The Importance of Maintaining Eye Contact

Co-regulation is important because we're aggressive war-like creatures that pick up threat very quickly and actually subconsciously through pattern recognition. We might have a tendency to look away, but it's so important to stay in focus. If you ever watch dancers, especially team dancers working together, they maintain eye contact. They are able to sort of screen out the environment by turning on what's called the spotlight focus area of the ventral medial prefrontal cortex.