Technique
Hakalau
Hakalau is a peripheral-vision technique from the ancient Hawaiian Kahuna. Fix on one point slightly above eye level, then open the peripheral vision to take everything in at once, which dilates the eyes. It is taught as a neurological driver into the right brain and right hippocampus, practised through the day or in meditation.
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Hakalau Saved My Life
In his video devoted to Hakalau, he walks through picking a point, opening the peripheral vision until the wiggling fingers stay visible, and then taking everything in at once.
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Hakalau In Zen - Yogi Explains
Explains why it is a cornerstone of his teaching on the way to the non-dual state, then tests it on a frustration and uses it to stop chatter during meditation.
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3rd Eye Hourglass Exercise - Yogi Explains
Shows how to carry the open-eyed Hakalau feeling into a sitting, opening and closing the eyes until the feeling of taking in everything holds with the eyes closed.
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01:28“And a wonderful way to do this while you're up and walking around is the overload Hakalau technique.”06:32“Number two, take a moment and do the Hakalau.”02:54“So let's practice some Hakalau, right?”05:29“And possibly, the most wonderful meditation that we can teach our kids is Hakalau, pronounced Hakala or Hakalau, Hakala.”06:27“So you look at one point, and you open up your peripheral vision.”11:53“And so we're doing hakala, aren't we?”05:40“Next, you might teach them Hakalau.”01:57“So very quickly, if you are not familiar with the Hakalau, it's one of the cornerstones of what I teach because it is helping us get very, very quickly and easily into the right brain.”03:15“And then pick a point up above you, just up above eye level.”08:12“Of course, I couldn't give you meditation all day without Hakalau, and that's really so magical because how often do you hear about the right brain?”14:01“Okay, what if I bring Hakalau into my meditations, right?”04:40“Very quickly, we're going to look at one point, and then we're going to dilate the eyes.”10:02“how do you do it really quick pick one point and we're looking one pointed at that one point and while we're looking at that point we're gonna open up our peripheral vision”03:14“You just pick one point straight in front of you, on the wall or in the corner of the room, or you pick one tree in front of you, and you just concentrate on the tip of that tree, whatever point you pick.”06:57“So we begin like this, and we end up like this, and this is why, Hakalau, is one of the most perfect meditations on earth that I have ever seen.”09:06“We can also begin to access all of this through Hakalau.”06:55“This is called Hakalau, comes from the Kahuna of Hawaii.”15:38“Now, if you're walking down the street and you want to practice this, we can practice Hakalau, which is to pick one point in front of you, and so you're looking at that point, and as you look at it, open up your peripheral vision.”01:58“The greatest way that I can teach this to you is in the process of Hakalau, which is a Hawaiian technology.”07:38“So one other thing that you can do to help to induce this correct attitude of just letting it all float by is to pick one dot in front of you, and while you look at that one dot, become aware of your peripheral vision.”04:03“And expanding on the two points, I want to teach you Hakalau.”01:13“This skill of dilating the eyes, and so the first way to learn to do this, perhaps the very best, is Hakalau, which is a technology from the ancient Hawaiian kahuna.”03:08“So the next trick is to dilate your eyes.”02:54“So the first step is to take two normal-sized piece of paper, put a big black dot on it, and then stick that on your wall.”16:13“Can you go into the Hakalau?”09:13“Hakalau.”16:25“That's enough to get us started in understanding the left and the right brain, and so when we do a technique like Hakalau, and I take in everything, I taste just a hair of that right brain”01:34“I would sit in the back of the classroom, and I would just dilate my eyes, take in the whole room as one, practicing Hakalau.”04:20“That we want that oneness, and we can begin to taste that oneness with a practice like Hakalau.”11:28“Practice Hakalau over and over again.”07:41“You're focusing on one point, and yet you're taking in everything, which brings in the right brain right away, and that causes the slower brain waves to show up.”25:55“So by understanding Hakalau, by understanding that feeling, we can begin to feel what it is like to feel expansion.”10:54“Then let's do a little bit of Hakalau.”10:01“So I talk about Hakalau and expanding your vision.”09:03“So one of the ways that we can adopt that attitude is by doing Hakalau while you stare at the spiritual eye.”10:44“But look straight ahead and just open up your peripheral vision.”08:24“So when we're doing Hakalau, and we're looking at one point, and we're opening up our peripheral vision, that is the same neurological driver for spaciousness.”09:27“Hakalau, you look at one point straight ahead of you, and then you open up your peripheral vision, become aware of everything on the sides.”07:07“Like Hakalau, look at that one point straight ahead.”15:34“It's a great exercise to really open up your peripheral vision”55:03“So you can you can play with that, or you could go into what the Kahuna would call Hakalau.”20:42“I talk about Hakalau a lot, and it's really it's really a metaphor.”01:57“But what you're describing is actually what I talk about in my book when I when I introduce the peripheral vision exercise.”06:08“I might do little things like a little bit of Hakalau.”14:05“That's the beauty of it, and studying chunking up, studying Hakalau, studying surrender”05:51“Maybe it's the Angel exercise, maybe it's the Gayatri mantra, maybe it's Hakalau.”09:00“Open your eyes, and try a little Hakalau.”12:11“I might open my eyes and do some Hakalau.”04:24“Every single time we do a little bit of Hakalau, we are touching that.”13:25“You can do Hakalau all day.”11:57“If we if we have trouble with the very big spaciousness that I talk about, if we have trouble with Hakalau, try this out.”01:20“Here's Hakalau.”05:50“You can do that through Hakalau.”18:09“See what it does to you then, and then for the ever so adventurous, put the cute baby and the Hakalau at the end.”16:44“It's actually a form of Hakalau.”09:25“We engage the right brain through Hakalau, and bit by bit by bit we add these together, and life gets better.”09:38“But if you continuously did a therapy like Kriya Yoga, like Om Japa in the chakras, like entering into the low-idle-state of meditation, like doing the cute baby meditation day after day and Hakalau, and entering into expansion, and you did all these things and you cleaned out your heart.”17:27“I talk about Hakalau doing Hakalau in meditation, and now we're placing our mind on the part of the brain which is ready to embrace the hugeness of the divine, and that is that's what creates the non dual state.”05:17“But the Kahuna turned it into one little encapsulated meditation you can practice all day.”15:14“practice Hakalau perfect now we're plugging in Hakalau”10:32“And as you continue and you keep practicing this, and you keep looking at the spiritual eye, and you learn to look but let go, and that Hakalau style, right, which I keep teaching, right?”08:25“We practice the Hakalau, right?”16:29“I'm just gonna go into my backyard and practice Hakalau and stare at the trees for five minutes.”13:12“Hakalau is designed to give us that same attitude to expand, and that's what helps us to access the right brain, and otherwise we're going to be trapped.”04:56“As if you are standing behind yourself, watching yourself, or standing behind yourself and watching your thoughts, you you take in the totality of your life all at once, which is very akin to Hakalau, isn't it?”00:39“I'm glad you're using peripheral vision.”