Brainspotting helped me to target what was really bothering me, the deeper issues that I wasn’t aware of otherwise. Brainspotting brings out more emotions in a deeper way that would ever be accessible any other way, in any other therapy.  I am able to access those emotions, but in a controlled way that doesn’t seem as scary; on a path, somehow a path that is revealed by itself to get there from one spot to the next.

When hitting that brain spot, I had an electric feeling in the stomach.  Never thought I had any issues to talk about today, but I feel good about creating emotions to be able feel…I  feel very vulnerable after Brainspotting, but handling scenarios in my mind differently now.  Brainspotting is a valuable tool that many people have never even ventured towards and I am thankful to be able to have this opportunity to work with a therapist creating a loving space while I am vulnerable.    

Brainspotting is like a fish hooked and tugging on the end of the line.  I feel the tug of the fish.  It is different than a conversation, it is direct, the truth of it breaks me down, almost gives me full clarity and I focus on that topic.  Each week has been touching and deep, it has been deep in different ways.  I am not assuming and it is not the same way each week.  Brainspotting has very touching ways and made me respect the therapy, this is like a real thing.  You can’t get that deep that quick to the area of the wound any other way.   It is confusing how there are different approaches with these Brainspots and how to handle them.  I think it is unbelievable and very very good!  I would recommend Brainpsotting to anybody, they won’t know until they have experienced it.  A very valuable tool, especially if they have life long things going on like I have.  I have grown with it and many things are being identified.  Brainspotting has brought me to a place that things can be addressed in my life and with others.  It is an essence, reducing down to an extract.  This can change the world!

Brainspotting formed a bridge between the things I didn’t want to look at in my mind and now I  can reach, opening a channel.   Just because you are in the negative part on your thinking, you can change that.  Brainspotting reinforced that I can channel that.  Better than just visiting one thought and then the other thought, there was that continuous flow back and forth.  I am excited about the possibilities. I have struggled for years around this one issue and the emotional connection, racking my brain as how to change this one thing in my life.  Brainspotting has heled me to change my one dimensional thinking and shifted that, which is mind blowing how 

Overall Brainspotting is deceptively useful, you don’t quite realize what is happening because you are talking. Whatever these activation spots are, is some kind of magic. I would not have believed it if someone said to me that Brainspots Spots really work. When moving from an Activation Spot that had me highly disturbed, and moving to a Resource Spot, I was able to immediately calm down, which was strange how that worked. Don’t ask why, just do it. It activates something inside of me obviously, I don’t really need to know why, it just works.

A client with Sports Performance/Anxiety and the “YIPs”:

I have seen other people with the “YIPs” that have lasted for years, and some in weeks and days with different situations. On the outside looking in, you don’t understand.  But being in the moment and having it, my mind just forgot how to throw and felt like I couldn’t do it.  Hard to describe it, you just can’t do something, Your brain and body are just in 2 different wave lengths.  The whole idea of being relaxed came from last week’s session, which was major.  I learned through the Brainspotting session with “YIPs”, how to create a spot to look at, an aim. And before, I didn’t have an aim.  And now I haves a sense of where I am throwing, to focus on it, and mechanically it helped.  With my hitting, I am staying calm/relaxed and not getting upset.  And if I don’t hit one, then I can hit another one and shake it off.  I have a better mindset, improving my confidence, having fun in the field now.  Not worrying about results, I just go and have fun and not take it seriously.

WOW, that was huge.  I don’t even understand how this works, I have always been afraid to talk about stuff and feel like I was going to be swallowed up whole, not wanting to go there ever again and this was not like that.  I didn’t feel anything negative.  That is pretty freakin amazing that I would have never turned that experience into a positive.  I went through this with my sponsor and it was a different outcome.  This is so amazing and just took things to a whole other level that I couldn’t have even imaged was possible.

Another Session: 

WOW, that was really interesting, part of me feels like I have kind of forgotten that part of me that went through all of that.  WOW, that is crazy.  I felt like the whole scenario first was very, very dark.  And now, I see a lot of light, like a light was turned on, and it is so much clearer.  I have only scratched the surface.  I feel like I was treading in the water and now I am able to swim, the struggle is gone, taking the steps necessary even if backwards, I can do that, I don’t feel like I am fighting anymore.  I have resolved a lot of childhood issues, have made so much progress in one year which I don’t think would have been possible without Brainpsotting.  I am happy and in a peaceful place now.  I am on solid ground, stable, secure, I feel like I am in a good place now.  If it wasn’t for Brainspotting, I wouldn’t be in this position.

Brainspotting was really good, felt so much relief the rest of the week after Brainspotting last time, in good spirits.  I am just getting to the meat of things and why I keep avoiding things.  Brainspotting has made me see things with much more clarity.  I could see what it was that was upsetting about the issues I was speaking about, getting at the substance.  I now see my eyes shifting when I am in a group of people and when speaking.  I find myself blinking a lot when it is something very meaningful because I know there is truth in it.   When I blink, I need to look at it and explore it more, and I am much more cognizant when I share more in the AA meetings and never used to share.