Holographic Repatterning
Can It Change Your Life?
by Rosanne Buchanan
Reprinted from STYLE
Magazine,
Johannesburg, South Africa, April
2001
Susan,
28, could not sustain a relationship for longer than a couple
of months. The pattern was always the same. She would create
a negative situation by causing a fight and then try too hard
to fix the problem by resorting to begging. Through Holographic
Repatterning (HR), she identified the pattern and established
that it stemmed from her conception. Her parents had decided
to have a child in order to save their marriage but they got
divorced before Susan arrived. The pattern of perceived failure
was set. Susan was able to save her current relationship by
reprogramming this negative belief pattern.
Beth, 49, desperately wanted to give up smoking before her
50th birthday. She had tried everything cold turkey, nicotine
substitutes to no avail. With little hope of success, she
visited an HR practitioner, who identified the root cause
of her addiction, changed the belief that she needed nicotine
and the result was immediate: Beth simply did not want a cigarette
again.
Lindy, 37, an investment banker, hadn't closed a deal in
18 months. Through HR, she established that her attitude towards
life was that it wasn't okay if life was too easy and that
it should be a struggle. This attitude was transformed after
five sessions and Lindy was back in business.
What makes a two-year-old child, traumatised by a hijacking
ordeal that left her a very unhappy juvenile insomniac, walk
into an HR practitioner's office and wrap both herself and
her mother in coloured scarves, each representing the different
Chakras? The answer is simple: positive, permanent results.
In this case, a good night's sleep ever since. An act of unconscious
selfhealing or simply mumbo jumbo?
While the concept of HR may seem `out there' to the average
person, it's changing thousands of people's lives and, as
weird as the methodologies may seem to the non-New Age believer,
it's based on sound principles. We're all bundles of energy,
anything that has energy has a frequency, and all matter pulsates
at different frequency rates. Our thoughts, feelings, organs
and tissues all vibrate at their own unique frequency. When
these frequencies are non-coherent or out of phase, we may
find ourselves plagued by poor health, unhappy relationships,
failure, low confidence, depression and other life-depleting
responses.
HR is based on the principle of resonance, and facilitates
a shift in our frequency wave patterns so that we resonate
with what is energising and life-giving instead of negative
and life-depleting. Call it `body intelligence' or 'fuzzy.
logic', HR works on the premise that our subconscious is like
a sponge, soaking up information around us from the moment
we are conceived. This information is not rationalised, but
is stored away as is, and can be triggered at a later stage
in life. An example would be a child whose mother laments,
"You're so clumsy, you always drop things." Although
this is not the truth but rather the ranting of an exasperated
parent, the child may perceive it to be the truth and it may
become a negative pattern.
Founder Chloe Faith Wordsworth, who worked as a complementary
healer for 30 years, studied and practised different types
of healing but she found that what worked for one person did
not necessarily work for another. She synthesised her training
and experience in acupunture, polarity therapy and the ancient
Meridian-Chakra healing system, with her knowledge of psychology,
physics, holograms and sound frequencies to come up with the
concept of HR.
She compares a human being to a hologram if you shine a laser
light on a holographic plate, you have an illusion, a 3-D
image that doesn't exist. A holographic plate can accommodate
millions of images; one only has to change the angle of the
light to see a different picture. In basic terms, this is
how one can shift the focus and change one's life.
Chloe describes HR as "a method to identify and transform
non-coherent frequencies that cause us to resonate with life
depleting patterns that are preventing us from resonating
with life-enhancing patterns. Through HR, our attitudes to
life can spiral up to a higher energy or .state of coherence."
Jargon or not, we've all experienced a sense of being out
of sync with the universe, feeling out of sorts or generally
out of control of our lives. We live in a fast, sometimes
incoherent world. What makes human beings commit murder or
engage in war? The hurly-burly fast track of life and an increasingly
insular lifestyle does not allow us enough time to look after
ourselves or to ask for help, and hence a global rise in addiction,
depression and other psychological and behavioural dysfunction.
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"We change the frequencey
that holds one in a negative state," Natascha says.
Results can be dramatic like
giving up an addiction or more subtle, like an attitude
change or the way the client handles conflict.
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Local HR practitioner, Walter Rontsch, believes that HR is
part of a healing paradigm shift from "the expert knows
best" to "I can heal myself".
"Whereas before, if we had a problem, we would rush
off to the minister or the doctor to seek help, more people
are questioning conventional medicine and turning to alternative
healers," Walter explains. Common cases, he says, include
people suffering from low self-esteem, abusive relationships,
loss or grief, addictions, phobias and even cancer.
The new paradigm of the power of positive thinking has been
emerging and evolving for decades. The belief that one can
promote self-healing is not new. New Age guru Louise Hay changed
her belief patterns, her lifestyle and cured herself of terminal
cancer.
"If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything
can be healed," she says in her bestselling book You
can Heal Your Life. Walter says HR is based on a similar principle
of holistic treatment and self-empowerment.. "We take
into consideration the emotional, physical and spiritual make-up
of the individual seeking treatment."
No matter how a problem manifests itself it could be physical
pain or emotional dysfunction the underlying issue has to
be identified and shifted. This is commonly referred to as
an energy block. "You don't necessarily even have to
understand it," says Walter. "The idea is that if
we only tuned into our bodies and listened, we would know
how to heal ourselves."
Living beings have a built-in sympathetic parasympathetic
nervous system to help them deal with trauma or upheavals.
If an animal narrowly escapes being hunted, it contorts its
body, shakes, huffs and puffs to alleviate any post-traumatic
stress. Instead of resorting to rage on the road, we should
be getting out of our cars, breathing deeply and making a
few grunting sounds; possibly roar with rage! Human beings
simply don't allow the parasympathetic nervous system to kick
in and it shuts down. The result is that we don't know how
to release stress or trauma, so some issues are never resolved,
causing blockages. HR practitioners see themselves as facilitators
to rid us of these blockages.
The people I meet - Natascha Heine, Clarissa Tunstall and
Walter - are not of the 'Granola Bar' or hippy variety of
healers I expect. No beads, strappy sandals or long flowing
skirts. They're normal folk and they admit HR sounds strange
at first. But they all agree emphatically - "It works."
Clarissa, a former teacher who's been a healer for 19 years,
has had amazing results through her sessions. Sometimes the
release of emotional baggage is so dramatic, she says, that
her clients even look different after a session.
"Negative belief patterns limit us and if we change
the frequency, we allow the body to resonate with positive
beliefs. The body takes over the healing process."
Here comes the really weird part. In HR, a pattern is identified
through discussion and a technique learned from kinesiology
a method of tapping into 'body intelligence' developed by
an American chiropractor - called muscle checking. The principle
is bio-feedback and what it means is that the body and mind
respond at a purely unconscious level. The practitioner will
make a statement and the body, oblivious of your conscious
mind, will respond by either resisting the statement (meaning
one is in tune with that intention) or by giving an 'off'
response (meaning you don't resonate with that intention).
It is important to realise that even though one might believe
in a statement like: "I am a worthy person", one
may not resonate with that belief, based on a past pattern.
The body intelligence and the conscious mind do not always
say the same thing. "As opposed to a therapy session,
HR is not about feelings; it's about patterns within a person
and their resonance with those patterns," Clarissa explains.
Once the client gives the practitioner permission to work
on them, the energy transaction begins. The client normally
lies prone on a mat or bed and is asked to relax. The practitioner
then tunes into and accesses information through a muscle
check. Almost like an `unarmed response', the practitioner
uses the client's arm as an indicator in the muscle checking
process.
The body answers statements made by the practitioner based
on her understanding of the client's problem. From there,
he or she establishes what needs to be done to transform energy
to create coherence. Another inexplicable aspect of the treatment
is that the practitioner may, himself or herself, become a
conduit for the client and conduct their own muscle checking
to establish what is good for the client. Natascha explains:
"We are pulsating energy fields and in this way, I pick
up on the client's energy. Imagine a big magnet ... we are
repulsed by some people and drawn to others."
The way to alter energy is best described using a classic
science textbook illustration of an energy frequency - in
the form of a horizontal wave pattern - that can be made bigger
or smaller by adding or detracting energy. The belief in HR
is that various 'healing modalities' like movement, sound,
colour and other `energetic objects' (such as crystals) can
be applied to change a frequency. "We change the frequency
that holds one in a negative state," Natascha says. Results
can be dramatic (like giving up an addiction, or a physical
swelling being reduced) or more subtle, like an attitude shift
or a change in the way the client handles conflict. Because
the healing is an energetic process, where the frequency of
the body's cells is altered, after-effects can include headaches
or drowsiness. At the end of the session, the practitioner
checks the original statements once again, using the muscle
check to see if the frequency has transformed and that the
client resonates with life-enhancing statements. Of course,
this is a very simplistic version of an HR session. It can
be an emotionally charged experience for the client.
HR has not reared its holistic head to compete with conventional
psychotherapy. Walter, Clarissa and Natascha agree that it
is a complementary practice and that the two can work together.
However, the fact of the matter is that a few sessions of
HR have helped people who have spent years on the conventional
therapist's couch intellectualising their problems to no avail.
HR does not work on the premise that one can sort out the
problem through reflection and intellect. Recognising a problem
doesn't mean it changes. The HR approach takes into account
body and mind - conscious and unconscious - in order to establish
a pattern and to transform it. "HR practitioners are
not therapists," Walter says. "If insight is what
the client needs then a therapist is the best option."
In certain cases, such as divorces, clients do want to verbalise
issues more.
Although courses have been ongoing in the US since the early
1990s, there are only a handful of practitioners in South
Africa. They have to attend a rigorous series of courses and
training before they become accredited by their US counterparts.
The cost of a session, which can last up to two hours, is
typically between 8150 and 8220. There's no saying how many
sessions it takes to release limiting thought processes. For
some, a onceoff is all it takes, for others a few sessions
are required.
As they say "shit happens" and we all have emotional
baggage to offload. If your marriage falls apart or you lose
your job, HR is not going to change that reality: "We're
not changing the situation; we're changing the attitude of
the person facing the situation, " Natascha explains.
As we seek self-help and insight into our lives, it is ironic
that conventional medical science seems to have become stuck
and is not going anywhere other than to the bank, as pharmaceutical
companies reap the rewards of life's burgeoning business of
illness. The only ray of light in this disillusioned, doomy,
gloomy scenario is holistic healing practices that seem to
be fine-tuning all the time and helping more and more people
to find health, inner peace and happiness.
The South African Holographic Repatterning Association holds
regular HR courses and often hosts international teachers.
For information, call (011) 782-3080 or visit www.holographic.org.
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