Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

"If there is no 'self' then what is really going on in the often critical sounding expression 'to be self-obsessed'. Is this really just a term used to point out that the mind if caught in believing there is a 'self' and is 'obsessed' with trying to examine itself. A pointless loop and hence the appearance of obsession that arises as the mind desperatly...

Listener question:what is freedom? 

Hi Clare. Now on your stress day 7 you ask to go back to our childhood. And that situation is indeed at the origin of what I still live today. As a very young child I was honest and dared to say 'No' to my grandmother who was raising me, my sister and brother while my parents worked day and night.  I was often punished and hit by my grandmother because I was not a 'nice girl'....

I wanted to reach out to you about some changes I have noticed for me lately.  I am really feeling confused at the moment with feeling of stress.    1. That said I don't know if the course is a cause of stress to me or that the way my mind is flip-flopping around.  I just can't seem to focus I seem to have gone away with the fairies, The only think that is clear is that I don't feel...

This podcast is a response to a question on facebook about this comment: 'Any revelation will come in what that doing was meant to achieve for the self if anything…'

Listener question: I'm listening to the 1:1 conversations from the Change course. In one of them, you say the following: "The stuckness of mind is reflected in the stuckness of health or body, or the stuckness of surroundings or the stuckness of relationships, it's dynamic." I have not yet noticed a lot of shifting in the area where there's been a lot of stuckness around f...

Listener question: I can't see my head except when I look in the mirror. So when I see someone else's face, I don't think, that's me. Is that because we learned this? We are all one  means:  we are all one in the way the systems works? Not in form. So to realise that is were forgiveness starts? You are not doing this to me, you are just doing (in form). Or there is just doing a...

What if the mind uses this understanding for sabotaging its own glimpses of understanding? There were glimpses and openings to a more peaceful, joyful way of being in the past. And since the change course there is an observation of of relentless negative activity of the mind, attempting to destroy this loving, joyful bodymind in myriads of ways. It feels like once the mind is in its old conditione...

I just can’t help wondering why on earth we were designed this way?! It seems human nature has evolved (probably) to become really complicated, so that we need to spend so much time in discovery of our true self rather than that being the default. What’s anyone’s thoughts on that?

Just completed the final lesson of the Change course. Thank you Clare for a wonderful journey. The exploration of the personal identity was especially useful. It seems that as you say it has enormous evolutionary advantages. We just need to learn how defending a concept is never going to succeed. My only suggestion is that if you focus less on the construct that is our body/mind system it would be...

I was wondering if you could do a Podcast about gaining weight, food and the stress around it?  I wish I could just eat 3 meals a day, enjoy it and not think about gaining weight. Instead I do not eat a proper meal, snack the whole day (specially now in Home Office), constantly think about food and keep beating myself up that I do not eat a proper meal. The excess calories I gain with the snacking...

Can you talk about categorisations and truth? 

I’ve been thinking about this “self-compassion” idea and wondering what you make of it, how the non-dual understanding would see “self compassion” especially if there’s no self to be compassionate toward, and how to talk about it.

What I am confused about is the "awareness/consciousness" as my true self.   I feel I don't know or don't experience consciousness directly. I experience or sense it only from  what I am aware "of", and not from an actual space or knowing of conciousness.  When I ask myself who am I, I am aware of myself asking, and I am aware of being aware of that asking. It doesn&a...

Listener question: Another question: my brain is overloaded and my heads hurts all the time (so is the rest of my body - + heart rythm disorder). (. The questions you ask in the second recording "What is at steak "can't be answered anymore(I did it in the past with the help of coaches over and over again and found a lot of answers). My outside situation has changed and is better, bu...

I understand/read from/in your book Well, that pain in the body is information about the system. Like a red warning light it is drawing attention to that part of the system. The signal of pain is designed to bring the attention into the body, into this moment, into reality. So instead of making mystery out of it, placing it in the future, the past, etc. what I am familiar with :), so not to use it...

Listener question: when we truly stop resisting the feelings that arise in us when confronted with 'anger or angry people' (or other emotions) ... do we then (as a side effect) appear in general to draw less experience of meeting 'angry people' into our lives. ?

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Listener question:  Can you talk a bit about how the mind sometimes has information? A common theme I hear in some of the podcasts is that "the mind doesn't  know" and that's linked to the fact that the mind is the brain creating a self identity at the same time there is intelligence moving the body and creating action. Sometimes it seems the mind brings an idea forward, and wh...

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Listener question: I have a couple of questions which you might like to address in a podcast or two sometime? 1. I’m curious to know how religion sits with this conversation, any religion I guess, but particularly the Church of England? 2. If we are spiritual beings having a human experience, how do we transition, how will our true essence remain infinite when we no longer inhabit this current hum...

Listener question: Hi Clare  You have said a few times that we have thousands of choices, but no free will. I understand why you say that, as we can only do what makes sense to us given the understanding/belief we have at that moment, but could you please say more about what you mean by “free will”? 

Listener question: Are we really ever against reality "out there" or are we allways just against our thinking? How does this apply to bullying boss. Am I experiencing him bullying me only because of my thinking?

Listener question: how do motivation and confidence fit in this understanding? 

Listener comment: I have a Non Dual question: This is one of those questions that I don’t know if it is one, or an observation.  The direct path of presence to, and enquiry in to, the suffering, shows, or simply dissolves that strand, or layer. If life presents the awareness to do this, then it gets done, or it doesn’t.  The concern is over using this a a tool to get enlightenment, and creating a...