Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

Clare Dimond
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Nov 19, 2020 • 8min

Listener question: how do I help my wife accept her pain?

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, probably starting with SANE.  However, to her, the idea that she should look on these intolerable conditions or circumstances as just part of the content of life, or as something to be accepted as just part of the Present, is insulting and like a slap in the face.  It is hard, maybe impossible, for her to NOT believe in the reality of the constant pain with which she has to live.  To her, if the universe is 'Life' and she and the pain are part of that Life, then the universe sucks and Life is not much more than cruelty and misery and a horrible joke.What do you tell someone who lives with such conditions?  Do you have any ideas for how I might be able to help her cope in the Present?
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Nov 18, 2020 • 10min

Listener question: how do we know awakening is not just a product of conditioning?

Listener question: When you experience that awakening and realisation, how do you know the awakening and realisation, that feeling of total awareness and love, are not just more products of conditioning? How does anyone know that you are not just thinking and believing this is the reality of love and awakening?
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Nov 17, 2020 • 10min

Listener question: what now and why?

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 you are aware of is in the story you have lived? If life tells me to go right I will gladly go right. But isn’t my interpretation of what life is telling me always based upon good and/or bad within the story? Maybe even creating a new one as I sometimes see happening ( “God spoke to me and he wants me to……..(fill in whatever you want)..because I am the chose none”).. Am I not (even within the story) exactly where I should be?! And, accepting that, allowing that, not running away from that, is there anywhere else to go to find the peace and happiness and love we are here, at this very moment, with exactly the amount of money, energy, time and connection that is now experienced?! I think not..End of story..And then? Left or right? And why? Please throw me a life-line here…
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Nov 16, 2020 • 13min

Parenting values, beliefs and rules for living

Listener question: I have a question which relates to teenage children and my developing understanding around this conversation. As a parent I’ve loved, supported and guided my children on their path to become independent young people. When they behave in a way which goes against my own values, beliefs, and rules for living, I find myself in a state of suffering. I’m beginning to see that this suffering is caused by my own need to feel in control in order that my ‘self’ feels stable. I guess you would say that their behaviour is nothing to do with me and that I shouldn’t take it personally, but I do, as I feel it is my responsibility and I’ve always taken my responsibilities seriously, especially when it comes to my children. This is where I’m a little stuck, can you point me in the direction to see something different here please? It all looks so real when I’m in the thick of it all! Is it just a question of letting go of resistance and control? 
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Nov 15, 2020 • 14min

Asking for what we want...

Exploring how often, the asking is reinforcing the apparent reality in which the self cannot get what it wants. 
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Nov 14, 2020 • 11min

Body, mind, space, self

Exploring the impossibility of a self existing separately from the body, mind or environment. 
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Nov 13, 2020 • 13min

How can there be no such thing as rejection?

How can there be no such thing as rejection? 
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Nov 12, 2020 • 12min

'Rules'

Exploring how the physical rules of how form works are generally reliable while the 'rules' of the self are not 
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Nov 11, 2020 • 10min

Listener question: What am I?

Listener question: What am I?
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Nov 10, 2020 • 13min

Listener question: How do beliefs get believed?

Listener question: I've just finished reading 'Sane'.  A challenging read for me to stick with if I'm being honest.  I found myself constantly wanting to run ahead to the 'how to' section.  I realise from my other reading in 'the conversation' that's it's not about the how-to. What I took away from the book, and I hope this was the point you were trying to get across, is that it's not about the beliefs that I hold about myself (I), but that the 'I' itself is just a set of beliefs. Correct?  So the questions that spring to mind are, 1. how did they get there? and 2. what keeps them in place? Did I miss that in the book? Does it even matter?

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