Effortless Mindfulness Level Two
A Self Paced Course
Discover Your Unique Doorways to Living Awake in the World
Join this special self-paced training and continue your path of Awakening with Effortless Mindfulness.
(For EM Level One Graduates Only)
Now that you understand the map, it’s time to fully embody the method and internalize the markers.
In Effortless Mindfulness Level Two, you’ll graduate from learning it to living it.
In Effortless Mindfulness Level One, you were experientially introduced to the map, method, and markers of the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process. In particular, EM Level One focused on the map.
EM Level Two narrows the lens and hones in on the details of the method you’ll need to establish yourself in Awake Mind, Unity Mind, and Heart Mind.
In Level Two, we’re going to focus on the method and markers. The key to embodying this new stage of life is to find the doorways and learning style that are best for you.
Why is this important? Because each of us has a different learning style. And every learning style features different supports and different obstacles to awakening.
(For EM Level One Graduates Only)
In Effortless Mindfulness Level 2
You’ll begin the process of creating a personalized meditation manual that will help you identify and focus on the doorways and obstacles that are particular to you and your learning style.
And then you’ll start to clarify the methods and markers you need to realize each stage of the unfolding and overcome those obstacles based on your learning style.
Unlike other systems, which often feature a one-size fits all approach, the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process shows you how to open the distinct doorways to awakening that best align with your personal learning style.
In this training, you will learn:
- How to distinguish thought-based learning from awareness-based learning
- How to confidently stop checking back with the Thinker
- How to identify and optimize the doorways that best align with your learning style
- How to ensure that you don’t get stuck anywhere in the awakening process: the mindful witness, blissful experiences, the void, etc
- How to avoid state-chasing and spiritual bypassing
- How to identify the triggers that take you out of awakening
- How to return when you lose access and then remain and integrate with everyday consciousness
(For EM Level One Graduates Only)
Here's What You'll Get
Your pre-recorded retreats and lesson modules will take place online via your virtual classroom. This is where you’ll access all your course materials.
Expert Instruction
87 Videos with pre-recorded expert instruction from Loch Kelly. Review at your own pace
Lifetime Access
Lifetime access to all course media in your virtual classroom
Micro-meditations
Weekly mindful glimpses to support each lesson module
PDF Support Materials
PDFs, charts, poems, quotes and other support materials
Course Structure
The EM Level 2 training program includes 87 videos broken into two self retreats and six modules, all of which you can take at your own pace.
- Module 1: Opening Retreat – Direct Realization and Unfolding – The EM Method
- Module 2: The Door of the Senses
- Module 3: The Door of Identity
- Module 4: The Door of Awareness
- Module 5: The Door of Nondual Presence
- Module 6: The Door of Flow
- Module 7: The Door of Love
- Module 8: Closing Retreat – Integration
Each module includes a mix of pre-recorded teachings with Loch, a guided Glimpse practice, and supporting materials.
(For EM Level One Graduates Only)
For Helping Professionals: Strengthen Your skills and Make a Greater Impact (with less burnout)
If you’re a mental health professional, meditation teacher/coach, or healing arts practitioner, EM Level Two will help you show up resiliently for your clients while diversifying your tool-kit.
Here’s what’s in store for you:
- Embody a meditative system that integrates Internal Family Systems with a nondual approach (bringing together psychology and ancient wisdom under one roof)
- Strengthen your self-leadership (so that you can remain grounded while facilitating 1.1 and group experiences)
- Work with your own parts (so that you can help others from a place of higher capacity)
- Elevate your equanimity
- Learn how to manage your own sensory system (which directly helps you manage your energy as you support individuals and groups on their own healing journeys)
- Decrease burnout simply by stabilizing in Awake Awareness
- Master self-management (so that you can have healthy boundaries with clients)
- Role model the way and make a greater impact through embodying the EM principles
- Prepare for the third and final stage of the EM Training Track – the facilitator certification track (we must first embody the system before we can share it with others)
For Meditation Practitioners: Deepen Your Practice
EM Level Two is about shifting from learning the system to truly living it. If you’re interested in deepening your practice and integrating the method and markers into your whole life, then you’ll love EM Level Two.
Here’s what’s in store for you:
- Prevent spiritual bypassing
- Shift from sitting meditation to meditation in action
- Learn how to live in the world from a ground of Awake Mind, Unity Mind, and Heart Mind
- Tap into greater flow by integrating meditation and your emotional life
- Learn how to not just access Awake Awareness, but return to embodied awake awareness anytime
- Gain insight into the obstacles to your awakening, allowing you to feel more connected, compassionate, and clear
- Embrace a custom approach that removes the guilt and shame
How is Level Two Different from Level One?
In level one, you experienced a broad introduction to the five levels of mind. And you were introduced to the map, method, and markers that define the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process. Most importantly, Level One focused primarily on the Map of Awakening.
Why? Because the first obstacle to awakening, for most of us, is the absence of a complete map. We all need a full map so we can heal, grow, and flourish at all the layers and levels of our consciousness. Without this full map we can get stuck half way in an eddy or cul-de-sac.
There are so many opportunities to get waylaid along the path. That’s why EM Level One provides you with numerous perspectives on the map. And the key point to remember is that awakening doesn’t stop with emptiness. It’s not just a blissful state experience. There’s so much more to it.
That’s where EM Level 2 comes in.
Without a full map, and without knowing it, most of us will stop short of the goal. We will:
- Get caught in the mindful witness, working with the contents of consciousness on an incremental improvement path and working at the relative levels. At this stage of detached witness, we don’t move beyond symptom relief.
- Mistake subtle body energetic empathy for Awake Awareness-based Self Energy. So feel bliss and connection but then get high on love, overwhelmed, or burnt out.
- Get stuck in the void of non-doing or no-self and lose clarity around what’s next. You’ve made progress but then you stop and your practice dries up.
- Keep going back to thought for a second opinion instead of discovering the not-knowing that knows from Awake Awareness.
- Get trapped in the powerful experience of Pure Awareness and freedom from relative suffering but don’t embody it. You get it and lose it and end up in an intellectual bypass or spiritual ego.
- Make progress on the path but don’t do the psychological and shadow work and so get triggered back and can’t embody awakening.
The Method & Markers - Identifying Your Doorways of Awakening
Build Your Custom Approach
Now that you know the map, we’re going to focus on the method, which is all about learning styles and deepening your experiential understanding.
How do you live it?
The short answer: Make it your own, and understand the territory that you’re practicing within.
Because, it’s crucial that we don’t confuse the map for the territory. The map is essential, but the territory is where the action is. That’s where we put all this into practice.
For that, we need to focus on the method and the markers.
At the same time, Level Two will give you more variety and practice options so you can deepen your experiential understanding of the path while clarifying the specific doorways that open your mind and heart.
For example, we will explore the principles and practices to dis-identify with or let go of our everyday ego mind and safely shift into our Awake consciousness.
We will explore:
- Who or what lets go?
- How do we begin and what does this feel like?
- And what do we let go into that makes all the difference?
- And finally, how do we confirm the new normal and learn to reside and respond from here?
And as you start to hone in on the learning styles that work best for you, you’ll begin to understand that you don’t need to master every glimpse or doorway presented. That’s a popular misunderstanding. In fact, you only need to become familiar with the ones that work for you. Why?
It Only Take One Doorway
Because it only takes one doorway–one shift–to untie the existential knots that bind us. And in the end, the Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Process is not about higher state experiences.
It’s about the Markers and Method that will help you untie the knots of existential discontent so you can fully inhabit Awake Mind, Unity Mind, and Heart Mind. And if you can untie just one of those knots, it can change everything!
When we untie the knots we return to our natural condition which is not many minds but the nature of mind or simply being. From here we are embodied and can do from Being as we get a feel for trust in Self leadership.
The Method - Moving from Recognizing to Realizing
Key to the method of Effortless mindfulness is the shift from Recognizing to Realizing. What does that mean?
It’s the same as shifting our base of operation from Everyday Mind to Awake Mind. And this will be a primary focus in EM2.
In EM1, Loch was teaching to your Everyday Mind, and you had experiences of the 5 Levels of Mind from that ground. In EM2, Loch speaks directly to your already Awake Mind.
Here are some of the essential hallmarks of the EM Method:
- Direct: EM is a direct practice. Rather than fixing the problem first to get to the solution, we go to the solution to fix the problem.
- Awake: Your conceptual mind is not inquiring. The pointers you learn are for your already awake mind to know, be, and then move and do from being.
- Levels: We don’t focus on what’s arising. Instead we focus on the level of mind it’s arising to. That changes the experience of what’s arising.
- Untying: It is not about creating new meditation states, rather it’s about untying existential knots.
- Transcend and Include: This path is not one of negation or deconstruction or stopping at no-self/centerless/headless or detached pure awareness or witness consciousness. It’s a path of transcendence and inclusion. Effortless Mindfulness is a “via positiva”path—an inquiry method leading to direct experience of and from.
- Calming: Start with the body, everyday mind, and subtle body/mind to calm and appreciate.
- No Bad Parts: We don’t aim to renounce, fight, suppress, judge or even initially change any of our exiled and protective parts. There are no bad parts.
- Orientation: Not only is awake awareness within you, it is the ultimate subject who we’re asking to move, glimpse itself, know, and realize. Shifting from Recognition to Realization is key.
The Markers - Workshopping the Essential Steps
There are also some essential steps and distinctions—markers—you need to internalize as you build your nondual practice and process for awakening. And in EM Level Two, we’re going to really workshop these markers.
For example, how do you confidently begin to distinguish thought-based learning from awareness-based learning? How do you stop checking back with the Thinker and uproot the deep habit of thought-based learning so that it becomes an active choice instead of your default?
We’re going to slow down the tape right at the point of contact with those markers, approaching them from different angles by using different doorways for different learning types so you confidently download and start to embody these shifts in consciousness.
Effortless Mindfulness + IFS Parts Work
I practice and teach an original synthesis of IFS-style parts work and Effortless Mindfulness. Taken together, these two models of Mind and Self offer a powerful path of healing that leads you to the deepest levels of integration.
What is parts work? And why is it such a transformative healing modality when integrated with Effortless Mindfulness?
The IFS model of parts work describes the nature of the human psyche as organizing into subpersonalities, or parts, that all have Self as their source.
The approach is not to judge, minimize, or get rid of these parts, but instead to notice and lovingly embrace all of our parts from our interconnected Self, which is also within all parts.
This creates a middle path between most psychotherapies that regard a healthy ego as the goal and some meditative paths that call ego or small self an illusion.
Effortless mindfulness helps us access Self and the nature of Mind, directly giving us a new view and wise capacity.
As we get to know and distinguish our parts from Self—even the most difficult ones—we can discover that all parts are looking for love, and there are no bad parts.
In our growing up and waking up, we begin by recognizing and thanking our protective parts as a way to overcome reactivity and find the natural calm needed to shift into our ever-present Awake Aware Mind.
But how do you actually give that love to these difficult and burdened parts? This is where the fusion of parts work and effortless mindfulness is so effective.
Having collaborated and co-taught with Dick Schwartz, I’ve combined IFS insights with the liberating wisdom practices of EM to facilitate access to Self—the whole of who we are beyond any part.
Mindful glimpses give us the tools for embodying and living an awakened life. And I find that this is the most effective way of healing our shadows—those unconscious, repressed, or denied parts.
It’s also the key to embody awakening. The goal of both IFS and EM is to upgrade our sense of identity and mind to live a life of Self leadership with the ability to heal inner parts and live from an awake loving flow to create and relate to others.
In EM Level Two, you’ll go even deeper in parts work and experience how EM can help you further heal and unburden your parts on the path to fundamental wholeness, awakening, and flourishing.
What Thought Leaders say about Loch...
“With wisdom, clarity and care, Loch Kelly offers teachings and practices that directly evolve consciousness and liberate the heart.”
World-renowned psychologist and meditation teacher. Founder of Insight Meditation Community. Bestselling author.
“Awakening is moving your inner center of gravity from your protective parts to your magnificent essence. Loch not only makes you realize that such a shift is possible, but provides exercises to help make it happen.”
“In many years of knowing and working with Loch Kelly I feel that he is one of the clearest expressions of authentic awakened freedom and love that I know.”
What makes Effortless Mindfulness different from other mindfulness approaches + psychological interventions?
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Our unique methodology synthesizes ancient wisdom practices, neuroscience, and contemporary psychology. This distinct combination is designed to help you get the most out of mindfulness in this modern world (even if you’re busy, struggle with focus, or wear many hats in your life).
✔️ An effortless path to greater peace, clarity and calm
With Effortless Mindfulness, the focus is not on developing the skill of mental stability or concentration (which is the defining feature of many mainstream mindfulness systems). Rather, you’re shifting OUT of an unstable stage of adult development into a calm, clear and knowing awareness that can become the foundation from which you live more skillfully
This practice style essentially helps you unplug the computer and hit refresh on your inner system. Doing this consistently actually helps your system function more effectively for the long term, leading to strong resilience to face life’s joys and challenges with enduring balance.
✔️ Address the root issues This practice style is about familiarizing yourself with a new stage of human development. You are updating the whole operating system, so the patterns that consistently play out in that operating system start to shift or dissolve. If you have a hard time going deeper with your meditation practice, we think you’ll love this feature of Effortless Mindfulness.
Stop trying so hard
We invite you to stop ‘focusing more,’ and tap into an effortless awareness. Thousands of our students are enjoying a deep meditation practice, as well as higher levels of compassion, calm, and clarity more often (without as much effort).
What Student Are Saying about the EM Training Cycle
Effortless Mindfulness Level Two (Self Paced)
Discover Your Unique Doorways to Living Awake in the World-
Lifetime acess to all course materials
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87 Pre-recorded videos
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Weekly mindful glimpses to support each lesson module
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PDFs, charts, poems, quotes and other support materials
FAQ
Loch has designed this training course to benefit new and seasoned practitioners alike.
For more seasoned practitioners, this training gives you a way to shift from sitting meditation to meditation in action.
EM Level Two will provide you with a deeper foundation for living in the world from a ground of Awake Mind, Unity Mind, and Heartmind.
EM Level Two will help advanced practitioners to integrate meditation and your emotional life so you feel more grounded with a deeper capacity to flow in your life.
Advanced practitioners will learn unique tools to apply at deeper levels to seamlessly return to embodied awake awareness anytime.
Finally, you’ll gain insight into the obstacles to your awakening, allowing you to feel more connected, compassionate, and clear.
Yes, Level Two does not require you to be on a facilitator training track. Which is simply to say that you are not obliged to share this. As the saying goes, the best way to learn something for yourself is to teach it. So even if you don’t plan to share the EM Awakening Process with others, Levels Two will help you customize your learning experience and profoundly deepen your own embodiment of these teachings.
The three part cycle of the Effortless Mindfulness Training Cycle moves from Learning It to Living It to Sharing It.
In EM Level Two, you will spend a lot of time learning how to embody Self-Leadership and Awake Loving Flow.
And You’ll learn which doorways work best to help you achieve that. Only then, when you’ve really workshopped and customized the teaching for yourself, will you be equipped to start sharing it with others.
In EM Two, you will actively build the confidence and competence in this system that’s required to effectively share it with others.
You can learn about Level Three and the full Effortless Mindfulness Training Cycle here.
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Effortless Mindfulness is brought to you by Natural Wakefulness Center, a 501(c)3 public charity. NWC is dedicated to teaching direct methods to access awake awareness, living from a flow state, nondual mindfulness, and heart mindfulness. It is the Center’s goal to make awakening learnable, teachable, and more accessible to everyone.
