When I want to speak up for something I want in front of others e.g asking a builder to change something when he is halfway through a job because I was either : misinformed, I realise there is a better option OR I just don’t like something. How do I navigate this communication cleanly and respectfully (for self and other) when i'm silenced by my freeze, fight or flight the situation. I get flooded with feelings of shame, self-apology and am scared of being seen as a hassle. Perhaps i would aks f...
Nov 15, 2021•10 min
Listener question: how does a subliminal work?
Nov 14, 2021•10 min
Listener question: I find your Subliminal offering interesting. Then, in one of your podcasts (and, also my understanding), you mention that looking for answers in the world of form can keep us in alert mode? I'm just wondering how you reconcile these two ideas ? I learned about Subliminal from one of my clients and I'd like to be able to understand your logic behind it please? https://claredimond.com/realisation-nothing-to-realise/
Nov 13, 2021•12 min
I have a question about what has to happen for a person to change or at least seek change. Do people allways have to hit the bottom floor and face unbearable pain to get themselves in the postion to seek change? As I listen to your podcasts/Videos, defense mechanism & EGO sistems in place are strongly keeping us in the status quo. And grasping temporaly reliefs (outside ourselves) from discomforting feelings can just prolong needed realisations.
Nov 12, 2021•10 min
Listener observation: there are no people involved in conversation...
Nov 11, 2021•7 min
Clean communication - the dissolution, not an attribute, of the self
Nov 10, 2021•6 min
Listener question: The question I keep playing over is whether I need to know what my story is or just being aware that there is a story tied into identity is enough? Whenever I try to investigate what the beliefs are that are keeping this fear of public speaking in place I go all over the place and whilst lots of thoughts are revealed I'm not sure what I am believing to be true.
Nov 09, 2021•8 min
Listener question: Can you please do a podcast on the sense of feeling which is the only thing in the now. What happens when subjectivity gets involved in the feeling and distorts the felt sense of feeling from the story of feeling (what the mind wants to create from the feeling). If one is feeling anxiety and feeling it in the body the feeling of constriction and tension in shoulders and is feeling it. Then the mind comes in and attachs a story to the anxiety and that story is seen and heard an...
Nov 08, 2021•7 min
Listener question: Simple question: Can NLP be useful alongside an exploration of non-duality?
Nov 07, 2021•10 min
Listener question: You have said and written something like the healing happens when the conditioning is revealed/becoming transparent. I listened today again to the webinar on monday were you said that when the beliefs are being revealed they loose their grip. Is that the healing (or part of it)? Please talk some more about the healing and how you see what is going on. You have been speaking something about trauma also. Will the loosening of the grip of the beliefs also transfer to what is cont...
Nov 06, 2021•12 min
Listener question: why do I do 'x' when I know I should do 'y'?
Nov 05, 2021•7 min
Listener question: It seems like when a mind created story comes up, it‘s more convincing than ever, like how dangerous it will be to go on stage. Also some physical symtpoms are very strong. Somehow I can observe how the story comes up, but then when I‘m in it, I‘m so much in it that I can‘t really see it as a story anymore. I‘m very scared that I will get stuck in the story and won‘t be able to observe whats happening anymore.. I don‘t know if I‘m making sense.. I think my „self“ is trying to ...
Nov 04, 2021•5 min
Listener question: What exactly is 'honesty' ?. I realised that if i met an old friend i could be 'honest' and say "i am a failure, i dont have children, i'm not married, I'm still dependant with no reliable income, I have 'gone nowhere, the world has moved on and i am the same as i was when we last met". Compared to all the 'movement' in her life i would feel like a loser. This would feel like my 'honest truth'. I would be sharing how i 'honestly' feel and see myself right now. HOWEVER, i can a...
Nov 03, 2021•7 min
Listener question: What I'm seeing with my expression and lack of, is a deep distrust of life i.e. that the expression I long to be truly isn't possible and it's best not to be proved right on that. Choosing actions that allow full expression rather than keep a pretence that it's still at a distance and not yet available is what I want. My concern with being a participant on your course is that I continue to stay in that story of I'm not there yet (wherever there is, I hope you get what I mean.)...
Nov 02, 2021•7 min
Listener question: I do feel like it's groundhog day over here. Currently I'm gripped with fear. I'm trying to stay with the sensations and tell myself that any story I'm attaching isn't true. It seems like it is true that I keep having the same experience. The work I do is so intimate, and having panic attacks here is so difficult, but I guess that's what you mean about going in the other direction deeper into the story. I listen, and read and think 'oh yes, this makes sense and it's very true'...
Nov 01, 2021•7 min
Listener question: I noticed that if I get stressed, that I try to "do the same thing" that worked last time. I sort of see that the last time something "worked out" it wasn't because I did something specific with the controlling mind. But at the same time I remember doing things like observing overwhelming feelings (which seems to have helped me a lot). How do I not make this a technique? (which is definitely a question of a controlling mind..)
Oct 31, 2021•6 min
I am wondering if you could talk a little about comparison as compared to judgment. I see them as kind of the same thing - when I judge something I am seeing myself/projecting and when I am comparing, I am…what? So in other words what is the difference between comparison and judgement? Thank you for any input you have.
Oct 30, 2021•9 min
Excerpt from From the Heart by Nicola Drew Explorations in consciousness and unconditional love
Oct 29, 2021•4 min
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Oct 29, 2021•14 min
Not that long ago, I found out that someone who means a lot to me has been deceiving me for months, hiding the truth from me and essentially lying even though we had conversations about that and promised to be radically honest with each other! It hit me like a tonne of bricks. That truth, had I known it, would have changed almost everything in my relation to this connection, my decisions etc. All of the sudden, since I found out, there was very much the separate me who was hurting and felt betra...
Oct 28, 2021•11 min
Listener question: I know you've talked before about no self accountability, so I assume that's what you mean. I'm not sure how it applies? Do you mean to take NSA for the things that are looking true and real to me that are creating suffering? I get that when we see something in our past where we've made a mistake we can apologize without any self blame as we acted according to the program running at that time but now see it for what it was, but I can only see how this applies when something fa...
Oct 27, 2021•12 min
Listener question: I guess I’m curious about your next course and the subliminal recording. The only thing (or things) that hold me back are my concern that my symptoms will worsen during the course. The only reason I am concerned about this is that you mention it in your book Well. I am struggling a lot with my energy levels and I home school my child so I don’t want to get to the point where I literally grind to a halt! My other concern is (without sounding rude) I have done quite a few 3P cou...
Oct 26, 2021•16 min
This is Day 3 of a 3 day mini series about clean communication. Each day is a different exercise to do. If you are interested in going deeper into this topic of expression and authenticity, come and join us in November for the on-line course VOICE https://claredimond.com/current-live-program/
Oct 25, 2021•12 min
This is Day 2 of a 3 day mini series about clean communication. Each day is a different exercise to do. If you are interested in going deeper into this topic of expression and authenticity, come and join us in November for the on-line course VOICE https://claredimond.com/current-live-program/
Oct 24, 2021•8 min
This is Day 1 of a 3 day mini series about clean communication. Each day is a different exercise to do. If you are interested in going deeper into this topic of expression and authenticity, come and join us in November for the on-line course VOICE https://claredimond.com/current-live-program/
Oct 23, 2021•7 min
I was just listening to a podcast about how to be in the best situation to be open to insight. I heard, maybe incorrectly?, that you show up to whatever the situation is and bring a good feeling to it? This has confused me a little, as firstly, I have recently seen that we are not in control anyway, so how can we control the feeling we bring to something? And secondly, my brother has just had a cancer diagnosis, is it actually possible to bring a good feeling to that? I can see how I can ‘choose...
Oct 22, 2021•15 min
Listener question: I feel like my anxious energy is trapped in my body. It's usually there, I know there's still a lot more for me to see around who I really am, but is it a good idea to also try to release this energy? I know I've had childhood trauma (totally forgive my parents), and I also wonder if the constant panic attacks at work are a type of trauma as well. Finances always come into play when it comes to therapy, so I'm wondering if yoga or something else that can be done in a class or ...
Oct 21, 2021•7 min
Listener question: Since the courses I was in before a lot of awareness has taken place, sometimes I have something constantly lit up; an example would be: wanting recognition, needing to be noticed. I have been listening to some podcasts that Tim Downs posted about clean questioning plus the additional one about impeccable words. My question is how will the healing unfold? I can clearly see how the 'recognigion' programing can be totally in awareness and therefore the rug is initially pulled, a...
Oct 20, 2021•11 min
[Follow up to 15 October podcast) Thank you so much for your podcast on my question. I‘m trying to write to you and describe what happened but I don‘t really know how. After listening to your podcast I cried for a while.. a space opened up. And things felt very different than usually before concerts.. almost to the point that I got suspicious if I should become more nervous again.. Afterwards I had a beautiful concert experience. I almost feel a bit ungrateful to ask this follow up question but ...
Oct 19, 2021•12 min
My daughter, at University is having problems and it is consuming my thoughts at times. I see that I am in separation, there is a definite daughter and an actual problem to be solved,it also feels like I should be able, or its up to me, to solve it. Last night I found myself wracking my brains to see where this conversation can help me. "It's just thoughts" kept coming to mind, which I argued with myself that I am actually a thought too and I have jumped on a hamster wheel of trying to fix thing...
Oct 18, 2021•12 min
