Spiritual Vitality

When I received my first order of T’ai Chi Chih video tapes my uncle was visiting, and knowing his interest in spiritual things I showed him the tape and he bought one.

Recently, he was visiting my grandmother who was 95 and in the hospital. He was meditating, doing kriya and praying. My grandmother’s condition was continuing to get worse. He wanted to help. I called to talk to him while he was at the hospital and could hear my grandmother moaning in the background. We talked of his feelings about the situation and he told me what he had been doing. I asked if he had been doing T’ai Chi Chih. He said that he had been doing it at home before he came to the hospital. I said that he needed to do it at the hospital so that grandmother could share in the vitality of the energy and be strong enough to go on to the next step. He promised to do T’ai Chi Chih at the hospital and later he told me what happened:

He arrived at the hospital and asked my father to feed my grandmother while he did T’ai Chi Chih; grandmother was so uncomfortable that she didn’t want anything. After my uncle did T’ai Chi Chih for awhile, she began to settle down and even began to swallow some food. When he was finished with the practice he sat and held her feet for a few minutes and was simply quiet. He then had a vision of my grandmother crying tears of blood and as he continued to hold her the tears turned from tears of blood to crystalline tears. This vision was of course a comfort. Later that morning my mother came to the hospital to relieve him. Shortly, my grandmother began to be more and more quiet and finally there was no more breath. When my mother got close, she could see one crystalline tear in her eye.

– Carmen Brocklehurst
Albuquerque, NM