WEBVTT 00:00:07.896 --> 00:00:10.583 When people are very old and deteriorated 00:00:10.583 --> 00:00:12.740 and no one enters their world NOTE Paragraph 00:00:12.740 --> 00:00:14.943 and they're just sitting there 00:00:14.943 --> 00:00:17.641 they will withdraw inward more and more 00:00:18.176 --> 00:00:21.965 and their desperate need for connection 00:00:21.965 --> 00:00:23.995 is all now inside 00:00:26.035 --> 00:00:27.952 and if a person is all alone 00:00:27.952 --> 00:00:30.711 even if they're very, very deteriorated 00:00:30.711 --> 00:00:35.036 there's a longing for this kind of closeness 00:00:35.825 --> 00:00:41.195 Mrs. Wilson, Hello. 00:00:41.437 --> 00:00:43.408 You want me to sit? 00:00:43.408 --> 00:00:45.548 Can you see me good? 00:00:47.733 --> 00:00:50.663 Gladis Wilson is a wonderful example of 00:00:50.663 --> 00:00:52.675 a person who was in the phase 00:00:52.675 --> 00:00:53.872 of repeptative motion 00:00:53.872 --> 00:00:55.712 where people use movements 00:00:55.712 --> 00:00:57.182 repeptitive movements 00:00:57.182 --> 00:00:59.537 because they don't have any more speech 00:00:59.537 --> 00:01:00.877 or very little speech 00:01:00.877 --> 00:01:02.734 but they have human needs 00:01:02.734 --> 00:01:04.639 that need to be expressed 00:01:04.639 --> 00:01:05.539 ... 00:01:05.539 --> 00:01:07.894 Are you crying? 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:11.885 You're crying, you have a tear right here. 00:01:11.885 --> 00:01:15.335 In your face. 00:01:15.335 --> 00:01:16.840 You have a little pain? 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:19.756 You want me to touch you? 00:01:19.756 --> 00:01:23.146 You're very sad? 00:01:23.146 --> 00:01:27.804 Can you see me? 00:01:27.804 --> 00:01:33.281 Is it scary? Are you afraid? 00:01:33.281 --> 00:01:36.696 And if this person sits with their eyes closed 00:01:36.696 --> 00:01:40.496 rocking back and forth and maybe there's a tear 00:01:40.496 --> 00:01:42.454 coming down 00:01:42.454 --> 00:01:45.094 there's a need there 00:01:45.094 --> 00:01:48.284 there's a little tear, that's coming out 00:01:48.284 --> 00:01:50.061 You feel it? 00:01:50.545 --> 00:01:51.942 You feel a little tear? 00:01:51.942 --> 00:01:53.827 If you gently 00:01:53.827 --> 00:01:57.937 use touch, and I touched Gladis Wilson with the fingertips 00:01:57.937 --> 00:01:59.422 right here on the cheek 00:01:59.422 --> 00:02:00.590 is where the mother 00:02:00.590 --> 00:02:01.840 usually touches a child 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:02.910 if you touch an infant there 00:02:02.910 --> 00:02:05.277 it looks up and every cell 00:02:05.277 --> 00:02:06.828 remembers where it was touched 00:02:06.828 --> 00:02:08.021 by the mother 00:02:08.021 --> 00:02:09.471 and often that person 00:02:09.471 --> 00:02:10.821 knows even if they can't 00:02:10.821 --> 00:02:12.588 say a word at that moment 00:02:12.588 --> 00:02:14.427 they won't talk. 00:02:14.427 --> 00:02:15.948 Or they don't want to talk 00:02:15.948 --> 00:02:18.173 but there's a communication 00:02:18.173 --> 00:02:22.696 And that person is no longer alone 00:02:22.696 --> 00:02:25.839 can you let me in a little bit 00:02:25.839 --> 00:02:28.899 you think, just a little 00:02:28.899 --> 00:02:32.135 you think I could be with you and Jesus for a minute 00:02:32.135 --> 00:02:35.515 pat, pat, pat 00:02:35.515 --> 00:02:38.570 Jesus loves me 00:02:38.570 --> 00:02:41.888 this I know 00:02:41.888 --> 00:02:47.358 for the bible tells me so. 00:02:47.358 --> 00:02:49.377 I used music because 00:02:49.377 --> 00:02:51.407 when speech is gone 00:02:51.407 --> 00:02:52.580 music especially 00:02:52.580 --> 00:02:55.249 with Gladis Wilson it was religious music. 00:02:55.249 --> 00:02:57.249 Because there's an emotion tied to it. 00:02:57.249 --> 00:02:58.818 And safety tied to it. 00:02:58.818 --> 00:03:02.509 So i used her old church songs. 00:03:02.509 --> 00:03:16.216 Singing: Jesus loves me, yes Jesus loves me, Yes Jesus loves me, the bible tells me so 00:03:16.216 --> 00:03:18.967 What I did was when she moved 00:03:18.967 --> 00:03:21.224 I moved with her 00:03:21.224 --> 00:03:25.533 and when I was singing because she didn't sing with me so I 00:03:25.533 --> 00:03:31.360 matched the intensity of my voice to the intensity of her movements 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:33.598 and pretty soon for a split second 00:03:33.598 --> 00:03:36.336 we became one person 00:03:36.336 --> 00:03:44.680 Jesus loves me, yes Jesus loves me, the bible tells me so. 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:46.300 So at one point when she got 00:03:46.300 --> 00:03:48.693 very quite 00:03:48.693 --> 00:03:49.792 and very peaceful 00:03:49.792 --> 00:03:50.931 and my voice became 00:03:50.931 --> 00:03:54.581 very quiet as hers and very peaceful and my breathing 00:03:54.581 --> 00:03:56.976 slowed to her breathing 00:03:56.976 --> 00:03:58.586 she pulled me to her 00:03:58.586 --> 00:04:00.589 and I moved with her 00:04:00.589 --> 00:04:03.299 and for her at that moment 00:04:03.299 --> 00:04:07.964 I believe I was a symbol of her mom 00:04:07.964 --> 00:04:11.374 Can you open your eyes now? 00:04:11.374 --> 00:04:13.354 Do you see me? 00:04:13.354 --> 00:04:19.464 Feel safe and warm? 00:04:19.464 --> 00:04:21.824 Yes, yes can you sing with me? 00:04:21.824 --> 00:04:26.055 He's got the whole world 00:04:26.055 --> 00:04:29.476 in his hands, 00:04:29.476 --> 00:04:35.936 he's got the whole world in his hands 00:04:35.936 --> 00:04:40.066 he's got the whole world 00:04:40.066 --> 00:04:41.994 in his hands he's got the whole world 00:04:41.994 --> 00:04:43.133 in his hands. 00:04:43.133 --> 00:04:48.084 He's got the whole world in his hands. 00:04:48.084 --> 00:04:51.984 He's got the mother's and the father's 00:04:51.984 --> 00:04:53.774 in his hands 00:04:53.774 --> 00:04:56.494 he's got the mother's and the father's 00:04:56.494 --> 00:04:58.235 in his hands 00:04:58.235 --> 00:05:01.096 he's got the mother's and the father's 00:05:01.096 --> 00:05:02.626 in his hands 00:05:02.626 --> 00:05:07.146 he's got the whole world in his hands. 00:05:07.146 --> 00:05:08.908 He's got the mother's and the father's 00:05:08.908 --> 00:05:10.098 The breakthrough 00:05:10.098 --> 00:05:11.188 doesn't happen every time 00:05:11.188 --> 00:05:11.988 the person 00:05:11.988 --> 00:05:12.938 will not always 00:05:12.938 --> 00:05:14.922 open their eyes and look at you 00:05:14.922 --> 00:05:16.639 but if you keep trying 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:20.042 and you keep centering yourself 00:05:20.042 --> 00:05:22.282 and really look at that person 00:05:22.282 --> 00:05:25.173 and really mirror their movements 00:05:25.173 --> 00:05:27.542 maybe not this time 00:05:27.542 --> 00:05:28.562 but the next time you come 00:05:28.562 --> 00:05:30.983 you'll have a communication. 00:05:30.983 --> 00:05:34.062 Do you feel safe? You feel safe? Yeah. 00:05:34.062 --> 00:05:42.924 With Jesus, yeah. And me.