Children
who healed with the loving touch
by ANTHEA TORR
I READ these wonderful stories a little while ago, and they touched
my heart so deeply. They made me feel so grateful for my life
and for my beautiful children, and for Beloved Mother Earth. I
wanted to share them so you can also share them with your children
and friends. They were written by Baird T. Spalding, in the early
part of last century and published in his books, The Life and
Teachings of the Masters of the Far East. These books are extraordinary
and well worth reading.
There
was a little girl, living in Texas who was a natural healer. Spalding
went to Texas to meet her, and her mother told him that she seemed
different to other children. The thing that stood out the most
was that she was always telling everyone that she loved them.
She would say, "I see that love around everyone and around myself."
Whenever
she heard of anyone who was sick she would ask to be taken to
them, and almost in every instance, where she was taken to the
room of the sick person, that one would get up out of the bed
perfectly well. That child went on to develop and at the time
of writing the books was doing great work in the healing realm.
Spalding
also tells an exquisite story of a child in Holland. In Holland,
red clover grows in abundance and the blossoms stand 30 to 40
centimetres above the ground.
One
Sunday afternoon, Spalding was visiting the mother of this child.
They were sitting on the veranda and saw the child walk across
the field of clover in front of the house, for about 30 metres,
turn and come back, her feet never touching the ground.
Baird asked the child how she did that, and she said, "I don't
know, I just give love to everything. I love that clover and the
clover holds me up." She talked about her playmates and said that
she loved them all and they loved her, and so nothing could ever
happen to them. Spalding kept in touch with the family until the
girl was 21 and then lost touch with her as she moved to Belgium.
Her father told him that he only ever heard her talk of love for
everybody.
Once when Spalding was visiting Spain, he went to a copper mine
to meet a Russian family that had recently moved there. The father
worked on the mine. They had an 11-year-old girl who had, her
parents told him, the "healing touch". She would put her hand
on a person and say, "I love you and I love you so much that your
illness has passed away; it is gone. I have filled that space
with love." Spalding did some research and found this to be true.
In the case of deformity, the body would become absolutely perfect.
In one case, where the patient was in the last stages of epilepsy,
the girl had put her hand on the person and said, "Your whole
body is filled with love, and I only see the light." In less than
three minutes, the malady was cured. These stories are wonderfully
simple and natural, and all of us can do the same - we just need
enough love and faith.
If
we start to tell such stories to children from an early age, it
will seem possible and so it will be natural and normal for them.
As Gautama Buddha said, "To give five minutes to the realisation
of true divine love is greater than to pass a thousand bowls of
food to the needy because, to give forth love, you help every
soul in the universe."
"Be
the change you want to see in the world" - that is the motto that
fills our hearts.
