Episode 006

The Power of Speaking from Presence:

The Connection between Mindfulness and Communication

Hosted by Jeremy de Tolly, featuring Loch Kelly

About this Episode

What if the voice in your head isn't who you really are?

In this fascinating conversation, Jeremy de Tolly sits down with Loch Kelly to explore effortless mindfulness, open awareness, and the profound shift from identifying with thoughts to recognizing the awareness that exists beyond them. Loch shares practical insights from decades of mindfulness practice and teaching, explaining why traditional concentration-based meditation can sometimes feel difficult and how a more direct path to awareness can help us access greater presence, clarity, compassion, and resilience. The conversation also explores communication anxiety, social anxiety, psychological parts, self-compassion, relationships, flow states, and what awakening to our true nature might mean for individuals and society as a whole. Whether you're new to mindfulness or have years of meditation experience, this episode offers practical tools and fresh perspectives for living with greater ease, authenticity, and connection.

Loch Kelly is the creator of the Mindful Glimpse app, an award-winning author, meditation teacher, licensed psychotherapist, and founder of the nonprofit Effortless Mindfulness Institute. His work brings together ancient wisdom traditions, neuroscience, and contemporary psychology to help people access what he calls “effortless mindfulness,” a more spacious, compassionate awareness that can relieve suffering at its root. For more than 30 years, Loch has trained with meditation teachers around the world, studied nondual practices in Sri Lanka, India, and Nepal, and collaborated with neuroscientists at Yale, UPenn, and NYU to explore how awareness training can support compassion and wellbeing.