Brainspotting Explained

Discovered by David Grand, Ph.D. in 2003, he states "Where you look affects how you feel."

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A Brainspot is located by finding an eye positive with the assistance of the therapist in a careful and attuned way. By use of an extendable pointer, the therapist slowly moves the pointer across the client's visual field, using verbal and body feedback to determine the eye position or "Brainspot" that closely associates with an emotionally distressing issue or event. Then, while the client continues to gaze at this fixed point in space, allowing emotional activation to be processed, encapsulated material (a traumatic or distressing issue) in the "brain-body" can be dissolved.

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In other words, the client "looks out in order to look in" (Grand) to the emotional midbrain, to locate something that remains unresolved and then holds this visual position until adaptive orientation is achieved and the emotional charge is dissipated. 

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-Mark Grixti

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