Shift into Freedom

The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness

By: Loch Kelly, Adyashanti - foreword

Narrated by: Loch Kelly

Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

Teachings and meditations to "shift" into the freedom of awakening.

It is possible to access the same sense of well-being, clarity, inner freedom, and loving connection realized by the world's meditation masters. We can do this by shifting our awareness in the midst of our daily lives. Shift into Freedom is an unabridged audiobook presentation of innovative teacher Loch Kelly's training manual for actively participating in the evolution of your own consciousness.

Synthesizing insights from neuroscience and psychology with wisdom from the world's contemplative traditions, Shift into Freedom offers an accessible and remarkably powerful series of meditations that lead us to a little-known natural capacity called "awake awareness". Through an unfolding process of "small glimpses, many times", these exercises shift us from a thought-based knowing to an awareness-based way of operating in the world.

With continued practice, we learn to "unhook" from our customary home in our ego-based identity - and then sustain an embodied presence and relatedness known as "open-hearted awareness". Loch Kelly teaches that this is "the meeting place of awakening and growing up, where we have the capacity to handle a fully emotional, intimate life and act with authenticity and compassion."

"The goal of these meditations is not to transcend the human condition," explains Loch Kelly, "but to discover how to live a fully intimate human life." Shift into Freedom gives you the tools to navigate your life with clarity and unconditional love.

©2015 Loch Kelly (P)2017 Sounds True

Finally, the book I’ve always been looking for.

Reading this book has been the most important experience of my life. I read it slowly and intentionally - reading a little every day when I was really able to concentrate, and then doing the corresponding glimpse practice. I truly feel my life’s history will now be referred to in terms of the time before I found this book, and the time after. From the very bottom of my being, thanks you Loch. -Leigh

Great audiobooks

This book was transformative and informative. A little confusing at times but things started to make sense the further I got in to it.

❤️❤️❤️

The most thorough modern book on awakening I’ve ever come across. Grounded in modern psychology and science yet informed by ancient meditation traditions, Loch Kelly brings it all together. A beautiful, thoughtful, heart-centered approach to this natural process of waking-up (and out and in). I’ve listened to it twice and read it once. I’ve gotten so much out of it each time. A rich resource.

Integrating spiritual and psychological growth

A powerful map using meditation “glimpse” and understanding of contemporary psychology to journey to wholeness. I have read the book however the Audible version is particularly powerful for the guided meditations and the added plus of Loch’s narration. Recommending to all my fellow travelers.

Profound. Direct. Life changing.

written in a contemporary and non denominational fashion. good for beginners or salty veterans of mindfulness, meditation, selfinquiry, etc. I also own the Kindle version.

Incredible. Profound and practical.

I found this book to be a simple, practical and profound teachings around awakening and reducing suffering. Some things clicked into place internally while reading and practicing that sort of change everything for the way better. Highly recommend. Thank you, Loch. Loving you all.

The right thing at the right time

A truly fascinating book. Full disclosure, I have read the whole thing in a couple days and have only done the exercises 3-4x so far, so I can't give a full report of how well the techniques work long term. Still, the material in this book is exactly what I need in my life at this moment, and I think a lot of people will experience it the same way. I have done a lot of CBT psychotherapy for years and made a lot of progress, but recently I'm having what I just describe to people as an "early midlife crisis", where I feel like all my thoughts and behaviors are more or less in line, my life circumstances are not perfect but are objectively good enough, but I have the constant pervasive feeling that life is fundamentally unfulfilling and meaningless, and none of the cognitive techniques that have worked on past depression or anxiety can touch it.

I have never liked "touchy feely" psychological/spiritual schools of thought, which is why I've had so much success with very matter-of-fact CBT strategies, so I held off on reading this book for a long time as I expected a bunch of new age mumbo jumbo. And it's definitely there, of course, but Loch does an exceptional job of keeping it to a minimum. He goes into great detail to break down big obscure concepts like "Consciousness" and "non-duality" and "mindfulness" and communicate them in ways that don't make people like me roll our eyes and walk away.

The "glimpse" meditations are also a total game changer for me. Like most people, I've tried meditating many times before and always fallen off after a few sessions because it was just painfully boring and frustrating, and all the supposed benefits were all supposed to take WEEKS to kick in. With these glimpses, I tried the first 3 techniques just listening along to the audiobook WHILE DRIVING, not closing my eyes or anything, and I immediately felt like I GOT IT! I actually FELT the mumbo jumbo he was talking about, with no "oh, you just need to suffer for 30 minutes a day for 3 weeks and then maybe you'll see a difference". As advertised, it just lasted for a few seconds and then I had to change lanes, but now I'm EXCITED to meditate again, and I feel a sense of hope that I would never have imagined.

bookmark the glimpse practices

Listening to the book and doing the glimpse practices have given me so much peace.

Thank you!

This book will not disappoint. Being familiar with Loch Kelly from his meditations featured on Sam Harris’ Waking Up app, I knew I was in for a treat as I began Shift into Freedom. Also, being a clinical Social Worker myself, I found this book to be an indispensable adjunct to my work using the Internal Family Systems modality. Thank you Loch! - J. LaReau

shift into freedom

so in love.
so full.
so empty.
so still.
so deeply touched and utterly grateful.