
Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond
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Mental health exercises? (listener question)
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)
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)
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 [email protected]]

How do I find where I belong? (Listener question)
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 and people where the unique expression to be expressed most vibrantly.

Loneliness in marriage (listener question)
Exploring how the suffering in a marriage is always a reminder of who we are.

Sin series: #9 Conclusion
Summarising how the look at the different sins has made it clear that there is no possibility of sin...

Sin series: #8 Sloth
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 to what arises.

Sin series: #7 Greed
Exploring how greed is the desire for more and more in an attempt to secure the self.

Sin series: #6 Anger
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 or person to be angry at and no self to be angry.

Sin series: #5 Lust
Exploring how the extraordinarily complex landscape of lust, desire and sexual behaviour becomes increasingly simple with an understanding of who we are.

Sin series: #4 Gluttony
Exploring how the desire for excessive consumption is inevitable given what has been learned about the self.

Sin series #3 Envy
Exploring how envy is the inevitable outcome of the belief that self worth is conditional.

Sin series: #2 Pride
Exploring the nature of pride and what it says about who we really are.

Sin series: #1 Introduction
Beginning a new series looking at the nature of 'sin'. Hope you enjoy it x

The 'real' world #12: conclusion
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
Exploring the reality of living in a dangerous world.

The 'real' world #10: altruism
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
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 wholeness and a unity with everything that arises.

The 'real' world #8: relationships
Exploring how relationships are a continuous reminder of what we really are.

The 'real' world #7: creation
Exploring how there is no 'self' involved in creative output

The 'real' world #6: material objects
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 there is moment to moment.

The 'real' world #5: impact
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
Exploring the relationship between money, self and survival

The 'real' world #3: career and jobs
Exploring why our work is a meditation practice leading to the falling away of what is not true.

The 'real' world #2: success
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
Introducing a new mini-series exploring the world of form, self and reality.

morality and right and wrong
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 from.

Self, mind and body #8: conclusion
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
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
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
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
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
Exploring how therapy can be transformational when practiced within an understanding that there is nothing fixed, objective or true in the idea of self, other, past or future.

Self, mind and body #3: mind and mind management
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 we already are.

Self, mind and body: #2 diet
Exploring the cycle of eating behaviour and sense of separation.

Self, mind and body: #1 exercise and body work
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 never be secured and that the zone is what we are already.

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

The mirror of self and other
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 [email protected]. Or visit the website http://www.claredimond.comThanks x

Loss of self and understanding
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
Exploring how detachment is only about intimacy

Responsibility and free will
Wondering about responsibility when there is no self to control anything.

Resolution
Exploring where resolution lies.

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

Morality and reality
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
Exploring how gaslighting - psychological manipulation that leads an individual to question their own memories, perceptions or judgement - depends on a confusion about what is real in the first place.

Fear # 7: of liberation
Exploring today what is perhaps the ultimate fear - fear of our own liberation.

Fear #6: triggering, avoidance and limitation
Exploring how trying to control the world in order to not feel fear is a futile effort.

Fear #5 Phobias
Looking at phobias specifically, how they are created and where freedom lies

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

Fear #4: the fear of circumstances
Exploring how the need to avoid our worst fears coming true is a powerful motivation but one that is destructive and unnecessary.