De-Stress: Yoga off the mat
Noticing our gaze and the quality of our visual attention, offers us great insight into our present being and state of mind-body. Where our eyes are travelling to, what they may be fixating on and where they tend to rest are signals that we can use as a guide in our practice and feed out into our lives.
Stepping back from our most dominant sense – sight – to develop a more wholly felt awareness of our place in time and space, in the here and now, invites an ability to meet the outside world, whilst remaining attuned to our inner landscape. In yoga, Drishti (or Drshti) describes a steady, focused gaze that allows the mind to become still and present. The quality of this attention then determines the quality of mental patterns.
Many of us in the modern world spend a lot of time on computer screens and one of the fallouts of this is that we make eye movements that are very quick and rapid across screens, in a way we simply would not do in the natural world. These motions and artificial lighting can interfere with production of the hormone melatonin that gives us a good quality of sleep, particularly if this is late in the evening. A t this time, we are primed to come to darkness and little visual input, but modern lighting and screens keep muscles around our eyes working hard. The information coming into our eyes from the brain keeps us stimulated at the time they most need to come to rest.
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