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 constraints?  

What is Covered: 

-Why our identity is built on limitations and separation

-Why we can’t find wholeness and piece from the premise of separation

-Attempting to secure the identity through constraints 

-Examples of constraints in real life

-Spiritual bypassing of the reality by denying the actual constraints

-How constraints can be used as an input to start creating something unique

-Pure intelligence in action through working with constraints

-How constraints can lead to liberation and bliss 

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/

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 beliefs, seeking and resistance. We’ll see how understanding this begins the process of spiritual maturing. 

What is Covered: 

-Why the ego identity represents the inner child

-What it means to say that someone has a big ego

-The child and the lack of responsibility or shame and guilt in place of it

-Stress response as a prompt for spiritual maturity process

-What the mature and healing response to stress situations is  

-How to step towards the ultimate freedom and ultimate spiritual maturity 

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 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 actually two things, and today we’re going to see what those two things are.  

What is Covered: 

-Why true self-esteem and self-reference can’t exist together

-The inaccurate basis of the whole wellness industry

-The connection between narcissism and self-esteem

-How an absence of any thought of the self can transform into self-esteem

-How to avoid the bypass of bad behaviour in the absence of self-reference

-What it means to have an absolute accountability for behaviour and perception

-What true, highest self-esteem really is 

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/

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 Covered: 

-What stress or tension in a relationship with someone is showing us

-Why we keep trying to find unconditional love and acceptance in someone else

-How codependency in a relationship is created

-How to parent ourselves in a relationship

-Can you strategise showing up for someone? 

-Why showing up for someone is a solo enterprise

-How to set healthy boundaries in a relationship

-How to really show up for another person

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/

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 equivalent?”. 

In this week’s podcast we are looking at how it relates to resentment, and why it is such a powerful tuning in device for the mind to come back into reality.

What is Covered: 

-What is resentment?

-Why resentment is so toxic and unproductive for the bodymind

-How to deal with the blame in resentment and why it is totally unfounded in reality

-What happens to our ego when we ask the question - What is my equivalent?

-What happens to the resentment when we find our equivalent

-The story from Dr. Edith Eger’s book “The Choice” 

Resources:

-Check out Dr. Edith Egger’s book “The Choice” https://www.amazon.com/Choice-Dr-Edith-Eva-Eger/dp/150113079X 

-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/

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 society and even by psychology itself. 

So in this episode, we’re going to dive into what confidence really is and what it truly means to be confident. 

What is Covered: 

-Why we are so obsessed with the self, with emotions and with the regard of others

-Why attempting to switch from insecure to secure self doesn’t work

-Where our focus should be if we want to be more confident

-What confidence looks like on the outside vs. what happens on the inside

-The benefits of deep attention into our passions and interests

-How to resolve the confusion around the confident self

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 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 place of the superpowered mind? 

What is Covered: 

-Why it makes no point to try to defend the idea of a separate self

-Recognising when our mind is getting lost in identification

-How the process of untangling the confusion of a separate identity feels in our body-mind

-When we can recognise that our mind is becoming an observer of actions

-What is impersonal purpose? 

-How we can transform the energy of defending the narrative of self into the process of constant learning, observing and revelation 

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 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’ll explain in more detail why it’s an impossible task, and what we need to talk about instead. 

What is Covered: 

-Where to start with the search for peace, freedom and bliss

-Why the attempts to confirm our identity result in more stress instead of relaxation

-Why opening up to emotional storms is healthy for the human body

-How to start releasing the suffering and diving into the pure presence of the mind

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 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 superpowered mind? 

What is Covered: 

-What is the future and why that concept is the superpower of our mind

-The problem with imagining the future

-Examples of the future gone wrong in my mind

-The real truth of the mind

-The signals that our mind got lost in its own representations

-How to free the mind from identifying with the past and the future 

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/

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/