INTRODUCTION🔗

Thoughts are either related to
some joyful experiences that you
had in the past and want to have
in the future, or painful
experiences that you had in the
past and don’t want to have
again. Even at the time of some
serious problem, you will
suddenly have a positive thought.
Even in the peak of joy, you will
have some unconnected negative
thought. Each thought is
completely independent,
completely unconnected to the
previous thought. That is why
you are able to have a happy
thought amidst sad thoughts and
vice versa.

Understand that no two thoughts
are logically connected. No
thought is responsible for the
creation of another thought.
They all appear randomly,
independently, and illogically.
How do you 'unclutch' from this
random stream of thoughts? We
will be using the word 'unclutch'
again and again. Let's clearly
define what is meant by
'unclutch'.

When we change gears while driving a
car, whether we change from first to
second, or second to third, or any gear
for that matter, we have to pass
through neutral every time. We have
to completely de-press the clutch, or
‘unclutch’, move through neutral, and
only then we can go to the next gear,
right? In the same way, we experience
a neutral space between any two
thoughts in our mind..

Many times, even though your eyes
are open and your body is moving,
you are not aware of your existence.
An example from everyday life is like
when you get into your car and drive
for half an hour to the office. It is
only after you reach the office, park
the car, and get out, do you suddenly
realize, 'Oh, I have reached the
office!' It means that in those
moments of driving, the projector
light was off most of the time.

Any slide that is placed in
front of the projector during
moments that the projector
light, your awareness, is off
is not part of your life. You
don't remember it at all.
When the light comes on
again, when your awareness
comes back again, whatever
thought you have at that
time becomes a part of you.
Understand that this is a
very subtle truth. Your life is
the totality of all the
thoughts you have when
you are aware and unaware

Unfortunately, many times
there are thoughts, many
major decisions, and life
changing incidents that
happen when you are not
aware. These are also part of
your life, part of your
biography. Unfortunately,
you are not aware of these
scenes, decisions, or thoughts
when they come up. Without
your knowledge they have
contributed significantly to
your life.

Be very clear, every moment that
passes in your life without you
being aware of it, without your
presence, is suffering. You will
either directly or indirectly create
situations for suffering. Just like
when the turn indicator light in
your car blinks, your
consciousness blinks also. But,
because of your lack of awareness,
you do not know when it is on
and when it is off.

If you become aware
continuously, you will open up
to reality which ultimately will
lead you to experience only joy
and bliss.

MATERIALS:
Paper (1 each), Pencil (1 each)
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We are afraid of
death because
instinctively we
resist change
and death is an
abrupt change
in life.

There is a very beautiful analogy
by Ramana Maharishi, an
enlightened master from India.
A dog chews a dry bone. As it
chews, fragments of the bone
will poke into its mouth making
it bleed. The dog thinks the
blood is coming from the bone
and it enjoys the blood. It
continues to chew on the bone
for the pleasure of the blood! It
doesn't realize that the blood is
coming from its own mouth and
not at all from the bone.

If violence excites you, you wait
for that kind of incident in your
life. If pain excites you, if you
believe life is a pain shaft, you
wait for that kind of incident in
your life in order to strengthen
and reinforce your belief. That is
the general human psychology.
Although people claim they want
to break the violence shaft or
pain shaft, they secretly nurture it.

The pain that you had ten years ago,
the pain that you had nine years ago,
the pain that you experienced seven
years ago, the pain that you
experienced three years ago, and the
pain that you experienced yesterday
are all unconnected, independent,
individual incidents. But you start
connecting all of them and create a
shaft of pain. You connect all these
thought shafts and create one big shaft.

You start thinking and believing,
‘My life is pain.’ Is that true? No!
What happened to all the sweet
incidents of joy that you
experienced in between? Surely,
there must have been at least a
few moments of joy in between?
They are simply forgotten. They
are never picked to form a shaft.
So the shaft, any shaft, is never
true, because it focuses on only a
fragment of your complete
biography.

The joy that you experienced ten
years ago, the joy that you
experienced nine years ago, the joy
that you experienced three years ago,
and the joy that you experienced one
year ago are all independent,
individual,unconnected thought
shafts. At the present time, you
connect all of those thoughts and
create a big shaft of joy.

You may identify your joy
with an object, a person, or
a space like a particular
vacation resort. Now you
will try again and again to
bring that back in your life,
to bring that person, that
object, that space, or that
same incident back in your
life. Try as you might, you
will not be able experience
the same joy again. This
puts you in further pain!

The understanding that you
can neither elongate the joy
shaft nor break the pain shaft
simply because the shaft itself
does not exist.

To enable the children to be aware of
being in the now and concentrating on
one activity.

There is no linear connection
between one thought that we
have and another thought that
we have. The only relationship
between thoughts is that they
come from the same source. But
we constantly connect one
thought and the next thought in
a linear manner.

Just as bubbles in a fish tank rise
from the bottom, our thoughts
also rise in the same manner.
When one bubble comes and
reaches the surface of the water,
the next bubble starts and then
the third bubble starts. Because
the bubbles are rising at a high
speed, they look like a
continuous stream! Actually there
is always a gap between two
bubbles

Like the bubbles, we also experience a
neutral space between two thoughts.
Since the gap or the neutral space
between two thoughts is so small, we
think all thoughts are connected and
form a shaft. But there is always a gap
between two thoughts.

If you just learn this one simple
technique of unclutching, you
will be able to retain a significant
amount of energy in your system,
in your being. As a result, you
will be many times more
productive and creative. Your
relationships will be much
friendlier because you will not
clutch incidents that are not
related. You will not feel
suffocated by people or their
expectations of you.

You will have tremendous inner
space available to you to fulfill your
needs, as well as others' needs. You
will also have tremendous
compassion to know why others are
suffering. It is only when you don't
understand why the other person is
suffering that you are harsh with
them. When you unclutch, you are
able to accommodate that person in
your inner space. You are
automatically compassionate. Your
very life has adifferent quality and
you become a different person in the
world.

MATERIALS:
Bubble wrap paper,
posters,colours and plain sheet.

To make children understand how to
unclutch every thought by playing this
game.

LIFE iS
NEW
EVERY
MOMENT

Every single happening in our
lives is unconnected, even our
everyday activities like eating
and drinking. Each and every
experience is independent by its
own right. Drinking water
yesterday and drinking water
today are two completely
different incidents. The food
that you ate yesterday and the
food that you eat today are
different, even if they seem
physically the same! But your
mind creates the shaft between
these two incidents and says, 'I
eat the same food every day

You don't eat the same food
every day. You may use the same
word 'eating' for both the
experiences, but they are not the
same experience. Do not be
cheated by the words that you
use. Yesterday's eating, today's
eating, and tomorrow's eating are
separate incidents, separate
experiences. They are completely
independent and unattached.

How are you able to eat the
same food day after day?' The
master just laughed and said,
'I am not eating the same
food every day. How can I eat
the same food every day? I can
only eat this food today.
Tomorrow's food is totally
different!' Life is new every
moment. It is the mind that
makes it look repetitive, dull
and mundane.

To cause in the child an strong
inspiration to unclutch and live
in the present moment

To enable the children to be aware of
being in now and concentrating on one
activity.

The child should not drop the rice when
they eat. We can time the children
finishing their individual bowl of rice.
Add other grains and ask them to pick up
only the cooked rice and eat.

The child can analyze that when she uses
each of her senses, how does she express
it? While observing someone wearing a
beautiful dress, what are her reactions?
Does she feel happy, greedy or angry?

FEAR
BINDS
YOU

Your fear gives power to the
mind When a local gangster
steps out on the first day of his
job, he has a little fear. Once the
people start obeying him, even if
he is unsure of himself, just
seeing people obey him gives
him confidence, ‘Yes, now I am
a great guy!’ His whole body
language changes.

In the same way, when the mind
comes to attack you, initially it
will not have enough confidence.
But when it sees that you are
afraid of it, it gains confidence
and traps you! You give
confidence to the mind to attack
you. Once you show your fear,
once you show that you are very
fragile, that is enough for your
mind and you are caught.

Society cannot tolerate your freedom.
That is why it never gives you the
courage to unclutch. Because once
you unclutch, you cannot be
controlled, manipulated, or exploited
by anyone! If you are in a cage,
society can play with you and make
you follow all the rules it wants you
to. It can feed you when it wants to,
and what it wants to. You become
very useful to it. But you will be just
a utility.

The society does not really
care for you, you are only a
means to an end for them.
The moment you
understand the truth that
you are by nature a liberated
being, the moment you
relax, the inner healing or
the bliss comes out and you
feel the freedom. Once you
start feeling the freedom, it
is enough. It will give you
tremendous confidence and
courage to fly, to spread
your wings in the sky. You
will see that your being
simply becomes a
Paramahamsa in the pure
cosmic Consciousness.

UN-CLUTCH
AND RADIATE
AWARENESS,
ENERGY AND
INTELLIGENCE

When you completely unclutch,
tremendous awareness, energy
and intelligence happens in your
system. Energy can never be
produced. It is not something
you can create. It just
continuously happens in every
being. If you take the stand that
you are a body, you are on the
plane of matter on the physical
plane. You are living only in the
gross body. Your desires are very
physical, at the gross level. Your
fears are related to the physical
level fears like the basic fear of
death, etc.

Energy can never be produced. It
is not something you can create.
It just continuously happens in
every being. If you take the stand
that you are a body, you are on
the plane of matter on the
physical plane. You are living
only in the gross body. Your
desires are very physical, at the
gross level. Your fears are related
to the physical level fears like the
basic fear of death, etc.

The second important
truth is proven not only by
yoga and Ayurveda, but
also by biology and
medical science, that our
mind creates our body.
Our body is directly
guided by our mind.

There is a book called ‘The Biology
of Belief ’ written by scientist, Dr.
Bruce Lipton. After thirty years of
research in the field of biology, he
came up with some very powerful
conclusions. He clearly proves that
our positive and negative emotions
control our body in a bigger way
than even DNA or cells do. Our body
is guided by our beliefs, faith, and
our positive and negative emotions.
He says that even our body structure
can be altered by our mind. Step by
step, he proves very clearly that all
our genetic, physical and mental
problems are created by our faith
alone.

Research has also been done
with children who were
separated from their
biological parents from birth.
The children grew up
thinking that the parents
who had adopted them were
their real parents. In these
cases, the children even
expressed all the symptoms
of the hereditary diseases of
the foster parents!

Tumbler (large size) and
transparent. · Lid cover for the
tumbler · Bumble bee (any real bee)

Find a bee, keep it upright in a tumbler
with a lid or cover over the top of the
tumbler

CONCLUSION:
Just because we are breathing does not
mean we are living. Life begins when we
LIVE each moment, when we
EXPERIENCE the universe and when we
feel ONENESS with the whole world

We are constantly bringing wrong
understanding because of past
conditioning. By just writing ten
incidents we can see how our mind is
behaving, how our life is happening.
When we understand about our mind we
can unclutch and be in bliss.

UNCLUTCH
TO HEAL
YOURSELF

Our body has enough
intelligence to replace itself. You
may ask, 'If my body is again
and again replacing itself,
rejuvenating itself, then why am
I carrying the same disease? You
carry the same disease in your
body because you strongly
believe in the same mind.
Because you are carrying the
same mind, you reproduce the
same problems in the body. By
clutching, by connecting, you
stop the self-healing that could
happen in your body.

The moment you allow the inner
healing to happen, the outer
healing will simply start
happening. The moment you
understand that you are an
unclutched being, that moment
depression will disappear and I
promise that you will create a
completely new body. You will
not carry your diseases forward to
your new body. Y

Once you grow older you
won't even have to go in the
rain. All you need to do is to
watch the rainfall from a
window and you will sneeze!
But when you understand you
are unclutched you can work
on your physical aches and
pains. They will heal quickly.
Also, you will not make and
reinforce shafts that keep you
in illness and suppression.

For example, the knee pain you
had ten days ago, the knee pain
you experienced nine days ago,
the knee pain you had eight days
ago are all unconnected,
independent experiences. But
when you connect all of them
and put a label, 'I have knee
pain,' you make a shaft out of it.
If you strongly believe that you
had knee pain for ten years,
naturally you will strongly
believe you are going to have
the same knee pain for the rest
of your life.

This faith is more than enough to
reproduce and create knee pain
in the new body that you create
every morning. Because you
clutch and connect with the same
mind, you reproduce the same
disease in the new body that you
create every day.

When you stop carrying the
same mind and the same old
identity, you stop reproducing
the same diseases in the new
body. You stop reproducing
the same pain, the same
depression, the same
difficulties, and same disease
in the new body. You are
liberated.

GOALS
To enable the children to be aware of
being in now.

PREPARATION:
Ask the children to listen to the
instructions carefully and carry out the
activity very slowly.

iDENTiTY. BY YOUR VERY
NATURE YOU RENOUNCE
EVERY MOMENT

The thought that you are the body
is itself an illusion. That is the first
thought shaft that you create and
suffer with as a result. If you start
experiencing the truth that by
your very nature you are illogical,
irresponsible, independent,
unconnected and unclutched, you
will start creating a new, alive, and
fresh body. We abuse and
disrespect our bodies in order to
satisfy our ego. The moment we
start to realize that we are not the
body, we allow the body to
function naturally.

By its very nature, the body heals
itself. The body has its own
intelligence. However, you have
lost connection with that
wonderful intelligence. You
constantly abuse and torture your
body. The moment you start
thinking, ‘I am the body,’ you
start abusing the body. You do so
many things to satisfy the mind
that, by their nature, abuse the
body.

If you can relax from the idea
that you are the body, you will
start to respect the body. You
will make decisions that allow
the body intelligence to
function beautifully. You will
allow the body to live naturally.
You will be alive, bubbling and
overflowing with energy. The
moment you start
understanding that you are not
the mind, you will have sharp
intelligence and spontaneity.

The first thing to do is understand
that you are not this body and
mind. When you fully understand
that you are not this body and
mind, you will start respecting both.
You start living with and not
against your body and mind. You
no longer abuse your body or
disrespect its intelligence. You let
your body live naturally and
blissfully.

GOALS:
Children focus on being in the now by
this activity

PREPARATION:
Ask each child to tap both hands on the
thighs simultaneously in opposite
directions.

Your power to bring on a new
thought itself proves you have
the power to drop the old
thought. The problem is, instead
of just watching the new
thoughts through you, you try to
bring back old thoughts into
your system. If you nurture the
fact that any suffering can be
replaced by a stream of fresh
thoughts then that becomes
reality for you.

Then there is no suffering. If you
mother the thought that the
suffering is going to come back,
it will come back. If you mother
the thought that it is going to go
away, it will go away. When we
unclutch, the first thing that will
happens to us is an inner healing
effect, a deep silence and peace.

Second, that inner healing will
start radiating as physical well
being which is our health.
Thirdly, naturally it will start
radiating in our relationship also.
Fourth because these things are
going beautifully, we will be
creative and productive. Solution
for the stomach problems is you
have to think, I am not the body.

All the allergies and phobias are
nothing but the connection of
independent thoughts. The only
thing needed is the courage to be
unclutched. If you want to replace
aging from your mind, you have to
believe strongly that you are going to
live strong and healthy for many
more years.

The second important
truth is proven not only by
yoga and Ayurveda, but
also by biology and
medical science, that our
mind creates our body.
Our body is directly
guided by our mind.

You connect yesterday's tiredness to
the day before yesterday's tiredness
and create an identity shaft for
yourself. This identity shaft creates
fatigue. When you cannot forgive
yourself, it is called guilt. When you
cannot forgive others it is called
vengeance. When you unclutch, both
guilt and vengeance disappear. Not
only will you forgive, you will also
forget because there is no longer a
connection between your behaviour
and these thoughts. When you are
continuously clutched to the part,
only the pain, suffering and guilt
reflect in your being. A person who
understands that by their very nature
thoughts are unconnected will
naturally lead a moral life without
society's rule to tell him how to live.

To make the children understand the
concept of Unclutching® past thoughts
every moment. Preparation: Introduce
this game to the children and encourage
them to listen to the instructions and
follow it carefully.

When we unclutch we can
suddenly realize that we are
untouched by the kind of
experiences being felt. We have to
understand that we are not the
movie being played; we are just
the screen on which the movie is
projected. The screen is never
touched by the play of emotions
that appears on it. The moment
you decide this is joy and you
want this to permanently be with
you, you have created one more
shaft. Then you are in trouble,
whether it is joy or pain. The
moment you create the shaft you
are in trouble.

Understand that bliss is choiceless,
do not try to retain the feeling of
bliss that comes with
Unclutching®, you felt deep joy
because you were free from
choice, because you felt
completely disconnected, because
you realized you are unclutched.
Now don't try to clutch again.
When we remain in the
unclutched stage we will remain
in a state of joy. Choicelessness is
bliss. If you choose it, bliss will
not happen because you have
made a choice and thus
eliminated it as a possibility.

When you are choiceless, when you
are completely relaxed, bliss simply
happens in you. When you are
concerned about bliss, your very
concern ensures that you will not
experience it. With Unclutching® you
are able to transform all your thoughts

Ego is not necessary.
Just understand this one simple
truth. In order for an animal to
breathe, it does not need ego, it
does not need an identity or any
character. But as a human being,
you are afraid that if you drop
your identity you will not be able
to use your body. You fear that
something bad will happen to it.
You are afraid that if you drop
your identity, your body will not
function smoothly.

You have an idea about yourself
as 'I am somebody's father, I am
somebody's brother, I am
somebody's son.' This idea that
you have, this identity that you
carry, this ego that you carry, is
not necessary for the smooth
functioning of your body and
mind. Of course it is very difficult
to believe this. Ahankar and
mamakar - outer world identity
and inner world identity We all
have two identities, the identity
we project to the outer world,
and the identity we believe to be
us in the inner world.

The identity you carry inside
your mind is called mamakar in
Sanskrit. It will always be much
smaller than what you really are.
You carry or remember all your
failures, past mistakes and guilt
and constantly try to work on
them. This identity that you
carry in the inner world is
based on greed. You constantly
try to chisel your identity to
become better.

The identity you project to the
outer world is called ahankar.
Ahankar is your visiting card. You
print everything that you want
others to know about you on this
card. It will always be more than
what you have and what you are
because you think you have to sell
yourself. It becomes a basic need,
especially in societies where you
have to market yourself. There is a
fear compelling you to project
yourself as more than what you are.

Mamakar is based on an inferiority
complex. Ahankar is based on fear,
mamakar is based on greed. If you
spend all your energy trying to
expand the ahankar, the identity that
you project to the outer world, then
your life becomes materialistic. If you
spend your whole life chiseling and
developing mamakar, the identity
that you think is you, your whole life
becomes moralistic and suppressed.
When you project to the outer world,
you project yourself based on the
strongest link of the chain. When
you measure yourself inside your
mind, you measure yourself based
upon the weakest link of the chain.

Freedom from these two identities is
what I call liberation, enlightenment,
moksha, nirvana. Whatever words you
may use, it is nothing but liberation
from these two identities. These two
identities are bondage. When you
understand that you are something
beyond these two identities, you are a
jeevan mukta, liberated while living.

Unclutch from the identities Ahankar
and Mamakar and lead a peaceful,
enjoyable life.

To make the children understand about
Unclutching® past thoughts every
moment.

Introduce the concept of opposite
breathing. Encourage the children to do
opposite breathing.

PRESENTATION:
Ask each child to stand up and exercise
by bending and stretching. Usually we
breathe in - inhale when we expand and
exhale when we compress. But now we
are going to do opposite breathing. When
we bend, we will inhale and when we
stretch up we will exhale.

33% of the body is sattva, pure
silence. 33% of the body is rajas,
restlessness and 33% of the body is
tamas, deep sleep, laziness. Right
now the first fear that happens in
you is if you unclutch, you may
become tamasic, a lazy person

Unclutch.
That 33% of your laziness will
quickly be exhausted. It will
disappear from your system within
a few days. Then you will
automatically start working from
your innate intelligence. You don't
have to be driven by fear and greed
to live your day-to-day life.

I am not saying you should stop
thinking completely. I am only
saying, when you are unclutched,
whatever thoughts have to
happen will happen auto-
matically. Initially when you are
unclutched you will feel as if no
thoughts are happening. Later
you will understand, even after
Unclutching®, whenever
thinking is necessary, the mind is
clutched. Whenever thinking is
not necessary, the mind is
unclutched. Your mind is being
used as an instrument, not as a
master.

We can live purely from
inspiration. But the problem is,
we are never given that
confidence. We are never given
the courage that we can live
simply by inspiration. Sometimes
you can see that for no reason
you radiate excitement, for no
reason you radiate intelligence.
That is what I call inspiration. It
may last only for a few moments,
but you need to realize that those
few moments can become a way
of life for you. If we remain
unclutched, then continuous
inspiration will happen in our
lives. Unclutching® directly
kindles the energy of the being.
This energy is the energy of
inspiration, the energy of
Unclutching®.

This is a quiet and peaceful activity
that shows the importance of being in
the now and in the present

Gather the class and discuss the topic,
explain the activity and how we are
going to focus and be in the present
and realize how full and amazing each
moment is. Explain that there are so
many things to notice, but because we
are not in the now, we miss out.