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HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY RESOLUTION (HMR)™
DESCRIPTION AND SUMMARY
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General Overview: Holographic Memory
Resolution is a new body-mind technique which allows expedient access to past
memories and complete resolution of the painful emotions associated with these
events without having to "re-live" such experiences and without
affecting historical memory. This technique is profoundly empowering to the
survivor who becomes his/her own "healer." H.M.R. employs both a
verbal component and a simple nervous system support technique which enhances
visualization and sensory access to memory while fostering safety. This
"client-centered" process facilitates the resolution of "somatic
(body) memory," thereby disarming the "triggers" that foster
physical pain, flashback, disease and relapse. By resolving these distortions in
the cells and fields of our bodies, we can improve our immune system functioning
and heal many of our "diseases," the majority of which find their
origins in our trauma memories. H.M.R. is an “emotional reframing”
technique which allows reprogramming of the affect (feeling content) of memory
while enhancing visual/sensory access and avoiding full re-live. Individuals who
normally cannot visualize, be hypnotized, or access memory, generally find this
process simple and effective. This technique is profoundly time-efficient and
provides resolution and empowerment for the client whose body-mind has held this
pain intact since the moment of its encoding in the nervous system. Such
traumatic experiences form the foundation of our addictions, depression,
diseases, and many chronic pain syndromes, as well as many other
"disorders." Holographic Memory Resolution teaches the client how to
heal him/herself, resolving the emotions which anchored the experience in the
past, and enables the client to return the focus of life to living fully
empowered in the present. Certification in HMR is offered in three levels of
training (See website information at www.healingdimensions.com).
Context: Painful experiences in our
lives precipitate an "encoding" of the overwhelming feelings,
resulting in the storage of "trauma." This takes place in a single
mili-second of time, capturing all of the sensory data, feelings, and
perceptions of the overwhelming experience. This encoding process is
subconscious and automatic. Since the 1970's and the work of Milton Erickson, we
have known that trauma precipitates a spontaneous state of self-hypnosis that
binds us to the emotional pain of the event. From the moment of induction
forward, we need only to tap into such holographic (the exact term for such
memory encoded in the physiology of the body is “holonomic” – the term
coined by Karl Pribram) encodings to trigger and resurrect the original
feelings. Such feelings, once encoded, often become primary and supplant our
efforts to remain in a calm and peaceful state of mind. In other words,
overwhelming emotional experiences induce a natural hypnotic state as a way of
trying to contain our pain and foster survival. These trance states form the
basis of most "disease" and pain in the bodymind. We tap into many
such trance states in a single day, given the holographic nature of our memory.
(See: Trances People Live, by Stephen Wolinsky, Ph.D.) In physics, every
fragment of a hologram contains the whole image. (See: The Holographic
Universe, by Michael Talbot and related articles on the web site).
Similarly, each fragment of our encoded traumas contains a link to the original
trance with its powerful feeling content and can resurrect the original pain
within milliseconds.
Methods: HMR functions by simply
releasing the “negative” or incomplete emotional charge that was locked into
the scene, the nerve centers and fields of our bodies, at the moment of the
trauma's encoding. There is no need to relive all the scenes of a traumatic
event in order to release it. We do not encode them all equally -- simply the
"primary" moment of encoding: referred to in professional circles as
"T-1" (cf. text references in The Healing Dimensions by Brent
Baum). HMR is what is now referred to as “body-centered” and
“client-centered” psychotherapy; it utilizes a verbal technique which helps
the individual to focus on the area of the body where the primary encoding took
place -- the nerve center(s) where the body attempted to first contain the pain.
Upon focusing at this site, the holographic nature of our memories allows us,
via this fragment of memory, to return to the original scene of encoding. We do
not need to be hypnotized, since the trauma already accomplished this for us
through our Limbic-Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal System. Since a trauma is a
self-hypnotic state (Erickson), we do not need to be hypnotized, but, instead,
de-hypnotized. HMR helps to accomplish this in two ways:
First: HMR's verbal technique provides a
gentle method of focusing on the memory fragment, just long enough to access the
scene of encoding. Once accessed, the scene is re-visualized with the necessary
corrections. We move, therefore, from a negative encoding (T-1) to a post-trauma
(T+1) image. Once we have the perfect image of the “anti-trauma,” we send
this corrected image through the nervous system by means of frequency. Though
this is normally achieved through color, kinesthetic or auditory channels can
also be employed. For most individuals, however, the color channel is readily
accessed. Within the “physics of emotion,” such feelings can be measured or
interpreted as frequencies -- the highest – love, is depicted by the
combination of all colors: white light. When we encode a painful experience, we
freeze our perceptions to stop the pain. Amid the encoding, something is
obviously missing: certain emotional frequencies that communicate safety are
obviously deficient. At the moment of “freezing,” we stored affect that was,
shall we say, “less than white light” -- to say the least. Hence, once the
scene is re-visualized positively, we ask for the “missing frequencies” by
asking for the color(s) of the frame around the corrected scene. It really is
simple: We would like to have received only love or “white light” in the
diverse moments of our lives; when we did not receive this at a critical moment,
the automatic (autonomic) subconscious system of protection became active in
order to protect us. The insertion of the missing colors (frequencies) act as a
password to “unlock” the original trance state and allow the release of the
original emotional content. These color frequencies, when moved through the
nerve centers and fields of the body serve to update the nervous system and the
subconscious mind. These frequencies, bearing the seal of authority of the
survivor him/herself, are recognized by the system and “complete” the
original encoding sequence: that is, the addition of the missing frequencies
completes the emotional frame or spectral signature which was, until that moment
in space and time, incomplete. As soon as this process is accomplished, there is
a notable relaxation in the nerve centers of the body, a discharge of encoded
energy from the cells and fields of the body, often accompanied by tingling in
the hands and the feet. Upon completion of this “reprogramming” of the
nervous system, the original memory can be recalled without triggering the
original (incomplete) affective charge; instead, the individual will only
experience the “reframed” content, which carries a message of balance or
completion. The true indicator of the release of the original trance state is
that the individual no longer holds any emotional attachment to the original
scene. Once we know and experience ourselves as whole, we no longer bear
attachments to the past.
Second: An additional technique is typically
employed with HMR – a nervous system support technique that enhances safety
and facilitates access to stored memory. Since we all carry a surplus of
electromagnetic energy in our hands, we can learn to use a simple tactile
application of this surplus energy to facilitate emotional healing and the
release of the negative charges of encoded traumas. Anyone can do this. The
dorsal horn of the spine carries all neuro-transmissions relating to pain.
Access to the dorsal horn of the spine is easiest around a point near Cervical
Vertebra 7 (C-7). The client’s own pain will usually cue the facilitator as to
the correct placement of the hand. By placing one hand over the dorsal access
point, supplementing the client’s neu
HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY RESOLUTION (HMR)™
DESCRIPTION AND SUMMARY
General Overview: Holographic Memory
Resolution is a new body-mind technique which allows expedient access to past
memories and complete resolution of the painful emotions associated with these
events without having to "re-live" such experiences and without
affecting historical memory. This technique is profoundly empowering to the
survivor who becomes his/her own "healer." H.M.R. employs both a
verbal component and a simple nervous system support technique which enhances
visualization and sensory access to memory while fostering safety. This
"client-centered" process facilitates the resolution of "somatic
(body) memory," thereby disarming the "triggers" that foster
physical pain, flashback, disease and relapse. By resolving these distortions in
the cells and fields of our bodies, we can improve our immune system functioning
and heal many of our "diseases," the majority of which find their
origins in our trauma memories. H.M.R. is an “emotional reframing”
technique which allows reprogramming of the affect (feeling content) of memory
while enhancing visual/sensory access and avoiding full re-live. Individuals who
normally cannot visualize, be hypnotized, or access memory, generally find this
process simple and effective. This technique is profoundly time-efficient and
provides resolution and empowerment for the client whose body-mind has held this
pain intact since the moment of its encoding in the nervous system. Such
traumatic experiences form the foundation of our addictions, depression,
diseases, and many chronic pain syndromes, as well as many other
"disorders." Holographic Memory Resolution teaches the client how to
heal him/herself, resolving the emotions which anchored the experience in the
past, and enables the client to return the focus of life to living fully
empowered in the present. Certification in HMR is offered in three levels of
training (See website information).
Context: Painful experiences in our
lives precipitate an "encoding" of the overwhelming feelings,
resulting in the storage of "trauma." This takes place in a single
mili-second of time, capturing all of the sensory data, feelings, and
perceptions of the overwhelming experience. This encoding process is
subconscious and automatic. Since the 1970's and the work of Milton Erickson, we
have known that trauma precipitates a spontaneous state of self-hypnosis that
binds us to the emotional pain of the event. From the moment of induction
forward, we need only to tap into such holographic (the exact term for such
memory encoded in the physiology of the body is “holonomic” – the term
coined by Karl Pribram) encodings to trigger and resurrect the original
feelings. Such feelings, once encoded, often become primary and supplant our
efforts to remain in a calm and peaceful state of mind. In other words,
overwhelming emotional experiences induce a natural hypnotic state as a way of
trying to contain our pain and foster survival. These trance states form the
basis of most "disease" and pain in the bodymind. We tap into many
such trance states in a single day, given the holographic nature of our memory.
(See: Trances People Live, by Stephen Wolinsky, Ph.D.) In physics, every
fragment of a hologram contains the whole image. (See: The Holographic
Universe, by Michael Talbot and related articles on the web site).
Similarly, each fragment of our encoded traumas contains a link to the original
trance with its powerful feeling content and can resurrect the original pain
within milliseconds.
Methods: HMR functions by simply
releasing the “negative” or incomplete emotional charge that was locked into
the scene, the nerve centers and fields of our bodies, at the moment of the
trauma's encoding. There is no need to relive all the scenes of a traumatic
event in order to release it. We do not encode them all equally -- simply the
"primary" moment of encoding: referred to in professional circles as
"T-1" (cf. text references in The Healing Dimensions by Brent
Baum). HMR is what is now referred to as “body-centered” and
“client-centered” psychotherapy; it utilizes a verbal technique which helps
the individual to focus on the area of the body where the primary encoding took
place -- the nerve center(s) where the body attempted to first contain the pain.
Upon focusing at this site, the holographic nature of our memories allows us,
via this fragment of memory, to return to the original scene of encoding. We do
not need to be hypnotized, since the trauma already accomplished this for us
through our Limbic-Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal System. Since a trauma is a
self-hypnotic state (Erickson), we do not need to be hypnotized, but, instead,
de-hypnotized. HMR helps to accomplish this in two ways:
First: HMR's verbal technique provides a
gentle method of focusing on the memory fragment, just long enough to access the
scene of encoding. Once accessed, the scene is re-visualized with the necessary
corrections. We move, therefore, from a negative encoding (T-1) to a post-trauma
(T+1) image. Once we have the perfect image of the “anti-trauma,” we send
this corrected image through the nervous system by means of frequency. Though
this is normally achieved through color, kinesthetic or auditory channels can
also be employed. For most individuals, however, the color channel is readily
accessed. Within the “physics of emotion,” such feelings can be measured or
interpreted as frequencies -- the highest – love, is depicted by the
combination of all colors: white light. When we encode a painful experience, we
freeze our perceptions to stop the pain. Amid the encoding, something is
obviously missing: certain emotional frequencies that communicate safety are
obviously deficient. At the moment of “freezing,” we stored affect that was,
shall we say, “less than white light” -- to say the least. Hence, once the
scene is re-visualized positively, we ask for the “missing frequencies” by
asking for the color(s) of the frame around the corrected scene. It really is
simple: We would like to have received only love or “white light” in the
diverse moments of our lives; when we did not receive this at a critical moment,
the automatic (autonomic) subconscious system of protection became active in
order to protect us. The insertion of the missing colors (frequencies) act as a
password to “unlock” the original trance state and allow the release of the
original emotional content. These color frequencies, when moved through the
nerve centers and fields of the body serve to update the nervous system and the
subconscious mind. These frequencies, bearing the seal of authority of the
survivor him/herself, are recognized by the system and “complete” the
original encoding sequence: that is, the addition of the missing frequencies
completes the emotional frame or spectral signature which was, until that moment
in space and time, incomplete. As soon as this process is accomplished, there is
a notable relaxation in the nerve centers of the body, a discharge of encoded
energy from the cells and fields of the body, often accompanied by tingling in
the hands and the feet. Upon completion of this “reprogramming” of the
nervous system, the original memory can be recalled without triggering the
original (incomplete) affective charge; instead, the individual will only
experience the “reframed” content, which carries a message of balance or
completion. The true indicator of the release of the original trance state is
that the individual no longer holds any emotional attachment to the original
scene. Once we know and experience ourselves as whole, we no longer bear
attachments to the past.
Second: An additional technique is typically
employed with HMR – a nervous system support technique that enhances safety
and facilitates access to stored memory. Since we all carry a surplus of
electromagnetic energy in our hands, we can learn to use a simple tactile
application of this surplus energy to facilitate emotional healing and the
release of the negative charges of encoded traumas. Anyone can do this. The
dorsal horn of the spine carries all neuro-transmissions relating to pain.
Access to the dorsal horn of the spine is easiest around a point near Cervical
Vertebra 7 (C-7). The client’s own pain will usually cue the facilitator as to
the correct placement of the hand. By placing one hand over the dorsal access
point, supplementing the client’s neuro-transmissions with the facilitator’s
limited tactile support, the client will discover that access to encoded memory
becomes much easier. The second hand of the facilitator is placed over the
primary nerve center in the front of the body that was the principal site of the
stress or trauma encoding. The sensation (pain) frequently equalizes in both of
the facilitator’s hands when they are positioned correctly. When such energy
is passed through the body of the client at these two points, the natural
holographic projection system of the client is “enhanced,” allowing the
client to access, change, and release the original trance state. Since this
energy state seems to induce an Alpha-Theta brainwave state (often involving
noticeable Rapid Eye Movement -REM), the client remains in a relaxed, almost
dream-like state while remaining fully conscious. This permits the adult,
survivor self to observe the event from a safe emotional space and to act on its
own behalf as his/her own healer. The facilitator is simply that -- a
facilitator allowing the trauma survivor to better utilize his/her own internal
resources more expertly. By “turning up” the light in the traumatized
(dimmed) portions of the bodymind, memory fragments become more visible, more
accessible. The hands of the facilitator can learn to instantly feel and confirm
the moment of release from the nerve centers and fields of the body.
When the verbal and nervous system support techniques are employed in conjunction with each other, HMR provides a symbiotic link with the client, allowing for the expedient reframing of the emotional content of memory without having to go into a deeper hypnotic trance which could result in re-live and retraumatization. A safe “observer” stance is achieved and maintained that eliminates abreaction and retraumatization. There is no need to relive traumatic memories. The fact remains that our systems were able to encode the traumatic experience within a millisecond of time. It is inconsistent to believe that our systems require a prolonged, protracted period of time to release what was encoded in an instant. By using the holographic nature of the bodymind, HMR enables the client to send a corrective holographic signal (usually color) to the subconscious mind, thereby updating the protective program that is holding the memory fragment and demonstrating its own capacity to create safety. HMR is teaching us that we are equally capable of as efficient a release of the pain of memory as we are of its expedient encoding. The fact remains that many survivors have experienced “therapeutic trauma” from either the impression that recovery requires a long-protracted period to release a traumatic experience, or that such an experience can never fully be released. Ridiculous! The very dynamics of a trauma's encoding indicate that we are capable of both efficient encoding and release. Were it otherwise, we would end up spending the remainder of our lives attempting to release the numerous traumatic and overwhelming memories that we have already encoded. It is not our nature, design, or our destiny to spend our lives reliving our past.
Having utilized HMR with over 11,000 survivors of trauma (as are we all), there is now hope beyond our imagining. The pain of our lives can become opportunity to restore the power lost in a millisecond of time. We need no longer dwell in the (subconscious) past, but can come to live fully in the present, manifesting the power, goals, potential for which we are intended. We are here to learn to be more than simply pain-free. The pain of our lives becomes the occasion for spiritual enlightenment. HMR facilitates becoming reacquainted with our power as creators, releasing us from the victim hood of the subconscious, and bringing us closer to conscious manifestation. With the resolution of our subconscious blockages, access the unlimited potential of the superconcious mind becomes possible. Enjoy the journey.
Brent M. Baum, STB, SSL, ICADC, CCH.
Updated in February, 2005.
Brent
M. Baum, STB, SSL, ICADC, CCH June 15, 1999
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