Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness - Softcover

Kelly, Loch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1622033507 ISBN 13: 9781622033508

Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials / Sounds True, 2015

Synopsis

Shift Into Freedom: Best Book of the Year Awards

• "Top 10 Best Books of the Year" - Spirituality & Health Magazine
• "Best Spiritual Books of Year" - Spirituality & Practice 

Meditation is one of the most important things to learn in order to live a life of joy, health and love. This is a rare meditation book that offers advanced meditations made simple. Loch Kelly goes to the root of suffering by introducing us to the ultimate medicine of awake awareness. This natural capacity of awake awareness is already available within us and Loch shows us how to shift into living from this effortless awareness immediately using his  short glimpse practices.

Loch presents us with the possibility that 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.

About this title

About the Author

Loch Kelly, MDiv, LCSW, is a recognized leader in the field of meditation and psychotherapy. He is author of the award-winning  book The Way of Effortless Mindfulness and founder of the nonprofit Effortless Mindfulness Institute. During his graduate degree at Columbia University Loch was awarded a fellowship to Sri Lanka, India and Nepal where he studied with some of the greatest meditation teachers of our times. Loch has worked in community mental health in NYC and collaborated with neuroscientists at Yale and NYU on how awareness training can enhance compassion. He has a popular Podcast and Meditaion App with unique audio and video meditations and in depth trainings. For more, visit lochkelly.org

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials / Sounds True
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1622033507
• ISBN 13: 9781622033508
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304