25 episodes
Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly Loch Kelly
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4.9 • 70 Ratings
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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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Self-Actualization with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman
Join Loch Kelly the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app here as he welcomes psychologist Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman as his special guest. Together, they embark on a profound exploration of transcendence, self-awareness, and awakening as the next stage of human potential. In this Scott Barry Kaufman podcast episode, they explore the experience of unconditional love and unconditional positive regard and their transformative power in healing trauma. With a blend of psychology and spirituality, Loch and Scott offer practical wisdom for navigating the highest stages of potential growth and ways to support this.
[47:34] This Scott Barry Kaufman podcast episode features Loch offering a related micro-meditation called “Effortless Focus.” 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, including the practice in this Scott Barry Kaufman podcast episode, 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.
Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman is a distinguished psychologist known for his groundbreaking research on intelligence, creativity, and human potential. As the founder of the Center for Human Potential and Self-Actualization Coaching, he is dedicated to helping individuals lead fulfilling lives. Host of The Psychology Podcast and a prolific author, Kaufman's work has garnered global recognition, shaping our understanding of personal growth and self-actualization. https://scottbarrykaufman.com/
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-glimpses
Website: https://lochkelly.org/
Podcast: https://lochkelly.org/podcast
Donate: https://lochkelly.org/donate
The Effortless Mindfulness Podcast is brought to you by our 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity. Our mission is to make learning how to tap into your inner resources simple, teachable, and accessible to everyone. -
Living From Awakening: Adyashanti Part I
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.
44:37 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.
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.
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/
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-glimpses
Website: https://lochkelly.org/
Podcast: https://lochkelly.org/podcast
Donate: https://lochkelly.org/donate
The Effortless Mindfulness Podcast is brought to you by our 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity. Our mission is to make learning how to tap into your inner resources simple, teachable, and accessible to everyone. -
Radical Acceptance: Tara Brach & Loch Kelly: Part II
Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app here as he shares a deep dialogue with psychologist, meditation teacher and author, Tara Brach. Together they explore the path to awakening presence and deepening the connection to inner wisdom. The conversation navigates through practical techniques for shifting awareness, mindfulness cultivation, and the transformative power of embracing beliefs without being bound by them.
Discover how stories and narratives are portals to understanding stored emotions in the body and how practices like prayer, curiosity, and glimpses can lead to healing and a sense of belonging. The discussion also touches on the importance of celebrating joy, gratitude, and bliss in the journey toward freedom and self-realization.
[00:32:40] The episode features Loch offering a guided practice which is designed to explore Getting HeartMind Online. These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness that is already here within all of us.
Tara Brach Guided Meditation and More on the App
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. Included is the above Tara Brach guided meditation along with guest meditations from other well-regarded teachers.
Tara Brach, a prominent figure in Western Buddhism, merges psychology and Eastern spirituality. With a background in psychology and political science, she explored yoga during grassroots organizing, later embracing Insight Meditation. Holding a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, she integrates mindfulness into psychotherapy. Through her podcast and global teachings, she emphasizes emotional healing, spiritual awakening, and compassionate action, addressing societal issues. Additionally, Tara is the author of the book 'Radical Acceptance,' now being re-released in its 20th Anniversary Edition. https://www.tarabrach.com/
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-glimpses
Website: https://lochkelly.org/
Podcast: https://lochkelly.org/podcast
Donate: https://lochkelly.org/donate
The Effortless Mindfulness Podcast is brought to you by our 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity. Our mission is to make learning how to tap into your inner resources simple, teachable, and accessible to everyone. -
Mindful Self-Compassion with Kristin Neff & Loch Kelly
Join Loch Kelly, the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, as he engages in a deep conversation with colleague Kristin Neff. She is the author of the landmark book, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself. This podcast episode explores her expertise in Self-Compassion, the transformative role it plays in our lives, and practical methods for cultivating it. Loch joins in to discuss the relationship between self-compassion and discovering Compassion from higher Self to our parts.
Deeper Insights into Self-Compassion
This episode explores ultimate and relative compassion, shedding light on the fabric of reality and the unity of ultimate insight and healing trauma as well as our everyday pain and hurt. Gain valuable perspectives on embracing common humanity, acceptance, and fostering connection in this enriching episode.
Guided Practice
[00:46:55] In this episode, Loch offers a guided practice called “Being the Compassionate Self.” 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.
Kristin Neff, Ph.D., has a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. As highlighted in this podcast, Kristin is a pioneering figure in self-compassion research and developed a scale for measuring this construct nearly two decades ago. Renowned globally, Kristin has authored impactful books, including Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself and Fierce Self-Compassion. Alongside Dr. Chris Germer, she co-created the Mindful Self-Compassion program. Kristin Neff is also a co-founder of the nonprofit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. https://self-compassion.org/
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-glimpses
Website: https://lochkelly.org/
Podcast: https://lochkelly.org/podcast
Donate: https://lochkelly.org/donate
The Effortless Mindfulness Podcast is brought to you by our 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity. Our mission is to make learning how to tap into your inner resources simple, teachable, and accessible to everyone. -
Relational Mindfulness with Terry Real and Loch Kelly
Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app in this caring dialogue with friend and colleague Terry Real where they explore the transformative power of relational mindfulness and offer practical tools for creating conscious and connected relationships. Terry emphasizes the importance of moving beyond individualistic perspectives and finding tools to support relational growth and flourishing. Throughout the conversation, he shares stories from his practice, discusses the phases of relational work, and highlights how to access relation mindfulness from our Wise Adult. Listeners gain valuable insights for relationship resilience and an understanding of addressing both shame-based and grandiose aspects in relationships. For those interested in Terry Real's work, he mentions his new book US and his highly successful (RLT) Relational Life Therapy training programs for mental health professionals.
[50:30] The episode features Loch offering a guided practice called Peer Inquiry Practice. This practice can be done by yourself with the recording or with a partner taking turns reading and answering the inquiries.
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.
Terry Real is a leading expert in couples therapy and intimacy, has authored multiple books, with his most recent work gaining recognition on the New York Times bestseller list. His revolutionary approach, known as Relational Life Therapy (RLT), is the cornerstone of his teachings, offering individuals powerful relational skills to enhance love and cultivate authentic connections. Recognized as "the turnaround guy," Terry's transformative RLT method has made him a sought-after mentor in the field of couples therapy. https://terryreal.com/
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-glimpses
Website: https://lochkelly.org/
Podcast: https://podcast.effortlessmindfulness.com/
Donate: https://lochkelly.org/donate
The Effortless Mindfulness Podcast is brought to you by our 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity. Our mission is to make learning how to tap into your inner resources simple, teachable, and accessible to everyone. -
Dancing Emptiness with Mukti & Loch
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.
“Loch Kelly is one of the clearest expressions of authentic, awakened freedom and love that I know.” ~ Adyashanti
Connect with Loch:
Mobile App: https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpses
Website: https://lochkelly.org/
Podcast: https://lochkelly.org/podcast
Donate: https://lochkelly.org/donate
The Effortless Mindfulness Podcast is brought to you by our 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity. Our mission is to make learning how to tap into your inner resources simple, teachable, and accessible to everyone. We ask that you support us by downloading the Mindful Glimpses app, so we can also support you!
Customer Reviews
US VETERAN
Loch’s teachings save lives.
I am a US Army Veteran with severe PTSD and I wish they would just offer this directly to all Veterans at the VA Hospitals and to all active duty military service members. Luckily, I happened to bump into this during other Dharma study.
22 Veterans take their own lives everyday. I believe we could change that with these simple, felt-sense pointers. We could change it together if we told every Veteran we met about these methods.
I have personally shared this with other Veterans - every single one of them that will listen. I would shout it from the rooftops if I could or stand out in front of the VA hospital handing out pamphlets if they’d let me. Personally, I have used these teachings directly with severe PTSD and panic attacks - times where intense, effortful meditation was triggering serious panic attacks, preventing sleep and retraumatizing me in the midst of deep meditation! There’s a reason: check out Willoughby Briton’s work with Brown University on this and why the traumatized need to take directed, effortful meditative practices very slow, if at all. Deep, effortful meditation which breaks down the sense of a “you” straight away might unleash further trauma that has yet to be dealt with and safely integrated.
So, deep meditation isn’t always safe or recommended initially for the traumatized…
Enter Loch Kelly’s teachings / IFS:
It is great that these teachings dovetail into the Internal Family Systems therapy modality. I have watched Loch’s YouTube videos with Richard Schwartz on IFS and it was critical to know this practice would be safe for me. Loch has worked directly with the severely traumatized as well as general meditators and this is applicable for everybody, from every walk of life and every background. I have both of his books in print AND audiobook format. These teachings are THAT good, THAT direct. His voice is so soothing and tranquil that I listen even as I am falling asleep to keep renewing my understanding. You can feel his kindness and his authenticity through his words and I truly feel I can fully trust his deep understanding of people. (He’s worked with thousands of meditators by now as well as many numbers of traumatized patients in a clinical setting as well as in therapy in private practice.)
We have to start from a fundamental, basic feeling of wholeness and safety which this nondual teaching points us to. It works virtually instantly. I’m talking I could not leave the house and go into my back yard without panic. I just walked out there and cut a tree the other month like it was a breeze. So many Veterans have trouble even going outside. They’re like living ghosts. Often you can’t even find them in your community to reach out to them…
These techniques don’t mean I don’t still have some work to do, things still to be addressed - but this absolutely changes everything. This is hope. This is what Christ called the peace that passeth all understanding.
I had read the Tibetan’s teach of establishing this kind of awake awareness and that eventually the point is actually reaching stabilization - literally living from this stunning, relaxed, mentally unified, energized, NOT constantly fearful state. Well that’s great - but somebody please show me the literal HOW of neuro-biologically evoking this through some sort of intentional process. Somebody lay this out in a way that can be understood and initiated!
THAT is precisely the value of Loch’s felt-sense techniques versus endlessly reading the musings of the ancient Mystics describing their wondrous reality - the peace you would give your right arm to somehow find. Once you find your set of glimpses that completely stun you and evoke that felt sense of wholeness that you last knew as a young child, that total safety and deep relaxation that is also somehow totally energized and fully alive…
You may never see the world the same way again.
As a Disabled Veteran I have tried everything various cognitive behavioral therapies had to offer and none of them got to the root of the problem. None of them stopped my panic attacks. A few of them made my symptoms worse actually. These cognitive behavioral modalities can and absolutely do help so many people. However, for me, none of them really healed that deep, unnamed fear until I found Loch’s teaching methods.
Flow state therapy is only now being rediscovered and used to treat Veterans with severe disabilities - like surfing therapy getting Vets out into the ocean waves and the sun to move their bodies instead of being locked in dark rumination and painful memories. Well I can’t get on a surf board. My body is too broken even for that. But what can I do? I can glimpse. I can glimpse and glimpse and glimpse literally all day long until this peace and wholeness stabilizes for me and heals me completely from the inside. I contend this is the neurological equivalent of the brain states that are cycling through as you are surfing or rock climbing or sky diving. Put on a Muse Brain Sensing headband both before and after utilizing Loch’s teachings daily for a couple months and watch your brain waves change before your eyes. Watch them synchronize. You don’t need to hang off the side of a cliff or hope to bump into this one day a long time from now when you are somehow, hopefully happy.
This is precisely what the profoundly traumatized need. Eventually you have to come off that surf board and limp your way back home and then what do you do alone in the dark when the pain comes back? Eventually you have to come down off that rock face and function in the real world and not have a breakdown in the grocery store remembering your deployment to Iraq or your horrendous childhood. Well, if you know Loch’s methods, then you rest back into your own fundamental safety that cannot be threatened.
Then you finally know you are home.
Thank you so much Loch. Your work is literally saving Veteran’s lives. It saved mine.
Straightforward Insight
I was originally averse to Loch’s effortless mindfulness because I only understood effortful concentrated mindfulness. After processing a minimysyical experience I had, I tried Loch’s glimpses again and found they put me in touch with the same experience of already awake expansive oneness. This podcast is a nice addition to his overall body of work. I find the explanations of theory and interviews with fellow travelers bolster out effortless mindfulness nicely.
non dual meditation
loch provides a straightforward conceptual framework + practices to explore non dual states of consciousness. for experienced and novice mindfulness practitioners alike.