Healing From Within - Sheryl Glick

In today’s episode of “Healing from Within”, your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit: Answers For Healing and Infinite Love welcomes Daniel Parmeggianni (http://danielparmeggiani.com/), author of The Magnificent Truth of Our Existence. Danie...

In today’s episode of Healing from Within, your host Sheryl Glick, author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love welcomes Heather White (http://whopaysfilm-org.cadmiumandcotton.com/), the producer and co-director of the film, Who Pays the Price? The Human Cost of Cheap Electronics (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/who-pays-the-price-the-human-cost-of-electronics--4), which follows the stories of injured and chemically poisoned young Chinese workers in factories that manufacture the world’s leading electronic brands. Their experiences underscore the human cost being paid by workers globally to conserve American consumer’s demand for cheap gadgets and devices.

Heather White, a former network fellow at Harvard University’s Edmund Safra center for Ethics from 2011-2014, has channeled her investigative work on transparency in global supply chains leading to improved industry standards in social auditing and verification practices. Heather, as the founder and former execute director of Verite, a nonprofit organization, has won international recognition for her efforts to reduce labor violations in factories, production for American consumer brands.

Heather and Sheryl will discuss the film Who Pays the Price and will focus on the struggles for justice in unthinkable conditions where worker rights are denied, and a government crackdown has curtailed efforts to organize labor. We will be concerned with understanding that excessive consumerism creates extreme work conditions in countries where young workers fight for their health and their futures, while factories engage in cover-ups that include denying that they ever worked in them. Workers and family members expose these conditions and we are given an opportunity to recognize that it will take a cooperative effort by many to protect these workers in any county as it is a worldwide concern.

Sheryl asks Heather what exactly goes on in the Electronics Manufacturing Industry. The Electronics Manufacturing Industry is far from clean in the areas of environmental sustainability and worker’s rights… the growing risk of worker illness due to exposure to dangerous chemicals. Smart phones and laptops require many chemicals in the manufacturing process for cleaning screens and component parts such as chips, or other purposes. Workers do not always have sufficient protective gear or training for handling toxic substances. Exposure to dangerous chemicals can lead to many diseases such as cancer, leukemia, nerve damage, liver and kidney failure, as well as reproductive health issues.

Some of the people who have been helpful and influential in helping Heather produce this film and bring awareness about this problem to the public was Ming Kunpeng. Ming started working at an Apple chip supplier when he was 19 years old. He was required to handle a harsh chemical known as benzene without proper training and protective gear. In 2009, at age 22 Ming was diagnosed with leukemia. After years of many testing, Ming Kunpeng's illness was determined to be occupational in nature. Requests to the Apple chip supplier to pay for Ming Kunpeng’s treatment were responded to too late and did not cover the care he needed. On December 28th 2013, despite the supportive efforts of his entire family to get him ongoing care and medication, Ming Kunpeng committed suicide by jumping from the roof of his building. His fight is one that is fought by thousands of benzene-poisoned leukemia patients.

In China, an estimated 130 million workers migrate from their homes in the countryside to the special economic zones where factories are situated. This is roughly half the US population. An estimated 12 million of these people end up working in consumer electronics factories. The work is grueling. According to Electronics Watch, workers receive low wages, often work 12-hour days, six to seven days per week, are forced to work overtime, are discriminated against, are unable to organize,

In today’s episode of Healing from Within, your host Sheryl Glick welcomes guest Erica Tucci (http://www.radiantsurvivor.com) author of Radiant Survivor- (http://www.radiantsurvivor.com) How to Shine and Thrive through Recovery from Stroke, Cancer Abuse Addiction and other Life-Altering Experience. Erica Tucci was actively engaged as a corporate manager of a Fortune 500 company, a healing arts business owner and an author of three books. Unaware of any major health issue, one morning, much the same as any other morning, Erica suffered a major stroke that left her completely paralyzed on her right side. During a long recovery, Erica gained much wisdom about what is really important in life and now draws on her experiences through her healing process to use her story as an inspiration for others facing life challenges, which we all have whether big or small.

During the process of understanding what type of stroke Erica sustained, she learned a great deal about the statistics and logistics of the disease and shared these thoughts: There are two kinds of strokes. One is hemorrhagic a stroke where blood floods the brain often wiping out cognitive abilities and causing physical disabilities. An Ischemic a stroke is caused by a blood clot. Both types of strokes might cause paralysis of some sort. An Ischemic stroke might be rendered less severe if a certain injection is administered in time. Erica later found out that her stroke was caused by a hole in the heart, which over 25% of the population has but often goes undetected. There is a certain test known as the Trans-Esophageal Echocardiogram test, (TEE- pole), which with a transducer, inserted into the esophagus, sends out ultra sonic sound waves which can show the opening in the heart.

During Erica’s recovery process, she became aware of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, who also suffered from a stroke and paralysis. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard trained brain scientist, in her book My Stroke of Insight, describes how her stroke showed her the more we focus on any belief the more powerful the belief becomes. Dr. Taylor learned the left hemisphere thinks in patterned responses to incoming stimulation operating the right side or masculine aspect of a person. The right hemisphere is open to possibilities and imagination operating the left side or feminine aspect of functioning. As our left mind governs the right side of our body, the masculine side, it creates limiting beliefs through critical judgment and analysis. The right mind, which governs the left side or feminine side of the body, is where compassion, self love and creativity originate from. “[The] right mind is open to new possibilities and thinks out of the box. It is not limited to the rules and regulations established by [the] left mind that created that box… [It] brings new insights …” Dr. Taylor realized as a result from her stroke, paralyzing her right side and affecting the left hemisphere of her brain, that she needed now to access an entire new dimension or way to receive information, and became much more sensitive to her own sense of intuition and internal guidance system and was able to perceive life and her recovery in a much broader view or bigger picture of life in general. In other words, she was no longer so interested in a one way approach to any question or task. Utilizing the right hemisphere of her brain, which had not been damaged by the stroke, she was able to feel more compassion, self love and creativity, or access the feminine side of her nature which ultimately brought her great wisdom and showed her the possibilities for respecting the many ways we learn more about ourselves, our energy and how the brain functions.

Erica goes on to talk about the masculine vs. the feminine aspects of energy. Humans are a microcosm -- Feminine at the center-the heart Intuition, and engaging the male energy, which functions to determine action and bring ideas into manifestation.