We process what we see around us most quickly, making it an important sense to care for when you're anxious or stressed.There isn’t just one way to cope with anxiety and stress. Instead there are a host of options for dealing with these emotions — fromto mindfulness to medication and more. That said, therapists told HuffPost there’s one activity you may not be doing when feeling stressed or anxious: considering your eye gaze.
To combat this instinct, you need to give your eyes permission to relax when you’re in safe environments. You can do this by You can do this by cupping your hands over your eyes to block out all of the visual stimuli around you, she noted. “You could do that for 30 seconds, you could do that for a minute,” Harris said.
“When we think about the neurobiology of feeling safe, of self-regulation, of social engagement, we know that’s not just something that we can think out loud and say, ‘I am safe,’ or ‘I feel well,’ ... our body doesn’t necessarily always follow that statement,” saidWhen trying to feel these thoughts you have, it can be helpful to use your physical senses, she said. “I use eye gaze a lot as a way to get people grounded into mindfulness,” said Watson.