Soften your gaze. Look at nothing in particular.

All day, your eyes lock onto things. Text, screens, faces, small print, the road. Focusing is work, and the tiny muscles around your eyes rarely get to rest. By evening, that effort shows up as a tightness behind the brow you can't quite place.

So let your gaze go soft. Pick a spot in the middle distance, a wall, a window, the corner of the room, and let your eyes settle there without trying to see anything sharply. Let the edges of your vision blur a little. You're not looking at anything; you're just letting your eyes stop working.

Stay like that for thirty seconds or so. Blink slowly. Notice how, when your eyes relax, your thoughts tend to slow down too. A soft gaze is a small doorway into a quieter mind.