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Overloading the Left Brain Exercise - Yogi Explains

Summary

, 9 min

An overload version of Hakalau: holding peripheral vision together with every sound, smell, body feeling and taste at once until the left brain's labels drop away and attention shifts into the right brain's peace. A Scrooge story frames small tastes of that state as a cup of loving kindness to return to.

In this video

Discusses
Foveal and peripheral attentionBeing the watcherSmall wins
Mentions
Tad JamesHunaRight hippocampus

Key moments

00:00Hakalau, learned from Tad James's Huna teaching00:30Simple Hakalau: notice peripheral vision until the labels disappear01:18Doing it while walking: the overload Hakalau technique01:56Normal Hakalau and the finger-wiggle peripheral vision test02:41Load up all five senses: sounds, smells, body, taste04:21Overwhelming the left brain, which can do only one thing at a time05:10Pull drifting senses back up and become the watcher06:19Small tastes: Scrooge and the cup of loving kindness07:29Drink it up, then practice again