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Effortless Mindfulness Podcast with Loch Kelly

Experience support for awakening as the next stage of human development in this transformative mindfulness podcast through micro-meditations and conversations about mindfulness, nonduality, spirituality, neuroscience, and contemporary psychology.

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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…

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Obstacles to Awakening with Loch Kelly

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. This help us understand where we are on the path at any given time. In Effortless Mindfulness, that…

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The Science of Presence with Dr. Dan Siegel

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Five Levels of Mind with Loch Kelly

An Introduction to the Five Levels of Mind

“Every great meditative tradition the world over has major maps of the significant steps or stages in meditation as their tradition has come to understand and practice them. And what significant research has demonstrated is that virtually all of them follow the four or five major natural states of consciousness…

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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 grief as 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…

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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 the intersection of spirituality and psychology, particularly in relation to trauma and healing. They explore the importance of integrating both awakening and psychological work to…

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Realizing Freedom Together with Caverly Morgan

Join Loch Kelly the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app as he welcomes Caverly Morgan, his colleague and the author of The Heart of Who We Are. They explore the intersection of personal and collective practices for spiritual awakening. Caverly Morgan shares her journey of reconciling various teachings and traditions…

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Self Actualization with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman

Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app. Here 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 also…

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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…

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Radical Acceptance with Tara Brach: Part II

Tara Brach Guided Meditation In addition to this podcast episode, please enjoy our exclusive Tara Brach meditation called “Receiving Life” [15:59]. Tara leads you first through a joyful scan of the whole body part by part. She then invites you to experience the aliveness of the whole body at once…

Kristin Neff podcast

Mindful Self-Compassion with Kristin Neff

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 Kristin Neff podcast episode explores her expertise in Self-Compassion, the transformative…

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Relational Mindfulness with Terry Real

Join Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app in this caring dialogue with friend and colleague Terry Real. They explore the transformative power of relational mindfulness and offer practical tools for creating conscious and connected relationships. This Terry Real podcast episode emphasizes the importance of moving beyond individualistic…

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Dancing Emptiness with Mukti Gray

Enjoy Mukti Gray’s in-depth dialogue with Loch Kelly the creator of the mindful glimpses app in this podcast episode. During this interview, 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…

Always Awake, Always Unfolding with Stephan 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…

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….

Nondual Mindfulness with 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….

Embodied Awakening with Judith Blackstone and Loch Kelly

In this insightful conversation, Judith Blackstone, author of “The Fullness 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…

Healing Trauma with Dr. Gabor Maté

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…

Being Love with Loch Kelly

In this podcast episode, Loch Kelly introduces a direct approach to help us awaken to the freedom, clarity and 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…

Experiencing Emotional Liberation with Loch Kelly

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…

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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 discusses the neuroscience of awakening with psychologist and contemplative neuroscience researcher Dr. David Vago. From both ancient and modern points of view they explore the…

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Why the Now Isn’t the Present Moment with Physicist Piet Hut

Where do quantum physics and the great wisdom traditions meet? That’s the defining question in this dialogue between Piet Hut and Loch Kelly. They meet here in the Now. The “Now” in Tibetan Buddhism is translated as “The timeless awareness that includes the three relative times of past, present and…

Standard Mindfulness and Effortless Mindfulness – What’s the Difference? with Loch Kelly

What’s here now if the peace you’re seeking is already here? In this episode, Loch examines the differences between standard mindfulness practices, which create a meditation state, and direct recognition nondual practices, like Effortless Mindfulness, which uncover the loving awake consciousness that’s already here within us (without the hours of…

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Overcoming Addiction with Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John

Loch and Dr. 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. You can now explore all of Loch Kelly’s practices and teachings on the new Mindful Glimpses app….

The Power of How…to Awaken – An Invitation to Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

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…

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Revealing the Already Awake Consciousness: Loch Kelly and Tibetan Buddhist Teacher Anam Thubten

Loch Kelly 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 availability of the nondual Dzogchen teachings, which reveal the already awake…

Experiencing Awake Consciousness: Always Already Here with Loch Kelly

In this podcast 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…

Awakening as Our Next Natural Stage of Growth with Loch Kelly

In this podcast 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…

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How Can We Access and Heal Our Authentic Self? with Dr. Richard C Schwartz

Learn how to love and heal our wounded parts by accessing authentic Self and embodying awakening. Loch and Richard C 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…

How Loch Kelly Found Effortless Mindfulness and How It Changed His Life – w/ Guided Micro-Meditation

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…

About the Effortless Mindfulness Podcast

Welcome to the Effortless Mindfulness podcast with Loch Kelly, where we explore awakening as the next natural stage of human development. Join Loch, creator of the Mindful Glimpses App, author, psychotherapist, and meditation teacher with over 35 years of teaching experience, as he guides you through the depths of awakening rooted in modern neuroscience and psychology. 

Loch was fortunate to train with some of the greatest meditation teachers of our generation and practiced in different schools of meditation and psychology. In the process, he gathered and synthesized the most effective methods from the world traditions into an original path of awakening called Effortless Mindfulness.

Loch offers a unique experiential teaching style to assist in the recognition, realization, and full embodiment of our true nature. His all-inclusive teaching style of dialogue and inquiry starts with the view that the awakeness, wisdom, and love that we are seeking are already inherent within each of us, equally. His method of small meditative glimpses of awakening gives us access to “the solution”, our true nature. From here, we open to a more spacious and compassionate knowing that relieves suffering at its root.    

Discover Effortless Mindfulness, a contemporary form of ancient nondual meditation that directly uncovers your innate calm, clarity, and peace. You can explore Loch Kelly’s practices and teachings in the Mindful Glimpses app, which offers micro-meditations, step by step programs, and advanced awakening tools.

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