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Trauma overwhelms the brain’s capacity to process and integrate our experiences. This means that traumatic experiences can become trapped in the brain. When your brain is overwhelmed and unable to integrate the trauma, it does the next best thing it can: it bubble wraps that trauma so you don’t have to feel it all the way.
A Brainspot is an eye position that correlates with areas in the brain where these traumatic experiences are being stored.
Processing while looking at one or more Brainspots can help you to access the subcortical, or “deep brain” regions where your trauma is held. During a Brainspotting session, your therapist will use one or more pointers to help guide and anchor your gaze, and you will also have the option of using your own instincts to help find the Brainspot.
Finding one or more Brainspots can help you to go deeper, processing your pain more effectively, so that you can get the relief you yearn for. Brainspotting can lead to profound insights, emotional pain relief, and enhancement of positive feelings about yourself, the world, or painful situations (this is called “expansion Brainspotting”).