by Kathleen O'Keefe-Kanavos | May 15, 2016 | Access Your Inner Guide, Uncategorized
How do you stay mentally fresh during a long job interview process?
Perhaps you have considered finding a new job, or asking for a higher paying position in your current company.
One of the things that may be holding you back from going forward is the long, nerve-wracking interview process itself that may involve many call backs for higher level interviews.
How can you stay fresh and on top of your game in an energy-charged environment?
Long interviews can be emotionally and physically exhausting for a number of reasons:
- You know you are competing against other experts in your field.
- Your attitude and sustainability under pressure is also being judged, so you must be “up” at all times without looking fake.
- It is difficult living under a microscope for an extended period of time.
Here is some advice for job seekers.
Remember-You are all in the same interview process so focus on what can you do to move ahead of the other interviewees.
Here are 5 Simple Solutions that answer the questions:
- What are some ways to stay mentally fresh throughout the process?
- What are some ways to find serenity as the pressure mounts?
- How should you approach other opportunities that may arise?
5 Things You Can Do to Give Yourself the Edge During aLONG Interview Process.
1.) Wear comfortable shoes– sounds simple but when your feet hurt your whole body hurts, and it shows on your face which may be mistaken as a “grumpy person.”
2.) Positive mental attitude: Start your day right with mirror therapy. When you brush your teeth in the morning tell your reflection why you are the best candidate for the job by focusing on our strengths, then tell yourself how much you appreciate your opportunity to share your qualifications with others. The words you say now may pop into your mind later in the day during the interview, and you will say them with confidence because you believe them.
3.) Keep up your momentum when you are neck-to-neck with someone else for the job. Anytime you sit down, take 3 deep “empowering breaths” and imagine them going to any part of your body or spirit where they are needed for reinforcement.
4.) Smile! Even if you do not get this job, your smile may be so memorable it will open doors for another one. You just never know.
5.) Drink plenty of water. Dehydration under pressure shuts down the brain neurons which slows down thinking and responses. You must be on top of your game.
Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos taught The Profoundly Emotionally Disturbed for 10 years and Psychology at University of South Florida. She is a TV/Radio Producer/Host of Wicked Housewives On Cape Cod, the Nautilus award-winning author of the International Bestseller Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing and advocates for health and healing at International Conferences throughout the country. Learn more about Kat @www.KathleenOkeefeKanavos.com
by Kathleen O'Keefe-Kanavos | Apr 25, 2016 | Access Your Inner Guide, Uncategorized
You have sent me many dream questions and I’ve been waiting for a rainy day to answer them. Well, it’s raining. So, I’ve shut off my cell phone and hung the Do Not Disturb sign on my door that I “borrowed” from a hotel room. In order to answer them all, I’ve created a dream series because I believe by reading the answers to the dreams of others we enrich our waking-life. Each section in the series will focus on answering your dream questions.
Today, your wildest dream questions are my main priority.
Your Question: When I wake up it feels like my dream just disappears. And, it seems like the harder I try the less I can remember. Sometimes I even know when I am dreaming that my dream is the same dream before that I forgot. Yet, when I wake up it is gone, again. Very frustrating! Can we train our brain to remember our dreams?
I feel your frustration as I read your questions. The good news is Yes! we can train our brain to remember dreams, just as we can train it to wake us at a certain hour every morning, or remember where we left those car keys when we threw open the front door and ran into the house to answer the telephone. It has to do with mentally retracing your steps.
You can learn to retrace your steps through your Sacred Dream Doors to find the keys to your dream message, even your wildest ones.
Here is how to start training your brain for sleep memory.
Our brains are so amazing they never stop surprising us. And your brain is extremely active in a different way when you are asleep. Dreaming is a complete brain activity. Why is it important to train yourself to remember your dreams? Have you ever meditated or prayed for help with a life challenge?
Your prayers may be answered in your dreams. You don’t want to miss that guidance do you?
Dreams are Sacred Doorways to Celestial Information that can impact your waking life. Remembering that information imparted through dreams is the key.
Remembering your dreams is as easy as 1-2-3-4-5.
Your dreams are an incredible tool that can help you overcome or work through any illness or crisis with guided healing information. The trick is remembering them.
Here are some tips and information to help you remember your dreams and connect with Inner-guidance for a healthier and more fulfilled life.
George Noory of Coast to Coast AM Radio interviewed Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos on prophetic dreams that diagnosed her breast cancer three times. The most important thing about the dreams was remembering them.
“Without dream memory there was no hope for life. Stage 4 breast cancer is considered a terminal stage. Yet, here I am writing this blog series, 12 years later. When the medical community missed my breast cancer all three times my dreams told me it was there and how to convince my doctors to test for it.”
During the show Kat Kanavos also discusses additional ways to remember your dreams. The actual link to the show is at the bottom of this information.
Here are five simple steps you can use tonight to help remember your dreams.
I.)Verbally voice your intention to remember your dream before you go to sleep.
II.) Keep a notebook beside your bed and when you awaken, write what you remember. Early-morning dreams are the easiest to remember. If you are having trouble remembering, lie down in bed in the same position you were in when you awoke, relax, and try to remember anything at all.
III.) Write down your feelings at the time you awoke if the dream still allusive -Happy, Sad, Frightened, Content or Anxious.
IV.) Write down any color that pops into your mind while trying to remember the dream.
V.) Give your dream a title, even if it’s The Dream Without a Name. If some part of the dream returns during the day, jot it down on a piece of paper and add it to your dream journal.
* If you do not have a dream journal download one for FREE by clicking this link. http://bit.ly/My-Free-Gift-to-You
Writing in your journal will help increase dream recall. Many clients have told me that they began to recall more dream content than they really cared for and felt flooded with it. It is okay. Their Sacred Dream doors opened and all the information that was locked away flooded out at first, then it slowed down to a manageable flow.
Over time your dreams will become longer as you begin to interface with yourself, your Inner-guidance, and your Spirit-guides.
We all have Spirit-guides. We are their job and they take their job very seriously. Remembering your guides is reconnecting with your true essence.
Meeting guides in your dreams is a wonderful step to a healthier and more fulfilled life. And they can help you remember your dreams by reminding you of a night dream during a Daydream.
If you have not done so already, set your intention tonight to remember your dreams and meet your Spirit-guides. They are waiting for you. It could make a big difference in your life because you will never feel alone, again.
Help others by sharing your personal steps for remembering your dreams in the comments.
Do you find dreams easier to remember in the morning or right after you fell asleep? Note that in your journal.
Resources:
Link to Coast to Coast Radio Show: Shemitah Cycles/ Healing & Dreams http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/o-keefe-kanavos-kathleen/74194
Medical journal: 2015 May-June Volume 11, Issue 3, pages 193-198 Warning Dreams Preceding the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer: A Survey of the Most Important Characteristics http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307%2815%2900034-8/abstract#
Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Cancerland-Intuitive-Aspects-Healing/dp/1879384965
ABOUT Dream Expert-Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos TV/Radio Host/Producer of Wicked Housewives On Cape Cod® believes your DREAMS can diagnose your life. Author/Lecturer of Award winning, International bestseller, Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing: which promotes patient advocacy & connecting with Inner-guidance through Dreams, Prayers & Meditations for success in Health, Wealth, & Love. Learn more @ www.AccessYourInnerGuide.com & download your free DREAM gift Access Your Inner Guide
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©2015 Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos
by Kathleen O'Keefe-Kanavos | Apr 11, 2016 | Access Your Inner Guide, Uncategorized
You have sent me many dream questions and I’ve been waiting for a rainy day to answer them. Well, it’s raining. So, I’ve shut off my cell phone and hung the Do Not Disturb sign I “permanently borrowed” from a hotel room on my door. In order to answer them all, I’ve created a dream series because I believe that by reading the answers to the dreams of others we enrich our waking-life. Each section in the series will focus on answering your dream questions.
Today, your wildest dream questions are my main priority.
Your Question: Are symbols and symbolism the same to everyone in every dream? Is there a trick to using a Dream Dictionary?
Although World renowned Psychiatrists Dr. Freud and Dr. Jung used Universal Archetypes present in dreams to see into the minds of their patients to better treat them, dream worlds are unique to the dreamer. In fact, your dream world is as unique to you as your fingerprints or DNA. What is frightening to one dreamer may be enlightening to another. Take the example of a large snake in a dream. It may be frightening to someone with a fear of snakes but may be the Kundalini to others more familiar with spiritual symbolism- the ultimate rising spiritual wisdom. If it is a rattle-snake it may mean there is a warning in the wisdom, “Don’t tread here,” just like the Texas state motto. Sometimes the symbolism can be a play on words.
Therefore, although dream dictionaries are usually based on universal archetypes and helpful, they can also be limiting. Learning your own dream language is the best way to interpret your dreams. I call it learning your Alice in Wonderland “Jabberwocky Talk.” Nonsense words (perhaps based on jabber) coined by Lewis Carroll, for the poem of the same name, which he published in “Through the Looking-Glass.” You hear the words and see the pictures but they don’t make sense until you learn your dream language.
Remember; just like any other foreign language, practice makes perfect.
If you still would like to check your personal definition of something in your dream against a dream dictionary do a search for “dream dictionary” using your favorite search engine, and pick one that appeals to you. You can also get one in print from your bookstore or order it online.
Dream dictionaries work just like regular dictionaries: you look up the symbol from your dream that you want to learn more about, and it gives you some background on what that symbol might mean for you.
As the dreamer becomes more in tune with their inner-guidance, they will learn their own dream language just as I learned mine. In my book SURVIVING CANCERLAND: The Intuitive aspects of Healing, I take dreams from my dream journal and show the reader exactly how to underline important words, figure out their meaning according to their context in the dream in order to understand the dream message.
I hope this helps to answers your incredible dream questions. Ask me anything in the comment box.
Join us for Your Wildest Dreams Revealed Series: #10- “Mom! My Teeth Fell Out!”
ABOUT Dream Expert Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos TV/Radio Host/Producer of Wicked Housewives On Cape Cod® believes your DREAMS can diagnose your life. Author/Lecturer of Award winning, International bestseller, Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing: which promotes patient advocacy & connecting with Inner-guidance through Dreams, Prayers & Meditations for success in Health, Wealth, & Love. Learn more @ www.AccessYourInnerGuide.com Download your free DREAM gift http://bit.ly/My-Free-Gift-to-You
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by Kathleen O'Keefe-Kanavos | Mar 7, 2016 | Access Your Inner Guide, Uncategorized
You have sent me many dream questions and I’ve been waiting for a rainy day to answer them. Well, it’s raining. So, I’ve shut off my cell phone and hung the Do Not Disturb sign on my door that I “permanently borrowed” from a hotel room. In order to answer them all, I’ve created a dream series because I believe that by reading the answers to the dreams of others we enrich our waking-life. Each section in the series will focus on answering your dream questions.
Today, your wildest dream questions are my main priority.
Your Question: How do you tell dreams from reality? Are dreams less vivid?
Dreams can be as vivid as reality while you are in the dream state, and that is why one of the types of dream we can have is known as a Waking Dream.
Waking dreams fell like a dream joke. We think we have awakened, are preparing for work or school as we do during our daily routine, and then when the door to the bus or our car opens we see the driver is Harry Potter.
Ding-ding! You are still dreaming.
We wake up and want to pinch ourselves to be sure it’s was a dream and that now we really are awake, because a waking dream can consist of multiple doors. We are relieved when we think we just woke up from Harry Potter, only to find that as we walk out our front door we are now in Jurassic Park.
When do the dreams end and reality begin? “Am I stuck in my dream world FOREVER?” you might ask.
These waking dreams can be so ludicrous that we actually laugh ourselves wake. So how do we know when the dream has stopped morphing between tricky dream realities and our car is just a car?
Pain is awakened reality. Pain wakes us up. Also, true reality has validation.
However, you can also have a Precognitive Dream that is validated in reality, such as a medical report, or meeting the person in your dreams from three nights ago in a movie theatre when you sit beside them.
Dreams are magical.
A vivid Lucid Dream is part of your reality. Reality is grounded. An example would be not flying through the air with just our bodies when we are awake.
I hope this helps to answers your incredible dream question. Ask me anything.
Please join us next time on Your Wildest Dreams Revealed Series: #5 Celebrity Dreams.
ABOUT Dream Expert: Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos TV/Radio Host/Producer of Wicked Housewives On Cape Cod® believes your DREAMS can diagnose your life. Author/Lecturer of Award winning, International bestseller, Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing: which promotes patient advocacy & connecting with Inner-guidance through Dreams, Prayers & Meditations for success in Health, Wealth, & Love. Learn more @ www.AccessYourInnerGuide.com & download your free DREAM gift http://bit.ly/My-Free-Gift-to-You
(All pictures and quotes were used with permission from the guest or are owned by the author.)
by Kathleen O'Keefe-Kanavos | Feb 22, 2016 | Access Your Inner Guide, Uncategorized
You have sent me many dream questions and I’ve been waiting for a rainy day to answer them. Well, it’s raining. So, I’ve shut off my cell phone and hung the Do Not Disturb sign I “permanently borrowed” from a hotel room on my door. In order to answer them all, I’ve created a dream series because I believe that by reading the answers to the dreams of others we enrich our waking-life. Each section in the series will focus on answering your dream questions.
Today, your wildest dream questions are my main priority.
Your Question: Do early morning dreams come true or is only the ones we dream at midnight?
Yes, some early morning dreams can come true and they are known as Precognitive Dreams. The best way to know if your early morning dreams do come true during the day is to keep a dream journal beside your bed so you can watch for dream validation during your waking hours.
Validation can come in the form of someone saying something to you that you suddenly remember from your dream, it can be something you saw in your dream, or a situation that was worked- out in your dream.
Early morning dreams are the easiest to remember because you are coming up from the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) level of sleep through the Theta Level. The Theta Level is often used for healing.
How will you know if your dreams come true if you don’t have a way of going back to see what the dreams were or what the validation was in your waking-world.
Precognitive dreams are:
• Dreams that come true
• Dreams that show you a bit of the future
• Validated in the waking- world
In your dream-state you may travel the time continuum, or you may receive important information from your spirit guides or guardian angels.
Your guardian angels are an innate gift. You are their job and they take that job seriously and often speak to us with words or PICTURES in dreams.
My dreams warned me that my doctors had missed my breast cancer all three times. If I had not believed my precognitive dreams validated by pathology reports that helped me self-advocated for additional tests I’d be dead.
Download your FREE dream journal to start a journal tonight here @ http://bit.ly/My-Free-Gift-to-You
Resources:
Precognitive dreams in the book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and Premonitions- Surviving Cancerland.
published medical study done by Dr. Larry Burk. 2015 May-June Volume 11, Issue 3, pages 193-198Warning Dreams Preceding the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer: A Survey of the Most Important Characteristics Page on explorejournal.com http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307%2815%2900034-8/abstract
I hope this helps to answers your incredible dream question. Ask me anything in the comment box.
Join me next time on Your Wildest Dreams Revealed Series- #3 Dreams and Dreaming
ABOUT Dream Expert Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos TV/Radio Host/Producer of Wicked Housewives On Cape Cod® believes your DREAMS can diagnose your life. Author/Lecturer of Award winning, International bestseller, Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing: which promotes patient advocacy & connecting with Inner-guidance through Dreams, Prayers & Meditations for success in Health, Wealth, & Love. Learn more @ www.AccessYourInnerGuide.com Download your free DREAM gift http://bit.ly/My-Free-Gift-to-You
(All pictures and quotes were used with permission from the guest or are owned by the author.)
