don't judge a book by it's cover🔗

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

See The Beauty In Everything

We usually judge people by their looks. Ask the Children how they feel when they see somebody very pretty and when they see somebody not so pretty. We must judge people only by their qualities and not their look. Eventually the kids answered that it might not be true, we can judge a person only by moving with them "not by looks". We constantly judge people and mess up. It is ok to make mistakes but we have to accept and correct it. Life is about seeing the beauty in everything.

What we see is what we want to see .We miss a lot of things because we judge things. When we go to sleep with too many worries we get disturbing bad dreams. Ask the kids to tell about whether they experienced any bad dreams. One kid shared the experience that when he was worried about the exams. He got a dream that he was writing an exam! If we keep worrying it will look big, so drop the worries, they are really small Those who are weak worry a lot.

They feel so helpless that they hold tightly on to worry as their hope, worry can never be hope. When we stop worrying we make correct decisions. Nobody can hurt you unless you give them the key to your inner space. You can simply leave it closed so that your inner space is undisturbed.

The belief system is the only negativity that exists. Negativity cannot exist without words. Inner chatter more than 70% is negative words created out of ignorance and sustained by the ego. Inner space should either be filled with compassion or be empty. We fill the inner space with inner chatter and feel we are so productive. The mind is thinking about the problem and trying to give something that does not exists in the first place.

To make them aware of the fact we mustn't judge people by their looks.

• v Did you worry about something yesterday?
• v How did you overcome it?
• v What happens when we pre judge people?
• v Is it correct to judge people by looks?
• v What happens when we judge people by looks?
• v Is our judgment about people always correct?
• v How are dreams affected by worrying?
• v What happens when we go to sleep with too many worries?

} Drop the worry to make clear and correct decisions in life. The worries can be overcome by simply putting faith into every action you do.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

• Plain sheet
• Sketch pen
• Pencil

PROCEDURE:

Encourage the children to depict the worry emotion in the pictorial form. Give each child a turn to explain what they have drawn.

INFERENCE:

Some children might draw the worry emotion in the form of a happy face as worry has no real meaning yet for them. Their worries will be very silly also because worry does not really mean to them. What they worry for will be very silly. Some children will draw worry in a very negative format.

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MATERIALS NEEDED:

• Bottle of bubble solution
• Bubble wands PREPARATION:

This is another activity to show how to approach worries. Instead of thinking so many thoughts and filling our minds and lives with worry and inner chatter, we need to pop each bubble of worry one at a time as it comes up.

Don't just keep worrying unnecessarily. When they come up like a bubble, pop it! One at a time! And you will find yourself worrying less and less if you take them as they come.

Blow a couple of bubbles and ask them to pop them one at a time. Show an illustration of a mind full of worries with tons of bubbles. Remind them to take them as they come. Then just let them jump around and enjoy popping the bubbles.

stressed people in fact do, we talk silently within. Not only is our mind not at rest, but the thoughts it generates also take shape as a monologue or dialogue within us. This inner chatter is what we call worry.

talk out loud to another person, as many

Worry is nothing but the constantly repetitive inner negative chatter. Again and again we refer to the past and project it to the future by connecting all the negative things that have happened to us in the past. We then visualize the same thing happening in the future. Left to themselves ninety percent of your worries will never materialize. I have shown this to people who have attended our courses.

Write down your worries and review them six months later. Almost all of your worries never really happened. The ten percent that did happen was good for them!

Your strong visualization actually invites these worries to become true! If a worry constantly nags you, bring in the understanding that the worry itself is a creation of your mind. The mind itself is unreal. The connection that it makes with your thoughts is unreal. Therefore, the worry is also unreal! You can replace negative words with positive words and negative thoughts with positive thoughts. It is that easy. These words have power.

We do not realize how powerful our thoughts and words are. Various experiments like those on water by the Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto, show clearly that even water responds clearly to our words, thoughts and feelings. Over seventy percent of our body is made up of water and seventy percent of planet earth is covered with water. So you can imagine the power of words!

These experiments established beyond doubt what the Eastern mystics said centuries ago: As are your thoughts, so is your will. As is your will, so is your action. As is your action, so you become. Don't think that negative thoughts and words will only affect those against whom you express them. Understand clearly that these same thoughts and words will have an equal effect on you, the person who created them. Negativity does not merely affect others, it affects you first.

To make them aware of the fact that worries lead to stomach upsets and ulcers. Take responsibility for inner chatter and dissolving it. By doing this huge amount of energy is released and made available to you for more creative use.

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

Worry is only an illusion, worries are baseless. Stop worrying start living

MATERIALS NEEDED:

• Paper
• Pencil

• Sketch

PREPARATION:

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.

PRESENTATION:

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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MATERIALS NEEDED:

2 magnets PREPARATION:

This is a simple way to show the representation of energy

PRESENTATION & 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 through 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.

MATERIALS NEEDED: Snap toys (some toy that connects.)

PRESENTATION & 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!

PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION:

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. 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.

PROCEDURE:

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 headache, 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".