by Kathleen O'Keefe-Kanavos | Jan 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ~ George Santayana, philosopher
Who among us is not governed, to some degree, by the dark secrets of our past? Emotionally based dreams can manifest as daytime life-storms that refuse to remain contained. They have a way of building and blowing our existence to pieces like a clean dress the color of sky ripped from a clothesline and tossed into the mud.
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Just when we think bad memories are forgotten, healed by time, and that all is well in our lives, something triggers a thought that manifests in a dream, which leads to an emotional door in our past hidden deep within the bowels of our psyche. The door, although tightly shut and locked, blows open by the sheer force of pent-up past emotions. A real-life nightmare once contained in silent darkness is unleashed into the light of day. Left unchecked it will consume all that is good beneath the clear blue sky.
Here is food for thought: Unchecked memories can grow strong on unhealed emotions.
Memories can begin to run wild through the paths of our lives like a pack of rats bringing life-threatening disease (dis-ease) with them. Research published in Science Daily shows that happy or sad, our emotions and physical health are inextricably linked. Dr. Rollin McCraty of the Institute of HeartMath in the US is studying the link between, emotions, physical health and how they trigger the peptide hormone oxytocin.
Depression, pessimism, and apathy affect our health in several ways.
“Low mood is linked to low levels of serotonin and dopamine, the feel-good neurotransmitters in the brain,’ says London GP Dr. Jane Flemming. “Serotonin plays a role in regulating pain perception and could be the reason why 45 percent of patients with depression also suffer aches and pains.” So, what is a person to do?
How can we cope with a past hell-bent on destroying our future?
Jennifer Irwin is on tour with her book, “A Dress the Color of Sky” which chronicles the up-hill battle of bad past memories. But, you can meet her here, and now, with this VIDEO Interview on the Kat Kanavos Show.
A Dress the Color of Sky
The story-line of A Dress, the Color of Sky, takes you through the difficult life of a woman named Prudence who is entering rehabilitation for sex addiction, and self-loathing, in order to deal with her disturbing past secrets and to save her faltering marriage.
Prudence has lost faith in herself and life. She feels she is blowing in the wind and cannot predict what her future holds.
How important is it to us to feel in control of our future? Research published in an article written by Dr. Art Markman in Psychology Today raises an interesting question.
How do you envision your future?
This question was explored in a paper in the August 2011 issue of Memory and Cognition by Kathleen Arnold, Kathleen McDermott, and Karl Szpunar. The research points out that your ability to envision the future is strongly influenced by your memory for the past. That is, you tend to use memories of past experiences to predict what your life will be like in the near and far future.
It was concluded that it is easier to use your memories when the future you are predicting is close in time, raising the question, do memories from the far past govern your actions without your knowledge.
We are creatures of habit. Therefore, you have already experienced many specific locations and events that are the ones you will encounter again next week. If you are working you will rise in the morning, get dressed and find your way to your workplace. This is experience is such a habit you will hardly remember getting there. As a result, you can do a good job of imagining through simulation what your life will look like next week.
According to the research cited above, it is harder to guess the effect past memories will have for understanding your life in the distant future. Elapsed time makes it more difficult to make specific future predictions.
Consequently, as an adult, if you have suppressed bad memories of an abusive relationship it is more difficult to predict how you will react to a similar relationship now.
There is an important reason to remember and deal with your past before it controls your future. The philosopher George Santayana wisely pointed out that if we don’t take time to reflect on our past behavior, we may unwittingly repeat it in the future. This is not only true for our behavior but true for other people’s actions toward us.
Forgive and forget may not be the best advice. Forgive and remember, so the transgression does not happen again may be a better choice for a healthy future.
Forewarned by memories is forearmed for the future.
Life is a series of lessons. If we do not think about how badly we were treated, come to terms with it, and use that knowledge to make choices about what to do to protect ourselves in the near future, we’re less vulnerable to being treated that way again.
Stumbling beneath the weight of her horrific past, Prudence has taken the first big step toward correcting her course for the future by remembering and healing her past with the help of therapy.
InDreams cover 3 our darkest hours, we often pray for help and guidance but forget, or don’t know how to watch for the answers in our waking world. According to the New York Times, at least 10 studies on the effects of prayers and healing have been carried out in the last 6 years, and this question continues among researchers.
What if… the life-saving answers come to us in dreams, as studies by Duke University Radiologist Dr. Larry Burk have shown? What if… we are guided to seek help in the form of therapy with a therapist chosen by God? What if… you are the answer to that therapist’s dreams which were also heard by the Lord?
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
A producer met Jennifer Irwin in LA. After reading the manuscript, the producer purchased the film rights. Production of the film A Dress, the Color of Sky, is scheduled to begin in early 2018 with some well-known names attached.
Watch as Jennifer introduces you to Prudence who is struggling to emerge from the dark places of her past and step into the light of a new day.
Prudence’s struggle is one many of us live with, and often die from if left unchecked.
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YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO7SnT4K2Jg&feature=share
Resources:
Your View Of The Future Is Shaped By The Past | Psychology … (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201108/your-view-the-futur https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201108/your-view-the-future-is-shaped-the-past
The Link Between Emotions And Health | Psychologies, https://www.psychologies.co.uk/self/the-link-between-emotions-and-health.html (accessed January 13, 2018).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin
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Photo credit:
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Dreams That Can Save Your Life used with author Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos permission
About the Author: Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos is a TV Producer/Host and Author/Lecturer of Dreams That Can Save Your Life which promotes patient advocacy and connecting with Dreams for success in health, wealth, and relationships. Contact –Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos Website – Inner Guide Facebook – Personal Facebook – Surviving Cancerland Facebook – Wicked Housewives TV Facebook – Wicked Housewives Radio Facebook –Dreams That Can Save Your Life Facebook- Google+ – LinkedIn – Pinterest – Twitter – Youtube- Book
by Kathleen O'Keefe-Kanavos | Aug 30, 2016 | Access Your Inner Guide, Uncategorized
Have you ever exposed yourself in public? It may be a very telling dream in a positive way.
If you were born on August 29th do you know your Personal Tarot Card or Playing Card that will never change in this lifetime? This Card information can be useful if you are dating or professionally involved with someone who is on the Leo/Virgo Cusp.
And, do you have the right tools for everyday life?
Click the show link at the bottom of this article to watch as Kat Kanavos and Sheila Sistar share all this information, and much more, with you on the Kat and Sheila Show.
Dreams, Tarot, Meditation and Tools for Everyday Living are the topics of conversation on this show.
Join us as we do a quick breathing meditate that centers and surrounds us with mirrored protective light filled with healing golden light of love and health. Our Spirit-guides are invited to bring only that which is of the highest and best for us into our protective bubble.
We wish it so, and therefore it is.
A dreamer has sent in a request to comment on a disturbing dream in which she publically exposed herself during a school celebration.She wants to know what this dream means.
Is it normal to have a dream of pulling up or pulling off your clothing in public?
Gardening noise pollution can rattle your world during the summer and fall months. Extremely sensitive people can feel the pain of tree limbs being trimmed.
So, what is a sensitive to do?
By centering yourself and realigning your chakras after the lawnmower, edger, and blower are gone you can regain your emotional footing.
Big changes are happening quickly in our world. It is all over FaceBook. Are you feeling the shift? Kat and Sheila share tools to survive the change.
Everyone is born with personal astrological or zodiac signs. But do you know you were also born with a personal Playing Card and Tarot Card?
If you were born on August 29thyour Playing Card for this life time is the 10 of Hearts.
The 10 of Hearts in Tarot Cards is the 10 of Cups.
People who are the 10 of Cups have unique personality traits.
They focus on love, life and celebrating life at every turn.
They see the bright star in a down day.
They dream of having the perfect family with the white picket fence and children playing in the yard. The number 10 is 1+0 = the number 1.
One is the number of new beginnings.
Watch as Kat and Sheila discuss how the Daily Tarot Card reflects the change felt by so many people taking place in the world and the three Tools for EverydayLife:
- Don’t cover up your authentic self. Expose your true self to the world.
- Join the celebration of life.
- Embrace all aspects of yourself because your Inner-selves love you.
Click the link to WATCH and enjoy the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va076oS8LFw
Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos believes dreams diagnose your life. Did you have a déjà-vu or dream come true? Kat survived three cancers diagnosed by dreams. Multi-Award winning International Bestselling Author of Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing, Internationally Syndicated Columnist, Dream Expert, Keynote Speaker, TV/Radio Producer/Host, she’s featured in magazines & newspapers, on NBC News. Learn more @ www.KatheenO’Keefe-Kanavos.com
by Kathleen O'Keefe-Kanavos | Aug 24, 2016 | Access Your Inner Guide, Uncategorized
“I gave them my all and they gave me back my life.” Mark Barone, artist
“As you sow, so shall you reap…” is from the King James Version of the Bible, Epistle to the Galatians, 6.7, and a quote with a strong meaning for karma. It means consequences of actions are in proportion to intentions. The seeds you have sown may be your children; your future. Do you want a future filled with cruelty or compassion? r
You may have heard the saying, “An Act of God”, but what about An Act of Dog? And, what do art and compassion have to do with either phrase? More than you may imagine, especially if you love man’s best friend. This interview illustrates how painting with a purpose can save a dog’s life, improve our world, and create a better future for our children one gentle stroke at a time.
According to studies cited in Stanford Social Innovation Review and Preziartists have a powerful medium for reporting on the consciousness of our civilization. By combining the two parallel pathways of art and compassion a powerful engine for social change can be created.
Mark Barone and Marina Dervan create art-work that saves lives every day, because animal lives matter, too.
Marina Dervan is a twenty year veteran of coaching corporate executives from Wall Street to Continental Europe. But her mot recent endeavor is one generated from the heart. She is the co-founder of the charity,An Act of Dog. Charity founder/ artist Mark Barone and Marina created the working, interactive Museum of Compassion where children can come to expression their passion and follow their path of emotional self-discovery concerning all acts of love and atrocities in society, but especially those for and against animals.
“All children are born artists,” Picasso said. Marina and Mark agree.
As a narrative painter for thirty-five years, Mark never had any interest in painting “pretty art” for the wall. His work always has a purpose and a spiritual foundation with a focus on the struggles of the human condition. Now his art and charity is impacting change for our animal friends.Mark’s personal story of redemption includes two cherished dogs, Santina and Rudy. It is the power of dog-love that powers Mark’s paint brushes and Marina’s media engagements.
It all started so innocently.
Marina had always considered herself to be a cat-lady until she met Santina, the brown eyed dog who stole her heart. When twenty-two-year-old Santina died Mark and Marina were devastated. They grieved, as many parents do after losing a fur-child.
When Marina decided to adopt another dog her heart and dreams were shattered again by a waking nightmare.
While searching online she discovered the appalling graphic evidence pointing to the chilling numbers of animals being dumped and destroyed every day. Animals that had once been a part of someone’s family were killed in mind-boggling numbers.
Marina and Mark could have turned away and few would have faulted them for it. After all, what could two people possibly do to make any difference in the lives of so many deserted creatures destined for death?
Within two days of this gruesome discovery, Mark decides to paint the approximate number of dogs killed each day in shelters to illustrate the stark reality of our inhumane animal parenting and sheltering. It was a case of art to the rescue.
Thus began the 5,500 portraits of shelter dogs to create social awareness.
Mark’s goal is to use his art to bring to consciousness a need for compassion and social change to create a solution to this murder and thereby empower pets. He understands that creativity cultivates original ideas that have value and purpose.
Children’s pets and artwork go together like peanut butter and jelly. Mark explains, “kids are the unwrapped gifts to our future, and we believe it is critically important to put meaningful art back into schools to allow them the process of self-discovery and to ignite a desire to become informed about the atrocities in society.”
It is time to take a stand and make a change. Shelters used as stark holding tanks for death need to become compassionate foster care homes for pets. Art-work created by children that focuses on all God’s creatures can become the messenger for social change.
It is Mark and Marina’s goal to help students use creativity to bring life-solutions into the light.
“Creativity is as important as literacy,” Mark says.It is also a way to illustrate the power of art in education because a picture is worth a thousand words.
Mark and Marina began to design and sell products around the world to raise the necessary funds to support the life-saving animal welfare organizations across the nations.
Soon after, An Act of Dog was born.The project has garnered the attention of worldwide media including Oprah, rising country star John Scargall, and they have partnered with filmmaker Sagacity Production which has almost completed the filming of a documentary about this timely and powerful project.
Mark and Marina’s actions are in proportion with their intention to make the world a better place.An Act of Dog is a stroke of genius by Mark and Marina who are making a big difference in the world, one painting at a time. What do you believe you can do?
VIDEO Interview- CLICK Link to WATCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzEpD7FHuiI
Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos is a TV/Radio Producer/Host, Internationally Syndicated Columnist, and Award-winning Author/Lecturer of the award winning, International bestseller, Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing, which promotes patient advocacy and connecting with inner guidance for success in health, wealth, and relationships. Contact – Kathleen O’Keefe Kanavos Website – Surviving Cancerland Website – Inner Guide Facebook – Personal Facebook – Surviving Cancerland Facebook – Wicked Housewives TV Facebook – Wicked Housewives Radio Facebook – Google+ – LinkedIn – Pinterest – Twitter – Youtube – Book
Photo Credit – All pictures and paintings are the property of Mark Barone who has given Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos permission to use them in her articles.
by Kathleen O'Keefe-Kanavos | Aug 17, 2016 | Access Your Inner Guide, Uncategorized
Have you ever had a loved one or a pet visit you in your dreams either to give you a warning or to let you know that life after death is a wonderful transition? How do you know the dream is not just wishful thinking? The answer is the very personal validation you get in your waking world.
In this video blog known as a VLOG guest Stephanie Bouchard shares two very different yet equally amazing Dreams-of-Love with us on the Kat Kanavos Show. We also discuss the importance of pets and healing, including Pet Rocks. Yes, pet rocks! They had their place in people’s hearts and college dorm rooms. It was the perfect answer to institutions that did not even allow goldfish. Remember the Pet Rock Cemeteries? Yeah, people love to love.
The first dream is a precognitive dream about her grandfather’s death that saves her life. The second is a message of love from her beloved cat that “came back” to play.
The night before her grandfather’s wake Stephanie had a dream that warned she would hit black-ice during the drive home from the wake. In the dream, she was reassured that everything would be alright because her grandfather would take care of her. Sure enough, driving home the next night after her grandfather’s wake she hit the black ice on a frozen Maine road and her car spun out of control and headed toward the lane of oncoming traffic.
What Stephanie did next both calmed and stunned her. Rather than fighting the wheel of the car she remembered the dream, let go of the wheel, covered her eyes with her hands and trusted in the belief that she would be fine. Her waking incident played out exactly as it had in the dream the night before and Stephanie survived to tell us the details in this video interview.
How often have we wondered where our pets have gone after they died? Are pets allowed in heaven? Do they just-Poof-disappear like a puff of smoke? Twelve hours after Stephanie had to euthanize her beloved cat of nineteen years, she appeared to Stephanie in a dream and they played together, just like they did when she was alive and well. In the dream, the cat was running around, joyous, and Stephanie chased her laughing. Stephanie felt her cat was telling her in the dream that she was okay. The pain was gone.
Our dreams can help us feel better about difficult decisions we must make in life, like putting a pet to sleep. But one thing is certain; your dreams are sacred doorways that allow you to connect with the-other-side and doorways through which our loved ones can also return to tell us they love us.
Click the LINK to Watch The Kat Kanavos Show : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVNIZFboqTA
About the Guest: Stephanie Bouchard is a Maine-based freelance writer and editor specializing in the healthcare and pet industries. She is also the author of “The Lap-Reluctant Cat,” a gift book for cat lovers.
About the Host: Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos is a TV/Radio Producer/Host of Wicked Housewives On Cape Cod™ and Author/Lecturer of the International multi-award winning bestseller, Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing which promotes patient advocacy and connecting with inner guidance for success in health, wealth, and love, Show Host on New Earth International, contributing author to Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams & Premonitions, PATHEOS Blogger and Internationally Syndicated Columnist to Women Voices Magazine: SOUL and HOME, Kat taught Special Education and Psychology. She has been featured in newspapers, on CBS News, in American Express Open, and published in medical journals. Learn more @ www.KathleenOkeefeKanavos.comhttp://www.patheos.com/blogs/aboveandbeyondthe5senses/
Picture credit- the pictures are from the author’s Kat Kanavos Show Video.
by Kathleen O'Keefe-Kanavos | May 18, 2016 | Access Your Inner Guide, Uncategorized
Have you ever met a big-hearted quiet-woman who was also known as “a secret weapon?”
Please meet Dr. Gloria, who often works on clients at the recommendation of medical doctors, and has become sought after nationwide for her logic defying healings in which:
- Wounds heal up overnight.
- Arthritis bone abnormalities and bone spurs dissipate.
- Physical structure imbalances correct with the lightest fingertip touch.
- Chronic back pain evaporates.
- Bruises change color and normal coloring returns within an hour.
- Longtime, intractable, seemingly permanent conditions come to an end.
Professional athletes see instant recovery from injuries. Even animals’ illnesses and disease disappear.
Dr. Kaye can access a special kind of healing. If this sounds like soap opera miracles, you are mistaken. These are actual healings are from the hands of Dr. Gloria Kaye:
- a highly regarded psychotherapist,
- and UCLA Medical School lecturer on Healing Touch.
On the Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos Radio Show on Wicked Housewives On Cape Cod® Radio
Dr. Gloria Kaye relates these and many more case histories as she discusses dreams and her eye–opening new book, Healer’s Hands, Healer’s Heart: InDepth Insights, Practical Techniques and Inspiring Stories of Success with Non Traditional Healing.
Her clients include well–known personalities, professional athletes, business executives, senior citizens, families, adolescents, young children and even animals.
Dr. Gloria Kaye has been the “secret weapon” of many professional basketball players.
Hall of Famer Rick Barry has said: “In the sessions I had with her, I experienced immediate relief from the soreness of my arthritic condition.”
Dr. Gloria comes forth as a staunch advocate for nontraditional healing.
On the radio show she shares how her healing path began as a teenager when she realized she had inherited these astonishing abilities from her Great Aunt, and then elected to pursue emotional healing and pain management as a profession.
Dr. Gloria Kaye believes everyone has the power to heal.
Here are just a few of the testimonials from doctors, patients and researchers about Dr. Gloria.
“Dr. Kaye performs miracles as far as I’m concerned. There is something magic about her hands; she can take away pain.” Andy Granatelli
“As a pediatrician, I constantly search for the safest and most effective treatment for children I take care of. Dr. Gloria Kaye with her gift for healing and her knowledge of alternative therapies has been an invaluable source for alternative therapies that complement and are advantageous for my patients, either alone or in conjunction with traditional medicine.” Michael Allen, MD
“I have had the honor and pleasure of working with Dr. Kaye on a research project designed to show that her techniques of the healing touch improve the quality of life and perceived pain level in patients with diabetes related pain. Dr. Kaye’s contribution to the study design and implementation will provide the ultimate answer as to the utility of alternative therapies to treat pain syndromes.” Although the clinical trial is in progress and thus we have not obtained definitive data, anecdotal responses from the patients have provided motivation to continue this study and prove scientifically that the healing touch does work to improve the health status of my patients.” Lois Jovanovich, MD, Director and Chief Scientific Officer Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
The Dr is in! And, on the show she will discuss how to help you with:
- Back, neck and shoulder pain
On this show Dr. Gloria Kaye shares tips from her new book, Healer’s Hands, Healer’s Heart: InDepth Insights, Practical Techniques and Inspiring Stories of Success with Non Traditional Healing, and healing practices that can start you on the path to doing this work yourself!
Experience the odyssey of as this amazing healer as she talks about her healing abilities, and expounds on chapters in her book which focus on ways to experience the energy and practices that will foster greater facility with healing.
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Guest Bio: Dr. Gloria Kaye is a Specialist in energy Healing. In 1980 she received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology and health psychology, and developed and administered a holistic center for senior citizens. Part of her dissertation was reprinted in the Clinical Journal of Gerontology. Dr. Kaye integrated pain management and healing into her practice in 1990 working alongside physicians in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. She has taught yoga at several universities. Learn more @ http://www.drgloriakaye.com/about-dr-gloria-kaye.htm
ABOUT THE HOST: Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos is a TV/Radio Producer/Host of Wicked Housewives On Cape Cod® and Author/Lecturer of the International award winning bestseller, Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing which promotes patient advocacy and connecting with inner guidance for success in health, wealth, and love, contributing author to Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams & Premonitions, PATHEOS Blogger and Columnist to Women Voices Magazine: SOUL and HOME, and Wellness Women 40 and Beyond. Kat taught Special Education and Psychology. Learn more @ www.AccessYourInnerGuide.com
