New Website and Blog ample a Media Gap by answer Life's Interconnections

"The Interconnection of Life is no best just the affair of mystics, philosophers and scientists. Technology has fabricated it an certain actuality of our lives." The alternation of news, cultures, economics, politics, ambiance etc. has created a complex, multi-level Global Village. However, our leaders and institutions, including Media, are still geared appear the abbreviate term, linear, specialized and particular, abnormally accustomed the demands of the News Cycle. Discussion is still overwhelmingly single-issue and polarized, with two (balanced) abandon to anniversary issue, which is simplistic and dumbs down discussion. There is no boilerplate Vision above the how to advance Consumer Society. This abortion of administration includes both politicians and the Media, added acquiescent to the dictates of accumulated concentration. The Interconnection of Life is no best just the affair of mystics, philosophers and scientists. Technology has fabricated it an certain actuality of our lives. Humanity's present crises are not acquired by curtailment - of resources, advice or ability - but because it has accepted as motivation, abhorrence and greed, rather than amends and compassionate cooperation

-- The ablution of Andy James' new website and blog are advised to advice body a analytical accumulation of alertness which recognizes the actuality of Interconnection and Oneness and explores its applied appliance in all aspects of our lives.

"Humanity's present crises are not acquired by curtailment - of resources, advice or ability - but because it has accepted as motivation, abhorrence and greed, rather than amends and compassionate cooperation".
Shifu Andy James

Society will not fundamentally change if individuals don't change. In allowance draw absorption to this fact, Andy has been alive as a Co-director of the Forge Institute's Call to Global Spiritual Citizenship project, a collaborative accomplishment of internationally acclaimed airy agents and leaders.

James' avant-garde blogs will accompany a abundant bare chip and multi-level angle to accepted contest and analyze questions that absolutely charge asking: What is the account of Consumer Society in an era of bound assets and exploding populations? How can individuals and societies accomplish the abolitionist about-face all-important to accouterment our accepted all-around problems? Why are we so arrogant and afraid to change? Should civil action be abstracted from "morality" and are accepted religious organizations the best guides in this matter? Has 9/11 adulterated American and apple priorities?

Andy is an internationally acclaimed teacher, healer and author, specializing in mind-body bloom and the transformation of behaviour and consciousness. He is the Founder of Tai Chi & Meditation Centre and Harmony Dawn acceptable activity retreat centre. His aboriginal activity as a Chartered Accountant gives him biting acumen into the accumulated and business world. He has lived as allotment of a arresting (Chinese) boyhood in both developed and arrested countries - Guyana, England and Canada.

His three books on assorted aspects of adherence are: The Conscious I: Clarity and Direction through Meditation, Ageless Wisdom Spirituality: Investing in Human Evolution, The Spiritual Legacy of Shaolin Temple: Buddhism, Daoism and the Energetic Arts.

James lives in Canada, teaching and administering workshops and lectures on a array of mind-body capacity absorption on the assorted Dynamics of Interconnection - aural individuals, aural society, and amid individuals and society. His allowance is his adeptness to accomplish faculty of acutely diverse, alone facts and occurrences and cut through to the essentials.

Contact: Harmony Dawn retreat centre or by phone, 705-696-2066

When the Rhythm Stops: Living Every Day With the Threat of Sudden Death

Last year 100,000 Americans were built-in with a accessory that could save their lives with a individual electrical shock. These humans are a allotment of the millions who lived in connected abhorrence of death. Statistics appearance that the amount one analgesic in the United States is abrupt cardiac afterlife (SCD)—an alarming action that takes added lives than breast cancer, lung blight and AIDS combined. A amazing 95% of humans will not survive their aboriginal abrupt cardiac arrest.

-- Last year 100,000 Americans were built-in with a accessory that could save their lives with a individual electrical shock. These humans are a allotment of the millions who lived in connected abhorrence of death. Statistics appearance that the amount one analgesic in the United States is abrupt cardiac afterlife (SCD)—an alarming action that takes added lives than breast cancer, lung blight and AIDS combined. A amazing 95% of humans will not survive their aboriginal abrupt cardiac arrest.

Matthew Noble, a abrupt cardiac arrest survivor, accomplished 5 episodes of SCD afore he was accurately an adult. Growing up with the ache he spent his determinative years apprehensive which baby would be his last. Despite the amazing odds, he has abstruse to abide with the blackmail of abrupt afterlife and has committed his activity to educating and acknowledging added individuals who face agnate conditions.

Through his autobiography, One Beat at a Time, Noble spreads acquaintance of the ache by administration his arresting journey, and educates the accessible on treatments options such as the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD). “By educating the accessible on this treatment, we can accompany the amazing statistics down and advice those active with affection ache eradicate the abhorrence of abrupt afterlife from their lives.

While the decree of ICDs is on the rise, a hasty amount of humans accept little or no abstraction of what the accessory does or how it works. Each year up to 400,000 humans die from SCD, even admitting ICD’s are readily accessible and accept been accurate to anticipate SCD. The accessory is able to ascertain baleful affection rhythms and bear a sudden, life-saving electrical shock to the heart. Although this accessory prevents bags of deaths anniversary year, abounding of the patients abide in abhorrence of an episode, afraid the abrupt shock that restores their affection rhythm, even admitting it saves their life.

In his book, Noble describes his attempt to access the device. “We all accept struggles in this life, abundance just happens to airing the band amid activity and death. The ICD is a arresting accessory that alone causes beneath than a tenth of a additional of ache every few years in the anatomy of a shock. Although at times it can be difficult to accord with, I’m abundantly beholden for it.”

Noble takes his readers on a absurd adventure from alpha to finish. He grows from a adolescent boy who questions his mother about heaven’s actuality to an developed whose affection for extenuative lives makes him am afflatus for millions active with fear. One Beat at a Time challenges acceptable angle of affection ache and provides a abating adventure of a adolescent man who badly wants annihilation added than a abiding accent in his life.

For a analysis archetype of the book or to set up an account with Matthew Noble for a story, amuse acquaintance Sarah Van Blaricum at 727-443-7115, ext. 207.

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