Accessing Authentic Self using Internal Family Systems (IFS) - Loch Kelly

This video explores ways to access authentic Self to heal trauma and embody awakening. Loch Kelly has co-taught many workshops with Richard Schwartz, the founder of IFS. Self is used here to mean not-self Self, Nature of Mind, Awake Consciousness and Open Hearted Presence. Loch builds on the IFS model with expanded ways of experiencing Self as different than Self-like parts. These practices will be helpful for therapists, Self-healing, and stabilizing awake consciousness to live from Self Leadership.

Loch Kelly is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, award winning author, psychotherapist, and 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.

[colincrawford]

Thank you brother! Your book, Effortless Mindfulness has contributed greatly to my innerstanding and peace in life. I am so grateful that you are doing this work!❤

[TK-bfng]

This is so amazing! I have been using Loch's Mindful Glimpses app for 5 months where he brings in IFS and it has changed my life. Thanks so much!

[AriElfyn]

Hi Loch, thank you SO much for this one! I love your work on effortless mindfulness. I’ve recently discovered I have ADHD and I’d always found ‘traditional’ mindfulness so…heavy-going somehow, and not quite natural. Hard to put into words, but the bridging of mindfulness with awareness and non-duality was a game-changer for me. I’ve been working with other therapeutic etc. approaches that deal with Self eg psychosynthesis and find IFS by far the most resonant and approachable. I’ve been in recovery from Dissociative Identity Disorder for a few years and am in phase 3 of recovery supposedly, although it is of course not a linear process (what is??), and I know there’s more to do. It helped my friends when I was first diagnosed to recognise that they too had different parts of their personalities, and the discovery of IFS has been another game-changer. I KNEW (intuitively, from the beginning when I had v little awareness around the topic) that we all had parts! And I’d experienced the Self but had no terminology for it - as the Self in other traditions is somehow more distant. Anyway, coming back to where I started, I was so excited to see a combination of your work and IFS and I have not been disappointed. I’ll be coming back to this again and again. Do you have more work on this? You say in the beginning that you’re continuing on from something and I’m itching to know what! I want more! Thank you from my heart for your work 🙏❤️

[CutthroatCosmos]

Hi Loch, excited to dig into this one! Just wanted to let you know I've read/listened to Shift Into Freedom probably six times in total now, and each time, the material becomes richer. Thank you dearly and with great metta for your work.

[Ellenweiss]

l love that you did this with IFS. I did some classes with you in NYC. I look forward to maybe working with you again some time! This was sooo inspiring!!

[taojones]

Very good as always. Clear and precise. Awareness projects itself into Loch

[rubyknafo]

This was so helpful, thank you! Love IFS, and just came off retreat on Awakened Awareness, and it's wonderful to make these connections.

[bonniesnowqueen]

I'm quite interested in participating in this exploration. I hope you'll continue. I very much appreciate you're trying to express in words the ineffable.

[ssaweig]

Truly great! :) I'd love to have those slides...

[RonToto]

Very interested in your ifs self course

[mayank]

Can we say that the 'Self' in IFS is the same as 'Rigpa' in Buddhism?

[LoveJungle]

Does anyone know of a video or article where Loch squares the concept of self in IFS with the concept of Anatta or "no self" in Buddhism? I'm certain he must have addressed this somewhere.