Manda Scott

So the easiest way to do that if you're not used to it is to stretch your hands out to the side, let your eyes relax, and then bring your hands very slowly forward, wiggling your fingers with your eyes looking straight ahead.

We're not checking how far can you look to the side, we're checking at what point are you aware of your fingers wiggling in the edges of your vision.

really focus on those wriggling fingers, because then your focus is on peripheral vision.

And again, this is something to practice.

The more you can walk through the world with wide, soft, gentle vision, the more your body can relax, the more your system can reset, and the more your whole being can have a sense of grounding.

So practice that and give yourself something that acts as a prompt.

So that if you go out of the house and you shut the front door, that prompts you to remember peripheral vision.

If you have a walk that you do regularly with or without a dog, let that prompt you to move into peripheral vision, wide vision, soft gaze.

Something that you do regularly, make it a cue.

And then let that cue spill out into the rest of your day.

There's very few times in our lives where we need to have the tight, focused vision.

Sadly, screen work tends to be one of those.

So minimising your screen work, as everybody says, is a really good idea.

And I'm saying this sitting in front of a screen.

But I do have a window that looks out on the hill.

And I do look out there a lot and let my vision relax.

Next on our list is grounding.

If you've worked with accidental gods or dreamy awake in any capacity, you will know we focus almost obsessively on grounding.

Our culture is really, really good at cutting loose and going off into other places.

What we're very bad at is coming back to being fully present on the knife edge of the moment in this reality, fully grounded in the here and now.