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Therapist Frame Set-Up Before Expansion Brainspotting
The pre-session interview: bring the desired state alive in the client's body before finding any brainspot.
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Get the client talking about their desired state
"What do you want the most out of all of this?" Or the miracle question: "If you could wave a magic wand, what do you wish could happen as a result of this session?"
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Define how they will know they have expanded enough
"How will we know if you have expanded into this desired goal enough to feel you have achieved what you want?" Get specific.
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Find the internal resource
"What do you have inside of you that will give you the highest possibility of connecting to this state?" (use their words). Was it experienced strongly in the past, or witnessed in someone? "What do you want to be known for at the end of your life?"
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Get the core feeling words
"What are the core words that describe the emotions you feel in that state of being you want to live in more frequently?" Always get the core feeling state (confident, peaceful, hopeful, joyful, relaxed). Bring out feelings more than the picture (more subcortical).
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Ask the what, when, and how questions
"What is a memory when you have felt this most strongly? When else have you felt those feelings? When did you stop living in this state of being? What do you feel, smell, taste, hear and see? How do you think we should set this up to give you the highest possibility of success?"
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Locate the expansion in the body
"Where do you feel the positive expansion possibility strongest in your body?" If it is weak, get them talking more about it with the questions above.
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Check in and find the Expansion Brainspot
"Right now, how strongly do you feel ________ (client's words), 0 to Infinity?" Then find the Expansion Brainspot or Brainspots.
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How to Find Expansion Spots
The short form: from desired goal to expansion spot in six moves.
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What is the most important thing you would like to expand into?
A better performance, a different feeling state, courage to go for your deepest dreams, feeling self-confident.
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What do you have inside of you that gives you the highest possibility of achieving your desire or goal?
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Take time to really feel that part strongly
Let the client sit with the highest possibility until it is vivid.
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Where in your body do you feel that?
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How strong is it?
Expansion is measured 0 to Infinity, not 0 to 10.
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Find the expansion spot with Inside Window
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Expansion Brainspotting Frame Set-Up
The full frame set-up for expanding into a desired state, belief, or way of being.
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Find the greatest Expansion Possibility
Explore the issue and collaboratively find the possibility the client believes will be most effective in reaching their desired goal. Help activate the expansion.
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Locate the expansion in the body
Explore where the experience of expansion is felt most strongly in the client's body.
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Measure its strength (0 to Infinity)
Have the client strengthen the felt sense in their body if needed, or switch to a stronger possibility.
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Find the Expansion Brainspot
The spot that correlates to the expansion body sensation, found with Inside Window.
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Check back in on the strength of the expansion
0 to Infinity, halfway to Infinity, and so on.
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Double Spotting Frame Set-Up Activated and Expansion Brainspots
Pairs a bookmarked Activation Spot with an Expansion Spot, letting the client pendulate between the two.
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Determine the activated issue the client wants to work on
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Find the location of body activation
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Find the Inside Window Activation Spot
Bookmark the spot to remember for later.
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Guide the client to go within to find the highest possibility in resolving their issue
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Find where the expansion possibility is held in their body
Measured 0 to Infinity.
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Find the Expansion Brainspot and bookmark it
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Pendulate between the Activated and Expansion spots
The client moves between the two using their own instincts.
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If no expansion spot presents itself, process on the Activated Brainspot
An expansion spot may emerge later. We must have no agenda.
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Performance Expansion Frame Set-Up
The Expansion frame set-up applied to a performance goal of any kind: athletic, creative, or personal.
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Find the best Expansion Possibility for the performance goal
Explore the client's performance goal and collaboratively find the possibility they believe will be most effective in reaching it.
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Locate the expansion in the body
Explore where the experience of expansion is felt most strongly in the client's body.
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Measure its strength (0 to Infinity)
Have the client strengthen the felt sense if needed, or switch to a stronger expansion possibility.
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Find the Expansion Brainspot
The spot that correlates to the expansion body sensation, found with Inside Window.
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Check back in on the expansion and the goal
How strong is the desired expansion, and how strongly do they believe they can accomplish their performance goal? (0 to Infinity, halfway to Infinity, and so on.)
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