LESSON: 4🔗

Introduction: Introduce the kids to the navel energy centre. Explain how the energy centre gets disturbed when we worry.

Goals: To make them aware of the fact, that worries lead to stomach upsets and ulcers.

Click: Worry is only an illusion

About the topic: When we drop the worry we feel the energy. We feel the inner chatter going down. Explain to the kids about the navel energy centre. When we create a worry, more thoughts appear inside us that increase the load on the navel region, it is from the head region that thoughts or worries arise. When we create more and more thoughts, we feel the heaviness in our stomach. The navel energy centre starts shrinking with the heaviness of worry. We may have observed that those who are very ambitious and who are perfectionists will end up with ulcers. Too much perfectionism leads to stomach troubles and ulcers. Ask the children to talk about anxiety. Being anxious is negative excitement. Take the things as such don't worry. Worry is only an illusion, worries are baseless. When we understand worry is an illusion, worry will not help us to solve the problem we can come out of it. Letting go is an amazing process.

Assessment: • Where is navel energy centre located? • What happens to the navel energy centre if we worry constantly? • How will we feel when we drop our worries? • What happens when we worry constantly? • What is anxiety and being anxious? • When do you feel anxious? • How will you feel when you have a party in your house? • Can we enjoy the party when we constantly worry about whether all our friends would come for the party or not? • Will worries cause diseases?

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

Conclusion: Conclude the topic by reviewing the important details. Conclude by saying worry is only an illusion, worries are baseless.

WORRY

Material needed: Paper, pencil or sketch

Procedure: Explain to the children about inner chatter. Inner chatter is the continuous flow of negative thoughts which did not allow us to be in present. Ask the children to do the pictorial representation of inner chatter.

Interpretation: Interpret to the children that worry is the inner chatter created by negative thoughts. The more the inner chatter the more we are away from the present.

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Material required: 2 magnets

Presentation: This is a simple way to show the representation of energy.

Discussion:

Talk about: What is energy?

We have discussed positive and negative emotions and we know that every second of every day we have a choice between doing something good or bad. But, if you are always thinking positive, you will automatically give off positive energy because it is coming from inside!

Show the two magnets; explain the force that draws the other magnet to it.

Question: Have you ever noticed how happy and joyful people have a lot of friends? A happy face makes people feel welcome, they want to be near you because it makes them happy, and others will be drawn to you like a magnet.

We have a magnet as well, in our inner space. When we are filled with positive energy we attract more positive things, right people and right choices.

Extension: What will happen when we have a thick plastic sheet –negative emotions - between the magnets?

What will happen when we have a conducting metal – positive emotions - between the magnets?

When we are open all the energy flows throw from one magnet to another making it beautiful and experiencing more energy. When we are closed with our emotions we close the energy layers and then we have health issues.

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WORRY

Material required: Snap toys (some toy that connects.)

Preparation: Gather the children in a circle and have the snap toys ready.

Presentation and Discussion: Worry is a funny thing, it definitely keeps us busy, but to what end? Its only mental stress and we add more and more tension to us and others. But isn't it strange that one person's worry is another person's reason for happiness? Example: One person may say, "Oh I am so worried about my pet dog as it is always causing trouble and keeping me busy." But another person may say "I wish I had a dog to have fun with and keep me busy!" We worry unnecessarily! We always think about the negative instead of the positive! And we clutch our worries together, like in a chain that pulls us down. We have 2 categories, what we feel is good, and what we feel is bad.

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But what one person thinks is bad; another considers it to be good! Like different tastes and preferences, what we consider to be correct or not. One may enjoy the taste of something, where as others think the same item to be disgusting! This is an activity to show the importance of seeing everything fresh. And being open instead of relating everything to what we think and our past conceptions. Not judging but being open. Take the snap toys, and have everyone snap their “good thoughts” together in one colour and their “bad thoughts” together on another. Discuss how different everyone is, but that if we un-clutch our worries and take each thought as they come, we can eliminate the inner chatter in our minds and instead of clutching all of our thoughts together and giving ourselves a lot of head ache, we can first un-clutch our thoughts, one at a time, and then take each thought as it comes. Live in the present!

Have each child “un- clutch their worries” one item at a time, and then strive to live in the present, taking each thought as it comes. The past is history, The future is a mystery. But today is a gift; That is why it is called “present”.