Kenya
Seva No 3. Healing Special Children and their Mums and Sisters., 26 Nov. 2011
By Kamal Tolia
On Saturday 26th November 2011, the LHSG Kenya Saturday, Thursday and Youth Groups gathered in Sandeep’s house for the second Seva in the celebratory month of November. And what Seva was that? To give Hands on Reiki healing to mentally and / or physically challenged youngsters and their Mums and sisters.
The visitors arrived at about 3.30 pm. Kamal Tolia introduced the Lotus Healing Seva Group and its activities, and Ela Shah, the wonderful lady who runs the day care for these children in her house, introduced herself and the others. One of the children, Janak, had just had his birthday the day before, and wanted everybody to sing for him, so we all sang ‘Happy Birthday’.
Chairs were arranged in a circle in Sandeep’s lovely, picturesque front yard. After the children and their mums were seated, Lotus Healing Seva Group members went to work in pairs. Some gave Reiki to the children, while others gave healing to the mums and sisters. All took a lot of healing, the children even commenting on how hot the practitioner’s hands felt. Even the Mums said they felt sooooo good and relaxed after the treatment.
Tea and tasty snacks prepared by Sandeep and Clara were served after the treatment. The children had brought chocolates of different flavours which they had made themselves! They shared them with everybody. The chocolates were delicious, and enjoyed by all!
We felt very privileged to be healing these special children, and very humbled to be chosen for this task. So moved were we by this experience, that we wanted to repeat the healing for them on Saturdays and also teach them Reiki so they could heal themselves too. The visitors welcomed these ideas enthusiastically. These plans will be effected in January next year. In the meantime, we have placed them in our healing lists, so they will receive healing every week.
Tejal, Fhanreet, Hardeep, Daksha, Shobhna, Dipti, Shamim, Hita, Ushma, Amita, Sandeep, Clara, Kamlesh, Raj, Nalina, Harleen, Bhavik, Aleena, Simran, and Kamal were the sevaks for this event. Ela Shah and some of the the LHSG members express their feelings here.
Ela …. 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 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…. Rekha, mother of Sarit had also this to say: Both she and her son Sarit had a very peaceful sleep that night, …something they had not experienced for a long, long time! …… 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. Thank you
Sandeep …. Happiness always looks small if you hold it in your hands,
but when you learn to share it, you will realize how big and precious it is.
We are grateful that our home was chosen to give healing to those special kids.
Raj …. The gift of doing sewa on the special youngsters was a great bonus. These youngsters were so receptive to Reiki and actually were happy at the end. You could see that some of them were asking for more Reiki on certain parts of their bodies. There was nothing but love flowing from their eyes and how easily they accepted us and called us a family…… I certainly felt very blessed that we were fortunate enough to do this great sewa.
Shobhna …. I think it was a wonderful opportunity and a very touching experience to offer seva on Saturday to the mentally and physically challenged children who had come with their mothers. I salute the mothers who are doing so much for these children round the clock. It was a continuous flow of energy of love and light going to the Children. I was very happy to offer seva to them and was most impressed by Janak (one of the children in that group) who said his prayers before starting to have his snack given to him by his mum. Janak also invited myself and Tejal to go to the yacht club for his birthday party and he insisted we are all a family. I feel he must have sensed the love we showed him. God bless them all. I feel we should offer seva of reiki to them on regular basis.
Hardeep …. It touches ones heart when one sees these children and how beautiful and innocent they are…..It was an eye opener for me and made me realize that we should constantly thank God instead of complaining about irrelevant things..
Dipti Haria ….. the Saturday Seva was a very gratifying and humbling experience. There is no better feeling than knowing we have made a positive impact on these very special children s’ lives. We should continue helping these wonderful children and giving them Reiki on a continuous basis.
Hita …… I was so pleased that I was given an opportunity to do seva on 26th November. I felt so good and energetic after the seva. It was a special connection with those kids like a family.
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