Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

I have a lot of respect for you, have read all your books, and resonate with how you "teach" about life and how you help people. 

Honestly, I am at a point where I don't know whether to reach out to someone who I respect, or just try to stop saying and feeling the same things over and over. It has taken me several months feeling this way to decide to finally write to you. As you have said many times, we can't stop the thoughts that go on repeat in our brains/computers. 

This is a difficult email to compose, as I really have no business taking up your precious time, so I'm apologizing up front. My hope is, you will read it, and make some sense of it.

I am 64, two time cancer survivor, divorcee,  and full of unrest. When I was sick, I lost everything, and to make a long story short, I was one week from becoming homeless, and all I have been able to do is put bandaids on my entire existence and financial situation. It is the only way I can describe it and as truthfully as I can. "Reality!" LOL! 

I was able to keep my home, although like many, I am living month-to-month, and so close to the losing it all. At my age, job prospects are very slim to none when the income level I need is higher than most. 

My biggest regret is not paying cash for my home when I could have. I listened to everyone BUT my own wisdom. Here in America, we get brainwashed into going into debt, so we have a credit rating, AND, supposed tax benefits that have all gone away. Who knew I would get sick, lose everything,  and not have anyone or any thing to fall back on at all. 

Like many have said and thought............why me? 

I have made many, many mistakes. Am I being punished? Why would GOD, (The way I choose to define the Universe.), hurt itself, after giving us the greatest gift of all, "FREE WILL." It makes no sense. 

To get right to the point, I wake up every day, thinking the same "thoughts", with a feeling of complete unrest, unhappiness, and all the other words to explain the emptiness I feel. I don't have any more to say about it other than I want to hand it off to GOD, the Universe, Universal Mind. My question is this. How do I let go? Truly let go? I want to be free. Why do I keep on shouldering everything I do? We are all one?

There are no more words, analogies, sentences, or ways to explain. I know in my heart I want to continue looking within, turn to the inside, my heart and soul. I want to so badly. I don't know how. 

If someone could answer the question of how to turn inside, to be ourselves, to just be, and could actually make it happen, it would help a lot of people. Is it possible to feel like I have never truly been me other than when I was younger. I have a medal I had made when I was a child. It says, "Keep That Winning Feeling!". I felt that "special feeling", and knew enough back then to recognize it and want to keep it. I have been chasing it ever since. I know it's LOVE. 

Feel free to respond if you want to. As I said above, you are very well respected, and in my heart, you are someone who "gets it". Life, Love, whatever this is. 

While writing this, a thought came to me that said the word, TRUTH. I have always looked to the outside, whether it was my mom, counselors, teachers, friends, stuff, etc. looking for direction. Not to get all wu wu, I would love answers from my GOD. How do I know it's TRUTH/WISDOM coming to me within?

Thank you for your time and I hope this makes some kind of sense. 

'No-brainer'. Wonderful words of the week 

I think ever since I discovered your teaching I discovered this knowing that everything is ok, even or especially when I was experiencing very difficult situations and feelings. Even in the middle of a breakdown or panicattack something inside of me remained calm and knew that I was ok. (this might sound like spiritual bypassing but it really didn't feel that way at all).

Last week I discovered a whole new level of panic attacks. I felt like I was going to choke (I'm not sure if that's the correct word in english. I am looking for the word of not being able to breath and dying from it). I was so scared that this would never stop, and that I would have to spend the rest of my life in this hell. Also it felt like I had to control those feelings, because if I wouldn't I probably would actually choke because of the panic-attack.

This feels very much like something I shouldn't write. I guess I feel very exposed..

And I am not sure what my question is. I just feel like I have lost my inner compass and have no idea how to go on from here. I would love to hear your perspective on this..

Thank you for replying to my question about ADHD a while back. I have a few follow up questions. Maybe a bit too many questions for a podcast question but I have finally structured this so am sending.

Do you feel that all relative distortion on a mental level is rooted in trauma and that it is important to understand what that that relative tauma was? 

If we take Gabor Mate understanding of environmental circumstances as the source of the condition do we need to know the seed of the original trauma? Is working with the created beliefs and constructs enough to break up the illusions and effects created by the initial trauma which may well have happened preverbally and is unconscious? 

In the mental health condition known and labelled as ADHD my understanding is that the environment/genetics have affected the way the brain develops and functions at an early age and this in turn affects  our relative experience in many ways. The effects are particular ways of doing, thinking and behaving which the medical model calls a diagnosis. Is it healthy to want to change the experience of the relative with medication for this experience? I have come to accept that I would like to do this and have started on medication but at the same time I don't like taking medication everyday. The medication seems to be helpful in helping focus and continued attention with tasks. Accepting everything about me as it arises is also part of engaging with the healing part. The medication is giving me a clearing space and I am grateful for that. I feel a bit more realistic and clearer about everything and kinder to thoughts about thoughts. 

Hi Clare,

This is a follow up to the podcast where a listener asked you to speak about what it's like for you. 

Can you share more about when this exploration becomes fun and light?

thank you,

Is there free will? Listener question

Please could you talk about a subject that you have probably addressed, directly or indirectly, a thousand times already – control!  

I am tying myself in knots trying to formulate the question…

I get that trying to be in control IS the problem and keeps the illusion alive that we can be safe.

Because of this understanding I seem to have dropped the trying to be in control.  This appears in many areas of my life, but one in particular is my behaviour around overeating/comforting, where I now feel totally out of control. 

Am I using my understanding as an excuse to do whatever I want?  

Where and how do I get to the place where my system does what is in its own best interests.  And yet doesn’t it anyway?

You talked in a recent podcast about treating the body like a pet, giving it good food and exercise etc.  But when I am out of control I don’t care about any of that, I am in full-on self destruct.

I hope you are able to extract from this what I don’t know how to ask!

That was a fantastic webinar just now. It's one of those concepts that I feel I really understand as a whole and I think I followed along with you pretty well but now that I've had time to ruminate on it all I have so many questions!!!

The main bit that is sticking with me and making me feel confused is around strong emotions and feelings. I understand how this concept could seriously help people suffering from depression, anxiety etc but what about the good stuff!? What about the amazing love I have for my kids and partner or my wonder at the nature I live in or my daughter's fierce love for her pony!! I felt terribly sad that that would become sort of devoid of meaning and irrelevant....if I was to constantly be in the 'absolute'. 

I feel really interested in it all and I think I'd like to join this Wednesday's webinar - about helping others as I'm training to be a therapist.

To hear the webinar, click here 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l892tmik8q92q3a/AACh_zFvhcv9drqC6gfWnsrXa?dl=0

Our greatest contribution to humanity  is our awakening. 

It is to literally leave the state of consciousness that the mass of humanity is in and discover the truth of our being, which is the truth of all beings. 

Adyashanti

If thoughts create our reality what do we do because we do not choose our thoughts and we cannot change our thinking. What do we do to have a better experience. When in depression our thoughts are constantly awful, negative and dark.