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"Most
people seem to have some kind of rainbow that continually escapes them.
If they search for it for a thousand years, they may find its peace.
With
this program, I learn the sensory science of walking out my back door
and thinking with the purity of a
rainbow...with the trees, the grass, the song of the wind...the
clouds. I help their self-correcting balance and beauty flow
through my psyche and I
teach people this path to well being as part of my livelihood."
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Natural
Attraction Ecology: Applied
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- Online training courses, jobs, grants and
practical, hands-on degree programs.
- How to restore our living earth bonds and
increase the wellness of
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"Use, teach and profit
from sensory
nature-connecting procedures. Improve your life and
all of life by adding the green spirit of
nature's renewing powers to how you think and feel.
Learn how to correct
our great underlying disorder while you address its hurtful symptoms."
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Project NatureConnect
Institute of Global Education
Program
founded in 1959. Most recent website update 10/5/08.
(360)378-6313
Email:
nature@interisland.net
Discover how to
increase your success and happiness by strengthening personal, social
and environmental well being.
We honor your prior training and life
experience by providing grants and equivalency credit for it.
Humanity is part of
nature biologically and spiritually.
Do
you recognize that, due to a misguided way that we learn to think in
Industrial Society, we and nature's global life community suffer many
disorders?
Do you sense or feel
the loss of well-being that results from our excessive
exploitation of natural systems, in and around us?
We can't solve a
problem when we don't recognize its source.
Are
you one of the few who realize that the origin of our runaway
disorders
is Industrial Society's refusal to admit that it is unreasonably
prejudiced against nature?
Do you recognize that our
relationship with nature has become dangerously dysfunctional?
You can make a
profound contribution. Learn and teach a green remedy for
our destructive prejudice against nature and its hurtful effects.
Nature's web of life community has the
self-correcting ability to restore itself, be
the injury a bulldozed landscape, a scraped knee or our stressed
psyche.
Nature can't help us correct our disorders
when our thinking is socialized to disconnect us from nature's
ability to do this.
The green truth is that:
- We
are born into and remain part of the global ecosystem throughout our lives. - To be part of any system, one has to
be in communication with it. To this end, we inherit from
nature over 50
natural senses. For example, when in a natural area, our sensations/senses of thirst, motion, trust, belonging, color, place, taste,
temperature, beauty and community are natural system connections and communications.
- We are designed to consciously register our natural senses and balance our lives with nature through them.
- Each
natural sense is an attraction to support life. Each is a deep,
inherent love of nature, a feeling and spirit that, unfortunately, we learn to dismiss
rather
than to validate, honor and think with it.
We suffer our greatest
troubles because, on average, our society's prejudice has us
disconnect over
98
percent of our
time, thinking and senses from nature's renewing and self-correcting ways.
This profound loss leaves us wanting.
When we want, there is never
enough and we are never enough.
Our wanting spawns our greed, stress and lack
of self-worth, our excessiveness, abusiveness and disorders.
Our prejudice against, and excessive
disconnection from, nature's web of life is our underlying problem.
To reduce our prejudice, we must reasonably learn
and teach
how to genuinely reconnect our psyche with the web of life and
increase familiar, mutually-supportive connections with nature's restorative powers, in and around us.
Project
NatureConnect
scientifically and spiritually helps you make your life and interests
important contributions to the solution. 360-378-6313
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Orientation
Topics
Found
Outcomes
Benefits
Contact Us email: nature@interisland.net
Instructions:
Important:
how to most effectively use this website
Introduction
Website Overview, Goals and Purpose
Part
One:
Application of the Program: Professions and
hobbies. Links to significant pages
Part
Two:
Rationale. How and Why: Ecopsychology Science,
Organic methods and materials; Links to associated pages
Enrollment
and Participation Page:
How to Participate in Courses and Degree Programs online.
Articles
Read
these for a wide range of information, they are available
for publication.
Outcomes
Survey of Participants, Journaled Reports, Research Findings
Gain
the expertise to reach your greatest
potential. Master our core Psychological
Elements of Global
Citizenship online Orientation Course.
Special Training Grant
Available: a
$1000 stipend is paid to appropriate professionals for completing this
short online course so they may help increase the well being of their
clientele and the environment Call 360-378-6313.
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ORIENTATION:
WEB SITE TOPICS:
Ecopsychology in Action:
News, Degrees, Holistic Community Training Courses, Jobs
Books and Grants for Organic
and Gaia Psychology, Ecotherapy and Therapists, Nature Deficit
Disorder, Interdisciplinary Earth Wisdom Study, Peace Corps,
Graduate Schools
Environmental and Human
Services CEU, Holistic Outdoor Counseling, The Secret Natural Law of
Attraction, Green Spirituality, War on Terrorism
Climate Change Answers,
Sustainable Soul Coaching, Stress Relief
Management and Meditation, Natural Health and Wellness
Inner and Global Peace,
Alternative Education Grants, Debt Solution Money, Global Warming
Remedies
Stress Management, Dream
work, Native American Studies, Home Schooling, Organic Leadership
Consciousness.
We use Trust Based Learning and
Funding: you
schedule and pay for your program courses
and/or degree only what you can afford and on a time schedule that fits
your
needs.
FOUND: A critical missing component
in industrial society
At home school or work enjoy
and teach the healing nature-sensitivity online process of Organic
Psychology. Help reverse our destructive prejudice against the web
of life community. We are part of it, not superior to it.
Benefit from the
self-correcting and purifying ways of natural systems within and around
us.
Add holistic sustainability
and resilence to your personal and professional life.
OUTCOMES:
Boost your energy and joy.
Think and feel like nature's perfection works. Advance your
professional and outdoor life.
Activate the 53 natural
senses you inherit from nature to become more
- thoughtful, sensitive and likable,
- trustable, friendly and secure,
- helpful, confident and peaceful with people, places and things.
BENEFITS:
Increase pleasure. Reduce
depression. Transform the pollution in contemporary thinking into the
happiness of constructive balanced relationships and meditation with
the whole web of life.
Correct the falsehoods that
painfully injure the wholesome attraction sensitivities of the natural
within and around us.
Empower yourself with
nature-connected community and conflict resolution techniques.
PURPOSE:
To provide and fund tools
for open minded, multiple-intelligence thinking and feeling that help
us reduce the detrimental effects of our excessive separation from, and
exploitation of, nature's web of life.
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PREFACE TO THE
INTRODUCTION
This web site contains portions of the books: Reconnecting
With Nature, The
Web of Life Imperative, and Educating,
Counseling and Healing With Nature by Michael
J. Cohen, Ed.D.
The books are texts for Psychological
Elements of Global Citizenship, our online Orientation Course that
is rooted in 47 years of living and learning with people and the
equality of balanced relationships learned from direct sensory contact
with natural areas.
Our courses can
be used as self-designed accredited electives for any degree program as
well as to fulfill CEU or professional certification (clock hour)
requirements for counselors or teachers. They
include trust-based funding: you
schedule and pay for
your program courses and/or degree only what you can afford on a time
table that fits your needs.
Please inquire
about being paid for published reviews of our books, courses or this
website. We welcome financial or other types of donations.
For best results,
first explore this homepage, its directions
(below the Introduction), and
then its links. Collect information that has value to you. As questions
arise call 360-378-6313 to learn how you may participate
independently or through our self-help grant program (email us for
a toll-free number).
The program
of Project NatureConnect is subsidized
and strengthens any endeavor or discipline. The major requirement for participation is
your caring intention to learn how to increase personal, social and
environmental well-being.
The DVD Naturally
Attracted: Connecting With Michael J. Cohen is reviewed and available online.
The most complete overview of
this program, its rationale, validity and history is
the refereed e-book Natural
Attraction Ecology and its associated course.
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INTRODUCTION
A
Word to the Naturally Wise.....
Welcome,
and thank you for your strong interest in advancing the well-being of
all of life on Earth, including humanity.
Thank
you, too, for recognizing that our individual and collective well being
has deteriorated due to industrial society's insensitive and excessive
conquest of nature, within and around us. We have been socialized to
think that we are superior the the web of life when we are simply an
equal part of it, and vice versa. Our thinking has learned to be
unreasonably prejudiced
against nature and we seldom
acknowledge this.
Any
individual who has enjoyed a good experience with nature -- in
backcountry forest or backyard garden...or at the beach...or on a park
walk...or with their pet,...or in contact with the wind, sea or stars --
recognizes that, without the use of books, teachers or lessons, sensory
attractions in nature renew us.
We
inherently enjoy and benefit from their ability to help us feel better.
They
momentarily increase our bliss and wellness, we think with greater
clarity and we more fully enjoy our true biological and psychological
self in community, as did Native Americans.
To
our profound loss, our "natural attraction
self" usually lies
buried and
frustrated in us due to our nature-exploitive socialization. This
stresses us. We are competitive, not compassionate, when our
senses are aggravated.
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Try
to remember, for a few minutes, a
good experience you have had in
nature, one you would be attracted to repeat again because
it was
attractive.
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Can you remember natural colors, sounds, aromas, textures or flavors
that were part of the experience?
- Did it contain comforting
motions or attractive feelings of community, trust or place?
- Do you feel it was
enchanting, self-enhancing or spiritually pleasing?
- Was it supportive,
peaceful or both?
- Did it help you feel that
you were part of a greater whole?
The above are
some of the
results that people have reported from remembering their attractive
experiences in natural areas. The web of life helped them sense and
feel the
true natural being that they were born. They could think with it. They
became aware how
their natural self and their dreams had been excessively stressed
by Industrial Society's exploitation of nature within and around them.
If you have ever had such an
experience, you are eligible to enter and benefit from the program of
Project NatureConnect.
Are
you aware that the contact of your psyche with the web of life
increases
well-being? Even bringing the above nature-connected memories to mind
for a few minutes
temporarily reduces your blood pressure. By helping you continually
make conscious sensory contact with natural systems within and around
you, Organic Psychology enables you to reap the rewards of an
evironmentally
supportive form of stress management and ecotherapy.
Too
often we take our gratifying nature-connection gift and its wonderful
powers for granted. We call it an escape from real life: recreation,
not re-creation. However, biologically and
spiritually, this gift is a momentous part of the person and community
each of us is
naturally born to be.
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"Nature
is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, Nature is but
another name for health."
-Henry David Thoreau
An
astounding fact: We
are born as part of nature's global life community and its purity yet, on
average, over 98 percent of
our time, thinking and feeling is out of touch with the grace, balance
and restorative powers of nature and the natural, in and around us.
To
our cost, in our industrial society it is
"normal" for our thinking and feeling to be estranged from the benefits
of nature's beauty
and balance. Hands-on, conscious, sensory contacts with natural areas
demonstrate that we suffer our isolation and disorders because we are
missing this essence of our natural sanity and peace of mind.
Organic
Psychology works because it genuinely
reconnects our thinking to nature and the worldwide self-correcting and
supportive
ways of the web of life, backyard or backcountry
Unwittingly,
due to a dangerous prejudicial falsehood that it promotes, industrial
society socializes or otherwise indoctrinates us
into
excessive,
nature-exploitive habits and attitudes.
Prej-u-dice
n. an unreasonable pre-judging
attitude
that is, due to bonding,
unusually resistant to rational influence.
We seldom change our
destructive ways because we
become bonded to artificial materials and stories, even though we know
that their side effects are often detrimental and erode well being in
us and
other natural beings.
Truly
reasonable individuals thoughtfully recognize that we learn to become
prejudiced
against nature as well as learn not to admit that we are.
This secret prejudice underlies most disorders within and around
us.
Just as we once
prejudicially gave no legal rights to slaves, we still give no
legal rights to nature, including
the web of life's inalienable right to its life, and its life includes our
natural self.
As an integral part
of the web of life, is it surprising that we stress ourselves as we
stress the web?
On
line, at Project NatureConnect, social workers, counselors, teachers,
parents, therapists and students together learn and teach
nature-connecting
activities that help us
transform our destructive prejudice into balanced, constructive,
environmentally
sound relationships.
Sadly, we suffer greed, depression and dysfunction
because the progression of our excessively nature-separated lives
demeans and disconnects our mentality and loving from the web of life.
We lose the support of
our inherent biological and spiritual wholeness. We are missing the the
mysterious illumination and kind humility that we share with our
natural instincts, values and origins in the global life community and
its genius. This profound loss causes our psyche to want, and when want
there is never enough.
We
fail to recognize that the most trustable truth of our life is what we
experience in each immediate moment of our life, in the "now" of life.
However, we spend less than .0001 percent of the "now" with our
thoughts and feelings consciously in contact with the innate way the
web of life
produces and sustains its balanced perfection in and around us,
including within the life of our psyche. To counteract this loss,
Project
NatureConnect provides the means for us to,
at will, effectively include nature, the real thing, backyard or
backcountry, in the now of our life.
Normally,
from infancy on, we learn to detach our
sensual psyche and soul from the self-correcting life-spirit and support
of natural systems and their flow. This rupture stops the streaming cycles of
earth's natural systems and their regenerative powers through the life
of our psyche. It breaks their vital circuit. The loss of their
nurturance and vigor weakens our natural intelligence. It desensitizes
how we think and feel, our self-esteem is reduced, our dreams frighten
us, we become vulnerable. In turn, our best thinking unwillingly
injures the world and its
people.
Our
lack of respect and reverence for the
consistent and giving pulse of the web of life community underlies our
discontents. This
helps to explain our "crazy world," why it often feels like we are
stressfully rolling down hill like a snowball that's heading for hell.
With respect to our balanced origins and nature, including global
warming, our thinking has become blocked and bewildered (meaning
"wilderness separated"). We seldom recognize that "wild," "natural
life"
and "god" may be synonymous.
This
website and it origins
present nature-connecting social
technologies, studies and biology adventures. From them you
may learn and teach how to overcome the estrangement of our
mind from natural systems, and the nature deficit disorders that result.
The
removal of our thinking and feeling from nature's (Gaia's)
self-correcting, whole (holy/sacred/divine) ways of community
self-government and
self-organization reduces our sanity, our humor, our fun and fitness.
Our loss of contact with great spirit (the force) creates the quandary
of our predicaments and our inability to fulfill our fondest dreams.
- The Web of Life Imperative
Life
is evidence of itself. The scientific process of Project
NatureConnect uses the self-evident truths of
phenomenological experience in natural places as a means to produce
practical solutions
for our dilemmas. It works because it connects us with nature, the
fountainhead of authority with respect to living in peaceful balance
and purity.
Patient
and persistent, we, together, in natural areas, learn how to invite
nature to safely reconnect our thoughts and feelings back to their
non-polluting perfection in the web of life. We honor this
authoritative and decisive act of ours as the tipping point that makes
a difference.
"Our
imaginative passion for reconnecting with nature helps us create sober
character, fortitude and courage. We build for ourselves and the world
a reliable, ecologically sound, personal and social security."
- Reconnecting With Nature
In
Project NatureConnect, our
classroom
consists of creating moments that let Earth teach, moments that bring
out its knowledge in us that we inherit but learn to suppress. Then, by
email, we share that sensory understanding with classmates and
counselors via the internet and we learn more, by email, from their
nature-connected experiences that they email to us.
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Benefit from a Powerful Humanitarian Tool....
Engage
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friendships, exciting training and sensible, whole life Organic
Psychology degree programs that our society usually omits. Based on
trust, these community-based programs help you improve your personal
and professional
life via an economical and accredited sensory
distance learning process in organized or
homeschooling situations.
Project
NatureConnect's visionary funding program
financially assists deserving individuals who are conscious of the history of
our society's great
discord and want to master the organic remedy for it that
this web site offers. You simply add our Organic Psychology process to
your present and prior life-experiences and/or training. It is a
nature-connected application of ecopsychology.
Our
program is subsidized because the unique art and science it offers is
essential for increasing the well being of individual and planet. After
completing our online Orientation
Course, you pay for your courses and/or degree only
what you can afford on a time table that fits your needs. A
special $1000 training grant is available to appropriate professionals
for completing this
short online course so that they may
help increase the well being of their
clientele and the environment. Call 360-378-6313.
Learn
our quantum nature-connected education and counseling techniques that
help you increase personal, social and environmental health.
Please
inquire as to how we can help your personal
and professional life strengthen well-being within and about you.
360-378-6313 email
For
Peace,
Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D.
Email
"Project
NatureConnect presents an accessible, simple, enjoyable and extremely
powerful way that love for all life may heal the deep wounds that we
suffer."
- Elisabeth Ryland, San Bernadino
Do
the observations, above,
make sense to you?
Are
they attractive? ..Application
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Instructions/Directions
How to most effectively use
this web site for
educating, counseling and healing with nature jobs, training, funding,
degrees and activities:
The art and science on this
website is like an
affectionate and tender supermarket of relevant and timely knowledge.
On
these web pages, as explained further below, you simply identify and
select what is attractive, makes sense and is of value to you. Then you
place it in a "remember to explore this further" section of your mind,
an imaginary "this truly makes sense" shopping cart, or write it down.
The
web site immerses you in a wide range of real life information about
human ecology and the organic application of ecopsychology and
ecotherapy. If you use the site fully it will bring you to where you
may feel excited, and perhaps a bit lost, due to the profound
newness and benefits of this nature-connected way of knowing and
relating. When this happens, congratulations! Not to worry. This means you
have used the site correctly. Just follow the procedure
below.
Procedure:
1. First bookmark
and read through this homepage, then follow its
links of interest.
Always
return to this page
to find additional information and links when you desire them.
2. Explore
and collect
attractive information from these pages, information that supports your
personal and
professional needs. Place that information in that imaginary
"supermarket shopping cart," in your mind, or write it down.
3. Contact
Mike Cohen, Ed.D., a
qualified advisor who will help you, without pressure, to customize the information
you gather here so that you may best meet your professional,
academic training, personal or
financial goals. 360-378-6313. (Pacific Time Zone, USA.),
or email him.
IMPORTANT NOTE: our Procedures page
is the page to explore for application
and participation in our online
training courses and degree programs. Then call 360-378-6313
to benefit from distance
learning and applying the program within the means of your time and
budget.
This
site's purpose and procedure is to help us help you benefit from online
training experiences, jobs, accredited course work, certification or
degree programs that enhance your personal or professional life via
nature-connected experiential education as part of the web of life
community.
Use
this homepage to add skills and rewarding benefits to your present
interests, prior training and/or life experience.
Questions?
Comments? Participation? Contact Mike Cohen, 360-378-6313.
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APPLICATION OF THE PROGRAM :
The Advantages of
Alternative, Holistic and Sustainable
Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature
Applied Ecopsychology
Environmental Jobs, Careers
and Degree Programs in Action
Organic Psychology and the Natural
Systems Thinking Process
Online
antidotes for Natural
System Dysfunction.
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- Empower yourself by engaging in the gentle
interactive art and science of pollution free,
 nature-connected Organic
Psychology.
Learn online
through
inspirational,
hands-on, environmental human service tools, books and creative writing
activities for health, meditation and wellness.
Benefit from
sustainable, holistic, nature-connected jobs and careers. Master
warmhearted, accredited, personal balance
courses for CEU or clock hours and/or academic credit.
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- Participate in
all or part of our funded Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degree, certificate and
career program grants and scholarships. They incorporate and build on
your prior training and life experiences. Start
here or take our Orientation
Course online for credit.
Promote peace within and around
you: help
yourself and others volunteer to use our practical nature-connected
coaching and conflict resolution process. It enables you to be at ease
with, as well as remedy, the stressful and abusive estrangement of our
thinking from the wonderful health and wellness powers of natural
systems within and around us.
- Request participation
instructions
. - Historical Note: our career development
participants
have successfully applied nature-connected
education and healing to:
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Professional Benefits. Improved Conferences,
Progressive Human Services, Independent Contracting and Child Care,
Global Warming, Retreats.
- Self-help, Stress Management, Personal Growth,
Motivational Neuro-Linguist Programming, Creative Writing, Home
Schooling, Hypnotherapy, Aromatherapy, Reiki. Energy Medicine and Art
Therapy.
- Life, Personal, Success and Relationship Coaching,
Leadership Skills, Consulting, Memory Training, Nutrition. Men's and
Women's Issues and Action Assertiveness.
- Teaching, Mentoring and Facilitating Disorder and
Prevention Remedies: Eating, Sleep, Anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress,
Attention Deficit, Addiction, Dependency, Burnout, Self-Confidence, Mid
Life Crisis and other Self-Worh or Creative Writing dysfunctions.
- Counseling: Pastoral, Therapy, Recovery, Family,
Marriage and Spiritual Counseling, Massage Therapy and Biofeedback.
- Shaminism, New Age Spirituality Retreat Centers,
Self-Esteem, Yoga, Religion and Civil Rights, Therapist, Retreat Center
Training.
- Course Instruction, Workshop Presentations, Social
Work, Conservation Strategies Outdoor Leadership, Sociology,
Environmental Education, Mental Health, Interning and Rich Brain
Enhancement.
- Meditation, Complimentary and Alternative
Naturopathic Medicine, Parenting, Relaxation, Intimacy and Higher Power.
- Founding or Directing Stress and Healing Programs,
or Creative Writing Courses for Training or Degree Programs. Additional
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"Now,
I am more sympathetic, self-sufficient and happy. I support the
environment, and my health and friendships have improved; all this just
from doing these
thoughtful sensory activities with natural attractions that I discover
in the park and then share with my Internet study group."
- Project
NatureConnect Participant
Does the observation, above,
make sense to you?
Is it attractive? ..Application
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Act Now
Funded education counseling and healing with nature internships online
ecopsychology
degrees, courses and jobs.
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- Orientation
Course:
every
program starts with this course. Learn from personal experience how
to think with the intelligent cooperation and
peaceful balance of natural systems in and around us.
Towards
the Sustainable Health and Wellness of People, Careers and Places:
Environmental Distance Learning With Nature.
Below
appears one of thousands of journal entry quotes
that convey unadulterated empirical evidence for your
consideration. It comes directly from the stress-reduciing experience of a person
whose thoughts and senses registered, first-hand, the outdoor events
this entry describes:
"This
nature-connecting activity helped me become aware of my attraction to
the crescent moon as it hung over two hills near my home. Soon, its
mellow glow, framed by peaks and trees, embraced me in a wordless,
ancient primordial scene. Timeless power, peace and unity swept me up.
I just wanted to stay in that state of awe, I felt in balance with all
of reality. I was simply "BEING." No tension, no pressing goal, just
truly belonging to the global lif community. This natural attraction
captured my stress laden pulse and seduced it to the rhythms of Earth.
The sleeping disorder I have battled all my adult life dissolved in
this restorative power. For the first time in decades, I gently fell
asleep after dark and arose shortly after dawn. With elation, I
celebrated the breakthrough and I thanked nature. I thanked the
endearing activity, too. I'm attracted to it because it helps me
reconnect with nature whenever I choose, and I can teach it to others."
- Project
NatureConnect Participant
Do the observations, above,
make sense to you? Are they attractive? Call
360-378-6313. Application
Information
The
rapture in this phenomenal outdoor journal quote goes against the
public's stress-producing cultural bias to excessively discredit,
exploit or
conquer nature. Nature includes the self-correcting and purifying ways
of natural systems, of "Gaia," our living planet and community that
flows around and
through us.
The
quote conclusively demonstrates this extraordinary fact: the action of
conscious sensory connection with natural systems helped the writer
reduce his sleep disorder, increase his satisfaction and self-worth as
well as deepen his respect for nature.
As
with this sleep disorder example, Project NatureConnect money-back
guarantees
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The
Present Source of our Disorders: A Profound Distortion
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"Truth is what stands the test of experience."
- Albert Einstein
"Any
thoughtful feeling of attraction to nature that we experience while in
a natural area is a truth of the ages."
- The Web of Life Imperative
"Over
80 percent of our social and medical problems result from significant excessive stress. In
addition, stress erodes our personal and environmental relationships.
This reduces our hope and self-worth."
- The Web of Life Imperative
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"Most
people know that we live on the surface of Planet Earth. But do we?"
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Reconnecting With Nature
Today,
we unnecessarily suffer dysfunction and pain because contemporary
educators psychologists and health professionals unknowingly teach us
an extremely dangerous distortion that disconnects us from nature's
supportive ways.
As
children, from the time we first begin to talk we obtain adoring
rewards (social approval, food, shelter, water, air, light, love,
community, place, trust) that inextricably socialize us - that is,
emotionally bond us during childhood- to destructively
excessive parts of industrial society and its leaders.
At
an early age, like a bad habit,
whenever we think or feel, what first
automatically comes to our mind is the conditioned,
nature-disconnected, "exploit and profit"
warp we have learned that shapes our thinking. We register our
excessive tendencies as being normal, progress and economic
growth.
As
if we are looking through distorted eyeglasses, our leaders' distortion
makes us perceive in ways that produce stress and conflict. Their
falsehood says that we live on
the surface of Planet Earth while, from
direct sensory experience, we know full well that we don't. However,
we often learn to discount the truth and value of our personal
experience. In this case, our natural senses of color, motion,
distance,
gravity, light, direction, texture and reason register that we
live in the Earth, 300
miles below its atmosphere,
beneath its air, clouds, rain, snow and flying creatures. Isn't this
experience true for you? If so, why does it usually feel uneasy,
foreign or strange to say "I live in the Earth" or
"We/humanity live in, not on, the Earth?"
We
think and feel conflicted because, moment by moment, our false story
separates our mind and heart from what we sense to be true, from what
we experience from contact with our
nurturing origins in the grace
and balance of the web of life and its renewing powers. How can we
truly know who we are in our natural relationship with life if the bias
of our story of who we are gently, but powerfully,
misleads us?
"Well-being
always increases when our stories tell us the whole truth."
- Anonymous
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When
we learn to prejudically think stories about life that undermine
the attractive reality that we register when we experience life in
balance,
our
psyche becomes conflicted. This conflict excessively stresses us. We become
disturbed. Worst of all, we may learn to think that this is a normal
part
of life, that "God places us in our conflicts so that we can learn from
the
experience."
The
momentous question that rocks us is this: do we simply
live on the
Earth, or are we completely in and part of its web of life community?
This is monumental. Earth is the
planetary origin and nurturing source of life as we know it. It is an
essential
unifying root of our thoughts, feelings and survival. We become
troubled and create trouble when we are mislead about this
relationship. It makes our thoughts and feelings lose contact with who
we really are. It makes us dependent upon the nature-disconnected and
exploitive stories of Industrial Society
that often cause, rather than resolve, problems.
Our
discord about life, and our life, stresses the depth of our natural
senses of place, trust, community and belonging as well as 49 additional natural
senses that often only express themselves in the safety of social work,
counseling or therapy. This stress
undermines the delight and joy of our intact mind body and spirit as
well as the integrity of whole social and environmental relationships.
It produces the
discomforts of anxiety, depression and panic. We feel ungrounded,
uncentered vulnerable or abandoned. We lose our natural negotiating
skills and can't enjoy our true ecopsychological self. Too
often, this is how we "normally" experience ourselves.
The
person-planet clash in our thinking is secretly destructive. It
troubles our natural senses of
trust, peace, place, community
and belonging.
They deteriorate
along with many other sensitivities. Confused and disoriented, we take
this discord for granted because we see it all around us most of the
time.
To
reverse our troubles, we need familiarity, strength and support, not
stress, from
the power of our place in the cosmos. To feel grounded, we need contact
with the healing
purity of
nature's regenerative ways to help us solve the cancer of our runaway
problems. Our major problem is that due to our learned prejudice
against nature, contemporary thinking and our
teachers are almost entirely disconnected from the self-correcting
power of nature's
renewing energies.
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The
scientific fact of Ecology is that we are imbedded in and nurtured by
Earth's biosphere, a 20 mile band of life that
sits above and below the land and ocean. We are as much a part of the
biosphere as is any leaf, molecule or atom, any plant, animal, mineral
or weather system.
The
discovery of the biosphere in 1929, makes a far greater contribution
for good than did the great finding by Copernicus, in 1536, that the
Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system.
For
the past 75 years science and society have recognized the biosphere and
its cyclic systems as the central pulsating life community and ecology
of Planet Earth.
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"Life
prepares its own environment"
- John Storer,
The Web of Life (1953)
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The
biosphere is a community. It consists of creation's
self-organizing, cooperative integration of atmosphere,
sunshine, ocean, soil, plants, animals, minerals and energy, a web of life symbiosis
that supports all of life (Gaia),
including human life. It nurtures us as we nurture it. For this reason,
for example, we are born as cat, dog and pet lovers, we are not trained
through hypnotherapy or any other process to naturally love animals or
life. Love of life is how nature works.
The
essence of the biosphere and Earth is the pulsating flow of
natural systems. Wherever or whenever that ecology flow
stops, life as we know it deteriorates or dies.
Many
folks generalize the biosphere as being "star energies" or the
"Universe." This thought can remove their psyche from the benefits and
destiny they might otherwise enjoy by making conscious sensory contact
with natural life and its web of life systems,
the
real thing, backyard or
backcountry.
"I
did the activity that directs you to visit a natural area and
thoughtfully learn to sense it and the flow of its systems. You then
try to determine where nature ends and you begin. I was surprised and
greatful because in 20 minutes I discovered a new depth of who I really
am and what has happened to me."
-Project NatureConnect Participant
"This home schooling
activity helped me realize
that even if I'm in a natural area but I'm thinking or talking about
some rock band or the problems that face me in the classroom or with my
boss or my
girlfriend, I'm not fully connecting with nature."
-Project NatureConnect
Participant
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Natural systems and their
flow are self-correcting
and purifying. They recycle and renew the natural deterioration of
themselves and every molecule on earth. For this reason, nature rarely
creates abuse. It seldom produces garbage, pollution or the destructive
stress and pain of our aggravated relationships.
Moment by moment, the pulse
of natural systems and
their power flows through all of life. This includes the life of our
mind and spirit, of our thoughts feelings and perceptions.
Natural systems are a prime
commonality and
unifier that we share with all people, places and things, past and
present. This commonality includes spiritual leaders like Moses, Jesus,
Mohammad
and Buddha.
Most artifical substitutes
for natural systems
exclude their natural unifying energies and organic healing ways. This
omission leaves our thinking to unknowingly produce our
conflicts, discomforts, moods or deterioration, sooner or later.
Our whole life health and
happiness ultimately
depend upon the streaming pulse of natural systems through us. But
because of the prejudicial
distortion in our leaders'
biosphere-detached thinking, in the name of "progress" "profit" or
"economic growth" our socialization teaches us to excessively separate
ourselves from, exploit and conquer nature and its systems, as if they
are harmful.
What we do to nature, we do
to ourselves as part of nature. We become stressed consumers
instead of responsible and happy life-community citizens.
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REMINDER: To our loss, on
average, throughout our
lives we learn to disconnect 98 percent of our time, thinking and
feeling from conscious sensory contact with nature and its systems.
Our extreme exploitation of
and disconnection from
natural systems stops their beneficial flow through our psyche. The
loss of their vibrance wounds our psyche. It numbs our thinking and
feeling. It erodes our trust and our sense that we naturally belong or
have value.
Our pain and numbing
desensitization results in
the excessive disagreements, violence, abuse, stress, hurt, disorders
wants and addictions that mark our lives.
We are troubled because
something's missing; we
don't know or relate to the ways of nature, in and around us, as
balanced attraction-love
life relationships, as do other natural beings.
We seldom embrace natural
things as relatives,
attractions, loves or spirit kinships. For example, the organism that
we call a "tree," "board-feet" or "potential profit," nature-centered
people(s) might call "treeing," "tree spirit," "friend" or "relation."
Natural folks are
socialized to trust Mother Earth
as a true mother, not as a dead third rock from the sun. We can't
afford to overlook that these folks seldom cause the troubles we
produce.
Many of them have no word in their language for pollution,
garbage or waste. Everything belongs.
"At root, ecology is an
erotic attitude of closeness, relatedness and care. We have made it
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