Sekhem: The Mental Reset: A Regression and Visualization Technique for Emotional Healing

This teaching presents a mental reset technique that moves backward through life, the womb, conception, and the time between lives. It also explains how to support someone safely and allow the body to release what emerges without force.

Counting Back Through Your Life

The mental reset can be very powerful. In a deep reset, you may simply go out for a while. Hopefully, you remain conscious as this happens, but everyone is different. Some people may be out for two minutes; others have been out for hours.

The method itself is simple. Begin with your current age and count backward slowly, out loud. As you say each number, let yourself remember and feel what it was like to be that age. Certain ages may bring back particular events. You may remember a milestone birthday, a birth, or an important period in your life. Let yourself return to that place.

The deeper healing often begins as you enter the teenage years, when many issues start to form, and then continue into early childhood. Keep counting all the way back to birth. Set your intention to become that age again. Become that little girl or that little boy, and remember what was happening.

An emotion may rise at a particular age. You may feel a wave move through you, or feel that you are about to fall. If it is strong, go with it. The feeling may be connected to something earlier, so continue moving back through the years. Sometimes people are already on the floor by the time the count reaches five or six. If you are still standing at zero, lie down and allow the process to continue.

You become that age, you become that little girl, you become that little boy, and you remember the things that are going on.

Stand directly on the floor rather than on a mat, so you feel grounded and are not made unsteady by the cushioning.

Begin at your current age and count backward out loud, slowly but without drawing it out unnecessarily.

At each number, let yourself remember and feel what it was like to be that age.

Continue through the teenage years and childhood, all the way to birth.

If a strong wave comes and you begin to fall, go with it and allow the people supporting you to help you down safely.

If you remain standing when the count reaches zero, lie down.

Supporting Someone Safely

Have someone stand behind the person who is counting, ready to support them if they become unsteady. Do not touch them while they are standing. Simply remain attentive. If they begin to fall, place your body behind them, support their weight, and walk them back as they slowly come down, taking care not to hurt their back.

Cushions can be placed behind them as a precaution, with people nearby to help. Once someone has gone down, let them be. They are receiving the healing and need time on their own to integrate what is happening. If the person who is counting goes down, someone else can continue the count while they remain where they are.

Just let them be because this is the one where they really kind of need to integrate and be on their own and let that healing happen.

Place a support person behind the participant and cushions nearby as a precaution.

Remain watchful without touching the participant while they are standing.

If they begin to fall, support them from behind and guide them slowly to the floor.

Once they are down, let them remain undisturbed and allow the healing to integrate.

If the person leading the count goes down, another person continues counting.

What Emerged in Romania

One of the more remarkable experiences with this technique happened in Romania. I often use it after a class when someone says they have not felt anything. They may not naturally connect through feeling, or they may be too much in their head, so we work through the mind.

There was an eighty-five-year-old Reiki master who had not been able to feel anything. There was also a very large man whom I had worked with before. He did not seem interested in what we were doing, and I had no idea why he was there. I did the mental reset with just the two of them.

The woman began counting backward. At first, nothing seemed to happen. Then, when she reached the age of nine, I saw the slightest watering in her eye. I asked what had happened at nine. She said, “My father came home.” I told her to feel her father coming home. I did not know where he had been, but it was clearly an important emotional moment for her. Even that small response was enough to begin opening her heart.

I asked the two of them to face each other. She continued counting: eight, seven, six, five. Then the tears began. When I asked what was happening, she said, “That’s the day they took him.” Losing her father had been a profound emotional trauma that remained with her through all those years.

At that moment, the man went completely unconscious. When the process was over and he came around, I asked if he wanted to share what had happened. Looking at her, he said, “That’s what I do. I’m the one that takes them. That’s my job.” He had come to the class to observe me secretly. He was part of their CIA, or something like it, and they were checking on me.

He returned the following year. He told me he had cried for the entire train ride home, which took two or three hours, and that he had quit his job. It was amazing to see what had surfaced through the experience.

That’s what I do. I’m the one that takes them. That’s my job.