Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

Listener question: are we saying people shouldn't be punished? 

Listener question: What about the terrible things like murder. If we have no choice then we have no culpability? 

Listener question: where do decisions come from? I do understand the influence of learning, beliefs and other brain activity such as chemical imbalances but are there also decisions made from our higher sense of self without any contamination of beliefs about right or wrong?

Listener question: are events random? Is there such thing as cause and effect?

Strength and destruction

How acknowledging 'choice' also a closer attention on the learned conditioned system

Listener question: Clare lovely, you often mention the going right into the perceived problem. What does that actually mean?  In my case I can see a lot of things just generated by a mind that has a strong conditioned identity of being rejected by other people. And funny enough more and more I can see how this bodymind rejects others at the same time. So the old programme of rejection is running s...

Listener question: I would like to discuss the topic of real life questions.  How do I work with things  such as managing savings, buying a new car etc.  If I disappears does the remainder of reality as I know it change?  What about my relationships?

Listener question: I want to say that I like that Clare’s course is the only one that doesn’t begin with trying to solve a specific psychological problem e.g. anxiety, fear...  Addressing the base problem of a separate self is fundamental to understanding the specific situations. But if I could lose a few pounds that would be a great side benefit.

Exploring the difference between jealousy and inspiration

Listener question: When I look back at supposed "vision" statements I've written down in the past, the mind judges these as pointless now because the vision was usually coming from a back drop of "something is wrong, this will make it right." Like these:  "the whole of humanity is waking up from self" as though it's "wrong" or "bad" that...

Listener question: I am wondering if we are affected in a relation to another or if we are only affected by the illusion of another (or both). For example if someone is very angry are we affected by some sort of energy directly from this apparent other or is it only our thinking/our concept of the angry other that affects us or both. The same with an apparent "happy" other. 

Listener question: I still have the thoughts that say for example, "Once I cure this health problem, I will be "happy" or "feel better" OR once I find the right partner OR once I get a job writing in comedy" - Like those still run in my head. And then I just wondered... do I stop trying to cure the health problem? Find a partner I enjoy or try to change careers?  Like...

Listener question : Ok, I’ve been seeing recently how easy it is to slip into suffering states. For example dealing with relatives I observed being sucked into a vortex of panic and despair. Or when I wake up in the middle of the night it’s so easy to slip into a vortex of worry and learned helplessness. In these moments it feels so real and part of my being knows it’s just a Horrorfilm of old neu...

Please can you speak about how to live with someone who doesn't like people? 

Exploring how the 'quick win' of feeling better can take us back to identification. 

What is the motivation for listening to this podcast? It will make all the difference to what can be heard. 

Exploring how there is no 'I' doing the over-thinking or practicing mindfulness. Rumination is the creation of the illusion of a separate 'I' and mindfulness is the absence of that confusion. 

Exploring why the expression 'this too shall pass' is an invitation to go deeper into an experience, not to sit it out waiting for the 'right' experience to arrive. 

Exploring why spirituality can't live in an ivory tower, separated out from the challenges of live. Its job is to be tested by and to ultimately dissolve the rigours of  'the real world' 

Listener question: I'm afraid. Life has been at a low point for me the last year or so. As Spring arrives and the country has the feeling of gradually opening up I am hoping that I will be able to put things back together and move towards something happier and more fulfilling. Do I really want to go down another rabbit hole and either be disappointed or perhaps shake my very foundation?

Listener question: I maintain that we can choose thoughts.  We have choice in believing them or not.  Mindfulness is all about recognizing thoughts and letting them be.  That is control.  That is in essence another thought.  There seems to be some amount of free will in all of this.

Exploring how identification with behaviour obscures the stillness in which conditioning can be undone. 

Enlightenment and the hot air balloon  For information about our REAL foundation course in March click here  https://claredimond.com/current-live-program/

Looking at the mental load of: trying to solve problems that don't exist trying to control the uncontrollable  resisting reality  If you'd like to join us in March for the REAL on-line course, please click here for more information.  https://claredimond.com/current-live-program/