Vision Is All About Change
In the past minute alone, your eyes made as many as 240 quick movements called “saccades” (French for “jolts”). In your waking hours today, you will very likely make some 200,000 of them, give or take a few thousand. When you sleep, your eyes keep moving — though in different ways and at varying speeds, depending on the stage of sleep.
.........what may be most surprising is that large eye motions and miniature eye jolts help us see the world in similar ways — largely at the same time.
more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/opinion/sunday/vision-is-all-about-change.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
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Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change
David Grand, Ph.D.$17.95 P, 9781604078909, Sounds True
David Grand, Ph.D., takes trauma therapy to higher levels of healing with his breakthrough method in Brainspotting. In his well-written and intelligent tome, he describes how his professional practice of EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy) evolved into a “natural flow” EMDR and finally into what he has named “Brainspotting.”
If the eyes are the windows of the soul, the mindful use of light and movement passing into the eyes can trigger an opening in the client’s interior galaxy of trauma, allowing the trained therapist to skillfully hold the space, thereby allowing the release of the trapped trauma. In a matter of minutes, the client can make a quantum leap away from their traumatic emotional bondage. Pretty amazing!
Dr. Grand writes about his own professional clients anonymously to provide examples of Brainspotting healing from various traumas: emotional and physical blockage, to increase sports performance and unlock creativity. Brainspotting can also be achieved as self-healing. This book has a broad reach and is appropriate for therapists and trauma survivors alike, as well as individuals looking to shake free of a creative or performance block.
—Allyson Gracie, Wellness Specialist, Pilates & Yoga Instructor
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl G. Jung
With brinspotting we look inside while we are looking outside :-)
a wonderful article:
http://www.brainspotting.pro/files/BSP-and-Mental-Health-Recovery.pdf
Brain-based therapy is the fastest-growing area in the field of psychological health because it has proven that
it can immediately address issues that talk therapy can take years to heal. Now Dr. David Grand presents the next leap forward in psychological care-combining the strengths of brain-based and talk therapies into a powerful technique he calls Brainspotting
In Brainspotting, Dr. Grand reveals the key insight that allowed him to develop this revolutionary therapeutic tool: that where we look reveals critical information about what's going on in our brains. Join him to learn about:
. The history of Brainspotting-how it evolved from EMDR practice as a more versatile tool for brain-based therapy
. Brainspotting in action-case studies and evidence for the effectiveness of the technique
. An overview of the different aspects of Brainspotting and how to use them
. How Brainspotting can be used to treat PTSD, anxiety,depression, addiction, chronic pain, and much more
"Brainspotting lets the therapist and client participate together in the healing process," explains Dr. Grand. "It allows us to harness the brain's natural ability for self-scanning, so we can activate, locate, and process the sources of trauma and distress in the body." With Brainspotting, this pioneering researcher introduces an invaluable tool that can support virtually any form of therapeutic practice-and greatly accelerate our ability to heal.
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The following informations are from:
http://www.brainspottinginternational.org/what-is-brainspotting/
What is Brainspotting?
A “Brainspot” is the eye position which is related to the energetic/emotional activation of a traumatic or emotionally charged issue within the brain. Located by eye position, paired with externally observed and internally experienced reflexive responses, a Brainspot is actually a physiological subsystem holding emotional experience in memory form.Brainspotting ™ is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a simultaneous form of diagnosis and treatment.
Brainspotting™ functions as a neurobiological and psychological tool. It works with the deep brain and the body through its direct access to the autonomic and limbic systems. Brainspotting™ is accordingly a physiological tool/treatment which has profound psychological, emotional, and physical consequences.
Brainspotting™ stimulates, focuses and promotes deep processing, integrating, and healing activity within the brain, activating the body’s inherent capacity to heal itself from trauma. This appears to take place within the brain’s emotional centers at a reflexive and cellular level. It results in a de-conditioning of previously conditioned, maladaptive emotional, psychological, and somatic responses and patterns.
It is theorized that this rapid-acting therapy taps into and activates the body’s innate ability to process and release “traumatic capsules” which are frozen in primitive survival modes. This may also explain the ability of Brainspotting™ to often reduce and sometimes eliminate the pain, struggle, and tension associated with physical/medical conditions. The technique processes and dismantles the symptom, the underlying trauma, the somatic distress, and the dysfunctional beliefs at the reflexive core. The technique is enhanced when used in conjunction with bilateral sound CDs. Bilateral sound enhances the brain’s processing abilities by alternately stimulating each cerebral hemisphere.
Brainspotting™ is also very useful to access and develop internal resource states and experiences. These resources allow the therapist and patient, where necessary, to “pendulate” between resource or positive states and trauma states during Brainspotting™ to enable more gradual, graded processing and desensitization of intensely traumatic and emotionally charged issues and symptoms.
Brainspotting™ is most powerful and effective when done in the context of a clinical healing relationship. There is no replacement for a nurturing therapeutic presence and the ability to engage the client in a safe and trusting relationship where she/he feels heard, accepted, and understood.
Beneficial Uses of BSP
Brainspotting can be a used as safe, effective and powerful treatment tool:
Accident trauma
ADD and ADHD
Addictions (especially cravings)
Anger and rage problems
Anxiety and panic
Asthma
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic Pain Conditions
Creativity Enhancement
Emotional trauma
Environmental Illness
Fibromyalgia
Impulse control issues
Injury recovery
Medical illness (pain, stress and trauma management and expediting recovery)
Perceptual problems
Phobias
Physical trauma
PTSD
Sports Performance Enhancement
Stuttering
Surgery (preparation and recovery)
Trauma resulting from medical interventions and treatments
Trauma resulting from war
Trauma resulting from natural disasters
Trauma resulting from environmental disasters
