Lesson – 8 POSITIVE THINKONG &RATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

Objectives 1. To promote happiness in the minds of students.

2. To enable students to adopt logical/positive attitude.

3. To develop rational and scientific approach in students.

If our life is bed of roses, the roses should emanate from positive thinking and rational behaviour. The key to success is to do the most difficult work with positive approach. To shun negativity and to adopt positivity is the way to happy living.

Activity-1

How will you react, when you are in the following different situations?

S. No.	Situation	Reaction-1	Reaction-2	Reaction-3
1.	You see an accident on the road.	You will get confused.	You will help.	Call someone to help.
2.	Someone tries to allure you through superstitious tales.	You will trust him at once.	Think logically.	You will avoid the situation.
3.	You fall ill before the exam.	You will avoid the exam.	You will take the exam with full determination.	You will indulge yourself in copying/ cheating.
4.	You have missed the envisaged goal.	You will lose heart.	You will work hard to achieve the goal.	Adopt unfair means.
5.	Your friend is in trouble.	You will ignore him.	Help him readily.	Make flimsy excuses.
6.	Your classmate is weak in a subject.	You will ignore him.	You will help him to improve.	Make a fool of him.
7.	Your class-fellow excels you.	You will feel jealous of him.	You will try to excel like him.	You will not react at all.

 

Amid the above situations, students with Reaction-2 pertain to positive thinking and those with Reaction-1 are eclipsed with negativity.

Activity-2

A student has much interest in studies. He has no money or other source of income to pursue his study. He finds that all the kids in his surroundings are engaged in studies and this motivates him. He gathers courage and determination to go ahead with his studies like others. He is hard working and honest. How will you help him in the given situation?

1. Seek help/co-operation from the teacher.

2. Help him yourself.

3. Seek funds from classmates for his fees.

4. You will encourage him to raise funds by doing some labour himself.

Which of the above-mentioned options will you adopt and why?

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The teacher will ask all the students to choose one of the above actions and discuss it with the fellow students and get their help to improve/finalise their choice/option.

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Activity-3

Just imagine that your friend is watching T.V. at his home and gets upset with the news coming from different channels. You try to bring him to the point that news is sometimes misleading or exaggerated and that he should drive away all the negative thoughts from his mind but all in vain. What will you do vis-a-vis the current situation?

 

Put a tick (√) or cross (X) against the statement that suggest what you will do.

1. You will console him.

2. Suggest positive thinking.

3. Suggest distancing from social media.

4. You will inculcate positive thoughts in him.

5. You will abandon him in his gloomy state.

 

Regarding the subject, the teacher will divide the students into four groups to assess their level of positive thinking and rational attitude by allowing them 10 minutes to interact and exchange views. Then the teacher will select two students from each group and ask them to put forth their view points. During this session, the teacher will put forth his/her own views or logics if needed. The objective of the whole activity is to enable the students to control their inner mind and adopt positive attitude based on logic.

All the students will give their views with logic about importance of positive thinking in their life.

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