Activity of the day - (Tug of rope – feeling the pain)
Materials:
strong smooth rope Have two children try this activity. Each takes one side of the rope and wraps it around their hands. Make a line between them and at the count of 3, they both start tugging the rope. Once either crosses the line between them their turn is over. Ask them to both focus while they are playing the activity and after. When they focus their attention, the pain disappears.
Introduction:
Ask everyone to identify the topic we are handling? Reiterate the things they learned in the previous class.
Goals:
Understand clearly about pain and the different types of pain. To familiarize the different terms related to pain and to completely understand the concepts. How to perceive pain and the steps to go beyond it !
Click:
Life encompasses both opposites like pain and pleasure.
About the topic:
Pain is a funny thing; we invite it by labeling and conditioning ourselves and those around us, and then get upset and hurt when it comes to us. When we let go and carry on, we don't feel pain. But if we get angry, hurt and upset, the pain will continue to be repeated and will get related together. Pain is a mental reaction, and an energy that can be directed. Pain is the emergency vehicle of the body. Life offers both the opposites like pain and pleasure. Both pleasure and pain are from the mind. The mind always moves from one extreme to the other. It rarely falls into the middle part. Something may seem like a pleasure to you while the same experience may be painful to someone else. Pleasure also creates a pain body because we keep on wondering when the pleasure will end, or how long it will persist. Example-Every time the child fails parents must tell them to be in awareness. A pain whether it is physical, mental or emotional has only a negative existence like darkness. Pain exists only in the absence of awareness. We have been told from child hood, heat is dangerous it will burn our hand. Nobody told us cold is dangerous, it will burn skin. The mind only conditions us. Pain exists only in the absence of awareness. The mind has tremendous influence over the body. Even the perception of physical pain can be changed by the mind.
Assessment:
Reiterate all the lessons previously.
- Who can tell me what the emergency vehicle of the body is?
- What activities have we done for pain?
- How did you feel after doing the activities?
- Which was your favorite activity?
- How has it helped in your life?
- Why we say pain has a negative existence?
- When does pain exist?
Evaluation:
Ask them what they learned from this lesson?
Conclusion:
We need to apply this concept of pain and focus it to our lives.