Cultivating Love through emotional transmutation

Emotion control is necessary:

What are emotions?
Ask group. Let them tell some of their emotions and write them on the board.

We have both positive and negative emotions.
Are all these emotions the same? Which one you don't like and why?
Which emotions do you like and why? Make two lists of negative and positive emotions.

What are the effects of these emotions, their impacts in your life. Let each one tell about one positive and one negative emotion and they impact their life.
Show how Yoga is classifiying emotions, higher emotions are the one generating more sublte thinking. Negative emotions engender crude thoughts, material C thoughts. Feelings and ideation always come together.The highest emotion is devotion because love for the Supreme Entity leads to identification with the Supreme Entity. Conclude with the importance of emotion control to avoid negative emotions and generate positive one.

Kiirtan is an effective way of emotion control:

It transmutes lower emotions into Love:
Kiirtan is a dance with the repetition of the mantra: Baba Nam Kevalam.
When we do kiirtan, we have to feel "I love you, Supreme Entity", "I surrender to you", even though the original emotion is negative, or different, we have to stop that feeling to adopt another higher one, that is the feeling of universal love. This is an emotional meditation, that teaches us how to channelize our emotional energy into the most potent, constructive and spiritual of emotion.
Kiirtan is different from meditation which starts with the ideation on the Supreme Entity, which will generate in time, other positive and elevetated feelings. Kiirtan works first with the feelings and ideation will follow.

It uses Lalita marmika dance to generate a stronger feeling of love.
Movements or mudras have a strong influence on the mind.
Mudra game: let them take different positions. For exemple show them the OK mudra, the thumb down, hungry, money, ready for work, I win (one arm up), kiirtan (arms up), Namaskar, Guru Puja. Each time ask for feedback. What feelings or thoughts came. Which pose do you prefer or hate, and why?
Conclude that movements influence our mind. Give other exemples:
What do you do when depressed, angry? Some people step on the ground, some other start dancing and it feels better. When we want to make peace with someone, we say something nice and shake hands. The pilot uses the OK mudra to give himself confidence fefore the race. The christians use the cross sign as a reminder of Jesus. Which movements makes you feel better? Which one make you feel worst?
Each mudra express and transmit a mental vibration. Some are negative, like the thumb down whose crude energy exite lower propensities like cruelty, etc. Some are positive, like the kiirtan mudra whose subtle energy exite higher propensities like surrender and love.
So we should avoid taking negative mudras even if they are destined to other people, because we will be affected by them. To the contrary, we have to use positive mudras as much as possible.
By testing the effects of different movements on their own minds, yogis devised some set of mudras that anyone can use for their spiritual, mental and physical developement and healing.
Lalita marmika is one of these hyper positive mudras developed by the yogis to accelerate spiritual growth by increasing the feeling of surrender and love for the Supreme.

Its mantra Baba Nam Kevalam strenghtens that love:
The singing of Baba Nam Kevalam also contributes to strenghten that devotion. "Love is all there is" is the meaning. Only the experience of the Supreme. I only want you, and you only. Are other possible ideations.
Singing the mantra with pleasing subtle melodies, will also contribute to the heart opening of the heart..
Collective dancing and singing with furthermore amplifiy the effect of kiirtan by synergy.