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-Gaming Channel: ... With Author, Meditation Teacher, Psychotherapist, and Founder of Open-Hearted Awareness Institute Loch Kelly A 7-module On-demand Video Training Discover simple, yet advanced practices validated by neuroscience to move beyond fear, worry, and shame — and access your intuitive heart-mind. Apply Effortless Mindfulness to connect with the wisdom of the larger field of consciousness... anytime and anywhere. Mindfulness is more than a practice... it‘s a portal to awakening. And this awakening is available to you right NOW… in every moment. The reality is you are already loving, wise and “awake awareness”... and Effortless Mindfulness reconnects you to this truth. Effortless Mindfulness is a simple, yet advanced form of practice that you can do anytime and anywhere. It evokes a sense of calm and joy, and allows access to a “flow state.” Your “new normal” can be a life filled with unconditional love, free from fear, worry, and shame... Effortless Mindfulness techniques — performed with your eyes open — help dissolve thought-based self-identify, perceptions of separation, and often unconscious negative attachments. Loch Kelly, an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of Open-Hearted Awareness Institute, has created a unique synthesis of meditation (drawing on the world’s great meditation masters), psychology, and neuroscience, to attain inner peace and non-dual awareness through Effortless Mindfulness. An Effortless Mindfulness practice empowers you to enjoy a full emotional life without shutting down or attaching to your feelings. And if you identify as an empath or a highly sensitive person, the techniques can transform your energetic and emotional overwhelm into a safe, interconnected sense of wellbeing. During this 7-part training with renowned psychotherapist and meditation teacher Loch Kelly, you’ll: •	Deepen your understanding of the differences between deliberate mindfulness and Effortless Mindfulness •	Receive a map and methods for moving through the 5 levels of awakening — including experiencing the blissful presence from your “heart-mind” •	Unburden the shame-based parts of you that try to convince you that you are not worthy of your birthright of love and awakening •	Taste awakening immediately through “small glimpses” and shifts of awareness •	Move from a thought-based separate self to your awareness-based loving Self •	Learn how your awake Self allows you to be compassionate with parts of you that are hurt or protective •	Move beyond the traps of being too mindfully detached or too energetically enmeshed •	Realize that your ground of being is supportive and effortless •	Return and remain at home in the heart, welcoming and healing all parts of your Self •	Realize the innate unchanging ground of wholeness is already installed within you Moving Beyond the Mind: Deliberate vs. Effortless Mindfulness Research shows that mindfulness lowers stress-related symptoms, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain, and has also been proven to improve cognitive function, boost immunity, and lower blood pressure. Yet, the focus of traditional mindfulness practices is on observing the contents of consciousness — the feelings, sensations, and mental images that we can notice as they arise and dissipate. In Effortless Mindfulness, you shift from focusing on the contents to focusing on the context of consciousness, awareness itself... You open to what or who is aware of these contents. This seemingly subtle shift can heighten your sense of freedom, joy, and wisdom — similar to experiencing the beauty of nature, making love, or being in the zone while playing a sport or creating a work of art. Transitioning from everyday mind to awake awareness, you become more energetically embodied and interconnected with everything. Join Leading Spiritual Teacher & Author Loch Kelley to Awaken to Your Effortless Nature Your awakening begins with a glimpse... “A glimpse is not a meditative state, a positive thought, an altered state, or a belief,” says Loch. “A glimpse is a shift of center, from an ego-identified location of perception into a new way of seeing from Being.” Loch has transformed advanced practices of Zen and Tibetan meditation techniques into practical micro-meditations, which can be done with your eyes open — any time of day. If you’re seeking a “next-level” teacher for your path of awakening, Loch can guide you in the practice of Effortless Mindfulness, a simple, yet deep practice and set of teachings rooted in non-dual wisdom traditions, modern science, and psychotherapy. Loch created Effortless Mindfulness to help seekers become aware of and embody different expressions of awake awareness. His techniques influence brain activity in ways that enhance wellbeing and compassion, according to neuroscientists at Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and New York University. This 7-part training is your opportunity to experience the profound shifts in consciousness available to you through Effortless Mindfulness. Imagine the peace that comes from shifting your focus from your head to your heart and away from conceptual thinking... into what Loch calls “continuous, intuitive knowing.” What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules In this 7-part transformational intensive, you’ll receive practical Effortless Mindfulness techniques that will open you to experience the five levels of awakening. This course will feature teachings, training sessions, and experiential practices with Loch. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to move beyond fear, worry, and shame — and access your intuitive heart-mind. Module 1: Five Levels of Awakening Through Effortless Mindfulness Effortless Mindfulness is both a natural capacity and a skillful way to connect with ourselves and others. It is a way of being mindful from a different level of mind than we are used to. There is more to Effortless Mindfulness than meditation. Effortless Mindfulness is primarily an off-the-meditation-cushion way of weaving together contemplation and compassionate actions. Effortless Mindfulness begins by opening to a natural spacious awareness in order to become wiser, more embodied, and more creative. Effortless Mindfulness will help you immediately shift out of your cloud of thoughts and emotions, and into the spacious, embodied, interconnected loving Self you have always been. In his book, Rainbow Painting, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche says “There are two types of mindfulness: deliberate and effortless.” Mindfulness could be described as the ability to become focused and connected. Deliberate mindfulness is usually considered the introductory practice. Effortless Mindfulness is an advanced, yet simple form of mindfulness designed to relieve the deepest levels of suffering. In this module, you’ll: •	Deepen your understanding of the differences between deliberate mindfulness and Effortless Mindfulness •	Receive a map and methods for shifting through the 5 levels of awakening •	Discover how to taste awakening immediately through small glimpses and shifts of awareness •	Move from a thought-based separate self to an awareness-based loving Self •	Understand how your awake Self allows you to be compassionate with the parts of you that are hurt or protective •	Move beyond the traps of being too mindfully detached or too energetically enmeshed •	Realize that the innate unchanging ground of wholeness is already installed within you Module 2: Small Glimpses, Many Times — Shifting Into Boundless Awareness It takes practice to upgrade from thought-based small mind to your awareness-based open mind. In this second class, you’ll explore ways to shift out of small mind and small self into your awake, loving Self. The primary way of shifting is to feel how local awareness can move from being identified to returning home to open-hearted awareness. The main approach of Effortless Mindfulness is small glimpses, many times during the day. A glimpse is a micro-meditation that takes a few minutes and is often done with your eyes open. In this module, you’ll: •	Discover 5 distinct foundations of Effortless Mindfulness •	Learn about wordless, timeless, awake awareness as the boundless ground •	Discover “local awareness,” the tuner for changing consciousness, which is different from attention •	Feel local awareness shift out of the cloud of your mind and into spacious, awake awareness •	Feel local awareness unhook from your small mind and drop down into your heart-mind •	Experience the difference between being aware through thought and being aware through awareness-energy Module 3: Beyond Subtle Body & Subtle Energy — Awareness Energy as the Ground of Being Discover how to access your effortless, awake nature and know the intelligence of your body from within. Embodying Effortless Mindfulness allows you to work, move, and relate to others from an open-hearted presence. Just as we can become too “spaced out,” we can become too “blissed in,” or caught in subtle energy. For empaths and highly sensitive people in particular, Effortless Mindfulness is the way to experience the support of awake awareness as the boundless ground of interconnected consciousness that is compassionate but does not take on other people’s energy. In this module, you'll: •	Distinguish subtle-body energy from interconnected awareness energy •	Know your body from within and all around from Simultaneous Mind •	Discover your Ground of Being as a supportive, effortless sense of wellbeing •	Feel boundless awareness, interconnected energy, and relational boundaries •	Find out how to shift your awareness and return to your true nature in the midst of daily life Module 4: Discover Your Awake Loving Self — Healing Your Shadow Parts It is important, in order to embody awakening, to discover the non-dual relationship between formlessness and form. We begin to experience open-hearted awareness as the foundation of Self. Our changing experience shows up in everyday life not just as thoughts and emotions, but as subpersonalities or parts of us. We can learn to discover the foundation of our awake Self that can welcome and love all parts back to health. Loch will guide you from the traps of small self and into your awake Self so you can heal shadow parts with Effortless Mindfulness. In this module, you'll: •	Access open-hearted awareness as the loving intelligence of Self •	Identify and ask a part for some space, and shift into awake Self •	Feel Self as the foundation of "who I am," which also includes relationship to parts and people •	Discover natural, loving self-energy toward all parts, whether hurt or powerfully protective •	Discover ways to listen to and unburden parts so they are part of the team Module 5: Mindful Glimpses & the Neuroscience of Awakening Mindfulness meditation is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Over the past 20 years, scientific research has shown that mindfulness alleviates stress-related symptoms, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain, and has also been proven to improve cognitive function, boost immunity, and lower blood pressure. More recent studies of the Effortless Mindfulness approach show measurable changes in our body and perceptions. Awakening is possible. In this class, you’ll learn how to do mindful glimpses that “reverse-engineer” the neuroscience findings to: •	Move from initial empathy to compassion — instead of empathetic burnout •	Balance the default-mode network of the brain so you feel seamlessly interconnected •	Stop trying to be in the present moment, and discover how to be in the Now •	Do the “Drive Yourself Happy” open-eyed glimpse to shift into a flow state Module 6: Open-Hearted Awareness — Leaving Behind Fear, Worry & Shame From effortless heart mindfulness at this stage, we sense that we can know information as needed without referring to thought. We can remain at home in our heart-mind and have thoughts come to us from the office in our head via wifi. From this stage, many people report that they feel the coming together of a boundless heart and a tender human heart. Many say that they feel like they are looking out of “the eyes of the heart.” This heart-mind is not the physical heart, heart chakra, or emotional heart, but compassionate intelligence that is like continuous intuition. They describe an experience of unconditional love, free from fear, worry, and shame. In this module, you'll discover how to: •	Shift from head to heart, from thought-based knowing to open-hearted awareness •	Feel compassionate intelligence and make choices from that state •	Talk and relate to other people from effortless heart mindfulness •	Return and remain at home in the heart, welcoming and healing all parts of your Self Module 7: Living Daily Life in Awakened Awareness Over the past sessions, you’ve learned to shift through five levels of awakening and access a loving Self that is compassionate with the painful and angry parts of you. You’ll continue to see that no parts are bad, and that they are all looking for love in the ways they thought were best. It is important to keep this simple, new orientation and do small shifts of awareness each day to discover the wisdom within you. Loch will guide you to heal and unburden the shame-based parts that try to convince you that you are not worthy of your birthright of love and awakening. In this module, you'll: •	Recognize when you’re caught in small mind —and know how to drop down into your heart-mind •	Integrate small glimpses into your daily life and restart your day anytime •	Navigate the traps, detours, and protective parts that keep you from living an awakened life •	Connect with your community and find new motivation for compassionate activity The Effortless Mindfulness Bonus Collection In addition to Loch’s transformative 7-part virtual course, you’ll receive these powerful bonus sessions, which complement the course and promise to take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level. Relieving the Root of Suffering Set of 3 Video Teachings From Loch Kelly In these three Effortless Mindfulness meditation videos, you'll learn to unhook local awareness from thinking. Local awareness can then return home to open-hearted awareness and relieve suffering. •	Beyond the Meditator •	Effortless Focus •	Effortless Mindfulness Pain Reduction Turn Yourself Around 7-Part Audio Teaching From Loch Kelly This audio teaching features clear descriptions and lively discussion around Loch Kelly’s approach and glimpse practices. The focus is on shifting into freedom through learning how to turn awareness around to be aware from Effortless Mindfulness. There is a shift from our small mind to an open mind, and support on how to live from open-hearted awareness. Includes almost four hours of audio! The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life PDF Excerpt From the Upcoming Book by Loch Kelly In this excerpt from The Way of Effortless Mindfulness, you’ll receive an introduction to Loch’s teaching on how we can “unhook” awareness from chattering thoughts to access a peaceful mind and a naturally embodied wakefulness. From this heartful space, Loch’s students have reported that right action comes easily and a loving tenderness for all of life is freely available. The Way of Effortless Mindfulness offers a compelling introduction to the next stage in the ongoing mindfulness revolution. What People Are Saying About Loch Kelly... “Practicing under Loch Kelly’s guidance is mind-blowing.” Practicing under Loch Kelly’s guidance is mind-blowing. You shift out of your chattering mind, and awareness emerges — clear, fearless, unconditionally accepting. — Amy Gross, Meditation teacher and former editor-in-chief of O, The Oprah Magazine “Loch is among the best ‘pointing within’ teachers in the world right now.” Loch is among the best “pointing within” teachers in the world right now. By “pointing within,” I mean someone who can experientially introduce — and then continue to mentor — folks into authentic higher consciousness and heart. — Kurt Johnson, PhD, Author of The Coming Interspiritual Age and Nabokov’s Blues “There are very few who can guide with such mastery.” Loch Kelly offers a rich array of unique mindful glimpses that reveal our naturally awake, open-hearted awareness. His guidance is clear, precise, and arises from a wise, caring heart. There are very few who can guide with such mastery. — Tara Brach, PhD, Author of Radical Acceptance “Loch helps us discover an awareness that’s already effortlessly awake.” Now that mindfulness is widely embraced by mainstream culture, it may be possible for greater numbers to take a deeper step into effortless mindfulness. Though there is an initial effort, Loch helps us discover an awareness that’s already effortlessly awake. — Terry Patten, Author of A New Republic of the Heart “Loch Kelly presents a groundbreaking approach with a unique form of mindfulness...” Loch Kelly presents a groundbreaking approach with a unique form of mindfulness: a path both gentle and powerful. Loch makes an important contribution to our growing understanding that spiritual awakening and personal healing are two sides of the same valuable coin. — Judith Blackstone, PhD, Author of Trauma and the Unbound Body “... teachings that... allow us to easily recognize our most essential nature...” Through simple yet powerful exercises, Loch Kelly provides direct-path teachings that exquisitely point to and allow us to easily recognize our most essential nature that lies at the heart of unbreakable wellbeing. — Richard Miller, PhD, Author of The iRest Program for Healing PTSD “Loch Kelly offers us ways to glimpse the natural, ever-present awareness that is our True Nature...” With deep simplicity and subtle clarity, Loch Kelly offers us ways to glimpse the natural, ever-present awareness that is our True Nature, and presents mindfulness teachings and micro-meditations that reveal it “effortlessly” within ourselves. — Krishna Das, Chant leader and Grammy®-nominated vocalist “[Loch’s] effortless mindfulness practices are directly in line with the beneficial qualities of effortless awareness...” Loch has a deep understanding of meditation, and manifests the wisdom and compassion that comes from this. His effortless mindfulness practices are directly in line with the beneficial qualities of effortless awareness that my neuroscience lab has studied. I wholeheartedly recommend these practices to my students, and to you. — Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, Director of Research at Brown University Mindfulness Center and author of The Craving Mind Here’s What You’ll Receive Seven 90-Minute Recorded Class Sessions With Loch Kelly Experience a rare opportunity to learn from author, meditation teacher, and psychotherapist Loch Kelly — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a video teaching and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to awaken to your natural state... loving, wise and joyful — through simple, yet advanced practices validated by latest neuroscience. Seven PDF Transcripts of Class Sessions In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given. Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson. The Effortless Mindfulness Bonus Collection •	Relieving the Root of Suffering Set of 3 Video Teachings From Loch Kelly •	Turn Yourself Around 7-Part Audio Teaching From Loch Kelly •	The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life PDF Excerpt From the Upcoming Book by Loch Kelly An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Effortless Mindfulness Virtual Training We feel honored that Loch Kelly has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a rare opportunity to learn from an author, meditation teacher, and psychotherapist whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world. Through this powerful online format, you’ll not only save time and money on workshop costs (plus travel, accommodations, and meals — which would cost thousands of dollars), you’ll be able to benefit from Loch’s incredible teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home — and at your own pace! If you’re serious about awakening to your natural state and connecting with the wisdom of the larger field of consciousness, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training. If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now. REGISTER NOW! 1 Payment of $297USD Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed! Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please contact our friendly Support Team within 14 days of your date of purchase and we’ll happily issue you a refund. About Loch Kelly Loch Kelly, MDiv, LCSW, is an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of the nonprofit Open-Hearted Awareness Institute. Loch teaches in a non-sectarian human being lineage using an adult education style based in the earliest non-dual wisdom traditions, modern science, and psychotherapy. Loch is grateful to all his teachers and shares from his own experiences, which have given him great joy, freedom, and love. Loch’s mission is to help people access awakening as the next natural stage of human development. He offers in-person retreats, workshops, and online video and audio courses. He served on the New York Insight Teachers Council, studied extensively with Mingyur Rinpoche, and was invited to teach direct realization by Adyashanti. Loch has collaborated with neuroscientists at Yale, UPenn, and NYU in the study of how awareness training can enhance compassion and wellbeing. As a licensed psychotherapist, Loch has been teaching seminars, supervising clinicians, and practicing awareness psychotherapy in NYC for 30 years. Loch is a graduate of Columbia University and Union Theological. He was awarded a fellowship to study forms of non-dual meditation in Sri Lanka, India, and Nepal from 1981-1982 and has studied with teachers from around the world. He studied Buddhism with Professor Lily de Silva at the University of Kandy, Sri Lanka, Insight Meditation with Godwin Samararatne and at the Theravada monasteries, Inter-Spiritual Contemplative Meditation with Father Bede Griffiths and Anthony de Mello, Advaita at Sri Ramana Ashram, and Dzogchen and Sutra Mahamudra with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in Nepal. Loch spent 10 years establishing homeless shelters and community lunch programs and working in a community mental health clinic in Brooklyn, New York. He also served as Coordinator of Counseling and Interspiritual Chaplain at Union Theological Seminary and worked extensively with families recovering from the trauma of 9/11. Loch currently lives in New York City with his wife Paige and their cat Duffy. Frequently Asked Questions Q: What is your refund policy? A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee for a full two weeks so that you can try out the course risk free. The deadline to receive a refund is 2 weeks from your date of purchase. To request a refund, please click here to submit your Refund Application Form. Your refund will be processed within five business days and we will send you an email confirmation when your refund has been completed. However, we’d love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there’s something we can assist you with, please email us at support@theshiftnetwork.com, and we’ll be happy to help! Q: How can I reach Customer Support? A: Please visit our Customer Support Center, where you should be able to find the answer to your question or the solution to your problem. And if you can’t, you can submit an online request form and we’ll get right back to you. DESCRIPTION Our most cherished times are those occasions when we feel open, loving, free of worry yet able to respond when needed. Loch Kelly calls this the expression of open-hearted awareness, our natural foundation of mind that arises effortlessly whenever we step out of the usual mode of consciousness known as ego-identification. Created as a stand-alone program or a complement to his book of the same name, Shift into Freedom is a progressive training guide that offers “small glimpses, many times” to help us shift out of our chattering mind and into who we really are. Join this innovative teacher to explore more than 20 meditations including: 3.5 CE credits available! » Learn more » Calculate how many home study hours are allowed per renewal period Want to buy the CE credits only? If you already purchased this title, you can purchase the CE credits separately. NOTE: CE credits are available for US customers only. Course objectives: Define what Loch calls open-hearted awareness, our natural foundation of mind that arises effortlessly whenever we step out of the usual mode of consciousness known as ego-identification. Discuss how shift into Freedom is a progressive training guide that offers “small glimpses, many times” to help us shift out of our chattering mind and into who we really are. Practice more than 20 meditations including: Awareness Yoga, Embodied Presence, and Unhook, Drop, Open, See, Include, Know, Let Be. Discuss and discover how to live a fully intimate human life--giving you the tools to navigate your life with clarity and unconditional love. • Awareness Yoga—a foundational practice in moving awareness • Embodied Presence—a practice for deeply feeling unity and acceptance • Unhook, Drop, Open, See, Include, Know, Let Be—a way to shift levels of mind that culminates in living from open-hearted awareness “The goal of these meditations is not to transcend the human condition,” explains Loch Kelly, “but to discover how to live a fully intimate human life.” Shift into Freedom gives you the tools to navigate your life with clarity and unconditional love. HOME ABOUT EVENTS TEACHINGS BOOKS RESEARCH BLOG SHOP CART Blog “Before you start to meditate, see if the freedom you have been seeking is already here, resting deeper than sleep yet wide awake.” ~Loch Kelly Subscribe to Loch’s YouTube channel here 10 Sep 9/11 First Responder Remembers Loch Kelly |  Essays |  0 Loch recounts his experience in New York on 9/11/2001, and his "intense awareness of the preciousness of human life," in which his "heart broke wide open." 17 Aug The You-Turn of Awakening Loch Kelly |  Uncategorized |  0 The You-Turn of Awakening Awakening is the next natural stage of human development. It is an inherent human capacity within us all, like the capacity to read and write. Awakening is an upgrade of perception, knowing and identity. It is a shift from as... 29 Jun Awakening through the Memory Door Loch Kelly |  Uncategorized |  0 Awakening through the Memory Door: Guided Meditation with Loch Kelly  A guided effortless mindfulness meditation to discover that the freedom, peace and love you seek is already within you. Preliminary meditation instruction teaches us to be present and not seek the past or... 08 May Comparing Mindfulness and Effortless Mindfulness Loch Kelly |  Video |  0 Comparing Mindfulness and Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly I hope you enjoy this video that introduces both methods of deliberate and effortless mindfulness. When I look back at my life, I realize my mindfulness training began when I was quite young, while playing sports... 23 Apr Rest and Renew in Natural Peace of Mind Loch Kelly |  Video |  0 Rest and Renew in Natural Peace of Mind: Guided Meditation with Loch Kelly Discover how to access the safety and support of loving awake awareness in this Rest and Renew in Natural Peace of Mind guided meditation. You can expand your awareness beyond the... 16 Apr Panoramic Awareness Glimpse Loch Kelly |  Podcast |  0 Panoramic Awareness Glimpse Immerse yourself in the freedom and relief of panoramic awareness in this 8D, Surround Sound guided meditation from Loch. Please use headphones to experience the full effect. There is a Tibetan Buddhist practice called sky-gazing. You physically go to a place... 09 Apr Awakening Emotions Glimpse: Welcoming and Liberating Fear Loch Kelly |  Uncategorized |  0 Awakening Emotions Glimpse: Welcoming and Liberating Fear When you start this exercise, bring your awareness within your body and find any emotion that is there now. You can do this exercise with any emotion, pleasant or unpleasant, but when you do this for the... 02 Apr Challenging Times: A Message from Loch Kelly Loch Kelly |  Video |  0 Challenging Times: A Message from Loch Kelly In this video Loch Kelly discusses the challenges we face in society with COVID-19 and how we can support each other and ourselves. For more supportive meditations lochkelly.org Transcript: Hi, welcome, everyone. I’m Loch Kelly. I just... 12 Mar Follow the Yellow Brick Road Home Loch Kelly |  Uncategorized |  0 Traps, Detours, and Rerouting Instructions for Returning Home In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy is trying to return home from a strange land. She searches for help from a Wizard, but she discovers that the Wizard is a simple man behind a curtain, pulling... 29 Jan Nonduality and Awake Awareness Loch Kelly |  Podcast |  0 ‎Deconstructing Yourself podcast host Michael Taft speaks with Loch Kelly about nonduality and awake awareness, what nondualism is, schools of effort vs. non-effort (and those in between), the five foundations of effortless mindfulness, awake awareness and rigpa, stabilizing nondual awareness, balancing the brain’s... 14 Jan Mahamudra Nondual Meditation | Podcast Loch Kelly |  Podcast, Video |  0 ‎FitMind Podcast interview and Mahamudra nondual meditation with Loch Kelly.   Loch Kelly is a meditation teacher and psychotherapist who combines western science and psychology with ancient eastern methods for training the mind. He’s the Founder of Open-Hearted Awareness Institute and author of Shift... 20 Dec The Way of Effortless Mindfulness with Awakin Calls | Podcast Loch Kelly |  Interviews, Podcast |  0 ‎Awakin Calls podcast hosts Stephanie and Jeff recently interviewed Loch Kelly. During the call, Loch spoke of “Effortless Mindfulness” which is an always present experience of an open awareness that naturally gives rise to compassion and service, and he spoke of his experience... 04 Nov Interview on Mindfulness Plus with Loch | Podcast Loch Kelly |  Podcast, Video |  0 This podcast is featured on Mindfulness +, Season 3, Episode 23 “The Way of Effortless Mindfulness” hosted by Thomas McConkie who describes this session: “Loch Kelly, one of the greatest teachers of our time, shares his insights and open-hearted awareness with the Mindfulness+... 21 Oct Awareness in Action: Loch Kelly and Craig Holliday Loch Kelly |  Video |  0 Awareness in Action Join Loch Kelly and Craig Holliday from the Association for Spiritual Integrity as they discuss in great detail the student-teacher relationship, ethics and having a mature relationship with the spiritual path. Loch Kelly explains with clarity and wisdom the dangers of... 11 Oct What Is Awake Awareness? Loch Kelly |  Essays |  0 What Is Awake Awareness? You might be asking: If awake awareness as the source of effortless mindfulness is already here, why haven’t I discovered it yet? This is a good question. One reason we don’t discover it is that we don’t have awake awareness... 30 Sep Introducing Awake Awareness Loch Kelly |  Essays |  0 Introducing Awake Awareness To practice any form of mindfulness, we shift our awareness and level of mind to see things differently. Deliberate mindfulness uses attention and our observing mind, whereas effortless mindfulness comes from a particular level of mind and awareness that is not... 13 Sep Effortless Mindfulness Is Like a Flow State Loch Kelly |  Essays |  0 Effortless Mindfulness Is Like a Flow State Effortless mindfulness is not only experienced during meditation or relaxation. When we open into it, we find a new balance between being and doing. In this age of multitasking, effortlessness may be hard to understand, let alone... 26 Aug You May Not Know That You Know This Already Loch Kelly |  Essays |  0 You May Not Know That You Know This Already When I describe effortless mindfulness, some people tell me they’ve had this feeling walking in nature, playing music, gardening, making love, driving a car, or during a special moment in their past that they long... 16 Aug What is a Mindful Glimpse? Loch Kelly |  Essays |  0 What is a Mindful Glimpse? One of my main techniques for connecting and experimenting with effortless mindfulness is through what I call mindful glimpses. Many people have told me that this is one of the simplest, most elegant, and effective ways to learn effortless... 01 Aug Effortless Mindfulness for Pain Relief Loch Kelly |  Essays, Video |  0 What Is Pain? Pain is a normal part of human life. And pain hurts. Although pain feels like a threat, pain is not attacking us. Pain is designed to help us survive. Pain and pleasure are signals. Pain is a signal that something is... 15 Jul Awareness, Freedom, and Effortless Mindfulness | Podcast Loch Kelly |  Podcast |  0 ‎Deconstructing Yourself podcast host Michael Taft speaks with Loch Kelly on nondual practices, contemporary forms of ancient awareness techniques, dzogchen, mahamudra, advaita, the role of psychotherapy in awakening, the need-or not-for a guru, open-hearted awareness, internal family systems therapy, and more.  Order Loch’s... 01 Jul Conversations with Michael & Loch | Podcast Loch Kelly |  Podcast |  0 In this podcast, Loch Kelly is a guest on Conversations podcast with host Michael Stone. Conversations, hosted by Michael Stone, brings you leading edge thinkers in the areas of Environmental Restoration, Social Justice and Spiritual Fulfillment. We look for positive solutions to local and... 24 Jun Embodying Effortless Mindfulness | Podcast Loch Kelly |  Podcast |  0 In this podcast, Loch Kelly explores the connection between embodiment and waking up in the world on the Embodiment Matters podcast. We look at the at the distinctions between what Loch calls effortless mindfulness, and the forms of mindfulness that are more widely taught.... 18 Jun Awareness Has Your Back | Podcast Loch Kelly |  Podcast |  0 In this podcast, Loch Kelly shares an exploration of the ways we can use the powerful practice of effortless mindfulness to connect to our true nature and live from an expansive place of loving awareness. Raghu Markus has been involved in music and transformational... 13 Jun Millennials Guide to Mindfulness | Loch on Catching Z’s – Podcast Loch Kelly |  Interviews, Podcast |  0 “I say this without reservation that this conversation changed my life in an extremely positive way. I’ve solely been listening to Loch’s meditations… and have been guided to some wonderful places!” In this podcast, Loch Kelly shares a conversation with Nick Zolfo on his... 05 Jun Get a Glimpse of Effortless Mindfulness Loch Kelly |  Essays |  0 The practice of effortless mindfulness involves micro-meditations called "glimpses" that can be done any time, anywhere. They allow a shift in identity from the busy chatterer in your head to the expansive, interconnected freedom of your true self. 10 Dec Science and Spirituality: Loch with Father Thomas Keating – Podcast Loch Kelly |  Podcast |  0 In this podcast, Loch Kelly shares a conversation with Father Thomas Keating around the many lenses of science and spirituality that seek to uncover our true nature. Father Thomas Keating was one of the principal architects and teachers of the Christian contemplative prayer movement.... 18 Oct Who We Are – Podcast Loch Kelly |  Podcast |  0 This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Loch Kelly invites us to expand our model of who we are and what heals. How can we be present with our higher sense of Self along with the other aspects of our being? Loch investigates questions... 03 Oct Discovering Awake Awareness as our Source Loch Kelly |  Essays |  0 What we experience is based on our way of perceiving. If we use our eyes, we see one thing, but if we use a microscope or a telescope, we see other realms of reality that have been there all along. I have enjoyed witnessing... 30 Aug The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: Loch with Raghu – Podcast Loch Kelly |  Interviews, Podcast |  0  In this podcast, Loch Kelly shares a conversation with Raghu about moving into in the space beyond ego with the practice of effortless mindfulness. Raghu Markus has been involved in music and transformational media since the early 1970s when he was program director... 12 Jul Effortless Awareness with Stephanie Nash – Podcast Loch Kelly |  Interviews, Podcast |  0 In this podcast, Stephanie Nash interviews Loch Kelly about his unique Shift Into Freedom glimpse method of effortless awareness meditation. Stephanie Nash is a Mindfulness Coach and Integrative Counselor who is an expert in the Unified Mindfulness system developed by Shinzen Young (with whom... 31 May Chronic Pain Relief with Loch’s Effortless Mindfulness Method Loch Kelly |  Essays |  0 My Story I have lived with chronic pain since 2004. At 45 years old, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. The cancer had spread to lymph nodes in the right side of my neck.  Fortunately, surgery was successful. I have been cancer free ever... 22 May Into the Flow with Piet Hut – Podcast Loch Kelly |  Conversation, Podcast |  0 This week on the Be Here Now Network’s Guest Podcast, Piet Hut joins Loch Kelly to discuss what Western science and Tibetan Buddhism have to teach us about the timeless awareness that comes with being in the moment. Piet Hut is one of the... 10 Apr Changing the Channel of Your Mind Loch |  Essays |  0 Local awareness is like a radio tuner or TV remote that can intentionally shift us to different bandwidths of consciousness. Local awareness can tune away from the narrow, mental, ego-identified station that is the everyday mind and tune in to the station of the... 10 Apr Beyond Mindfulness with Stephan Bodian – Podcast Loch Kelly |  Conversation, Podcast |  0 This week on the Be Here Now Network’s Guest Podcast, Loch Kelly and Stephan Bodian share a conversation about moving beyond basic mindfulness and towards a more direct approach to lasting peace, happiness and love. You may also watch this conversation on Loch’s Youtube... 28 Feb Returning Emotions to Their Natural State Loch |  Essays |  0 Emotional intelligence requires the capacity to feel our emotions, the ability to express them effectively, and the ability to distinguish between emotions related to the present and the past as well as those created by the cravings and fears of ego-identification. This level of... 01 Feb A Simple Case of Mistaken Identity Loch |  Essays |  0 The mini-me responds to exaggerated or imaginary situations that frighten it with physical survival strategies, including fight, flight, freeze, or please. When we fight imaginary enemies, we end up feeling frustrated, confused, or anxious. When we run away from them, we end up in... 16 Jan Awake Awareness Cannot Be Developed Loch |  Essays |  0 Awake awareness itself never develops or grows up. At its essence, it is always the same. It’s inherent within all changing dimensions of our experience, just the way space exists within atoms. It is similar to physical space in that it is within us,... 19 Dec You Are Not The “mini-me” Loch |  Essays |  0 The main obstacle to relief from suffering is our current identity, what Einstein called our “optical delusion of consciousness.” Paradoxically, this same identity is trying to solve the problem of our suffering. This identity seems very real, as if it is a separate self... 05 Dec The Two You-Turns of Awareness Loch |  Essays |  0 Ramana Maharshi wrote regarding awakening: “Other than inquiry, there are no adequate means.” He said that inquiry was simple and direct. “If one inquires ‘who am I,’ the mind will go back to the Source . . . Not letting the mind go out,... 22 Nov Direct Recognition, Gradual Unfolding Loch |  Essays |  0 Open-hearted awareness begins with awareness of awareness. It is an essence approach, also called the direct approach. The open-hearted awareness approach focuses on uncovering or discovering our essential nature and then shifting our level of mind to live from open-hearted awareness. Because awake awareness... 10 Oct Returning Thinking to its Natural Function Loch |  Essays, Practices |  0 One of the most important developments in human evolution is the ability to think. However, an even more important development is the ability to grow beyond thinking. To do this, we need to discover the intelligence that’s inherent in awareness itself. It is important... 20 Sep Small Glimpses Many Times Loch |  Essays, Practices |  0 The main practice I teach is small glimpses many times, but sometimes one small glimpse changes everything. These shifts can be done in the midst of our daily life. The reason the glimpses are small is that when we shift into awake awareness, our true... 22 Aug Awakening as Daily Practice Loch |  Essays |  0 Imagine what our world would be like if more and more people began to awaken. What if awakening became available to us as a normal stage of development? It can happen, and I am hopeful it will. In these contemporary times with so many... 01 Aug Hear How To Shift Into Freedom Loch |  Essays |  0 Today marks the new release of the unabridged audiobook Shift Into Freedom, read by Loch Kelly! The book has been a bestseller and won a number of Best Books of the Year Awards. However, this kind of subtle teaching is often best listened to... 11 Jul Unhooking from Thinking Loch |  Essays |  0 Normally, local awareness is identified, attached, or obscured within the thinking mind and ego function. Yet we cannot know awake awareness through thinking; our contracted, isolated sense of self prevents us from recognizing it. We may begin with a few preliminary practices such as... 15 Jun Suffering from Ego-Identification Loch |  Essays |  0 On the physical level, if we forget to eat, we will die, so our body registers our need for intake of food as hunger pains. Hunger creates unpleasant feelings of dissatisfaction that motivate us to crave food, seek it, possess it, and consume it.... 31 May Where Am I? Loch |  Essays |  0 The small sense of self feels separate, and this location makes us feel contracted, isolated, and in our heads. The experience of opening up during the process of awakening first brings spaciousness, emptiness, and freedom; these qualities can then be followed by embodiment, unity,... 18 May Open-Hearted Awareness and Emotions Loch |  Essays |  0 When we don’t shift into open-hearted awareness, our hearts can be painfully closed, or they can be too open so that we’re frequently overwhelmed. Then we end up looking to our thoughts to create a sense of self. The result is a small, mental... 28 Apr Spiritual Teachers in Contemporary Times Loch |  Essays |  0 The main role of a teacher is to point you toward your own inner teacher. It was when I learned to look within that awake awareness showed me its own capacities, clarity, and love. It is important to have mentors and teachers who have... 19 Apr Vulnerability without Being Overwhelmed Loch |  Essays |  0 Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung called neurosis the avoidance of legitimate suffering. We avoid suffering related to loss, disappointment, or growing pains because we don’t have the capacity to bear it if we’re operating from ego-identification. Our sense of self is just too small to... 03 Apr Conscious Participation in Your Evolution Loch |  Essays |  0 Humanity has made rapid progress during recent years in areas such as technology, medicine, and communications. Yet parts of our brain and consciousness still operate as if we’re living in primitive times. If we’re going to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century, we... 21 Mar Effortless Action: Doing from Being Loch |  Essays |  0 There is a Chinese term called wu wei, which can be translated as “spontaneity” or “effortless action.” Wu wei does not mean passively waiting around, but actively recognizing that spontaneous action is already occurring, without being conducted by an ego-identified “doer.” Being is always... 13 Mar Methods for Recognizing our True Nature Loch |  Essays |  0 The two most common methods for directly recognizing our true nature are the looking method and the resting method. The Christian mystical tradition calls these two approaches Via Positiva (the looking method) and Via Negativa (the resting method). Via Positiva suggests: “Seek and you... 17 Feb The Living Truth Within You Loch |  Essays |  0 My book, Shift Into Freedom, is a user’s manual for your awakening that can be adapted to yourindividual learning style. I give you the map, show you the direction to travel, and offer descriptions of the territory you may find. The pointers are to help you... 02 Feb Effortless Heart Mindfulness on the Subway Loch |  Essays |  0 On a crisp autumn day in New York City, I headed downtown for a meeting. Arriving at the entrance of my neighborhood subway station on 116th Street and Broadway, I heard the train pull in below. I reached for my MetroCard, passed through the... 03 Jan How to Find Peace in 4 Minutes – Animated Meditation Loch |  Practices |  0 You may have done a meditation where you think positive thoughts or focus on your breath or a word to calm your mind. In this short animated meditation you will be invited to go to the next level, effortless mindfulness, to find peace in... 29 Dec Video from Matthieu Ricard: Wisdom for the New Year! Loch |  Video |  0 Image credit: www.thanyapura.com   Here are some words of wisdom and compassion to contemplate from Matthieu Ricard as we move closer to this New Year: “Our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often illusory. Isn’t it the mind that translates the outer... 27 Dec “Just Breathe” Video: Children Learn Mindfulness! Loch |  Video |  0 I was inspired by these filmmakers who made this short film after witnessing school children grow in their capacity for emotional intelligence as they received mindfulness training. Filmmaker Julie Bayer writes: “The film is entirely unscripted – what the kids say is based purely on their own understanding of... 28 Nov Awaken to Unconditional Love as Your True Nature Loch |  Essays |  0 Is it possible for you to awaken to love as who you truly are? Imagine what our world would be like if more and more people began to awaken, and discovered that unconditional love is their true nature. What if awakening became available to... 07 Nov VIDEO: Where Am I Located? Loch |  Practices, Video |  0 “Location, location, location” is a phrase used by real-estate agents to emphasize that identical homes have different values based on where they’re located. If a building has two apartments—one with windows looking out at brick walls and the other, three floors higher, with panoramic... 02 Nov You Can’t Be in the Present Moment Loch |  Essays, Practices |  0 Photo credit: pixabay.com Contrary to popular belief, you can’t be in the present moment. However, you are always here now. It is only a matter of whether you know it or not. The Now is often confused with our understanding of “the present time”... 07 Sep A Spiritual First Responder’s Remembrance of 9/11: Not What I Expected at Ground Zero Loch |  Essays |  0 I had just returned home to New York City on September 7th, 2001 from a week long meditation retreat with Tibetan Buddhist teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche in Colorado. During the retreat we received training to recognize our true nature as already awake and unconditionally loving,... 23 Aug VIDEO: Freedom from the Inner-Critic Loch |  Essays |  0 In this video, I am explaining that we can discover freedom from the constant inner-criticism of the chattering mind when we directly recognize our naturally wakeful and liberated essence. One of my methods for helping others realize this is by asking the question: “What is here... 20 Jul VIDEO: Breaking Free of the Mini-Me Loch |  Practices, Video |  0 This video is about the primary obstacle to awakening, the “mini-me.” Both ancient wisdom traditions and modern neuroscience agree that there is no location of a separate self to be found within our brains. It is hard to find the mini-me because, most likely,... 09 May Change the Channel of your Mind to Peace Loch |  Essays, Practices |  0 Your mind is like a TV or radio with lots of stations playing all at once. Many of us are tuned in to the Thinking Channel all day long, and most of these programs are talk shows. We don’t realize that there is a... 18 Apr Rest at Home in Your Heart, Using WiFi to your Thoughts Loch |  Essays, Practices |  0 Most of us have spent much of our lives working on the project of improving and developing our separate sense of self in order to succeed, win approval, and find happiness. We must have the willingness to go through the gap of not knowing, non-ego,... 31 Mar Why Don’t we Recognize Awake Awareness? Loch |  Essays, Practices |  0 “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is... 15 Feb What is Awake Awareness? Loch |  Essays, Practices |  0 One simple way to talk about awakening is as a shift from our current sense of self and way of knowing based in conceptual thinking to awake awareness as the new way of knowing and being. Here is a definition of awake awareness and... 08 Feb Awakening: How to Stop Sleep-Walking through Life Loch |  Essays, Practices |  0 Sleepwalking Did you ever feel like you were wandering around in a dream, like walking on a treadmill, or sleepwalking through life? There is a type of perpetual dissatisfaction that awakening addresses. By waking up, you actually become less detached, less spacey, less fearful... 01 Feb Awakening: Discover Your Natural Potential Loch |  Essays, Practices |  0 Awakening is highly valued in many different cultures, religions, and meditation traditions. Awakening does not require religious belief, and does not even necessarily need to be considered “spiritual.” Awakening is part of what I call the Human Being Lineage. What is awakening? Here is... 25 Jan Welcome to the New Normal: Awakening for All Loch |  Essays |  0 Forty years ago many people thought of yoga as a fringe activity for hippies. Today there is a yoga studio on nearly every corner, and millions of people are practicing and enjoying the benefits of yoga in many forms. Twenty years ago, many people... 30 Sep The Neuroscience of Insight Loch |  Essays |  0 Below is an important blog post published by the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, Richard Davidson’s research group at the University of Wisconsin. The Center is a pioneer in the neuroscience community on researching the benefits of meditation for enhancing well-being. Their post is... 25 Sep Effortless Mindfulness and Living in the Flow Loch |  Interviews |  0 This is a transcript excerpt with minor edits from an interview with Loch conducted by Tami Simon, the founder of Sounds True Publishing. To listen to the entire interview, or read the full transcript, click HERE. Tami Simon: Can you help me understand what... 27 Aug Insight Meditation: A Direct Approach Loch |  Interviews |  0 Loch speaks with Founder of Sounds True in this interview about his new book and direct form of insight meditation. Tami Simon: Loch, your new book Shift Into Freedom is packed with “techniques” for spiritual awakening. One might even say that your book is... 29 Jul Best Meditation Audio | Ranked #1 by Amazon Loch |  News |  0 Shift Into Freedom Training Program by Loch Kelly is ranked the #1 Meditation Audio by Amazon in New Releases! I’m grateful to Sounds True and all of my teachers and friends for their support in helping me bring these transformative awareness practices into form.... 12 Jul Effortless Mindfulness is Recommended by Research Loch |  News |  0 Here is some important research on the benefits of “nondirective meditation,” a type of effortless mindfulness where the mind is not focused on an object. While “concentrative meditation” can be helpful at times, specific forms of nondirective meditation are essential for insight and transformation. Concentrative... 06 May Returning Home to Heart Knowing Loch |  Practices |  0 Awake Awareness Approach By Loch Kelly Begin by Simply unhooking Local Awareness from thought Returning back to your senses, Local Awareness can now move to focus on hearing at one of your ears Then let local awareness open to be interested in the space... 17 Apr We Are All Mystics Loch |  Essays |  0 By Loch Kelly Religious differences have fueled much conflict and war over the centuries, no doubt. But rather than abandon all religion and spirituality, could we instead discover a deeper and more common mystical spiritual experience within the world’s religions in order to find... Contact Privacy Policy Search loch kelly Loch Kelly STUDENT ENDORSEMENT "Loch decodes and updates the age-old esoteric teachings, making them accessible to a hurried, modern audience. 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