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  Optimism - Optimistic Explanatory Style Video : https://youtu.be/FgDw9ogqHAE  (Links to an external site.)       Story 4– Snail and the Rose Bush - by Hans Christian Anderson Story Based Reflection : In your journal for your reflection: Reflect on a time you viewed the world like the Snail ?When was this? Which stage in your life was this? Reflect on a time you have viewed the world like a Rosebush? When was this ? Which stage in your life was this? How does their world view differ? Knowing Optimism: Optimistic Explanatory Style : Read this page : https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Motivation_and_emotion/Book/2011/Learned_optimism  (Links to an external site.)   Optimism is defined by the dictionary as hopefulness and confidence about the future or the success of something . While both Hope and Optimism are oriented to the future, Hope is a feeling and specific to an event, while Optimism is an expectation of the fut...

  Module 1 : Emotional Self Awareness : VIDEO 1 : You can also right click to watch the Video on YOU TUBE https://youtu.be/1tG62HQyoRU  (Links to an external site.)       STORY – Lions Whisker: Emotional Self Awareness ( A folktale from Ethiopia - adapted version) Story Based Reflection Task s : write in your journal for your own reflection. Draw the part of the story that stood out for you. What feelings did the story bring out in you? What did you feel drawing it out? Write about it.Listen to the story again.   Take Moments from the story and make a list of feelings that you experienced while listening to the story. What you felt when you heard the young girl had no mother, or when the young girl refused food from the new mother, or when the old woman threw the whisker into the fire. ~ Know your Emotions: Read this chapter in   https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontopsychology/chapter/10-1-the-experience-of-emoti...

This is a story written for Muktha Foundation Life Skills Programme, which talks about Food Craving and what it did to Very Hungry Crocodile! Once upon a time there was a Very Hungry Crocodile.  He lived in a river filled with all the delicious and yummy food that crocodiles like to eat - yes!  ...fishes and crabs and all that swims and is fishy.  But Very Hungry Crocodile did not like all this. He had a deep deep wish to eat Chocolates-  big big bars of chocolates and Chips - crispy crispy chips. You can ask me “How does a Crocodile know about chocolates and chips?” Let me tell you that in the river humans had thrown packets of chips and chocolates  and he had licked every one of the chocolate wrapper and the salty chips.  Now he did not want to eat anything else. He wanted to eat only Chocolate and Chips.  That night Very Hungry Crocodile prayed to the River fairy.  “Please change all the fishes to chocolate and all the crabs t...