Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

I get confused around the notion of "privilege" that's more and more common these days. How do racism, sexism, classism, etc. all fit into our understanding? As a valid, white, heterosexual cis-woman I sometimes feel the social pressure to acknowledge my "privilege" or witness people confessing theirs, but it doesn't quite make sense on a deeper level.  How can I be r...

Do things need to become conscious to change? What is the value of an experience being had at a conscious level 

I've often heard you talk about the love that we find when all our believed thoughts and illusions are finally dropped.  Obviously, I've never gotten anywhere near a million miles away from even first base in this respect, but I'm feeling a tad anxious and lacking that even in my most "oh, I think I just had a bit of a glimpse of what everyone's pointing at" moments,...

I am doing the Be the Change course. I understand the message that change happens from within us . but there are still terrible acts out there. People’s behaviour can be violent and dangerous. is there not a risk that we will let this go untacked while we are working on ourselves? 

Since starting to learn about non duality and having some big shifts in realisation I am finding myself getting frustrated with my friends and the inconsequential things they discuss. I feel like saying to them that none of these things are real anyway but of course I don’t but I do end up withdrawing from the conversation and getting quieter. What should I do about this. Is it only possible now t...

The past - I can see why on the one hand it isn’t always true and can change but at the same time if I think about people with alzheimers or brain damage who’s memory is damaged we can’t argue that memories and a sense of time are crucial to live independently and interact with the world. It is dangerous to not have that - forgetting to turn off the gas or where we live. 

What is healing? Listener question

A brief summary of this episode

Non-violent communication. Marshall Rosenberg. Sunday book

Great blog as always... It leaves me with the sense that I'm still not seeing something. There is a sense that what thoughts are 'paid attention to' and which aren't is somehow within 'my' control. What you're saying is that this is not true. There is no 'I' to direct awareness. So there's confusion. In your work I understood we were exploring and...

Seeing that we are the awareness watching this mind body system make choices, and there is no impact to make “out there”, I’m really watching my system go into “well what’s the point then”, in a way dissolving any of my past externally driven motivations.  I also see how from here it’s just watching the system do the next thing there is to do, including doing nothing or sitting with this confusion...

With this understanding we attend so much more to all the things that are happening inside which can lead to very strong experiences and I wonder how to deal with this overwhelming state, especially in situations with other people?

Since we all have our separate realities. Words like Peace, Joy, Happiness, etc. are defined differently by each of us with our separate realities. Because our definitions will all be different, are any of the definitions of these thoughts and feelings True/Truthful?

I’m about to start the Be the Change course and I’m worried what it will do to me.  There are so many things I want to change about the world and I feel as someone with values that this is important. I scroll through social media and I see the videos of violence and the confusion out there. It makes me feel sick and anxious and often I can’t sleep for worrying about the state of the world - especi...

It always surprises me how some of my vegan friends are offensive towards me as someone who eats meat.  Is being Vegan really about the love for animals?  Well their offensives can go off the roof. Do they really fight for animal rights or just protect their values?  This question came from the conclusion that even the most altruistic act is driven by selfishness to get something for the SELF.   L...

I have been incredibly emotional lately. I cry a lot, actually so much that I am wondering if that is still normal. Also I was very irritated in some situations at work and afterwards I felt like it was really unprofessional to lose my temper. I think I have always been a very emotional person and my feelings are always very intense. I only let myself have them at home and with very few people I t...

I’ve been doing some exercises around the ‘headless way’ which involves noticing that there isn’t really a person looking ‘out’ at experience, there is just an expansive nothingness. Through the exercises ‘I’ have seen this, but the nagging question keeps coming back… How can it be true that there isn’t a centre to experience when what ‘I’ experience is also unique to this body, these eyeballs etc...

Hi Clare I was brought up by a mum who was very anxious about what people thought of her. She would often over commit to helping others and end up exhausted. I can see the same tendency’s and lack of boundaries in myself and so I try to say no but then I hear you talking about unconditional love and I get confused. Does it mean always saying yes to people?

A relative of mine was recently sectioned and diagnosed with psychosis. I understand psychosis to be a condition in which contact is lost with external reality. I spoke to them just before they went into hospital and I could see that what they were saying did not relate to my understanding of reality. But aren’t we saying in the conversation that there is no external reality any way. If that is th...

I hear a lot in social media about gas lighting. I haven’t experienced it myself I don’t think but every time I hear it mentioned I wonder how can there be such a thing as gas lighting if there is as you say no objective reality. Can you help with this please? 

I’m a member and fan of your subliminals. Great to see how the mind is kept out, and the body still reacts on the hidden messages.   I used to be a hypnotherapist and would like to know your opinion on the use of plain Hypnosis (a different technique, as you know, from subliminals). With hypnosis, the brain is not kept out, you actually hear the spoken words. It works as a program on top of anothe...

I just watched the mental health webinar und I heard something I never heard before. You said: 'All conscious experience is a healing place for us' and you also said that the physical is healed here, too.  Can you say more about that?  It's funny because it feels like I never heard this before AND I don't know what you mean, apart from seeing the conditioning, but is this heali...

Do you think identification squelches our unique desires?  Example: if I am with a friend and they are talking with enthusiasm and excitement about going on a backpacking trip. Prior to this conversation I didn't have much desire to go on a backpacking trip. Or they want to watch musicals, or they want to try a dance class....etc. Now there's a sudden "I want to to do this!" im...

“Relationships are not meant to be fun” What? Why? How can you say that so confidently?!? When I left my first marriage, I could have said exactly what the listener said in your podcast. I know I did not do my work then as it was all about him and why I couldn’t continue to be in the relationship because of how he was. However we have 3 children and so have stayed in touch and actually have a love...

Book  recommendations from Tia:  The Body Remembers Volumes 1 and 2 by Babette Rothschild, these really helped me understand the power of adaptation and that even behaviors we judge as "bad" had some type of intelligence for survival, even if they are no longer useful. These are written for therapists/practitioners so some chapters people might skip, however I find the case studies relat...