Brainspotting

What is Brainspotting?

Brainspotting is based on “Where you look affects how you feel.”  It is a powerful mind/body therapy that has rapid effects.  Brainspotting locates points in the client’s visual field that help to access unprocessed trauma in the subcortical brain.  This therapeutic approach helps clients work with deep focused mindfulness and fixed eye positions to process and release emotionally and bodily-based conditions such as PTSD, phobias, trauma, relationship and performance issues.  It is also helpful for expanding the body reservoir of vitality and opening to a new awareness for enhancing life and improving performance.

We seek therapy when we are out of balance and can’t resolve things on our own.  In a supportive therapeutic setting, the Brainspotting tool is used to allow your body’s innate wisdom to come back to homeostasis.

If you have worked on yourself for a while and feel you still can’t shift something that is holding you stuck, Brainspotting may provide a solution.. It is often done with BioLateral Sound which helps with calming and enhances results.

When we go through a trauma in life, we naturally react with fight, flight or freeze.  When we freeze –a connection of the feelings we had at the time of trauma and a feeling in our body occurs.  That stuck-frozen feeling becomes formatted within us and re-occurs when we encounter similar situations with new challenges.  Often to create a new way of approaching life more harmoniously—we need to complete the movement that did not happen in the original trauma.

Brainspotting allows your body to release the stress that it learned in the past.  This focused attention on a situation seems to trigger deep in our brain the area that contains unprocessed memory and feeling.  It appears to tap into our own body’s innate wisdom to heal. It has the potential to unlock the circular thinking, negative thoughts, self-protective patterns and limited beliefs we continuously act from even when we don’t want to.