Hakalau Saved My Life

From the ancient Kahuna of Hawaii, this meditation technique is one of my all time favorite practices. It goes so deep! You'll see why.
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Thank you to Doug Gemmell for the amazing music!

[@sofiamaurer]

Hello Forrest! This is a wonderful technique, thanks a lot. It reminds me of an experience I once had: I was “trying” to meditate but I was restless because I was anxious to experience something “big”, then suddenly I “heard” a voice saying: stop being an arrow, you always be searching, be a cup so you can receive”. It is a peaceful experience being a cup 😊

[@ForrestKnutson]

Amazing Sofia! Be the cup! 🤩

[@anishnair2615]

@@ForrestKnutson hi can I have your email address ? I want to o speak 1-1 with you ? How much would that cost ? Please let me know.

[@pavlovanat4054]

Dude, I have been like a Pavlov's dog over the last month with negative self talk, anxiety, inability to relax and extreme mood shifts. I truly considered seeing a doctor... Then I tried HRV breathing that you suggested, I have done it consistently here and there for 2 days and, suddenly, my mind let go, it become optimistic, spontaneous. WOW! You hacker!!! Thank you!

[@ForrestKnutson]

I'M SO PROUD OF YOU! WELL DONE!!

[@seane.9937]

I've noticed this spontaneous happiness also. Especially after doing om japa in the chakras. I suggest that my friend. God's Love

[@seane.9937]

Hakalau has added a depth to my meditations that I'm so grateful for. I do it after om japa and kria with my eyes closed. I now have consistent visions and answers to questions. It's really wonderful, I look forward to working with you through patreon. I prayed for a teacher not too long ago and wadda ya know?!! God's Love

[@trmarple]

This a fantastic study on the difference between attention and awareness! Thank you Forrest!🙏🏼

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yes! Absolutely! You can divide it into the attitude of the hemispheres. Thank you Ted! 🙏

[@HMALDANA]

Awesome, Forrest! When you are ruminating, your eyes tend to go down and fixate in one point. It is like being closed to the world and frozen in time (trauma). That's why the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing treatment also works for many people, I feel. Thanks for sharing! Blessings and blissings!

[@333Eriana]

This is so wonderful Forrest - and what a fabulous story about those brothers. I have suffered terrible anxiety all my life, sometimes it has prevented me from leaving the house. The hardest part is being fine for a few years and then getting hit with a bad panic attack. This summer that happened to me , worse than ever and i started throwing up. Well. I stopped going out during the day. Going out only at night i feel safer in the dark and quiet - - -but one night i felt that turn in my stomach and thought NO- We are going to be here . And i looked up through the pines at a bright star (Sirius) and let my vision expand like you describe. Immediately i felt a wave go down my body and ground me like a cool breeze. I am so grateful for this, and it's wonderful to do. Tonight i sat in my backyard and tested how much of the sky and trees i could see. It would have never occurred to me that my 'panic' would make me like a predator - but - now it makes sense . What great gifts you share.

[@achyutha_6637]

I have been watching ur videos for a very long time. It helped me to understand what's happening in my meditation and ur way of explaining is awesome. Great job. This will attract youths also to meditate.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@vijayatiwari7199]

Dear Forrest ,This is powerful technique and I am now using this to work on my 20 year old ocd issue. I know I will be free of it, using this it feels right ! God bless!

[@anneducoudray2720]

Funny you should mention the car... Ever since I started driving I noticed this phenomenon would occur on its own and I would have to catch myself. I only learned later what it was. It still happens and I am used to monitoring it. I also believe it happens when we young quite naturally but we forget about it. I spoke with some friends and asked them if they remembered being in a room with their parents going about daily chores and then a feeling of expansion and calm would come over. Basically Hakalau would just happen of its own accord. And yes many friends recall this occurence. Just thought it be fun to share. Thanks Forrest for all your posts!!

[@Firecelebi]

This and your last video helped a lot to confirm some intuitions I was uncertain about regarding your teachings. I actually had hakalau save my life while driving recently - I wasn't trying, but I had been practicing it with HRV at work for about half an hour and was still aware of the peripheral vision on the drive home, and when someone tried to merge into my lane right as I was pulling past his blind spot I spotted the situation instantly, stayed calm and hit the breaks and leaned on the horn, lol. I still find that paying attention to the sides of vision is good while driving, although I can see the problem once it becomes so natural to expand that you could just yourself in it and forget about the road, so I avoid trying to go too deep into it. But it seems to me to induce an almost ninjalike ability to actually respond to what's happening around you. Hakalau is such a simple, easy, mysterious and fascinating practice. I've felt a strong pull towards it since I started playing with the peripheral vision years ago, and I'm so grateful that you've taken it and explained the context of how it affects the brain and how it fits into meditation with so much clarity and detail. Like you allude to, a sense of meaning seems to just well up from the wide open view and there's such an odd sense of satisfaction in becoming aware of more and more and just expanding into space.

[@ForrestKnutson]

That is beautiful! Fantastic! Yes! I was just mentioning to someone that all of the well-seasoned martial artists that I had the privilege to study with all found themselves going into this ninja-like state as you say when they practiced being attacked by multiple attackers. When you do that over and over again for years the brain naturally adapts to being more aware in all directions.

[@simongeisler7005]

wonderful, I've waited for this video! Thank you very much Forrest! God Bless!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Simon! 🤩🤩

[@jannareindel6263]

Ah, more information on this technique! Thank you! 💝

[@ForrestKnutson]

Fantastic 🤩🙏

[@pavneetkaur4545]

Wonderful! Thank you lovely Forrest! 🙏🙏 Much love and gratitude!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed this one! 🤩🙏🙏

[@congamike1]

Thank you

[@binatitus6518]

This is so profound Forrest, thank you!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Bina!

[@enantiodromia3777]

Niiiice- you can tell the muscles behave/move in the same pattern as when you’re blissed out & deep in meditation. Very cool 😎

[@normaquesada7307]

Thanks for sharing with us all of these techniques so necessary in this challenging times. I am definitely going to include hakalau in my day to day life.

[@lrodriguez5545]

Wonderful✨😍 thanks a lot Forrestji 💜💜💜

[@ForrestKnutson]

You're so welcome! 🤩🤩🙏🙏

[@supersonic2511978]

Thank you for this wonderful and inspiring video!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! 🤩

[@saiswarupmishra5707]

Wonderful teaching ....Thank you sir for sharing the same....

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Sai!

[@nancythomason5767]

Thank you Forrest.

[@PerfectAttention]

I am everywhere 😎

[@801oap]

Thanks you good reminders.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! 🤩🙏

[@arobersonable]

Thank you! I sent this to my son who is schizo-affective with panic attacks. Hope he watches.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wonderful Amy! I hope so, too!

[@mannie2075]

I Will surly be testning it Thank you so much and much love from Sweden 🙏❤️🙏❤️🇸🇪🌎🦋🧚🌟💃🏻🎵

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Mannie! 🙏🙏🤩🤩🔥🔥

[@marsdam]

you blow my mind, in evwwery video i see.. its, more than amazing.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wonderful! And my book is out now, and will guide you through the whole process! Blissings!

[@ggb2193]

Thank you Forrest , yes that how I entered samadhi!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wonderful Osiris!

[@kashivishwanath7603]

Hi Forrest. The more I watch your videos, the more is the increase " to watch more" . Each video is a great learning experience and a new technique. I wish you had a number on each video, so that a beginner like me will know the sequence of practice. Great video and you are a great yogi with wonderful explanations and easy to grasp. Thank you. Will practice this technique. 👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wonderful Kashi! 🙏🙏

[@victorsaitta5692]

Dear guruji! I was so happy that you explained that when I get angry or very upset at a situation the best and simplest way to remove the experience was to start doing Hakalau. I tried it and it worked perfectly and I was at great peace. Thank you so very much!🤩🤩🤩🙏🙏🙏🕉📿

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's awesome Victor! Well done! 🤩🤩🥳🥳

[@vimaladominic]

Amazing explanation like the earlier video sir...love it.❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! 🥳

[@gardeniabee]

Great techniques. 🧘🏻‍♀️ Thank you. Look but don’t look. Reminds me of another native (American) saying, regarding auras, “Don’t look; See.“🌈

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's perfect! 🤩

[@georgiaworth6667]

Game changer.

[@AmandaLee23au]

Great video. Really well explained and fleshed out 👍🏻 👏🏻

[@tumareyoga9041]

Fantastic video! I am going to practice it. Thank you so much😊🙏

[@raamkumar1979]

I love the third technique it's a wonderful experience......🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Fantastic Raam! 🙏🙏

[@roseblanc4291]

Merci 🙏

[@blissbrain]

"It isn't about what currents are flowing where in the brain, as much as what (currents) you are identifying with, it's about where your awareness is, e.g. what your consciousness is experiencing at the moment in the brain. activity (paraphrased from your words) -- now, see, this is why you are the greatest teacher, forrest. now i can see that left brain - right brain theory has merit both logically and experientially. being able to map one to the other is so powerful!! (to the western mind!)

[@ForrestKnutson]

Beautiful! You got it! We chose one side or the to identify with, and the long term yogic process is the transference of that identification. Thank you so much!!

[@aniccaanatta1774]

When I practice hakalau it feels so much relief and alot of burden subsides..

[@manjunathpai1896]

Hi Forrest, I do it with flash light- flashing in each hand. The perception follows the light with much ease.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Oh wow! Beautiful! I love it!

[@zechariah.bendavid]

Amazing.

[@Aaron-cd7nx]

Hey Forrest, first I want to say I like all your videos and find them very helpful. Second, I thought you would be interested to know, this is also a technique taught in Rinzai Zen. Although it still seems to be rare in Zen, I was taught this by Meido Moore Roshi (and his authorized students) of Korinji Monastery in Wisconsin. He also writes about it in his 1st book, using the same finger exercises to expand peripheral vision as you do! We were taught to maintain that vision throughout the day, through chores, exercises and everything! Anyway, thank you again!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Aaron that's amazing! I love hearing this! I'll probably make a video just to share this with everybody thank you so much and I'll be referring to this text in order to share it!

[@MrRelax3737]

Helpful Technique FK......Thank you!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Doug! 🙏🙏🤩🤩

[@aloksahu7208]

Yes sir it is amazing 😊

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Alok! 🤩🤩🙏🙏

[@petercartwright1804]

Hakalau matata. Don't worry , be happy : )

[@ForrestKnutson]

Haha! Makuna matata Hakalau! 😅😅

[@vimaladominic]

Atma namaste sir heartfelt gratitude God bless much love from India 🙏🙏🙏❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Vimala! Atma namaste! 🙏🙏🙏🤩

[@vimaladominic]

@@ForrestKnutson Thank you so much sir for your kind reply 🙏

[@edithattreed4762]

That’s how we can build our inner intuition and also by using all our senses we developed an extrasensory perception

[@seane.9937]

I've been using hakalau in all my meditations and it's a way to speak with your deeper self at will. That's what I'm hoping anyway. It's really awesome. I'm so excited to see where it leads

[@MillicentStClaire]

We use this method of expanding our peripheral vision in PhotoReading. Understanding all of these methods helps us to know ourselves better, and to have a deeper and more meaningful experience in every way.

[@ForrestKnutson]

That is so fantastic! This tiny little exercise has become a Cornerstone and everything that I teach because it touches exactly on the correct part of the brain that we so desperately need in deep meditation.

[@gvajrapani8517]

Great video! And thank you for sharing. One thought for you, I keep my tongue down because it blocks the salivary glands from activating, and helps me concentrate for longer

[@mysteryiswhatitis8319]

There are several looking techniques such as looking clouds until they disappears in vast blue sky.... Looking into mirror until the face disappears in to darkness.... Then closing the eyes and remaining in that state of mind.... I felt exited when disappearance of 'Objects' of my attention and hence couldn't able to stay in such mindset....

[@umairashraf2666]

Such a sweet and nice mannered of a person ...Forrest 💚 love from Pakistan 🇵🇰

[@TikiManTimoki]

Do you have any links about the Kahunas of Hawaii ,, You refer to ?? TYVM };^)

[@mdasgupta8703]

If you close your eyes completely how can you engage your peripheral vision? please explain

[@ForrestKnutson]

You have to go back and forth, from open eyes, to closed eyes. Until you can get the feeling during closed eyes.

[@mdasgupta8703]

@@ForrestKnutson Thank you so much .

[@OfficialGOD]

Btw I have read this exact method in osho's 112 book

[@ForrestKnutson]

Amazing! If you look at Osho's eyes, you can see he was an absolute master of this state.

[@OfficialGOD]

@@ForrestKnutson Haha yes, those eyes also told me I was with him

[@drc97086]

Look, but don’t look.😀

[@kenith-holistictherapist2527]

❤️🙏🏼

[@EnternalQuest]

Do you suggest to practice hakalau while doing HRV? How long should one practice this in one session?

[@mail2mani21]

Forrest ji, Beautiful content as always, btw is it a re-upload of your old video?

[@ForrestKnutson]

I have mentioned Hakalau in several videos, but I didn't have it in the title. So I keep telling people to practice the technique and they have to go look for the video.

[@mail2mani21]

@@ForrestKnutson Thank you ji 🙏.. it definitely reinforces the importance and is really helpful ❤️

[@joncen2658]

You mentioned that once you went into samadhi only with hakalau. So did you do it with the eyes open? Is samadhi possible with the eyes open?

[@ForrestKnutson]

I did it as I explained it here. I entered into my deepest Low-Idle-State and then adopted the attitude of expansion. You could go into samadhi with open eyes but it would be very difficult to train it that way. What I explained in the video is that we can train our eyes to adopt this attitude with open eyes. Until we can do it with closed eyes during meditation.

[@joncen2658]

Thank you for the clear reply

[@popelak9]

I recently heard about emdr, clinicaly proven style of therapy, which seems similar to eye dilation techniques. Maybe a possible future video topic?

[@josephmitchell6796]

Is this a method that can be used for trataka or are they different?

[@ForrestKnutson]

They are different and yes it can be used while doing that technique. 🤩

[@josephmitchell6796]

@@ForrestKnutson thank you Forrest! I’m probably going to look like the cookie monster now with both of these hehe

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@josephmitchell6796 hahaha that's fantastic! 🤩🤩🤩🙏

[@katherineohroof]

I have a very dominant right side but my right eye is nearly blind and have been relying on my left eye to see. I have started to patch my left eye to give it a rest and also to hopefully strengthen the right eye and I’ve felt less critical and more accepting. Can you explain how that is possible? Is the left eye related to the right brain?

[@EnternalQuest]

Also eyes become teary and feels irritation in eyes. Is it normal?

[@DjangobeatTV]

Forrest! Why oh why are you not a Brainspotting therapist? You really should be!! I mean if there is anyone I can think of it's you! My advice would be to spend a month of so in the client chair before training, you would a total natural!!!!

[@keremduran5077]

Can't decide if I would put Hakalau at the top of my learnings from this channel, or HRV, or breathing upon chakras, all have a very special place :) But it is definitely the quickest one to make difference, just super instantaneous. Also I wanted to ask about if you knew about Intrinsic Cardiac Nervous system? It is a relatively new discovery of an independent brain-like structure in the heart (also there are similar ones found in the gut and the genital area), which I find super interesting.

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's fantastic. ... Yes, absolutely. Not only that, but your entire body is soaked in Neurotransmitters. That effectively makes your entire body an extension of your brain.

[@keremduran5077]

@@ForrestKnutson So there are actual neuron clusters in the body which are also connected to the brain... It's just amazing how science is just figuring out Chakras!

[@zen5760]

Do you think hakalau can help me perform well in sports such as football? Or will it limit me

[@mysteryiswhatitis8319]

As I gone through all comments and replys from Forrest... Yes! It improves our capabilities of multitasking... Because its what the martial artists get trained in to face multiple attacks

[@robbentvelzen6807]

Synchronycity is everything. Yesterday, while practising on a nice spot in the sun on the waterside, I did my HRV and hakalau at the same time and within a few minutes my hearing changed. Sound remained but became a bit muffled and at a distance. Would that by any chance be the same kind of phenomenon as dilating the eyes? And thank you again, I been looking into this subject for about two years now, did some reading and searching. Your directions have proven to be the most valueable of all.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wonderful Rob! It sounds like you shifted deeply into the witness rather than being preoccupied with one sound at a time in the left brain. Beautiful!

[@carpenterfamily6198]

3:01 How to do it 🙂

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! 🤩

[@user-fe1kl9vs8i]

Hi Forrest! Thank you so much for the video! Very valuable information. I want to ask a question about space expansion. Have you tried to do it? I guess, it’s the same principle as in Hakalau. Usually I do space expansion in four different directions, north, south, east, west, and plus two directions: up and down. I expand myself in each of those directions to my room, to my neighbor’s apartment, another building, then street, then another street block, just expanding to the whole city, then Neigbour’s states, whole country, another countries, whole world, whole planet, whole universe.. then you can see spirit light. But also, you can receive some information from the space around you, before it happens. Have you experienced something like that? Have you experienced receiving some info from space around you right before it will happen? Would like yo hear your story! Thank you so much!!