Brainspotting
Any life event which causes significant physical and/or emotional injury and distress, in which the person powerfully experiences being overwhelmed, helpless, or trapped, can become a traumatic experience. Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms. It works with the deep brain and the body through its direct access to the autonomic and limbic systems within the body’s central nervous system.
A “Brainspot” is the eye position which is related to the energetic/emotional activation of a traumatic/emotionally charged issue within the brain, located by eye position. The maintenance of that eye position within the attentional focus on the body’s “felt sense” of that issue or trauma stimulates a deep integrating and healing process within the brain.
There is growing recognition within the healing professions that experiences of physical and/or emotional injury, acute and chronic pain, serious physical illness, dealing with difficult medical interventions, societal turmoil, environmental disaster, as well as many other problematic life events, will contribute to the development of a substantial reservoir of life trauma. That trauma is held in the body. In most cases, the traumatized individual does not usually have the opportunity or the support to adequately process and integrate these traumatic life events.
A “Brainspot” is the eye position which is related to the energetic/emotional activation of a traumatic/emotionally charged issue within the brain, located by eye position. The maintenance of that eye position within the attentional focus on the body’s “felt sense” of that issue or trauma stimulates a deep integrating and healing process within the brain.
There is growing recognition within the healing professions that experiences of physical and/or emotional injury, acute and chronic pain, serious physical illness, dealing with difficult medical interventions, societal turmoil, environmental disaster, as well as many other problematic life events, will contribute to the development of a substantial reservoir of life trauma. That trauma is held in the body. In most cases, the traumatized individual does not usually have the opportunity or the support to adequately process and integrate these traumatic life events.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
~ Rumi (via Barks)
~ Rumi (via Barks)
