It's All Hakalau - It's All the Right Brain!

How a number of practices engage and use the processes of the right brain!
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Thank you to Doug Gemmell for the amazing music!

[@fhoniemcphonsen8987]

A tai chi senior of mine who was an avid open water kayaker described it as placing your gaze on the horizon not as if staring out looking for something in particular but just gently resting your gaze where the water meets the sky

[@ForrestKnutson]

Perfect!

[@HMALDANA]

Awesome, Forrest! It goes hand in hand with Barbara Fredrickson's Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions. In a nutshell, she states that cultivating positive emotion literally opens our perception and helps us cope better with the challenges life has. When we are stuck in negative emotions, our perception narrows down, which prevents us from seeing different approaches to the challenge at hand. Thanks for sharing. Blessings and blissings!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Beautiful Mauricio! The more we practice joy, bliss, and love the bigger our left amygdala becomes! So I totally agree with Barbara Frederickson! Thank you so much for bringing her to my attention! You're the best! 🤩🤩🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹

[@robbentvelzen6807]

Isn't this amazing, I very much like riding my motorcycle on a twisty road and it was on a motorcycle that I had one of my first mystical experiences. After a week from hell I went to see a good friend and the first hour or so I was riding in a slightly Illegal way, then something happened that I will remember forever. I left home again, came after myself along that same road, landed in myself and everything that bothered me was no more. This makes more sense now. I am beginning to see that the roadsigns have been everywhere all the time. In people, in my books, my records, happenings. Happy to share this with everyone who is looking for a broader horizon. Grazi Forrest.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Amazing Rob! Beautiful! Yes, it's everywhere, isn't it! 🤩🙏🌹

[@saipavan1950]

Med.fact :-EMDR is actually approved for treatment of PTSD By the way now I understand why I feel so soo much relieved after a jog especially after stressful conversation , thanks for sharing the knowledge😌😌

[@DjangobeatTV]

Yes, in Brainspotting we talk about how highly focused visual attention tends to contact the left brain, the great categorizing specialist. But when we move into periphery, we move into the right or the "experiential"!!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Amazing and perfect! Thank you so much for this confirmation! 🤩🙏

[@DjangobeatTV]

@@ForrestKnutson There is actually some science around particular cells in the eyes. It's in one of my manuals. I'll find it for you at some point. Today was the 2nd day of my phase 3 training and I feel more processed than a chicken nugget! lol! Keep up the good work and maybe consider getting some sessions in yourself and maybe training? Night Forrest!

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@DjangobeatTV thank you I'd love to hear about the eyes! Good night!

[@subhaarthanari9323]

Brilliantly put together very helpful Thanks so much Forrest Guruji

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Subha!🤩🙏🤗

[@lrodriguez5545]

Thank you Forestji, for refreshing those useful and easy tools, and adding the left and right technique. 🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! My pleasure! 🌹🙏🌹

[@saiswarupmishra5707]

Beautiful teaching Sir... As always...🌹🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Sai! 🌹🙏

[@DjangobeatTV]

As a Brainspotting therapist we do this with our clients in a slightly different way. We have a broad range of different techniques, even the use of eye patches and pointers!

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's amazing!

[@jannareindel6263]

Thank you again Forrest! 💓

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! 🌹🙏🌹🙏

[@RahulDas-nz6iy]

Another magical video. Loved it Guruji 🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Beautiful, Rahul! 🌹🙏

[@victorsaitta3910]

Thank you so very much for the right left suggestion!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Victor!

[@aprilryan3208]

thank you as always..

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you April!

[@Srividhya1682]

This was very useful. I tried it before my meditation. It felt wonderful. I was able to stop the chatter behind.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Perfect! 🤩🤩🙏🙏

[@ZenPepperClub]

Im sorry Forrest..........been watching your videos for a while, I cant relate to most videos you do, only thing that has worked for me is heart resonance breathing (which I do daily )and a little of timeline therapy, but let me say the joy and enthusiasm you bring is all one ever needs !!! Thanks so much !!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Haha! Fantastic! Well, that's the perfect place to start!!

[@sunshinegirl1655]

I love your explanations and the sound of your voice so relaxing 🙂

[@ForrestKnutson]

Fantastic Sunshine! 🤩🙏

[@raamkumar1979]

Yes Brother..it's magical 😍😍😍.....🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Raam! 🤩🙏🤩

[@manjunathpai1896]

Hi Forrest, now I know why I like to watch Tour de France cycle race on TV so much even though I am not a cyclist.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yes, exactly! 🤩

[@user-fe1kl9vs8i]

thank you

[@vimaladominic]

Atma namaste sir heartfelt gratitude God bless much love for this wonderful videos 🙏🙏🙏❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

Atma namaste Vimala! Great to hear from you!! 🌹🙏🌹🙏

[@vimaladominic]

@@ForrestKnutson Thank you so much for your kind reply sir love to family 🙏🙏🙏❤

[@MariaJotalhao]

Great video as usual! 🙏🧡

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! 🙏🌹

[@FurbiidN]

Forrest loving the good vibe coming from you. Can you enlightening us on eye patching in your future video. For example closing the right eye which is connected to the left hemispher to calm the analytical mind processes and vice versa. Also like dilating an individual eye while still being active and seeing. Would love to hear back from you.

[@davidnxumalo7783]

lol yess I am using, fusing the resonant breathing app of yours!

[@tumareyoga9041]

Great video! 🙏😊Hakalau is a great technique to do while practicing mindfulness. As it is not possible to practice Hakalau if you are not fully in the moment. (That’s why the technique is quite challenging as well;) ) 😊🙏💜

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yes, exactly! 🤩🤩🙏🌟🌹

[@theUnmanifest]

Hi Forrest, great content! have you tried the eye movements technique while keeping the eyes open? It helps even more powerfully. the brain wants to blink when changing where the eyes are looking to avoid losing focus, to avoid cutting the tread of attention that is currently feeding and keeping the negative feelings/story going. 💖🌈

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! Yes, it's amazing! 🤩🙏

[@bricktea3645]

What advice do u have for people like me who experience alot of anger and resentment and goes into fight and flight,hold my breath and do ohm? Doesn't sound like a complete process u tell me.

[@ForrestKnutson]

I would write down each of your negative emotions. Then look to my timeline therapy walkthrough, and go through each negative emotion. The purpose of timeline therapy is to relieve the burden of the past so that our memory becomes a storehouse of wisdom, rather than a torture chamber.

[@abelabdel-yc1de]

Now that I feel no problems with negative emotions what to do

[@bnj2669]

I’m not able to reach Pratyahara, I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, I was so enlightening by the science that immediately sat down to work on it. I did reach a level of calmness and relaxation yet I felt that I’m plateauing right there and not moving forward. But have to hand it to you, there’s a major change in my meditation, I’m actually meditating now even though I haven’t felt the PH yet.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Try to feel the four proofs that I talk about. That is the beginning of it that is the beginning of getting your parasympathetic dorsal vagal online.

[@bnj2669]

@@ForrestKnutson thank you so much for the prompt response 🙏🏼💐 I have been watching your playlists, whatever you’re teaching is the biggest gift one can offer. Thank you so much

[@Brittanyem]

Wow, the driving example was a nice light bulb moment for me, excellent example! I went through a 6 month period of repetitive moving and I've thought many times to myself that the road trips felt like almost psychedelic experiences with the level of clarity gained over the drive. I love it! You've been hugely instrumental in keeping me grounded through this journey, thank you very much for all you do! 😊🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Amazing Brittany! Yes! As we touch on the right brain we enter a little bit into expansiveness and it has a profound effect on our personality it begins to reformat and reorganize our ideas about our reality and that's when the inspiration and the understanding of our own lives happens. Fantastic example! 🤩🤩🙏🙏

[@Brittanyem]

@@ForrestKnutson beautiful!! I so look forward to doing this more intentionally going forward! 🥰🥰🙏

[@dakotahsimonson631]

Emdr doesn't even require moving the eyes!🎉 just put your awareness back and forth to the shoulders or attention to the sides of the room😂🎉 good if u have eyes that doesn't see the same. or feel the left and right eye and go back and forth 😂🎉

[@dagnabbit]

When you talk about the "carbon" exchange with oxygen, do you mean Carbon Dioxide? Your Mastering Meditation and videos are great. I have a daily practice, and you are an important part of the process. Thank you!

[@breakfastfoodanddarkhaired280]

Hi Forrest , love your channel, so much practical and simple guidance. I just got back from a 10 day goenka course and was wondering what your thoughts on Vipassana meditation is?

[@ForrestKnutson]

I think I'd like to make a whole video on that. 🤩🙏

[@breakfastfoodanddarkhaired280]

@@ForrestKnutson ✌️

[@aloksahu7208]

Science = yog 🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Exactly, Alok!

[@Aleksandrpajic]

When I do Hakalau my perception or attention starts to pulsate left, right,left, right and I can rarely make an expansive balance. I can, however expand only to the right like Todd Murphy suggested or above my head. But rarely on both sides, which feels best and most expansive.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wonderful! Keep experimenting! You're doing great!

[@janabateman8470]

What do you think of those energization exercises before meditation that SRF teaches, Forrest?

[@ForrestKnutson]

They can be very good especially if you are a little bit low on energy or a little bit sleepy. I did them for years before meditation and then I started to get too much of a charge and it would unbalance me the other direction.

[@varenyaaum]

Namaste Forrest ji. Why is it so that a meditation practice becomes somewhat less effective after a period of time? Do we get lazy or is it something else? My outbreath has naturally become very long but still no tranquil breath.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Sometimes we start with a lot of interest and a lot of enthusiasm = inspiration to start. So the heart is very involved. Then we calm down about our practice, and we need to find a way to reinvest our heart. Try out the Cute Baby Meditation for a little bit each day, and see what happens.

[@ggb2193]

what happens when you use both hakalau and concentrate in one point at once? basically using the whole brain

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yes that's right. But we usually use the right side of the brain so little, that the technique does end up to be predominantly a right brain experience.

[@ramsharma4769]

Sir your app 😭 Not working properly It is not ringing correctly I don't know why it is happening Not always but sometimes 😊

[@nrspinelli]

speaking of right and left. i realized that if i always meditate facing east (as kriya yoga instructs us to do) I end up always meditating with the sun on the left side of my body (im on the southern hemisphere), and im thinking, doesnt this create imbalance? Cus we feel so much more on 1 side, and nothing on the other?

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's a very interesting thought! The idea with Facing East is that you will be in the direction of the magnetic movement of the Sun from east to west. This will help your meditation very slightly, but it is a minor point. Like sitting on a Woolen blanket. What will affect your meditation much more profoundly would be a little bit of intermittent fasting. As an example. 🤩🤗🙏

[@Vanderful_life]

Today I was with client which have to use machine helping him to breath due to his health condition, at some stage he asked me where those two people which were sitting next to us are gone. I was curious and asked him questions but he let it go and fall a sleep Once his wife came back i asked her about his vision. She said that due to carbon building up and not enough oxygen it's what is happening to him The answer really didn't sit with me What is your take on that?

[@ForrestKnutson]

Amazing, Mike. When the breath gets long, or is modified in this fashion, or when we are in an extreme condition, then it will help put us "close to the other side" and we might have a dualistic vision in this fashion. Friends and family that have passed on, or guardian angels might visit us. This happens so often that there is often literature in the hospitals on this kind of thing, relating to NDEs.

[@bricktea3645]

Do u believe in deities or spirits,there r experiments where a picture is imprinted recorded in water according to the meditator's mental picture to the deity he or she worships,look up Dr Robert Gilbert for more info. A lot of rishis or yogis in ancient times through some intense mental processes made an imprint of certain energies in the world and we call them Hindu deities today,what r ur thoughts?

[@ForrestKnutson]

I see this from both sides. The spiritual side and the brain side. Both are right, and I talk about this extensively in the Talking To the Higher Self Training. ;)

[@rkatz0]

Well, is it because I am trained already? I have no way to test this. I don't really know many folk that would want to do an experiment. However, when I direct any small phrase, or mantra, or concept / thought, anything, to the third eye, the effect seems to be automatic breath regulation, number one, this goes without paying ANY attention to the breath, if I focus on the breath, ok, it still goes to regulated mode, and this is not my mind controlling it, or perhaps it is and I just don't know it. The body calms down. And it seems there is an expansion. I guess this is what is happening. So then, this is also Hakalau? You mentioned the yogi, in a long period of meditation, for me, this seems to occur within one or two breaths only. So then, this is due to training, or some universal "switch"? I mean, could I find some individuals who will try it, and they will not perceive an affect at all? This is my real question.

[@rkatz0]

Yeah. Boom. Imagine that. Bring ANYTHING to the third eye. Hm....that simple eh?!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yes, it is happening because of your practice. You have developed it. So for example when I say it happens to the yogi automatically because he sits in the dark for a long time. What happens is the body and the subconscious get the idea and then the yogi will sit down, and as you say it will happen in minutes. So yes, this is perfectly in line with the effect that the practice of Hakalau gives you.

[@ForrestKnutson]

And no, unfortunately, it's not something that you could teach easily because each person will not look into the spiritual eye or regulate the breath as your practice has led you to. If you taught them HRV resonance and Hakalau together, then you could begin to see if they got anywhere close to the same effects of what you are experiencing.

[@rkatz0]

@@ForrestKnutson So then, all I would need to do is pull a "Ramana Maharshi" on them, and that should do it!

[@rkatz0]

@@ForrestKnutson I tested on one that claims to have done no meditation. I had him close the eyes, look at the ajna, then open. Then I asked him to picture a recent thought and perhaps a few words or phrase. Then I asked him to place it in the ajna, for a few repetitions, about 10 seconds worth. He said it brought a lot of stability to the thought. Not sure what that means. I guess I would need to test a hundred or so more to get an idea! ;)

[@dakotahsimonson631]

I've been wondering 🙂👁

[@ForrestKnutson]

Perfect Dakotah! 😉🙏