Where We Look Affects How We Feel

Brainspotting is a revolutionary healing and therapy tool that greatly benefits those suffering from trauma and emotional wounds.

- Anita Vasudeva

Where we look affects how we feel," I was told when I was introduced to Brain spotting. I was immediately curious. And my mind was making the connection. When I am explaining a concept that I am still grappling with, my eyes move and then hold still about 10 inches above a person’s face. I am looking at the concept. When my nephew talks about his fear of not getting the work he wants, he looks fixedly at his hands and is then able to dig deep into his fear. A colleague told me his aunt would turn her head gently to the left and look at a dot on the wall whenever the conversation turned to violence against women. She was a survivor.

Were these brain spots? Are these fixed positions that our eyes hold on to as the brain works through a challenge, a fear, a trauma, an anxiety? If so, how does it help us to know that? How does it help to make my nephew, or my colleagues, feel better?

Chronic anxieties and deep traumas need the intervention of professionals. However, those who suffer often shy away from treatment, anticipating prolonged and expensive sessions which may last years.

A new therapy

Brainpotting (BSP), a revolutionary healing therapy, can resolve this impasse. New to India, BSP is being used by over 8,000 trained therapists across 30 countries. Professionals have been using it to successfully address and resolve trauma and many other issues. It is increasingly gaining world-wide renown as a powerful and effective method to help people. Apart from the uniqueness of its approach, the goal of BSP, its founder, Dr Grand affirms, is change; change that is rapid, immediate, deep and permanent. The basic model, he believes, is ideally two sessions – to experience, resolve and review. Of course depending on the person and the issue, the therapy takes its own time, but is far quicker than others.