LHSG’s 16th Anniversary Seva No. 2

Posted on October 15, 2021 by kamal

September 30th and October 1st were special days for 45 new children and 3 new teachers in  Mukuru Outreach Academy in Nairobi, because they received the beautiful gift of ‘Healing with Reiki’. We have been imparting this training to the children and teachers year in and year out, ever since we became associated with them 7 years ago. We have also been buying them text books every year which has resulted, not surprisingly, in their improved grades.

The attunement to Reiki Level 1 and self-healing was done on the first day, followed by partner-healing on the second day. And since we are celebrating our 16th Anniversary, Lotus Healing Seva Group treated the whole school of about 400 students and staff to milk and cream rolls on the first day and beans stew and chapattis on the second day. These were as much loved by them as their newly discovered healing power!

A big thank you to teacher Vincent who conducted the Reiki training, and to the Head Teacher Enock and the school accountant Edith, for their continued support to LHSG. And a Special thank you to Teacher Vincent who carried out the training so perfcetly. 

Thank you, dear reader, for reading this. The video of all the activities follows below.

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LHSG’s 16th Anniversary Seva No. 1

Posted on October 4, 2021 by kamal

Sixteen years ago, 10 healers in Nairobi, Kenya, got together to do Reiki healing Seva collectively. It comprised of mainly distant healing. Soon we started doing hands on healing for cancer patients, then teaching Reiki to old people, orphans, and people in the slums of Nairobi. And before we knew it, in no time at all, we expanded into USA, UK, UAE, India, Indonesia, Australia, and into Tanzania in Africa. Our seva activities grew and grew over the years. Even the Covid pandemic did not dampen our enthusiasm!

So fast forward to 16 years on. With great pride and happiness, I wish to make this announcement: on September 2nd, 2021, we expanded into Pakistan! Our Reiki friend Vikram Narayan teaches children in Nasarpur, Sindh, Pakistan. These children come from Hindu farm workers families, that are too poor to educate their children. In fact, the farmers themselves do not know how to read and write. And due to social stigma, the children are not allowed in normal schools.

Well, no matter. With great love LHSG decided to extend their Reiki healing training to these children, who have so little in their life to begin with. With Vikram’s excellent guidance, as they sat under the shade of a neem tree, their ‘classroom’, we LHSG in Nairobi, initiated these little children in Reiki level 1, This was followed by self-healing, and partner healing a week later. And the little miracles started coming in …..… headache gone, stomach ache gone, and improvement in concentration power! Even cessation of quarelling in their homes! It’s all there in the video. Most speak in Hindi, a few in Sindhi.

The children were treated to a samosa and apple each, and a few stationary items were bought for the ones who needed them.

We hope this seva will be the first of many such sevas in our new Reiki territory: the country of Pakistan.

This is our first seva for our 16th anniversary. To date, we have taught Reiki to 3749 people in 197 free Reiki trainings worldwide.    

Please do watch the video below.

Kamal Tolia

Founder Member

Lotus Healing Seva Group

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Thoughts And Practices Fro Enlightened Living 9

Posted on August 13, 2021 by kamal

Asking For Forgiveness

Part 9 Forgiveness for the Soul contd.

Dr Hewlen did not counsel the patients nor did he administer any medicines. He used an old Hawaiin healing sytem called Ho’oponopono which means ‘to make right’ or ‘correct an error’.

An ancient Hawaiian belief is that each family is a connection between the past and future generations. Hawaiians also believed that if you misbehaved or even kept anger in your heart for others, you would incur God’s wrath which would manifest as ill fortune or ill health for you. Further, since each member of the family was connected to his future descendants, if he did not correct his errors and make amends, the harm could move down to his children and grandchildren.

Therefore Hawaiians tried very hard to live harmoniously with each other and with nature, for it was believed that accumulated bad behavior would spill out and also affect nature negatively. Mistakes were accepted, but people had to repent for them, make amends, AND the hurt party must also forgive! Only then could they move forward in peace. The first step was to solve the conflict within the home ground itself. If that was not successful, a senior member of the family or a Kahuna (priest) would be asked to help.

The ancient Ho’oponopono was carried out thus: 1) A prayer was said 2) Each side was allowed to present their views 3) The discussion would continue, punctuated with intervals when each party was asked to reflect on their actions 4) Regardless of who had started or who had continued the conflict, each person had to ask forgiveness from the other. 5) Finally, each party had to forgive the other party!

Thus we can see that each person forgave the other, and asked for forgiveness from the other. This forgiving and asking for forgiveness went hand in hand. This is the golden rule of the ancient practice of Ho’opono pono. You forgave the other for the wrong he had done to you and at the same time you admit you had wronged him too and asked for forgiveness.

Extending this to our personal lives, all that is happening to us and around us is there because we have not asked for forgiveness and not forgiven! Modern Ho’opono pono has arisen out of this ancient practicing of accepting that you are responsible for what is going on in your life. Knowingly or unknowingly, you have wronged somebody, somewhere!

Kamal Tolia

Founder Member LHSG

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Thoughts And Practices For Enlightened Living 8

Posted on August 6, 2021 by kamal

Asking For Forgiveness

Part 8. Forgiveness for the Soul contd.

From last week: The cheerful smiling Dr. Iheakala Hewlen did not resign like his predecessors from the Hawaii state hospital. In fact, against all odds, his criminally insane patients became better and better! How did he do it?

The doctors and nurses watched him closely. He was a strange one, that doctor ….they thought. They noted two things: A) he continued being his smiling, cheerful self. How could he continue being that way? Did he not realize he was in charge of the worst of the worst wards? Was he a little ‘mad’ himself? B) He never even saw the patients. He did not even visit them in their rooms, not so much as put a stethoscope to their chests. All he did was to sit in his office, pick up a patient’s file, look at it for a while, and put it down. Then he would pick up the next patient’s file, look at it for a while, and put it down. He did this for the next patient, and the next, and the next, always picking up the file, looking at it, and putting it back … until the whole pile of patients’ files was done.

To the astonishment of the other doctors and nurses, as the days passed, the mentally insane patients, who everybody had given up on, started to get better and better. Violent situations reduced. The patients started to act more responsibly. The need for shackles and locked rooms decreased, until they were no longer needed. The quality of life improved for the inmates as well as the staff. The patients improved so much that they were ready for release from the ward. One by one, they left the hospital. Any new patients were treated by Dr. Hewlen in the same manner, and they too did not spend too much time in this special ward.

Dr. Hewlen continued working in this ward till 1987. By this time, because fewer and fewer patients were sent to him, this special ‘criminally insane’ ward had to be closed down.

What did Dr. Ihaleakala do that healed the patients? How did this miracle come about? More to the point, you might think, what does this article have to do with asking for forgiveness? You might even secretly wonder if perhaps Kamal Tolia has lost her mind? Well, I haven’t, as you will read in the next few weeks! 

Next week: Forgiveness for the Soul contd.

Kamal Tolia

Founder Member, LHSG

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