Sekhem: Sekhem Age Regression: Remembering Source and Integrating the Experience

Sekhem Age Regression: Grounding and Surrender

Teaching by Patrick Zeigler.

Begin grounded. Grounding helps when the energy starts to come in.

The closest analogy is standing in the ocean as waves come toward you. Sometimes a large wave almost knocks you over. Ordinarily, you stand firm and fight it rather than letting it take you. In this practice, allow the wave to take you. It is a surrender; surrender back into it.

This is why a partner must be present, paying attention and making sure you do not fall or hurt yourself. The partner can often see the waves coming and sense when the person is about to fall. Another helper can come closer and assist with catching if needed.

Moving Back Through Adult Life

The countdown begins at sixty-three, the oldest age given in the group. Younger participants imagine being sixty-three and then move downward through the years.

The direction matters. Counting upward from birth into an imagined future could bring someone to an age they associate with death. If they went down at that point, they might take in the idea, “Maybe I am going to die at that particular age.” The sequence therefore moves backward rather than forward.

Close your eyes. Imagine being sixty-three and become aware of that age. Move slowly to sixty-two, sixty-one and sixty. Feel your body and what was happening in your life then.

Continue through fifty-nine to fifty. At fifty-six, simply become fifty-six. The partner stays closer as needed, making sure the person does not fall forward. At fifty, stay with the experience and become that age.

Continue from forty-nine through forty. Listen to your body. At forty, remember what it was like to be forty.

Move through thirty-nine, thirty-eight and thirty-seven. Notice what is happening as you begin to enter the wave. Continue to thirty-six and thirty-five, breathing in.

Sharing: During this part of the practice, a participant reported a cramp. Others checked whether help was needed.

Response: Step back and move around a little. Walk around if needed. The supporting partner remains with the participant rather than leaving.

The countdown continues through thirty-four, thirty-three, thirty-two and thirty-one. Breathe in. At thirty, become thirty. As breathing and movement develop, the partner moves directly behind the person.

The Young Heart and Childhood

Continue to twenty-nine and twenty-eight. Remember what it was like to be twenty-eight years old. If a smile comes, allow it. It is okay to be happy and to feel the enjoyment that arises.

Move through twenty-seven, twenty-six and twenty-five to twenty-four. Feel that young twenty-four-year-old. Most importantly, feel the heart and how intense its feelings are. Continue to twenty-three and twenty-two, then come to the big year of twenty-one. Breathe it in and feel that twenty-one-year-old.

At this point, support was needed for someone who was becoming very sweaty. An exchange concerned whether the person could get down to lie down. The guidance to the others was to stay in their own process as the countdown continued.

Move through twenty, nineteen and eighteen to seventeen. Be that seventeen-year-old and feel that age. Continue through sixteen, fifteen, fourteen and thirteen. Become the teenager and feel the teenager’s heart.

Continue to twelve and eleven. Feel being the little eleven-year-old girl. Move through ten, nine and eight to seven. Feel that little seven-year-old.

A helper was called when a participant could not get up. Support remained present while the guidance continued: stay with the experience of being seven years old.

Continue through six, five and four. Feel the little four-year-old girl. Move to three, two and one, feeling the little baby. Then lie down.

Sharing: A participant said that lying down was not possible because of their back.

Response: Sit down instead. Continue breathing.