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Integrating the curiosity and compassionate inquiry of IFS with Brainspotting, we may get to know our wounded and protective parts a little deeper. We may get to hear and understand what their role is in our body and mind, how they came to be there, and why. We may get to hear directly from them what they need in order to heal. With the Brainspotting process however, much of this may also be happening subconsciously, in the deeper parts of the self. We leave it to and trust in the inherent movement towards healing that may be beyond our control.
 
​Sometimes the body may begin to spontaneously release and “unwind”  the myofascial (muscular and fascial) restrictions and holding patterns that have been containing and protecting past traumas, pain, dysfunctions and illness.
 
 Both practitioner and client may sense the nervous system shifting for example from a hyper-aroused state of fight/flight or hypo-aroused state of freeze/collapse into a more regulated/ neutral state. A state that feels more spacious, calm and peaceful. As this state becomes more familiar to you, the more your nervous system begins to see this as the norm around which to orient.