Hindu Spiritual Tools for Youth
July 28, 2011 • Children & Youth
The core of our study over the last week has been to find ways to incorporate Hindu spiritual tools into our daily lives to help solve the challenges that we face. We did this by having the youth share problems and then suggest solutions based on spiritual tools that they have learned. And sometimes we enacted out these problems and solutions in skits which were highly entertaining.
In this short skit, this young man teaches Dandapani how to use Hindu spiritual tools to resolve an emotional problem.
He suggests to Dandapani to write his problem down on a piece of paper and burn it in an ordinary fire. He explains that the process of writing transfers the emotion from the unresolved experience in the subconscious to the paper. The emotion is then destroyed in the fire leaving behind an experience with no emotion attached to it allowing one to look at the experience objectively and learn from it. Good advice from an 11 year old.
In today's class we learned about the conscious, subconscious and superconscious mind. We learned how to clear out unresolved emotional experiences from our subconscious which then allows intuition to flow unhindered from our superconscious to our conscious mind.
The older youth group play out a skit that incorporates Hindu values, beliefs and spiritual tools for resolving challenges.
The other youth present are highly entertained by some very creative acting.
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