The Healing Dimensions

In his first book, The Healing Dimensions, Brent reveals his discovery of the principles of “Holographic Memory Resolution®” — a breakthrough in the “emotional reframing” of stress and trauma, which led to his involvement with Oklahoma City Bombing rescue personnel and survivors, as well as the staff of TWA Flight 800 and many other traumas of the last two decades. His success in helping to resolve memory-based pain led to his affiliation with the Integrative Wellness programs of Dr. Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona and at Miraval in Northwest Tucson, AZ. In this work, Brent focuses on his discoveries in the fields of Somatic and Energy Psychology that help to resolve the multidimensional impact of addiction, abuse, and trauma on the psyche. The first half of the book focuses on the principles and strategies that can be employed to free us from memory-based constraints of trauma, pain, abuse, and addiction. The second half of the book focuses on the spiritual impact of trauma and the internal fragmentation that results. One of the greatest breakthroughs in the fields of psychology and integrative medicine came with the discovery by David Grove, a psychologist from New Zealand, that the bodymind pauses perception protectively at the millisecond prior to overwhelm. This moment involves the pausing of feelings and physiology at the instant of overwhelm and creates “state-dependent” memory – trapping us in the pain of the past. Faced with the frustration of seeing his clients relapsing and suffering over such memory-based imprinting, Brent’s work was developed as an effort to resolve these powerful memory triggers. In this work Brent relates how trauma from family, educational, and religious systems can contribute to the induction of shame and trauma. Trauma impacts the psyche by “alienating the self from the self.” In the experience of dissociation, much energy is lost. While “guilt” for actions refers to the five percent moral, rational mind and the breach of moral principles, “shame” impacts us more profoundly by causing an actual split in consciousness, a “dissociation” that occurs on the order of being and is imprinted in the ninety-five percent subconscious mind. When there is a stand-off between the conscious and subconscious minds, the subconscious nearly always wins! Hence, the imprinting of trauma profoundly impacts our self-worth, decision-making, capacity to focus in relationships and at work, and our sense of connection to the spiritual. In his effort to resolve the memory triggers that foster pain and relapse, Brent discovered that color, as the primary language of the child used for emotional imprinting, speaks eloquently to both hemispheres of the brain and could be used to “prove safety” to the bodymind. “HMR” was developed, therefore, not to change the past, but simply to prove to the cells and fields of the bodymind that we need be no longer trapped in the images and stored physiology of the past. Our invitation, therefore, is to become mindful of the somatic cues and triggers that pull us out of “present-time” awareness where health and focus are optimized, and to reframe those experiences that are seizing control of our lives. Utilizing HMR with various addicted populations led to the shocking discovery that the majority of migraines and stress-induced pain could be diminished and, at times, resolved with the successful reframe of the original scene and any additional scenes that reinforced the imprinting. Brent travels internationally and is viewed as one of the pioneers in the Somatic and Energy Psychology fields due to his innovations in the treatment of trauma and memory-based pathologies. He believes that much that is labeled “depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and disorder” finds its origins in memory and can often be diminished or addressed with effective reframing techniques that establish safety in the bodymind. The hallmark of Brent’s work is the empowerment of the healer we hold within.