Books by Loch Kelly

Roadmaps to Inner Peace

Loch Kelly’s books are practical and inspirational guides to accessing the deeper truth and inner peace that are available to each of us.

With an original synthesis of ancient wisdom, current neuroscience, and contemporary psychology, Loch gives us simple yet powerful awareness practices that liberate us from the deepest levels of suffering.

Loch has written two books, Shift into Freedom and The Way of Effortless Mindfulness. He has also released two audio training guides, Effortless Mindfulness Now and Shift into Freedom (audio). Read more about each book below.

Practicing under Loch Kelly’s guidance is mind-blowing. You shift out of your chattering mind, and awareness emerges—clear, fearless, unconditionally accepting.

Amy Gross

Meditation teacher and Former Editor-in-Chief of O, the Oprah Magazine

The Way of Effortless Mindfulness

A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life​

The Way of Effortless Mindfulness, by Loch Kelly
  • Best Spiritual Books of the Year: Spirituality & Practice
  • Gold Medal Winner: Living Now Book Awards
  • Winner: Eastern Spirituality: Nautilus Book Awards
This followup to Loch’s groundbreaking work, Shift into Freedom, offers further exploration and insight into the practice of effortless mindfulness. With straightforward, experiential exercises, Loch gives us a roadmap for accessing and living from open-hearted awareness.
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Shift into Freedom

The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness

Shift into Freedom, by Loch Kelly
  • “Top 10 Best Books of 2015” – Spirituality & Health Magazine
  • “Best Spiritual Books of the Year” – Spirituality & Practice
  • An  Amazon #1 Bestseller

Shift into Freedom is a contemporary mindfulness meditation manual that takes mindfulness to the next level. The book offers an inspiring, experiential journey both for advanced meditators and for those who have never meditated.

Loch presents micro-meditations—called glimpses—that allow you to shift your consciousness out of your busy, chattering mind and into “awake awareness,” a form of awareness within us all that is spacious, clear, interconnected, and at peace.

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Shift into Freedom (audio training)

A Training in the Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness

Shift into Freedom - Audio Training Guide
  • Amazon's #1 Meditation Audio in New Releases

This audio training program offers more than 20 guided meditations and serves as a stand-alone program or as a complement to the book, Shift into Freedom. (It is not an audio recording of the entire book, Shift into Freedom.)

Loch guides listeners through a progressive series of micro-meditations—called glimpses—that you can later use with eyes open, no matter what you’re doing. Glimpses take you out of your chattering mind and into an expansive way of knowing that is deeply wise, compassionate, and accepting.

—Available as an audiobook, audio CD, or audio download

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Effortless Mindfulness Now

Awakening Our Natural Capacity for Focus, Freedom, and Joy

Effortless Mindfulness Now, by Loch Kelly

Effortless Mindfulness Now is a guided audio journey into learning to live from open-hearted awareness. In four transformative sessions, Loch gives you step-by-step guidance for stepping back from limited, thought-based knowing and into the expansive, creative, and loving awareness of your heart-mind.

These sessions are effective both for beginning meditators and for those looking to deepen their practice and live the awakened life.

—Available as an audiobook and an audio download.

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Endorsements

"Loch is the best, or among the best, ‘pointing-within’ teachers in the world right now. By ‘pointing-within,’ I mean someone who can experientially introduce, and then continue to mentor folks into authentic higher Consciousness and Heart. Since his book is about sustaining and maturing this process it’s likely that his book might be a major ‘threshold’ book, just like Eckhart’s Power of Now was at the time.”
Kurt Johnson, PhD
Kurt Johnson, PhDAuthor of The Coming Interspiritual Age and Nabokov’s Blues
“Many of us have heard that it takes years of discipline and effort to tame the mind in order to taste awakening. When Loch and I have taught together, I have found, for myself and students, that Loch’s practices are amazingly effective.”
Richard Schwartz, Ph.D
Richard Schwartz, Ph.DDeveloper, Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy
“Loch Kelly is one of America's most beloved teachers, and in reading his words, one's awareness seems to quietly soften and expand into much larger space.”
Catherine Ingram
Catherine IngramAuthor of Passionate Presence and In the Footsteps of Gandhi
"In my 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. This book is a shining gem in the modern spiritual landscape. One that invites you, challenges you, and requires you to fully participate in your awakening to truth and the embodiment of love."
Adyashanti
AdyashantiAuthor of True Meditation
“With wisdom, clarity and care, Loch Kelly offers teachings and practices that directly evolve consciousness and liberate the heart.”
Tara Brach, Ph.D.
Tara Brach, Ph.D.Author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge
“Practicing under Loch Kelly’s guidance is mind-blowing. You shift out of your chattering mind, and awareness emerges—clear, fearless, unconditionally accepting.”
Amy Gross
Amy GrossMeditation Teacher and former Editor-in-Chief of O, The Oprah Magazine
“Loch Kelly…teaches a unique form of mindfulness, which offers effective ways…of integrating consciousness, a process that can liberate our lives with meaning, connection and clarity.”
Daniel Siegel, MD
Daniel Siegel, MDAuthor of The YES Brain
“I am very impressed with Loch and his work. He's the best person I have met to continue making spiritual growth practical and available, which is of the utmost importance to us at this time.”
Father Thomas Keating
Father Thomas KeatingFounder of Contemplative Outreach
“Loch Kelly presents a groundbreaking approach with a unique form of mindfulness: a path both gentle and powerful. He makes an important contribution to our growing understanding that spiritual awakening and personal healing are two sides of the same valuable coin.”
Judith Blackstone, PhD
Judith Blackstone, PhDAuthor of Trauma and the Unbound Body
“With deep simplicity and subtle clarity, Loch Kelly offers us ways to glimpse the natural, ever present awareness that is our True Nature; and presents mindfulness teachings and micro-meditations that reveal it “effortlessly” within ourselves”
Krishna Das
Krishna DasChant leader & Grammy nominee
“Loch Kelly reminds us that awakening does not have to hurt. We were born to take refuge in our interconnectedness with All That Is. And it is from this place of graceful presence that we have hope of stepping up to alleviate suffering around us. ”
Mirabai Starr
Mirabai StarrAuthor of Wild Mercy
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