Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

You point out that every time the mind creates a thought that is then believed to be about the "me", so awareness becomes identified with that thought, the body will resist this. 

So any time there is this resistance, this repellent pushing away of one of these thoughts, (for example "people won't like me if they know me") this is a signal that the mind is believing something of its own creation.

And when you say the thought isn't true you don't mean that the suffering isn't valid, that it's not true that we feel bad when that thought is believed, right? 

You're saying that what's not true is the idea that what we are is this limited thought...

And the brain is just spitballing with its creative ideas - and then believing what is basically narrative noise.

What's harder to see here is that we are the awareness behind the thought, that witnesses the thought.

Can you say more about this thought not being true?

I really enjoyed the GOLD course and feel like I have gotten a lot out of it, but in a surprising, to me, indirect way. While I’m not without plenty of money issues, this is not my most pressing concern. 

The gift of this course for me has been that, as I watched the lessons, a distance, a space, a measure of objectivity, opened for me . As you discussed untangling money from the self-identified mind, over and over I heard money as a metaphor for anything the mind uses to seek security, worth, love, etc. You spoke of money, and I heard this as a metaphor for how this body/mind uses food and weight. 

So I’ve journaled and been curious about the feelings and thoughts around food/weight which has really been ramping up the more I explore the body/mind system with a rollercoaster mix of urgency and compassion. 

Where I’m really confused and what I’m asking for help with, is how to formulate a “clean” action plan, as it were, around food. I’ve been on and in rebellion of so many diet plans my entire life and my mind is full of contradictory science, labels and rules. 

I love how at the end of the GOLD Day 5 lesson there is a clean action plan for money. Could you offer me pointers on how to formulate something similar for approaching food? I sense I need something back in alignment with body needs for health, but am at a loss for how to proceed. I feel like I’m almost there, but it’s just out of reach and I need a nudge or pointer.

Thanks so much for all your sharing and love.

If the idea of me is based and built on conditioned beliefs why do we concentrate on it, why do many people teach to change the idea of a me. Why not look at the flowing of energy and knowing that the energy just flows and there is no identification that is real. The identification stems from conditioned beliefs that just are not true.

I want something to do about it. 

I just don't want to be like this anymore. But I'm scared I'm in too deep, creating an unhappy life. I saw I was doing it, but was too scared, fear, guilt. As if I can, could not admit. I guess I have to protect something. 

I'm so tensed in my jaws, mouth. 

I think a story of guilt, fear is playing around, keeping things in place. Guilt is a big one. (a lot of thinking about relation, work) 

I'm disappointed that I have become like this, creating this story, mess. 

How can I see beyond that it's not me. 

Why would I do this to myself. Going against life. It's almost rage. 

A crazy story 

I have been studying 3P for two years now. Via a podcast by Nicola Bird I found your book REAL. Read it, like it. But two weeks ago I read it again and it hit me like a brick. I have read many 3P books, and I understand it. But now all of sudden it saw it on a next and deeper level. So I joined your one month program. 

And strangely enough (I am at day 6 now) most of it is over my head. The videos and the live talk. I like it, but what are they saying? But in your book I understand almost everything.  Feel and see it deeply, I can feel the peace. What's the difference? Listening to your program gives me a good feeling. That's what you should look for Syd Banks said. Should I listen to it like music. Without trying to understand and enjoy the ride? That's the thing to do now? Hope you can give me a small hint 😊

'See what you made me do. Power, control and domestic abuse' by Jess Hill. The Sunday Book 

'Clean': Wonderful Word of the Week 

I noticed how much of my life I'm navigating from my feelings. How I'm deciding to do or not to do something (for a example call a person on phone) on the basis how I feel in that moment. Even considering myself confident or not confident is perceived or judged from my feeling. I guess this is a part of my conditioning. I also loved your explanation on a HOME course how this learned system is corresponding with circumstances and others moment by moment. I understand this as

taking actions and behaviours away from pain towards the pleasure to benefit the system, which is totally arbitrary thing for each of us. It looks like there is hierarchy inside the system choosing  actions and behaviours moment by moment in correspondence with what is learned. 

Do you you have any thoughts on that? Are we somehow recalibrating our systems with this new understanding?

Thank you for the money course.  The first two days have really got me thinking about how my relationship with money has developed and is now represented by the word itself.  I can also see how it is so closely entwined with the identity, of who I am, whether or not I am worthy or responsible.  

Day 3, no self-accountability was different.  Although I have heard of this before in previous courses, the accountability part resonates but the no self part is very grey.  It highlights how this identity still believes itself to be real. 

My question is, does the fact that I the self is tied up with protection in others areas eg. health, mean that money and NS-A are unable to be free?  I guess that I'm questioning whether it's all or nothing? 

I wonder if you can help me... I was introduced to the 3ps a few years ago and took a deep dive into them. 

My coach has been pointing to the idea of non duality, and I can feel there is something for me to see here. 

I'm intrigued to say the least.  What do you see is the difference (if any), between the understanding of the principles and non duality and where do these understandings overlap?