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A Glimpse of Awakening by Loch Kelly

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2018-05-31T16:18:51-04:00

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Chronic Pain Relief with Loch’s Effortless Mindfulness Method

Last updated on: May 31, 2018 at 4:18 pm By Loch Kelly

I have lived with chronic pain since 2004. At 45 years old, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. The cancer had spread to lymph nodes in the right side of my neck. Fortunately, surgery was successful. I have been cancer free ever since, going on 15 years. But the invasive surgery left me with nerve pain from just below my right ear, down the right side of my neck, across the top of my right shoulder, and down the... Read more

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2018-05-31T16:19:06-04:00

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Changing the Channel of Your Mind

Last updated on: May 31, 2018 at 4:19 pm By Loch Kelly

Local awareness is like a radio tuner or TV remote that can intentionally shift us to different bandwidths of consciousness. Local awareness can tune away from the narrow, mental, ego-identified station that is the everyday mind and tune in to the station of the body’s senses. Local awareness can also tune in to spacious awareness, the expression of awake awareness that is unconditioned, boundless, pure awareness. Your mind is like a TV or radio with lots of stations playing all... Read more

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2018-05-31T16:20:37-04:00

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Returning Emotions to Their Natural State

Last updated on: May 31, 2018 at 4:20 pm By Loch Kelly

Emotional intelligence requires the capacity to feel our emotions, the ability to express them effectively, and the ability to distinguish between emotions related to the present and the past as well as those created by the cravings and fears of ego-identification. This level of awareness requires discernment between needs that are genuine and require satisfaction, in addition to awareness of desires based on ego-identification’s cravings that cannot be satisfied. We wake up from the mind by disidentifying with our... Read more

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2018-05-31T16:20:52-04:00

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A Simple Case of Mistaken Identity

Last updated on: May 31, 2018 at 4:20 pm By Loch Kelly

The mini-me responds to exaggerated or imaginary situations that frighten it with physical survival strategies, including fight, flight, freeze, or please. When we fight imaginary enemies, we end up feeling frustrated, confused, or anxious. When we run away from them, we end up in denial, dissociation, or fantasy. If we freeze, we get depressed or shut down. If we please, we often end up feeling minimized, oppressed, or victimized. The more we try to think our way out of situations... Read more

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2018-01-25T16:55:52-04:00

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Awake Awareness Cannot Be Developed

Last updated on: January 25, 2018 at 4:55 pm By Loch Kelly

Awake awareness itself never develops or grows up. At its essence, awake awareness is always the same. It’s inherent within all changing dimensions of our experience, just the way space exists within atoms. Awake awareness is similar to physical space in that it is within us, invisible and pervasive, but different from physical space because it is a knowing space. When this unconditioned awake awareness becomes primary and includes our human conditioning, then there is the potential for a new,... Read more

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2018-05-31T16:21:20-04:00

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You Are Not The “mini-me”

Last updated on: May 31, 2018 at 4:21 pm By Loch Kelly

The main obstacle to relief from suffering is our current identity, what Einstein called our “optical delusion of consciousness.” Paradoxically, this same identity is trying to solve the problem of our suffering. This identity seems very real, as if it is a separate self that feels located in our heads, like a “mini-me.” Both ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience now agree that there is no physical location of a separate self that can be found in the brain. Living as... Read more

2017-12-14T17:30:58-04:00

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The Two You-Turns of Awareness

Last updated on: December 14, 2017 at 5:30 pm By Loch Kelly

Ramana Maharshi wrote regarding awakening: “Other than inquiry, there are no adequate means.” He said that inquiry was simple and direct. “If one inquires ‘who am I,’ the mind will go back to the Source . . . Not letting the mind go out, but retaining it in the Heart . . . ” In the first part of inquiry, the mind returns to its source and then, in order to live, a new location of mind gets established... Read more

2017-12-07T16:37:35-04:00

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Direct Recognition, Gradual Unfolding

Last updated on: December 7, 2017 at 4:37 pm By Loch Kelly

Open-hearted awareness begins with awareness of awareness. It is an essence approach, also called the direct approach. The open-hearted awareness approach focuses on uncovering or discovering our essential nature and then shifting our level of mind to live from open-hearted awareness. Because awake awareness is already here, there is no need to strive to earn it, create it, or develop it; nor is it effective to adopt the passive attitude of waiting for it to find us. Awake awareness, the... Read more

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2017-10-10T13:25:58-04:00

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Returning Thinking to its Natural Function

Last updated on: October 10, 2017 at 1:25 pm By Loch Kelly

One of the most important developments in human evolution is the ability to think. However, an even more important development is the ability to grow beyond thinking. To do this, we need to discover the intelligence that’s inherent in awareness itself. It is important to note that growing beyond thinking is not a regressive, dumb, or irrational state. When we are identified with our thinking, then that believing creates our perceiving. It is through our five senses that we receive... Read more

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2017-09-20T12:03:24-04:00

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Small Glimpses Many Times

Last updated on: September 20, 2017 at 12:03 pm By Loch Kelly

The main practice I teach is small glimpses many times, but sometimes one small glimpse changes everything. These shifts can be done in the midst of our daily life. The reason the glimpses are small is that when we shift into awake awareness, our true nature, we let go of efforting and allow the new knowing to know on its own. We can’t use the effort of the egoic doer to help in any way. It can be helpful to begin... Read more

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