This is a wonderful podcast with clear explanations and accessible glimpses into profound self energy. After many years and many failed attempts at meditation, this practice has opened doors I thought could not be accessed. Loch’s work combining meditation with IFS has been life changing.

This podcast is wonderful. The episode with Dan Siegel made my heart sing- a collaboration I didn’t know I needed! My favorite mindfulness teacher & author of my favorite parenting book together in one place :-)

Anyone seeking to deepen their meditation practice or understanding of mindfulness should consider this podcast. So much rich content shared by Lock Kelly and his guests.

I rate this podcast as a 10! I had a radical shift in identity listening to Loch’s Effortless Mindfulness glimpses and tips regarding trauma. I recognize that the states of well-being, peace and contentment are the essence of who I truly am. And that the essence of who I am was never touched by trauma. It’s that essence that can now comfort and heal those inner parts that experienced the trauma. I can now live from the wholeness of who I am… 🙏✨

Loch Kelly has pointed out the means of insight through contemporary language while honoring the principles of ancient wisdom.

Anumodana!

Great guests, wonderful conversations, and I am finding Loch Kelly’s teachings of enormous benefit. I am someone who has meditated for years and find his work very helpful, and I believe it could be just as valuable — and this podcast just as interesting — for those with little or no experience in this arena. Highly recommended.

Loch is doing amazing work to share and modernize ancient nondual techniques from Tibetan Buddhism and Taoism. Fantastic stuff, and eminently applicable.

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.

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.

loch provides a straightforward conceptual framework + practices to explore non dual states of consciousness. for experienced and novice mindfulness practitioners alike.

Loch’s, effortless mindfulness pointers have changed my life, and I am so grateful. I feel that these are tools that make meditation (and non-meditation) truly accessible to anyone at any level. The approach of small glimpses, many times, is a very understated method that empowers me to heal: to open to all dimensions of myself and others, and to respond from a new perspective. I am thrilled that he is offering these in a broader way on this podcast.

Loch has a way of teaching about non dual awake awareness in a way that feels grounding & therapeutic. I am so grateful to him for this way of teaching.

Loch has an incredible capacity to point you to your true nature with just a few simple pointers, allowing you to access some of your deepest meditation experiences in just minutes. He is a remarkably talented architect of mind, a true Dzogchen master for Westerners. He cuts deftly through the illusion of an isolated self, opening us to the vast boundless loving awareness that is ever-present, while simultaneously holding with care and compassion our smaller sense of ‘self.’ Loch has a deep, immediate, and intimate understanding of non-duality. His teachings are exactly what this world needs right now. I am very grateful to be a beneficiary of his wisdom. And I am grateful his wisdom is now so easily accessible through this podcast. Thank you Loch Kelly for being you, such a loving, playful, and awe-inspiring creature!

I love Loch and am so happy he has brought out a podcast. His teachings are wonderful, unique and above all practical. His podcast is a great continuation of his teachings and perfect for people too who have never been exposed to methods for waking up and wish to delve into this area. Great wherever you are in your practice and can be applied immediately. Thanks Loch

Thanks Loch

Loch’s teachings and “glimpses” have been incredibly helpful for my journey on the path. Very grateful for him 😌

I found Loch in 2020, did these awesome sessions with him and groups through Being and Doing and continue with these glimpse practices today. I can attest that they work and also that it requires work, daily. These practices and new ways of thinking of who or what we are, and are not, can start you on a new path that includes relief and hope. Even longtime meditators will discover a territory beyond the witness. There is a larger (free from body/small mind suffering) essential you that truly is loaded with all the good stuff just awaiting your recognition of it. If you are trapped in the constant flow of ‘little me’s’ this may sound too good to be true. Just wait until you pop out of your small suffering self then see how crazy good it can get. Or how quickly you feel relief. It’s real and waiting for you to discover it and eventually abide and live from it. Take this seriously. Loch is giving you a reliable map home to a larger, happier more fluid you. My suggestion is you approach this like a new hobby or skill you hope to develop and you will likely see progress. Think of learning to paint, dance or play music and all the practice that goes into it. I used to play sports and this feels a lot like learning layups or free throws in basketball that you practice 1000’s of times. There are great days and days when you feel like you’ve never shot a basketball. But you recall that great shot and it motivates you to keep practicing until you shoot spot on without thought or effort. One day it feels like you just float down the court in a flow with your teammates and both effortlessly and joyfully play and enjoy the game. It’s because you trained for 1000’s of hours and built new neural pathways that become dominant over time. These glimpses allow you to experience freedom from your small self quickly. It’s stabilizing it that takes repetition. I’m still practicing and still have rough patches for sure, but the glimpse practices begin to happen more spontaneously and often. I’ve been practicing about 2 1/2-3 years now and have made progress. I’ve also practiced with a small group throughout that time which is helpful. My strongest recommendation for those taking this seriously is group practice coupled with many personal glimpses daily. I recommend you listen to lochs glimpses to start-he has a cd with them, and attend his very affordable online or in person retreats to get the benefit of his and the groups energy that can help you to unhook from the little me and it’s problems. This way you get to experience and recognize what he is pointing us towards so when you practice on your own you’ll have a sense of what it feels like. This is important because it’s not mental, it’s a new felt experience and it’s helpful to have it confirmed by others. I’ll confess to waking up in intense stress and just playing a glimpse on my phone helps me unhook and get my bearings when I’m in over my head. You will likely go through many highs and lows, don’t be afraid to use this to ‘get outta dodge!’ Then practice… Also, he offers soooo many different ways to unhook. I’m an ‘outty’, unhook and go out then return practitioner but have recently found the drop to heart mind right off working. You can switch it up and let go of those that don’t work. You will find your doorway(s). Personally, I cannot thank Loch enough for going to the effort of westernizing these ancient teachings and bringing all of this to the public. No small task indeed. I’ve benefitted and believe, if you apply yourself, you will too. Wishing well being and happiness my fellow travelers!

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. I have spent years traveling through India, Sri Lanka and Peru, only to meet Loch in western Massachusetts and be taken to places that took days of silent retreat in a matter of minutes. Just allow yourself the possibility that this statement just might be true and you will allow yourself to be transformed. To tall of an order? I think not. Enjoy! Lucky you!