Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond
Episodes
Listener question: why does criticism feel so bad?
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: why does criticism feel so bad and how do I stop the belief that people are doing it to be nasty?
Listener question: hopelessness
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: there have been reports of people driven to terrible actions, apparently because they believed there was no other choice. How does ...
Listener question: is there any truth in thought?
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: is there any truth in our thoughts? Or are they always just a collection of random stuff picked up along the way?
Listener question: dilemmas
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: I am making delicious treats for my very picky dog (more cat than dog), I finally found some that she likes. And I very much love d...
Listener question: annoying person...
24 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: At work my line manager has very limiting beliefs and uses me to vent to about anyone and anything which annoys her. I find this ...
Listener question : when boundaries get challenged
23 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: Do you have any comments that I could consider in terms of taking blame or feeling guilt for something, please? The position of ...
Listener question: Can you talk about boundaries?
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: I am wondering how you see boundaries in the context of non-duality. I would say that I have very weak boundaries whilst being de...
Listener question - define self
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: what do you mean with human self, the self? The terms ego, self, soul, inner self are confusing.
Listener question: can you say it very simply?
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
hi Clare - I wonder if you could sum up the simple essential truths about this understanding. I love how you explain everything in different ways to m...
In a world where you can be anything, be kind...
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how this phrase fits with what we know about behaviour, choice and reality
Listener question : oneness and uniqueness
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question : I was wondering how oneness and uniqueness are possible at the same time... how can any expression be more unique than another if ...
Listener question: competition and confidence
17 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: Could you say maybe something about confidence and competition.Recently it became apparent that the I seems to be in constant compe...
Listener question : objective reality?
16 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: It seems that what we're calling "apparent reality" isn't the same as illusion or dream, it's the learned...
Listener question: how did it happen for you?
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did you first really "get" this? Was it a sudden Road to Damascus moment of utter seeing and knowing that in a flash changed everythin...
Listener question : denial
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: How does this conversation not slide over into there's no form and therefore no science to study that form, no laws to govern ...
Listener request for comment
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A listener request for comment on an email:I think I may have had an epiphany. Or something. I’m not sure. I am a container for Mind. A con...
Listener question : control and responsibility
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As I've worked through relationships and roles the common thread I am finding is the overwhelming sense of responsibility wherever there is suffe...
Listener question: what are thoughts, feelings and emotions?
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So beliefs, experience, action are revealing what has been learned by the form/being... But what about thoughts, feelings, emotions? Are they revealin...
Listener question: please describe separation and no-separation
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: please describe separation and no-separation
Listener question: fate and destiny
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can you please do a podcast on fate and destiny seen from the perspective of learning vs the impulse of life being lived.
Listener question: what is doing the doing?
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is no self that is the do-er because the self is a concept created by the brain-body as part of learning. And that does not mean an absence of d...
Listener question: control
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: I do not have control over other people, events, and circumstances. Agreed. And I do not have control over the thoughts that ...
Fundamental aggression...
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring Puma Chodron's quote 'The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain...
'Your task is not to seek for love'
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring life's purpose with the Remi quote: 'Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourse...
Integrity
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how true integrity is never about separation.
4 representations of inside / outside
03 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Expanding on yesterday's 'Outside In' podcast
Outside In
02 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how reality is a revelation of what is believed
Happy New Year!
01 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to start afresh?
GIFT
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the two gifts of life. If you'd like to join us in January and February please click here for details: https://claredimond.com/current-...
Stories
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how we can bring the story of ourselves and others into every situation, every new relationship .
Peace on earth, goodwill to all men
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how peace on earth and goodwill to all men can be brought about
Unique expression
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring what happens when we think expression is personal. If you would like to join the course mentioned the details are here: https://claredimond...
The secret to The Secret
27 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring why some desires cannot be met and others are immediately fulfilled.
Different experiences
26 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the different experiences of life reveal what is being believed.
Happy Christmas
25 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring religion, beliefs and reality
Listener question: loneliness
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question : I’ve been on my own for most of this year with my 3 year old boy. I had planned to travel to see family in Scotland for Christm...
Mastery
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the realisation of the dream sends us deeper into the world of form not away from it
Tantrums
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Looking at what is happening when reality is protested.
Fear
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two ways that fear is the portal to freedom
Listener question: can we choose the pattern?
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: My therapist said that going down the rabbit hole of emotional suffering is a choice. It was said that we have a choice when we not...
Listener question: is this understanding a vehicle for denying form?
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: It seems that this understanding is used as a vehicle for denying form: there is no Corona viruses, viruses don't exist, there...
Information
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how everything is information.
3 steps to getting on with anyone
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
1. understand what we are 2. understand what others are 3. hang out in that
Activism
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What happens to activism if there is no objective reality?
Listener question: sensations moving through
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: What's real is the sensations in the body. When I zone in on them to allow them and have the experience (and not attach a st...
Slavery to live in the mind...
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the Khalil Gibran quote: 'It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.'
Desperation
13 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring what is going on when we are desperate for our emotions, thoughts, experience or state to change.
Listener question: how do I stop repetitive thinking?
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: my question is about repetitive obsessive thinking about something I’ve said or done. Sometimes I say or do things I regret...
Listener question: How is conditioning seen and undone?
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: follow up to conflict podcast. How is conditioning seen and undone?
Conflict
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring what is going on when conditioning clashes.
Decision making and intelligence
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the space of effortless decision making
Intuition
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing our look at decision making with an exploration of what intuition is.
Decision making
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question : I'm thinking about doing something but is it just my ego driving me?
Listener question: trauma, therapy and reality
06 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Gifts
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the 'gifts' that make transparent the idea of how things should be and how I should be.
Integration and wholeness
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how a profound realisation of wholeness involves integration of everything that confronts or conflicts with the idea of what is OK. Wholene...
The 'editor'
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Readiness and unconditional love
Listener question: is it my fault?
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: I suppose I’m again in the thick of it (triggered by painful events at work) with overthinking, panic, hotflushes, insomnia, cryi...
The conundrum of 'there is only this' / seeing this is the end of suffering as we know it
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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?
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Listener question: Is it possible to have shift and the self dissolve without the hopelessness?
28 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: Is it possible to have shift and the self dissolve without the hopelessness?
Listener question : why are 'wants' not met?
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Listener question : I don't know how to stop the control and let life get messy
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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! ...
Listeners' question: why look at behaviour?
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Listener question: the hopelessness of no free will
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Listener question: why is there a magnetic pull to heaviness, overthinking and unhelpful patterns?
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Listener question: safety
22 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 nec...
Listener question : perfection or change?
21 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: if everything is perfect then why would we look at insecurity or behaviour? Isn't that just what is?
Listener question: feeling great and the self
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Listener question: how do I help my wife accept her pain?
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, pr...
Listener question: how do we know awakening is not just a product of conditioning?
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: When you experience that awakening and realisation, how do you know the awakening and realisation, that feeling of total awareness ...
Listener question: what now and why?
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Parenting values, beliefs and rules for living
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: I have a question which relates to teenage children and my developing understanding around this conversation. As a parent I’ve l...
Asking for what we want...
15 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how often, the asking is reinforcing the apparent reality in which the self cannot get what it wants.
Body, mind, space, self
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the impossibility of a self existing separately from the body, mind or environment.
How can there be no such thing as rejection?
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can there be no such thing as rejection?
'Rules'
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how the physical rules of how form works are generally reliable while the 'rules' of the self are not
Listener question: What am I?
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: What am I?
Listener question: How do beliefs get believed?
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: I've just finished reading 'Sane'. A challenging read for me to stick with if I'm being honest. I found mys...
Listener question: self fulfilling prophecies
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: how do self fulfilling prophecies relate to this understanding?
Who is Trump?
08 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring why the understanding that Trump is a concept created by the mind can enable us to be and do what it is we demand of him (or any one else we...
the 'motivation mesh'
07 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring what drives behaviour. As the self identity is transcended, the need to 'be someone' falls away leaving just the pure dynamic pass...
'No self accountability'
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how behaviour is not controlled by a separate self, but it revelatory about what that self is believed to be or need.
This should not be happening
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how that thought - and the one underneath it - 'this should not be happening to me' are what fixes an apparent reality in place fo...
'Selfing'
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring Paul Hedderman's term 'selfing'
Escapism and transcendence
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the two main differences between escapism and transcendence
Listener question: How would you explain this to a ten year old?
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: How would you explain non duality / spirituality to a ten year old?
"We have tried everything to get rid of suffering..."
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ev...
Recognising who you really are, will destroy you and your whole life as you know it.
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Looking at Unmani's words: "Recognising who you really are, will destroy you and your whole life as you know it."
"This image of yourself is obviously not real..."
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
"Being is totally whole just being.."
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
"The real you is the field of intelligence.."
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Navigating a hall of mirrors
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing a conversation from a webinar yesterday about what happens when it is realised that reality is a hall of mirrors
Listener question: Can you explain the film metaphor?
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listener question: Can you explain the film metaphor?
Listener question: how do you free yourself from this?
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
"I need to get out of my own way"
24 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how this expression can add to the confusion or take it away
Question: If reality is made of thought then how do I change it?
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Question: If reality is made of thought then how do I change it?
It is what it is...?
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring how it is what it is... and it also isn't...
Circuit breakers or fixes?
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the circuit breakers of mental suffering and how they can never be the ultimate solution.