MindBodyGreen Contributor
Jeff Cannon is the author of The Simple Truth. He was a fast-track entrepreneur with a portfolio of successful businesses, who had published two books with McGraw Hill, produced documentaries and ran his own public relations agency. Then it all came to a crashing halt at the end of 2009. That day he woke up on a hospital bed recovering from a ten hour surgery that removed six of seven brain tumors on his parietal lobe.
A long time devotee to martial arts and yoga, Jeff spent the next four months watching his brain reboot itself. From dreams filled with unmoving black and white textures, to waking up to vivid flashes of memories, he witnessed his senses, and his body slowly came back on line. He spent the next year applying his knowledge of Western science and Eastern philosophies to his recovery and his health. He learned firsthand how the brain is hard wired just as it had been 40,000 years ago. More important he learned how it could be reprogrammed through such practices as meditation and mindfulness.
Today he still has one tumor in his head that has miraculously stopped growing since his new beginning. He now works with individuals and groups with a process of personal evolution he calls the Simple Truth. His mission is to empower, enable, and ensure others live their own Simple Truth through the lessons he learned.
Website: jeff-cannon.com
Book: simple-truth.com
Twitter: @ASimpleTruth
Facebook: ASimpleTruth
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