Insight
Kelly: Ego does not need to be killed or fought
“And then you realize, well, what has been called ego doesn't need to be killed or fought or gotten rid of, or it's not who the little ego doesn't grow up to be the awakened Sense of self either. So it's a kind of a personality part, a functional part that has …”
Assertion Partly supported
Kelly: Glimpsing balances default mode network and triggers synchronized gamma brainwaves
“And it actually, when you're in an fMRI, which I've been, it balances, if you keep going, it'll balance your default mode network and your task mode network. It will open your parietal lobe. It'll not only calm you, moving you from beta to alpha, but it'll act…”
Insight
Kelly: Effortless Mindfulness Resembles Flow States Rather Than Traditional Mindfulness
“This kind of effortless mindfulness is about, which actually isn't traditional mindfulness. It's a little more like what people talk about flow consciousness or being in the zone.”
Insight
Kelly: Effortless mindfulness focuses on awareness itself rather than thoughts
“In deliberate mindfulness or traditional mindfulness, you step up and look at the contents. Oh, I'm not my thoughts. And then in effortless mindfulness, which is kind of the next stage, which is what I share with people, say, now let's look back at what's awar…”
Insight
Loch Kelly: Flow states divide into absorbed flow and panoramic awareness
“When they talk about flow state, I distinguish two kinds of flow state. One's an absorbed flow state where you're so interested in an activity and you're focused one pointed attention and you're kind of go into it and then time you look up and an hour's gone b…”
Insight
Kelly: Shifting from ego to awake consciousness relieves emotional suffering
“If we're operating from kind of an ego center, emotions are bigger than the ego center, so it's really upgrading The operating system from a small sense of self to this transitional selflessness or no self, but then the key is in this particular method is not …”
Insight
Kelly: Mindfulness glimpses are as easy while moving as while sitting
“It's just as easy with these glimpses to do them with your eyes open moving as it is with your eyes closed sitting.”
Insight
Kelly: High Achievers Relying on Ego Defenses Usually Hit a Wall
“Many smart people who are good at life can, for a while, develop ego strengths and ego defenses, and kind of chug along and become successful, but usually they'll hit a wall at some point, whether it's in another area, like a relationship, or Become over, like…”
Insight
Kelly: Address anxiety by locating non-anxious awareness first
“Primarily it's finding that which is already here that isn't anxious, and then as that, go back and check out what that part of you that's anxious is worried about.”
Assertion Contradicted
Kelly: Opening awareness to spacious view relaxes the brain's anterior cingulate cortex
“However, these, you know, direct practice, wisdom traditions, when you open your awareness to what feels like a spacious view that's embodied, everyone reports that's true, and then your brain shows results. The ACC, the interior, interior singular course cort…”
Opinion
Kelly: Most Meditation Systems Stop at Detached Witnessing and Subtle Body
“And most meditation systems stop there. So most meditation systems do, you know, move from everyday mind to either subtle body or subtle energy. You know, first levels of practice, dropping in exercise, yoga, or just basic mindfulness, detached witness.”
Insight
Loch Kelly: Language Hinders Mindfulness by Forcing Conceptual Subject-Object Framing
“Certainly the languaging of it is the first, first one, because as many smart maps as we have from psychology and even, even reading the poetry and the wisdom traditions, it just seems like we're filtering it through our secondary process thinking and from a t…”
Insight
Loch Kelly: Flow States Should Direct Attention to What Is Looking
“So this is like, no, when you're there, look to see what is looking. Like, don't just feel the results and the expression and the symptoms of qualities. Look to the looker. Look, look to find that where you're aware from.”
Insight
Kelly: Awareness-Based Flow Is Pre-Installed and Universally Accessible
“There's always these what called direct path traditions that say this consciousness, this awareness based flow is already installed. And it's available to each of us as each of us. And we just, it's like a figure ground shift.”
Insight
Kelly: Three-part breathing with slow exhalations regulates autonomic nervous system
“Where you do kind of a three-part breath, and then breathe out a little slower, and what that does is it addresses the autonomic nervous system and your polyvagal nerves, and it also gives you one-pointed attention, and it oxygenates your system.”
Insight
Kelly: Stabilizing awake awareness requires shifting identity, knowing, and perception
“The three shifts are the shifts from small self to no self to this kind of true nature operating system. So that's the shift of identity. Then there's a shift of knowing from thought-based knowing that creates a thinker to not knowing or non-conceptual knowing…”
Insight
Kelly: Micro-Glimpsing Accesses Awake Awareness in Under Three Minutes
“But in this method of glimpsing, it literally takes three seconds to three minutes to let go and then tune in to the already awake awareness that's timeless, boundless, contentless, and you feel almost like you're plugging in or handing off a baton, and then y…”
Insight
Loch Kelly: Ego-based operating systems trap people in anxiety, depression, or overwork
“So most people, because of the small ego center as the operating system, will either their energy and emotions, they either have to be anxious, which means too much going on to try to manage it, or they depress it. So most people are anxious or depressed, or t…”
Insight
Loch Kelly: Making background awareness 51% primary removes fear
“And if you met, if we learn how to make this drop or openness or background, foreground shift, so it becomes primary, as soon as it becomes 51% primary, it's like, ah, relief, joy, happiness, bubbling, freedom, because there's no fear. It's kind of a, it can't…”
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Kelly: Many Eastern Wisdom Texts Only Became Accessible in the Last 20 Years
“And that's one of the amazing things today that a lot of these wisdom texts are just in the last really 20 years have become available.”
