What is CAREFOR?
CAREFOR is an acronym for the seven steps that guide you into the CAREFOR Connection. If you are in physical or emotional pain, the CAREFOR Connection can help you to access your inner truths and strengths that are key to your healing process so that you can heal your body, heart and soul. Click here to learn the process.
Benefits of the CAREFOR Connection.
* Heal your body of physical and emotional pain.
* Discover the Truth of who you are and why you’re here
* Develop a closer relationship with the Divine
* Create more meaning and purpose in your intimate partner relationship
* Build a stronger closer bond between family members
* Bring spiritual healing and divine connection into your service with your clients and ministries
Whatever your goal, these 7 steps will help you to know yourself through connecting to the Divine and learning to witness the Divine in yourself and others. It is through this connection that Truth and Beauty are realized and true healing and supportive relationships can be formed.
The CAREFOR Connection:
CAREFOR is an acronym for the seven steps that make up the CAREFOR Connection Method:
- Call to the Divine.
- Ask for what is in your heart.
- Repeat the Sacred Name.
- Extend your heart to the Divine.
- Find the Jewel God has for you.
- Open your being to receive.
- Respect your body as the Sacred Temple.
Call to the Divine.
The process begins with an invocation. Call to the Divine by a Sacred Name. Invoke the presence of the Source of Truth and Healing, the Unity of all creation. Feel this presence before you as you would your most intimate and trusted friend. For this is your most intimate and trusted friend.
What is meant by a Sacred Name? A Sacred Name is a name for the Divine in a sacred language, such as Arabic or Aramaic. Words spoken in these ancient languages carry the vibrational frequencies of the meanings of what the words represent. For instance, everything has energy which resonates at a certain frequency. Sounds are resonant frequencies. In a Sacred Language, when you call to The One, you are invoking the energetic frequency of the essence of the Sacred Presence.
The Sacred Name in Arabic is Allah, meaning The One. In Aramaic, the Name is Allaha. When you say the Name, elongate the “aaah” sound. The “aaah” is the sound that resonates at the frequency of the heart center of the human body. This will help to open your heart to receive the Presence.
These Names also contain the “LL” sound. When you touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth in making the “LL” sound, you are completing the circuit between two energetic pathways, called the governing and conception vessels in Chinese medicine.
Try the names and feel what works for you. I use the Name, Allah, said “Allaaah”. In our US culture today, many associations have been made with the Arabic Name that are not in agreement with the word’s actual meaning. Try to let go of any preconceived ideas that have been associated with this Sacred Name and allow yourself to feel the true meaning. These Names were used before the religions were developed. If you’re not comfortable with the Arabic, try the Aramaic Allaha, said “Allaaaha”. Aramaic is said to be the language that Jesus spoke.
Ask for what is in your heart.
What is your heart yearning for? What is your deep need in this moment? In the presence of your Source, take the active step to ask for what you need. God knows the Truth of what is in your heart. In fact, God puts the yearnings in your heart so that you will feel your longing, call out, and allow yourself to be guided and healed.
Don’t worry about being perfect. As you work with the following steps, your yearning may be clarified for you, and you may find it to be a little different from where you first started. This is common and natural when you’re starting out. Just trust and follow. Be open for guidance.
Repeat the Sacred Name.
Feeling the presence of the Divine and the yearning in your heart, begin to repeat the Sacred Name directly into your heart, as if you are placing the words into the center of your heart space with your breath. Elongate the “aaah” sound and feel your heart space relax with each breath. Allow the essence of the Divine to flow into your heart like water to wash away anything that does not resonate with the truth of who you are and keeps you from living in the Divine Reality. This is a cornerstone practice that is used throughout the CAREFOR Connection process.
Extend your heart to the Divine.
You have brought the presence of the Divine into your heart with the Remembrance of the Sacred Name. Now reach with your heart to meet that presence. It is said of the Divine, “If you reach to me a hand, I extend to you an arm’s length; if you come to me walking, I come to you running.” So take the active step of extending your connection, reaching out, and feel the return of the Divine presence flowing into your heart. If you are working with a partner, you will extend your heart to connect with the Divine in your partner’s heart as well.
Find the Jewel God has for you.
Find the Jewel for you in this moment. Whether you are using this process for self-healing, for deepening your connection to the Divine, for discovering your life’s purpose, for building a stronger connection with an intimate partner, strengthening your bond with a family member, or for serving your clients, there is a Jewel for you – a gift that God has for you in this moment.
Maintaining the connection you’ve established so far, ask to be shown this Jewel. Continue the Remembrance of the Name into your heart and trust.
When working with a partner (or client), you will find the jewel in your partner’s heart as well. Let the essence of this Jewel come into your being so that you can reflect that for your partner, allowing him or her to see his/her own reflection and begin the realize to Truth and Beauty of his/her own creation.
Open your being to receive.
This Jewel is a gift for you. It may be a template for the deep Truth of who you were created to be and what you are here to do, or it may be a life lesson that is needed for your healing or for your return to know your creator. Allow this Jewel to come into your being and ground you to the earth. Feel it come into you like rain and flow through you to hydrate all of your cells. Let it become a part of who you are and transform you into what you truly are. This step takes you from the knowing of who you are to the being of who you are.
Respect your body as the Sacred Temple.
God created us in His image to know Him. It is said of the Divine, “Neither the Heavens nor the Earth contain Me, but the heart of my faithful believer contains Me.” When you move into the state of being, you feel the sacredness of your Jewel throughout your entire body and soul. You feel the holiness of who you are and the beauty of what you were created to be. Your body is the vessel that carries you through this life, the house of this holy essence, the temple of God’s image. Respect your body as this Sacred Temple. Feel that respect.
This is true for all people. When you are working with a partner, allow yourself to see him or her as the Sacred Temple as well. Feel the respect for them that you would feel for the house of God. Reflect that for your partner so that he or she may feel it for himself or herself as well.
You are now in the CAREFOR Connection. Stay in the Remembrance as you continue to feel this state, allowing it to template your being and make you into a new creation, actually your true creation. Say to yourself, “I CAREFOR myself”, “I CAREFOR my Source”, I CAREFOR my beloved, my loved ones, my clients. Allow this connection to template you, and associate it with the CAREFOR statement. Then when you feel yourself drifting and remember this state, repeat your CAREFOR statement to return to this connection.
It takes time and practice to template yourself. Stay with it. The more you work with it, the easier it becomes to return to this state with the repetition of the CAREFOR statement. It’s like learning the alphabet, then learning to sound out the words, then learning to associate meaning with the words.
For information on how you can experience the CAREFOR Connection for yourself, see our Services page.
Benefits of the CAREFOR Connection:
Heal your body of physical and emotional pain.
Are you living with pain?
Have you treated your physical body, but know there’s more to your pain than the physical?
The CAREFOR Connection can help you to access old memories and belief systems that are stored in your tissues and return them to the Source to receive truth and healing. You’ve heard the phrase, “The truth will set you free”? Well, it’s the truth! Bringing truth to your old patterns hidden in your subconscious can release tension and knots that keep you in pain, restoring you to a life of freedom and joy!
Individual sessions available now.
Discover the Truth of who you are and why you’re here.
Have you felt something missing in your life?
Or have you gone through a change recently, such as loss of job or divorce, and been left wondering what you really want to do with your life?
The CAREFOR Connection can help you to realize your connection to the Divine and focus that connection into your heart to clean away any voices or beliefs that keep you living in a state of confusion or uncertainty. As you work to uncover the Jewel of who you are inside, you begin to template your being with your inner Reality so that you can live your life from that Divine purpose.
Through this process, a healing transformation occurs that brings you to a state of absolute respect of your being as the Divine creation that it is, which leads you to move through the world with confidence, grace and purpose.
We are all here for a purpose. Our purpose is imprinted into us. To live that purpose is to reach fulfillment and live a life of Joy.
Individual sessions available now.
Develop a closer relationship with the Divine.
Do you feel a Love in your heart for God and a longing to be closer?
Do you desire to live your daily life in a way that is consistent with your spiritual beliefs?
Do you aspire to a life of service or ministry?
The CAREFOR Connection gives you a simple easy-to-recall process to develop and continually restore your connection to the Divine. It gives you the tools to course correct as you move through your daily life, aligning your habits with what supports your spiritual goals. It helps you to remember your purpose so that you are serving in the way that God put you here to serve.
We came from our Creator. In the beginning we were One with all that is. When we were born into the material form, we began to forget our Source, yet our deep hearts yearn to return. The CAREFOR Connection can help you to fill that yearning now and return to live a life of love and service of the Divine today.
Individual sessions available now.
Create more meaning and purpose in your intimate partner relationship.
Would you like to develop more intimacy in your relationship?
Do you desire to commit yourself more fully to your relationship?
Are you looking for a more supportive and loving partnership?
The CAREFOR Connection can help you to care for each other’s bodies, hearts and souls through witnessing the Divine in each other and the Jewel of who you each were created to be. You will witness the Beauty in your partner and fall in love with the Divine essence of his or her being. You will learn to reflect that Jewel back to your partner to create inspiration, personal growth and fulfillment. You will find the Jewel in your partnership and learn to develop a relationship that fosters the growth of that Jewel. As you witness the Divine in your partner, you will witness your partner as the Sacred Temple of the Divine and fall into a deeper honoring of who he or she really is.
In the Couples Massage instruction, the CAREFOR Connection sets the foundation for your massage so that when you make physical contact, you are contacting more than just skin and flesh. You are reaching into the heart and soul.
Couples Massage Personal Instruction & Group Classes available now.
Build a stronger closer bond between family members.
Do you wish to create a closer family connection?
Do you want to develop self-esteem in your children and teach them to live with purpose?
The CAREFOR Connection teaches you to see through the outer chaos to the inner beauty, to hold that vision for your children and your family as a whole, and to reflect their beauty to them in your day-to-day so that they begin to live in that reflection. When you witness their Divine essence, you will see them as God’s children created in God’s image – the Sacred Temple of God. When they feel the respect you are transmitting for them, they will embody that respect when they move into the world. They will know that loving choice for themselves when they are faced with challenges that might lead them astray, and in their beings, they will know the path to return.
Personal sessions available now.
Bring spiritual healing and divine connection into your service with your clients and ministries.
Are you wanting to reach your clients at deeper levels?
Are you wanting to bring a spiritual connection and healing into your practice?
Are you wanting to develop self-esteem and respect to your ministries?
The CAREFOR Connection gives you a simple easy-to-remember process for connecting with your clients and bringing in what is needed for them in each of your sessions. As you template your being with the CAREFOR Connection process, you can easily drop into a loving, honoring, healing state. If you find yourself drifting during a session (it’s ok, we all do it), just remember the CAREFOR Connection statement “I CAREFOR you” and instantly return to the healing state.
Youth Ministries:
The challenges that kids face today are many. While the underlying issues have been the same over time, the negative messages that reach our children are out of our control, and the stakes seem to be escalating.
I have a passion for helping youth and young adults to know the truth of what they carry and to respect themselves as the Sacred Temples of God that they truly are. Please contact me if you are interested in developing a CAREFOR Connection ministry in your church or spiritual or neighborhood community. I would love to work with you to develop this work to reach the younger generation.
Contact me for information about CEU Classes for massage therapists.
Contact me for information about using the CAREFOR Connection in your Ministry work.
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