Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

Exploring the space of effortless decision making 

Continuing our look at decision making with an exploration of what intuition is.

Listener question : I'm thinking about doing something but is it just my ego driving me? 

Listener question (follow up to 'Is it my fault?' podcast)  This is what comes up, not necessary as an astute question.  While I listen to the podcast it it all makes sense, but when I’m back in thinking and feeling it’s a deep painful shitshow.  So what I hear is that the I, the Ego is the biggest blind spot. Instantly it feels doomed and incredible painful and hopeless with no way out....

Exploring the 'gifts' that make transparent the idea of how things should be and how I should be. 

Exploring how a profound realisation of wholeness involves integration of everything that confronts or conflicts with the idea of what is OK.  Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries. ― Carl Gustav Jung

Exploring the paralysis, effort and confusion that can result from the 'editor' when really the whole system is designed for sanity x 

Readiness and unconditional love

Listener question: I suppose I’m again in the thick of it (triggered by painful events at work) with overthinking, panic, hotflushes, insomnia, crying meltdowns. I thought I could be more resilient by now. I need again a lot of emotional support and tender loving care. But I perceive the world as brutal at the moment and it doesn’t help to know it’s all thought created. Is it all my fault?

The conundrum of 'there is only this' / seeing this is the end of suffering as we know it

Listener question: is life a continual unfolding of seeing more of the self arising and then it dissolving as more of the truth is seen? My impression is that the self doesn't "end", it arises and more is seen as that happens.

Listener question: Is it possible to have shift and the self dissolve without the hopelessness?

Listener question : why are "wants" are not met. When we do not really want it, we just think we should. Example... People want to go to the gym. After 2 weeks they withdraw from it. Why? I assume they do not really want it. They just want to feel better/satisfied/worthy and going to the gym is just a tool for achieving it. Or in this case it is not "wanting" but "needing&...

Listener question:  My 'nice' life (the exact opposite of a messy life) - all a dance of protection and control. Keep life on an even keel! Don't ruffle feathers! It feels like I just havent been present to much of it. Always somewhere else and taking the CEO position of managing the NICE Life Corporation very seriously. So tedious, boring and ludicrous. Should be a relief that I do...

Question from several listeners: why would we look at behaviour if there is no separate self or objective reality? Isn't that just about fixing the self? 

Listener question: The more I realize that I am not the doer, life is completely predetermined (because of all the things which happened before I had no influence on like upbringing  and genes and because of time and space). I just have the feeling of self will but it is an illusion. The feeling of worthlessness, senselessness, nothing to hope for and fix and aim for brings me to a very desperate...

Listener question: Ok if we are life’s unlimited potential itself, why is it that the self seems to have a contracted dense heavy default mode? It’s almost like a magnetic pull to heaviness, overthinking, and unhelpful patterns that are obvious toxic and not in line with the deep lust for aliveness that seems to get lost underneath it all. 

Listener question:  ‘It really makes sense that this body here would move out of the way of whatever would damage it....the form will do what is necessary [in that moment] to survive.  And it can do this without any concept of self, any concept of past or future, any concept of separation. Our concept of self is not what is keeping us safe, keeping harmful others at bay.  Response is happening reg...

Listener question: if everything is perfect then why would we look at insecurity or behaviour? Isn't that just what is? 

Listener question: Is it not just as much to learn about the illusion of self and others when we feel great? I was thinking about when we are in love and when we feel "on top" and "in the flow" when for example work seems to go very well.  When we are in love we have this illusionary thinking about "the other person" and maybee underneath a scenario of how great it wi...

Listener question: I have a question, on behalf of my wife.  She suffers from severe chronic pain. I would like to read her some of your writing, probably starting with SANE.  However, to her, the idea that she should look on these intolerable conditions or circumstances as just part of the content of life, or as something to be accepted as just part of the Present, is insulting and like a slap in...

Listener question: When you experience that awakening and realisation, how do you know the awakening and realisation, that feeling of total awareness and love, are not just more products of conditioning? How does anyone know that you are not just thinking and believing this is the reality of love and awakening?

Listener question:  Staying with the contraction, not running away from it, we do get info. But how to interpret the info if the only reference point you are aware of is in the story you have lived?  If life tells me to go right I will gladly go right. But isn’t my interpretation of what life is telling me always based upon good and/or bad within the story? Maybe even creating a new one as I somet...

Listener question: I have a question which relates to teenage children and my developing understanding around this conversation.  As a parent I’ve loved, supported and guided my children on their path to become independent young people. When they behave in a way which goes against my own values, beliefs, and rules for living, I find myself in a state of suffering. I’m beginning to see that this su...

Exploring how often, the asking is reinforcing the apparent reality in which the self cannot get what it wants.