What is Holographic Memory Resolution ®?
Holographic Memory Resolution ® is a non-traumatizing body-mind technique which allows expedient access to past memories and complete resolution of the painful emotions associated with these events without having to relive such experiences and without affecting historical memory. HMR employs both a verbal component and a simple electromagnetic field technique which enhances visualization while fostering safety.

What is meant by "encoding?"
Encoding is the process of locking a "negative" or incomplete emotional charge in the cells and fields of our bodies at the moment of a trauma. Painful experiences in our lives precipitate an "encoding" of the overwhelming feelings, resulting in the storage of trauma. In a single milli-second of time, all the elements of the event are captured: all of the sensory data, feelings, and perceptions of the overwhelming experience. We hypnotized ourselves at the time we were overwhelmed; HMR de-hypnotizes and releases that trance state.

How can HMR help me?
Trauma precipitates a spontaneous state of self-hypnosis that binds us to the emotional pain of an event. Since most of our emotional and physical pain is memory based, HMR can help to release those charges and as a result, the pain goes away. Clients have now "demonstrated" the origin of certain diseases in memory, and, in resolving the memories, have resolved the symptoms that were so readily labeled illness. In the case of purely physical conditions (those not memory-based), HMR will not have any effect on lessening pain or trauma.

How long does it take to see results?
Generally the effects are immediate. Once the emotional charge has been released from the memory, any thought about the memory will be emotionally neutral.

What kinds of issues work well with HMR?
Essentially any physical or emotional discomfort that is memory based—that is to say, any event triggered in present time that resurrects the emotional state of a past event. Physical conditions as well as everyday occurrences such as smoking, weight gain (food is our earliest and easiest form of medication), PMS, grief, sadness, fears —anything that keeps you from being all you can be.

Why don't I have to relive the experience in order to heal it?
The mind actually freezes a millisecond prior to the traumatic event; it’s a protective act. The technique brings the unconscious mind to the conscious state in order to heal the trauma. Previously it was thought that we had to re-experience the whole event in order to "move beyond it." Scientific research has proven that it takes only a millisecond to store the memory. Releasing the charge shouldn’t last any longer. HMR actually does that, although it may take a little time to talk through the experience —but minutes, instead of hours, days or weeks.

With individuals who have physical conditions associated with an addiction, what can HMR do for them?
HMR doesn’t take away the need for practicing a 12 step program or recovery program, or medical therapy to detoxify the body. The first stage of an addiction is not physiological; the first stage of an addiction is psychological. The Journal of the American Medical Association has reported that people who smoke have had a much higher incidence of abuse in their histories. We have learned to be a society of addicts. We have learned to medicate our nervous system because we didn’t know how to address our pain. We now have a process to access and release that pain.

What makes HMR unique?
The empowering of the client makes HMR unique. David Cheek said that no healing ever occurs without the consent of the inner mind. The HMR facilitator fosters feelings of safety needed for the client’s system to consent for healing to take place. It would have been nice to have received only love in our lives —the combination of all colors or white light. All trauma scenes have an absence of light, an absence of love. All trauma scenes are dark in color, especially red or black. Children automatically pick red and black crayons when asked to draw their feelings. HMR has the client revisualize the scene to a positive experience and frame the corrected image in color. The colors around the corrected image in fact are the emotions, or frequencies that were missing from the initial encoding. When the color is passed through the system, it unlocks the trance state. The pain leaves, the energy is discharged and the nervous system converts back to white light. The expert healer about anything in your life is you. You alone know everything that needs to be done: your subconscious and superconscious know how many traumas you have, in which order to heal them, which ones to access, the solutions and colors for the reframing —the color frequencies you are missing, and when to tell the facilitator to stop when you are tired. The facilitator, using HMR, turns up the light on the memory —acting like a dimmer switch. Once the lighting device is turned up, it becomes easier to see the things that need to heal.

Who developed this technique?
Brent Baum developed Holographic Memory Resolution ® on the principles of Quantum Physics. He employed his highly developed intuitive abilities to locate the trauma sites within the nervous system and electromagnetic fields of clients seeking release from emotional and physical imprints of trauma. Understanding the human body to be a system of coordinated energy patterns that are in continual motion, Mr Baum views disease as resulting from inhibitions in the flow of that energy. Currently, he maintains a private practice in Tucson, Arizona and conducts HMR training around the world.

Where can I get more information about HMR?
Additional information is available on the Internet at www.healingdimensions.com, Brent Baum's web site. It includes names and contact information on practitioners located throughout the United States as well as newly published material on Holographic Memory Resolution ®. Holographic Memory Resolution is a registered trademark of Brent Baum of Healing Dimensions ACC.

How can I talk more about HMR?
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