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“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.”
Jon0996712 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/30/23
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“Ok. I’ll admit it’s a bit early to be giving this podcast a 5 star, perfect review (although the trailer is tip top!). The reason I can already foretell that it is so deserving, is that this gentleman and his meditative system are so deserving.
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