Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

Listener question: I think i have a strong tendencie to avoid situations that seem unsafe for my self-identity.  This week I had some very nice experiences with engaging with situations I usually would avoid.There was curiosity but still it took so much effort to try and see what happens if I don't hide in my "safe space". So my first question is: will it get easier? Also I wonder: how can I tell the difference between avoiding things because my self identity feels threatened, and just needing time for my self? Because as you beautifully said the mind can be quite sneaky. Every time I want to avoid situations my mind tells me that I just need some time for myself. If I try to engage with a situation anyways it often happens that I get strong physical symptoms that kind of force me to stay at home and to stay in my safe space.So I guess my second question is:How can I know if I actually need time at home/time for myself? And how can I know if my mind does just it's sneaky thing?Sorry for the long unstructured questions. Am I making any sense?

Listener question: i always felt like there must be something wrong with me becuase i dont seem to have strong reactions to the larger world events (dont seem to feel strong reaction) ... now i see .. perhaps i more able to see those things as neutral and not judge them (unlike the self and other categories) ... but it does beg the question (in relation to the world stuff) ... when are we in denial and cut off from 'feelings'/reactions and when are we just in neutral and not in triggered judgemental reactions... and 'should' we be reacting to 'apparently horrific things ' to be 'healthy' and heart felt.

Listener question: Firstly please accept my apologies for what may seem a ridiculous question and what may appear my poor attempt at asking it.I have read several books on the subject of the three principles, Real, Inside Out Revolution and Clarity plus several others. I find your book very interesting as it covers so many situations one finds oneself engaged in on a day to day basis. I pride myself in gaining an understanding of the subject after reading the various publications I have purchased. I just wonder if you could clarify for me what I might expect as a result of my understanding. I fully appreciate how our experience of life from moment to moment exists. I also fully appreciate and understand that thought comes and goes.From some other publications I have mentioned I understand that when we are aware of the three principles and how our experience of life exists, our extreme thought patterns tend to diminish somewhat and the constant bombardment of thought isn’t as extreme.Could you tell me if my understanding is somewhere near the facts.Again I apologise for my somewhat poor attempt of an explanation but I suppose I’m asking what are the advantages of gaining this understanding

Listener question: can you talk about jealousy and envy please and what is the difference between them? 

Listener question: Thank you so much for the beautiful webinar yesterday.There's kind of a question that's on my mind today. When I was listening to you talking I completely "spaced out". I heard something very beautiful but I have no words for it. After the webinar my boyfriend asked me how it was. I simply couldn't say anything, I was just feeling very peaceful and hugged him.Also many questions about my life and things that scare me didn't seem important anymore. Still I know if I go there I get stressed again. How can I find a link between those two worlds? I don't want to ignore the stressful thougts but at the same time I wonder if it even make sense to ask myself scary questions?

Listener question: I have been working my way through your podcasts and although I am often resistant to what I hear, I find that if I settle myself and sit with it, I can usually see the truth in what you are saying.However the one on April 26 about Sydney’s teachings (listen for a feeling and your feeling creates your thinking) has me baffled!Although I do see what you are saying about how those words can be misunderstood, what about all the seemingly hundred’s of testimonials from people who claim that it is exactly hearing those words and living by them that has been the game changer for them? As well as all the teachers out there teaching the same thing?Personally, I do not feel that I had a massive insight, when I first came across The Three Principles, but life has definitely been more peaceful as a result of this understanding, and now it sounds like you are saying “not true”

Listener question: Dearest Clare: Thought I'd take a few minutes to compose my thoughts about "life" since doing the RICH course last year. You may recall, I am an artist and my biggest area of "stuckness" was around money and selling my art so I could have my "own" money. There were lots of insights and aha moments during the course for sure. But, here's the thing. At  some point, I saw very clearly and deeply how the making of art was in place as a means to keep the "artist" identity in place. This was a very, very deeply entrenched identity that was thoroughly woven into many facets of my life! So, things began to unravel, as it were, and slowly, but surely, this identity has lost it's credibility. But here's what I have been left with for many, many months now. NOTHING. A deep emptiness, apathy, disinterest, dispassion; unmotivated, uninspired; feeling lost, listless, directionless, adrift. I have forced myself to do some painting (I know, "I" am not doing anything), but the passion and the drive are gone. I have no desire to make art let alone sell it. I have destroyed (as in thrown out) tons of work that was just taking up space in my studio--no guilt, no emotional attachment whatsoever. Day after day, week after week, month after month, I keep trying to "find myself" to no avail (probably a good thing). I sit in my studio looking around at it all, tons of art supplies and the walls filled with work, and I feel like junking the whole works! None of this is "bad" per se, except that, frankly, this "void" is most disconcerting. I would liken it to depression I guess, although I'm not sure I'm feeling depressed! I guess I keep looking for something to fill the void. It's a black, empty hole (oh, I started to type whole, how interesting!), and there is much discomfort with it. I feel truly lost. I have no orientation, no direction. Everything is an effort, not just making art. There is no desire to do anything. I have no enthusiasm for anything and I struggle to fill my days. Nothing--baking, knitting, gardening, my usual distractions-- holds any interest. I mostly sit, listen to music, do some journal writing, go for walks or drives with hubby when he wants to get out of the house, or try to force myself to do something. And what I do end up doing takes great effort! Even so called "seeking" in a way, is taking a back seat. I feel like I cannot read another book, do another course, watch another video, listen to another podcast. It feels like as far as seeking goes, that there is absolutely nothing further "out there" to engage with. Like somehow, everything I could possibly have read, heard, seen is all there is to be read heard and seen. There's a strange feeling of completeness and a knowing that there is nowhere else to go but "within." The tears well as I write this; there's such a feeling of resignation(?), hopelessness(?), despair(?) because it's becoming so very clear that "I" am NEVER, EVER going to find what "I" am looking for, and I love that you know what I am talking about! There is no bliss here, no la la land, no deep peace being experienced! Just this great empty (w)hole. Perhaps at some point I will stop trying to fill that void and just be present to it, stop resisting it, but I know whether that happens or not is out of my hands.I don't know if this is a ringing endorsement for doing one of your courses Clare, lol! I just felt compelled to write it out and send it off to you, for whatever reason. I'm not looking for a response, or answers or suggestions or helpful advice from you, just thanks for being here for me to write to.

Listener question: Hi Clare. Would you be able and willing to speak to anxiety and grief around climate change in one of your podcasts? There’s a phrase that sometimes comes to me in relation to my own life: I can’t get there from here.   The “here” being my current understanding I guess.   Perhaps with climate anxiety, the “here” is our anxiety and grief about what we see happening in the world to the world. And our powerlessness to change it. Yet I know there is more than activism or denial available to us. Would you be willing to speak to this specific topic in the immensely beautiful way that you do where current experience is neither denied or escalated and a door to another experience  is so respectfully and sensitively yet also decisively and clearly opened? 

Listener question: Thank you for the reply podcast my love. However I get the impression that You don’t seem to have trauma awareness or experienced trauma in your own life, bless. I seem to need to spell it out for you: Being screamed at at work by a highly mentally disturbed client can’t be played down and said there are no triggers. Your nervous system would maybe react similarly to mine, but if this was recurring childhood experience then the freeze is inevitable. Or are you saying I’m holding on to my victim status because it’s familiar? The sense of loss of control in a freeze state is anything but desirable. I really want to see something in this. Lotsoflove 

Listener question: Dear Clare,  I wondered if you could please speak to these words attributed to Sir Anthony Hopkins on a podcast episode? One of my ingrained needs is to be loved and I still notice myself work so hard with certain individuals who are so-called friends to stay included and be liked and yet I expend so much energy doing so. Yet, with others in my life the love is reciprocal, almost effortless and flows naturally between us. Is it not better to face up to the needy behaviours and experience as a gift of revelation for the undoing rather than just stop giving time and effort to more one-sided relationships so that they fade into the ether and I don’t get hurt but yet the conditioning remains? Curious to see your take on Sir Anthony’s words of wisdom. https://www.facebook.com/pej.alaghamandan/posts/10160778874808572