See comments below:
Posted April, 2008
ISKCON Philadelphia
Forms the First
Vaisnavas C.A.R.E.
'Care Team' in North America
On
Sunday, March 16, 2008, Sangita devi
dasi, President and Co-Founder of
Vaisnavas C.A.R.E., Inc. led a five hour
seminar at the ISKCON
Philadelphia temple which led to such a
highly enthusiastic conclusion that all
seminar participants volunteered to form
a Vaisnavas C.A.R.E. 'CARE Team' that
will assist chronically and terminally
ill temple and congregational members in
the area.
Seminar
participants included:
Subjects
included:
-
The
history of the hospice movement
-
How
to become a Healing Presence
-
Communicating with Someone who is
dying
-
Guided Imagery for Relaxation
-
What
do dying devotees deserve?
-
How
to help a devotee die with dignity?
-
Exploring our own feelings of death
and dying.
-
Spiritual Pain
-
The
Five Stages of Dying
-
How
to have a 'good death.'
-
How
to become a good listener.
-
Body
language speaks louder than talk.
-
and
much more...
To
continue the spirit of enthusiasm, some
of the participants will meet every
Sunday for two hours before the Sunday
feast to complete the Vaisnavas C.A.R.E.
Distance Learning Online Course as a
group project. As Bhagavatananda Prabhu
stated, 'To do these projects together
in a group makes the activity more
exciting and builds more enthusiasm
rather than doing it alone.'
More seminars will be given in
Philadelphia. If you are interested in
having one presented at your temple,
please contact: Sangita devi dasi at:
sangitadd@hotmail.com
for more information. Thank you.
Comments Below
Dear Prabhu,
Thanks very much
for your kind message.
I look forward to
helping devotees in need.
My mother passed
away in hospice and they
treated her so
very kindly. It was in Ontario, Canada.
The nurses
treated the patients as family.
My daughter is
taking college courses while still working on
high school so my main attention is focused on
her.
I hope to help
somehow with helping Vaisnavas going back to
Godhead.
Please stay in
touch.
your servant,
See comments below:
Posted March,
2008
To our readers at
Vaisnavas C.A.R.E.,
I was given this poem on the subject of
listening. It was written by Ralph
Roughton, a man I never met, but one who
obviously knows the true meaning of
being a good listener. Being a good
listener is a large part of being a good
caregiver to a patient. It is also a
skill to be used everyday with every
person we speak with. I hope this helps
you the next time you are asked to
listen to someone who really needs you
to hear what they are saying.
Your servant,
Sangita devi dasi
On Listening
By Ralph
Roughton
When I
ask you to listen to me and you start by
giving advice, you have not done what I
asked.
When I
ask you to listen to me and you begin to
tell me why I shouldn't feel that way,
you are trampling on my feelings.
When I
ask you to listen to me and you feel you
have to do something to solve my
problem, you have failed me, strange as
it may seem.
Listen!
All I ask is that you listen, not talk
or do...just hear me.
When you
do something for me that I can and need
to do for myself, you contribute to my
fear and inadequacy.
And I can
do for myself. I'm not helpless. Maybe
discouraged and faltering, but not
helpless.
But when
you accept as simple fact that I do feel
what I feel, no matter how irrational,
then I can quit trying to convince you
and get about the business of
understanding what's behind this
irrational feeling. And when that's
clear, the answers are obvious and I
don't need advice.
Irrational feelings make sense when we
understand what's behind them.
So,
please listen and just hear me. And if
you want to talk, wait a minute for your
turn, and I will listen to you.
Comments Below
March 15, 2008
Respected
Devotee,
Its really nice
poem. Thanks for your email. May God help you
in your work to serve the mankind. Have a nice week
end.
Yours
sincerely,
Chaitanya
March 15, 2008
Dear Sangita,
Thank's for
sharing that. I am going to print it out and put it
up at work. Keep up the good work that you are doing
for the devotees!!
Your servant,
Divyadrsti
Back to
top |