Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

Listener question: In Clare's May 12 podcast she speaks about suffering as a sign that a story is believed which isn't true.  What if the story is true time and time again ie panic attacks at work over and over.  They seem true?  My brain has been conditioned to this.  I know the place of freedom in this is to see the non separation, and then they might fall away or I wouldn't care about them but until that is seen it seems the story is true.  Maybe the whole dam thing is a story!  The mind trying to be in control.

Could you maybe say something about the concept of ‚being lost in thought‘ and life Intelligence of rebalancing. If life’s wisdom is shrouded in thought, where do the choices in the moment come from that are pure love, pure life intelligence, pure peace that we apparently are? Or is this seen as an attempt by the overactive mind to soften the harsh reality?

Listener plea: make the suffering stop

Listener question: what about doing and distraction? 

Listener question: Hi Clare,It seems sometimes that when the mind is in a pattern of creating separation listening to your podcast or one of your course recordings for some reason more settling happens. What's happening there? Is it truth moving through to presence, new conditioning, old conditioning getting cracks in it? All of the above?

Listener question: how can I get this to change? 

Listener question: I am suffering en struggling for a long time with my relationship (and in life generally, nothing really changes, it seems that I don’t want to, never knew what i wanted in life, no plan, no ideas, to serious).I started this relationship because i was curious about the person but I also had the thought of being afraid of men and I wanted to overcome it… So not really because I was in love.In a way I pushed an forced myself, not at first but later on I did. Got scared, confused, didn’t understand my feelings/thoughts, controlling them, did not really know anymore what is a good feeling and what not.Many times thinking and tried to end the relationship, which of course created a lot of scary feelings and doubt.He is actually a good person, quite patient with me (of couse not always), loves life. He is human and has stuff, but he can deal quite good with it. I am actually jealous of him about that. He lives abroad so we don’t see each other very often.He says wise and true things about the thinking an living life. He also says he does want to live this way with eachother.I know he is right and that I have tot do something, stay and live with him or go. Because if have been busy and thinking so much about the situation I dont’feel well. I work less at the moment because of the stress. Sleep not very well. I am scared my head, heart can not cope with the situation anymore, often headaches and a heart that feels very upset, palpitations. I am scared that I am doing this to myself, first it didn’t feel that way, but i guess I am doing it (my mum used to say to my, what are you doing to youself).There is hardly any room for new or other thinking (I did not even know that was even possible) my head goes back tot the same story over and over again because I have to figure it out and because I am suffering.I feel low and down, especially when people or he says, do something about the situation, live life before it is too late.It is true, I don’t live, I am in my head and it scares me. Scared that I, thinking wil not change, and that I will miss life an maybe great opportunities. I stay in the same place, situations.And I don’t feel good or joyfull feelings.Numb, surpress. I hope you can give me some new perspective about me, life, thinking.

Intimacy and protection 

Listener question:  I’m in the middle of confused thought storms, so please forgive me in advance. So my question is: what if the intellectual understanding gets in the way of the falling away of patterns? What if the mind totally gets it, but the suffering is ramped up extremely? What if every tiny interaction with another human being becomes painful? The feelings are raw and relentless.What if the mind says, you understand now all of this, so why the hell are these patterns are getting stronger? Fear, emotional pain, suffering as sign that there is something believed that’s not true, says the intellect. Fuck, I m drowning in my suffering and we would probably say there is no I, there is no suffering, fuck it. I’m bright awake every night around 4 am (despite being on sleeping pills) being immersed in the Horrorfilm of my mind. I am fighting with myself and everyone around me and the minute I see what I am doing I collapse in utter selfdisgust, wishing myself or the other to die. It’s smoke and mirrors, a fight for life and death, it takes too much energy to function in everyday life. When asking the question what is at stake here, the mind goes blank. There is no way out.

Listener question: What does this understanding say about suicide? Is it that the self would rather kill the whole thing instead of face the self's death? Meaning the illusion is more compelling than reality?