Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

Experience - to be controlled or simply a revelation?

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the shift from seeking to control all experience to understanding it for the revelation of what we truly are 

Listener question: What about Auschwitz?

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 wh...

Solipsism and immersion in reality

18 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Looking at what solipsism is and how this conversation is the opposite of that 

There is no such thing as rejection

17 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Withdrawal and immersion

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how this conversation can be a convenient way to maintain the illusion of separation 

Snake eating its own tail

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Using the metaphor provided by a writer friend of mine to look at why there is no solution in the mental activity of self. 

Defence and open space

13 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Considering how defence maintains the confusion of separation. 

What is the difference between stress and pressure?

12 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the belief in the concepts of self, future, separation create stress, while pressure can be something else altogether. 

Listener question: How did you start this work?

11 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

 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 ...

Sleep

10 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how sleep coaching and technologies are completely irrelevant while it looks like there is a self that controls when sleep begins and ends. ...

Listener question: self enquiry

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ag...

Listener question: Judgement of emotions and self

07 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There are only thoughts rising and falling in space of awareness. Labeling a thought or an emotion “positive” or “negative” is just another th...

Listener question: Is it important to have a purpose?

06 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Listener question: Is it important to have a purpose? 

Mind, Intelligence and self

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 coul...

The struggle of thought vs thought

04 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Pattern interrupter

03 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the only way the patterns of our programming can change. 

Living a RICH life

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A brief summary of this episode

Listener question: fear and poverty

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Listener question: fear and poverty

Listener question : fear and behaviour

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 d...

Listener question: is there a difference between non-duality and 3Ps?

29 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Listener question: is there a difference between non-duality and 3Ps?

Listener question: friendships ending

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Listener question : working with trauma sufferers

27 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 wo...

listener question: how can I be with my partner's rage?

26 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

Listener question: how can I act from true nature?

25 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the mind can never know anything about where it is coming from. But the response to our actions is revelatory. 

What does it mean to live a RICH life?

24 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Listener request: please say more about the concept of RICH with time, money, energy and connection. 

Listener question: is it necessary to pin point each individual belief?

23 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Listener question: discipline

22 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 closel...

Fear and problem solving

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the realisation that the problems of imagination cannot be solved shifts the whole experience of being into the intelligence of now. 

Listener question: how do I get back to that ultimate peace I once experienced?

20 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Listener question: how do I get back to that ultimate peace I once experienced?

Listener question: body sensations and reality

19 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Listener question: can you say more about body sensations and reality? 

Listener question : fear and relationships

18 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Listener Question:Generally, life’s mirror reflects worry, doubt and perfectionism in relationships which makes spending large chunks of time on my ...

Listener question: Can we ever know another?

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Listener question: how can I stop memories of trauma creating fear

16 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

listener question: Can you talk about fear generated from flashbacks? It seems life flows along and contact with family members which is regular, unf...

When 'accepting' makes it worse

15 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 tr...

Is this understanding enough to unravel physical visceral memory? (listener question)

14 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 inhe...

The ramping up of fear

13 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 stic...

Looking away from ME vs honouring ME

12 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Listener question - the REAL course seems to look away from ME and into the dissolution of self which I seemed to feel more comfortable with, but this...

The suppression of fear and suffering and their appearance as something else

11 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Listener question: Exhibiting symptoms of fear and suffering were so dangerous in my formative experience that I’m not sure I recognise when I’m s...

Cold turkey on avoidance rituals?

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Listener question: "Would it ultimately be cruel or healing  to try to go cold turkey on these avoidance/ cleaning rituals? Is that what I need ...

Doing what makes sense

09 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the fear related to decisions and to 'doing the right thing' and how the actions will always be what makes sense given the underst...

Self care, the body and fear

08 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the relationship between body, mind and self and what that means for self care. 

Expansion, contraction and fear

07 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how behaviour is simultaneously 'just what is' and also an indication of the protection of something that doesn't even exist....

'Feel the fear and do it anyway'...?

06 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how feeling the fear and doing it anyway can result in a change of understanding but can equally reinforce the misunderstanding. Understandi...

What does fear protect?

05 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Fear is the gift that shows all this armour and defence is actually protecting nothing. 

Fear and self loathing

04 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the link between fear and self loathing. If you have a question related to fear please send to [email protected]. Thank you x

The key to understanding fear

04 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring why seeing the self, the experience and the other as separate objective entities maintains the suffering and exhaustion. 

The irony at the heart of fear

02 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how powerfully fear can manifest in destruction, damage, addiction and confusion and yet ultimately nothing is being protected. 

A month exploring safety and fear - intro

01 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Over this month we'll explore what fear really is. Today we begin with an introduction. Please send any questions to [email protected].

Reality, thought and denial (listener question)

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the understanding that 'there is no objective reality' is never a denial and always an opening to whatever arises. 

Mental health exercises? (listener question)

30 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how mental health exercises, like anything else, if carried out from a place of misunderstanding, only increase the suffering. 

Connection and rejection (listener question)

29 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the yearning for connection and the inevitable patterns of defence and protection that will play out when that yearning is misunderstood. 

Damaging patterns of behaviour / response and what to do about them (listener question)

28 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the seeing of a unhelpful pattern means it is already on its way out. [If you have anything you would like us to explore please message...

How do I find where I belong? (Listener question)

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring this irony:  the realisation that the idea of self is not something that can belong anywhere allows the freedom of movement to the places a...

Loneliness in marriage (listener question)

26 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the suffering in a marriage is always a reminder of who we are. 

Sin series: #9 Conclusion

25 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Summarising how the look at the different sins has made it clear that there is no possibility of sin... 

Sin series: #8 Sloth

24 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how there is no amount of work which will secure the self and no amount of avoidance. With the realisation of that life is simply a response...

Sin series: #7 Greed

23 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how greed is the desire for more and more in an attempt to secure the self.  

Sin series: #6 Anger

22 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how anger is not a choice or a sin it is simply a learned reaction that will fall away with the realisation that there is no separate object...

Sin series: #5 Lust

21 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the extraordinarily complex landscape of lust, desire and sexual behaviour becomes increasingly simple with an understanding of who we a...

Sin series: #4 Gluttony

20 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the desire for excessive consumption is inevitable given what has been learned about the self. 

Sin series #3 Envy

19 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how envy is the inevitable outcome of the belief that self worth is conditional. 

Sin series: #2 Pride

18 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the nature of pride and what it says about who we really are. 

Sin series: #1 Introduction

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Beginning a new series looking at the nature of 'sin'. Hope you enjoy it x

The 'real' world #12: conclusion

16 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Just one thing to consider as we mark the end of this mini-series - the 'real' world IS real... 

The 'real' world #11: a dangerous world

15 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the reality of living in a dangerous world.  

The 'real' world #10: altruism

14 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how altruism that happens with an idea of superior self and a needy other is always about securing the self. 

The 'real' world #9: responsibility

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the idea that the self is responsible is a misunderstanding that creates stress and that the realisation of what we are unveils a wholen...

The 'real' world #8: relationships

12 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how relationships are a continuous reminder of what we really are. 

The 'real' world #7: creation

11 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how there is no 'self' involved in creative output

The 'real' world #6: material objects

10 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how material objects look to have an objective truth to them but that really how they appear is always a function of whatever understanding ...

The 'real' world #5: impact

09 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how actual impact can never be known or quantified and how the realisation of that allows for presence and response to what is. 

The 'real' world #4: money

08 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the relationship between money, self and survival

The 'real' world #3: career and jobs

07 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring why our work is a meditation practice leading to the falling away of what is not true. 

The 'real' world #2: success

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how success and failure are part of the film of self and how without that film there is only this. 

The 'real' world #1: introduction

05 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Introducing a new mini-series exploring the world of form, self and reality. 

morality and right and wrong

04 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how looking to the world to categorise right and wrong behaviour only leads to more confusion about what is true and where change can come f...

Self, mind and body #8: conclusion

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Concluded our mini-series exploration into the relationship between self, mind and body. Thanks for listening x 

Self, mind and body: #7 illness and acceptance

02 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the idea of trying to accept an illness can send us into a tailspin of futility, exhaustion, self-blame and hopelessness. 

Self, mind and body: #6 CBT, hypnosis and NLP

01 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how there is a role for all types of thought, belief and association interventions in the sanity of knowing who we really are. 

Self, mind and body #6: diagnoses

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how a diagnosis is only ever a container or frame for reference and information, the flight of imagination it creates is never reality. 

Self, mind and body #5: medicine and drugs

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how an understanding of what is true means that medicine and drugs will be used in response to reality rather than trying to fix confusion. ...

Self, mind and body #4: therapy

29 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how therapy can be transformational when practiced within an understanding that there is nothing fixed, objective or true in the idea of sel...

Self, mind and body #3: mind and mind management

28 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the understanding that the idea of self is the activity of mind means that techniques like meditation and mindfulness are seen for what ...

Self, mind and body: #2 diet

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the cycle of eating behaviour and sense of separation. 

Introduction to mini series - the dynamic of self, body, thoughts and beliefs

26 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Over the next week or so we are going to look at different practices in relation to the self concept to explore the dynamic between our idea of who we...

Self, mind and body: #1 exercise and body work

26 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how exercise or body work can seem like a way to secure the self and seek out the 'zone' until it is realised that the self will n...

The mirror of self and other

24 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the self and other are made of the same stuff - just appearing as separate. If you have a topic request please let Clare know on clare@c...

Loss of self and understanding

23 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the moments of flow and absence of self can be seen as an escape from reality or understood to actually be reality. 

Detachment

22 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how detachment is only about intimacy 

Responsibility and free will

21 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Wondering about responsibility when there is no self to control anything. 

Resolution

20 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring where resolution lies.  

Talent, ability, the self and reality

19 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how talent and ability are nothing to do with an individual separate idea of self. 

Morality and reality

18 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the idea of right and wrong behaviour and how it can take us to an exploration of the ultimate source - ourselves. 

Gaslighting and reality

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how gaslighting - psychological manipulation that leads an individual to question their own memories, perceptions or judgement - depends on ...

Fear # 7: of liberation

16 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring today what is perhaps the ultimate fear - fear of our own liberation. 

Fear #6: triggering, avoidance and limitation

15 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how trying to control the world in order to not feel fear is a futile effort. 

Fear #5 Phobias

14 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Looking at phobias specifically, how they are created and where freedom lies 

Getting out of your own way

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how trying to get out of our own way just creates more confusion. 

Fear #4: the fear of circumstances

12 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how the need to avoid our worst fears coming true is a powerful motivation but one that is destructive and unnecessary.