Art of the Day - Chakra drawing
Materials needed: Picture of Muladhara Chakra, Paper, Pencil (or) Sketch.
Procedure:
Talk to the children about the Muladhara Chakra and show the picture of the Muladhara Chakra to the children.
Muladhara - Desire - Fantasy / Reality
Muladhara means 'the root and basis of existence'. Mula means root and adhara means basis. This chakra is locked by fantasy and imagination and it flowers when you drop your fantasies and welcome reality. Drop your imagination and start living with reality.
When this chakra is opened you become so sensitive and loving. When the energy of this chakra is transformed, it will over flow from you as love, just drop your expectations and you will find a tremendous upsurge of energy.
Encourage the children to see the picture of Muladhara Chakra and draw the chakra.
Introduction: Review yesterday's topic
Goals: To understand what are true desires - Needs.
Click: True desires carry the energy for their fulfilment
About the Topic: Things from outer world might not be the right desires to run behind. How we can recognize our innate desires?
If you understand which desire is innate and which is borrowed, happiness happens automatically. The desires that carry the energy for the fulfillment are the true desires. These desires are always selfless desires. They benefit both individual and humanity. Only such desires carry the energy of the universe for fulfillment.
When you have some desire, you immediately want to come out of it - because deep fulfillment is our very nature and desire causes imbalance in that fulfillment.
Whenever we try to recollect our memories of desires whatever is left in our memories, those desires glow like gold. These are the ones that carry the energy for their fulfillment. These desires are called true desires.
When our desires are our own true desires, when they reflect our real needs, when they express themselves in our inner energy, we don't feel any desperation about trying to achieve them. The realization comes, that as an of natural course of events, these desires will be fulfilled. We are not driven and we are not troubled. We accept that this will happen.
Assessment:
- How can we recognize our true desires?
- Do we fell like we need energy for fulfill the true desires?
- Are the true desires coming from outer world?
- What are some true desires? Give examples.
Activity of the day: Rock, Sand and Water
Art of the Day: play dough modelling of their needs and wants
Evaluation:
Question (open ended) and discussion: How we can recognize true desires? Talk about how we need and want things, but only true desires can fulfill us.
Conclusion:
Instead of chasing outer objects and things that we 'want' trying to make ourselves happy. We need to focus on the things that matter, the true desires which can fulfill us.