Part 2: eN Vidyalaya
Our words thoughts and feelings are very powerful even water responds clearly to our thoughts words and feelings. Over 70% of our body is made up of water. So imagine the power of words.
As it is your thought, so is your will, it is your will, so is your action, as is your action, so you become.
Negative thoughts and words not only affect those against whom we express them; it has an equal effect on us.
Negativity does not merely affect others, it affects us first.
Understanding and picking up new things is learning is about new topics.
Responsibly learning is spontaneous, when we are spontaneous we will be relaxed .Learning is an amazing process .Life is like a roller coaster with lots of surprises. Spontaneous is being responsible to the moment.
What we learn from life and accept, it is bliss but when we start judging and labeling, that leads to stress.
Activity: Water Packets
This is a simple and yet a powerful technique to clear stress.
Activity -1- Shouting Gibberish with music
Assessment:
- Whether you felt stressed out about anything yesterday?
- Do words cause stress?
- Have you felt positively stressed?
- Can you be stressed about someone or some situation you don't know?
- Does stress solve the problem?
- Can you feel others stress? How?
- What happens when we use negative words on others?
- What happens when we connect each thought ?
- What happens when we unclutch thoughts?
- What they understand by learning?
- What they understand by spontaneous?
Evaluation:
Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions.
Conclusion:
Conclude the topic by revising the important details. If you are stressed, it is like driving a car looking only at the rear view mirror.
Art of the day: Add some wrong element in the pictures
Material needed:
Plain sheet, sketch pen
Procedure:
Instruct the children to a draw a picture and include some wrong elements in the picture for example they can draw a lion face on a plant. Encourage each child to be very creative when they draw the picture
Interpretation:
Stress is an unwanted element in our life so when stress is added to our life it changes our way of living into a negative mode.
Material required:
Background music.
Presentation
- Talk about stress, discuss what problems stress causes to our health and lives. Explain that this is for releasing and clearing built up stress.
- Explain the following instructions (you can send them to different parts of the room so they do not feel self conscious).
"While standing, shout, scream, rave and rant in a language that you do not know. It should not make any sense.
Be aggressive in letting out all your emotions and feelings that will start pouring out of you once you start.
Cry if you so wish. Roll on the floor if your emotions drive you".
"Then sit down and allow the energy to spread within you in silence. During this silence just be a witness to your thoughts. Do not suppress them or chase them.
- After they have completed all the points, they can open their eyes and discuss what they felt.
Conclusion:
This helps you reach the restful mind state from which you can witness events around without being adversely impacted by them.
Activity -2 -Water drops
Material required:
- Eye dropper
- Water
Presentation:
One thought is just a drop, but you can see the thoughts expanding once you keep adding drops of water, that is like more and more thoughts. We create a ocean of thoughts that we are so immersed in it that we are not able to realize that there is another side to this world. The same way we can remove thoughts, one drop at a time.
Activity:
use the eye dropper to add and remove drop of water signifying thoughts.
After Activity
Why are we not clear? What happens when we add so many drops of water? How does the mind handle so many thoughts? When thinking of one thing can we do another with full precision? When our mind is empty how do we think? "Spontaneity"
Introduction:
Introduce kids to the topic of thoughts per second, how it is related to stress
Goals:
To make the kids aware of the concept of thoughts per second, when TPS will be high and when TPS will be low.
Click:
Participate in every moment, keep your TPS very minimal and enjoy life.
About the topic:
Your thoughts are always about your past or your future. You can only think about what happened in the past or what will happen in the future. Your thoughts of the past are usually regrets about what you did not do or guilt about what you did. Thoughts of the future are about what you wish to do.
Neither the past nor the future is real.
The past is gone. All we try to do is use our past to steer the future.
The future is even more unreal, it has not happened. Your have very little control over future.
Your thoughts are nothing but the movement of your mind between past and future.
If only you allowed the mind to rest or even persuaded your mind to rest, you will find that you reach a blissful state. The state is the present moment.
When thought frequency or thoughts per second or TPS comes down, we naturally rest in to the present movement.
At any given time the greater your TPS or Thoughts Per Second, the more far flung you are from consciousness of the present moment.
The point where the future meets the past is the present. This is where your thought frequency is zero and you are in a no mind state.
Space changes the whole context, for example when somebody shouts at us from far away we will not have the same impact as somebody shouting at us from very near -face to face. Similarly time also changes the context, we will not be stressed about somebody who shouted at us five days ago. But when somebody shouts at us today we will be stressed .Time and space heals.
Meditation brings the mind to rest. Meditation disengages the mind so that the mind cannot play games.
Not even living in the present, deciding to live in the present, that is where the problem is, we are not even deciding.
Awareness, trying to live in the present work likes a load on us, even though we know the benefits of being alive and joyful. But you still decide not to live in the present; because we have a deep strong belief that the present means stress. We have to remind our bio memory to understand that awareness means restfulness and being in the present means utter relaxation.
Assessment:
- What is a thought per second?
- What is TPS?
- What is TPS zero?
- When do we feel stress?
- When will we have low thought per second ?
- Why do we call present as present?
- Do babies have thoughts per second?
- What happens to thoughts per second when you sleep?
- What happens to thoughts per second during meditation?
Evaluations:
Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions.
Conclusion:
Conclude the topic by asking the kids not to carry on the past to the future but to live in the present and make present a present (gift)
Art of the day: Bud painting
Material needed:
Buds, Poster color, coloring sheet
Procedure:
Encourage the children to do bud painting on the given picture. When they do this art they have to imagine themselves in a very stressful moment.
Interpretation:
Explain to them how individual dots when multiplied many times becomes more and uncountable. Each dot represents a negative thought. Each negative thought then keeps on adding leading to unbearable stress.
This is an illustration of a mind filled with thoughts and hence weighed down.
Activity:
Filling and emptying water packets with water and tub. Materials: Water packets (empty and clean), Water, Tub.
Presentation:
Get the class together and explain the activity. Show them that the Water packets. Ask them to hold them and feel the weight. Next ask them to submerge the water packets in a tub of water. Now ask them to feel the weight of the packets. It will be more. The empty packets are our mind. The water that gets filled up is the worry, negative thoughts and emotions.
Now ask them to squeeze out the water and empty the packets. Now the mind becomes light again if we let go of all negative emotions.
Have them all take turns filling and squeezing the packets and to use this in their own lives by emptying the mind.
Conclusion:
We are easily able to fill up our minds with so many unnecessary/negative thoughts and worries. If we can let go of our worries, we can be light, free and able to go on to do great things in our lives. In the present moment, everything gets dissolved.
1)The confusion between our nature & what we pretend is called a) desire
- b)stress
- c)capacility
2)What is the purpose of human life
- a) no purpose b)higher goals
- c) Achieve perfection
15) Mind gets completely shut down under a) stress b)worry c)greed
14)The door of entry to our mind are our a) sensory organs b)emotions c)heart
10)The identity that your project to the outer world is called a) Active ego b)passive ego c)Engraved pattern
3)We are merely a bio - machine as long as we think.
a)We are not the mind & the body. b)We are not the ego & the mind. c)We are the mind & the body.
- 4)Mind is a a) Automatic machine. b)Process. c)Renewable machine.
5)Which is one of the biggest destoryer of health in todays world.
a) Stress b)Pollution. c)Calamity
6)What is stress
a) Big picture of worry. b)By product of work c)By product of positive thoughts.
7)The moment you start believing that your life is depressed.
a) You can be releived of depression b) Your life becomes depression c) Your life becomes enjoyable.
8)Mind is a
- a) Verb. b)Noun. c)Adjective
9)The moment we start believing that mind is a machine a) We become responsible
b)We become helpless c)We become irresponsible.
11)The identity that you believe as you internally is called a) Active ego
b)Passive ego c)Engraved pattern
12)What is prarabdha
a) Desire b)Guilt c)Biomemory
13) is the food on which the mind
thrives on a) love b)Sensory inputs c)gratitude
16)Which affects the way in which we perceive a) Routine
b)Conditioning c)situations
17) Which is real
a) everything that we know is not real b)everything that we know is real c)everything unknown is real
18)Your thought are nothing but the movement of your mind between
a) Future & present b)Past & the present c)Past & the future
19)If you live in the present moment consciously
a) You will not regret your past b)You will regret your past c)You will regret about future.
20)Abbrevation of Tps
a) Tension per second b)Trouble per second c)Thoughts per second
21)If the Tps is greater we are
a) in the present moment b)we are close to the present moment c)we are away from the present moment.
22)When your Tps is zero we can
a) See the entire past & future in present b)See the entire future & present c)See the entire past & present.
23)Acceptance will give a)Clarity
- b)Familarity c)Depression
24)Outer world verses inner world
a) Outer world follows the inner world b)Inner world follows the outer world c)Both are independent of each other.
25)People who wish to control life.
a) will be stress free. b)will be stressed c)will be at bliss
26)As long as people are driven by fear & greed
a) they cannot be suffering b)they cannot be inspired c)they cannot be displined
TRESS - ANSWER
27)Choose the correct statement
a) Stress in an inevitable part of life. b)have a right understanding not to be get stressed. c)we cannot make ourself stress - proof.
28)When you are in the intuitive state you are in the
a) future b)present c)past
29)The gap between our thought will automatically
when we are in present a) Reduce b)Extend c)Speed up.
30)How does thought work
a) There is a gap between two thoughts. b)There is no thought between the gap. c)There is no gap between two thoughts.
1. b) stress
- 2. a) no purpose
- 3. c)We are the mind & the body.
- b)Process.
- 5. a) Stress
- 6. a) Big picture of worry.
- 7. b) Your life becomes depression
- a) Verb.
- 9. c)We become irresponsible.
- 10. c)Engraved pattern
- 11. c)Engraved pattern
- 12. Biomemory
- 13. b)Sensory inputs
- sensory organs
- 15. a) stress
- 16. b) Conditioning
- 17. a) everything that we know is not real
- 18. c) Past & the future
- 19. a) You will not regret your past
- 20. c) Thoughts per second
- c) we are away from the present moment.
- a) See the entire past & future in present
- 23. a) Clarity
- 24. a) Outer world follows the inner world
- 25. b)will be stressed
- 26. b)they cannot be inspired
- b)have a right understanding not to be get stressed.
- b)present
- b)Extend
- a) There is a gap between two thoughts.