Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

The Complete Book of Awakening. Interview with authors Helen Amery and Sara Priestley. https://thoughtfulraven.co.ukHelen Amery  I guide others in their awakening and enlightenment. After my own journey through corporate HR, then psychology-based coaching, I realised there was something more fundamental going on. It opened the door to something I never thought I'd have in my life - a spiritual understanding. It led me to the recognition of who I really am - who we all really are - awakening. And to how we can experience life in a much easier, more light-hearted way - enlightenment. My passion now is to bring that to more people with a practical, 'normal' person approach.  Sara Priestley  Sara had a career in corporate IT before leaving to become a massage therapist and then Pilates teacher. These reinforced for her the inward path of knowing who we are for ourselves, which led her to The Three Principles and then into nonduality. She now hangs out with her little cat colony, drinks a lot of coffee, helps clients solve life problems, supports people who have been hurt by cult-like groups, hosts her local poetry society’s online gatherings, reads, writes, teaches nonduality, serves on the board of the Association for Spiritual Integrity, explores emerging voices in this field, and plays with this expanded understanding of who we are and how it shows up. 

Hoʻoponopono practice

Maybe you've already spoken to my question: thoughts are not reality, humans use thoughts to make up concepts, so to speak. Then howcome bypassing is a "thing" to take seriously? Isn't it just another concept? And bypassing / not bypassing becomes irrelevant as there is no bypassing or anything to bypass regardless? 

Somewhere in between since i got to your teaching I got very angry thinking: Why it's always has to be on us to do the work. To explore out inside and what's true and to sit with discomfort.And others can walk around without any responsibility/acccountablity doing crazy things and being dick heads.How do we know when this work is done, that we enquiry something as much as we could....and then the  jobs are left, relationships are ending, unspoken words get voiced...etc.Also at the same time not falling for a trap that's prolonging our circumstances in a way: I'm learning this reality thing so I should get my shit together. You always openly shared with us your divorce story. How did you know it was time to leave?

I've been noticing how challenging it is for the attention to stay with sensations. I revisited your Change course from last year (see attached diagram) where you indicated that physical sensations are intolerable as they confirm the story of self.In the experience over here it feels more like resistance confirms the story, not the feeling of the sensations. The sensations are transitory and reveal flow and change as constants. *Not feeling them* seems to hold the idea of separation in place. Maybe this is what you meant and I'm interpreting this upside down or something. 

It seems the longer I am working with you the less I can make meaning of what you and other reset people are saying. I see your mouths moving and I know you are speaking English but I cannot understand. is that normal?

Clare, the WANT course was absolutely wonderful. I don’t know how you manage to record in advance a video that addresses a question or concern of mine each morning that I listen. Just wonderful! Totally mind-blowing!Throughout this year taking your courses so much has become clear. The suffering, the new information, and the logic of it all has resulted in major shifts.I came to your work to learn more about nonduality. But really with the ulterior motive of fixing/curing/solving a lifelong muddle of body/food/weight. What has shifted deeply is the knowing and respecting the logic and wisdom of the body. Shame and guilt and layers upon layers of innocent misperceptions and concepts have collapsed. Compassion and love flows through.But what I want to ask about is a bit that remains. While there is contentment in the moment as is, just as it all is, a part still wants to wear a smaller size jeans. In searching within and journaling and sitting with it, this want remains. It feels like this want is not to secure or stabilize or compensate for some wound. Or if so just the tiniest bit.Throughout this course we’ve talked about clean and dirty wants. I’m wondering for beings in form if these distinctions as metaphors describe opposite ends of a continuum? Can a want be clean-ish?It’s all just conceptual labels, but I’m curious if wants that come bubbling up like this from the body/mind system steeped in the culture, if a seemingly frivolous want (a judgement from the same body/mind that produced it) like this could be clean or clean-ish? Thank you so much for a transformative year!

My brother contacted me today. We've not spoken in years. When you asked if there were any things unresolved from our past, this is it. This, and my relationship with my Mam. All tied up in a lot of pain from the past. His messages really hit me. Aside from all the specifics of the stories involved in this, what I noticed was an immediate need to reach out. To a friend I have sought closeness with these past few years, to the group, to you. I wondered what can be seen in this. In some ways it seems a natural response. Connection. That's good for the system... a no brainer? At the same time, there seems a running away in it. Making it into something I can use to connect me to others. Get that strangely vibrant feeling that you feel when relationships deepen over shared pain. I'm not questioning whether I did the right thing or not. I know it's all exactly as it should be but it's clearly an opportunity for healing and so I'd like to be as open as I can be to whatever can be learned 

What really confuses me is I feel like I am owning all of these “feelings” I have every day, every waking hour of my life. How do we let go, come home, and be home? I wake up, my MIND immediately goes to my teeth, (When I lost everything ($$) with the cancers, I had to stop going to the dentist and now I am embarrassed because every piece of food must be cut up, several teeth are missing, and I haven’t felt comfortable to smile for several years now. I feel horrible about myself. My dad used to tell me my smile lit up my face. I feel really stupid telling you this. I can give you many other direct feelings and if I cut to the chase, I am miserable. I feel like I have never really been myself and am always trying to “let go”. I have no other explanation for why I feel this way day after day after day and haven’t been able to shake it off. I have mentioned my  boys. They are 14 and I want to be a better example for them. Nothing in my relationship has been anywhere close to being full of love. I can give you a long explanation and it would make sense, BUT it still doesn’t change the fact that I feel like a loser in their eyes. I am sure they can sense my unrest and negativity. I do. No more excuses, reasons, and examples. Why won’t my GOD help me? How do I get home? What am I missing? I know there is no “I” intellectually, and yet I so desperately want to “let go”, “be”, just feel good. Like I am making a difference. I am so sick of being miserable. I hate it. I want off the ledge and I have no idea how to just be, let go. Is life supposed to be this way? Amy Johnson asked me if everything was fixed, my home was paid for, my teeth were fixed, I have “LOVE”, I am loving my daily existence (Work, since I still have to. I’m feeling trapped with no one to take care of me if I fall.), my boys and I were closer, would it make a difference, and would I be happy? I’m not sure. Maybe GOD put me on this earth to be miserable. To suffer! I am so tired, Clare. I try to let go, and I am still miserable. 

This thought came to mind today Clare, please will you create one of your beautiful podcasts around it…Find the narcissist in you. 💭