LESSON: 5🔗

Your fear gives power to the mind. Society does not liberate you

Introduction: To introduce that by nature we are liberated beings

Goals: To make the child know that by nature he/she is liberated. To make the child aware that mind always convinces us that we cannot be alive without it. To let the child trust that he/she is unclutched

Click: Mind convinces us that you cannot be alive without it

About the topic: The first thing your mind does is to convince you that you cannot be alive without it. The moment it convinces you of this, nothing more needs to be done. Then you will never try to drop the mind. You give confidence to the mind to engulf you. Once you show your fear, once you show that you are very fragile, that is enough for your mind and you are caught. You can hold on to whatever you think is your identity and security – your education, your mind, your life, your toys and your relationships. Don't bother about losing your identity. Just trust yourself and let go of your identity. You will immediately be liberated. All you need to do is to trust that you are unclutched. 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 liberated soul in the pure cosmic consciousness.

© 2011 Copyright Nithya Gnanadhan Trust

Unclutch - The Nature of the Mind

INTERPRETING BASED ON PAST CONDITIONING LEADS TO MISCONCEPTION OR WRONG UNDERSTANDING Interpreting based on past conditioning leads to misconception or wrong understanding. The whole thing, whatever problem you have can be solved with his one key. Because your whole thing, whatever problem you have, everything is just because of one reason, that interpreting based on past conditioning leads to misconception or wrong understanding. Please understand, all your fear, all your greed, all the things which you think as your identity, all your worries, whatever you think as disturbance, misfortune in your life can be sorted out with this one understanding. If you look with little sympathy and compassion towards this moment, will completely open a new door. You will have a new understanding. • Assessment: • How does the mind convince you? • What happens when you give confidence to the mind? • What happens to you if you lose your identity? When do you get tremendous confidence and what happens then? What happens when we interpret based on past conditioning?

Evaluation: Evaluate how the child is able to trust themselves that they are un-clutched

Conclusion: Conclude the topic by telling the child that by nature we are liberated beings and to trust that he/she is un-clutched

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Art of the Day - Draw with non- dominant hand

Goal: Children try to unclutch their thoughts by doing this activity.

Materials: Paper (1 each), pencil (1 each).

Preparation: Have enough pencils for everyone and a paper each and ask them to draw or write in their non-dominant hand.

Presentation: Ask each child to draw a picture or write something with the non dominant hand i.e., eft handed person will write in right hand and right handed person will write in left hand. This activity enables them to use both the sides of the brain.

Interpretation: This activity focuses on being in the now and unclutching previous thoughts. As they have to write in the non-dominant hand they have to focus correctly in the present.

Conclusion: Doing things in the moment is a beautiful learning experience, when we exercise another aspect of our brain, we will learn better and experience life fuller through our right brain and in the now.

© 2011 Copyright Nithya Gnanadhan Trust

Activity - Staring at your partner

This is a simple and fun game to showcase the importance of Focusing, Alertness, Being aware, Attention, Concentration, and Enjoyment. The “Power of Now”.

Each person should find a partner to play this game with and they should sit right in front of each other and look into each other's eyes. They can smile, even laugh, although that will break their concentration.

But they should not look away or even blink!

Whoever looks away or blinks is out, and the other wins.

Try it!

Unclutch - The Nature of the Mind

Story for Unclutch Children can enact the story by playing the roles of cook and the master

This is the story of enlightened master during the last ten year of his life, the doctors asked the master to eat a particular kind of food. He was not allowed to eat anything else. He had to eat the same kind of food three times a day everyday. After two years the person who cooked for him came and complained.

Cook Master I am bored with cooking the same food? How are you able to eat the same food day after day?

Master I am not eating the same food everyday? I can only eat this food today. Tomorrow's food is totally different.

Master Life is new every moment. It is the mind that makes it look repetitive, dull and mundane.