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Brainspotting is a powerful tool for addressing human trauma, originally discovered by David Grand as a variation of the EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) protocol. While practicing this variation of EMDR, he stumbled upon Brainspotting during a session with a client.
The motto for Brainspotting, as believed by David Grand, applies to both positive and negative emotions. It’s based on the concept that where you look with your eyes can affect how you feel. A “brain spot” connects your eye gaze position to specific neurological locations or networks in your brain. When it comes to trauma, these brain spots connect to unprocessed trauma at a deeper level below our cognitive thinking brain. Activating these spots through eye gaze allows us to bring this information to the surface.
These neurological networks connect to unprocessed trauma that resides below our cognitive or thinking brain. Activating these spots through eye gaze allows this information to surface. Initially, it might manifest as sensory sensations, creating tension in various parts of the body. It can also bring up sensory aspects of the trauma, such as smells, sounds, and sights. Additionally, it highlights the locked-up action tendencies or urges associated with that traumatic moment.
Brainspotting is primarily a body-based experience rather than a mental or emotional one. Maintaining your gaze on this spot for several minutes enables the release of these locked sensations and urges. This process continues until there is no longer any tension or until the tension has subsided to a more manageable level. This process often goes hand in hand with acknowledging and releasing the urges and action tendencies connected to the traumatic event.
Throughout the releasing process, the therapist observes, follows, and encourages what happens in a safe and balanced environment. This is crucial for confronting these memories rather than avoiding or suppressing them. In many Brainspotting sessions, the therapist says very little during the processing. At times, the therapist may observe and point out the client’s body reactions. Other times, words of encouragement and reminders to breathe through the sensations are provided to help the client stay grounded and present in the moment.
Brainspotting is a powerful tool for human trauma, originated discovered by David Grand originally an EMDR protocol and while he was practicing a variation of EMDR he stumbled across Brainspotting with a client while practicing a variation of EMDR
The motto for brain spotting is David Grand believes this to be true for both positive and negative emotions.
Where you look affects how you feel, a brain a spot connect your eye gaze position to neurological locations or networks in your brain. When it comes to trauma the brainspot connects to unprocessed trauma that’s at a deeper level below our cognitive thinking brain, activating this spot through eye gaze allows us to have this information surface. neurological networks connect to unprocessed trauma that’s at a deeper level below our cognitive or thinking brain. Activating this spot through eye gaze allows us to have this information surface, first it comes as sensory sensations to create tension in multiple body spots, it bring the sensory part of the trauma up as well like smells and sounds and sights and it points out the locked up action tendencies or the urges we have from that moment. Brainspotting is really a body based experience more than thoughts and feeling, remaining fixed on this spot for several minutes allows experiences allows us these locked sensations and urges to gradually be rele3ased. Discontinuous until there is no longer any tension, or until the tension has gone down enough to be more easily tolerated, a this seems to go hand in hand with noticing and releasing urges and the action tendencies that are connected to the trauma event. Throughout the releasing process the therapist watches an follows and encourage what happens in a safe a balanced environment, this is very important to stepping into these memories rather than avoiding or pushing them down. Lots of times in Brainspotting the therapist says very little during processing. Sometimes Ill observe and point out body reactions a client may be having other times words of encouragement and reminder to breath through the sensations and these are also helpful for heling a client stay grounded and present in the moment.
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