Seven Times

I am reading (again) The Presence Process by Michael Brown.  I have read this about 5 times (including doing the 10 week breathing exercises 3 times) about 4 years ago and I have no immediate recollection of it.  Bits and pieces here and there.

I do know that by practicing his technique of breathing (non stop) for 15 minutes in the morning and evening triggered a landslide within me.  Disjointed memories and unbearable anxiety bubbled up from the deepest pockets of my subconscious.

He aptly writes about his process:

"By putting ourselves through this Process, we are consciously initiating a change in our experience of this Seven-Year Cycle (the first seven years of our emotional life).  We are gradually neutralizing the negative impact it has on the quality of our present life experience.  Repeating this Process more than once begins dismantling the cycle altogether because it removes the energetic barrier caused within us by the emotional death we experienced when we entered adulthood.  Once this cycle is sufficiently dismantled, we will the find our selves standing at the edge of our personal void:  the place we have for so long avoided.  This is where our awareness of having a past and projected future fades into an eternal moment of being present Now.  This is where the energetic experience of polarities begins to dissolve and merge into the vibrational experience of Oneness." 

I remembered a poem called, "Seven" I had written for my sister Beth,  many years ago.  I asked her to send it to me and see if it had relevance to this Process:

"Kneading my skin,

I feel me now. 

Back to the skies of blue

And clouds of hope 

laced with everyday brilliance.

Seven is the age 

Where it grew, and I knew

Of a girl, that would be no more

It grew with intensity

and encouragement

of those around me.

Seven times two 

equals fourteen.

Two is the number

that cannot equal seven.

Seven.

Seven times one is magic

I am that One."

He further explains:

"Unless we return along The Pathway of Awareness and bring peace to our emotional child self, we will not be able to neutralize the negative impacts of the un-integrated experiences of our first Seven-Year Cycle.  Until this is accomplished, we cannot activate real movement in our life or restore balance to our mental and physical experiences in this world.  And until we accomplish balance, we are unable to move beyond the confines of this world and return to our Source."