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Clare Dimond
Superpowered Mind Podcast is for enquiring individuals who are tired of the struggle for peace, happiness and clarity. You no longer want to be stuck in the endless cycle of stress, confusion, and seeking happiness in areas where it can’t be found.
You need more than actionable tips and tricks, it’s time for a completely transformational change of perspective about the power of your mind.
You've known for a long time that something is missing and life can feel futile. You are ready to move into a new phase beyond further seeking. This might be initially confronting yet leads ultimately to true freedom. Hosted by Clare Dimond, author of eight books, speaker and international coach, the podcast will explore the principles of the mind, the self and reality. This knowledge can transform the battle of stress and struggle into the ease of intelligence and pure potential in action. This show challenges the most deep-seated confusions of what you are and what the mind is. Each episode looks at profound spiritual truths that bring the mind out of perpetual struggle and into its greatest expansion. Question your current understanding about who you are, feel supported in moving to a greater mental clarity and leave with a whole new way of navigating life. This podcast is the one to listen to if you're ready to see the capabilities of your Superpowered Mind.
Listener question: How would you explain this to a ten year old?
Listener question: How would you explain non duality / spirituality to a ten year old?
08:2002/11/2020
"We have tried everything to get rid of suffering..."
Looking at Gangaji's words: We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid of it. We have ingested everything to get rid of it. Finally, when one has tried enough, there arises the possibility of spiritual maturity with the willingness to stop the futile attempt to get rid of it and, instead, to actually experience suffering. In that momentous instant, there is the realization of that which is beyond suffering, of that which is untouched by suffering. There is the realisation of who one truly is.
07:0901/11/2020
Recognising who you really are, will destroy you and your whole life as you know it.
Looking at Unmani's words: "Recognising who you really are, will destroy you and your whole life as you know it."
07:3431/10/2020
"This image of yourself is obviously not real..."
Looking at Alan Watt's words: "This image of yourself is obviously not real. Any more than the idea of a tree is a tree. Any more than you can get wet in the word ‘water’."
07:4530/10/2020
"Being is totally whole just being.."
Looking at Tony Parsons' words, "Being is totally whole just being. And it is alive and fleshy and sexy and juicy and immediately this; it’s not some concept about ‘there’s no-one here’. It’s not some concept about ‘there’s nowhere to go’. It’s the aliveness that’s in that body right now. There is pure beingness, pure aliveness."
05:5529/10/2020
"The real you is the field of intelligence.."
Looking at the quote from Deepak Chopra "The real you is a field of intelligence in which the person you have identified yourself with, all other persons, as well as the environment in which they exist, all co-arise and co-evolve as a result of your own self-interactions."
07:1728/10/2020
Navigating a hall of mirrors
Continuing a conversation from a webinar yesterday about what happens when it is realised that reality is a hall of mirrors
07:0327/10/2020
Listener question: Can you explain the film metaphor?
Listener question: Can you explain the film metaphor?
09:3026/10/2020
Listener question: how do you free yourself from this?
Listener question: Clare, I have three of your books, I listen to your podcasts and I have watched some of your videos. Yet I cannot work out how to live a life that is not dominated by negative thinking, anxiety and occasional panic.......these thoughts were like the straw that broke the camel’s back with all the other shit in my life. I’m waiting for an appointment with a consultant. So I don’t feel well. I feel shit actually. I need to decorate some of my house but don’t feel well enough. I work long shifts that are very tiring and I look after someone some of the week. I sometimes feel that I just cannot cope with it ‘all’. It ALL. Is it really so much? Someone else might just cope with this stuff like water of a duck’s back, right?I try my circuit breakers (your podcast on this was great) . Meditation. Trying some exercise, wine, beer, food, etc and of course it doesn’t work. How could it? But I cannot grasp this ‘isness’ that you speak of underneath all this shit... How can I? Obviously not on the level of the mind. I listen, but I will never understand on that level, will I? I know on the level of thought that this is like living in the Dream... But how do yo free yourself from this ? How do you do it?
13:4425/10/2020
"I need to get out of my own way"
Exploring how this expression can add to the confusion or take it away
05:2124/10/2020
Question: If reality is made of thought then how do I change it?
Question: If reality is made of thought then how do I change it?
10:5123/10/2020
It is what it is...?
Exploring how it is what it is... and it also isn't...
07:5622/10/2020
Circuit breakers or fixes?
Exploring the circuit breakers of mental suffering and how they can never be the ultimate solution.
08:4621/10/2020
Experience - to be controlled or simply a revelation?
Exploring the shift from seeking to control all experience to understanding it for the revelation of what we truly are
06:5420/10/2020
Listener question: What about Auschwitz?
Listener question: Dear ClareI enjoyed reading your book but am troubled by the idea of what is reality. If one doesn’t believe the reality of what one sees and feels then are you saying that places like Auschwitz or the torture chambers around the world are mere illusions ? Why should anyone bother to resist evil if it isn’t real ?I look forward to your reply
12:3219/10/2020
Solipsism and immersion in reality
Looking at what solipsism is and how this conversation is the opposite of that
10:2718/10/2020
There is no such thing as rejection
Exploring how this conversation can be used to bypass the pain of rejection and avoid what the other is saying or it is the freedom of realising there is no such thing as rejection.
10:4517/10/2020
Withdrawal and immersion
Exploring how this conversation can be a convenient way to maintain the illusion of separation
06:5815/10/2020
Snake eating its own tail
Using the metaphor provided by a writer friend of mine to look at why there is no solution in the mental activity of self.
09:2314/10/2020
Defence and open space
Considering how defence maintains the confusion of separation.
08:4413/10/2020
What is the difference between stress and pressure?
Exploring how the belief in the concepts of self, future, separation create stress, while pressure can be something else altogether.
09:0412/10/2020
Listener question: How did you start this work?
Listener question:I have a question of where to start spreading these principles of human experience?Could you share with me your beginnings in the diffusion of this understanding, that is, when you did not have the audience you have today?
12:4511/10/2020
Sleep
Exploring how sleep coaching and technologies are completely irrelevant while it looks like there is a self that controls when sleep begins and ends.
11:5010/10/2020
Listener question: self enquiry
Listener question: When you talk about the ‘dissolving’ of beliefs I still can’t get my head around it. I have thoughts like ‘I am not strong enough to cope with this lack of sleep’ is that a belief in itself or a thought coming from a deeper belief e.g. I am not resilient? When I question this belief my mind comes up with lots of evidence as to why it is true e.g. my buggered immune system and my tiredness (staying out of the story of these as much as possible) My mind seems to then hit a wall and I find myself tracing back to questioning the ‘I’ in the belief e.g. who is it that is not resilient? Perhaps I’m just not entirely sure what self enquiry actually is at the moment it seems to be creating shit storm confusion rather than a portal to what is true.
12:1009/10/2020
Seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it
Looking at the Rumi quote "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it" and exploring how that applies to everything that is desired.
06:0008/10/2020
Listener question: Judgement of emotions and self
There are only thoughts rising and falling in space of awareness. Labeling a thought or an emotion “positive” or “negative” is just another thought, creating more mental activity, more confusion. Any labeling (positive/negative, good/bad, right/wrong, fair/unfair etc) or self-judgment (“I don’t get it” or “I am not enlightened yet” or “I am not good enough”) is the voice of the dualistic mind, the separate self, the resistance to what is. Can you please help me to clarify this point?
05:4607/10/2020
Listener question: Is it important to have a purpose?
Listener question: Is it important to have a purpose?
10:5706/10/2020
Mind, Intelligence and self
Listener question: I was just thinking what you said in the last webinar on the Fear/Safe course about the intelligence. Is it possible that this could be the same as Sydney Banks meant when talking about Mind. It is the intelligence of all things and that is what is "guiding" us.
08:1905/10/2020
The struggle of thought vs thought
Listener question: I am really struggling today with panic and anxiety. I am finding myself trying to feel the fear and do it anyways for my son. Part of me wants to show him that even though I don’t feel well at all that I don’t give up. Then my mind flips to, why am I pushing myself through something that I know will be hell and do I want him to see me have another panic attack in the car? Can I hide this much longer? If I give in to my fear then I am left with guilt. It seems as though everything I learn and absorb in podcasts and programs goes out the window the minute my stomach starts acting up then the anxiety starts shouting at me. Oh I just want it to be quiet in my mind.
09:4604/10/2020
Pattern interrupter
Exploring the only way the patterns of our programming can change.
07:3603/10/2020
Living a RICH life
A brief summary of this episode
06:2902/10/2020
Listener question: fear and poverty
Listener question: fear and poverty
08:2601/10/2020
Listener question : fear and behaviour
Listener question: If I am not supposed to feel the fear and do it anyway the countless times that I feel my entire torso contracted with fear every day, what am I supposed to do instead so I can still move through the world? If I stopped and just stayed with the fear every single time it arose until it naturally passed and “what’s not true falls away,” as you say, I might do little else throughout the day.
07:2430/09/2020
Listener question: is there a difference between non-duality and 3Ps?
Listener question: is there a difference between non-duality and 3Ps?
06:4629/09/2020
Listener question: friendships ending
Listener question: Ever since I’ve become more aware I seem to have no mates and especially with my boss as we were mates before she became my boss now I just cannot stand being around her it’s like my body just wants to run the other way even though I know it’s me and can never be her .But is it just ok to let her go and have no friendship I do try to stay so present around her but it’s not happening I have to walk away out of meetings go and breathe. I mean I never tell her this I just feel so unkind to her and I’m not enlightened enough but what I’m trying to say is - can it ever be just we don’t like each other fair enough or do I always have to be around that pain? And this is not just happening with her lots of people even people I love so much.
07:2728/09/2020
Listener question : working with trauma sufferers
Listener question: I have a question about trauma which i’m sure you’ve been asked many times before but it’s one that keeps coming up in the work that i do so would welcome your thoughts. If someone has suffered with trauma in early life, be it physical or sexual abuse or emotional neglect, is there a need to “heal the trauma” ? John Welwood who coined the phrase “ Spiritual Bypassing “ said that you need to do the work, whereas more radical non dual teachers like Tony Parsons would say not because there is no self there only what’s arising. To talk to a client who has suffered from childhood abuse from a non dual perspective, even when they have some insight, is challenging. How to you approach early childhood trauma from a non dual perspective ?
08:4327/09/2020
listener question: how can I be with my partner's rage?
Listener question: My partner is going through a very brutal process at work at the moment. and the way he deals with stress is to have short bursts of rage. Because of my history that frightens me. But I feel his pain as it was my own because he is the love of my life. I can see where crazy thinking and the self takes over, but I’m still entangled in this painful process. I see there is a lot of story around endings and abandonment and at the same time I see strength in my system emerging. I’m very well aware that trauma is not my identity, I feel deep love for my family who suffered so much in their time. But it’s echoes are still around. I suppose the question is again about bridges, where is the crossroads between suffering and seeing reality? I often feel I “miss the boat“.
12:0026/09/2020
Listener question: how can I act from true nature?
Exploring how the mind can never know anything about where it is coming from. But the response to our actions is revelatory.
06:2725/09/2020
What does it mean to live a RICH life?
Listener request: please say more about the concept of RICH with time, money, energy and connection.
06:4524/09/2020
Listener question: is it necessary to pin point each individual belief?
Listener question: Is it necessary to identify or pin down the individual ‘beliefs’ we hold about the self? Nowadays when I feel fear or unease I know that it is because I’m believing something that isn’t true but I find it increasingly hard to pinpoint what it is. In the beginning of my journey here I could pinpoint exactly what the belief was but now I find I notice the feelings and sensations but there is no obvious ‘shouty’ belief to be found. I feel like it doesn’t really matter because whatever it is, it can never be true anyway. It’s as if I’m sometimes looking for something that I can’t find but if I did find it I’d realise it’s not true!
06:5723/09/2020
Listener question: discipline
Listener question: Discipline has been a painful story in my life, the word makes me feel slightly nauseous. I’m ready now to look at it more closely. Discipline was always something coming from outwards, imposed rules and forces. It was expected to work really hard and seemed there was no Space and time to just be myself. I was forced to do shit I didn’t like, ie ballet class or wearing clothes I didn’t like. It was a story of emotional and physical punishment and „as long you live under my roof you do as you told. Even if it was futile I couldn’t help but rebel against that. The rebel became part of my identity in my teens and twenties. The earlier memory seems like there was no room for sensitivity, creativity, playfulness, innocence or just being a child. So nowadays it seems a struggle to develop a healthy relationship to being disciplined with the things I like to do or achieve, ie. to commit to consistency. There is something to be seen.
11:2922/09/2020
Fear and problem solving
Exploring how the realisation that the problems of imagination cannot be solved shifts the whole experience of being into the intelligence of now.
06:5721/09/2020
Listener question: how do I get back to that ultimate peace I once experienced?
Listener question: how do I get back to that ultimate peace I once experienced?
09:2420/09/2020
Listener question: body sensations and reality
Listener question: can you say more about body sensations and reality?
09:0219/09/2020
Listener question : fear and relationships
Listener Question:Generally, life’s mirror reflects worry, doubt and perfectionism in relationships which makes spending large chunks of time on my own much easier and mostly a relief. However, I wonder if I’m missing out through ignorance of what healthy relationships can be like. Since there’s only now, and only our current state of learning and readiness, how is space created for patterns of belief to be shed? I can absolutely see and hear the self in this, and wonder if these glaring relationship difficulties are an insistent clarion call from life to trust that every experience is in my favour, no matter how overwhelming they feel, and to recognise that I am strong enough to feel the discomfort and uncertainty of real, seismic change.
16:4818/09/2020
Listener question: Can we ever know another?
Listener question: I suddenly had an awareness of my mother as a young mother, and saw that her bursts of anger came from her anxiety and self doubt as a parent (she's spoken to me often as an adult about the self-doubt she had, but I'd never connected it to her anger). I don't think that I've ever realised how early on that experience was there for her, and I have the deepest compassion for her, knowing how locked into her reality she must have been from such early days - without the hint of a different space to live from. Can this "knowing" be true? Or is it at the level of the self identity? it seems to me that it bypasses the self - how could it be at the level of self if there's nothing to protect or seek comfort for?
07:5717/09/2020
Listener question: how can I stop memories of trauma creating fear
listener question: Can you talk about fear generated from flashbacks? It seems life flows along and contact with family members which is regular, unfortunately, undoubtedly triggers remembrances of a traumatic, cruelty filled childhood and young adulthood.Once the thought storm is triggered, it's almost impossible to step out of the loop and fear takes over. Fear of insanity too, because other family members don't have the same experience.Decades of techniques and therapy have not erased the horror film from the memory bank. There's effort to honor the feelings now and let them go, but (here's the big but that you speak of) they come back in the form of other memories. Is it just a matter of time? How long must this go on? I'm no spring chicken and I've had enough.Amazingly, the fear hasn't stopped me from having a full life, but life experiences have always been tainted by the fear, anxiety and depression that visits regularly.Any wisdom will be appreciated.
11:4316/09/2020
When 'accepting' makes it worse
Listener question: A couple of years ago i participated in a course that was all about accepting feelings in the body. So every day i meditated and tried to feel what was going on in my body. But instead of feeling things, my mind just became so stirred up that i got very depressed. Now when i hear you say: “just feel it”, i notice the depression coming up again. I’m scared of it. The last time it wasn’t helpfull at all to explore my feelings. So why would this time be different? When I ‘zoom in’ on Anxiety, i get really identified with it. Then it’s all about me. And that’s when i get very lost. Not talking about it - not being focussed on it - seems to do a better job then the zooming in.
13:1415/09/2020
Is this understanding enough to unravel physical visceral memory? (listener question)
Listener question: When there has been a lot of conditioning of random physical punishment in early years, and that resulted in a belief of being inherently bad and wrong, almost like it’s lodged into the physical body. Is then this understanding strong enough to unravel this physical visceral memory?
18:2914/09/2020
The ramping up of fear
I write to you as I’m finding the FEAR course really challenging! Although I feel like running as far away from the course as possible, I’m sticking with it because a part of me knows there is more to see here.Am I to suppose that I’m feeling uncomfortable because there’s a recognition that I’ve lived in fear for most of my life? I guess I’ve thought it was somehow protecting me? Something inside me tells me that I’ve never ‘allowed’ myself to even begin to shine a light on all of this as it’s too painful to see what might be revealed! Having suffered loss of very dear loved ones and having had health issues myself, have and still do at times feel broken. I think I’m beginning to see that I have a very deep rooted fear of illness and death.... I’m guessing that I see this as the ultimate separation, of which I’m terrified!!?I think I’m still at the stage of searching for an escape from this unbearable pain, looking for the ‘answer’ in the next podcast/webinar... a hope that you, Clare, will tell me what to do! I know that’s not possible but a pointer in the right direction would be gratefully received!So, I suppose I’m asking whether by just staying in this conversation, that over time, I’ll see more of who I really am and old beliefs will fall away and I’ll rediscover who I really am? I feel confused and my anxiety is heightened at present. I cannot see that I’m not real just now. This is messing with my head!
11:4413/09/2020