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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 in the deeper parts of the nervous systems. We leave it to and trust in the inherent movement towards healing that is an inherent aspect of the deep nervous system.
 
​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, sometimes the processing is quiet and still. There is no way of knowing how healing will happen, but the movement toward health and healing is always there.
 
 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 recognise this as the norm around which to orient.