The Shift: Ten truths of profound mental health

by Clare Dimond

There is a video of a child struggling with terror in the sea. He is crying and his arms are flailing. His face is contorted in fear. It looks, from the perspective of the camera, as though the child is drowning.

And then along comes another child who calmly, laughing even, grabs hold of the drowning child’s feet and places them on the sea bed. The drowning child is now standing up and the water barely reaches his thighs. He was never in any actual risk. And yet, in the perception of danger, in a mind lost in the belief of drowning, with behaviour responding to perception rather than reality, he could have drowned.

This is an apt metaphor for the struggle that is the nature of the human condition. The Struggle takes place when a mind and body create an experience of being that is completely out of alignment with reality.

In The Shift we explore how a mind lost in the fight with its own created reality settles into the profound presence, love and truth that is its sane state. It is the end the of the on-going attempt to secure a fragile sense of self by controlling emotions and experience, turning life into an on-going revelation of the thought-created nature of self and reality and of the unchanging truth of existence that is prior to thought.

168 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 29, 2023

Reviews

[Jim Wulpern · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book brings 40 years of seeking into 10 truths into light one of which seeking cannot find peace its letting go to return from where we came and connecting where we came to the present reality in which we are now over and over again. But we first must go out before we can come home

[Dan Altman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Transformative, amazing book!

I love how clearly Clare explores the nature of our experience and our realities. Great joy to see deeper and deeper levels of truth!