HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY RESOLUTION® (HMR)

A DEFINITION/DESCRIPTION

Holographic Memory Resolution® is a new mind-body therapy that is effective in helping to resolve the emotional charge of negatively stored memory, whether that memory is generating stress or trauma. HMR holds the potential to address either physical or emotional pain, as long as it is memory-based. This new modality reflects the fusion of "Somatic Psychology" (Body-Centered) with "Energy Psychology." HMR is particularly empowering because it involves teaching the traumatized individual how to send a corrective signal from the conscious (present-time: 7%) mind to the subconscious (93%) mind to establish safety.  Based on the discovery that the quantum mind always pauses perception at the millisecond prior to overwhelm, the re-live or abreactive component of traditional therapy is eliminated. As seen in the definition of trauma provided earlier on this site, trauma induces an altered state of consciousness -- a "trance" that holds a protective intentionality and a physiology of its own. In traditional psychology, this is referred to as "state-bound memory." Research in these past decades indicates that the brain does not distinguish between the original event and the memory of an event. This means that the "trance" of trauma is perceived as reality when it is triggered, resurrecting the original physiology. In HMR we learn to transmit the personal signal for safety that was missing at the original moment of encoding. HMR, therefore, is an "emotional reframing" technique that impacts the emotional frame or "charge" around the stored image. Usually employing our earliest language: color, HMR permits the individual to send his/her own unique corrective signal to "prove" that safety has been established. Founded upon the new understanding that all memory is stored in a hologram-like manner, that each fragment of a hologram can access the whole, we are able to transmit profound emotional corrections to the bodymind using a single memory fragment. This holographic key forms the foundation for many effective interventions ranging from the breathwork therapies, somatic-emotional release therapies, meridian tapping techniques, etc. We discovered in art therapy, that a child moving a fragment of the "corrected" trauma scene through his/her body, will calm down immediately.

HMR utilizes a body-centered, client-centered language that mirrors and facilitates dialogue between the conscious and subconscious minds. The brain is the "processor" of our memories, while the "hard drive" is the entire body, with approximately 1000 neurons per square inch. At a moment of physical or emotional overwhelm, the bodymind seizes upon a fragment of the three-dimensional trauma scene and contains the whole event and its pain by reducing it to an icon or "holographic metaphor." This holographic fragment is stored at the primary site of encoding and can be accessed with a simple focusing technique. HMR employs a highly efficient focusing process along with a color reframing component. Since nature abhors a vacuum, the complete resolution of a traumatic event frequently requires a precise signal to complete the dense, unfinished content of memory.

The resolution of memory is also facilitated with an application of energy near cervical vertebra 7 (C-7), which enhances all sensory access to memory. While this limited tactile contact component is optional, even those who normally cannot visualize can usually do so with this additional support. Our capacity to visualize internally is also a gauge of our emotional safety while growing up. Color is emotion to the subconscious mind. Each individual's color perception is unique to his/her super-computer; this is why another cannot usually resolve or heal your memories using their own frequencies or energy. You are your own healer and parent in this lifetime. Time is only linear to the 7% rational mind, while time is "vertical" to the subconscious mind whose traumas only happened a millisecond ago. With the additional acupressure or nervous system support (energy psych.) component of HMR, the process is greatly accelerated, permitting the mapping and unwinding of complex pathologies, disorders, and syndromes.

HMR can be used to address trauma and dissociation anywhere along the three levels of the trauma continuum/spectrum. Other Level 2 and 3 verbal interventions accompany this enhanced access to "holographic space" where all healing occurs. The wisdom of HMR resides in how effectively it follows the storage and functioning of memory in the nervous system. Instead of focusing of desensitization to the trauma/moment of encoding, HMR seeks to address this moment directly, without relive and without affecting historical memory. By demonstrating our capacity to complete the unfinished emotional signal encoded at a moment of overwhelm, the bodymind discovers its power ot master its states of consciousness and, as such, its memory-based physiology. Much that is diagnosed as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, migraines, PMS, phobias, "tics," and other pathologies are found to  be memory-based and can be resolved using the correct internal dialogue for creating safety within the psyche.

Copyright © July 4, 2009 by Brent M. Baum, STB, SSL, CADC, LISAC, CCH