Holographic Memory Resolution® is a 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. HMR induces an Alpha-Theta brainwave state that lets the conscious mind relax - thereby preventing a re-live of the original pain while raising the subconscious mind to Theta - providing enhanced visual and sensory access to repressed imagery. HMR initiates a self-healing and self-mapping sequence in the body, that reveals the history of a problem, pattern or illness. This process is profoundly empowering to the survivor who becomes his/her own "healer."
Holographic Memory Resolution® was developed by trauma resolution specialist, teacher and author Brent Baum, STB, SSL, ICADC, CCH. His pioneering work in the field of trauma resolution has led to his involvement with the survivors and the rescue personnel of the Oklahoma City Bombing and the airline crisis team of TWA flight 800. Brent is a co-founder of Michael's Gift.
Historical Development of HMR
Holographic Memory Resolution® was developed as a relapse prevention technique for working with substance use and addicted populations to reduce the rate of relapse by helping to resolve the painful traumatic events that underlie the need to medicate. While initiated in outpatient chemical dependency centers in Baton Rouge, La., its effectiveness in the treatment of trauma drew the attention of Cottonwood Treatment Centers and led to Brent Baum’s invitation to become Clinical Director of their national trauma center in Los Lunas, New Mexico, in 1993. In January of 1994 Cottonwood merged their New Mexico facility with their location in Tucson, and Brent was invited to become co-clinical director and trauma program coordinator for the facility in Arizona. For the next seven years HMR functioned as the core of the trauma treatment program at Cottonwood de Tucson. This led to contracts with state government and municipalities to treat the survivors and rescue personnel impacted by the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995, leading to collaboration with the Human Resources Director of TWA after the crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996. His first public training of therapists began at O’Hare airport in Chicago immediately following the OK City Bombing. Many TWA employees were impacted by the loss of two entire flight crews on the Boeing 747 the following year. The effectiveness of HMR led to his involvement with Dr. Andrew Weil’s Integrative Wellness Program at the University of Arizona in Tucson. HMR became an observable alternative therapy in the Integrative Medicine Program of Dr. Weil at the University of Arizona; participating physicians were encouraged to observe his inpatient work on trauma survivors at Cottonwood de Tucson. Brent’s experience as a Catholic Priest and witnessing trauma within the religious system facilitated the treatment of abuse survivors and clergy from the Archdiocese of Portland, OR, with which Cottonwood also held a contract. He left Cottonwood in 1999 and was invited to introduce HMR at Miraval, an integrative wellness facility developed by Bill O’Donnell who had founded Sierra Tucson, a chemical dependency treatment center also in Tucson, but who wanted to expand on the mindfulness concept and had a more comprehensive vision of wellness. Brent established his own corporation, Healing Dimensions ACC, in 1999 in order to begin training more therapists in the use of HMR.
In 2000 through Dr. Mariko Tanaka, a psychology professor at San Francisco State, he was invited to begin trainings with groups in Sendia and Tokyo, Japan. This continued for several years as his trainings and workshops expanded to the UK, Panama, Canada, the Domenican Republic, and many other locations. On Sept. 11, 2001 the terrorist attacks occurred which created trauma on a global scale; some workshops were conducted in NJ and NYC following this tragedy to train therapists in HMR and some healing workshops occurred in NYC for those directly impacted by the terrorist attacks. Treatment of 9-11 survivors and rescue personnel continues to this day. The failure to capture the terrorist responsible for the attacks for over 10 years precipitated what Brent calls the “Uncaught Perpetrator Syndrome” which led to the emergence of personal and collectively repressed rage and anger. This resulted in confrontation and the exposure of hidden trauma in every major system where perpetrators had not been caught or held accountable for their abuse. Nearly all systems were brought in through the “Me Too” abuse confrontations, and Brent worked with some of the traumatized founders of this movement. Subsequently we witnessed the exposure of sexual abuse from teachers in schools, within the military, ministers and priests in the religious systems and cults, the “healing” community, leaders in the boy scouts, politicians, those in the entertainment industry and almost every major system. Effective trauma resolution techniques remained in high demand. Ten years later, on March 11, 2011 the earthquake, tsunami, nuclear leak occurred near Sendai, the largest city near the earthquake. Fortunately, Brent and Dr. Tanaka had already trained over 47 trauma therapists specifically in Sendai in the previous years, a factor that helped greatly in the treatment of this amplified trauma sequence of events.
On November 13, 2015, Brent was introducing HMR during “Grand Rounds” at Mercy Hospital in Chicago through the intervention of Dr. Lawrence Steinberg when the terrorist attacks on Paris occurred. His presence at Mercy Hospital was initiated by Dr. Steinberg who had effectively used HMR to reverse the effects of “pre-eclampsia” which resulted, Dr. Steinberg believed, from PTSD from two previous traumatic deliveries by the patient. Her blood pressure normalized after the application of HMR. There are no known documented cases of pre-eclampsia reversal as was evidenced here.
The capacity for spontaneous and immediate communication, as with cell phones, has profoundly increased access and exposure to traumatic events. The ability to transmit traumatic and graphic images and details almost instantaneously has mandated the need for effective therapies like HMR. Public knowledge and the effectiveness of this modality is now emerging with the timely publication of the clinical trials of HMR conducted during Covid 19 on 60 chronic pain subjects. Additional publications such as the article on color perception and its role in healing are now published and readily available. The goal is to have ready access to effective trauma resolution approaches in every major city in the next few years.
Having worked with over 30,000 trauma survivors over these last few decades and over 150,000 memories, Brent subsequently developed his “Memory-Mapping Software” copyrighted in 2015 that enables the recording and storage of all data surrounding an individual’s encoding and discharge of memory-based pain. It facilitates the identification and resolution of memory-based pathologies and illnesses. This shifts the psychopathology model itself by enabling the healer within to emerge and utilize his or her own brainwave frequencies to identify, map, address and resolve those memory triggers that prevent us from living fully empowered in the present moment. This technology is soon to be introduced to the medical community. Empowerment of the healer within is the hallmark of HMR.