LHSG Kenya (Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday Group) continued the celebrations by holding yet another Reiki level 2 camp on 19th 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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Seva No 4: Reiki healing and presents to the children in the oncology wards, Kenyatta National Hospital 27 Nov 2011
By Dee Hockey LHSG Kenya (Thursday group)
On Sunday 27th November a group from the Saturday Lotus Healing Seva group plus Jean and Dee from the Thursday group went to visit the children’s Oncology wards at the Kenyatta National Hospital to give the children Reiki and some lovely gifts of story books, colouring and activity books and crayons. We also gave them some toothpaste and pampers. When she arrived Kamal said she thought we had far to many presents and we wouldn’t need them all. Well that was definitely not the case, it turned out to be like the feeding of the 5 thousand!!
This visit was organised by Shamim from the Saturday group and she had arranged with Mr Ithai to meet us and show us around the wards. He met us along with quite a few of his colleagues who also escorted us.
The first ward we visited was the ” Israeli” ward because all the renovations had been paid for by the Israeli Embassy. However all except 3 of the children had gone off to church. We spoke to the remaining children and gave them some presents, then we gave them Reiki. The other children from this ward were out side after Church and some were playing football, but others were quite ill in wheel chairs. They were very excited to be given books and colours and they received a lot of Reiki from us. Many photographs were taken and they sung us a lovely song.
At this point we did not realise we had 4 more cancer wards to visit in the main part of the hospital! This was a very different experience because there were just so many little children running around everywhere. They wanted to touch us and see what we were carrying and they kept trying to open the bags of gifts. We were ushered into the first ward which contained about 10 cots, each with 2 sick little children in. Apart from the patients there were many siblings and relatives all crammed into the small room and many other children were trying to get inside the ward especially when we started to give out the presents we had. It was very difficult to know who were the patients and who were the visitors. We were then taken to the next ward where much the same thing happend. As we left each ward we gave some Reiki to each room.
We were still being followed by all these tiny little people desperate for a book who were told they could not have one unless they were on their bed, however this instruction fell on deaf ears! After the 2nd ward we realised we had nearly run out of presents so Kamal and some of the other ladies decided to give the last few things to the children who were in the corridor, which caused a near riot!!! We who were at the back quickly started giving Reiki to the situation and it calmed down, thankfully before poor Kamal was mobbed!
It was a chastening experience for us all to see so many sick children and I think we all wished we could have done more. We felt the hospital was quite clean and considering how many sick children there were the staff were doing a great job of caring for them.
Thank you for organising the visit Shamim and I think it made us all realise that we need an unending supply of gifts if we are going to repeat the trip!
The Sevaks that did Seva at the KNH were: Jean, Fhanreet, Vaishali, Ushma, Amita, Dipti, Shobhna, Sandeep, Shamim, Dee and Kamal. Please read some of their comments below:
Sandeep LHSG Saturday….The visit to KNH/Children’s ward was full of emotions for me. An eye opener and 2 lessons I took home, once again: “don’t take it for granted” and “learn to count blessings than complaining for what is missing”. Those kids despite their medical/physical situation were full of light and smiles. Today, I value even more the words we were taught in Reiki Level 1 “Just for today I will live the attitude of gratitude”.
Shobhna LHSG Saturday ….The visit to KNH to oncology children’s ward on sunday was amazing. In spite of their illnesses most of the children were very warm and cheerful souls. It was a sheer pleasure to offer them seva with love and light. I felt bad for not having enough presents for them. But we did not know their exact numbers.My apologies to those souls who were totally disappointed and showed it by crying loudly for not getting a colouring book or crayons. We can feel other person’s pain when we visit such places. As a rule we take too much for granted. I have put these children in my list for healing on a daily basis.
Dipti Haria LHSG Saturday …… the Sunday Seva wasa 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.
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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Seva: Healing Lake Toronto and Remembrance Day in the month of Nov. 2011
By Priya Betala LHSG (Mini Group)
Well I decided I would heal for 15 minutes every Saturday of November.
Waters
Remembrance Day falling on November 11 a day that marks the anniversary of the official end of the World War I hostilities. In memory of all Remembrance Day commemorates those who died in armed conflicts, particularly in and since World War I.
It was a feeling of satisfaction to heal all those who died not in World War I but any war or any country where people lost lives fighting to give future generations a better world. And the Reiki flowed through beautifully.
I somewhere feel they are just like us healers who had same intention to make world a better place. It felt so good that though we are in December and our anniversary month is over but I feel good to continue this one.
Again it was wonderful experience healing the waters and adding to Lake Ontario. I did this last year too but that was distant and so was it going to be this year, but your email to try healing bottle of water and adding it to Lake Ontario was a good idea.
If we could add this intention in our weekly list of ‘healing all those souls who died in armed conflict for justice be healed with love from those who bear the fruits of their sacrifice’ it would be a great Seva.
