Place the inked side on the paper. Ask children to choose their shapes or alphabets ask them to place it on the carbon sheet and ask them to trace it. Show them the impressions created on the white sheet.

INFERENCE Carbon paper gives the impression of what we trace, when we trace beautiful structures we get beautiful designs. Our mind is like carbon paper when we have gratitude we radiate grace and courtesy.

child drawing on paper with carbon sheet

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

WALKING WITH EYES CLOSED

PROCEDURE Encourage children to walk with eyes closed on the drawn line. They must walk on the line without moving away from the path. Now ask them to walk on the line with eyes open. Ask the children which is easier? Walking with eyes closed or walking with eyes open

INFERENCE Ask them if they have ever felt the importance of eyes before doing this activity. Since we get everything easily, we take everything for granted and we miss gratitude.

WORKSHOP

OF THE DAY

WORKSHOP OF

THE DAY

TOPIC OF DISCUSSION Conduct a quiz program on gratitude questions for the children.