Don’t Kill Your Aravos

First tie all five together

Take them in your right hand to a patch of actual earth

Not tiled like in shul or a patio

Untie the aravos

Ask Hashem to consider your actions

As if you have all the kavanos of the neviim behind this minhag

Strike the earth exactly five times

Slowly

Each strike corresponds to one letter of מ–נ–צ–פ–ך

Focus on the mem during strike one, next the nun etc.

These are subduing each one of the five primary prosecuting midos

Each upswing is important too

Try to focus on the five words

לב–טהור–ברא–לי–אלהים

One per upswing

If you break the top off your arava during this process

Like the macho guys in shul do

Your arava is posul

You’re avoda is lost

You’ll need to get a new set

And start again

Humbly

A guteh kvittel