Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

I noticed when i hear something in the media about  a certain movement i want to speak up to my family. A couples years ago i left a community  i was in since birth. I couldnt handle the rules all based (to my opinion) on fear, guild, and sin. From that moment on my family socialy declared me death. My siblings no longer talked to me according to the rules of the community. Sometimes i really want...

'What is the ego and what am I if not that?'

I'm in knots trying to work out what to cook for dinner. I just can't find anything suitable. Suddenly I am full of self pity because it always seems to be me who has to solve this VAST problem.  I can't do it! Then I just give up and experience peace.  Time passes...and then it transpires that everyone is actually out this evening and its just me I have to cook for, so I'm off...

What I'm noticing is that I often begrudge other people's successes. I have judgemental and contemptuous thoughts and fear of other people's work being better than mine.  I can see there is a desire to be special. Even being in  this conversation brings out these feelings of superiority. This feels jarring because the thing I want to do (or at least what my mind is telling me I want...

In a recent podcast you encouraged us to gravitate toward our discomfort, get curious about it rather than flee from it. I tend to be a conflict avoider, spending energy protecting the non-existent “me.” For example, I avoid my husband when his weather is stormy. Although there are swells and troughs, his baseline aggravation is high. Even as I write this, I am trying to be aware of my own project...

1) Looking at the world scale problems I often see greed as the main driver which causes the problems. Some days ago after reading your book Sane I got an insight that greed is only a symptom of our phantom self which is perceived separate, lacking, not enough etc. The end of this madness will come only by realisation- lifting awareness of who we truly are, a space where life arises and that the s...

I was wondering about gender identity and sexual orientation. I guess this is a big part of the identity. We were talking a lot about identity being a learned thing, or a program. But it really doesn't seem to me that gender identity or sexual orientation is a learned program, but much more like an inner knowing. Is there a step before the identity? Like being born a certain way, and only the...

Thank  you so much for your guidance through the last two months. I'm so glad to have had all those wonderful, scary and liberating experiences. And I'm sorry for not replying sooner.. I think this might have something to do with the question I've been hoping to ask.. After this stressful time it felt like I needed a break. Looking back at this break I'm quite sure that my ego...

You speak often of doing the thing that scares us to show us where the 'self' is showing up.  What if I have been doing the thing for over a decade and it's led to horrific anxiety (panic attacks GAD insomnia) It's been a decade now.  I worked for two decades without any problems and then as soon as financial insecurity showed up I had one panic attack and boom, my life forever...

The self here is still grappling with the stark notion of ruthless self criticism  as an ego trip. I see the necessity to take responsibility for that and at the same time it leads to more self criticism. Who is taking responsibility for what?

How can I be happy despite pain and fatigue? (Listener question.)

Do you think "3p" has shortcomings? Sometimes it looks to me that the aspect of  inquiring is shut down by saying "it's just your thinking". In the end yes indeed ("direct path")but sometimes to have a better understanding of the body mind system, and where i picked up some believes (religion, work environment etcetera)  the mind is more willing to let it fall aw...

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‘Why when I  know something needs my attention (in my case money management) do I push my head further into the sand.  It makes absolutely no sense, the ongoing discomfort as a consequence of this must be worse than actually talking the action?? You have touched on this in the Voice course (remaining in a comfort zone etc) but somehow money ‘seems’ to hold so much more fear?? Why does this happen...

Can we talk about choices/being the choice maker some more! :)There are times when I see it clearly (most of the time, I believe)and there are times when I get confused. For ex. there are many times when I can see my train of negative/painful thoughts and I can see that if I get on it, the ride won’t be fun. So there are moments when I feel “I” am choosing not to get on it by distracting myself by...

You talk about not believing the mind. In my opinion that is so dangerous. Is this a cult? Is it brainwashing? Is it an attempt to shut down reason and analysis? 

hi Clare  I listen to the news and I see all the terrible things going on in the world - the violence, climate change, poverty, the pandemic. We need to take action on all of this right now not sit around wondering about the self and about what I am. Spirituality seems totally self indulgent when there is so much that must be changed . We first need to sort out all the issues in the world - like c...

Listener question: we're the space witnessing the program, but what questions it?   The system can't question itself, but it seems we need the mind to do so?

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My daughter is often silenced, seemly unable to say word,s even when she has come home (from Uni) with an issue of some kind.  I ask her and eventually just offer general words of support hoping it helps.  But I am left frustrated and feeling I have failed her somehow.  I have looked at where I see this in myself and know I have done the exact same thing, most often when I am anxious and afraid, w...

Listener message:  I wanted to write to you since a long time! It will be a very boring mail without any questions… I just want to thank you. Life got so much easier since I met you.  Nothing in the outer world changed, one the contrary: I still am dating without success, my mother got a stroke and is now paralyzed and needs 24 hour care, my stepfather is looking after her and on the verge of brea...

You've said that identity, creativity and money are made up of the same thing? I'm still not clear so I'm going to take a stab at it and you tell me what you think? Straighten me out so I can get this... Thought created - the identity (mind), what the identity thinks about money and what the identity thinks about creativity - all created from thought/conditioning/beliefs. It's...

I’m also noticing a desire for this house cleaning (or weight loss/health) struggle to be serving some sort of higher purpose - or relating to struggle or lack of action in these spaces like it’s some sort of self-sabotage, but in the absence of a self…. it can’t quite be self-sabotage can it? And what’s the point to the identity of relating to one’s behavior as self-sabotage. Why would identity d...

Listener question: I *just* realized how personally I take my husband’s criticism of our home (it’s a mess). And that got me thinking that it’s not just his criticism but my own criticism from within about what it means about me as a person, a mother, and a wife that the house is a mess. How is our own self-criticism not personal?  Is it too just a learned pattern, and how does one learn that (or...

Can you talk about why each time there is suffering and resistance against something , it is an opportunity over and over again for healing? Is it that each time we see that the brain creates separation via the self concept - and this feels painful, and each time we see that it's a temporary creation then there is opportunity for healing? It feels like there's something missing here.