By Kamal Tolia

Children ….. Little Teachers from God

Part 1 Introduction

Congratulations! It’s a Boy / Girl!! Wonderful news by all accounts even though the whole house will be turned upside down soon! A new baby in the house! What does it stand for? Losing sleep, night feeds and a lot of crying, but equally it stands for lots of love, cuddles and smiles.

What else do children represent? They represent the continuity of Life. Since time immemorial, man has chased after the elixir of immortality. We do not wish to die, we want to live on forever. Well in a way we do: through our children. When we die, we leave behind our children, and so life continues. As Khalil Gibran has said: ‘Your children are life’s longing for itself …..’

The theory of incarnation is based on the belief that every soul is infinite, immortal and part of the Divine. But it thinks it is a finite, mortal being. In the process, it has made many mistakes which it has to undo. Hence it chooses to return in a human form to learn lessons in each lifetime so it can advance closer to the realization that he / she is Divine. Thus it makes sense to believe that each new born child already has a store of information gathered over many lifetimes of learning.

This is the innate wisdom in every child and no child comes with a ‘blank state’ mind. Even the ancient philosophers Plato and Descartes believed that innate ideas and principles are placed in the human mind by a god or higher being or through a process.

In reply to my childhood question ‘where do babies come from’, my mother used to reply quite simply, ‘from God’. What a simple answer, but how true! We truly arrive from the spirit world (God’s world) and are therefore closest to our spiritual self in infancy.

In fact, children are pure miracles, simply by virtue of being born. They are proof that God exists, since it is only God who can give life. Even the whole process of child birth is a miracle. We only need to watch one child being born to realize how awesome God is, and by extension, how awesome a baby is!!!

These little miracles that come to us —- what is the message they carry? They come to tell us there is hope for mankind yet. In spite of the poor state of the world: natural calamities, economic crises, global warming, terrorism, human trafficking and other such calamities and evils, all is not lost. God has not turned away from us, or else why would He / She send us these beautiful little Angels that are a part of Him / Her self?

Every time a baby is born, it is God sending us a message —– I AM HERE. In the words of the great Indian Sage and Guru Rabindranath Tagore ‘Every child comes with a message that God is not yet discouraged of man.’

Let us understand more about these little Angels of God and the lessons they have come to teach us!

Soul Reflections

By Kamal Tolia

Children ….. Little Teachers from God

Part 2 Children’s Pure Auras

The aura we have is an energy field that surrounds our physical body. The aura of little children up to the age of 5 years is violet in colour. Violet is the highest vibration colour closest to the qualities of spirituality. It is associated with the crown chakra at the top of our head which is the most spiritual chakra. The violet colour stands for wisdom, strong intuitive and psychic power and is found in the aura of idealistic, artistic and spiritually evolved beings. As such babies with their violet auras are pure beings from a pure source!

This explains why it feels so good to hold a baby in your arms. Our aura gets this beautiful cloud of violet from the baby making us come closer (even if momentarily) to the Source. Every time we cuddle a baby, we ‘borrow’ this lovely spiritual purity. This gives a new meaning to the reason why everybody wants to hold the baby and the baby is passed on like a parcel when relatives come to see a new born!

Nancy Ann Tappe and other well known Psychics like Doreen Virtue and Celia have written variously about a special group of children that have been born in the last 100 years or so. They are characterized by the appearance of their aura. We have the Indigo children and the Crystal children, so named because their auras show these colours. These children have been found to possess special spiritual abilities and are believed to be highly evolved souls that have come here to enable us to evolve. This can happen because they have played / will play important roles on earth which will result in revolutionary changes for the Good of Mankind. Or it can happen simply by their presence as their spiritual auras will raise the vibrations of the auras of others in their environment.

According to Nancy Tappe, these special children may display

Indigo children:

• Psychic, telepathic or intuitive abilities
• Non conformist to authority or rituals
• Sensitive both emotionally and environmentally
• May be right brain dominated
• Highly spiritually advanced with a desire to benefit humanity
• May have a rebellious attitude or even show ADHD or ADD behaviour
• May display temper issues
• May often be introverts

Crystal Children:

• May often be introverts
• Psychic or clairvoyant
• Possess a peaceful disposition
• May be speech delayed up to  four years and may even be autistic
• May be prone to insomnia
• Respond well to energy healing modalities
• May be attracted to meditation

Celia describes the Crystal children thus: they are very connected, communicative and highly sensitive individuals. They are extremely kind to others and often display a care for the behavior of others around them as though it were a personal experience showing their connectedness to ALL

Well, what can I say except that we are indeed blessed to have amongst us these lovely souls with their amazing auras to spread joy, friendship and love of one another.

Soul Reflections

By Kamal Tolia

Children ….. Little Teachers from God

Part 3 Seeing Auras

Seeing auras of people is a gift for some of us but for others it is a mystery. We long to have this gift. The desire to see the auric field and prove that it is made up of colours has led to the invention of machines which capture the human aura in an instant. Babies by contrast, don’t need any machines. They are born with this natural gift of seeing auras.

Babies will often look over and behind a person’s head at their aura. If they do not like the aura of the person picking them up, they will cry and continue to do so, however much the person tries to pacify them. The baby will cry even if the person’s aura is different from the aura of their parents or carer.

At a family and friends gathering long ago, my four year old son watched as we all did, a friend picking up my 6 month old niece who immediately started crying. So he put her back in the pram. After some time he tried to pick her up again and she went bawling again. This happened a few times, much to the chagrin of the friend, until my son, all four years of him, walked up to the friend and quite matter of factly announced: ‘I don’t think she likes you.’ ‘Why?’ asked the friend. ‘You are too dark’ was my son’s explanation. In the embarrassed silence that followed, I apologized for my son and took him aside and chided him ‘you must not say things like that!’ but he insisted that the ‘uncle’ was dark. Only many years later did I understand that he was referring to the man’s aura which he and my niece could see and which we adults could not.

In another case, Little Wairimu, a 6 month old baby girl, was awaiting adoption in an orphanage. And there was a lady interested in adopting her too. Let’s call her Lucy. This should have ended happily, but it didn’t. Prior to adoption, the prospective parent has to spend time with the chosen child on several days, so that the two can bond well. Whenever Lucy came to ‘spend time’ with Wairimu and would pick her up, the little baby would cry. The crying continued throughout the visiting time.  It was the same throughout the ‘familiarizing time’ of 2 -4 months. Indeed in the last few sessions, Wairimu would start crying as soon as she saw Lucy, even before the latter could pick her up. Seeing how unhappy Wairimu was with the prospective mother, the orphanage authorities stopped the adoption process. And Thank God they did, because later on it was discovered that the would-be adoptive mother was arrested for being involved in a babies selling racket! Wairimu, Little being of God, in her infinite wisdom was rejecting the evil represented by Lucy again and again!

And so it is with babies and children. They see, feel and know much more than we believe they do!

Soul Reflections

By Kamal Tolia

Children ….. Little Teachers from God

Part 4 Older Children

Right up to the age of five years or even older, children continue to see auras. But because we tend to dismiss their description of people and colours they may stop telling us about the colours they see. But this does not stop them from expressing themselves in colour. When asked to draw their family or friends, children often use colours. If you looked at the drawing, you might wonder where did the orange and blue colour on the face come from? Or what is that colour doing around and over the head?

Sometimes the colours in the drawing of the person may not be contained within the outline of the body. They spread out of the boundary. This is deliberate, the child actually takes pain to extend the colours out of the body so to speak. He depicts what he sees —– the auras of the person or object he is drawing.

According to psychologists, children that persistently colour or paint outside the shape will grow up into very creative individuals. They will also have outstanding skills of ‘thinking outside the box’.

So why don’t all children come out highly creative? Because we adults and elders keep telling them that the paintings in which the colours are spilling out of the outline are untidy and that they must stay within the boundaries. We also praise their ‘neat’ drawings. We are sending and enforcing the message that paintings within the outline are ‘good’, the ones outside the outline are ‘not good’. Slowly the child begins to conform and stops depicting the auras as he sees them. We have seriously curbed the child’s freedom of expression.

Children not only see auras of people, they also see fairies and angels which we as adults do not. Many a time, a child will tell you about a friend that he saw sitting at his bedside when he was ill, or birdie friends that he / she sees flying around and that come to play with him. I have seen a little girl take out her plastic tea set and serve tea to a playmate only she could see. We think this is all the imagination of the children. In truth, it is anything but! These little beings of God are seeing other beings of God which we have lost the ability of seeing as we grew up.

As a child, Pratima (name changed) saw colours around people. She thought everyone did too. When she found out others did not, she thought something was wrong with her eyes. She stopped mentioning it. She even wished she could see like others. And slowly her wish came true. Over the years she started seeing ‘normal’ like others: people only, no colours. Only later she realized what a precious gift she had shunned, just so she could fit in with her peers.

Let us respect children’s special clairvoyant abilities. Even better, let us foster these strengths so they grow up into individuals living up to their full potential!

Soul Reflections

By Kamal Tolia

Children ….. Little Teachers from God

Part 5 Children and God

Having come from God, children intuitively accept the idea of God. You do not need to justify the presence of God for kids to start praying.

Kishan is a three year old boy who is prone to chest colds. He places his hands on his chest whenever he his chest is congested. He has been attuned to Reiki and knows that Reiki comes from God. As he heals himself, he chants the Gayatri Mantra which his mother has taught him: Om Bhur Bhuva Svaha, Tat Savitur Varenyam, Bhargo Devasya Dhi Mahi, Dhiyoyo Naha Prachodayat. The total surrender with which he carries out this act and says the prayer is a marvel to see! He has totally and unconditionally accepted the existence of a healing God. It is no surprise then that his congested chest heals.

Have you watched children at the temple? I have. They come right up to the Moorti, stand and stare at it for a few moments, and then bow down and make their obeisance. Unbelievable as it may sound, I have come across children who say they hear Mata or Ram or Krishna speak to them or see them extend an arm in blessing or that light was coming out of their eyes / hands / heart. So when children stand and stare at the Moortis, it is not an act of rudeness, but a time when special communication is taking place between God and child.

A friend who visited four year old Nikita’s family one day confided that she gets bad dreams. Very coolly and calmly, Nikita walked up to her and offered her a picture of Hanumanji. ‘Keep it with you’ she said. ‘He will protect you and you will sleep well’ she added confidently. Can one argue with this sweet logic? Such is the open trust little children have in God!

And contrary to what we think, death does not have the overpowering fear over children. When her mother passed away, Indira was reluctant to allow her seven year old son Mehul to see his grandmother’s body. Persuaded by her elders, she agreed. After seeing the body, Mehul was quiet for the rest of the day. But the next day, to her surprise and relief, Mehul announced that he knew where Grandma had gone. She had gone up to heaven and then become a star in the sky, watching over him and his dog! Such is the trust this little boy had in the existence of afterlife and that too, without any prompting from adults.

What happens when a child loses a pet? Almost all children accept the death of their pet. Although tears may come and they may need a replacement pet, innately, every child accepts death at a deep level. They know their pet has gone to God / Heaven / the sky. This total acceptance and letting go is what we adults have lost the ability to do.

It does not matter what their age or religious background is, children have an innate acceptance of God and his Goodness.

Soul Reflections

Kamal Tolia

Children …… Little Teachers from God

Part 6 …. First Lesson to learn from Children

Correct Breathing

Breath is Life and Life is Breath. Without breath there is no life.

What does a baby do as soon as it is born? It lets out a cry, filling up its lungs with much needed oxygen. This is usually a natural act, but if it does not happen by itself, then the baby is helped by the doctor who gives it a loving smack on its bottom to facilitate its crying.

After this initial discomfort, the baby starts to breathe on its own. Although still dependant on its mother for nutrition, it is now considered to be an individual being. So important is the first breath of a baby that astrologers mark the time of birth as the time of the baby’s first cry! This is the time used to calculate all astrological data concerning the baby’s life!

Having taken this first gulp of air, the baby settles down to a perfect rhythm of breathing. Its little stomach moves in and out and its chest expands and contracts in an in-breath and out-breath rhythm. As the stomach moves out and the chest expands, the lungs automatically expand downwards and outwards and life supporting air fills them. As the stomach moves in and the chest contracts, stale and unused air is forced out of the lungs. The baby carries out this breath sequence perfectly! No struggle, No haste!

As adults, we have lost this ability to breathe correctly. We breathe too shallow, too fast. Too little oxygen reaches our lungs and ultimately to our organs, tissues and cells. This seriously compromises all life processes in them. Is it any wonder that we fall sick?

Shallow, fast breathing is what the body would do under stress. When we continuously breathe incorrectly, the body reads it as a continuous state of stress and responds by producing stress hormones continuously, which further make us breathe shallow and fast …… the cycle goes on. This can result in stress diseases like heart problems, high blood pressure, asthma, diabetes, etc which as we all know can have serious consequences.

So what is the way out of this vicious cycle? We need to re learn how to breathe! For this purpose, some of us attend Pranayama or Breathwork classes. We go to teachers to learn Ujjayi Breathing, Anulome – Vilome, Kapal Bhatti etc.

But we have simply overlooked what is right under our noses! Babies, little Teachers from God, can teach us our first lesson: How to breathe! If we could only watch a baby breathing as he / she sleeps AND COPY THEM, we would breathe correctly!

Once we have the correct breathing rhythm embedded in our life style, we can say goodbye to stress and hello to good health! Once we learn to breathe like a baby, we will even be able to sleep like a baby! No worry, no stress! What more could we ask for!?

Soul Reflections

Kamal Tolia

Children …… Little Teachers from God

Part 7 …. Second Lesson to learn from Children

Children truly live in the moment. In my teaching career I have been privileged to witness this many times. Just watch them at play in the sand pit / at the swings / in the playground at school or at home. If a child gets hurt, he / she may cry for a while, but as soon as they can, they get back to the play. They do not spend a minute longer than necessary on what has happened or the pain they felt. They go back to the game going on NOW.

Even older children of 6 – 8 years do not keep a grudge for long. Girls of this age group may call each other names but will sooner or later get back to the present and enjoy their game once more. Boys in this category may have a fisti – cuff to settle a score, but when that is done, they are back to enjoying playing with each other.

No dwelling in the past, what they live in is the present —- every moment of it! And what do we adults do? The exact opposite. We spend most of our waking moments thinking about our past and the mistakes we made or who hurt us, etc. or worrying about the future. In between the past and the future, we lose the present moment!

One day, Suresh, a father of two, asked his 6 year old son Yogesh whether he had any memories of his past lives. Yogesh looked him straight in the eye and answered it would be better if he (Suresh), focused on what was happening in his own life right now instead of digging into his (Yogesh’s) past!! Such profound wisdom coming from a six year old! Truly, children are our Gurus in disguise!

In another incident, Punita was grieving over the death of her sister in law who had just succumbed to cancer. It was a very painful loss as they had been very close. In the midst of the heavy, sad atmosphere in the house, her 8 year old son Pranav came up to her and said ‘Mummy, don’t be sad. Aunty has gone, but she will come again. You have to die to be born again, Mummy’. Who can argue with this sweet logic?  Punita couldn’t help but smile at her little teacher and hug him. According to her, that was the turning point in her grief. She was able to accept the death of her sister in law, let go of the past, and start living in the present. She could be healed of her grief.

Here is the second lesson we can learn from children. Let go of the attachment to the past. What happened and what didn’t. Who did what to us and who didn’t. Let go of our attachment to the future too, what might or might not happen. Only then can we enjoy living in the present.

Soul Reflections

Kamal Tolia

Children …… Little Teachers from God

Part 8 …. Third Lesson to learn from Children

Expressing our emotions freely.

A psychologist living in the UK shared an incident she had witnessed in a park. It was summer, and the park was full of excited voices of children playing. Some were kicking a ball, others were on the swings, and still others were riding their bikes at the edge of the park.

One such group was playing by themselves. On a bench nearby, was an old man, sitting forlornly by himself. He was lost in his thoughts, but one could see the sadness in his face. A little girl from the group, perhaps 4 years old, suddenly left her group and walked up to the old man. She climbed on to the bench and hugged him. The hug lasted a good 2 – 3 minutes. She then got off the bench and went back to playing with her friends.

Not a word was exchanged between the man and the girl. But the act of being loved by somebody without any conditions attached was enough to make the man cry. The tears came and with them the emotional release he needed to heal. That done, the old man got up and walked away with a smile.

Such spontaneous acts come naturally to children. Intuitively they pick up on the emotions that others around them are feeling and they act accordingly.

Children express their emotions without inhibitions. If they are happy, they laugh freely, without worrying about what others will think about how they are laughing. If they are sad, they cry openly, without feeling ashamed of crying.

It is us adults that stifle this freedom of expression in children by telling them: “ Sh Sh ….. don’t laugh so loudly ….” Or “stop crying, you are a big boy / girl … big boys / girls don’t cry ….”

We suppress them just as we were suppressed in childhood. Not allowing ourselves to express our emotions can have disastrous consequences. We can become introverts. Our relationships can be compromised. We may even find it difficult to relate with anyone!

Not expressing our emotions freely leads to their build up in our body, making us ill.

But, you might say, we know all that … at the root of every disease is a negative emotion. The question is what can we do about it? The tragic fact is that having suppressed our emotions for so long, it is not easy to just reverse the process and start expressing them right away.

But we can make a start. And who better to guide us than children?! Laugh freely, and cry even more freely! Be sensitive to other peoples’ feelings. Tell the ones you love that you love them. Show them by hugging them and see how they reciprocate by loving you and hugging you back! As children, we had this ability to express our emotions freely. It is still within us. It is just dormant, not dead. We can awaken it!

Soul Reflections

Kamal Tolia

Children …… Little Teachers from God

Part 9 …. Fourth Lesson to learn from Children

Unconditional Acceptance

Do you remember your first day at school? Everything was exciting and frightening at the same time! A new place, new people, new books, a new desk and chair!

There were more little kiddos like you in the class. There were maybe 30 or 40 or even 60 altogether! You didn’t know their names of course. But how long did it take you make friends with them? Not long, I bet!

And did you ask them what religion they followed before you made friends with them? Did you even notice their colour? Were they white, black, brown, yellow or green? Did you even care if they were rich or poor? Whether they came from a high class family or low class family?

I think I speak for all when I say the answer to all the above questions is an emphatic NO!! None of us cared about these factors as a child. We made friends with anybody and everybody, full stop. And in many cases, the friends we made in childhood became our lifelong friends! Many of us feel that true friendship is only experienced in childhood, because it is minus any ulterior motives.

Then as we grew older, we became victims of social prejudices and in the process, created some brand new ones of our own. We followed the examples set by our families and elders and repeated their mistakes and adopted their religious, race, social and economic preferences. Some races were good, others were bad, we decided. Some we should keep friends with, others not, we decided. Some were worthy of our love and attention, others not, we decided.

Is it any wonder then, that our world is populated with hatred, anger, intolerance, lack of love? Is it any wonder that we have no lasting peace in most parts of the world?

In this hugely unpleasant world of our creation, we would do well to remember that a child will never choose his friends based on the caste and creed of the person. He / she has no prejudice against a religion, skin colour, social status or economic background. A child will simply love someone for who they are, not for what they appear to be. This is the Godly quality they possess, for only God is known to love all his children without prejudice i. e. unconditionally.

Here then is the third lesson we need to relearn from children: Be accepting of all people all the time. Be accepting of all people of all religions, caste, race, UNCONDITIONALLY. Do not have a superiority complex or an inferiority one. No thinking that My God is better, bigger, more powerful than Your God!

If the world became even half as unconditionally accepting of everybody as a child naturally is, there would be no wars, terrorism, religious conflicts. They would become a thing of the past and stay there where they belong!

Soul Reflections

Kamal Tolia

Children …… Little Teachers from God

Part 10 ……. Conclusion

All of us were babies and children once. We all had a pure aura and had the ability to see auras. We were clairvoyant and psychic. We knew the correct way to breathe, we lived in the moment and we expressed our emotions freely. We even accepted and loved others unconditionally.

But as we grew up we changed and lost all our God given abilities. We live in the past or worry about the future and therefore lose the NOW. We have lost the skills of expressing our feelings. We cannot love freely, cry openly, show our gratitude sincerely or even appreciate these qualities in others. All that we see in others is the difference between them and us …. their looks, their beliefs, their backgrounds.

Everybody is guilty of doing this …. every adult. Has this behavior and attitude made for a better family structure, better society, nation or world? Sadly, the answer is NO. One doesn’t have to have a PhD in human relations to understand that our world is populated with distrust, intolerance, hatred, selfishness and greed.

This then is the world we have helped create. Each of us is partly responsible. Little do we know that what we have created ultimately comes back to us only. We are the ones who are ultimately not at peace. We are not happy.

What is the way out of this? The answer is to go back to being a child. That does not mean to become childish. It means to become child – like. Only then will you be able to get back the qualities you once had as a child. You will be able to let go of the past, forgive freely, accept unconditionally and love everyone unconditionally.

But that is easier said than done. We really can’t turn the clock back. Nor do we need to. We only want to revive the beautiful qualities we had in us, which are still in us, albeit unused and rusty.

The best way to do this is to spend time with babies and children ….. your own, your relative’s, your neighbour’s, your friend’s. If you are a grandparent, spend more time with your grandchildren. Watch them play with each other, or better still, play with them.

Angela Schmidt says: While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. And Jesus Christ: Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven … Mathew 18:3.

Let us honour our children. Let us see in them the Gurus they are. Let us relearn from them all that we have unlearned as we grew up. Let us remember to see the God in them and by extension, the God in everybody else. Therein lies our salvation and ultimately the solution to a better world.

Last year 2011, the girls were taught Reiki level 1 in February and then Reiki Level 2 in May. These girls have passed out of the centre. In January this year, 21 new girls were admitted. So on March 19^th 2012, The Lotus Healing Seva Group held a Reiki level 1 workshop for them and for others from different levels of society.

The event started at 9 am and finished at 4 pm. All were given mid morning refreshments and a sumptuous lunch.

As is usual in our Reiki workshops, all went away with the wonderful healing power in their hands and confident of how to heal themselves and others! All of them showed interest in learning the second level in June!

This brings to 17, the number of Reiki camps Lotus Healing Seva Group (Kenya) has held over the last five and a half years!

The members who took part in this seva were: Punita, Mamta, Anuradha, Lata, Dee, Shalini and Kamal

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Lotus Healing Seva Group Teaches Reiki to Special Needs Children

House helps learn Reiki!

I taught Reiki first level to 4 of my lady house help. Since they did not have much free time, I taught them on two days, 2 hours each day. They learnt the first part on 7^th Jan. 2012.

Here are their experiences during the attunement.  One of them, Maya had pain in her neck which was healed immediatly, the other one felt a lightness in her body which she says is normally stiff , the third and fourth felt a cool breeze in their fingers. I told them to continue healing themselves for a week.

We met again on the 14 Jan. and I taught them the rest .They healed themselves and then on their partners. Both days we ended the class by eating a sweet meat shared by 4 of them.

Reiki for Househelps

Reiki for Househelps

Reiki for Househelps

Reiki Kamini and the Househelps

Reiki for Househelps

Healing for Multiple Sclerosis

Meena Kothari is about 65 yrs old & has( MS )multiple sclerosis since 20 yrs.  In the month of December I got a call from my Guru Ram Mohanjee who asked me to give Reiki to Meena, since the right side of her jaw was in extreme pain.  Immediately I started praying and sent her Reiki (We know Meena for a long time My husband Nandu and I used to visit Meena. Nandu used to sing bhajans for her She is house bound).

Nandu and I went asap to Meena. She was in tears She had not brushed her teeth due to the pain for about 15 days. I gave her hands on Reiki saying mantras. We sat with her for a while and Nandu sang bhajans for her. After that I sent her  Reiki  for 8days and Meena rang up to say that she was much better.

I was thinking of giving her request to LHSG worldwide, but I did not get down to emailing. And then can u imagine, after another 8days Meena called to say that the pain had totally vanished and she asked me when she could start brushing.  I asked her to start with a baby brush and she did just that. But due to the pain she would brush only once a day she says it was so refreshing to be able to brush!!

On the 11th when we visited her she complained of numbness and difficulty in movement of her right side. Nandu LHSG India too has learnt Reiki and we both gave her  hands on Reiki inch by inch. However, in spite of the numbness, Meena was in a very good mood and smiling. Now she is going to brush twice like all of us. I continue to send Reiki to her not only distance of and on but a lot in thought form and prayers.

I have been very happy and thankful to Reiki for the great change in Meena Kothari.

Kamini with Meena Kothari

Kamini with Meena Kothari

Kamini with Meena Kothari

Please listen to the audio attachment and hear in Meena’s voice how much she suffered and how healed she felt.

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Reiki presentation at The Sight challenged college

On 10^th Feb, I gave a Reiki presentation at the Kamala School for Blind Girls in Mumbai in Hindi. 60 girls and their teachers and Principal listened to the us expounding on what Reiki is and its benefits. LHSG members Nandu, Manisha also accompanied me, Manisha also giving hands on Reiki to some of the children. Plans are underway to hold a Reiki camp for the girls and the staff of the school

Kamini giving Reiki presentation at the Kamala Blind School for Girls Mumbai

Principal and teachers of Kamala school for Blind girls

Sixty Girl Students from Kamala Blind School for Girls Hearing Reiki Presentatioin

Sixty Girl Students from Kamala Blind School for Girls Hearing Reiki Presentatioin

Healing at the hospital.

On the 13 th of Jan my husband Nandu( 1st level), also a LHSG member and I went to Parsi General hospital, Mumbai, to give healing to an old Parsi lady Abaan Ranina. She has MS(multiple sclerosis) There seems to be a tear at her diaphram whereby the lower organs are pressing on her lungs and she finds it difficult to breathe (that is haitus hernia). We did our best. She did open her eyes as if to acknowledge us.

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Kamini Asrani (LHSG India) and I gave two presentation on Reiki during which the healing benefits of Reiki were explained and mass healing was done for all participants. These events were held at the Times of India building and the Hindu Gymkhana on 26^th Dec and 27^th Dec respectively. The healing received by the participants had such fantastic and immediate results, that we had a flood of requests there and then to hold a Reiki workshop!

Accordingly, on 30^th Dec, LHSG opened its heart and the doors of the Spiritual Centre in Mumbai, to admit 58 men women and children to its first Reiki Level 1 Free Camp! Although the room was small, and we were a bit cramped, it did not in any way diminish the enthusiasm of the participants, which was literally palpable throughout the day. Lying down for the attunement also proved a challenge, as there was no way that all could be accommodated in a single room. There was excitement in the air as they spread out in 3 rooms and eagerly awaited their attunement. ‘AUM’ was chanted 3 times, to calm them down before the actual transfer of the attunement began.

After a break in which tea and refreshments were served, they did self healing, marveling at the new found Reiki power in their hands. After lunch, once again they had to spread out in the three rooms to do partner healing and group healing. But then we had another challenge coming our way. Apparently one of the rooms we were using had been booked at 3 pm by a ‘Bhajan’ (holy songs of worship) singing group. Luckily, by that time we had finished our healing and got back to our initial room. I was concerned about how I would continue teaching with singing going on next door, but to my surprise, it did not interfere in any way. So, to the background accompaniment of melodious voices singing Hindu bhajans of the Lord, we concluded the last part of the Reiki workshop.

By the end of the workshop, the participants had, (no surprises here) healing experiences to relate …… pains gone, acidity gone, more relaxed, asthma calmed. One of them, who had been chronically ill, felt pain free for the first time in years!

At 4.30 pm, their faces glowing with Reiki the happy participants and us did the ‘Circle of Love and Prayers’. Seeing the joy on their faces, my heart too was filled with joy and gratitude. I was humbled and grateful that yet again, I had been given this beautiful opportunity to be an instrument of the Lord / Universe to do his / her work of spreading Love and Light through the power of Reiki!

Kamal Tolia

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Hi, I was supposed to write a note of my experience with Lotus Healing Seva Group, it is as below.

Early this year, I was faced with a disease / discomfort which had made me panic, as to its origin and reason. I went through extensive medical texts, but could not get through to the root cause.

I discussed this with my sister Jyoti, and she otganised for the Lotus Healing Seva Groupo to send me their etheric healing powers, which seemed to work wonders, as the problem disappeared from day 1 of taking this healing power. I have been free of this discomfort / problem for the past 3 months, and I always reach out to the LHSG on a daily basis, to renew / restore my healing powers, and it has worked well for me.

I am now being a bit greedy, and always ask for mote healing powers, so that I can keep my family safe and free of all disease / illness / discomfort / pain etc.

Keep up the good work, now and always,

regards

Manish Shah

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Nov 28, 2011

Dear Kamal Tolia and the Lotus Healing Seva Group,

On behalf of my special children and their mothers, I  would very much like to say a big thank you to all the Saturday group for having us and specially Mrs. Sandeep Bhambra who hosted the session at her place and for the lovely tea.

To us you were like an angel, sent by God above, to cleanse our soul of sadness and stress and fill it with love and relaxation. You were our inspiration and we thank you all for showing us the way to better natural healing abilities.

Your caring concern and the love you showed us, the whole world I would tell, what your friendship, and love means to us.Taking time to help us was a very nice thing to do. I know that you are people who sacrifice for others without thinking. Thank you.

I, Ela Shah would like to share how the first Reiki session helped my two (Special needs) daughters, Anishee and Hirashi that day. They both have disturbed sleep normally but that night they both went to sleep early and they slept throughout till next day 11am. In fact they had to be woken up from their deep sleep. It was like after a very long long time they had a peaceful sleep. It was really amazing.

Words can’t express the gratitude I feel when I think about what you all have done. I will say thanks for the support and concern and thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us. It has helped us immensely  and the spark in us. Thankyou,

Kind regards

Ela Shah.

Nairobi, Kenya

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December 20, 2011

Dear Kamal and Lotus Healing Seva Group

On behalf of the Hawkers Market Girls Centre, we would like to thank you for your support in the year 2011.

We would like to note the following:

March 2011    10,000/-            Donation

March 2011    10,000/-             I and M Bank        for Kibondeni for Jackie course in Catering

June   2011      9,800/-             Fina Bank             fees for Nancy at Graffins Diploma

SELINE ACHIENG:       School Fees SH 50 000/=  LHSG

MARY ATITO:  School Fees  Sh 9000 LHSG + SH 41 000/=In the name of Kunjan (LHSG)

MERCY ZINDORI:  SH 50 000/= IN THE NAME OF MR. HARESH GOKALDAS (LHSG)

We would also like to appreciate that Lotus Healing Seva Group came on three separate days to give Reiki treatment to the girls. The girls were also taught Reiki level 1 and Level 2 free of charge. And later, even their parents and friends were taught Reiki Free of charge, their transport paid for, and lunch and refreshments provided.

At the graduation this year (Dec 2011), where Ayala (LHSG Kenya) and Dee (LHSG Kenya) were present, the girls expressed how empowered they feel, each one has a job / school / college to go to, and their self esteem and confidence has multiplied. No one can give them that. They are leaving HMGC  with a treasure and a gift that you have given them

Thank you very much,

Shariffa Keshavjee

Founder Member HMGC

December 2011

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Seva: Free Reiki Booster Attunements Worldwide 1st Dec.

LHSG Kenya (Thursday Group)

By Kamal Tolia

Our last Seva for our 6^th anniversary celebrations was to offer Free Reiki booster attunements to Reiki channels worldwide. This happened on 1^st December 2011. For this purpose, Reiki Master Teachers Ayala, Monica, Nalina, Laxmi, Prafulla and I met together to send  Distant Reiki Attunements.

In all, 167 attunements were done, at various levels of Reiki: 1, 2 and 3A. The people that benefitted from these free attunements were our LHSG members, their families and friends  from all over the world: New York USA, UK, UAE, India, Democratic Republic of Congo, The Netherlands, Israel, Iceland, Romania, South Africa, Canada, Tanzania and of course Kenya.

A Reiki Booster Attunement has a twofold effect. If you are a regular Reiki practitioner, it enhances your healing power. If you have not been practicing regularly and hardly feel the flow of Reiki in your hands, it re introduces Reiki in your life. In both cases, you are healed even as you get attuned. We thought that sending attunements was a befitting way to do Seva for all us Reiki and Light workers worldwide, who normally are so busy healing the world, they hardly have time to heal themselves!

Below are the responses of some of the Recipients. Thank you for your replies!

Harsha LHSG Sat. ……. I would like to thank you for the attunement yesterday , it was amazing as always felt lots of heat and lots of energy thank you all very much for the same.

 Kamini LHSG India …… Hi. Aum. I would like to share my experience I lay down in bed at 7 am (the choosen time) First I felt a shower of light which was entering me through the centre of my head (the bindu chakra) it was passing through my whole body and exiting from my feet as though clearing me. This went on for 2or3 mins after which the flow of light stopped going out of my feet and so started filling me up .When I was filled up the light energy started flowing through my hands this too continued for a while and then the inflow became stronger and stronger till it was a river of light energy and I (Kamini) was not there at all This went on for awhile and then slowly it came to a stop. I got up in a while and did my meditation, Reiki healing and prayers. Thanks, Love

Anamaria LHSG Romania …. I want to tell you that :  I saw like ”sky opening” and I received a lot of light, like beams and very delicate petals of pure light, like” patching” my body, in a magnificent way. I saw also a very frowned figure (like curios and angry), but I told him that I love him and he disappeared and instead I started to see a lot of green light. After a while the ”sky hole” closed itself, but I still feel awesome. Thank you again , With gratitude of meeting you and your group, L&L

Shobhna LHSG Kenya Sat. …. Aum  and  Namaste. I  feel  very  light  and  happy  and  my  neck  feels  really  good  after  having  some  problems. My  throat  chakras  must  have  needed  that  attunement. Thank  you  very  much. With  best regards, love n light,

Vaishali LHSG Kenya Sat. ….. The Reiki Booster Attunement was amazing, the minute my time was up I could feel the crown and agya chakra started tingling, hencewhen I lay on my back on the bed I felt this warmth over come me and the whole body. Soon after a little while my body all of a sudden disappeared from below me and all I could sense was my head. After which I could feel myself floating in the mist of clouds high above the planet earth. Like I was in some other world where I felt peace and very light, like I wasn’t carrying any burdens, that I was free from everything…It was the most amazing feeling I had, I just float around sensing this powerful energy entering me and there was a lot of white light that surrounded me. I must say that i slept very well that night….. I would like to thank you and all the other members that took part in this. From my side I am very grateful and appreciate the positive energy that was sent to me…… Much love and Light

Joan LHSG UK ……. Dear Kamal and your lovely team  (Monica, Ayala, Nalina, Prafulla and Laxmi) ….Thank you all so much for your precious contribution in manifesting the beautiful Reiki Booster Attunements. …. Just before the appointed time I prepared myself and my room and waited.   At precisely 10 am (my chosen time)   I immediately knew that the attunement had begun because I felt a pulsating wave of energy around my body and I felt myself grow lighter - almost weightless.    This lasted only for a few moments and then I felt a tremendous feeling of love in my heart as if it would burst.   I also saw a beautiful colour of very pale mauve.    After that it all leveled out and I just felt very peaceful. It was a wonderful experience and I feel truly blessed to have received this attunement….. With love and gratitude, Namaste

Kirti, Palak and Maitri, LHSG UAE. ….. Namaste Aunty,….

For Kirti :  It was very very good n I could immediately feel when it started… I had flashes of purple light, in proper rhythm… It was for a long time… Heaviness in the forehead…

I could feel something going in my head from the crown chakra, as if some power…

It was in white colour… And like all the attunements, this time also the same vision – left side sea n right side mountain…The water blue colour and the mountains of rock-brown colour… Saw it as I m sitting on the shore, alone…

For Palak : It was heavy in forehead but yet the feeling was of calmness… Flashes of light…

 For Maitri : It was very heavy in the heart chakra… After a few mins it was getting difficult for her to stay still… She felt congestion in chest n heaviness…

This was making disturbing her n so was getting distracted but stayed till she felt it was over… Thank you very much Aunty and to others from all 3 of us…. God bless You and all those who did this superb Seva of giving booster attunements to all of us, everywhere… Thank you,

Dipti LHSG Kenya Sat. And Nira…. Dear Kamal Aunty,…. We would like to first thank Monica, Ayala, Nalina, Prafulla, Laxmi and yourself for taking the time to send us a Reiki Booster attunement. ….. The experience was indeed very pleasant and relaxing. Nira and I both fell asleep and was a very calming and peaceful experience. Once we woke up we felt re-energized and had a sense of peace…. Thank you once again for this experience. Love and Light,

Hita LHSG Kenya Sat…. Reiki Booter Attunement was so nice and wow !!!! I have no words…. I felt so calm, lots of white light flowing and there was like a ring moving around crown chakra with so much speed. Then I sent the Reiki to mother earth and as usual it was flowing nonstop… Love and Light

Raj LHSG Kenya Thursday….. Dear Kamal ……  As you are aware I hardly get any experiences, but on the 1st was just out of the world. … I had asked for that time as I am always in my pray room, this time I felt you came up with a flame of white in your hand and this you placed in the middle of my forhead. … Then a few minutes later the whole attuners were standing and are pouring water from jugs onto the whole world, the water kept pouring and this went on for a while. …. That whole day I just felt my head was very light and I was just feeling so blissful and have never felt like this…. Then throughout that day, 1st December, I was bursting with love in my heart and I just wanted to hug everyone I saw!!!…. It was so uncontrollable that I first asked all my morning yoga class to hug themselves, then when I saw my house help in the morning I gave her a hug!!!…. Just felt like hugging everyone!! …. Thank you all.

Krista LHSG Holland …..The booster attunement was great. It’s like magic, every time again and again. I felt it very strongly. In fact, I was still busy lighting candles and getting ready at the agreed time when I felt it coming. I had to quickly down and let it come over me completely. I have been feeling very clear in my mind and body since that day. I feel very healthy, if that makes sense… My daughter Kat,  (9years) got her attunement while she was sleeping at night. She woke up with a grand smile and told me she had had wonderful dreams. She had dreamt she received great grades for all of her subjects, which made her very happy. …. So all very good experiences. Kate has been practicing self healing again and she says it is much stronger than before. Many, many thanks for the booster! …. L&L

Zareena LHSG USA ….. My booster was absolutely fabulous.  It was relaxing and I felt at peace like a blanket had enveloped me….. Thank you so much.

Bina Shah LHSG UK, Leader …. Thank you for the booster attunement. There was wonderful energy at the beginning and then white and purple light and felt lots of peace and love. Thank you to all!

Priti Mehta LHSG UAE …. Thanks for sending me Reiki booster attunements. It was a great experience. First 10 min I was just lying down but after that I feel that rainbow light was entering into my body through my scalp and it was a wonderful experience. After that I was in deep meditation. GREAT!!!!!!!  EXPERIENCE.

Seva No. 2 Reiki Level 2 Camp, 19^th Nov 2011

By Kamal Tolia

LHSG Kenya (Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday Group) continued the celebrations by holding yet another Reiki level 2 camp on 19^th November, for the Slum people in Nairobi. Like all previous camps it was a successful affair!

30 people were initiated into the Level 2 Reiki energy at the Ram Mandir Hall in Parklands. There were men, women and children, the youngest being 7 years old. Needless to say, the Lotus Healing Seva Group felt privileged to do this Seva for these underprivileged people. Some of these people had had very little schooling. Although they found the symbols challenging, they did very well.

A group of them had been meeting every week after Completing Reiki Level 1 to heal each other, their friends, neighbours and family. They had even been ‘sending’ Reiki to their families up country in Kenya …… with wonderful results! They did this without any knowledge of Reiki Symbols! This just goes to prove that WHEN YOU HEAL WITH LOVE, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!

The LHSG Sevaks for this camp were: Jean, Dee, Raj, Ayala, Prafulla, Kailesh, Varsha, Yatinder, Kamal, Ushma, Faith, Yvonne, and Sheila.
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