Accessing Our Authentic "Self" with Richard Schwartz

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Dec 8, 2022

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INSIGHT

Mind as Multiplicity with Parts

Our minds are naturally multiple, composed of "parts" that each have valuable roles.
Many parts carry burdens from childhood trauma but can transform once unburdened.

INSIGHT

The Core 'Self' and Healing

The "Self" is a core state possessing calm, curiosity, compassion, and confidence.
Accessing self allows healing through compassionate leadership over parts rather than control or suppression.

ANECDOTE

Dalai Lama Encounter on Inner Compassion

Richard Schwartz shared how the Dalai Lama initially misunderstood his question about compassion for inner parts.
Later, his team acknowledged their advanced teachings aligned somewhat but lack readiness for the general public.

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Learn how to love and heal our wounded parts by accessing authentic Self and embodying awakening. Loch and Richard 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 a part of the team when our authentic Self is the new leader. After the dialogue, Loch offers a guided mindful glimpse micro-meditation to access Authentic Self.

45:05 After the dialogue, Loch offers a guided mindful glimpse micro-meditation to access Authentic Self. These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness that is already here within all of us.

You can now explore all of Loch Kelly's practices and teachings on the new Mindful Glimpses app, found at https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpses. This innovative meditation and wellness app offers daily micro-meditations, step-by-step programs, and simple-yet-advanced tools for awakening.

Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., began his career as a systemic family therapist and an academic. Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems (IFS) in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves. He focused on the relationships among these parts and noticed that there were systemic patterns to the way they were organized across clients. He also found that when the clients’ parts felt safe and were allowed to relax, the clients would experience spontaneously the qualities of confidence, openness and compassion that Dr. Schwartz came to call the Self. He found that when in Self, clients would know how to heal their parts. A featured speaker for national professional organizations, Dr. Schwartz has published many books and over fifty articles about IFS.

Connect with Richard Schwartz:

Website: https://ifs-institute.com/about-us/richard-c-schwartz-phd

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW3_oqt84pU4Hajx5dsKU-A

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/internalfamilysystems/?hl=e n

Links to Richard’s Books: https://ifs-institute.com/store

Loch Kelly is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, award winning author, psychother

Loch is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, and an award-winning author, psychotherapist, and non-dual meditation teacher. He is also known for his unique practical methods that support awakening as the next natural stage of human development. Backed by modern neuroscience and psychology, Loch introduces Effortless Mindfulness, which combines an ancient form of nondual meditation and IFS psychology that allows immediate access to our embodied awake nature which arises as our calm, clear, and compassionate healing capacity.

Connect with Loch:

Mobile App: https://lochkelly.org/mindful-glimpses
Website: https://lochkelly.org/
Donate: https://lochkelly.org/donate
Podcast: https://lochkelly.org/podcast