Seichim (Sayshim) comes from the Egyptian word Sekhem which translated into English means "The Power of Powers" or "Might'. There are many references made to Sekhem in ancient ruins of temples. It has a connection with the Goddess Sekhmet.

Seichim is ancient and sacred. It is an advanced form of hands on healing having sounds and symbols and, it is said, Seichim is the parent energy of all hands on healing systems.

An American Reiki Master/Teacher, Patrick Zeigler, rediscovered Seichim in the early 1980's. Patrick prayed, meditated and fasted to be empowered, much the same way Dr. Usui did when he rediscovered Reiki.

Finally Patrick had a vision of a divine feminine energy form, thought to be Quan Yin, as she is so often present when Seichim is being channeled. It is believed it was she who gave Patrick the sounds and symbols and the information necessary to initiate himself and to share this process with others. Later, Patrick met Tom Seaman from Idaho and initiated him into Seichim. Together they met Marat, an old Seichim Teacher from Southern India, and he passed on the history of Seichim as their teachers had handed it down to him by his teachers and to them.

Marat told of how Seichim originally came from Egypt. It was translated and transcribed from hieroglyphs by the Shin Yon Buddhists of that time and taken back to India and Japan. There was a renaissance in Southern India with many races sharing wisdom, knowledge and healing practices. Around this time Mongolian hordes descended upon and conquered the area. Many fled and retreated to the safety of the mountains of Tibet before moving onto China, India, Japan and other parts of the world including Australia and the Polynesian Islands. Perhaps this explains the many similarities between hands on healing systems, e.g. Reiki, Regenesis, Seichim/Sekhem, Huna Karné, and others. It is also of interest that while on holiday in Egypt, Lyn Brunnell, traditional Reiki Master/Teacher from California, discovered the Seichim carvings of hands facing skywards with chakras in the palms and written in hieroglyphs Sekhem - "The Power of Powers".