LESSON: 3🔗

Thoughts are like bubbles in a fish tank

Introduction: Teach the children that our thought patterns are similar to that of a stream of bubbles one can see in a fish tank.

Goals: To understand the nature of thoughts

Click: There is always gap between the thoughts

About the topic: There is no linear connection between one thought and the next. The only relationships between thoughts are that they come from the same source. But we constantly connect one thought with the next 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 rises and reaches the surface of the water, the next bubble starts and then the third bubble follows. As the bubbles are released at a high speed, they look like a continuous stream! Actually there is always a gap between the two bubbles. (A rotating fan can also be used as an example) Like the bubbles, we also experience a neutral space between two thoughts. Since the gap or the neutral space between two thoughts is small, we think all thoughts are connected and form a shaft. But there is always a gap between two thoughts. We constantly create illogical connections. We forget to see incidents as being independent of each other. If you 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 friendlier, you will have tremendous inner space to fulfill your needs, as well as others. You will be

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automatically compassionate. If you decide strongly you are going to un-clutch forever, this moment you will be un-clutched. In a very unexpected way mind will disappear. Committed and intense practice of un-clutching makes one firmly established in higher state of awareness. These are the five modifications of the mind: right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep, memory. Your whole life is nothing but a war between you and your mind. Allergy is nothing but an idea you carry about your body, if that samaskara is removed, that engram is removed under safe ,secure control conditions- the conditions where you feel safe and protected, in that condition, in that secure atmosphere if that engram is removed and it never works again on your system. sometime people are so protected they don't relax, they don't even allow you to remove that samaskara, they don't allow you to remove that engram. They constantly hold on how much ever you try how much ever you help they will not begin to relax then you can't help. only when you are beginning to relax and allow that samaskara to be removed. First thing you need to do see the ideas which you carry about and mind, where is it going to lead you, reasoning; where am I going to land, where am I going to end, is it going to lead me to my peak, is it going to lead me to my ultimate, reasoning; analyzing, it is a beautiful word. It means when withdrawal from mental patterns happens, when you take the responsibility for your mind remembering 'You are thinking; thinking is your action; mind is not an object or it is not a thing; it is your very action', the moment you take the responsibility, the moment you start remembering that, mind is an action, suddenly you will see you are able to stop when you don't want.

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Assessment: • What is the only relation between thoughts? • Why do we think that thoughts are connected? • What happens when you unclutch? • How do we arrive at a solution if we logically don't connect the thoughts? • What happens when you are fully focused in your creation, playing, and painting? • How is the inner space affected by thoughts? • What happens to your inner space when your teacher, mother and stranger praise you at different points in a day? • Why do you like or dislike something? How do you decide? • Can we remain with no thoughts? Do babies have thoughts? • How do you feel when you un-clutch a problem? • Evaluate how when they unclutch they are friendlier. • What happens when we decide strongly to unclutch • When can one be established in higher state of awareness? What are the five modifications of mind What is allergy

Conclusion: Conclude by telling the child how the very life gets a different quality and how you become a different person in the world when you are unclutched.

Art of the Day: - Bubble wrap printing

Materials needed: Bubble wrap paper, posters, colors and plain sheet.

Procedure: Give each child the materials needed. Explain how to dip the bubble wrap paper in the poster colors and then print the same on a plain sheet. Ask them to see the color impressions created on the paper.

Inference: Our mind makes the impression of our thoughts on our body. When we unclutch from our thoughts we can be blissful.

Activity - Simon says

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

Presentation: This activity mainly concentrates on being in the now and unclutching the previous thought. • The children are taught the game. The children have to listen to the instructions very carefully and carry out those instructions. • They have to carry out the instructions only when it has the prefix Simon says. For example Simon says jump- they have to jump. If we utter only jump they must not jump. The instructions can at first be simple and then increasingly become complicated to make the game interesting.

Interpretation: This activity relates to being in the now; unclutching pervious thoughts and focusing on the present.

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Unclutch - The Nature of the Mind

LESSON: 4

It is never the 'same'

Introduction: Introduce the understanding that every single happening, even our everyday activities are independent incidents.

Goals: To make the child realize that life is new every moment.

Click: Life is new every moment

About the topic: Every single activity in our lives is unconnected, even our everyday activities like eating and drinking. Each and every experience is independent in its own way. 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 the two incidents and says, 'I eat the same food every day'. Please be very clear, we are not eating the same food every day. You may use same word 'eating' for both the experiences, but they are not the same experience. Yesterday what we ate, today what we are eating and tomorrow what we are going to eat are different incidents and separate experiences. They are completely independent and unattached. Life is new every moment. It is the mind that makes it look repetitive, dull and mundane. An architect creates new models but an engineer creates a module for creating the same items. Each one is unique in feature, character and personality. when you don't have compassion to this moment, you always judge this moment with your past experience. Abusing the present with the past is what I call hell. Continuously we torture, we disturb the existence by killing the present

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moment. Please understand, the eternity comes in front of you, presents itself to you in the present moment. You can touch the eternity only by touching the present moment. You can see very clearly, you can't touch the future, you can touch the eternity by touching the present moment. The present moment is the only way you can connect with eternity. When you don't connect with the present moment, if you are constantly torturing it with your past you are creating misconception, wrong understanding. For example, if you are hurt in the past by somebody who is wearing a white dress, whenever you see a man with white dress you will always have that fear, that discomfort. You will always carry that. That man and this man is in no way related, they are no way connected, no way even know each other but you carry that. You pass a judgement, you carry your past, with that past you try to. constantly judge the present. With the past conditioning when you try to judge that leads to misconception If you repeat some words again and again, you will start believing it, so be aware of the words you are repeating, please understand. DEPRESSION IF LIVE ONLY THROUGH SENSES BECAUSE IT IS LIKE TV WITH 1 CHANNEL Its like you can only have one channel, you can't go to the next channel, life is like that only. If you have only one channel, means perception through the senses.

Assessment:

Art of the Day - Thread Painting

Materials needed: Threads of varying lengths, different poster colors, uncolored or plain sheets, paint pallet.

Procedure: Children can dip the thread in the paint and keep it on the art sheet and fold the art sheet firmly on the table with one hand and pull the thread out after moving the thread in various directions with the other hand.

Inference: Our negative thoughts push the mind to the extreme levels so when we learn to unclutch from the thoughts we can be without stress.

Activity – Eating with chop sticks

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

Material required: Chop sticks for child, a bowl of cooked rice.

Presentation: 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.

Interpretation: This activity focuses on being in the now and concentrating on the present activity without having any thoughts.

Unclutch - The Nature of the Mind

WORK SHOP - 2

Topic of discussion: In which 'G' level each of our senses is in.

Explanation: Explain to the children to analyze which 'G' level each of their senses is in?

For example, whether they see through unknown zone, or through the 2G of anger, or though greed, through fear, through happiness and creativity or through the purpose of life?

Inference: 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?

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