Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond Clare Dimond

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 really is, and how we can change and transform it from the space of sanity and freedom. 

What is Covered: 

-What is memory and how we think about the past
-How the mind organises information into past, present and future
-Why one piece of information can change an entire event from the past
-How to harness the mind’s superpower to interpret the past
-The illusion of identity and the past
-Looking at the past with understanding, sanity and freedom

Resources: 
-Download our exclusive recording Free Subliminal: Supporting the Enquiring Mind  bit.ly/podcastsubliminal 
-Learn more about me and my work at https://claredimond.simplero.com/ 
-Find me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/claredimondreal 
-Let’s connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-dimond-b533007/ 
-Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clare_v_dimond/

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 worth until it becomes healthy, which is the ultimate goal. 
So the healthy ego is seen as an ego that has a substantial belief in itself. What we are going to consider in this episode, though, is that actually that is a completely unhealthy ego, and we are going to unpack what a really healthy ego feels like. 

What is Covered: 
-Why we are so exhausted trying to protect our egos
-What a healthy ego really means
-How a healthy ego reacts to stress  
-How a healthy ego relates to free will and willpower
-Observation qualities of a healthy ego
-Accountability and truth of a healthy ego  

Resources: 
-Download our exclusive recording Free Subliminal: Supporting the Enquiring Mind  bit.ly/podcastsubliminal 
-Learn more about me and my work at https://claredimond.simplero.com/ 
-Find me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/claredimondreal 
-Let’s connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-dimond-b533007/ 
-Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clare_v_dimond/

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 is zero resilience. So let’s look at resilience in a different way in this episode. 

What is Covered: 
-Why it’s unhelpful to search for resilience within one’s identity
-The power of focusing the attention on an activity or situation
-The lessons on resilience we can learn from sport coaches 
-The key to transforming the current mental health crisis
-Two reasons why securing the identity is the end of resilience
-The liberation we can find in learning and failures

Resources: 
-Download our exclusive recording Free Subliminal: Supporting the Enquiring Mind  bit.ly/podcastsubliminal 
-Learn more about me and my work at https://claredimond.simplero.com/ 
-Find me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/claredimondreal 
-Let’s connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-dimond-b533007/ 
-Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clare_v_dimond/

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 health medication. 
There is clearly something wrong. It shouldn't be the case that human bodyminds need medication to live and flourish. So what's going on? In this episode, we’re going to look at what psychology is, its shortcomings and ways to overcome them.

What is Covered: 
-What psychology is and how it currently looks at identity
-Why psychology is falling short of understanding how the mind works
-The dangers of unquestioning identity
-How securing the unquestioned identity contributes to the mental health crisis
-Why the absolute focus on feelings is so unhelpful in the healing process
-The role of medication in this confusion about the mind
-The path to revolutionising mental health 

Resources: 
-Download our exclusive recording Free Subliminal: Supporting the Enquiring Mind  bit.ly/podcastsubliminal 
-Learn more about me and my work at https://claredimond.simplero.com/ 
-Find me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/claredimondreal 
-Let’s connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-dimond-b533007/ 
-Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clare_v_dimond/

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 of free will and the quest for control which is completely unfulfillable, and how we can approach it with more sanity and understanding. 
What is Covered:
-Why the idea of free will is the epicenter of the confusion of the mind 
-Where our behaviour really comes from
-How the belief structure that gives us an idea of what we are is formed 
-How to settle the mind into the space of inquiry and observation instead of control
-Where to find the space of actual change and genuine transformation

Resources: 
-Download our exclusive recording Free Subliminal: Supporting the Enquiring Mind  bit.ly/podcastsubliminal 
-Learn more about me and my work at https://claredimond.simplero.com/ 
-Find me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/claredimondreal 
-Let’s connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-dimond-b533007/ 
-Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clare_v_dimond/

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.  

What is Covered: 
-Is there an objective reality?
- What makes the content of our mind 
- The essence of who we really are
- Why we can’t secure our identity and why the ego is so vulnerable
- How we can manipulate and spiritually bypass our understanding of reality
- What true accountability is
- Exploration and co-evolving our reality as a result of self-interactions 

Resources: 
-Download our exclusive recording Free Subliminal: Supporting the Enquiring Mind  bit.ly/podcastsubliminal 
-Learn more about me and my work at https://claredimond.simplero.com/ 
-Find me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/claredimondreal 
-Let’s connect on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-dimond-b533007/ 
-Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clare_v_dimond/