INTRODUCTION
Our lives, our version of reality is made up by our minds. Our opinions, beliefs, values, decisions, memories and the meanings that we assign to our experiences creates our experience of life. Since most of theses aspects are typically beyond our consciousness, it appears to us to be beyond our control. For this reason many on us feel like we are victims of our past, victims of our childhoods, victims of all the wrongs that others, society have perpetrated upon us. Since most believe that this is beyond there ability to let go of or move beyond, many live lives of intense inner and sometimes outer suffering.
Teachers of enlightenment have taught us that in reality life is an illusion. One need only awaken from this dream to end suffering. Those on spiritual journeys have often embraced this view and have spent years trying to awaken to reality. To the extent that this has been successful the experience of life has changed. Surprisingly though, rather then experiencing less suffering many have experienced significantly more. Why is this.
Our minds are the source of all our suffering. By continuing to believe in our memories, in our previous emotional experiences, in our random thoughts and fluctuating emotions, we manage to create all our suffering. It may be true that life involves a great deal of pain. But pain and suffering are not the same. Pain may be present, but suffering is created by our attachment to it. So the real solution is not the end of pain, which appears to be beyond our control, but is to end attachment. As an individual wakes up to reality, they often begin to experience their unconscious and suppressed emotions, beliefs, values and behaviors. This period can be quite difficult and can often feel as though things are getting worse. Actually this is all for the good as this is a purification process to let go of all that is not true.
So the next question is how do we end attachment which is the cause of suffering. How do we stop believing in the significant emotional experiences of our life, painful memories, non-resourceful beliefs, limiting decisions and conflicting values?
THE HOLOGENESIS PROGRAM
The Hologenesis Program was borne of the need to end mind created suffering. Not only for spiritual seekers but for anyone who is ready to let go of the unnecessary suffering generated by the mind. Incorporating many time tested and profound techniques, the Process helps participants to identify and release the major components of mind based suffering.
The Major Causes of Suffering
- Significant emotional experiences
- Negative Emotions
- Non-resourceful beliefs
- Limiting Decisions
- Conflicting Values
CAUSES
The problem of human health, on all levels, physical emotional, mental and spiritual, is deep and complex. By the time a symptom has come to our attention it may have undergone years of unconscious development and taken various forms and expressions. Using the western allopathic medical model we would then suppress the symptom with drugs, surgery or some form of physical therapy. Many time this will change the symptoms for awhile although often the same symptoms or some other, of a deeper and subtler form, will come back. What then is true healing?
Human beings are composed of various layers or aspects. Depending on the tradition used you could call these layers physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Or you could say mind, body, spirit. Other traditions talk of the physical, astral, mental and causal planes. In the West we have used such terms as conscious, subconscious, unconscious and superconscious. While these terms are not strictly analogous there are corresponding relationships.
We live in a time of fragmentation and separation from others and most importantly from ourselves and our source. From the time we were children we had our minds (intellect and personality) educated but little or nothing has been done to educate our essence (emotional life, soul).
As time went by our educated personality separated from essence, grew and began living a life as little connected to our true selves as was necessary for its existence. During this time we experienced the various traumas, both physical and emotional, that life brings to each of us. Because of our inherent desire to avoid pain many of these experiences were repressed and suppressed leaving them to coalesce into a kind of emotional pain body.
The pain body lives just below the surface of our consciousness. It is ready to spring up at a moments notice. When it does we find ourselves, for no apparent reason, sad, depressed, anxious, stressed or angry. This reactive part of our mind does much to cause distress in our lives often leaving us to feel ashamed, guilty, despairing, sad, fearful, traumatized, separate and alienated. Rather then experiencing the Now, we find ourselves living from the reactive past where our subconscious intrudes into the present moment and projects into the future.
When we begin to work with patients we find that they are in a sense two. There is the outer , social person who is striving to succeed and live life to its fullest and there is the inner, emotional, subconscious being essence who is fearful, angry, full of shame, loneliness or feelings of alienation and insignificance. This inner duality which most of us feel leads to great inner conflict and tension.
This type of existence, a kind of internal fragmentation or war, can lead to great inner stress, conflict and ambivalence. As these tensions persist they work there way through the various bodies and are ultimately responsible for the wide range of negative states and non-resourceful behaviour. All this leading to various degrees of unhappiness, discontent and suffering.
Any form of healing that leaves the pain body intact is incomplete. To truly heal is to dissolve the pain body.
SOLUTIONS
Our unresolved emotional traumas coalesce and form a kind of pain body. The pain body, think of it as crystallized emotional memory, is held in place by unconsciousness and emotional charge. It is ready to be activated at a moments notice.
We are walking along and everything is fine then some perception, either inner or outer and the next thing we know we are sad, angry, irritable, lonely, frightened etc. Nothing has really happened except that the pain body, the reactive part of our mind, has been stimulated and some of our unprocessed emotional baggage has come up. Then rather than seeing things as they are we see everything through the tinted filter of our past history. Our mood changes and suddenly everything feels overwhelming, or it feels very sad or perhaps depression sets in. And then, depending on our temperament, we yell at somebody, break our diet, smoke, cry get a headache or develop cancer.
The way to inner freedom and emotional health is to free ourselves from the pain body, from negative emotions, from limiting decisions and from unclarified and conflicting values. We do this by becoming aware of the problem and then using various techniques to elicit the hidden causal emotions, decisions, values and beliefs. Once the cause is found various methods are used to resolve the problem.. In effect we are dissolving the pain body and dropping non-resourceful beliefs.
Most importantly, unlike talk therapy, we are not trying to analyze or put these problems behind us, we are eliminate our attachment to them!
Our greatest aid is Presence. From deep states of Presence healing becomes much more possible.
We use modern neuro-emotional bio-energy techniques such as:
- Mind-Release Therapy
- Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
- Neuro Linguistic Programing (NLP)
- Mind-Body Trauma/Drama
- Time Line Clearing (TLC)
- Others
OUR PROGRAM
Hologenesis sessions generaly last about one hour. During this time we allow ourselves to come to deep states of Presence. From these more resourceful states of Being it is possible to find underling problems. Using appropriate interventions these problems can be resolved.
Since this is a process, no one can say how many sessions this will take. Each session is self contained and will often include the teaching of a new skill or offering of homework. If you have a specific issue it may be resolvable in one session. We find that most people need a series of sessions to go deeply into their unconscious and eliminate problems at their root. . For this reason we suggest that you consider working in 10 session blocks with one to two sessions per week.
Some of our patients have a specific problem they wish to resolve. Depending on the complexity, these specific problems can be resolved quickly, even in one session.
RESULTS
We are here for results. Yet nobody can guarantee results in this kind of work. Each human carries within themselves the divine plan of their own potential unfolding. What we promise is to do our best to help you in your process. Our patients have told us repeatedly that this profound work has radically changed their lives for the better.
GOALS
1. Dissolve the pain body (emotional past.)
2. Restore balance to the nervous system
3. Heal chronic health conditions
4. Increased Energy
5. Happiness and Peace of Mind
ABOUT DR. FORREST
Dr. Steven Forrest, M.A., CHT, MdH, D.C. is the developer of the Hologenesis Program and Mind-Release Therapy. A process dedicated to the Awakening to our true self.
Dr. Forrest combines his 25 years in esoteric and meditation work with 20 years as a healer to help his patients come to deep healing states. Using the Hologenesis Process he helps the patient to bring conscious awareness to unconscious and suppressed memories, beliefs, values and decisions thus freeing the subconscious holding patterns which contribute to disease, lowered energy states and emotional distress and unhappiness. Using process it is possible to experience deep integrated healing on many levels.
Along with a clinical practice, Dr. Forrest is a writer, lecturer and meditation teacher. His organization, Hologenesis, (Hologenesis) combines meditation practices and group work to guide fellow explorers in the realms of human evolution and the development of consciousness.
As the director of Forrest Health Center, Dr. Forrest is dedicated to providing quality health care. His practice is in Los Gatos, CA, where he is available by appointment.
WORKSHOPS AND INTENSIVES
From time to time we offer workshops and intensives in Mind-Release Therapy and Time Line Clearing. Click link for details. Hologenesis.com
APPOINTMENTS:
One hour in office Appointment: $200
One hour phone-in appointment $200
To make an appointment please call us 408-354-4262 or E-mail us.
