Not sure whether this is the right place, but couldn't find anywhere else.

So, whenever I become lucid (not very common), I slow down, start rubbing my hands and looking at them. I noticed that whenever I look at my hands to stabilize, I lose lucidity. Is there some reason for this, and is there a stabilizing technique that works as well as it does? Looking at my hands gave me my first lucid dreams, but now I seem to lose lucidity when doing so.