Mindful Glimpses: Wellness

This app has really surprised me with its effectiveness. Slowly, after glimpsing daily for a month or two, I realized that my longstanding insomnia was gone. This was something I had struggled with for years and suddenly- gone! All I was doing was exactly what most of the glimpses start with, just unhook from thinking and drop down, and focus on staying down. This had become natural and easy to me by that point. Because I also read two of Loch’s books, these concepts and the specific wording that Loch uses help me apply the concepts to life as I go through my day.

The app is very well laid out and easy to use—a lot of care went into the design and development and the devs, as you can see by the comments, are quite responsive. Unfortunately, I couldn’t connect with the content. The presenter touts this supposedly new, meditation technique that he’s developed by studying with the “greatest meditation teachers” of our age, and yet the teachings are simply a smorgasbord of teachings from various traditions mixed together in bite-sized recordings. In the recordings themselves, he often tells you what he’s about teach, then walks you through an exercise, then tells you what the exercise did. There’s little room for your own thoughts, curiosity, and insight That said, it might work for someone else. If not, I’d suggest trying Insight Meditation. It’s a low-dogma tradition that emphasizes mindfulness in real life (ie, not just on a cushion in a meditation hall). Good luck!

I have been a daily meditator for 4 years now. It wasn’t until I came across Loch’s teachings much more recently in that journey, that I began to experience a profound shift in consciousness. Using this app and Loch’s methods, I have learned to summon a nondual reality, rigpa or awake awareness as Loch refers to it, pretty much on demand. I’m rather surprised but of course absolutely elated at these results. Loch is doing nothing short of democratizing awakening - making it accessible to all of us. Not everyone has the privilege to spend weeks or months on retreat. I thought I’d need to spend hours meditating in very formal circumstances to achieve these results. Not so! Just do a glimpse once or twice a day and you can get there. Whats more, spending even a minute or two in awake awareness opens up and expands an inner capacity for healing from very deep, very old wounds. This app / style of teachings has become an invaluable compliment (and I believe accelerator) for the trauma work I’m doing in therapy. It’s also a true refuge when things become too overwhelming, and one needs to resource by accessing at least a moment of safety amid the fray. I’m deeply grateful for this app, which has been a wonderful addition to deepening my practice. Thank you to Loch, his team, and the developers for putting so much work into something so meaningful and useful. 🙏🧡