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ANAHATA Chakra

AT T E N T I O N N E E D

Emotion: love

Chakra: Anahata

Location:

Heart region In Sanskrit, Anahata means 'that which cannot be created'. Pure love can never be created. It flowers on its own. This chakra is locked when you seek attention and love from others, and it flowers when you express selfless love without expecting anything in return!

Meditation Technique to be an innocent and egoless being:

Mahamantra Meditation-a Tibetan Buddhist technique

} To introduce to the children about attention need

To make them understand attention need

CLICK OF THE TOPIC:

You will not be at ease without the appreciation and endorsement of the people around you.

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Whatever we do, whatever we think, we are subconsciously seeking concurrence and approval from the people around us in some subtle way. We are very keen that we should earn a good name from everyone. We may not do this in a very obvious fashion, but if you analyze deeply, you will not be at ease without the appreciation and endorsement of the people around you. This endorsement, this approval, is what we call 'attention-need'. Our problems are due to this asking for attention or approval. You will find that all the hours, all your lifetime, you are involved in getting approval from others.

  • ¤ What do we do when we think something?
  • ¤ What do we do subconsciously?
  • ¤ What are we very keen of?
  • ¤ When we are not at ease?
  • ¤ What is attention need?
  • ¤ When we need attention?
  • ¤ Will attention need create problems?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Anahata Chakra picture and coloring items

PROCEDURE:

Encourage the children to color the Anahata chakra.

INFERENCE:

Whatever we do, whether we think it or not, we are subconsciously seeking approval from people around us in subtle ways

Write down or talk about in a day how many things you do to get good name and from whom

A GUIDE IN THE DARK Get all the players in the group to pair off two by two. One member of each team is blindfolded and spun around several times the other is given a torch. Rearrange various objects in the room like chairs and tables, turn off the lights and pick a destination for each pair, such as the piano, the computer chair, etc. The person with the flashlight has to guide their partner to that certain spot by telling the other player to go left, right, 10 steps etc. Let each team try 1 pair at a time for practice. Then each team picks a destination from slips of paper put into a hat. Now everybody goes at the same time, the first person to get their partner to the destination wins.

CONCLUSION:

Conclude the topic by reiterating the important details

Introduce to the children about attention is energy.

To make them understand attention is energy

CLICK OF THE TOPIC: We don't know anything about ourselves

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Why do we bother so much about others' opinions about us? Why can't we judge ourselves by our own strength and continue to do our work? Why are we deriving strength from others? All this is because of two things: One: we don't know anything about ourselves. We know ourselves only through others' opinions of us, only through others' certificates. Second: when others give us their approval and attention, they are actually giving us energy to move on. Attention is energy! That is why we feel so boosted when they give us attention. Attention in any form is alright for us. Don't think that only positive attention is energizing! Any form of attention is energizing

  • ¤ Why do we bother about others' opinions about us?
  • ¤ Why can't we judge ourselves by our own strength and continue to do our work?
  • ¤ Why are we deriving strength from others?
  • ¤ Do we know everything about us?
  • ¤ How do we know ourselves?
  • ¤ Which is energy?
  • ¤ Why do we feel so boosted when they give us attention?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

  • 1. Paper
  • 2. Pencil
  • 3. Eraser

PROCEDURE:

Encourage the children to draw to talk about. their strengths in a pictorial format and ask them

INFERENCE:

We are deriving strength from others because we don't know anything about ourselves

Talk about your own strengths, judge yourself.

Put a chair or a stool in the play area. Each player sits down on the chair where they are blindfolded. Then they stand up, and take 5 steps forward, turn to the right, take 5 more steps forward and turn right again, repeating the process until they are back where they started, or think they started. They then try to sit down on the chair, the player who does this is the winner.

CONCLUSION Conclude the topic by reiterating the important details

} Introduce the children about aging

To make the children understand about what happens during aging?

CLICK OF THE TOPIC: You do not need love, you are in love with yourself

What is attention? Do we need love? What happens when we grow older? When do we complain about our age? Why don't we need love? Why do we live life with reduced joy and energy?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

  • 1. Paper
  • 2. Pencil
  • 3. Eraser

PROCEDURE:

Encourage the children to draw their family in a pictorial format.

INFERENCE:

Because we don't understand first our energy source lies within us, instead of living life with more joy and energy, we live life with reduced joy and energy.

Talk about old people's attention need..