What is the mind trying to hook you with? “It's like a fishing line. It's going to try this bait. Oh no, we're going to try this bait. Oh, that didn't work, let's just try this one. And it's going to keep trying to get you hooked into being in that state of upset, worry and anxiety. You can try and push it aside, you can keep yourself busy, but it's like a child that's wanting attention. It's just going to keep going and keep going until you're worn out and exhausted.” What happens if you stop and be with it? Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/qxZRcT9p16Y diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #Worry #Anxiety #Presence #SpiritualMentor

What if you are never really safe? “I'd like to propose an idea, which is you're never safe. You're never secure. In that idea that you're going to be comfortable, that everything's going to be okay, that you have somebody there to support you and care for you, it makes you feel, oh, I'm safe and I'm cared for, and I feel secure now because I have somebody that is going to take care of me rather than just me. So why do we want that? Why do we crave that?” Why do you feel you need to be safe? Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/d6EBhEQWGCE diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #Insecurity #Safety #Freedom #SpiritualMentor

What happens if you sit with a feeling until nothing is left? “As soon as I sat down, maybe it started off with, oh, that's mean. And then if I sat with the feeling of what it felt like for me, sadness would arise as well, and then hurt, and then I wasn't good enough. Once you sit with one thing it just seems to snowball. And so I just sat quietly with all those things until nothing was there.” What would you find if you stayed? Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/V-eY31fpbTk diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #Presence #Stillness #Emotions #SpiritualMentor

Are the ideas you were given actually true for you? “Then you have concepts and programs that are running in the background that have been offered to you from your parents, grandparents, family, brothers and sisters, school teachers, other mentors, people that have just been in your life that you've listened to and taken on board their ideas. Now, not necessarily any or all of them are true, but sometimes you're just like a little sponge. It gets absorbed in and you walk away and you take it with you. Sometimes you don't even know it's there, but it's in the back somewhere, and it operates when you're not a hundred percent present with things.” What are you carrying that you don't even know is there? Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/RmNehZ1Gc1o diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #Freedom #Beliefs #Presence #SpiritualMentor

What if the story you keep listening to isn't true? “The mind is actually playing a story. It's telling you worst case scenario, what if, and what's this look like, and I'm unsure, and I'm not clear. So when you're listening to the mind, you're never clear, and it will add to your stress, worry and anxiety, because you're actually listening to it. And to a big level you're actually believing it as well. It's not true.” Have you ever sat and listened to all of it? Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/qxZRcT9p16Y diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #Worry #Mind #Presence #SpiritualMentor

Are you only present when it suits you? “Everybody talks about being in the moment and being present with what's happening now. But what I found was the majority of people, including myself, were never here with what is. We do it when it's convenient for us, when it suits us, when it fits in. And it feels like it's an effort all the time.” Are you ever really here, or only when it fits? Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/V-eY31fpbTk diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #Presence #Beingness #Awareness #SpiritualMentor

Can you feel pain without suffering? I smashed my arm and had an operation. It was painful, but I did not suffer. It was just what happened, a fact without a story behind it and without a woe is me. What if the pain is one thing and the story on top of it is another? Watch the full talk from the Ultimate Girls Weekend, Queensland: https://youtu.be/0SKAEmltj9E diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #suffering #presence #freedom #spiritualmentor

Who are you without the because and the why? Most of us carry a story about our lives. This is what I have done, this is where I am going, and this is why I am not there yet. What if there was no story and who you are today was just who you are today, without the because and the why? Watch the full talk from the Ultimate Girls Weekend, Queensland: https://youtu.be/0SKAEmltj9E diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #story #identity #whoareyou #spiritualmentor

What if nothing is a drama unless you decide it is? My car was written off on a highway and what came up was, wow, that was interesting. I asked the woman if she was okay. Nothing is a drama and nothing is a problem unless you decide it is. Stuff still happens to the body, but it does not happen in here. What would you do if that was you? Watch the full talk from the Ultimate Girls Weekend, Queensland: https://youtu.be/GLlL3zKDDv0 diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #peace #surrender #whoareyou #spiritualmentor

Can anyone else give you peace? Nobody can give you peace. If you are looking for peace and happiness, it is never outside of yourself. So when something happened, I would stop and be with myself. Not to fix it. Not to work out where it came from. Just to see who I actually was in that moment, just as it was. What do you find when you turn it back in here? Watch the full talk from the Ultimate Girls Weekend, Queensland: https://youtu.be/GLlL3zKDDv0 diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #peace #presence #whoareyou #spiritualmentor

What if you had a relationship with yourself? What if you gave time to a relationship with yourself, the way you would to a relationship outside of yourself? You can stop at any point, without being triggered, sit quietly with your eyes closed, and ask, who am I? What is it that I cannot see about who I am? Then just wait. Something will always come up. What do you see? That is the whole series, Relationships pt 1 to 12: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-dc89ExFDg Watch the whole video, Thank you for pushing my button: https://youtu.be/1xQZFxQpV0o diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #relationships #whoareyou #presence #spiritualmentor

What happens when you sit with what you do not like about yourself? You will discover many things you do not like. You might feel like you are collapsing, burning up, or even dying. I had that experience. You stay with it with your eyes closed. You are not really going to die. It is that part of you that you are seeing, dissolving. We can call it surrendering, and ultimately acceptance and love. When you see who you are, is there acceptance? Follow the series, Relationships pt 1 to 12: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-dc89ExFDg Watch the whole video, Thank you for pushing my button: https://youtu.be/1xQZFxQpV0o diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #relationships #whoareyou #presence #spiritualmentor

Who is all of you? It is the highs and the lows, the upsets and the downs, the joy and the fun and the delight. You are all of those things. It can happen at any time. At work you can sit in the bathroom, close your eyes and be with what is going on for you. You are not fixing anything. Stop, sit, be, and see what happens. Follow the series, Relationships pt 1 to 12: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-dc89ExFDg Watch the whole video, Thank you for pushing my button: https://youtu.be/1xQZFxQpV0o diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #relationships #whoareyou #presence #spiritualmentor

What do you do when your button is pushed? You do not say anything back. You take yourself away, to the next room, to the car, to a park bench. You stop, sit down, close your eyes and have the experience of you. You do not have to do anything but be present with yourself. Otherwise, are we constantly missing out on who we actually are? Follow the series, Relationships pt 1 to 12: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-dc89ExFDg Watch the whole video, Thank you for pushing my button: https://youtu.be/1xQZFxQpV0o diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #relationships #whoareyou #presence #spiritualmentor

Can you thank someone for pushing your button? Somebody says something and you feel upset, angry or frustrated. It is not about the other person. It is you. Yes, they pushed your button, but what goes on for you goes on for you. They are helping you see who you are. Thank you for pushing my button. Thank you for letting me see that I get hurt around that. Could it be a gift? Follow the series, Relationships pt 1 to 12: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-dc89ExFDg Watch the whole video, Thank you for pushing my button: https://youtu.be/1xQZFxQpV0o diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #relationships #whoareyou #presence #spiritualmentor

How do you actually see who you are? There is not really much you need to do. It arises in you already. It is just you catching it. We see in others who they are, we make assumptions and we judge. But what about me? When an upset, a hurt or a joy arises in you, what do you do with it? Follow the series, Relationships pt 1 to 12: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-dc89ExFDg Watch the whole video, Thank you for pushing my button: https://youtu.be/1xQZFxQpV0o diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #relationships #whoareyou #presence #spiritualmentor

Do you ever stop and ask who am I? We are so busy trying to fit in and be liked and loved that we hardly ever stop and ask, so who am I? What do I like about myself? What do I not like? Who am I beyond all of that? Seeing yourself can be such a delight. It is the greatest treasure you can ever give yourself. Follow the series, Relationships pt 1 to 12: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-dc89ExFDg Watch the whole video, Thank you for pushing my button: https://youtu.be/1xQZFxQpV0o diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #relationships #whoareyou #presence #spiritualmentor

Who are you when you are alone? Who are you when nothing is coming in from the outside to make you feel okay, accepted, connected or valued? Everything goes in the end. We are born alone and we leave alone, and there is no one else like you. We are incredible. But do you know that? Follow the series, Relationships pt 1 to 12: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-dc89ExFDg Watch the whole video, Thank you for pushing my button: https://youtu.be/1xQZFxQpV0o diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #relationships #whoareyou #presence #spiritualmentor

Who are you when it is all taken away? It is lovely to belong to a group of people who see the world the way you do. It feels good. But when it is gone, when the friendships have gone, when you leave the group, when you are by yourself. Who are you? Follow the series, Relationships pt 1 to 12: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-dc89ExFDg Watch the whole video, Thank you for pushing my button: https://youtu.be/1xQZFxQpV0o diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #relationships #whoareyou #presence #spiritualmentor

Is something always missing, no matter what you get? It does not matter how much money you have, how many relationships, or how much love you receive. There is generally something missing. You are not getting enough, or you are not accepted. Sometimes it is because you do not accept yourself. All your life you may have been trying to get something from the outside. What if that is the wake up call? Follow the series, Relationships pt 1 to 12: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-dc89ExFDg Watch the whole video, Thank you for pushing my button: https://youtu.be/1xQZFxQpV0o diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #relationships #whoareyou #presence #spiritualmentor

What if you could step off the roller coaster? I have had the relationships, the love, the gifts, the money, the property, the nice car. And life still goes up and down. Get, do not get, disappointment, elation. We think that is just what life is. What if it is not? Follow the series, Relationships pt 1 to 12: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-dc89ExFDg Watch the whole video, Thank you for pushing my button: https://youtu.be/1xQZFxQpV0o diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #relationships #whoareyou #presence #spiritualmentor

Why does no relationship ever feel like enough? It does not matter how much you are loved or cared for. There is a place inside that seems to stay unfulfilled, and we look to the outside to fill it. A new relationship, a promotion, a gift, someone telling us they love us. It works for a little while. But there is always a little piece that says, I want something more. What is it that is missing? Follow the series, Relationships pt 1 to 12: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-dc89ExFDg Watch the whole video, Thank you for pushing my button: https://youtu.be/1xQZFxQpV0o diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #relationships #whoareyou #presence #spiritualmentor

Filmed at the Ultimate Girls Weekend in Queensland, August 2026. Most of us carry a story about our lives. This is why I am the way I am, this is where I've been, this is where I'm going. So who are you without it? Who are you today, without the because and the why? For fifty years I lived on the roller coaster, feeling good, feeling bad, and blaming whoever pushed my buttons. Then I'd had enough. In this talk I share what I found when I stopped, closed my eyes and stayed with what was happening inside, instead of defending, justifying or walking away. And what is left when the story has nothing to hold on to. The talk finishes with questions from the room about validating someone else's story, the memories that make us suffer, and what to do when the people closest to us push our buttons. This is the second talk from that weekend. The first was Nobody can give you peace: https://youtu.be/GLlL3zKDDv0 0:00 Who are you without your story? 3:28 Everything you think and do is your responsibility 4:36 It was my story too 5:24 Everything is an illusion except right now 6:21 It's just stopping 7:01 The roller coaster 10:15 When someone pushes your button 12:44 Who else am I? 16:54 The rubbish bin 18:03 That's called freedom 19:16 Stopping to have the experience of who I was 24:02 Have you had enough of being Dianne? 24:38 The morning Dianne was no longer here 25:46 How I live now 29:12 Stop the car and be with it 30:20 Who would you be without your story? 31:26 Labels like awakened and ascended 33:08 Pain without the suffering 34:48 Validating someone's story 36:14 Sitting intensely with it 41:28 The stories that make you suffer 44:04 When someone yells at you 48:43 Bottling it up or being with it 53:05 One day it was all gone 54:35 Getting off the merry go round diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #SpiritualMentor #WhoAreYouWithoutYourStory #Presence #Freedom #DianneHorton What came up for you? You're welcome to share it in the comments. If this was useful, subscribe to the channel.

Filmed at the Ultimate Girls Weekend in Queensland, August 2026. If you're looking for peace and happiness, where are you looking? For a long time I looked for it in moments. A workshop, a meditation, a little fix. It was lovely, until I went home and faced the family, the children, the partners and myself. Because ultimately we're living with ourselves every day of our lives. Then one day I'd had enough of myself. So I stopped, sat, and was with what was going on in here. A divorce, the way I'd been needing love from others, the rubbish bin we keep filling, and what is left when the mind goes quiet. I'm not selling anything here. I'm sharing what I saw, and the question I keep coming back to: who are you without the story? 0:00 Nobody can give you peace 3:08 The day I'd had enough of myself 6:03 A New Way of Living 10:45 Stop, sit and be 12:19 Living the way we were taught 15:24 The divorce 17:00 Loving ourselves 19:46 The rubbish bin 22:07 Letting go of the steering wheel 27:02 The car accident on the highway 30:03 Jealousy and the fire inside 33:10 Nothing left and at peace 36:20 Sitting with it now 37:11 Questions from the audience 41:13 How free would it be 43:00 The saying sorry story diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #SpiritualMentor #Presence #InnerPeace #Freedom #DianneHorton What came up for you? You're welcome to share it in the comments. If this was useful, subscribe to the channel.

I'm Dianne Horton, a spiritual mentor, speaker and writer. You don't have to live the way you do. I was that person until I felt I'd had enough. Here you'll find talks, conversations and short videos about who we believe ourselves to be, the stories the mind tells us, and what's left when we are completely with what IS. Who are you without the story? diannehorton.com.au #spiritualawakening #presence #freedom

When you wake up, sometimes it's difficult to create words to express the place that you're in, what you see. Because for some reason it's like there isn't somebody seeing something, there isn't somebody experiencing anything. It's like there's a gap, and to fill that gap with understanding, comprehension, words, they just get in the way of that beautiful space. That's the beingness. What is here when the words stop? www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #Awakening #Presence #Beingness #SpiritualMentor

It seems that when people awaken they are still judged by others, and it doesn't change anything for the awakened being. Some people still don't like them, or think they should be different, or decide they're not awakened because they don't look like this person or talk like some other person. If somebody yells at me or judges me, the things that used to affect me, nothing happens, because there's no one here to take it personally. And whether you're awake or not, other people are usually upset at themselves, not really at you. We tend to take life really seriously when there's a person there taking it seriously, but you don't have to. People call that freedom, but it doesn't have to be labelled anything. We love the labels of awakening and enlightenment and spiritual, those cool words that make people feel special, and there's nothing special that goes on at all. It's very ordinary. Who takes it personally when someone judges you? www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Awakening #Judgement #Freedom #Presence #SpiritualMentor

There's a lot of suffering in the world. Poor people, injured people, sick people. Can you live in this world feeling that you need to fix it, feeling sad, taking it all on board, being empathetic about what's happening? When you know who they are, there's no separation. You're just there, present with them, and they're present with you. There's nothing to fix, and the world just carries on. And how are you going to be in it? www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #Suffering #Presence #Awakening #SpiritualMentor

Uncertainty doesn't feel very nice for a lot of people. They want to know. A lot of us have learned to want some feeling of certainty in our life, so not knowing what's happening in the next moment, or tomorrow, or next week, becomes very fearful. But uncertainty has a sense of freedom. It has a sense of excitement. It's like, oh, what's going to happen next? Why do you want to feel certain? Are you feeling afraid in yourself? Fear is generally the big trigger, and I would suggest you stop and have a look at it. What is it you are actually afraid of? www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #Uncertainty #Fear #Presence #SpiritualMentor

Is it cold not to comfort someone who is upset? It can seem cold. But when somebody is upset, you can allow them to be who they are, close their eyes and be with what's going on for them, without interrupting, without your advice and without your suggestions. I'd say: "I see that you're suffering, that you're upset. Let's just close our eyes together and be with the situation as it is." Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/tOD78mLw-0s www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #ComfortingSomeone #BeingWithWhatIs #Presence #SpiritualMentor

Who are you really comforting when someone is upset? Maybe it's about being at peace in yourself, without feeling you have to do something so that somebody else stops feeling uncomfortable. Are you okay with that? Or do you feel really uncomfortable and try to change the other person so you feel better? Maybe people just need to be with themselves, and they don't know how, because they're so often offered something that takes them away from what's really going on. Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/tOD78mLw-0s www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #Comfort #Relationships #BeingWithWhatIs #SpiritualMentor

Is it selfish to take time alone and sit with yourself? I remember feeling it was. You're removing yourself from the situation, you're not thinking of others, and it can seem quite cold or aloof from the outside, because you're so consumed with what's going on for you and allowing that. What do you see when you look at it? Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/IY82hAehSZI www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #TimeAlone #Selfish #Stillness #SpiritualMentor

What if sitting with yourself is an adventure? When you're sitting, are you enjoying it? Is it a pleasurable thing to dive in and see who you are? After a couple of months I found I actually enjoyed sitting with myself, the adventure of who I was inside and what was going on for me. It's a journey of self discovery that only you can have. It's very intimate, it's very private, and yes, it shuts other people out. Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/IY82hAehSZI www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #SitWithYourself #SelfDiscovery #Stillness #SpiritualMentor

Is it okay to be selfish and choose yourself? It's okay to be self focused. It's okay to separate yourself and be who you are in that moment, whatever other people feel or experience or go through, because you're choosing you. Who would you be if you stopped apologising for that? Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/IY82hAehSZI www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #ChooseYourself #TimeAlone #Presence #SpiritualMentor

What if an angel or a guide isn't separate from you? You are everything. You cannot be any more than everything. You are limitlessness, existing now, and once you know that, there's nothing else that can be added to your life or taken away from your life. You are it. What do you find when you look? Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/8y9v-H-O-Xg www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #AngelsAndGuides #WhoAmI #Identity #SpiritualMentor

Feeling unworthy: what if it's only an idea in your mind? I find it difficult to understand what unworthy means. How can you not have some sort of value, just by being here on the planet? Whether you do nothing or something amazing, whether you're a great partner or parent or not, it doesn't have any substance except in your mind. Somewhere you picked up the idea: I don't have value, I'm not worthy. Is that actually what IS? Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/GlrZmp2nNtw www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #FeelingUnworthy #NotGoodEnough #Identity #SpiritualMentor

I felt tears when someone told me they felt unworthy. When somebody asked that question and talked about how they felt, I had a sense of tears, a deep sadness, that a person walking around on this earth could actually feel that. It's just so incredible that it exists for you. What do you find when you ask where it came from? Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/GlrZmp2nNtw www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #Unworthy #Compassion #Love #SpiritualMentor

Where did the belief that you are not worthy begin? You have to go inside, in your mind and your heart and every cell of your body. At some point you made a decision and said it to yourself, and then a belief reinforced it. Then somebody says something to you, and that reinforces it again. What do you see when you look for where it started? Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/GlrZmp2nNtw www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #Beliefs #WhoAmI #FeelingUnworthy #SpiritualMentor

What happens when you stop carrying the feeling around? Be with all of it. You're not going to die by sitting there and looking at yourself, confronting who you are in that moment. I promise you it gets lighter. That was my experience every time, with anything. Don't carry it around. What would it be like to put it down? Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/GlrZmp2nNtw www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Shorts #BeingWithWhatIs #Presence #Suffering #SpiritualMentor

A talk held at the Starlight Festival in Bangalow, NSW, in 2024. It would be great if everybody knew that you don't have to live the way that you do. I'm saying that because I was there. For most of my life, until I was about 50, I lived inside the personal drama, the upsets, the sadness and the stories of not being good enough. Then I'd had enough, and I made a decision: whatever happens, I'm going to be here with it, no matter what. In this talk I share what I did when something hurt, how I sat with the feeling until nothing was left of it, and what happened one morning when I heard the words, 'Have you had enough of being Dianne?' I'm not asking you to believe any of it. I'm asking what is here when the beliefs, ideas and concepts about who you are go quiet. 0:00 You don't have to live the way you do 1:43 Being here with whatever it is 2:59 Sitting with the feeling until nothing is left 6:33 "Have you had enough of being Dianne?" 8:11 No world, no body 10:37 You can be ordinary and be free 11:27 Beliefs, ideas and concepts 13:16 You don't have to be a guru What came up for you? You're welcome to share it in the comments. www.diannehorton.com.au Instagram: @diannespiritualmentor #Presence #BeingWithWhatIs #Identity #Freedom #SpiritualMentor