In this month’s episode, we're looking at the benefit of problems, and how they can perform an important role within the belief system in which the mind operates. We're going to look at it from two perspectives - the benefit for the identity, and the benefit for a more aligned experience of being. So we’re going to understand what may be the basis of our persistent problems with relationships or with money, how to discern between different kinds of problems, and how we can shift the mind from pr...
Jun 02, 2025•13 min•Season 2Ep. 57
When we are looking to solve a problem, one of the most difficult elements of a problem can be regret. It’s that thought, if only I'd done something differently when I had the chance, then this problem wouldn't be here. If I had or hadn’t done something at a certain moment in time, that would have changed everything about the past from that point on, the present moment that is being experienced right now, and the future. Regret is a powerful state of mind for us to look at. In this episode, we’r...
May 05, 2025•18 min•Season 2Ep. 56
This month’s episode is an introduction to our May programme, which is all about the intelligence of the mind, how it is liberated and how it comes into its full potential as the most miraculous and capable organ on the entire planet. Basically, all our programmes are looking at how the mind becomes more sane. One of the ways in which the mind becomes more grounded in reality is through problem solving. Today, we’re going to look at two kinds of problems that our mind is trying to solve, and how...
Apr 07, 2025•19 min•Season 2Ep. 55
“Let go of the outcome” is such a modern mantra, isn't it? Let go of the outcome and just focus on the process. And that mantra gets very confusing, because why would we let go of an outcome that is highly achievable and highly beneficial either to us, or to others, or to the world? Think about the work of surgeons and what would happen if they let go of the outcome. The problem is that letting go of the outcome can start to imply to not even try, not think about it, it almost becomes an opt-out...
Mar 04, 2025•17 min•Season 2Ep. 54
The direct path is a spiritual approach which considers that the content of experience is a creation of the mind. And for the mind to be in truth, we should turn away from that content to what lies behind all of the experience of being, which is consciousness, intelligence, love. The direct path is completely solid and grounded, and that’s awesome. But the thing is, the mind is still operating in a world where we work, we have family, mortgages to pay or problems with our boss. So if the only tr...
Feb 24, 2025•19 min•Season 2Ep. 53
“Find your why” is a very common phrase that we hear in self-help circles. It's the idea that there is a higher purpose, a bigger meaning we can find, a deeper motivation that will inspire us, and that will keep us going through tiredness and frustrations. It’s a very powerful argument, and that power is incredibly problematic. Because, if our why relates to securing the ego identity, then that whole thing is completely insane. So in this episode, we’re going to explore why finding our why can l...
Feb 17, 2025•18 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Today, we’re going to explore the gift of the fun house. The title of this episode came about as I remembered how my son experienced the fun house at a yearly fair in our town. For two years in a row he was scared, running into the same mirror and getting bumps on his head, and then the third year he just thought it was boring. Boring is such a good word when it comes to what the mind creates, the enormous roller coaster that the experience of being can go on in the grip of total identification....
Feb 10, 2025•14 min•Season 2Ep. 51
Welcome to our 50th episode! With almost 50,000 downloads so far, inspired by those fives, today we’re going to discuss five of my favourite quotes for life. Tune in to hear why I’ve chosen them and how they inspire and connect with the conversation around our Superpowered Mind. I hope they give you as much to reflect on as they give to me. "The real you is a field of intelligence in which the person you have identified yourself with, all other persons, as well as the environment in which they e...
Feb 03, 2025•17 min•Season 2Ep. 50
Today we're looking at the driver to be seen. Everybody wants to be seen, to be heard, to be acknowledged. It provides the temporary feeling of validity, worth, and survival even. And that makes sense when looked at from the belief system of what we are as a separate entity, that can somehow find wholeness through attention and love, regard and respect. In the midst of this tremendous drive to be seen, we use elements at our disposal, such as our work, our body, our looks or our help and support...
Jan 27, 2025•18 min•Season 2Ep. 49
Today, we're looking at the difference between a mind that is claiming doership and source accountability. We're going to take a story from a beauty salon to explore the mind’s confusion about being a separate doer that’s making things happen, and the state of mind that is sane, inquiring and settling back to truth about what we are and what is real. We're going to use simple messages that we can receive like compliments or insults to reveal the deeper meaning behind them about our belief system...
Jan 20, 2025•17 min•Season 2Ep. 48
Last week, we looked at one horrible question to ask ourselves in the midst of resentment: What is my equivalent? This week we're looking at an even more horrible question: What is the benefit? It is a horrible question because on the surface, it has the potential to be really dangerous. We need to understand its full power when we are in situations where there’s resentment towards someone or something. Is it possible that we might be benefiting directly from that situation? So in this episode, ...
Jan 13, 2025•17 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Today we're looking at one of the most powerful, humbling and liberating questions that we can ever ask ourselves. It's a question that comes into its full power in the moments when we are feeling resistance or resentment to someone. The question is: What is my equivalent? It’s a horrible question, because in those moments when we want someone to change their behaviour, the ego is having a field day. There's a full sense of me versus them, and it’s a wonderful place for the ego identity to hang ...
Jan 06, 2025•19 min•Season 2Ep. 46
Because we’re starting a new year, today we're looking at the phrase “New Year, New You.” You can see it throughout all of social media, all of the products, fitness plans, health kicks and diets - all selling the idea that you can create a new “you” through different behaviours. But is that true? Can going on a diet or giving up alcohol really make you feel like a new you? Obviously, any behaviour change, especially ending an addiction, is going to have a dramatic effect on the experience of wh...
Dec 30, 2024•20 min•Season 2Ep. 45
Discover the Freedom of a Quiet Mind: Transform Your Mental Health in January 2025 https://claredimond.simplero.com/page/589461 As Christmas is approaching, let’s dedicate today’s conversation to the greatest gift of all. There is enormous conditioning around the holiday season. It looks like at Christmas, we want to have all of the things we are told we should have - happiness, the perfect family, the right amount of attention and praise for what we do. We want to give and receive the right gif...
Dec 23, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Today, we're looking at the difference between peace and alignment, and the shift that happens when finding fake peace is no longer interesting. We have all experienced a strong urge and motivation to find and somehow keep our peace of mind. But if our entire experience of reality is based on our ego identity, on the idea of a separate “me”, it proves to be an impossible task. So why is that, that we try so hard to be at peace and simultaneously we end up further and further away from it? And ho...
Dec 16, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 43
Today we're looking at the phrase you hear a lot in spiritual circles - You create your own reality . This is a really interesting one, because it all depends on what that “you” is. How we understand that “you” will determine whether this phrase sends us into complete confusion, more frustration, more insanity, more stress, or whether it's a portal to sanity and to a deep understanding of what is going on within the mind. In this episode we are going to explore the two you’s that this phrase cou...
Dec 09, 2024•16 min•Season 2Ep. 42
Efficiency is my favourite subject to talk about, because of my upbringing and what I've seen the people in my life having to do with very limited resources. When there are situations like illness in the family, one really needs to step up and become incredibly efficient to organise and run everyday life. Because I’ve seen that being done so brilliantly in my family, it’s a tragedy to me when we live our lives in a constant struggle and fight that is not caused by circumstances beyond our contro...
Dec 02, 2024•21 min•Season 2Ep. 41
We live in a culture where we are learning all the time that our ego identity can be secured by someone else saying the right thing or doing the right thing to make us feel worthy. For example, if someone says we are beautiful or we are a great worker, it gives us a high like a drug. But the problem is that the high is temporary and it’s always followed by a crash, leaving us wanting more of the same drug. Depending on these highs to find any sort of stability creates an epidemic of mental ill h...
Nov 25, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Alignment is a word that we use quite a lot on this podcast and in this conversation. But what is really alignment and how can we recognise it or reach it? In this episode, we are going to look at alignment in three areas - dealing with misalignment to settle into the truth, behaviour changing as a result of understanding how our mind really operates, and the movement of intelligence and consciousness into the real world. And once we’ve recognised alignment and understood the perfection of the d...
Nov 18, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 39
In today’s episode, we’re looking at how we can make better choices. But in order to even start talking about choices, we must acknowledge that there is categorically no chooser. There's no independent entity that exists to choose anything, even though it looks so obvious that “we”, as a separate identity, are choosing our actions and behaviours. What our conscious mind is actually doing is just witnessing the choices that come from the vast subconscious realm. So if there is no chooser, how can...
Nov 11, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 38
We often find ourselves in a situation, a partnership, a friendship, or a job where we're feeling stressed, anxious and frustrated. And then we ask ourselves the question: should I stay or should I go? This is a great question for us to explore, because any situation in which there is stress is an opening space of inquiry for the superpowered mind. What often happens is that we either stay or we leave and nothing changes in our life. We stay stuck in the same situation or we replicate it in the ...
Nov 04, 2024•20 min•Season 2Ep. 37
It’s time for us to get really clear about what the Ego is. The ego definition that we usually encounter, particularly when we talk about someone having a ‘big ego’ is that they think they are better than other people. But actually - they might in many respects be better at doing certain things. Recognising talent, ability and strengths of a body mind has nothing to do with ego. Ego is simply the obsessive attempt to secure the self-identity. And all of those attempts fail, because it’s literall...
Oct 28, 2024•16 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Sign up for a FREE Webinar - Introduction to Will and Intention on Wednesday, October 23rd at 20:30 GMT https://claredimond.simplero.com/page/571715 What are we actually discussing in the question - is there free will? And then, where do our intentions really come from? And how can wants and desires be the means through which the power of the mind is realised? Today we are looking at this seemingly impossible conundrum of the non-existence of free will and the complete accountability for everyth...
Oct 21, 2024•21 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Sign up for a FREE Webinar - Supporting the Enquiring Mind on Wednesday, October 16th at 20:30 BST https://claredimond.simplero.com/page/571707 Today we’re looking at what we can expect to happen or to change from an exploration about reality, self and identity. Right in there is the biggest irony. On one hand, it's guaranteed through this exploration that the lived experience of being will become more peaceful, more joyful, more aligned to what we truly are. The problem is that this guaranteed ...
Oct 14, 2024•19 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Today, we're looking at the difference between cause, symptom and cure. If your role or level of responsibility involves working with other people and helping them with their problems, this episode is for you. It is so easy to override or spiritually bypass the actual cause of why someone is behaving the way they do, and keep them unintentionally in a limbo, not helping them get to what is actually going on. In this episode, we’re going to make a vital distinction between root causes, symptoms a...
Oct 07, 2024•20 min•Season 2Ep. 33
This episode is called “The Brick Wall”, because we're talking about a dead end and a complete full stop to the wants and needs to secure which cannot be secured. And that’s the identity. Identity relies on the belief system of being a separate, controlling entity. It's the attempt to control the experience of being, to control what we think of ourselves and what other people think of ourselves. Every single want that relates to controlling the experience of being is a 100% unfulfillable quest. ...
Sep 30, 2024•19 min•Season 2Ep. 32
What does it really mean when you want to tell someone a few “home truths”? Even if you resent someone’s behaviour and you feel called to put them right, does it really make you powerful or is there something else going on? Today, we’re going to dive into what “home truths” are and how they drive you to actually miss true power. We’re also going to look at five truly powerful questions that you can ask yourself whenever you feel triggered by someone else’s behaviour. Although these questions can...
Sep 23, 2024•19 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Many of us find ourselves wanting to do something, for example to write a book, or to get fit, or to build a business, but we just can’t get ourselves motivated to start on it. Where does our motivation come from? How can we get more motivation to do the things that we want to do? It's a great question that opens up the whole area of mind, desire, capacity and real world understanding that starts to make our mind the superpower asset that it really is. So in this episode, we’re going to discuss ...
Sep 16, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 30
This week, we are looking at healthy boundaries, and how the conversation about identity, self and reality can have an enormous effect on the sanity of our boundaries. One of the main dangers in setting healthy boundaries is that the confrontation involved in maintaining those boundaries and establishing deep relationships can be too much. If our earlier experiences taught us to avoid respecting our own space for the fear of being laughed at or shamed, we may even find ourselves spiritually bypa...
Sep 09, 2024•21 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Today’s topic is around focus, and in order to talk about focus, let’s first consider what focus is. Focus is pure attention. It is also called flow, the gap, deep presence, immersion and other names, but it is the fullness of attention given to something. So, focus has an object that our conscious mind illuminates like a spotlight. But what is the object of focus, and what controls where our attention goes? That’s what we are diving into today, because it takes us directly to what conscious min...
Sep 02, 2024•20 min•Season 2Ep. 28
