Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

Loch Kelly

Welcome to Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly, where awakening is explored as the next natural stage of human development. Join Loch Kelly, creator of the Mindful Glimpses App, author, psychotherapist, and meditation teacher with over 35 years of teaching experience, as he guides you through the depths of awakening rooted in modern neuroscience and psychology. Discover Effortless Mindfulness, a contemporary form of ancient nondual meditations that directly uncovers your innate calm, clarity, and peace. Loch Kelly's practices and teachings can be explored in the Mindful Glimpses app, offering micro-meditations, step by step programs, and advanced awakening tools. Download a free 14-day trial of the app: https://mindfulglimpses.com/

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The Neuroscience of Awakening with Dr. David Vago

Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

05/31/23 • 77 min

What happens in the brain in the midst of meditation? Modern science is revealing a whole new world of inner understanding. In this episode, Loch and psychologist and researcher, Dr. David Vago, discuss the neuroscience of awakening. From both ancient and modern points of view they explore the relationship between brain networks and awareness, particularly interconnected nondual states. They discuss the system-wide effects of mindfulness on mental health and well-being, and dig into some interesting dialogue about the illusion of self-identity, and various flow states. After the discussion, stay tuned for a mindful glimpse meditation where you can experience awareness energy yourself.
Guided Glimpse Meditation: Effortless Focus
In this 8 minute guided meditation, you are invited to discover the view from the field of awareness energy. When we are looking from this interconnected field of awake consciousness we can focus effortlessly, and feel the unity of everything.
Dr. David Vago:
As a Research Associate Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University, Dr. David Vago directs the Contemplative Neuroscience & Mind-Body Research Laboratory. He also maintains an appointment as a research associate in the department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vago has over 15 years experience studying the basic neurobiological mechanisms supporting Mind-Body practices and the effects on mental health and well-being. A number of his ongoing research initiatives include Mapping the Meditative Mind, in which Dr. Vago has partnered with contemporary meditation teachers and scholars to investigate psychosocial and neurobiological mechanisms supporting states of meditation across the spectrum of formal meditative expertise.
David's Site:
https://davidvago.bwh.harvard.edu/
International Society for Contemplative Research (ISCR) - https://www.contemplativeneurosciences.com/
Related:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480633/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29169033/
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You can now explore all of Loch Kelly's practices and teachings on the new Mindful Glimpses app, found at https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpses. This innovative meditation and wellness app offers daily micro-meditations, step-by-step programs, and simple-yet-advanced tools for awakening.Loch Kelly Bio

Loch is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, and an award-winning author, psychotherapist, and non-dual meditation teacher. He is also known for his unique practical methods that support awakening as the next natural stage of human development. Backed by modern neuroscience and psychology, Loch introduces Effortless Mindfulness, which combines an ancient form of nondual meditation and IFS psychology that allows immediate access to our embodied awake nature which arises as our calm, clear, and compassionate healing capacity.

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Dancing Emptiness with Mukti & Loch

Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

12/20/23 • 60 min

Enjoy Mukti’s in-depth dialogue with Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app in this podcast episode. Mukti and Loch delve into diverse topics and share pointers for awakening, embodiment, as well as working with emotions and energy. The dialogue explores topics like challenges faced by highly sensitive individuals. They discuss practical approaches to accessing and living from the dynamic nature of awareness and its transformative power.

[00:49:35] The episode features Loch offering a guided glimpse practice called Back Through Your Senses. These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness that is already here within all of us.

You can now explore all of Loch Kelly's practices and teachings on the new Mindful Glimpses app, found at https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpses. This innovative meditation and wellness app offers daily micro-meditations, step-by-step programs, and simple-yet-advanced tools for awakening.

Mukti Gray Bio

After the Adyashanti retirement, Mukti Gray has assumed the role of head teacher at Open Gate Sangha, where she offers teachings focused on attunement to being and the heart of awareness. Offering teachings focused on attunement to being and the heart of awareness. Rooted in meditation, self-inquiry, and body awareness, her methods nurture the realization and embodiment of conscious Spirit. Mukti delves into the paradoxes of spiritual growth, addressing the transcendent and immanent, human and divine aspects. With a background in Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, and Hatha Yoga, Mukti brings a unique perspective to her presentations. https://mukti.opengatesangha.org/

Loch Kelly Bio

Loch Kelly is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, award winning author, psychotherapist, and nondual meditation teacher known for his unique practical methods that support awakening as the next natural stage of human development. Loch was asked by Adyashanti to teach and share nondual embodiment in 2007. Backed by modern neuroscience and psychology, Loch introduces Effortless Mindfulness, an ancient form of nondual meditation that allows immediate access to our embodied awake nature which arises as calm, clarity, and compassion.

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An Introduction to the Five Levels of Mind

Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

08/28/24 • 34 min

In this episode, Loch introduces a pillar of the Effortless Mindfulness model called the Five Levels of Mind. He refers to these five levels as Everyday Mind, Subtle Mind, Awake Aware Mind, Unity Mind, and Heartmind. In this show, Loch explores and unpacks how the first two levels of mind involve working with the body and mind to calm and stabilize them. The next three levels of mind make up a second tier, so to speak, providing access to a deeper sense of fundamental well-being, compassion and wisdom. Effortless Mindfulness really begins with the shift into the awake aware mind—an awareness-based way of knowing that exists prior to thought and can use thought as needed. Then the next two levels allow us to embody and live from a more connected feeling of flow. This episode provides tools, tips, and insights for how you can tune into your already awake mind, shift through the deeper levels of mind, and navigate your own consciousness with greater compassion, clarity, and loving flow.

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Every great meditative tradition the world over has major maps of the significant steps or stages in meditation as their tradition has come to understand and practice them. And what significant research has demonstrated is that virtually all of them follow the four or five major natural states of consciousness given cross-culturally and universally to all human beings. ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Philosopher and Author

[25:48] The episode also features Loch offering a guided practice called Knowing From Heart-Mind. These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness that is already here within all of us.

Loch Kelly is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, award winning author, psychotherapist, and nondual meditation teacher known for his unique practical methods that support awakening as the next natural stage of human development. Backed by modern neuroscience and psychology, Loch introduces Effortless Mindfulness, an ancient form of nondual meditation that allows immediate access to our embodied awake nature which arises as calm, clarity, and compassion.

Connect with Loch:

Mobile App: https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpsesWebsite: https://lochkelly.org/Donate: https://lochkelly.org/donatePodcast: https://lochkelly.org/podcast

What Are the Obstacles to Awakening?

Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

10/23/24 • 35 min

In this podcast episode, Loch explores the three main obstacles to awakening. As part of the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process, he emphasizes the importance of having a map, a method, and markers to help us understand where we are on the path at any given time. In Effortless Mindfulness, that map is called the Five Levels of Mind, and Loch spends time illuminating the different levels. He then goes on to pinpoint the three biggest obstacles that prevent us from truly awakening to and abiding in the deeper levels of our being.

The Three Main Obstacles

The first obstacle to awakening is that many people have an incomplete map of the awakening process. That means people often start on the path of awakening but don’t always have the necessary tools to follow through.

The second obstacle to awakening is our confusion around what to do with our common experience of ego identity. Many psychologies try to balance and strengthen our ego while many meditation systems ask us to see the ego as an illusion that’s unnecessary. Loch leads us in a glimpse to appreciate our “ego” or “problem solve” identity and then shift out of it as the center but to include it as a helpful part of us.

And the third major obstacle to awakening is spiritual bypassing and getting lost in the mistaken assumption that delightful spiritual experiences of pure awareness, no self, peace, and ecstasy are the end point of awakening. Instead, Loch emphasizes an awake, embodied, and heart-based connection to the community of life.

Loch unpacks these obstacles in depth. He stresses the importance of thanking and acknowledging all the parts of oneself, including protectors and exiles. He also highlights why off-the-cushion practices and entering flow are essential to integrating awakening into daily life, promoting a sense of peace, well-being, and optimal functioning.

Guided Glimpse Practice

(00:22:02) The episode features Loch offering a guided glimpse practice called “The Everyday Problem Solver Is the Obstacle.” These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness that is already here within all of us.

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The Science of Presence with Dan Siegel

Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

09/23/24 • 80 min

Join Loch Kelly - creator of the Mindful Glimpses app - here as he welcomes Dr. Dan Siegel, a pioneering researcher and author in the field of interpersonal neurobiology. In this episode, they delve into Siegel’s interdisciplinary framework for understanding the mind and its relationship to the brain, body, and human connections.

Dr. Dan Siegel (Wheel of Awareness) introduces the concept of mind as an "emergent self-organizing process" of energy and information flow within and between individuals, drawing from collaboration across 40 scientific disciplines. Distinguishing mind from brain, he emphasizes its inclusion of subjective experience and awareness, beyond neural activity.

[1:10:03] The episode features Loch offering a guided practice called “Glimpsing Awareness.” These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness that is already here within all of us. This is a similar practice to the dan siegel wheel of awareness practice.

Dr. Dan Siegel is an educator and author, renowned for his work in interpersonal neurobiology. He serves as the executive director of the Mindsight Institute and is a founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. With over fifteen books and five New York Times bestsellers to his name, Siegel's contributions span a multitude of languages and disciplines, focusing on the mind and mental health. He earned his degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate training at UCLA, specializing in pediatrics, adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry. Siegel's research explores the intricate relationship between relationships and our autobiographical narratives, shaping our development across the lifespan.

Loch Kelly is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, award winning author, psychotherapist, and nondual meditation teacher known for his unique practical methods that support awakening as the next natural stage of human development. Backed by modern neuroscience and psychology, Loch introduces Effo

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Living From Awakening: Adyashanti Part II

Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

06/19/24 • 53 min

Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app here as he welcomes his dear friend and colleague Adyashanti for an insightful conversation on different doorways for awakening. This conversation is significant as it's the last public interview before the official Adyashanti retirement announcement. Loch has been an authorized teacher by Adyashanti since 2007 and he carries on the modern nondual tradition. Adyashanti meditation style is discussed as he shares personal insights into his journey of awakening, emphasizing the importance of embodiment and connection in his path towards deeper understanding.

The discussion touches on the individualized nature of awakening experiences and the various phases one may encounter along the way. They discuss Loch’s Mindful Glimpses approach and Adyashanti Guided Meditation style as complements to each other. Delving into the essence of awakening, Loch and Adyashanti explore the transition from the narrative mind to pure awareness, and then into embodiment and love, highlighting the dynamic interplay between relative and ultimate realities. Throughout the dialogue, they offer nuanced perspectives on non-duality, emphasizing the integration of awareness and love into everyday life.

43:36 The episode features Loch offering a guided practice called “Infinite No Self.” These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness that is already here within all of us.

SPECIAL EPISODE BONUS - An Adyashanti Guided Meditation can be found in the Mindful Glimpses App: https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpses

Adyashanti, whose name means “primordial peace,” has been a spiritual teacher for 26 years, offering Adyashanti meditation and teachings across various formats worldwide. With a reach extending to over 30,000 people in 120 countries through his website, Adyashanti's teachings transcend religious points of view and belief systems. Since the Adyashanti retirement announcement, he has retired from teaching and resides in the Eastern Sierras with his wife, Mukti, who now is the Head Teacher of the Open Gate Sangha. https://www.opengatesangha.org/

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Awakening to Original Love with Henry Shukman (Part 1)

Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

04/23/25 • 54 min

In this deep conversation, two “happy" masters of meditation, Loch Kelly and author of Original Love, Henry Shukman, explore their similar and unique approaches to awakening. With delight and curiosity, they share some of their own initial awakening experience. They also discuss their process of discovering and unfolding and how they share it with students.

To this end, they unpack and illuminate the contemplative art and science of Inquiry and Koans as ways to shift out of the chattering mind and into our already awake heart mind. Henry talks about his experience with Zen Koans and Loch shares his Mahamudra approach to inquiry. Loch calls this Glimpsing, and it emphasizes immediate experiential pointers which help practitioners directly realize their already awake nature. Henry and Loch also lean into questions around the importance of integrating ancient wisdom approaches with contemporary models of psychology and human development.

Other key areas of their trans-traditional dialogue include recognizing ordinary experiences and pain as opportunities for awakening. They also talk about the role of personal loss in awakening and the role of personal storytelling in teaching. They both agree that awakening is the discovery of what Henry calls Original Love (instead of Original Sin) and what Loch calls Unconditional Love, which allows us to live from Awake Loving Flow.

Mindful Glimpse
The episode features Loch offering a guided practice called “Compassion Is Already Here.” These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness that is already here within all of us.

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IFS and Effortless Mindfulness (EM+IFS): Support for Waking Up and Healing Up

Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

12/18/24 • 60 min

In this episode, Loch unpacks how his unique approach to awakening fuses two powerful and transformative systems—Effortless Mindfulness (EM) and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Each of these systems asserts that our true Self is ever-present and inherent. We don’t need to create or develop anything to realize our true nature. In Effortless Mindfulness, we uncover this ever-present Self (aka the IFS Self) directly. Each of these systems is the missing link for the other. EM+IFS solves the psychological problem of trying to develop a strong and kind ego and also the Buddhist problem of calling the ego an illusion with the goal of “no self.”

IFS Exercises

In this episode Loch leads us through powerful IFS exercises designed to evoke the IFS Self and the shift to Self Leadership, where the ego is part of the team and neither an enemy nor an illusion.

What kind of IFS exercises and parts work therapy help us to become aware of our sub-personalities? And what role does learning the markers of the 8 c’s of the IFS Self play in living from awake loving consciousness? Loch explains how doing IFS exercises like parts mapping and healing with parts therapy is essential not only to reduce our suffering but for accessing our true nature.

What does Self leadership as the next stage of human development look like in the world in and as you and me? How do we consistently make decisions based on wisdom and love instead of our egos or our protective parts? EM and IFS offer us a model for recognizing the interdependence of all our parts, so that we can truly live from a ground of awake loving flow.

[Want to learn more about IFS and parts work? Read Loch’s article on Integrating Parts Work Therapy and Effortless Mindfulness]

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Loch Kelly Bio

Loch is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, and an aw

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Nondual Presence: The Unity of Emptiness and Bliss

Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

02/25/25 • 37 min

In this episode, Loch introduces the map and practices of non-dual presence. A lot of us have heard about non-duality before. But how many of us have a truly embodied experience of this profound and transformative dimension of our own consciousness?

Nondual Presence Map

In Loch’s model of The Five Levels of Mind, he refers to non-dual presence as the Fourth Level of Mind — Unity Mind. Throughout the episode, Loch leads you through an experiential inquiry into the nature of both bliss and emptiness and how non-dual presence represents the life-changing union of these two. We all like peak experiences of bliss. But what if the natural experience of our body on a fundamental level was a subtle pervasive Bliss.

In this episode, you’ll get answers to fundamental questions like: What does non-dual presence feel like? How can you begin to embody this for yourself? How is it different from Subtle Energy, Pure Awareness, and the Mindful Witness? And most importantly, how can you access non-dual presence in your own life to foster a new baseline of unconditional love and Self Leadership.

Glimpse & Nondual Meditation

The episode features Loch offering a guided practice and nondual meditation called “Awake-Awareness Energy Embodied.” These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness that is already here within all of us.

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Awareness of Awareness: The Essential Shift from Conventional to Effortless Mindfulness

Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

11/20/24 • 66 min

In this episode, Loch introduces you to the essential shift in the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process (EMAP)—Awake Aware Mind. He addresses the often elusive but essential question: What is it like to directly experience our already Awake Mind?

The goal in EMAP is not a sustained experience. Instead, we aim for an orientation, recognition, and realization of this already awake and ever-present dimension of our own consciousness. The key is to shift out of the thought-based knowing of “I think therefore I am” by having awareness rest back and know itself as both the subject and object of knowing. From this spacious and pervasive way of simply being, you are aware of pure awareness—as what knows directly—without needing to refer back to thought for a second opinion. To help facilitate this shift, Loch leads you through three powerful experiential inquiries and glimpses.
Mindful Glimpses:
(00:13:33)-Embodied awareness to effortless awareness
(00:58:03)-Awareness of senses to awareness of awareness
(01:33:43)-Finding awake awareness between your thoughts

In the first Glimpse, you’ll traverse everyday mind into the conventional mindful witness. From here, you’ll attend to the contents of body and brain and then turn awareness around to look through the meditator and discover Awake Aware Mind. Your Awake Mind is free from fear, worry, and shame and welcomes all positive and negative experiences as waves on the ocean of our awake humanity.

In the second Glimpse, you’ll unhook from thinking and move through the doorways of seeing and then hearing, decentering your normal head-centered awareness. Then you’ll move into hearing and the auditory field, mingling awareness with space so that awake space is both outside and within all of life.

And in the final Glimpse, Loch guides you into an inquiry to help you discover and identify the ever-subtle awareness of awareness between thoughts and words. This is a simple yet profound practice recommended by the Dalai Lama.

Loch Kelly Bio

Loch is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, and an award winning author, psychotherapist,

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Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly currently has 37 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Meditation, Non-Profit, Spirituality, Neuroscience, Psychology, Buddhism, Awakening, Religion & Spirituality, Therapy, Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education and Mindfulness.

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The episode title 'The Neuroscience of Awakening with Dr. David Vago' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly is 48 minutes.

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Episodes of Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly are typically released every 27 days, 22 hours.

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