To get your bearings

Get/find your bearings
to find out where you are and where other things are

• It took her a moment to get her bearings in the dark.

Have some/no bearing on something
to be relevant/not relevant to something, or to have an influence/no influence on it

• His private life has no bearing on his competence as a manager.

Lose your bearings
to become confused about where you are and where other things are

• I lost my bearings and ended up at the entrance again.

Take a bearing
to find out where you are or what direction you are going in, using a special instrument such as a compass