BWRT® works with a unique part of the brain, which is different from other traditional therapies. BWRT® works with a part of the brain that “fires up” long before the limbic system (the emotion system) even gets started.
In fact, by the time the limbic system is involved, the physical body has already started to react, already commenced whatever action or psychological process that past experience has indicated is needed… even if that experience is out of date and no longer relevant. It’s a kind of “blind obedience.”
BWRT does it’s work in the “hind brain” though it’s sometimes called the “lizard brain” or the “reptilian brain.” It’s the oldest brain structure and it dates back some 650 million years or so to the first sentient creatures that walked the planet, our earliest ancestors. Anatomically, it’s the “brain stem” and includes the primitive part of the limbic system.