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"Thinking and the five senses can't know your true nature, your ego will not wake up, the seeker who begins the journey cannot find the true self. Only awareness can know who you already are." ~Loch Kelly
The Way of Effortless Mindfulness:
A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life
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The Way of Effortless Mindfulness
by Loch Kelly
Available as paperback and on Kindle.
“Effortless mindfulness” is a new way to immediately enter an optimal flow state available to us in the midst of our busy lives. In The Way of Effortless Mindfulness, Loch Kelly teaches that when you “unhook” awareness from chattering thoughts, you can access a peaceful mind and a naturally embodied wakefulness. From this heartful space, students report they find that right action comes easily and a loving tenderness for all of life is freely available.
This follow-up to Kelly’s award-winning Shift into Freedom outlines practical and supportive material from neuroscience, psychology, and the wisdom of various spiritual traditions. Here you will find a reader-friendly guide to understanding exactly what effortless mindfulness is, practices for engaging with it, and how to avoid the pitfalls to the full embodiment of this timeless awareness. The Way of Effortless Mindfulness offers a compelling introduction to the next stage in the ongoing mindfulness revolution.
Shift Into Freedom “Top 10 Best Books of 2015” ~ Spirituality & Health Magazine
Shift Into Freedom “Best Spiritual Books of the Year” ~ Spirituality & Practice
#1 Best Seller on Amazon in Mahayana Buddhism
Shift into Freedom:
The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness
New! Shift into Freedom, The Unabridged Audio Book
Read by Loch Kelly with Foreword by Adyashanti
Available as paperback and e-book.
Also available as an audiobook read by Loch and Adyashanti, as audio CDs or audio download (10 hours, 38 minutes).
Libros de Loch Kelly en Español: Salto a la Libertad
Awakening can be the natural next stage of human development. Awakening is not a rare event limited to those who leave for the monastery or cave. We can awaken in the midst of our daily lives by discovering what Loch Kelly calls "open-hearted awareness." For the past two decades, this innovative psychotherapist and meditation teacher has been helping people from every background learn how to access a spacious, natural way of living in tune with a deeper truth. Shift into Freedom presents Loch Kelly's original synthesis of ancient wisdom, modern psychological insights, current neuroscience research, and unique awareness practices for the body, mind, and heart. Written for both first-time and lifelong meditators, here is a training guide filled with simple and effective experiential tools for "unhooking" awareness from our chattering minds and dropping into our awake heart space, expanding our sense of intimacy and interconnection, and embodying inner peace, clarity, and love.
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Effortless Mindfulness Now:
Awakening Our Natural Capacity for Focus, Freedom, and Joy
Available as audiobook and audio download, (4 hours, 26 minutes). CE credits available through Sounds True.
Discover an Awareness That Is Natural, Freeing, and Always Available
"Effortless mindfulness" is innovative teacher Loch Kelly's method for an advanced yet simple form of mindfulness, that introduces us to a natural, loving awareness. With Effortless Mindfulness Now, Loch helps us transition from mainstream mindfulness to the joys of effortless mindfulness with small glimpse practices in the midst of our day. Effortless Mindfulness Now is for beginners and those ready to deepen their practice and continue to awaken.
With contemporary versions of ancient meditations made newly available, Effortless Mindfulness Now offers ways to shift into natural intelligent awareness with your eyes open at work and in relationships. Over the course of four transformative sessions, Loch gives practical techniques to step back from thought-centered identity to live from an optimal way of being and doing.
Effortless awareness has been described in the traditional literature as being so close it cannot be seen, so subtle it cannot be understood, and so good it cannot be believed. With Loch Kelly's guidance, you learn how awareness can "turn around" and awaken to this new operating system of heart-mind, to live from a place of natural compassion, joy, and creativity.
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Shift Into Freedom Training Program by Loch Kelly ranked the #1 Meditation Audio by Amazon in New Releases
Shift into Freedom
A Training in the Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness
Available as audiobook, audio CD or audio download (3 hours, 37 minutes). CE credits available through Sounds True.
This is not audio of the entire book being read. This is an audio of the meditations in the book guided by Loch. Loch guides listeners through unique modern versions of ancient meditation practices designed to awaken us to our true openhearted nature. Created as a stand-alone program or a complement to his book of the same name, Shift into Freedom is a progressive training guide that offers “small glimpses, many times” to help us shift out of our chattering mind and into who we really are. Join this innovative teacher to explore more than 20 meditations.
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For Loch Kelly’s Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness
"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."
"Many assume that genuine spiritual realization is either out of reach—“I’m too wounded…life’s too stressful”—or way down the road. Shift into Freedom is one of those rare and invaluable books that awakens trust in what is possible in this very life, right now. With wisdom, clarity and care, Loch Kelly offers teachings and practices that directly evolve consciousness and liberate the heart."
"This is one of best contemporary books on integration of meditation and nonduality. Personally, I’m thankful to Loch for offering this gift to humanity at this crucial time when so many people are looking for living spirituality free from outdated paradigms. Read this if you want to wake up to the beautiful mystery of life."
"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.”"
"Shift into Freedom is a well-written and important contribution. An essential read for anyone interested in learning about this great meditation program of Open-Hearted Awareness."
"Shift into Freedom is a gift to us all. This is one of the finest contemporary meditation manuals that takes mindfulness to the next level. In Loch Kelly you've found a wonderful guide for the journey of awakening, which our endangered world is so hungry for."
"Awakening is moving your inner center of gravity from your protective parts to your magnificent essence. Loch’s wonderful book not only makes you realize that such a shift is possible, but provides exercises to help make it happen."
"Shift into Freedom offers the reader a remarkable synthesis of practical wisdom from across contemporary meditation, psychological, and neuroscience disciplines. Loch Kelly provides us with a direct and accessible taste of more profound and subtle experiences of effortless mindfulness and heart mindfulness."
"The book's power comes from the decades of lived experience of its author, 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."
"Loch shares his practice experience freely, links it to the similar experiences of many other traditions, and clarifies how these practices work with the science of the day. Shift Into Freedom will be a great help to many people."