GUILT: A MANIFESTATION OF THE EGO🔗

Art of the day: disease drawing

INTRODUCTION

Guilt is actually the shadow of the ego. When somebody says something and you become angry, it is the ego, your idea about yourself, that causes the anger. But right after, you start feeling guilty about losing your temper. Now, too, it is the same ego that causes the guilt. It gives you the feeling that you could have done differently to change the situation, but you did not do it. This is the dilemma.

The ego creates the problem and the same ego goes on harboring guilt. If you understand this game of the ego, you can simply drop the guilt. Without only awareness, you will neither get unduly angry nor will you suffer for it. Because of the awareness, you will not be blinded with anger. You will get angry only to the extent required and automatically there will not be any guilt either!

If you have made a mistake there are two ways to treat it. One is to feel guilty. If you feel guilty, you will commit the same mistake again. Guilt is the way to commit the same mistake again because you forget the mistake and start focusing on the guilt. If you focus on the mistake, you will know how and where you went wrong and so you will not repeat it. If you focus on the guilt, you will not even analyze how and where you went wrong, so you are still very much capable of making the same mistake again!

Goal :

To make them aware of how ego manifests as guilt, how being happy is itself associated with feelings of guilt.

Assessment:

• v Have you felt guilty about something?
• v How will you feel when you do something wrong and others find out?
• v How does the ego get bigger with guilt?
• v How is ego related to guilt?
• v What happens when we make a big mistake for the first time?
• v Why do we cover up our mistake?
• v Can you feel happy when you feel guilty?
• v Can you feel guilt without thinking about the past?
• v Have you ever felt guilty of being happy?

Conclude the topic by reviewing the important details. Drop ego and feel the happiness without the guilt. Conclusion:

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Paper, Pen (or) Sketch

PROCEDURE

Give each child the materials needed. Explain to the children about disease. Encourage each child to draw what they understood by disease. Each child will get a turn to explain what they have drawn about disease.

Interpretation:

Pain is caused by multiple factors.Guilt creates a dent in our inner space, Guilt makes us feel inferior. Explain to the children guilt in long run leads to diseases. Guilt affects us psychologically which leads to diseases

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