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What is SKHM? 3
What is an Initiation? 9
SKHM (pronounced say kem) simply means highest spiritual power or energy.
SKHM was re-discovered by Patrick Zeigler in 1980, when he spent the night in the
Great Pyramid in Egypt and experienced a spontaneous initiation.
Different people have worked with the SKHM energy, and different systems have
evolved, including Seichim, Seichem, and Sekhem. These, like Reiki, all use healing
spiritual energies, and they all use an attunement process, in which the teacher alters a
person’s energy system in order to connect that person to the energy.
In contrast, SKHM, the system that Patrick now uses, enables each individual to
establish his or her own direct connection to Source without an intermediary.
In an All Love / SKHM workshop, the student is supported in making his or her own
connection with the healing energy. When this occurs, there is a strong, direct stream
of energy channelled from Source.
Working within a group, Patrick uses what he calls ‘flowing meditations,’ allowing
and guiding the flow of energy, so that an individual opens him or herself to the
energy and experiences a spontaneous initiation, from within, whenever s/he is ready
to do so.
Group meditations are very effective, because the energy increases with each person
present. The meditation encourages people to consciously use the breath, and to
observe the changing sensations in the body; this increases awareness of the feelings,
tensions and blocks that are held in the body. Toning helps to express sounds from
within the body, which can enable a shift in energy and emotion, and can help to open
the chakras.
The visualisations within the meditations help to keep a focussed awareness. They
guide people towards the conscious opening of the heart centre— towards opening the
crown and filling the heart with light, and grounding the column of light to the Earth.
All Love / SKHM is unique in that the person opens up to the energy and allows it to
enter into his or her energy system. The teacher facilitates this process by encouraging
the student to become aware of the emotions and energies that are preventing the
energy from fully entering the body; and which are likely to stop him or her from
moving forward in life. With help, the student is then able to release and heal them.
This can lead to a spontaneous initiation.
Another unique aspect of All Love / SKHM is that spiritual, mental, emotional and
physical healing techniques are an integral part of the class. When a student
encounters painful emotions or energy blocks, the teacher helps him or her to express
these emotions and to overcome the blocks. Since these healing techniques have been
incorporated into the All Love / SKHM system, more frequent and more powerful
Initiations have been experienced within the group.
The student is less likely than in other systems to become dependent on the teacher,
because s/he achieves Initiation through his or her own effort, by allowing his or her
own process to unfold. If you do not experience an initiation, it is because something
in you is preventing this from happening. If you do experience one, it is through your
own effort – this gives you a much greater sense of your own power. An initiation is
not a passive process; the teacher helps you, and the energy helps you, but you
normally have to do your own inner work for an initiation to occur.
Patrick says: "All-Love is an energy that is within everyone. It is the energy of Love
that connects you to the Universe. The All-Love system is therefore about connecting
with your own energy, the energy of Source, and being in a state of oneness with the
Universe. Each person can make his or her own unique connection with the Source. In
a class, this is what we are helping people to do."
Patrick had longed to spend the night in the Great Pyramid since childhood. When he
finally visited it in 1980, he was overjoyed to find a small opening to the left of the
King’s Chamber. There was a narrow tunnel where thieves had tried to break through
the wall, and he discovered that the gate closing the entrance was not locked. It was
the perfect place to hide.
He left the Pyramid, started fasting, and returned the next day with his rucksack.
When no one was looking, he crawled into the tunnel and found a small room just
above the King’s Chamber, where he meditated until everyone had left the Pyramid at
night. He then made his way back to the King’s Chamber and lay down in the
sarcophagus.
He soon realised that the chamber was full of mosquitoes. Therefore, having brought
a toilet roll in his rucksack, he wrapped himself in it, got back in the sarcophagus and
lay there looking just like a mummy.
After meditating for a while, he heard a thumping sound like footsteps coming up
from the gallery below. He lay still, thinking he would be discovered, yet no one
appeared, and he suddenly realised that the sound was not human. He was terrified.
The sound entered the room, pulsating throughout the Chamber, and a swirling pattern
of electric blue light appeared, hovering above him. A part of him knew that this was
why he had come. He thought, “Do what you have to do,” and at that moment, the
brilliant blue light came down into his heart. For a moment, there was a total silence,
and he wondered if he was still alive. Then his heart seemed to expand as the sound
Patrick: "The foundation for SKHM was set back in 1980, and it was adopted by
various people. Over the years, more and more people worked with the energy, and
developed their own symbols, methods of attunement, and different healing systems,
such as Seichem and Sekhem. There were many different spellings of the word, and
people used different spellings to name their systems, some of which have more of an
Egyptian flair, while others work with shamanism, with angels or specific deities.
“My initial work was essentially with the energy. Gradually, I developed my methods
of working with it, and developed a unique healing system. Five or six years ago I
came to call it simply SKHM. Since then, my method of working with the energy has
undergone a huge transition; it has moved specifically in the direction of love and of
opening the heart. The energy is so different to what was taught earlier on, that I can´t
call it the same thing anymore. All-Love is the name that I have recently (January
2005) given to the healing system that I am now using to work with the energy. That
way, people will begin to understand that it is different to all the old systems.
“The main key to getting into the energy is to be able to fully experience the whole
range of emotions: anger, grief, sadness, and joy. They all come together with the
love, just as with the scale of music or the spectrum of light. If you have never
experienced anger or grief fully, it will be hard for you to experience love and joy
fully."
The aim of an All-Love class is to establish a direct connection with the energy of the
Source, or Creator. The workshop provides a safe environment, in which we can
experience the joy of our own direct connection with Source, and in which we can
heal those physical, emotional, and mental issues which are preventing us from fully
being ourselves.
The energy helps to bring the emotions to the surface. People start to spontaneously
express their feelings. Seeing and feeling what’s going on around them helps others to
get in touch with their own unexpressed emotions.
For many people, experiencing painful feelings that they have been holding within
them, sometimes for many years, can be frightening. Often, we stop the flow of
energy when we try to control what is happening within us. We stay in our minds,
rather than allowing ourselves to feel what is happening in our bodies and hearts.
Losing control, truly feeling our feelings, is something that most of us fear. The
energy flows strongly when we allow ourselves to feel what is happening in our
bodies, when we open our hearts, and become consciously aware of the feelings that
we have been blocking.
People are naturally drawn to help others. When one person gets upset, another
supports her, being with her, touching her, encouraging her to express the pain that
she is feeling. This occurs quite spontaneously, and it often happens that the helper
begins to get in contact with her own feelings more. Instinctively, we often give to
others what we are most in need of ourselves.
Likewise, feelings of joy and love that are experienced as the energy comes in are also
magnified many times. The group energy is stronger than each individual could
experience alone.
You invite the energy to enter into your body, both from the Heavens above and the
Earth below, and you often have to start to heal some emotional or energetic blocks
before you develop a strong connection. Each person is encouraged to allow him or
herself to fully experience the tensions held within his or her body, and to express the
emotions associated with these. When painful emotions are fully felt and expressed,
blockages and old patterns are released. Insights often arise about the origin of that
pain. We become aware of the meaning of that pain, when and how it first arose, what
personal significance it has for us.
In All-Love, an initiation is a life-changing experience. The body and the aura are
filled with light and energy; bringing an incredible sense of peace and joy. It can be a
beautiful and tranquil experience— as our energy merges with the energy of the Earth
below, and of the Heavens above, we sense our connectedness with the Universe. We
know that we are part of something much greater than ourselves, and we are suddenly
aware that we have the potential to experience joy in a way that we may never have
experienced it before.
The intense feeling of love allows us to experience the miracle of healing - to accept
ourselves as we are. As our hearts fill with that love, we feel much more acceptance
of others, despite our differences. In that moment, we feel a sense of release from our
judgemental and negative attitudes, and experience a new expansiveness, in which we
can truly view others and ourselves with compassion and forgiveness.
1. The person you are going to guide should be sitting comfortably in a chair.
Place yourself behind the person you are going to guide. Move back one
step from the person and take a few moments to connect yourself to the
energy. Imagine the sun above your head, the energy and light coming
down to the flower on top of your head. Imagine the flower opening and
the energy entering your crown and descending to your heart, then
continuing down through your body to the soles of your feet. Visualise
roots going down to the centre of the Earth and then bring the energy of
the Earth back up to your feet and up to your heart. Feel how the energy of
Heaven and Earth mixes in your heart, fills your chest and spreads down
your arms.
2. Step forward and put your hands on the person’s shoulders. Ask the person
to close his eyes and to make himself comfortable in the chair. Ask him to
take some deep breaths, and to feel the air entering and leaving his body.
You may lightly touch his abdomen and ask him to breathe all the way
down into his belly.
3. Now touch his heart centre, the area between his throat and his physical
heart, and ask him to breathe into this area and allow himself to feel what
is happening there. Give him some time to allow himself to become aware
of those feelings.
4. Ask the person to imagine a beautiful golden sun above his head. As he is
doing this, raise your hands above his head and imagine that there is a
golden sun between your hands.
5. Ask the person to feel the light and the energy coming down from the sun.
As you do this, visualise the light descending and move your hands down
to the top of the person’s head.
6. Ask him to visualise a flower at the highest point of his head. As the light
and energy reaches the flower, the petals open to receive the energy. Put
your hands over his crown and then open them up, imagining the flower
opening to receive the energy.
Throughout the meditation, encourage the person to breathe deeply and to give
himself time to feel exactly what is happening in his body. Reassure him that
whatever he is feeling is exactly what he needs to feel at that moment. Encourage him
to express those feelings.
A person may connect immediately to the energy, or it may be that there is a block
preventing that connection. If the person cannot feel the energy, or is not able to bring
into certain charkas or parts of his body, ask him where he feels the energy is blocked.
Then work with that area of their body, asking questions to help identify the blockage:
When asking the questions, don’t force anything. Give the person time to answer, and
if he cannot answer, go on to the next question. Reassure the person that he is doing
well.
If the person can identify an image, either of a person or a thing, then ask him to
imagine that person or thing standing in front of him. What would he like to say? Try
to encourage him to speak in the first person and the present tense. If he first felt it at
If the person has no image, or is not aware of any situation or person associated with
his feeling, then bring him back into his body.
“Focussing into the body, allowing yourself to feel what sensations and tensions exist
in particular areas of the body, helps you to become more aware of your inner reality.
Breathing into that area, sending sound vibrations into it, and allowing the part of the
body to make its own sounds, are all powerful ways of shifting emotional energy.
Once you bring your consciousness fully to the area that is holding emotional pain,
you can feel what is truly there.
Patrick: ‘Often the shadow self will emerge and want to express itself. Once the
shadow is engaged, it can create a polarity and the energy can help a person to go
even deeper.’
The release stage involves fully expressing your feelings and giving them a voice.
This enables you to identify what part of you is in pain, for example the child part.
You are helped to discover how your feelings - of grief, shame, anger or whatever - in
the present link back to painful experiences in the past.
Tracing present emotions back to their origins in the past is the most difficult part of
emotional processing work, and the one that requires the most skill on the part of the
teacher. It involves setting up a conscious verbal dialogue with the felt pain, so that
the pain of the present can be followed back to its roots in the past.
Entering into a dialogue with the part of you that was hurt shows it that you accept it,
despite its hurt or angry feelings. You stop judging and rejecting it, you start listening
to it, so that it can say what it needs to say to whoever was involved at that time. This
leads to an important shift in emotional energy. The felt wrong can be righted; the
held pain can be released, and you start to integrate that part of you into yourself.
Talking to a part of you, to people in your past, or to the energy itself that you need to
clear, can be very effective.
After the Identification and Expression stage, there is the Integration stage. Patrick:
‘Usually during the integration stage the higher self will come in and a knowing and a
realisation may come in that will help the person better understand the emotion. In
most cases, a person will come to the realisation that they are responsible for their
own feelings. That, through their own projections and holding on to past trauma, they
are the one responsible, not really the person they are projecting the emotion on to.’
If there is a person associated with that feeling, for example a parent, then entering
into further dialogue with that person may lead to increased understanding of how
each felt at the time. Seeing the other’s point of view may give you a different
perspective on the relationship or situation in which the painful feelings arose.
This is the Forgiveness stage, when, having accepted, understood and released your
pain, you are able to integrate a part of yourself, and you experience a great sense of
relief. Releasing the block, the energy can flow more freely into your body and energy
system, bringing a feeling of love, peace and forgiveness.
Patrick: ‘This is not something that can be taught, but is a natural experience of the
heart opening. Once this phase is complete, the stage of Gratitude will begin to flow
and the cycle is complete. It is usually at this time that an initiation may occur; it can
be very spontaneous. It is not something that someone else can give to another, but
truly an opening of the heart from within. Once you can truly love all of who you are,
the grace of forgiveness rises up into the heart. The heart begins to open and is filled
with love. At this point if enough of the self-hatred is cleared away, the crown opens
and the energy floods in.’
This emotional processing work may not be achieved in one session. It may take
many sessions or workshops to be able to truly heal the underlying issues. Ideally we
would go through the stages of identification, expression, integration and finally
forgiveness, but the person may not be ready to do this all at once. Be patient with the
person. Ensure that the person is patient with himself.
Sometimes sound can help to shift a blockage. Simply touching the person, allowing
him time, and asking him to imagine a connection growing between the area of
blockage and his throat may enable him to express a vibration, or word or sound from
the area. This may release some of the emotional energy, even if he does not become
aware of the source of the problem. Touching the throat chakra at the back of the neck
with one hand, and the area of blockage with the other can help to establish a
connection between the two, and to enable some expression to occur.
When the person has done as much as he is able to do in that session, reassure him
that he has done well, and tell him that it may require time for him to be able to fully
process this emotion. You may then guide him into the Shenu meditation again,
bringing light and energy into the area that you have been working with, imagining
the energy filling his body from the Heavens above and from the Earth below.
• To be more in contact with aspects of our higher self, our intuitive knowledge
and wisdom.
• To be able to enter into a ´witness´ state,’ in which we can observe thoughts
without becoming emotionally involved or attached to them.
• To achieve ‘quiet mind,’ where no thoughts are entering the mind, and the
mind is still.
• To be able to enter into our heart space and fully feel our emotions in the
present. To be consciously aware of what we are feeling and the origin of our
emotional states, and to be able to express these emotions and let them go.
• To be able to move easily between the heart and the mind and to integrate the
two. To be able to enter into the heart space where we can fully and
completely experience our emotions; to move into our minds and see things in
a more detached way; to access our higher self allowing us to bring insight
into what we are thinking and feeling.
• To integrate our heart, mind and intuition so that we can inhabit a heart-mind
space in which we are consciously aware and able to choose how we act and
react.
Many of us feel that we will never achieve these states, or that it will take a great deal
of time and effort to do so. The enlightenment activation involves setting an intention
that we can achieve them; that they are possible for all of us now.
1 Set an intent that this process will enable a person to come into contact
with his higher self; that he will be able to enter into a witness state, that
he will be able to fully experience his emotions, and will be able to move
between the mind space and the heart space.
2 Stand in front of the person and raise your hands above his head. Imagine
that there is a beautiful golden sun between your hands. As you bring your
hands down towards the person’s head, imagine that you are bringing
down the sun, and with it, aspects of that person’s higher self.
3 Place your hands gently on the top of the person’s head and imagine that
the sun is completely filling the head, illuminating his mind, bringing
higher aspects of that person’s self into his awareness. You may wish to
say ‘All Love’ silently as you do so.
4 Lift your hands from his head, bring them together in the shape of a dove
and lightly touch the person’s heart centre, bringing that energy of love
into the heart, and saying ‘All Love.’
The whole process should only take a 20-30 seconds. Following the enlightenment
activation, the person should practise each day, bringing the energy down into the
head, and then bringing it down into the heart, and moving between the two.
During the workshop, you will have begun to open your heart and become aware of
what is happening in your body moment to moment, which means truly living in the
present. The workshop is a place where it is safe to do this, and where others are
trying to do the same in an atmosphere of love.
When you return to your daily life, you may find it difficult to continue to do this. At
times, it may be inappropriate to feel or to express your feelings, at work, for
example. So what do we do? We could just close our hearts and stop feeling. This is
an option.
When strong feelings arise, we can also try using the enlightenment activation to go
into a witness state, where we are more objective about what we are feeling. This can
help deal with the feelings at the time, enabling us to be more in our heads and less in
our hearts. It also helps to know that we can return to our hearts, later, whenever we
wish.
You can work with the energy after the workshop in the following ways:
• Try just connecting to the energy. Imagine the sun above your head, and the
energy filling your body, going down to the centre of the Earth and then
coming back into your body. Visualise the energy meeting in the heart,
expanding out to your shoulders and down your arms to your hands.
• Listen to the cd of the meditation on your own
• Get together with others who were on the course to listen to the cd of the
meditation.
• In pairs, you can guide each other through the meditation and practise working
with blockages.
• Imagine the infinity symbol coming down from above you and going through
the whole of your body, balancing and healing.
• Once you are connected to the energy, you can use it in exactly the same way
that you use Reiki, for example giving yourself a self-treatment.
Meditations are held every 2 weeks, enabling you to strengthen your connection to the
energy, and giving you an opportunity to discuss your experiences.
Madrid: contact Katja at info@reikirelax.com
Benalmadena: contact Graham at graham@abouthealing.net
Individual sessions or telephone sessions with a qualified All Love / SKHM teacher.
The extracts in this manual have been taken from the book:
Energy Works!
Initiation Without a Master
Foreword by Patrick Scott Zeigler,
Founder of the All Love / SKHM system
This book shows how you can connect with the energy of Source, heal the pain of
the past, shift your consciousness, and transform your life.