Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly
Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly explores awakening as the next natural stage of human development. Host Loch Kelly, a meditation teacher and psychotherapist, guides listeners through nondual meditations rooted in modern neuroscience and psychology. The podcast offers practices to uncover innate calm, clarity, and peace, with resources available through the Mindful Glimpses app.
Episodes
Effortless Mindfulness for Effortful Skeptics
In this deeply illuminating episode, Loch sits down with Theravāda Buddhist monks Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho to explore the profound practice of Effortless Mindfulness.Together, they bridge the gap between conventional and non-dual wisdom traditions, mapping direct realization to traditional experiences like samādhi, the Unborn, and the Deathless. Loch introduces us to "local awake awaren
What if the voice in your head isn’t who you really are?
In this conversation, Loch joins Radiant Voices host Jeremy de Tolly to explore effortless mindfulness, awake awareness, and the profound shift from identifying with thoughts and parts to recognizing that there is a type of knowing awareness prior to thought. Loch shares practical insights from decades of nondual mindfulness practice and teaching, explaining why traditional concentration-based med
From Small self to Self Leadership
In this episode, we take a fresh look at the journey from our everyday, habitual sense of ego-centered identity—the “small self”—toward discovering and living from our True Nature or what IFS calls Self Leadership. Through a guided glimpse practice and gentle inquiry at the end, we explore how to unblend from the thinker or manager part of the mind and shift into the spacious, compassionate presen
Awakening to Original Love with Henry Shukman (Part 2)
In part two of this deep conversation, two “happy” masters of meditation, Loch Kelly and Henry Shukman, explore a range of topics and questions through the lens of awakening as a natural human potential. What can we learn about how to shift into awake mind and heart to live with and recover from injury and long Covid? What is effortless focus and flow, aka Flow Know? And why is it so important for
Awakening to Original Love with Henry Shukman (Part 1)
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 illumi
Effortless Focus & Flow
What if there were another way to focus that is not stressful or exhausting? And what if this other way of effortless focus and flow gave us more energy and tapped us into an inherent sense of clarity, compassion, and wholeness? Three Kinds of Effortless FlowIn this episode of the Effortless Mindfulness podcast, Loch Kelly introduces us to different types of awareness and uncovers a remarkable an
Nondual Presence: The Unity of Emptiness and Bliss
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 MapIn Loch’s model of The Five Levels of Mind, he refers to non-dual presence as the Fourth Level of Mind — Unity Mind. Throughout th
The Stages of Mindfulness: Beyond the Meditator to Living from Effortless Mindfulness
In this episode, Loch explores the progressive stages of mindfulness. This contrasts with common definitions of mindfulness which only feature the first stages of concentration and witnessing. In addition, Loch introduces a nuanced map of consciousness which includes important distinctions and levels. In this model, which is based on the Indo-Tibetan approach, mindfulness begins similarly with ca
IFS and Effortless Mindfulness (EM+IFS): Support for Waking Up and Healing Up
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
Awareness of Awareness: The Essential Shift from Conventional to Effortless Mindfulness
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-prese
What Are the Obstacles to Awakening?
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 t
The Science of Presence with Dan Siegel
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 Introduction to the Five Levels of Mind
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 sec
Awakening Through Grief with Mirabai Starr
Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app here as he welcomes spiritual teacher and author Mirabai Starr about how grief is a portal to the sacred. They explore the mystics' poetic teachings on embracing both the transcendent and immanent - the ultimate reality and our embodied human experience. Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr is about “living the fierce and tender wisdom of the wom
Living From Awakening: Adyashanti Part II
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 mode
Realizing Freedom Together: A Conversation with Loch Kelly and Caverly Morgan
Join Loch Kelly the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app here as he welcomes his colleague and author of The Heart of Who We Are Caverly Morgan. They explore the intersection of personal and collective practices for spiritual awakening. Caverly shares her journey of reconciling various teachings and traditions to arrive at an integrated approach. Loch highlights his Effortless Mindfulness teaching
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 an
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 mode
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 be
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 discu
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 flouri
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 dyna
Always Awake, Always Unfolding: Stephen Bodian & Loch Kelly
Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app in this in depth dialogue with author, meditation teacher and psychotherapist, Stephan Bodian. Recognizing that awakening is already here and gradually unfolds, they emphasize the importance of finding your own path. The conversation delves into different doorways to awakening; from dropping within, to opening up, and acknowledging the varie
Radical Acceptance: Tara Brach & Loch Kelly: Part I
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. As friends and colleagues they explore the critical themes of waking up consciousness and fostering an open heart in the midst of today's stressful world. The dialogue emphasizes the need for radical acceptance and compassionate activity roote
Nondual Mindfulness: Sam Harris & Loch Kelly
Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app in this insightful conversation with renowned author, meditation teacher and neuroscientist, Sam Harris. In this deep dialogue, Loch and Sam explore the vast landscape of meditation, non-duality. They share their personal early encounters with Dzogchen and Mahamudra teachers and teachings. Sam and Loch offer distinctive contemporary perspecti
Embodied Awakening with Judith Blackstone
In this insightful conversation, Judith Blackstone, author of "The Fulness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening," joins Loch in a profound exploration of consciousness, healing and awakening. They delve into the essence of fundamental consciousness and its interconnectedness with our daily life. The dialogue emphasizes the importance of honoring our psychological history and trau
Healing Trauma with Gabor Mate
In this podcast episode, Loch Kelly engages in a deep dialogue with renowned physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté. They explore the intricacies of trauma, addictions and transformation with Effortless Mindfulness and Compassionate Inquiry. Dr. Maté delves into the profound connection between awareness, mind and body. The conversation also highlights the significance of seeking help and creating sup
Being Love
In this podcast episode, Loch Kelly introduces a direct approach to help us awaken to the freedom, clarity and our unconditional loving nature that is already within each of us and as each of us. He shows us a way to immediately shift out of our chattering mind and into our embodied interconnected Heart Mind. This method involves shifting what he calls local awake awareness from its current self c
Experiencing Emotional Liberation
Join nondual mindfulness teacher Loch Kelly in this podcast episode as he explores the path of emotional liberation and guides you towards breaking free from the painful loop of emotions and thoughts. Discover how the root cause of suffering lies not in the emotions themselves, but in the contraction of the mind in a limited sense of identity. Here he delves into the concept of emotional liberatio
The Neuroscience of Awakening with Dr. David Vago
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 discu
A Mindful Glimpse for Awakening
This episode features a short "glimpse” or micro-meditation that helps us shift out of our chattering mind and into our already awake consciousness. This mindful glimpse brings us back to our senses and then continues to introduce us to the most important discovery for freedom: awake awareness. By experiencing awake awareness around us and the aliveness within us as interconnected, we discov
Why the Now Isn't the Present Moment with Physicist Piet Hut
"Time is the greatest concept of all, hiding the dynamic, open nature of experience under the garments of the concepts past, present, and future," wrote Princeton astrophysics professor Piet Hut. Where do quantum physics and the great wisdom traditions meet? Here in the Now. The "Now" in Tibetan Buddhism is translated as "The timeless awareness that includes the three rela
Standard Mindfulness and Effortless Mindfulness - What's the Difference?
What’s here now if the peace you’re seeking is already here? In this episode, Loch examines the differences between standard mindfulness and the nondual direct way of Effortless Mindfulness, where we are mindful from another level of Mind. Hear about the stages of awakening: from direct recognition to realization to familiarization to expression. Learn to immediately access our inherent awareness
Overcoming Addiction with Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John
Loch and Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John, a leading voice in mindfulness and addiction recovery, dive deep into a discussion about relieving "perpetual dissatisfaction" through Buddhist teachings and the expansive ground of awake consciousness. Dr. Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John, M.A (hon.doc) has been practicing mindfulness for over 30 years and is one of the leading African-descent vo
The Power of How... To Awaken
Enjoy this experiential introduction to Effortless Mindfulness to help you immediately shift from your anxious headspace into your timeless, wordless, embodied heart space. Loch offers the foundational principles of EM and micro-meditations which invite you to learn how to look within to shift out of the ego identity and live from your already installed awake loving consciousness. To view a record
Anam Thubten: A Modern Approach to Ancient Teachings
Loch and Tibetan Buddhist teacher Anam Thubten share a deep dialogue about the ways they each bring a modern approach to ancient teaching to support the awakening of all beings. They explore their appreciation for the simplicity and elegance of the nondual Dzogchen ”Great Completion” teachings, which reveal the already awake consciousness and embodied natural compassion. After the talk, Loch offer
Experiencing Awake Consciousness: Always Already Here
In this episode, Loch points us toward our natural awake consciousness with the inquiry, “What’s here now when there’s no problem to solve?” The premise of Effortless Mindfulness is that an awake consciousness is already here and available to all of us; it just needs to be revealed. Once revealed, we can discover our true nature and live from it with an open mind and an open heart. Try it for your
Awakening as Our Next Natural Stage of Growth
In this episode, Loch Kelly shares the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Training (EMAT) approach to shifting into the next stage of human development. EMAT offers a unique way to bring together direct path awakening consciousness with contemporary neuroscience and psychology. While most psychological practices organize around a thought-based small-self or “parts-based identity,” EMAT integrates no
Accessing Our Authentic "Self" with Richard Schwartz
Learn how to love and heal our wounded parts by accessing authentic Self and embodying awakening. Loch and Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., the founder of Internal Family Systems psychotherapy (IFS), discuss how our ego manager is not the enemy but a tired part of us that is happy to be a part of the team when our authentic Self is the new leader. After the dialogue, Loch offers a guided mindful glimpse m
How Effortless Mindfulness Changed My Life
In this episode, Loch shares his early experiences exploring consciousness and stumbling onto Effortless Mindfulness. Effortless Mindfulness (EM) is an ancient form of nondual meditation that immediately accesses the natural calm, clear, connected, and compassionate dimension already within us. After the talk, Loch shares a guided, mindful glimpse micro-meditation to help you access this next natu
Welcome to Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly
Experience support for awakening as the next stage of human development through micro-meditations, conversations about consciousness, spirituality, neuroscience and contemporary psychology.We’ll also explore topics such as, nonduality, accessing creativity and flow states, relating and relationships, awakening amidst anxiety / trauma / PTSD, the interplay of Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Traini
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