Join our FREE Webinar on CAPACITY on Wednesday, August 28th at 8:30pm BST https://claredimond.simplero.com/page/567506 In this episode, we are looking at what capacity is and why it is the foundation of all experience of being. Capacity is the availability of resources from moment to moment. Resources such as attention, energy, compassion, endurance, creativity, time and money can make an enormous difference to what is experienced, what choices are available and what actions can be taken. It is ...
Aug 26, 2024•19 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Are constraints that we perceive real? It’s a vital question to explore, because our brilliant human mind, with its capacity for creating concepts and psychological devices, can very easily exit itself from reality. Our very ego is built on constraints and limitations. However, what we want is freedom to dive deeper into reality, we want to engage with our mind, body, talents, capacities, skills and abilities on a deeper level. So that’s why we need to ask the question - is there such a thing as...
Aug 19, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Welcome to our 25th episode! To celebrate 25, we’ll look at maturity, because the age 25 is the year when the frontal cortex reaches full maturity. Twenty five is also celebrated in many cultures as officially marking the move into adulthood. However, spiritual maturity happens throughout our life, and is an ongoing invitation right up to moments before death. In this episode, we’re going to start by looking at the ego, which is actually the inner child, a naive collection of unquestioned belief...
Aug 12, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Today we are looking at self-esteem and why it is the end of self-reference. This flies in the face of what the entire self-help industry is telling us. From what we read and hear, self-esteem comes from a focus on me, my confidence, my sense of being, my purpose in life and what I contribute. So it looks like to have high self-esteem, everything has to be focused in on that self, that needs to be developed and that needs attention. But the highest self-esteem is something else entirely. It’s ac...
Aug 05, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 24
What does it really mean to show up for someone? Is it being kind? No, because being kind is so fraught with what we think being kind is, which might not be what the other person has in mind at all. Is it giving them our opinion? Not really, because our opinions change all the time. Is it doing what they want? No, because doing what they want is then caught up in people pleasing and trying to get their love or their affection through manipulation. So what is showing up for someone? What is Cover...
Jul 29, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 23
This question comes from my current course on compassion, in which ‘resentment’ is one of our core topics. Resentment feels so awful because it is coming from the belief system that all behaviour is personally decided on and personally directed. Our identity goes into protection overdrive, creating the full lived experience of victim-villain. In these moments when resentment is running the show, there is one ultra-powerful question which ends the stress immediately. This question is “What is my ...
Jul 22, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 22
This week, we’re looking at the confusion around confidence. For decades, this was a confusion that I was completely lost in, suffering from paralysis around public speaking. It looked to me that if I could just have more confidence, then I would be okay. I read books on confidence, I went to courses on confidence, but none of it worked. And the reason it didn't work is because the understanding around what confidence is and what effect it has is completely misunderstood by our culture, our soci...
Jul 15, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Today, we're looking at something that sounds a bit odd, but it’s really the bliss of human existence, which is impersonal purpose. Last week we looked at why this is the only conversation to be in, and it's because it is the end of the powerful mind using all its resources in the attempt to secure the unsecurable - our mental construct of a separate identity. But what happens next, when the whole motivation to secure myself in separation is on its way out? How do we find our purpose from the pl...
Jul 08, 2024•16 min•Season 2Ep. 20
I say very often to my clients that this is the only conversation to be in. I do say that a lot, because the understanding of what the mind is, of what reality is, what the self or the identity is, of what is true and what the mind is capable of creating - all of that is liberation for the mind. Anything else other than this conversation is going to be an attempt to secure a vulnerable identity, convinced that it is separate from everything else, which is an impossible task. In this episode, I’l...
Jul 01, 2024•14 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Today we're looking at the future, and how an understanding of what the mind is and does can set the future and the experience of living free. There is a tension between the obvious usefulness of a mind that can imagine, plan and prepare for the future, and the paralysis of anxiety, fear, nervousness and foreboding when the mind gets lost in its images of the future, believing that they are real. So how do we resolve this getting lost in the belief of the future, and gain freedom for our superpo...
Jun 24, 2024•14 min•Season 2Ep. 18
This week we're looking at the past, and how a new understanding can completely transform the past. We're going to look at it from the perspective of what is true and what is useful. Because what happens is that the mind is so powerful and the way it represents things is so believable, that when the mind remembers the past, it looks like it's going actually back to some event. But it’s not. The past doesn't exist as something somewhere. So in this episode, we’re going to look at what the past re...
Jun 10, 2024•14 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Cambridge Dictionary refers to the ego as the idea or opinion that we have of ourselves. We can consider the ego as the ongoing conscious experience of existence and of what “I am” in relation to that experience of existence. But the current understanding of what we are is very individualistic and it's focused on that ego as being an entirely separate entity that is able to choose behaviour, to make independent decisions, that can be built up, can become more confident and can have more sense of...
Jun 03, 2024•15 min•Season 2Ep. 16
I want to start this episode by introducing a thought that the way we've been looking at resilience is completely wrong and confusing. It’s actually creating a foundation in our lives that is profoundly unhelpful. So how about we start with this: consider that resilience is there to the extent that the focus is on the activity or the situation, rather than being about the identity. Because when the whole experience is about me and my self-esteem, my worth and what other people think of me, there...
May 27, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Psychology could be playing an enormous role in understanding what we are. And yet it's falling short, and that fact is contributing to the mental health crisis that we are finding ourselves in.The statistics are dire: in the last 20 years, antidepressant use in the U.S. has increased fourfold. 25% of people in Europe now suffer from depression or anxiety. Worldwide, depression is now the #1 cause of disability. 300 million people suffer from anxiety and $8 billion a year are spent on mental hea...
May 20, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Free will, choice, decisions, doership, control - however we call it, the real question behind all these things is, does free will exist at all? And the answer is that the "I" that I think I am, the "I" that thinks it has free will, the "I" that thinks it should be in control, that "I" doesn't exist. I know it sounds a bit crazy, because the lived experience of being is of a separate individual, but that’s the fundamental confusion of the mind. So in this episode, I’m going to explore this idea ...
May 13, 2024•16 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Today we're looking at the biggest question of all, the question at the heart of mental freedom and sanity. What is reality? To unpack this question, we’re going to analyse some quotes about reality by Albert Einstein, Deepak Chopra and Steve Chandler. We’re also going to explore the notion of “objective” reality, our self-understanding, the content of our mind and the learned beliefs of what we are. We’re going to strip off the layers from these ideas in order to see what reality really is. Wha...
May 06, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 12
What is security is an enormous question. As security is explored, we can start to see that the more the mind associates security in either external circumstances or an inner realm of experiences being a certain way, the more the mind becomes confused and our lives become disrupted when things change beyond our control. That sets up existence as being vulnerable and shaky, and our lives become smaller, more rigid and more dependent as the mind becomes lost in the grip of factors being the source...
Apr 29, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 11
The search for peace is at the heart of so much of what we do. Our actions, our words and relationships are all done in order to try to bring about peace and ease of emotional and situational being. It’s all very understandable and logical, because as a baby, we live completely in the present, with no concept of past and future, so peace is actually what we are. Once our mind develops and starts learning, planning, and understanding, it starts creating concepts and beliefs about our identity, an...
Apr 22, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Shame, which I also refer to as an existential wrongness, is a deep feeling of being somehow responsible for everything that we feel is messed up within us. That ongoing sense of deep wrongness comes from the most fundamental confusion about the mind, about the body, and about our behaviour. However, shame is both our greatest suffering and the point at which there can be the greatest sanity about what the mind is and what we really are. There are examples of people who’d hit rock bottom and wer...
Apr 15, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 9
For all of us, in some area of our life, it might be that it feels just like a struggle, like we're pushing water uphill, and the more we try, the more the thing that we want moves away from us. Or otherwise, it might be that we want more money or more clients, but we don't even know where to begin. Maybe we want better health, we want to be stronger, fitter, more flexible, and yet there just isn't that motivation in us. So what is going on when the thing that we want just isn't coming into our ...
Apr 08, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 8
This week, we are looking at the origin of personality and the 'me' that thinks it has a personality. We can define personality as the tendencies, traits and preferences, the ways of being and behaving that are the result of both nature and nurture. They're our genetic inheritance and they are how those genes are activated as a result of the individual experience. So our personality arises and develops over time, but can it fundamentally change? And is our personality really ‘our fault’? This is...
Apr 01, 2024•14 min•Season 2Ep. 7
There is an interesting connection between addictions and the individual belief system. All behaviour, including addictions and compulsions, is the product of whatever subconscious conditioning is in operation. There is no separate decider. As this becomes more obvious, harmful, toxic and problematic behaviour that was carried out to secure the ‘separate me’ falls away. The problem with addictions is that we normally operate from an unquestioned belief that inside every mind, there is an indepen...
Mar 28, 2024•15 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Every day I speak to people who have intense fears. It can be in any area of life: fear of public speaking, of driving, fear for their health, fear of dying, of not having enough money, of being rejected, and all other areas of life. What they're wanting, and what I wanted so desperately when I was in the midst of my public speaking phobia, was for the fear to just be taken away. But the absolute irony at the heart of fear is that the desperation for it to go away is exactly what's keeping it in...
Mar 25, 2024•14 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Trauma is a distressing event that we can't cope with; that the body-mind system in that period of time doesn't have the capacity to assimilate, to recognise what's going on within the body in relation to it, or to talk about or find a way through it. Often these traumas happen during childhood, because the child is completely dependent on the caregiver for their survival. And if there isn't the support of the caregiver for the child in that moment to deal with the frightening event, that trauma...
Mar 22, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Our mind is so powerful that it is literally able to cut itself off from reality. It believes whatever it is conditioned to believe. So all the suffering and unhappiness that we’re experiencing, for many of us comes from a deep fear, deep insecurity, a sense of lack, and the shame at the heart of not living up to expectations, of not comparing well to the people around us, and of having habits, addictions and emotions that we can't control. In this episode, we’re going to explore how we can bett...
Mar 21, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 3
What do we really mean when we talk about a superpowered mind? A superpowered mind is completely sane, completely in reality, with full access to all the data available right now, as well as all the resources of that individual's experience, including the experience beyond the personal, in the nebulous space of the universal subconscious. This is all our birthright. The human mind is designed to be like this. So in this episode, we’re going to dive into the superpowered mind and how to start rel...
Mar 20, 2024•20 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Let’s start with the most fundamental aspect of the origin of existence and experience of existence - the nature of the human mind. So, what is the mind? A simple question which we might not have ever inquired into, but which unlocks the entire understanding of ourselves and of reality. Everything begins with that question. In this episode, we’re going to dive into what the mind is, the two aspects of it, and how the brilliance of the human mind sometimes becomes our downfall. What is Covered: -...
Mar 20, 2024•15 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Welcome to the inaugural episode of my new show, Superpowered Mind! This weekly podcast is for enquiring individuals who are tired of the struggle for peace, happiness and clarity. I'm Clare Dimond, a certified coach who has worked with thousands of people around the world and the author of nine books on the mind and its potential. I am also an NLP trainer, BA Psych, MBA, yoga and meditation teacher and master hypnotist. I’m ready to help you explore the principles of the mind, the self and real...
Mar 20, 2024•9 min
This is our last but one podcast for a little while. A brand new version is going to be launched on 20 March. There will be a Super-powered mind launch party on-line at 5-8pm GMT with special guests talking about their understanding of the mind. This is free and open to all. You are welcome to bring friends. Register to join the launch party: https://streamyard.com/watch/gKU8UZb5uv77 I would gratefully welcome your support for the launch. To get involved and win some prizes, please join our What...
Feb 29, 2024•8 min
This is our last but one podcast for a little while. A brand new version is going to be launched on 20 March. There will be a Super-powered mind launch party on-line at 5-8pm GMT with special guests talking about their understanding of the mind. This is free and open to all. You are welcome to bring friends. Register to join the launch party: https://streamyard.com/watch/gKU8UZb5uv77 I would gratefully welcome your support for the launch. To get involved and win some prizes, please join our What...
Feb 28, 2024•7 min
