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In a short period of about a week about a dozen single mothers cast themselves on my doorstep asking for help. One was a recent rape victim who had been bashed in the head with a rock at the edge of boulder creek with a one year old child. One had three children by different fathers. All were without partners and at their wit's end. The children were prone to tantrums, uncooperative, with dull eyes, running noses, and lethargic. We bought a large three story Victorian mansion in a small town in Colorado and moved them there. Immediately we established a disciplined living routine with regular meditation and yoga at the serious and standard hour of 3:00 AM. The children attended the evening hour to two hour sessions. The normal inclination is for parents to separate from their siblings during concentrated activities and to pacify or restrain the children in some way, but I had them all sit properly in the meditation hall. Each mother was responsible for her child's behavior. The children, even the one who could barely sit up, took readily to stillness and watching their breath. I instructed the mother. If the child became agitated, instead of correcting, reprimanding or explaining to the child, to instead calm their OWN nervous system an go deeper into the breathing and relaxation of themselves. What we discovered was that the state of mind of the child was a reflection of the mother's state. In a very short period harmony developed. When a mother was going through extreme negativity we moved them do a different house. When I noticed that their child was withdrawn or fitful, instead of directing our attention to correcting the child, I had the house mother call to the second house and question the mother about what she was thinking and feeling. We would analyze her thought constructs then have her practice breathing to adjust her nervous system and apparent miracles occurred long distance with the upset child at the garden. So we were interrupting the downloading of agitative patterns at their source in the mind of the mother. We went further with this when an opportunity presented itself to take the children to a beautiful beach at Eleuthera in the Bahamas. There, the children continued their meditation, guidance in thoughtful interaction with their peers and learning through actually performing tasks usually assigned to adults like cooking, etc. We let them live au naturel going from the lovely thatched roof domicile to the ocean's edge, playing in the sand, chanting, making simple musical instruments and the like. They were totally transformed as well as the mothers back home. Brown as berries, eyes sparkling. health harmony and confidence flourished. All of the participants in this event were dramatically restored. All of the single mothers over the next few months entered into good relationships and we did facilitate one adoption of the raped woman's child to a couple who had emigrated from Russia. She was the premier ballerina of the Bolshoi ballet. The systems which came to me from Bhagavan for healing such injured families are, of course, true for all people. Our house mother, a registered nurse, went on to get her PHD in child psychology. I would like to see this seed project well-funded and brought out to the public for the benefit of people everywhere
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