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Brainspotting 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. Brainspotting is, accordingly, a physiological tool that has profound emotional and physical benefits.

The use of Brainspotting can support a healing relationship. There is no replacement for a mature and nurturing presence and the ability to engage another human in a safe and trusting relationship where they feel heard, accepted, and understood.

It is theorized that Brainspotting taps into and harnesses the body’s innate self-scanning capacity to process and release focused areas (systems) that are in a maladaptive homeostasis (frozen primitive survival modes). This may also explain the ability of Brainspotting to reduce often body pain and tension associated with physical conditions.

A “Brainspot” is the eye position related to the energetic/emotional activation of an emotionally charged issue within the brain, most likely in the amygdala, the hippocampus, or the orbitofrontal cortex of the limbic system. Located by eye position, paired with externally observed and internally experienced reflexive responses, a Brainspot is a physiological subsystem holding emotional experience in memory form.