Nightmares and crisis go together like peanut and butter. Heck
of a sandwich we were served during cancer and treatment. But our professors, Death and Crisis, showed us how to find the mental,
emotional and physical nutrition in all aspects of healing.
It's hard to believe that it all started the same way three different times, those
many years ago.
“How in the world did this happen, again?” we asked our
doctor as we sat on the examining table in the Oncology Ward. The room was spinning from our anxiety
attack. We ask the question as much to ourselves as to our doctor. “You have a 3x5 centimeter tumor that was
missed again by mammograms. It wasn’t hospital policy to give you an MRI just
because you wanted one, but now I’m glad you insisted on it. I guess mammograms
are not your friend,” he replied.
Ya
think? We thought. Well
thank goodness our dreams are! This
was the second time dreams told us about the cancer conventional doctors and
the test on which they relied had missed.
We wondered if we should tell him about the recurring dreams and nightmares.
Would sharing how they repeatedly told us in exact words that we had breast
cancer help us? We decide to let the
doctors read it in our book after we survive stage 4 recurrence. We wanted
treatment, not a padded cell.
That was 9 and 14 years ago respectively, only a dream away
from life and death.
We survived cancer three times by believing in our dreams that
connected us with our “Physician-within” and Higher Power. We combined dream
therapy with conventional and alternative therapies and lived despite the
odds.
We validated our dreams, gut-instincts and intuition with appropriate conventional
tests. Combining conventional and holistic medicine creates healing that is
greater than the sum of its individual parts because it heals both body and
spirit.
We learned that, “Science goes
so far, then comes Higher Power.”
So, how are we using all this information to give back to
the Universe for shining its healing light on us?
Like so many other survivors, we’re on a mission to
save lives by showing patients and those who love them how to become courageous
in the face of adversity, live their lives to the fullest despite crisis, and
trust in Inner-guidance shared through dreams, prayers and meditation.
If we had to give advice to Younger Self, concerning
health, life and surviving, what would it be? Three thoughts come to mind.
1. 1.) “You
are the most important person in your life. You cannot live without you. So,
when you KNOW in your gut, or dreams, that something is wrong, don’t be
dismissed, don’t take “no” for an answer, and be the squeaky-wheel until you
are heard. Live the life you’ve always dreamed because the happiness you feel
will help you vibrate at a healthy frequency that will dispel disease. Laugh
until it heals.”
2. 2.) There
is almost always a point in the process of life where logic, circumstance,
reason, and medical expertise fail. At this point people often slip through the
cracks, sometimes never recovering. Remember, we hold the key to a victorious
life that can raise us above the uncertainty of unpredictable circumstances.
That key is a belief in Higher Power and Life Purpose. Connecting with Inner-guidance, such as our
Physician-within, through dreams, prayers, and meditation during the current
changes in medicine can be life-saving.
3. 3.) Another
key to a victorious life is in our conscious decision not to be victims of
policies, practices and unpredictable circumstances. Embrace your dreams. Dream
your life of happiness. Then, live through your dreams because they are a gift
from your Higher Power.
Love,
Me Thriver
P.S. We are healed. We
wish it so and therefore it is!
Bio: Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos, author, Intuitive
Life Coach, survived three breast cancers found
by her dreams, wrote SURVIVING CANCERLAND: Intuitive Aspects of Healing
(Cypress House, Jan 2014) http://tinyurl.com/p7cjfxa websites: Surviving Cancerland
http://www.survivingcancerland.com/
& AccessYourInnerGuide, Hosts Living Well Talk Radio, Om Times
Magazine contributor, Cancer Q&A columnist CapeWomenOnlineMagazine, Dream
Queen columnist- Wellness Woman 40 & Beyond, BreastCancerYoga,
http://www.yourdreaminterpretation.com/about-us/,WakeUpWomen; R.A. BLOCH Cancer
Foundation Hotline Counselor. Represented by Steve Allen Media
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