Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

An Introduction to the Five Levels of Mind

Aug 28, 2024

Discover the Five Levels of Mind, exploring Everyday Mind and Subtle Mind as foundational states. Journey deeper to Awake Aware Mind, where thought takes a backseat to pure awareness. Experience the Heartmind, a state of connection and flow. Dive into the Tibetan Tonglin practice for compassionate exchanges and energy transformation. Learn to shift from busy thoughts to open-hearted awareness, fostering interconnectedness. Gain insights and tools for navigating your consciousness with greater compassion and clarity.

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The first two levels of mind emphasize stabilizing thoughts and emotions through practices like mindfulness, yoga, and qigong.

Transitioning to awake-aware mind enables individuals to experience deeper connection and integration, fostering compassion, clarity, and a more open-hearted existence.

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The Five Levels of Mind

The exploration of the Five Levels of Mind includes various states of awareness that contribute to living an awakened life. The first two levels are everyday mind and subtle mind, where individuals often engage in the process of stabilizing their thoughts and emotions through mindfulness practices like yoga and qigong. The transition to the third level, known as a wake-aware mind, is crucial as it refers to a state of awareness that exists prior to thought, providing a sense of peace and clarity. This shift towards recognizing one's true nature allows individuals to experience a deeper connection beyond dualistic thinking and engage with life more fully.

Intro

3min

Navigating the Five Levels of Mind - From Thinking to Embodied Awareness

23min

The Compassionate Exchange: Understanding Tonglin Practice

4min

Cultivating Open-Hearted Awareness

5min

In this episode, Loch introduces a pillar of the Effortless Mindfulness model called the Five Levels of Mind. He refers to these five levels as Everyday Mind, Subtle Mind, Awake Aware Mind, Unity Mind, and Heartmind. In this show, Loch explores and unpacks how the first two levels of mind involve working with the body and mind to calm and stabilize them. The next three levels of mind make up a second tier, so to speak, providing access to a deeper sense of fundamental well-being, compassion and wisdom. Effortless Mindfulness really begins with the shift into the awake aware mind—an awareness-based way of knowing that exists prior to thought and can use thought as needed. Then the next two levels allow us to embody and live from a more connected feeling of flow. This episode provides tools, tips, and insights for how you can tune into your already awake mind, shift through the deeper levels of mind, and navigate your own consciousness with greater compassion, clarity, and loving flow.

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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 given cross-culturally and universally to all human beings. ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Philosopher and Author

[25:48] The episode also features Loch offering a guided practice called Knowing From Heart-Mind. These mindful glimpses serve as invaluable tools for experiencing ways to access the awake consciousness that is already here within all of us.

Loch Kelly is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, award winning author, psychotherapist, and nondual meditation teacher 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, an ancient form of nondual meditation that allows immediate access to our embodied awake nature which arises as calm, clarity, and compassion.

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