Coaching practices for Effortless Mindfulness Loch Kelly Welcoming
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- I keep straining to "get into" a meditative state like awareness is something I have to switch on and aim
- I spend so much energy fighting whatever I’m feeling
- I’m stuck way up in my head, this nonstop loop of inner talk running behind my eyes, and I can’t think my way out of it
- The second something throws me
- A feeling shows up and I’m instantly grabbing at it or shoving it away
Practices that may help
- Glimpse practice: a 10-second recognition of aware space
Pause, drop the question "What am I aware of?" and simply notice that awareness is already on.
Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical - Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
Non-dual awareness is a mode of consciousness in which attention is no longer exclusively identified with the contents of experience (thoughts, sensations, feelings) but rests as the open, aware space in which those contents appear. Loch Kelly’s "effortless mindfulness" approach uses short recognition exercises to shift into this mode; research on the broader open-monitoring family of practices finds reductions in anxiety and rumination, though non-dual awareness itself is a newer research area with limited controlled trials. - Welcome experience rather than manage it
Shift from trying to control or fix your experience to meeting it with open, allowing awareness.
Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical - Drop from head-based thinking to open, embodied awareness
Shift location of identity from the chattering mind to the open space of the whole body.
Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical - Practise with the unexpected
When things go wrong unexpectedly, use that moment as the actual practice rather than a break from it.
Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training - Non-grasping awareness: letting arise and pass
Watch thoughts, sensations, and emotions arise and dissolve without grabbing or pushing.
Shikantaza: Just Sitting - Titrate: start with shorter, shallower practice and increase slowly
Build mindfulness tolerance incrementally — brief and externally anchored before deep and sustained.
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, Made Practical - Train in the three difficulties
Notice the habitual pattern, decide to interrupt it, and then work on making the interruption automatic.
Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training - Tonglen: sending and taking
Breathe in suffering (yours and others’); breathe out relief and well-being.
Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training - The attitudes of mindfulness
Cultivate the inner stances — non-judging, patience, beginner’s mind, acceptance, letting go — that make attention healing rather than harsh.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
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- Effortless Mindfulness Loch Kelly
Pause, drop the question "What am I aware of?" and simply notice that awareness is already on.
Glimpse practice: a 10-second recognition of aware space
- Allowing Mindfulness
Cultivate the inner stances — non-judging, patience, beginner’s mind, acceptance, letting go — that make attention healing rather than harsh.
The attitudes of mindfulness
- Arriving In Mindfulness
Use brief orienting and sensory grounding before entering inward attention and after leaving it.
Ground before and after any mindfulness practice
- Attitudes Of Mindfulness
Cultivate the inner stances — non-judging, patience, beginner’s mind, acceptance, letting go — that make attention healing rather than harsh.
- Build Mindfulness Tolerance
Build mindfulness tolerance incrementally — brief and externally anchored before deep and sustained.
Titrate: start with shorter, shallower practice and increase slowly
- Non Dual Awareness When Overwhelmed
Non-dual awareness is a mode of consciousness in which attention is no longer exclusively identified with the contents of experience (thoughts, sensations, feelings) but rests as the open, aware space in which those contents appear. Loch Kelly’s "effortless mindfulness" approach uses short recognition exercises to shift into this mode; research on the broader open-monitoring family of practices finds reductions in anxiety and rumination, though non-dual awareness itself is a newer research area with limited controlled trials.
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