Unclutch the Nature of the Mind

LESSON: 12

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Unclutch, work smart not hard

Introduction: Introduce the idea of working smart when we unclutch.

Goals: To make the children understand that they can work smart by unclutching.

Click: Lazy attitude

About the topic: When you unclutch you will not have a lazy or passive attitude. Mentally you will be silent, but physically you will be active and alive. When you are clutched with thoughts, physically you are very tired when we clutch we can work smarter. We will automatically start working from our innate intelligence; we don't have to be driven by fear and greed to live our day to day life. We can live purely from inspiration. But problem is, we are never given that confidence. We are never given courage that we can live simply by inspiration. 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. Understand one important thing, we have an automatic intelligence that can run our lives, that can take care of our day to day responsibilities. Not only can it run our lives, it can maintain, extend and expand our lives as well. But society conditions us from our young age that we cannot run our life without planning without fear or greed. So we try to use fear and greed as fuel to make our life run, to make our life and live. We have to be very clear that when we run our lives based on fear and greed we will carry a

© 2011 Copyright Nithya Gnanadhan Trust constant irritation. When you drop the mind, the truth that you are not the doer will simply become reality. With unclutching Every moment will be new Every moment will be ecstasy. Every moment will be joy. Every moment will be excitement. Unclutching is the source of unending exciting.

Assessment: • When we unclutch will we have a lazy feeling? • What happens mentally when we unclutch? • What happens physically when we clutch? • When can we work smarter? • In which way does the society condition us? • When can we work with inspiration? • What happens when we live our lives out of greed and fear? Are you needed to run your life?

Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions.

Conclusion: Unclutch and make every moment an unending excitement.

Art of the Day: Copy a page which is facing upside down - un clutch

Goals: To make the children aware of the fact of unclutch.

Materials needed: Paper, pencil or pen

Presentation: Give each child a paper, ask the children to copy a picture or copy sentences which are shown upside down.

Interpretation: This activity enables the children to unclutch the previous thought and be in the now.

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Activity of the Day: Observe surroundings now

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

Presentation: 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.

Have 5 minutes of complete silence. Observe the distant noises, music, cars in the distance, the soft sound of breathing, your heart beat-everything. They can have their eyes open and closed, whichever is preferred.

After the 5 minutes is up, discuss what each one heard, saw, felt or thought.

Workshop -6 Quiz Children can have quiz program on unclutch questions.

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UNCLUTCH - QUESTIONS

1) When our emotions are
negatively expressed
a) We destroy the negative energy
within us
b) We destroy the destructive
energy within us
c) We destroy the energy within us

2) Relationship between thought
and logic
a) There is always logic in the way
thoughts form
b) Our thoughts are illogical
c) There is sometimes logic in the
way thoughts form

3) In the present moment
a) You can only have
consciousness
b) You can only have thoughts
c) You can have consciousness
and thoughts

4) Unclutch means
a) Neutral space that exists
between two positive thoughts
b) Neutral space that exists
between two thoughts
c) Neutral space that exists
between two negative thoughts

5) The gap between the thoughts
will automatically
a) Decrease when we remain
unclutched
b) Be stable whe we remain
unclutched
c) Extend when we remain
unclutched

6) Every moment without you
being aware is a
a) Blessing
b) Suffering
c) Gift

7) we collect
a) Incidents related to suffering
b) Incidents related to happiness
c) Incidents related both to
suffering
and happiness

8) Which is the only relationship
between thoughts
a) They come from the same
source
b) They keep disappearing
c) They keep appearing

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There is always a) No gap between two thoughts b) A long gap between two thoughts c) A gap between two thoughts

When you unclutch you will be a) more productive and creative b) Irresponsible and dull c) You will be serious in every thing

11) Why are we harsh with others
a) We understand why the other
person is suffering
b) We do not understand why the
other person is suffering
c) We want the other person to
suffer

12) When you unclutch you are
a) Arrogant
b) Adamant
c) Compassionate

13) Our body is
a) Guided by others
b) Guided by our thoughts
c) Guided by our actions

14) Man having unconscious or

sub conscious mind is a
a) Pure myth
b) Fact
c) Pure reality

15) If you think you are the mind you
live in
a) Spiritual plane
b) Physical plane
c) Mental plane

16) If you think you are the body
you live in
a) Spiritual plane
b) Physical plane
c) Mental plane

17) In the being level
a) There is less desire and no fear
b) There will no attachment to any
desire or fear
c) There will be more desire or fear

18) Our cells constantly
a) Destroy themselves
b) Degenerate themselves
c) Rejuvenate themselves

19) We carry the same disease in our body because we strongly

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believe in
a) The same mind
b) Changing mind
c) Unstable mind

20) The thought that you are the
body is
a) Unavoidable truth
b) Illusion
c) Misconception

21) You can have
a) Multiple thoughts at a time
b) Only one thought at a time
c) Only two thoughts at a time

22) _________ means believing
that joy or ectasy happens due to
some object, person or situation
a) Arrogance
b) Innocence
c) Addiction

23) If you drop the idea, that you
have an addiction
a) It will drop
b) It will reduce
c) It will increase

24) Fear is connected to
a) Your failure
b) Fear of failture
c) Your success

25) All your allegies and your
phobias are
a) Connection of independent
thoughts
b) Connection of dependent
thoughts
c) Connection of meaningful
thoughts

26) When you unclutch
a) Guilt dissappears
b) Vengence disappears
c) Both vengence and guilt
disappear

27) What happens when you
choose bliss
a) Bliss will happen
b) Bliss will be eliminated
c) Bliss will happen quickly

28) What transforms your dreams
into reality
a) Being unclutched
b) Working on your dream
c) Not following your dream

29) The identity you project to the

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outer world is based
a) Greed
b) Fear
c) Guilt

30) The identitify you carry inside
your mind is based on
a) Fear
b) Guilt
c) Greed

31) Your life is the totality of all
the thoughts
a) You have when you are aware
and unaware
b) You have when you are only
aware
c) You have when are only
unaware

32) Even in the peak of joy you
will have some
a) Positive thought
b) Negative thought
c) Neutral thought

33) Every single happening in our
life is
a) Unconnected
b) Sometimes connected
c) Strongly connected

34) What makes our life dull and
mundane
a) Money
b) Fame
c) Mind

35) Most of our life changing
incidents happen when we are
a) Aware
b) Not aware
c) Serious

36) Pain and joy shaft
a) Is only imagination
b) Is a true reality
c) Is a solid existence

37) Society does
a) Liberate you
b) Not liberate you
c) Give lots of freedom

Once you unclutch a) You cannot be controlled and manipulated b) You can be manipulated and controlled c) You can be easily manipulated

Our body is directly guided by our a) Society b) Money c) Mind

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By clutching you stop the a) Self healing b) Depression c) Worry

With _______ you are able to transform all your thoughts into reality a) Mind b) Unclutching c) Desires

42) Tiredness, chronic fatigue are
caused due to
a) Over working
b) Not working
c) Identity shaft

43) Your ego can sacrifice
anything except your
a) Sorrow
b) Identity
c) Happiness

44) When you cannot forgive
yourself it is called
a) Guilt
b) Worry
c) Vengeance

45) By true nature we are
a) Liberated beings
b) Not liberated beings
c) Unsatisfied beings

46) Your fighting with depression
a) Is the root cause of depression
b) Is the solution for depression
c) Is the way of reducing the
depression

47) Through senses whatever we
understand in the inner world and
outer world is
a) Illusion
b) Pattern
c) Truth

48) _______ is the flowering of
deep understanding of the self
and world
a) Fear
b) Morality
c) Worry

49) The identity you project to the
outer world and the identity that
you carry in the inner world is
a) A pure truth
b) Pure illusion
c) Pattern

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When you let go every thing there will be a) Change in the brain chemicals b) No change in the brain chemicals c) No change in the physiology of brain

Seriousness is the result of a) perfection b) sincerity c) discipline

52) Seriousness
a) clears your mind
to the openness and freedom of
life
b) opens your mind to the
openness and freedom of life.
c) restricts your mind to the
openness and freedom to life.

3) ____________ is focusing on
the task with enthusiasm and
youthfulness
a) seriousness
b) perfection
c) sincerity

54) with sincerity there is always
a) Stress
b) worry
c) enthusiasm

perfection is always something from your a) society b) worry c) mind

Perfectionist are a) winners b) leaders c) egoistic

57) What is seriousness?
a) paying due
importance to something at the
cost of everything else.
b) paying undue importance to
something at the cost of
everything else
c) paying due importance to
everything.

58) Seriousness make you
a) brisk
b) lively
c) dull

59) Seriousness destroys a) spontaneity

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b) perfectionism c) guilt

60) When you are sincere
a) you will always expect results.
b) you will never expect result.
c) you will sometimes expect result.

61) Psychological planning leads to
a) success
b) failure
c) happiness

62) Is perfectionism possible
a) never possible
b) few times it is possible.
c) possible all the time

63) Who are afraid to make mistakes
a) sincere people
b) enthuastic people
c) ambitious people.

64) Perfectionism is the fulfilment of your a) ambition b) Ego c) True nature

65) people who are afraid of making small mistakes a) End up making big mistakes b) Will never make mistakes c) will never repeat mistakes

which two cannot go together a) sincerity & laughter b) seriousness & laughter c) perfectionism & laughter

When you laugh you are in a) past b) present c) future

6 8 ) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ & _ _ _ _ _ are the easiest techniques to shed your ego a) laughter & dance b) Acting & dance c) laughter & Acting

69) A person with which type of ego
will not be willing to let go of it
a) passive ego
b) active ego
c) social ego

70) Psychological planning
a) Boosts your ego
b) Dissolves your ego
c) Reduces your ego.

71) When you say yes?
a) ego feels submissive
b) ego feels authority
c) ego feels fulfilled

72) Who are afraid to make
mistakes
a) serious people
b) sincere people
c) competitive

73) Laughter is a powerful
a) Meditation technique
b) Escaping technique
c) Resisting technique

74) ____________ can never be
conditioned
a) guilt
b) laughter
c) comparison

75) the self conscious people are
a) Non - Egoistic people
b) Egoistic people
c) neutral people

76) We lose our spontaneity and
capacity to enjoy.
a) When we acquire
know all attitude
b) When we are more open
c) When we are flexible.

77)People with which type of ego
think they are not egoistic
a) All types
b) passive ego
c) Active ego

78) Self consciousness is related
to
a) Active ego
b) passive ego
c) social ego

79) When you say yes you feel
a) vulnerable
b) firm inside
c) firm outside

80) You are an extra - ordinary person

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a) When you think
you are extra ordinary
b) When you think you are
ordinary
c) When you think you are special

81) When your enemy is big you
feel
a) Big
b) Small
c) minute

The less the suffering a) The more is the ego b) The less is the ego c) Nil is the ego

The identity that you show to the inner world is always based on a) greed b) pain c) fear

84) The personality that you show
to the outer world is based on
a) superiority
b) inferiority complex
c) shyness

85) The personality that you reveal
in your inner world is based on
a) superiority
b) inferiority complex
c) shyness

86) When you have sufferings your
ego feels
a) Bad
b) Good
c) dissatisfied

87) Ego is born from
a) contentment
b) small contentment
c) discontentment

88 )The identity that you show to
the outer world will always be
based on
a) greed
b) pain
c) fear

89) The conflict between the
personality that you show to there
outer world and the personality
that you reveal in your inner world
is called
a) guilt
b) worry
c) tension

90) If you spend your whole energy
expanding the identity that you
project to the outer world your life
becomes
a) suffering
b) materialistic
c) individualistic

91) What is low self esteem
a) showing yourself
or imagining yourself to be less
than what you are.
b) showing yourself or imagining
yourself to be more than what you
are.
c) believing others are above you

92) What is high self esteem
a) Showing yourself
or imagining yourself to be less
than what you are.
b) Showing yourself or imagining
yourself to be more than what you
are.
c) believing others are below you

93) How is ego related to fear and
greed
a) I is the ego, the
root of fear mine is the root of
greed
b) I is the ego, the root of greed,
mine is the root of fear.
c) I and mine are almost the same.

94) continuously possessing
things is nothing but a feeling of
a) deep
contentment
b) deep insecurity
c) deep love

95) superiority complex is called
as
a) egoless
b) passive ego
c) social ego

which is true about life a) life is beyond logic b) we can predict life easily c) we can change our life using love

Life itself is the path & the goal a) absolutely true b) absolutely false c) partly true

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1. FOILING FOLDS

Suppose a square sheet of paper is folded and creased. then a single snip of the scissors removes a corner of the fold as shown in the last step below. if the pattern is then unfolded, which square will it now resemble?

2. MORE SPOTS

Using only six straight lines, connect all of the sixteen dots shown below

3. SECRET CODE

Tick the code find out the message

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M
○	□	♥	❄	▲	✳	✧	➔	☆	✪	⇨	♣	▼

N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z
☊	☞	✂	✈	❖	◗	■	✎	✍	✚	⍟	⍣	✿

✎ ☊ ♥ ♣ ✎ ♥ ➔

▼ ☆ ☊ ✳

■ ➔ ☞ ✎ ✧ ➔ ■ ◗

4. Can you read what slide the elephant is showing

5. TIPPING THE SCALES

What whole animal(s) must be added to balance the fourth scale?

6. HERE, ART, ART, ART

How quickly can you uncover the perfect five-pointed star hidden in the design below?

7. EXACTLY... WELL, ALMOST

Which of the designs below is unlike the other five

Six square designs containing various arrangements of filled and hollow circles.

8. COLOUR THE PICTURES

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9. CROSS WORD PUZZLE

No mind zone

Not present in the present

Ultimate key

Enter body likes

Our body is created by this

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10. MATCH THE FOLLOEING

Body | Not necessary ---|--- Phobias | Cannot for give your self Thoughts | Connection of independent thoughts Guilt | Unclutch Bliss | Exists only in the past or future Ego | Choiceless Unclutch | Pure myth Solution for aging | Not aware Unconscious mind | No mind state True past | Created by mind

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11. DE CODE AND WRITE THE WORDS

A B C D ................... 1 2 3 4

21, 14, 3, 12, 21, 20 ___________________________________________

10, 15, 25 _____________________________________________________

6, 5, 18 _______________________________________________________

13, 9, 14, 4 ___________________________________________________

16, 1, 9 _______________________________________________________

UNCLUTCH - ANSWERS

1. c) We destroy the energy within us

2. b) Our thoughts are illogical

3. a) You can only have consciousness

4. b) Neutral space that exists between two thoughts

5. c) Extend when we remain unclutched

6. b) Suffering

7. c) Incidents related both to suffering and happiness

8. a) They come from the same source

9. c) A gap between two thoughts

10. a) more productive and creative

11. b) We do
not understand why the other
person is suffering

12. c) Compassionate

13. b) Guided by our thoughts

14. a) Pure myth

15. c) Mental plane

16. b) Physical plane

17. b) There
will no attachment to any desire
or fear

18. c) Rejuvenate themselves

19. a) The same mind

20. b) Illusion

21. b) Only have when you are aware one thought at a time and unaware

22. c) 32. b) Addiction Negative thought

23. a) It will 33. a) drop Unconnected

24. b) Fear of 34. c) failure Mind

25. a) 35. b) Not
Connection of independent aware
thoughts

36. a) Is

26. c) Both only imagination vengeance and guilt disappear

37. b) Not

27. b) Bliss liberate you will be eliminated

38. a) You

28. a) Being cannot be controlled and unclutched manipulated

29. b) Fear 39. c) Mind

30. c) Greed

40. a) Self

31. a) You healing

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41. b) Unclutching

42. c) shaft

43. b) Identity

44. a) Guilt

45. a) Liberated beings

46. a) Liberated beings

47. b) Pattern

48. b) Morality

49. c) Pattern

50. a)
Change
in the brain chemicals

51 c) perfection

52 c) perfection

53 c) perfection

54. c) perfection

55. c) perfection

56. c) perfection

57. b) perfection

58. b) perfection

59. a) perfection

60. b) you will never expect result.

61. b) failure

62. c) possible all the time

63. c) ambitious people

64. c) True nature

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65. a) End up making big mistakes

66. b) seriousness & laughter

67. b) present

68. a) laughter & dance

69. b) active ego

70. a) Boosts your ego

71. a) ego feels submissive

72. 22) Who are afraid to make mistakes

73. a) Meditation technique

74. b) laughter

75. b) Egoistic people

76. a) When we acquire know all attitude

77. b) passive ego

78. c) social ego

79. a) vulnerable

80. b) When you think you are ordinary

81. a) Big

82. b)The less is the ego

83. c) fear

84. a) superiority

85. b) inferiority complex

86. b) Good

87. c) discontentment

88. a) greed

89. c) tension

90. b) materialistic

91. a) showing yourself or
imagining yourself to be less
than what you are.

92. b) Showing yourself or

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UNCLUTCH (8 -14) ANSWER KEY

1. Foiling folds Third model

2. More spots- using only six straight lines.

3. Secret code Unclutch, mind, thoughts.

4. Can you read the slide? Put your raincoat on

5. Tipping the scale Three Kangaroo

6. Here, art, art, art

7. Exactly... Well, almost
It is the mirror image of the
other repeating
(but rotating) design

9. Cross word puzzle

1. Awareness 2.Mind

Unclutch

Thoughts

10. Match the following

1. Awareness 2.Mind

Unclutch

Thoughts

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UNCLUTCH (4-7) ANSWER KEY

3. Tick the Correct Answer

Mind

Bliss

Thought

Pain

Aware

Unclutch

Emotion

Future

Identity

13. Unscramble the starting letters of the pictures below and write the key word in the box Uncluctch

16. De code and write the words

Uncluth

Fear

Mind

Pain