Deliberately widening gaze from tunnel vision to panoramic vision while the body is in a heightened state of activation can create a calming effect on the mind by releasing a brainstem circuit associated with alertness and stress.

“By deliberately dilating your gaze, meaning not moving your head and eyes around, but by deliberately going from tunnel vision to broader panoramic vision, literally seeing more of your environment all at once. You don't have to do what I'm doing, which is not blinking. You're welcome to blink. But it means deliberately dilating your gaze so that you can see yourself in the environment you're in. It creates a calming effect on the mind because it releases a particular circuit in the brainstem that's associated with alertness, aka stress.”