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Book details
  • Genre:BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
  • SubGenre:Healing / General
  • Language:English
  • Pages:223
  • eBook ISBN:9780966199079

Surviving Trauma School Earth

A Practical Guide to Emotional Survival on the Earth Plane

by Brent Baum

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Overview
In his latest book, Surviving Trauma School Earth, Brent Baum offers us powerful tools to help in facing both the greater and lesser challenges of life in “trauma school.” We have all sought, at one time or another, to grasp the underlying meaning of our most painful and overwhelming experiences. Building on his expertise as an archaeologist, Catholic priest, addictions counselor, and trauma specialist, Brent helps us to grasp the “bigger picture” that contextualizes all our pain and experience within an invitation to growth and transformation. The protective splitting of consciousness that occurs from stress and trauma invites us to explore our innate potential to master these “trances” that undermine our health, relationships, and capacity to love unconditionally. We have gravely undervalued the challenge, gift, and responsibility that comes with the capacity to pause Consciousness itself at moments of overwhelm. This innate ability to freeze perception and all of our accompanying physiological reactions holds the key to unlocking our healing potential and for safely navigating the challenges of life on earth. As we silence the voices of trauma and attend to the guidance within, we transform our pain, grief, and illness into empowerment and spiritual awakening. After working with over twenty thousand trauma survivors, Brent developed certain meditations, exercises, and emotional reframing techniques to enhance recovery and reduce the impact of stress and trauma in our daily lives. Although trauma forms the backdrop for our personal and collective awakening, its profound impact on the bodymind necessitates greater self-care and the routine “reframing” of our physical and emotional pain. As we learn to clear these blockages, our potential, purpose, and gifts are revealed – offering safety and the innate guidance needed to navigate the challenging paths of the “earth school.” Moving from a “survive” to “thrive” mentality is the focus of this work.
Description
In his latest book, Surviving Trauma School Earth, Brent Baum shares specific techniques and discoveries that can assist us on our sojourn through “trauma school.” After a minimum of 1.9 million years of traumatic imprinting in our collective history, it is no wonder that our entry into the earth school comes with accompanying baggage. While many of us feel fortunate to have avoided the extremes of trauma, many of us fail to realize that we imprint trauma from observing the pain of those we love, from subconsciously responding to our “birth order” and the accompanying expectations, from pausing consciousness itself at moments of stress or overwhelm. We have discovered that the bodymind stores far more data and information than we dreamed possible. Through SPECT scans of the brain, we now understand that the bodymind cannot distinguish between the “original” event and the memory of the stored experience is still “fully charged.” And in the triggering of our unresolved memories, we, once again, activate our fight-flight-freeze response, causing our adrenals to rise and our T-Cells (Thymus cell) production (immune system) to decrease. In addition, scientists now believe that we move in and out of memory or “trance” fifteen to fifty times an hour. In an age where “mindfulness” is the key to health: we have discovered a “glitch.” The single greatest contributor to ageing, relational discord, compromise to our immune systems, inability to concentrate or achieve our goals, is the fact that we shift in and out of our old stress and trauma-based emotional states and physiologies fifteen to fifty times an hour. The stress on our physiology, as a result, is immense. In addition, the old models which sought to help us resolve these trance states fail to effectively address the subconscious mind where such imprints are stored. After working with over twenty thousand trauma survivors, Brent developed certain meditations, exercises, and emotional reframing approaches which employ “primary language” to speak to both the cells and meridians of the bodymind. In this work he shares discoveries involving the wisdom of the bodymind and its ability to spontaneously map the path to clearing subconscious blockages. In addition, our growing understanding of the mechanisms of trauma induction reveal the profound impact of trauma on all aspects of decision-making. Through a new “integrative consciousness model,” Brent reveals how all experiences have meaning and purpose when viewed from the “four” levels of willpower that have emerged from the study of trauma. These four levels of “intentionality” impact all of our decision-making and derive from spiritual, familial, cultural, and personal influences. Ultimately we discover that there is meaning and value in all of the experiences of the “earth school,” and that trauma forms the backdrop for our personal and collective awakening as a species. Its profound impact on the bodymind necessitates enhanced self-care and the routine “reframing” of our physical and emotional pain. Our increasing media exposure to overwhelming emotional and sensory experience demand that we learn to utilize the resources we have available to find and abide in that still, quiet place within where true safety is found. As we learn to clear these blockages, our innate potential, purpose, and gifts are revealed – offering the wisdom and guidance needed to navigate the challenging paths of the “earth school.” This work was written to reduce the tremendous loss of power and focus (intentionality) that comes with the fragmentation of consciousness and to allow our inner wisdom to emerge. Moving from a “survive” to “thrive” mentality is the focus of this work.
About the author
Brent M. Baum, STB, SSL, CADC, LISAC, CCH is an interdisciplinary specialist in spirituality, trauma, and addictions. He has served as a Catholic priest, an archaeologist in the Near East, a professor at Notre Dame Seminary, and as Clinical Director of Cottonwood Treatment Centers in New Mexico and Arizona. Brent completed his post-graduate training in theology at the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy and the Pontifical Biblical Institutes in Rome and Jerusalem. His sub-specialization in archaeology led to his active involvement in excavation in Southern Israel from 1979-1992. Brent’s pastoral counseling training evolved into strategies for relapse prevention, focusing on the treatment of addictions. His development of “Holographic Memory Resolution®” drew the attention of leading addictionologists and relapse prevention specialists and led to further involvement in the field of addictions treatment. His innovative approach was developed initially as an effort to address his clients’ abuse of and excessive dependency upon medications, particularly those that are routinely used to treat memory-based pain and anxiety. His techniques led to his involvement with the rescue personnel and survivors of the Oklahoma City Bombing and September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He was asked to present his work to the Human Resources department of TWA upon the crash of Flight 800 in New York and has trained therapists involved with many of the traumatic events of the last two decades. Brent is a Licensed Substance Abuse Counselor and a Clinical Hypnotherapist. He is the author of: “The Healing Dimensions: Resolving Trauma in Body, Mind and Spirit,” “Living as Light: The Awakening of Mystical Consciousness,” and “Surviving Trauma School Earth: A Practical Guide to Emotional Survival on the Earth Plane” (2013). Brent is also the developer of Holographic Memory Resolution®, an “emotional reframing” technique that helps to resolve the emotional and physical pain states attached to stress, trauma, and any form of memory or event-based pathology. He has worked with over twenty thousand trauma survivors and, due to his innovations in the treatment of trauma, was offered the position as clinical director of Cottonwood Treatment Center in Los Lunas, New Mexico in 1993. Upon merging with the Tucson facility in 1994 he became co-clinical director and coordinator of the trauma program and remained there until he was invited to bring his work to “Miraval” in Northwest Tucson in 2000. While at Cottonwood, his work led to affiliation with the Integrative Medicine Program of Dr. Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona, which continued with Dr. Weil’s Integrative Wellness Program at Miraval. HMR is a gentle, emotional reframing process that combines Somatic, Energy, and Color psychologies. This gentle non-abreactive (not re-living the event) approach empowers individuals to establish “proof of safety” in the bodymind at the point where the psyche stored pain and tension at the moment(s) of overwhelm. The pain which creates such “state-dependent” memory can be physical or emotional in origin, but can often be diminished or resolved by addressing the imprinting in both the cells and meridians of the bodymind. His discovery of a memory-access point at Cervical Vertebra-7 (C-7) and use of the primary language of color enable the complex mapping and address of many forms of memory-based pathology. Much that we label “migraine” or “chronic pain” finds its origin in memory and can be addressed by speaking effectively to the ninety-five percent subconscious mind which holds the memory intact. Psychologists, social workers, nurse practitioners, physicians, psychiatrists, neurologists, addictions counselors, chiropractors and acupuncturists, professional counselors, marriage and family therapist and educators have integrated HMR into their practices. The hallmark of HMR is the empowerment of the client’s own “Healer Within.”