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NATURE-CONNECTED EDUCATING, COUNSELING AND HEALING
- Project NatureConnect offers
cooperative participation, competency-based, courses, careers and Applied Ecopsychology degree programs
that increase personal, social and environmental well-being ...distance education ...accredited ...hands-on ...interactive ...organic ...guaranteed effective ...Ecotherapy ...Integral Ecology ...A subsidized online learning community for all ages: only $6,000 M.S. ...$7,800 Ph.D.
- TRUST SAFELY: Learn how to consistently
think and feel with the clarity and happiness that you have enjoyed as part of a good experience
in nature. Enable others to use and teach the science of this important mental health and stress reduction process. Empower yourself to create personalized moments that let Earth teach.
- OBTAIN SELF-ENHANCING CAREER CREDENTIALS. Strengthen your
livelihood. Accredit and increasingly green your prior training and life experience. Gain the expertise to bring about reasonable change that improves all of life.
- WE ARE PART OF NATURE'S BALANCED WAYS. However, we suffer disorders because 99 percent of how we think and feel is disconnected from
nature's self-correcting and restorative powers. Project NatureConnect provides you with outstanding sensory tools to achieve holistic body, mind and spirit. They help you reasonably enlist
nature's purifying energies to remedy our destructive estrangement from
the natural and increase health and wellness.
SPECIAL NOTE AND OPPORTUNITY: OVERVIEW COMPANION PAGES: STREAMLINED, COMPACT, GUIDANCE, ORGANIZATION AND APPLICATION PROCEDURES.
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Project
NatureConnect
Institute
of Global
Education, Department of Integrated
Ecology
Special
Consultant to the United Nations
Economic and Social Council and Akamai University
P. O. Box 1605,
Friday
Harbor, WA 98250
PHONE: 360-378-6313
EMAIL: nature@interisland.net
Founder/Director Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D.
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Educating,
Counseling and
Healing With Nature (ECHN)
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A hearty welcome to you and many thanks for visiting our website.
Are you aware that individuals who have enjoyed a quiet
visit in a natural area report that their contact with nature's
balance and beauty increased
their well-being in lasting ways. They say that the connection renewed
their psyche,
cleared
their mind and
energized their spirit. To this end, the process of Educating, Counseling and
Healing With Nature (ECHN) empowers
anyone, at anytime, to increase personal, social and environmental wellness, and help others do the same. ECHN
students learn how to let nature's self-correcting ways genuinely connect with
their heart, mind and essence. This enables them, along with their
clients and friends, to increase well being anywhere. Grants are available for learning how to think, feel and relate like
nature's perfections work.
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If
you value or honor your good experiences with nature, you may:
- Benefit from adding a balanced
thinking and
relationships career, job or hobby to your life.
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- Learn the science of genuinely
connecting our
psyche to the grace and corrective
powers of nature.
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- Renew your living earth bonds.
Strengthen global life sustainability.
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- In cooperative community, be renewed by
the joyful flow of nature's regenerative ways and spirit,
in and around you.
Applied
Ecopsychology and Ecotherapy in Action
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- Strengthen
your cause or livelihood. Obtain an inexpensive Ph.D., M.S. CEU's or other supportive
credentials, by adding Applied Ecopsychology to what you want to do.
. - You can make Project NatureConnect be an
income-producing, online, degree or training program that is part of
your job, school or company.
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- Help
people lastingly sustain the good experiences they enjoy
in nature. Learn
to use, teach
and profit
from sensory
nature-connecting activities.
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- Improve your life and
all of life. Add the balancing and purifying powers of
nature's restorative ways to how you think and feel.
- Discover
how to recycle and correct
Industrial Society's great
underlying disorder while you remedy its hurtful
symptoms.
"The stress reduction effects of a quiet walk
in the park clearly demonstrate that most
people have an inherent sensory healing attraction to nature. However,
it usually
escapes the way they are trained to think.
If they search for it for a thousand years, they may first find its
peace.
With
this program, I learn how to walk out my back door
and immediately connect my thoughts and feelings with the colorful purity of a
rainbow...with the intelligent life-dance of the trees, the grass, the
song of the
wind...the
clouds. This is an undeniable fact, not my imagination. I sense my natural attraction and I respect nature's
renewing
balance and beauty.
I
love how these ecopsychology activities help nature's vitality consciously flow through me. Connecting
my natural senses with the enchanting wisdom of our living Planet increases my honesty, clears my head and opens
my heart.
The perk of my
livelihood is that I am paid to
teach others the science of this beautiful, eco-intelligent path to well-being."
- Online Orientation
Course (enroll
here )
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Project
NatureConnect (PNC)
Department
of Integrated
Ecology, Institute of Global Education
in cooperation with
Akamai
University, Institute of Applied Ecopsychology
Portland State University Extended Studies
San
Juan Island: P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 360-378-6313
Email: nature@interisland.net
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Alternative
holistic tools that remedy our destructive disconnection from nature and
help the United Nations meet its manifesto for sustainable
personal and global peace,
environmentally sound education and
social justice.
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"Here's the great secret that you really need to know"
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Education, Counseling and Healing With Nature, (ECHN)
A POTENT SENSORY TOOL HELPS US IDENTIFY AND REMEDY THE POINT SOURCE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT AIL US.
Although
we are part of nature, we live excessively indoor lives. Our enormous
separation from the natural world interferes with our body, mind and
spirit applying the self-correcting way nature works to
sustain our planet's health, balance and purity, around and in us.
Because Industrial Society's indoor learning process teaches us how to think and feel in excessively
nature-disconnected ways, our separation from nature's restorative recycling powers
creates mind pollution in our psyche. This contamination warps our
thoughts and feelings. It causes us to create and suffer
personal, social and environmental problems that are seldom found in
unadulterated nature or in nature-connected people(s).
In Industrial Society, our contaminated mentality and the disorders it produces have a point source of origin.
For a peaceful world in balance and wellness, we must each identify and
correct that detrimental point source. Project NatureConnect gives any
interested person the tools to accomplish this crucial feat.
The
point source of our troubles is our denial. We deny that our natural
senses and sensitivities
are excessively stressed due to our disconnectedness from nature. We
seldom recognize that we traumatize our senses because our society's
prejudice to conquer
nature makes these sensibilities endure unbalanced, disturbing,
nature-disconnected fulfillments.
The profound loss of nature's purifying and healing powers to our body, mind and spirit causes us to
continually want and when we want there is never enough.
The
torment of our emotional wanting is a form of mind pollution. It produces a
wounded sensory imbalance, a painful short circuit in our psyche that warps our intelligence, thoughts and feelings. It
results in our injurious stress, greed, disorders and dysfunctions,
locally and globally.
Our incessant wanting goads us into yearly
using 150 percent more "natural resources" than our planet produces,
even while we are fully aware that this is a dangerous and unreasonable
relationship. It makes us feel stupid or inadequate. No matter how rich or poor we are, most
of us feel we need 15 percent more money.
The
remedy for our mind polluting wants is the science of Educating,
Counseling and Healing with Nature (ECHN). Its holistic methods and materials are
sensory contact tools. Backyard or backcountry, they let nature's momentous self-correcting and balancing powers
reasonably satisfy us and help us improve well-being at every level.
There is hope. The ECHN organic antidote and preventative for our disorders provides us with a unique, social technology, Natural Attraction Ecology. This potent application of Ecopsychology enables us to remedy our polluted thoughts and feelings.
ECHN works
because it lets nature's ways help our intelligence compost our harmful
industrial addictions and recycle them into constructive relationships.
ECHN starts with a subsidized, online Orientation Course. It offers nature-connecting methods and materials that one can immediately apply to their life and livelihood.
Additional
course work enables you to master the ECHN process under professional
guidance, so that you can teach it, or use it to enhance your career or
hobby.
As part of the ECHN process
you may attain Certification, or a subsidized Master's or Ph.D. degree
in Applied Ecopsychology.
ECHN provides us with the special tools that
we are seldom given to effectively address our problems.
ECHN helps us, locally or globally, walk
hand in hand while enveloped in the real-life beauty and cooperation
of nature's amazing grace. You can start doing this right now. Begin here.
"Being immersed in this
class and learning how to actively ask Nature to teach me what I needed to know and
to help me understand it and grow has been a godsend. Contact with nature has shown me
how to find peace in the midst of absolute chaos, healing and balance
in the midst of total melt-downs."
- ECHN Course Participant
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Instructions/Directions
How to most effectively use
this web site for
educating, counseling and healing
with nature jobs, training, funding,
careers, degrees, activities and research.
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SPECIAL NOTE:
This website gives your interests and values the opportunity to fully explore the process of Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature (ECHN).
If questions arise here that are not answered on our companion website, ProjectNatureConnect.org, we suggest that when you sense you are ready, you telephone us so we may answer them and help you customize ECHN to your needs. 360-378-6313
Your
phone call
is the most powerful and practical way to obtain the details
of how to achieve important life and
livelihood
goals via ECHN. By telephone, this subsidized, inexpensive program can become a
personalized enabling tool and credential for you to increase personal, social
and
environmental health.
Phone 360-378-6313 (Mike) or 507-450-0200 (Barbara). nature@interisland.net
At your request, we will be happy to call (USA)
or Skype you.
You will find it valuable to study our adjunct website Natural Attraction Ecology
Read the illuminating interview with Mike Cohen and then call him 360-378-6313
Explore the Annotated Index and Links to the 32 major web pages on this site.
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ECHN provides a revolutionary, yet practical, antidote and preventative for the
detrimental ways that we learn to think and act in Industrial Society.
It is an eco-intelligence helps you to experience and trust first-hand, a
wide range of significant true-to-life information we often learn to overlook.
Our students
come from many religions and philosophies or from no religious
background. By energizing into consciousness our excessively
subdued 53 natural senses and sensibilities, the program supports and
strengthens connections between nature, reason and spirit at every level.
Use these pages to discover
how, for survival in balance, humanity and nature inherently support each other and how, for excessive financial profit and to our loss, we are socialized to deteriorate our vital relationship with nature. Use our Sitemap to help you locate specific information
As you visit these pages, collect
what you find is attractive, makes sense, and is of value to you. Then make it happen for yourself. Call 360-378-6313 (Mike) or 507-450-0200 (Barbara). If you email us we'll
send you special links and enrollment information. At your request, we will call (USA)
or Skype you.
Note that all our programs start with our practical,
self-empowering Orientation Course. We invite you to read an article about its value and effects.
"This is the course that every civilized person will be required to take if we are to reverse our runaway disorders."
- Raymond Sierra, Counselor
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Website
Synopsis
"Creation is an attractive and alive process that is conscious of itself at some level. Our
universe consists of various stages of attraction relationships
that have grown from the attraction of the life of the universe to strengthen its life. It fortifies its life by
growing diverse, mutually supportive, attraction relationships at every level except one.
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Michael J. Cohen |
Humans have spent 99.9 per
cent of their evolutionary history in natural environments. In this light, getting
back to nature is a psychological and physiological homecoming.Our good experiences in nature, along with our love of nature, demonstrate that all
living things, including our planet and us, enjoy attractive optimums
of
life,
cooperation, diversity and health when they are nurtured by the
streaming and replenishing cycles of nature. If
your consciousness recognizes and appreciates this truth, it is rare, remarkable
and much needed. It/you deserve support in all possible ways. We are
dedicated to empower you with methods, materials and financial
assistance that help you get to where you want to go while helping
others do the same.
Nature purifies and
renews itself, and us as part of it. Its life and intelligence achieve balance
and beauty without producing garbage or our abusive and
destructive effects.
Nature's
cycles and their restorative ways are attracted to flow
through,
in and around us. We inherit at least 53 natural senses that register
our need of,
and attractions to, nature's purifying cyclic flow.
Our genuine connection with nature's flow satisfies our natural senses.
Consider, for example, the water
cycle and our natural senses of thirst
and excretion.
The latter are felt-sense attractions to water that we experience and they are fulfilled by its flow
in, through and out of
us. The same thing is true for over 50
additional inherent natural senses that
enable us to register and relate to the world in balanced ways. They include our senses
of place,
community, trust, belonging and consciousness, of sight, scent,
reasoning, intuition and support.
The natural fulfillment of our
natural senses attractively conveys
to us that we are on the path to survival in balance. For
example: water satisfies our sense of thirst;
urination satisfies our sense of excretion. These satisfactions, plus 51 others,
sensibly make us feel more content, happy and relieved. Part of our
satisfaction is that we
know our natural personal sensory fulfillments also nurture and satisfy the functions of the water cycle as well as the
needs of the global life community. Our excrements feed the web-of-life and its flow through us, and vice versa.
The balanced process, above, holds
true for each and all our natural senses,
sensitivities
and sensibilities when we
quietly visit a natural area. Most of us have had good experiences in
nature that demonstrate this. To our loss, as part of our conquest of nature, we
learn to deny the significance and value of our nature-connected
experiences, of our love of nature and its enchanting powers. We
produce our personal, social and environmental problems because,
motivated by monetary profit, we
excessively and irrationally bond/addict our natural senses to less adequate and often harmful
artificial substitutes for
their nurturing origins in nature. These substitutes are created by the bias of
Industrial Society's nature-exploitive thinking. It attaches our
mentality
to misguided technologies, places and relationships.
"The
unreasonable bias of Industrial Society rejects that our
planet acts like an attractive living organism and that we are
like a cell in it. We
don't think we need to 'Do onto Earth and nature as
we
would have them do onto us.' However, the deteriorating state of life
on Earth tells us otherwise."
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Michael J. Cohen
The
prejudice in our thinking foolishly leads us to reward ourselves for
separating ourselves from the balancing powers of nature's
renewing purity,
streaming
and satisfactions. The time to correct this malfunction is sometimes referred to as the age of Aquarius
The result of our unbalanced nature-disconnected thoughts, feelings
and spirit is that we suffer too many
disorders and we can seldom correct
them.
"The
intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has
forgotten the gift."
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Our
disconnection of our thoughts and feelings from our life-giving
contact
with nature triggers our natural senses to register a disturbance. This
disturbance alerts us that we have been disconnected from our support
by the wisdom of Organism
Earth and its integrity. For example, over
time, a lack of contact with
water
energizes one of our natural sensory attractions to water, our sense of
thirst,
into our awareness. We reasonably respond to this feeling
by drinking
water. Our
appropriate action satisfies us. We feel fulfilled and happy from
it. Again, the same thing is true for over
50
additional natural senses that
enable us to register and eco-intelligently relate to the world.
As
demonstrated by a quiet walk in a natural area, the grace of
nature's flow not only corrects, restores and balances life in the
natural area. While in contact with it, it also does the same
with our thoughts,
feelings and spirit.
We
suffer most or our personal, social and environmental disorders because
Industrial Society has indoctrinated us to live extremely
nature-disconnected lives.
When
we don't have nurturing contact with nature's
powerful recycling and renewing properties, the imperfections of our substitutes
for them
leave our natural senses feeling unfulfilled. This creates in us a
natural sensation of
wanting. Wanting signals that
our psyche is aware that the balanced and healing wholeness of
life is missing and that it needs it. Inherently, our psyche craves the
sanity and survival values of nature's fulfilling equilibrium.
When
we want there is never
enough.
We come to feel that we are not
enough
because we
can't make
ourselves feel full, complete, happy and giving. Our loss of our natural
sensory sanity makes us become greedy,
stressed and unbalanced. These disorders deteriorate
our well-being.
"Until mankind can extend the
circle of his compassion to include all living things, he will never,
himself, know peace."
-Albert Schweitzer,
Nobel Peace Prize, l950
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The
paragraphs, above, explain why even a short quiet walk in the park
helps us feel renewed. The visit is a healing re-creation and
reconnection of our psyche with its origins in nature. It is not
just "recreation," or "an escape," or "a break from real life".
As we habitually live, work and play in excessively separated
ways
from nature's regenerative natural attraction flow in natural areas, we remove our
thinking and feeling from the whole-life wisdom of Mother Earth.
To decrease our injurious separation, backyard or backcountry, the accredited Ecopsychology
science
of Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature (ECHN), enables our
thinking to, at will, make genuine, conscious, sensory
connections with nature's restorative flow through
and around us. The connections give our psyche nature's powers; they
beneficially help us think, feel and relate like nature's balanced perfection works.
The
ability to apply ECHN is an important and
teachable part of our daily lives. It helps us increase the
integral health and welfare of all, including the nature of our living
planet. ENROLL
NOW
"If
a child in its mother's womb received an injection that addicted
it to attack its mother, the lethal effects to mother and child
would be obvious.
Similarly, as adults, our destructive addictions to exploiting
and conquering mother nature, in and around us, make us attack and
deteriorate the nature of our mother
planet, Earth.
Identifying this problem is not enough. We must also learn
how to make genuine sensory contact with nature's corrective powers. They best
enable us
to recycle and transform
our addictions into mutually supportive
relationships with Earth and each other.
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Michael J. Cohen
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We are born with the natural ability to sense
and feel how nature's global flow supports the purity of life in
balance, in and around us.
At birth and thereafter, Industrial
Society places tinted and warped, nature-conquering glasses over our eyes. To our
loss, they hurtfully taint our perceptions and thinking about how
nature works and benefits us. This distortion twists our thinking and deteriorates our
well-being. In turn, we deteriorate our society and the environment.
The mission of this ECHN website is to empower each visitor to help nature remove the distorted tinting and warp
in our glasses. ECHN enables us to see and act from the clear
truth of how we have been deceived and how nature's ways maintain our
health and welfare. In addition, it gives us the ability to use
nature's wellness and recycling powers to correct our misguided
thoughts, feelings and spirituality.
"All chidren are born
geniuses. 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swifly, inadvertently,
degeniused by grown ups."
-Buckminster
Fuller
Nature
is wise, but seldom literate. Unlike us, plants, animals and minerals
neither hear, read, write nor tell stories with words and other
symbols. In authentic nature, books, telephones and television are unknown.
Our
words and stories are
abstracts. They are shortcuts we use to know/label/identify the real
natural world. For example, the word "tree" and a real Tree
are two entirely
different things. The
word "tree," as it appears on this
screen, is a representation. It does not need air, water,
food, soil and supportive
relationships to exist and it does not provide them for others. In contrast, a real tree cannot
exist without these relationships. Similarly, we can't eat the
written word
"apple" and have it satisfy or nourish us. We also can't breathe a
dollar
bill.We can consciously feel and respond to the intelligence of our natural sensation of thirst without knowing how to read, write or spell it.
"My fake flowers died because in my imagination I forgot to water them."
- Anonymous
Although
only 10 percent of our mentality registers and relates to the world in
literate-abstract ways, we
are trained to think
and feel mostly through the
words and symbols of literacy. This is un-whole and detrimental. Literacy
simply describes, but also omits, the natural attraction ability of nature to work its restorative magic in non-literate ways.
To our loss, our words are
usually imaginary, exploitive
or
half-truth stories about the natural world. They are media, not reality. They seldom
nurture our psyche
with authentic nature's renewing powers because they are just words and
stories. They are not
nature's natural attraction eons of life-supportive ways and self-correcting essence.
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Nature designed almost 90
percent of our mentality to register and relate to the
world through non-literate natural attraction sensitivities,
as do
all other members of the nature's plant, animal and mineral
communities. Our
sensory way of knowing is one that we biologically inherit. It is our
unadulterated mind, a
seamless continuum of nature's regenerative and purifying
intelligence. This sensate-feeling way of knowing is
sometimes referred to as our "Mammalian" or "Horse" Brain," or the "Old
Brain." It is the attraction/love that a dog or cat experiences, how
they know and relate to the world, including us.
In
contrast, only 10 percent of our natural mentality can know and think
with
abstract word and number stories or images. This is sometimes called
our
"Neocortex" or
"New Brain."
Some
individuals define our New Brain literate thinking functions as
"intelligence."
This
suggests that the beauty of the natural attraction, pre-literate,
balanced and
self-corrective life ways of the global
web-of-life community and its eons is non-intelligent or
"stupid." Is it really? If so, how does it produce its paradise and
unique perfection? To date, our intelligence can't even produce
milk.
Our
nature-disconnected, abstract, New Brain stories seldom
gratify or inform us
in lasting and healing connectedness, as does
the authentic Old Brain natural attraction way
that
nature works.
"I
thank God for beginning this world with natural attraction and trusting its desire to grow attractive relationships."
- Project NatureConnect Student
The
essence of nature is the attraction flow of its conscious, satisfying and nurturing, non-literate,
natural wisdom.
Wordlessly,
the flow attractively supports, balances, and
restores vigor and aliveness everywhere in every moment, as it has over
the eons. This is super-intelligent behavior if life in balance is important.
We often attach labels to
nature's purifying flow:
"Reiki," "Chi," "Love," "Tao," "Natural Attraction," "God."
However,
it is the authentic restorative powers of nature's flow
through our mind, body and psyche, not
just our labels and stories, that renew, recycle
and heal what ails us.
Life
supports itself through wordless attraction relationships, not
arguments or theories about these relationships. ENROLL
NOW
My
client had been in a motor vehicle accident and had multiple injuries
that prevented her from getting out and about. She was in chronic
pain and was having severe anxiety attacks.
There
was a nice potted plant in her living room (I think it was a
Dieffenbachia, but I'm not sure). I described how we are in a
mutually-supportive
role with plants -- they provide us with oxygen and we provide them
with CO2. I suggested that when she was feeling anxious she
should breathe with the plant, exchanging gasses and and recognize that
they were being mutually supportive. As she did so, I could see
her visibly relaxing. Within a few minutes she reported that her
anxiety was gone and her pain was somewhat reduced.
Over
the next few weeks she successfully used this technique whenever she
was anxious. As her physical abilities improved she began
spending time in the garden and then began gardening from her
wheelchair. Her anxiety was completely controlled without
medication.
I
don't know what she bonded to, but she developed a sense that the plant
(and later her garden) was her friend and that they were in a mutually
supportive relationship. This feeling was able to help her
overcome her anxiety."
John Scull, Ph.D. Neuropsychologist
"Through ECHN, the
fictional,
but balanced and restorative "Pandora-Na'vi" way of relating, as
portrayed in James Cameron's AVATAR
film, is aproachable in reality." Anonymous Program
Participant
It is
worth repeating that the immediate ways of nature's renewing
natural attraction flow produce nature's optimums of
life, diversity and balance.
It is
worth repeating that the flow accomplishes this feat without
producing garbage or pollution or our abusiveness, disorders, isolation
and war.
We endure and produce great problems because, in early childhood, we
addictively bond our natural attraction senses and thinking to the bias of our
society's
nature-conquering stories. At home and school we disconnect our psyche from the
healing powers of nature's flow. Our thinking becomes
addicted to
distortions and we produce many problems.
We seldom learn, and often resist, how to let nature genuinely touch,
no
less embrace
or
recycle, the nature-disconnected, wounded, destructive and
polluted ways that we often learn to think and feel.
REMEDY
THIS DISCONNECTION
The
natural attraction process of Educating, Counseling and Healing with
Nature (ECHN) helps
us remedy our loss of nature's renewing grace in our senses, thinking
and feeling. It enables us to scientifically discover, sense and feel
who
we are with
respect to the whole of life and its wellness.
ECHN
empowers us, moment by moment,
to let conscious sensory contact with
nature's purifying flow satisfy and
strengthen our body, mind and spirit. It is an integral ecology, a natural attraction-based
psychology that helps us enjoy our
satisfactions in ways that satisfy and sustain all of the natural
world. It helps
us increase our happiness reasonably, in a good way, meaning, "To the
benefit of
all." The
more that the unifying touch of nature helps us think and feel in
balance, the more the world enjoys the peace
of well-being."
- Michael J. Cohen
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HELP
THE WISDOM OF NATURE'S POWERS REVERSE OUR DISORDERS Personally
or globally, we can't change for the better if our thinking does not
know how to
release the emotional and sensory bonds that lastingly attach us to our
nature-disconnected stories and the disturbing relationships they
produce.
Enable yourself
to establish balance, improve health and increase happiness by reducing
our destructive attachments. Help nature help you
remedy our wide range of personal, social and
environmental
disorders. |
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The Sensory ECHN Science of Organic, Whole
Life Psychology Makes Sense
Our natural sense of taste
is part of nature's old-brain wisdom. It is a natural attraction to eat
certain foods. In congress with our 52 other natural senses,
including our sense of reason,
taste
intelligently conveys what and when something may be
permissible to eat.
August
6, 2007:
Researchers gave a group of 3-5 year old
children two identical
servings of many different kinds of food. The only difference between
the two servings was that one was
wrapped in a
McDonald's wrapper, the other in a plain wrapper.
Overwhelmingly,
the children said the identical food placed in the McDonalds' wrapper
tasted
better. Their psyche had been misled. At this
early age, their
natural senses and
sensibilities had already been prejudicially
socialized by the money-making story and images
conveyed on
the McDonalds' wrapper.
That story, along with its questionable values and effects,
had distorted and stressed the childrens' natural ability to think and
feel appropriately with respect to their natural sense of
taste.
Their healthy natural attachment to healthy food had been
polluted and disturbed.
They were partly delusional. They had been robbed of part of
their
vital natural intelligence and
its joy. One of their life attachments to the life of Organism Earth
had been "McBurgered."
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem. BEGIN
HERE
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“I
believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different
expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with
each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. … The whole is in all
its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me so intensely in earnest, that
I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine.”
-Robinson Jeffers
We
are born as part of nature's organic grace and purifying flow.
Each
of us are part of the non-literate attraction dance of nature. Each of us are the
self-correcting and nurturing ways of the dance manifesting itself
as
us.
As previously mentioned, natural Attraction, Love, Chi,
Spirit, Reiki, Quantum, Qigong and Tao
are synonymous.
Each is a different label for the same essence
of
nature's way.
For our survival in balance,
the natural
attraction energies of nature
-the
binding forces of the eons that hold the world together- continually flow through
and
about us.
They
register in us as 53 natural attraction senses. Each
sense helps keep us alive and well by helping our thinking to find
healthy natural
fulfillment through natural attractions that we register. Each may be a continuum of the ancient Big Bang and its Higgs Boson natural attraction essence to grow into the Universe, moment by moment.
As
mentioned above, one
of our 53 natural attraction senses is our sense of taste. Another
is our sense
of language, our literacy/story
way of knowing the world. Our
additional 53 natural senses also include our natural attractions to
reason,
trust,
water (thirst), place, community, color, beauty, consciousness, music,
temperature, cooperation and love.
At any
given moment, nature and we naturally consist of its eons of
balanced and beautiful natural attraction optimums of life,
diversity and cooperation. Our 53 natural senses, when
healthy,
are attracted to, and register in our consciousness, the wide variety
of
mutually supportive natural attraction relationships that contribute to
the universal welfare and richness of life in each moment. These qualities are an
essence of natural areas, not of, for example, an automobile engine.
Too often, we learn to forget that natural attraction is the essence of
love and our ability to love.
"Nature is the unseen
intelligence that loved us into being."
-Elbert Hubbard
When
our natural attraction senses are injured, distorted or missing, we
can't
register, be aware, or make good sense of the truth of the world and
ourselves. We sense, instead, that we hurt, or that we are insecure and
that we may be at
risk.
It
is the nature-disconnected, irrational and manipulative parts of our
industrial-story way of knowing, along with its excessive conquest of
nature
in and around us, that causes us to produce many troubles.
The misleading or unwhole
parts of our story world "McBurger" the
wisdom of our natural
dance and the ages. As previously mentioned, this does not just happen
only with our sense of
taste. Our other 52
natural senses also habitually learn to attach
to, and support, Industrial Society's excessive drumbeat of profit,
power and the conquest of nature and the
natural. For this reason we suffer the all too common
garbage/pollution,
abusiveness, illness,
excessiveness and
disorders in and from Industrial Society.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this
problem.
BEGIN HERE
NOTE: Genuinely
nature-connected people(s) seldom cause or
display our disorders.
Reminder: This website offers a wide range of ECHN and NAE information. Our objective is to have you telephone us, customize the program for yourself and master the online Orientation Course. Phone: 360-378-6313 (Mike) or 507-450-0200 (Barbara). <nature@interisland.net>
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Our
problems are often non-sense. They result
from the excessive disconnection from nature of our natural ability to
make sense.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
Our
major problem is that our nature-inaccurate and nature-conquering
stories secretly remove nature's restorative grace from our daily
lives, thoughts and feelings.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
Without
realizing it, we often feel depressed or unworthy because the unifying dance of
our natural
vitality, integrity and sensibility has been reduced or incapacitated.
We have
excessively separated from nature's flowing intelligence and
vitality.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
Our
greatest troubles result from us being in denial.
Industrial
Society denys that, for profit, it encourages us to
excessively
and destructively
conquer or
exploit
nature, in and around us, including our 53 natural attraction senses.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
Instead
of helping us
remedy our irresponsible disconnection from nature, Industrial Society
encourages us to view our nature-separated lives as
"Normal,"
"Progress," "Economic Growth," "Winning" or "Excellence,"
etc. This is
non-sense with respect to living in mutually supportive balance with
people and places of the whole of the world. It is not
attractive. It is not how nature works. It deteriorates life in balance.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
The
immense loss of nature's beneficial ways and joy in our
lives leaves us wanting, stressed and helpless. This turns us to
destructive "fixes." To try to correct this, almost 80
percent of us
are in
some kind of therapy.
However, almost 100 percent of the therapy available to us is
disconnected from nature. Do you think that makes sense?
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
In
the "McDonald's Wrapper Study," cited above, a minority of 25
percent of the
children retained their ability
to clearly register that the food samples were identical.
In
such clear-thinking individuals there is hope.
Project
NatureConnect
applied ecopsychology empowers any clear-thinking individual who recognizes, rather than
denies, the destructiveness of our excessive
nature-disconnection dilemma. It helps these individuals
reverse their, and our,
disorders by learning, using and teaching
the renewing and
substance-free
process of Educating,
Counseling and Healing with Nature (ECHN).
Backyard
or backcountry, ECHN enables caring individuals to beneficially
enlist the assistance of nature's corrective and curative
attractions and their powers, rather than continue to unreasonably
disconnect from or
conquer them.
To
this end, ECHN provides
online training, degrees and financial support. BEGIN HERE
ECHN
helps you green any discipline, talent or profession and give it
added value.
"Whenever
we omit ECHN from our daily lives, we dangerously strengthen the root
of our disorders. We must now learn how to help nature help us heal our
psyche. That will enable us to think, feel and
relate like
the natural attraction beauty of nature's peace works."
You may,
online, attain a low cost ECHN certificate or degree. It is
subsidized
to
you for your sensible desire to make a contribution to
well-being by
adding the organic application
of nature-connecting psychology (ECHN Applied Ecopsychology) to your
livelihood or hobby.
"Due
to brain injury in a cycling accident, Bart, a writer, could no longer
write due to head pain. For years he suffered constant hurt that that
did not respond to repeated surgical, chemical, psychological
and
meditation treatment.
Bart sought alternatives on the
Internet,
discovered ECHN and took an online
ECHN class.
He did the course's required nature connecting activities with a group
of trees that attracted him in the center of his town. This heightened
his natural 53-sense relationship with them, and with his online
classmates, too. The ECHN experiences that they all shared by email
enhanced the good
feelings he experienced.
Through these interactions, nature's
recuperative powers
enabled Bart to renew many natural senses and energies, recycle his
mental
contaminates, and overcome his pain so that he could write again. He
said the pain "had reduced and it had also transformed into pleasure."
Later, when
the trees were to be removed for a development, Bart reasonably and
passionately rallied the town to protest the tree's forthcoming demise.
The
townspeople saved the trees and became involved with ECHN."
(see many similar results and outcomes)
"I go to nature to be soothed
and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
- John Burroughs
"Applied
Ecopsychology
reverses our
disconnectedness by utilizing proven medical procedures. For example,
good medical thinking and research have created surgical techniques
that reattach an amputated arm back to the body. If reconnected
properly, the arm will, in time, function normally. Part of this art is
the surgical technology our clear thinking has devised to bring the arm
back in proper contact with the body.
The remainder of the procedure, above, is
trusting that once this reconnection is made, nature itself has the
wisdom to heal the rupture and rejoin the arm and body as one
integrated organism. We don't know how to do that healing, however
nature does it continuously via its natural attraction ecological
processes at sub-atomic and global levels. That is nature's way. Good
medical thinking respects that nature has this extraordinary
regenerative power. It taps into it. It surgically provides the proper
environment and time for nature to heal, as only nature can. Applied
Ecopsychology offers Organic Psychology activities that help us
accomplish this with respect to our
extremely nature-separated psyche, thinking and feeling, along with the
disorders they create."
- Akamai University Catalog
To
our great loss, we deny that the nature-disconnected way we learn to
think deteriorates our personal, social and
environmental
well-being.
We deny
that nature is the fountainhead of authority
about how it works and the well-being of life in balance.
We deny
that our thinking has
been prejudiciously McBurgered to excessively separate from, and
conquer, nature and its regenerative, natural attraction ways in and around us.
No
matter
our occupation or beliefs, the faster we admit
that we are bonded to a harmful and unsatisfying natural attraction
disconnection from nature, the faster we may
learn and teach ECHN.
It is a
remedy
for our destructive
bonding and for our denial of our detrimental
estrangement from the
natural.
Reminder: This website offers ECHN and NAE information. Its objective is to have you telephone us, customize the program for yourself and have your questions answered. You start your program by mastering our online Orientation Course. Phone: 360-378-6313 (Mike) or 507-450-0200 (Barbara). <nature@interisland.net>
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No
offense intended, but if you reject the Conclusion,
above, is it because it is incorrect, or is it because your
multiple sensibilities and tastes have been
McBurgered? Can you, or we, afford to practice the non-sense of our
excessively nature-separated thinking and feeling just because it
is considered "normal," "accepted" or "fundable" and gets us "good
grades?"
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN
HERE
What
McBurgering is your life dancing to? Does the influence of
fashion, fame, fortune, religion, commercialized music, high marks,
prestige etc., leave you feeling
unsatisfied, unreasonable or dependent? Does it seem like lasting, wise
and
supportive naturally attractive rewards
are missing from your life or from the life of your community?
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
Do
you sense that you feel dependent on flawed authorities and deceptive information?
Does
your solution for a problem usually produce a new problem?
Do
you sometimes feel that you are more of a "cultural object" rather
than your true self?
Not
to worry. You
are neither inept nor crazy.
These
results are to be expected when we excessively remove nature's sanity
from our psyche. It is natural to
suffer these
symptoms. They painfully convey to us our profound loss of
nature-contact and
balance. They try to attract us to discover and follow new
restorative attractions in
nature, natural attractions whose energies help our psyche recycle
itself and heal so we may think, relate and trust more reasonably.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you achieve this end.
BEGIN
HERE
FOR
THE RECORD: in
Industrial Society, on
average, less
than twelve hours of our entire lifetime
is
spent consciously thinking, feeling or building relationships while we
are in tune with the gratifying and sensory wisdom of nature's
balance and beauty.
Many
studies demonstrate that we suffer our troubles because,
during 99.9% of our life, our thoughts and feelings are disconnected
from nature's naturally attractive, self-correcting and purifying ways.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
We
usually suffer from natural
sensory
deprivation.
It prevents us from fully making sense. We render ourselves unable to
think
like the "higher power" of nature's balanced perfection works even
though we inherit this
natural attraction ability at
birth. Our nature deficit disorders
undermine our life and the quality of life in balance as exemplified by our annihiliation of wolves.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
"To enjoy the powers and delights of the sense of sight is naturally attractive. If
a person temporarily loses their sense of sight, nature strengthens
their many other natural senses to compensate for this loss. This helps
the blind individual
continue to think and relate sensibly. In addition, when
possible, and sometimes
when medically supported, nature
heals and restores
the blind individual's sense of sight. ECHN
enables us to help nature engage in this natural attraction restorative process for all
our senses, to do so on our and
its behalf. It invites nature to enter our thinking and do
what it does best."
- Anonymous Program Evaluation
ECHN
makes space for us to enjoy and benefit
from conscious sensory
contact with nature's flow, backyard
or
backcountry. Engaging our thoughts in its process empowers us
to
lastingly heal our McBurgered senses and stories. This results in us
naturally thinking, feeling and relating in wellness and cooperation
with
others and the environment.
This is
how and why educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you
remedy personal, social and environmental problems.
BEGIN HERE
You
can easily strengthen and improve your professional and personal
life. If the synopsis, above, makes sense to you, you are
eligible, now,
to
save much
time and money. Simply respect your natural sensibilities and
attractions. Learn and benefit from lessons
and techniques that
lastingly connect you and your psyche to nature's restorative flow
rather than continue to remove you from it.
If
you have ever had even one uplifting, attractive experience in nature, such as a
quiet, renewing walk in the park, you know that connecting
with
nature works. Have you learned to simply take this for
granted
and thereby ignore its potential to help you improve your life, your
livelihood and our society's sustainability?
Take advantage of PNC career
opportunities and
subsidies. They help people revive
their natural sensibilities and balance. Your best immediate route is
to make
an exploratory call to us at 360-378-6313. Then take our
online, University accredited Orientation
Course. Experience
the demonstrated
benefits
of
ECHN
for yourself.
After completing it, you may choose to continue in our online
training and degree program.
Note that your successful completion of the Orientation Course is the only requirement for you to continue in the program.
BEGIN
HERE to learn and apply all of
our website information. You will learn it from the best possible
teacher, from first hand experience
that uses the
process to teach the process.
For further information:
call 360-378-6313 or visit
these links, below, or scroll
down this page or
go to the website Table
of Contents.
SPECIAL
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Reminder: This website offers complete ECHN and NAE information. Its objective is to have you telephone us, customize the program for yourself and have your questions answered. You then start by mastering our online Orientation Course. Phone: 360-378-6313 (Mike) or 507-450-0200 (Barbara). <nature@interisland.net>
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"I
loved this course! It brought me to a place I'd never been before and I
go there again and again. I am always amazed at the
awe-inspiring sensibility from being engaged with nature in the way these activities
help us be. I am so grateful for these natural attraction interactions. The means for being happy and
feeling love that I discovered have stayed with me."
Our online Orientation
Course offers you experiences
that help you:
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-Discover how to
increase your success and happiness by strengthening personal, social
and environmental well being.
-Honor your prior
training and life
experience; we provide financial assistance and equivalence credit for
it.
-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.
-Address the loss of well-being that results
from our thinking's excessive
exploitation of natural systems and attraction energies, in and around
us.
-Realize that the origin of our runaway
disorders
is Industrial Society's refusal to admit that it is unreasonably
disconnected from nature.
-Note how our
excessive conquering and exploitive relationship with nature's healing powers,
in and
around us, makes us dysfunctional
and produces many disorders.
-Make a potent contribution to
person and planet well-being. Be
paid to learn and teach a green
remedy for
our destructive prejudice against nature and its hurtful effects.
-Gives
you a simple problem solving tool that helps you connect your thinking
and feeling with
nature's wisdom.
-Explore how nature's web-of-life
community has the
attractive self-correcting ability to restore itself, be
the injury a bulldozed landscape, a scraped knee or our stressed
psyche.
-Observe
how nature can't help us
correct our disorders
when our thinking is prejudicially socialized to disconnect us from
nature's
ability to help us.
-Become more aware that we
are naturally born into, and part of, the global ecosystem life
community, that our body,
mind and soul are designed to be in natural attraction tune
with, and
nurtured by,
the living earth
throughout our lives...and vice-versa.
-Validate that to be part of
any system, one has to
be in communication with it and that
to this end, we
inherit from
nature more than
50
natural senses.. For example, when in a natural area,
our
natural attraction sensations/senses of thirst,
motion, trust, belonging, color, place, taste,
music, temperature,
beauty, consciousness and
community are all
natural system connections and communications that we beneficially experience.
-Know that we are naturally
designed to
consciously register our
53 natural senses |
and thoughtfully balance our lives with nature
through them.
-Be thankful that each natural sense
helps us make greater sense; that each is an attraction to
support life...a deep,
inherent love of nature...a natural feeling and spirit.
-See that, to
our loss,
we
learn to dismiss
rather
than to validate, honor and think with our natural senses, moment by
moment.
-Be conscious that we
suffer our greatest
troubles because, on average, our society's unwarranted prejudice
against nature has "McBurgured" and habituated us to
disconnect
over
98
percent of our
time, thinking
and senses from
nature's renewing ways.
This profound
loss leaves us
wanting.
-Note that when we want,
there is never
enough. This makes us
feel that we are not enough. Our wanting spawns our
greed, stress and lack
of self-worth along with our excessiveness, abusiveness and disorders.
-Register that our
denial of our prejudice against, and excessive
disconnection from, nature's self-correcting web of life is our
underlying problem.
-Reduce our
destructive bias. We must reasonably learn
and teach
how to genuinely reconnect our thinking with the web of life. We must
increase and strengthen our familiar, attractive, mutually-supportive connections with
nature's restorative powers, in and around us, backyard or backcountry.
-Experience the beneficial outcomes of activities that help you genuinely connect with nature.
-Reduce
our disconnection from nature's benefits. This program enables you,
moment by moment, to authentically reconnect to our natural
origins, to
increasingly
think, feel and relate in balance and beauty, like the dance of
nature's perfection
works, called by some the time of Aquarius
-Know
how to prove that we need to reconnect. Any
good experience we have already had in nature -like a quiet "walk
on the beach"- is the proof. Keep in mind that life
in balance is the undeniable evidence and proof of
itself.
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"The
orientation course was a validation
of trust and stability. I can still look out and see the paths taken, the wisdom to reach nature's center and ground
ourselves in its energies. I appreciate the natural attraction freedom to form the journeys that
were taken. The smiles remain on the surface. Thank you for this!"
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Project
NatureConnect
scientifically and spiritually empowers you to make your life and
interests
increase
well-being by reducing
our unreasonable
bias against, and
disconnection from, nature.
Help
your occupation further increase health and wellness. Add
peace, enjoyment and
income to your work.
No
need to wait. Heighten personal and
professional satisfaction. Call us at
360-378-6313
Benefit
from online, Natural Attraction Ecology nature-connected courses, jobs, funding and degree
programs.
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How to most effectively use
this web site for
educating, counseling and healing with nature jobs, training, funding,
careers, degrees and activities:
For
best results: whenever you are ready, call 360-378-6313 to learn how you may participate
independently
or through our self-help grant program (if you email us your phone number, we'll call you).
Then, BEGIN
HERE to learn and apply all of
our website information. You will learn it from the best possible
teacher, from first hand experience
that uses the
process to teach the process.
The art and science on this
web site is like an
affectionate and tender supermarket of relevant and timely knowledge.
On
these supportive 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. Better
still, write it down.
This
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 and to its fullest.
Now, please be sure you have Selected Here for faster, more compact and specific information via the PNC Organization and Application website at www.ProjectNatureConnect.org
Additional 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 your notepad.
3. Contact
Mike Cohen, Ph.D., a
qualified, often fun, adviser 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 Barbara 507-450-0200 email them.
IMPORTANT
NOTE: our Orientation
Course
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. This helps you to become a
more supportive citizen of the global web of life
community and Industrial Society. BEGIN
HERE
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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"Change will not come if we
wait for some other person or some other time. We
are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we
seek."
- Barack Obama (Help him use ECHN to accomplish this goal)
Below is a suggested
sequence to follow for this page and its
prime
links. Better still, you can scroll down the page to explore its entire
contents in
sequence.
NOTE:
Don't
get lost. Bookmark this page, or use "back" on
your
browser to return to these Contents.
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Programs
online. This link involves you in natural area and online
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concepts presented on this homepage and its links.
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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Overview
FOUND: A critical missing component
in industrial society
At home school or work enjoy
and teach the natural attraction, healing, nature-sensitivity online process of Organic
Psychology. Help reverse our destructive prejudice against the web
of life community. We are part of this community, not
superior to it.
Benefit from motivational
psychology, the self-correcting and purifying ways of natural
systems within and around
us.
Add holistic sustainability
and resilience 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 of natural attraction 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.
OBJECTIVE:::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.
MISSION:
The mission of Project NatureConnect is to help the world increase
personal, social and environmental well-being. We dedicate ourselves to
teach our civilization how to create sensory nature-contact moments
that enable individuals to think and feel with their hidden, but
inherent, 53-sense earth wisdom. To this end we research and
offer scientific activities and degree programs that help us make
genuine, conscious, sensory contact with nature's essence, in and
around us.
Our vision is to offer an educating, counseling and healing
with nature process that awakens nature's purifying, natural attraction powers in the human
psyche. As people discover and connect with nature's amazing
grace, unified, hand in hand, we walk our planet's organic path to
wellness, balance and peace.
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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, Ph.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.
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information from the best teacher...experience
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.
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Project NatureConnect and its participants in action at workshops,
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It is included, along with two books, in the materials for the Orientation
Course Psychological
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INTRODUCTION
"This
is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us
resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans
rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands."
- Barack Obama
(Help him use ECHN to accomplish this goal)
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 to the the web of life when we are simply an
equal part of it, and vice versa. Our thinking has learned to be
unreasonably biased
against nature and we seldom
acknowledge this. This trespass underlies most of our disorders, great
or small.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
On personal and
political levels, our sense of reason demands that we make responsible
changes to
remedy this situation.
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 think and
feel better.
They
momentarily increase our bliss and wellness, our abiity to reason with
greater
clarity. We more fully enjoy our true biological and psychological
self in natural community, as did many Native Americans.
To
our profound loss, our "natural attraction
self" usually lies
buried and
frustrated in us due to our excessive, nature-exploitive, socialization
and disconnection from nature. This
stresses us. We are wanting, competitive and angry, seldom
compassionate, when our
natural senses are unfulfilled or aggravated.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
In the present tense, 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 sense natural colors, sounds, aromas, textures or flavors
that were part of the experience?
- Do you feel comforting
motions or attractive feelings of community, trust or place?
- Do you feel enchanted, is this experience self-enhancing or spiritually pleasing?
- It it supportive,
peaceful or both? Does it reduce your stress?
- Does it help you feel that
you are part of a greater whole?
The above are
some of the
results that people have reported from remembering their attractive
experiences in natural areas. Their direct contact with the web of life
helped them escape their "industrial story-world" for a few moments and
sense and
feel the
true natural being that they were born. They could think with that
truth. 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.
It helped them more completely answer the question "Who am
I ?"
If you have ever had such experiences,
or you would like to have them, you are eligible to enter and benefit
from the program of
Project NatureConnect.
You may want to keep in mind that nature-centered
people and societies seldom display or cause the problems of our
nature-conquering "civilization."
State of consciousness...
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, the life long science of Organic Psychology enables you to
continually reap the rewards
of an
environmentally
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."
"What we call wildness is a
civilization other than our own."
"Heaven is under our feet as
well as over our heads."
-Henry David Thoreau
Remember: 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 self-correcting
grace, balance
and restorative powers of nature and the natural, in and around us.
This
monumental disconnection of our psyche from our nurturing origins is
similar to walking
around with our head in a bucket of sand for all but
ten hours of our entire life, on average.
Consider
the state of the world. The destructive madness and disorders resulting
from how our McBurgered "head in a bucket" makes us think, feel and
relate, speaks
for itself. We have reached a point where those who try to
correct this insanity and its discontents are seen as
"environmentalists" or "nature freaks"
or "fuzzy thinkers" of some kind, rather than individuals whose
thoughts and feelings struggle to remain reasonable and balanced.
We
endure our troubles because most of us learn to accept that the way we
suffer from this disconnection is "real life."
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
To
our cost, in our industrial society, we are educated to believe it is
"normal" for our thinking and feeling to be estranged from the benefits
of nature's beauty
and equilibrium.
The
benefits of thinking while in hands-on, conscious, sensory contact with
natural areas
demonstrate that we bear our isolation and disorders because we are
"bucketheads" and because we expertly train and elect "bucketheads."
Our
lives are
missing the powerful essence of whole life reasoning, natural sanity
and peace of mind.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
Organic
Psychology works because it enables those of us who are wise enough to
understand our situation to learn how to genuinely
reconnect our thinking to nature and teach others how to engage in this
healing process. We personally and professionally help all members of
Industrial Society connect to the worldwide purifying and
supportive natural
attraction ways
of the web
of life, backyard or backcountry. This produces beneficial
outcomes that
increase personal, social and environmental
well-being. As seen by their history
since
Josh Lieberman's 1931 Creative
Camping book
and
program, the benefits have long been
verified and improved.
Reminder: This website offers complete ECHN and NAE information. Its objective is to have you telephone us, customize the program for yourself and have your questions answered. You then start by mastering our online Orientation Course. Phone: 360-378-6313 (Mike) or 507-450-0200 (Barbara). <nature@interisland.net>
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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 or story
that is, due to bonding,
unusually resistant to rational influence.
We seldom
change our
destructive ways because, by age seven, we
become bonded (McBurgered) to our nature-disconnected artificial
materials and
stories. They usually remain with us through adulthood, even though we
can see
that their side effects are often detrimental and erode well being in
us and
other natural beings.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
Truly
reasonable individuals thoughtfully recognize that we are McBurgered
and educated to become
prejudiced
against nature as well as not to admit that we are. This secret bias
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 happiness. Its
life includes our
natural self, the
attraction flow
of natural systems and the happy fulfillment of their expression in and
around
us. We prejudicially demean them and their balancing
wisdom. Is it any wonder that we suffer problems that we
can seldom solve?
As an integral part
of the web of life, is it surprising that we stress ourselves as we
stress the web?
Online, at Project
NatureConnect, social workers, counselors, teachers,
parents, therapists and students together learn and teach
nature-connecting
activities that help us
transform our into sustainable, balanced,
constructive,
environmentally
sound relationships.
Results from omitting conscious sensory contact
with nature
Sadly,
we endure our greed, depression and dysfunctions
because the progression of our excessively nature-separated lives
demeans and disconnects our mentality and our loving from the web of
life.
We lose the support of
our inherent biological and spiritual wholeness.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
We
are missing 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.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this
problem.
BEGIN HERE
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 removal 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 ("wilderness
separated"). We seldom recognize that "wild," "natural
life"
and "god" are related and may be synonymous.
"I believe in God but I spell
it Nature."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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 our thoughts and
feelings with nature itself, the
fountainhead
of authority with respect to living in peaceful balance
and purity on Earth.
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 or turning 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.
"Through
these PNC courses I am beginning to sense many of the intelligences,
truths and conscious knowings demonstrated by and through
nature. PNC is guiding me into registering a deeper
connection and understanding of the natural attractions within our
living planet and the depth and breathe of how truly
interconnected and interdependent these attractions are, in and around me."
-Project NatureConnect Participant
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Guaranteed:
If you appreciate the results described in
testimonials on this website, we will fund you to use and teach the powerful
process
that produced them.
Benefit from a powerful
humanitarian tool....
Engage
in extraordinary
online
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 and counseling situations.
"Focusing
your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition.
It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your
wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true
potential."
- Barack Obama
(Help him use ECHN to help us accomplish this goal)
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, Ph.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
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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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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 intelligence of natural
systems within and around us.
- Request participation
instructions
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participants
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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, Autism,
Self-Confidence, Mid
Life Crisis and other Self-Worth or Creative Writing dysfunctions.
- Counseling: Pastoral, Therapy, Recovery, Family,
Marriage and Spiritual Counseling, Massage Therapy and
Biofeedback.
- Shamanism, New Age Spirituality Retreat Centers,
Self-Esteem, Yoga, Religion and Civil Rights, Therapist, Retreat Center
Training.
Great Turning Hope
- 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? ..
Act Now
Funded education counseling and healing with nature internships online
ecopsychology degrees, courses and jobs. BEGIN
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Rationale:
The
How and Why of Nature-Connected Education Counseling and Healing.
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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-reducing 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 life 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. BEGIN HERE
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
that the outstanding nature-connected self-help coaching, wellness and
counseling tools,
activities
and jobs offered on this website help you help yourself and
others, by 32 percent or more, increase personal, professional and
environmental well being. You will reduce puzzling disorders,
dysfunction, trouble, conflict, stress, issues and dependencies. Your
mind will cooperatively improve self-esteem and relationships in
general; your meditations will help protect endangered species and
natural systems.
"By
interlacing our mind with
nature, the
science of Organic Psychology enables our thinking to tap into nature's
grace, balance and regenerative processes. This helps us transform and
recycle detrimental ways we think and feel.
Uniquely, we learn how to
help the web of life decompose
into fertile thoughts the garbage that destructive aspects of
industrial society have dumped into our mentality and spirit.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature, backyard or backcountry, is trustable. It results
in beneficial coaching and teaching that compassionately increases our
personal, social and environmental health. IQ and other analytical
tests show that this process is a potent, cost-free antidote and social
work tool. We enjoy a smart, stress reducing euphoria, a thoughtful
tranquility we normally miss in our excessively nature-separated lives."
- The Web of
Life Imperative
Do the observations, above,
make sense to you? Are they attractive? Call
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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 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 and healing 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
comes to our mind is the McBurgered, conditioned,
nature-disconnected, "exploit and profit"
warp we have learned that shapes our thinking. We learn to 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 much stress and conflict. Their
falsehood says that we live on
the surface of Planet Earth while, from
direct sensory experience, the wisdom of our deeper sensory selves
instinctively knows full well that we don't.
Troubles
arise when we learn to discount the truth and value of our personal
senses and experience. In this case, our natural senses of color,
motion,
distance,
consciousness, gravity, light, direction, texture and reason register
that we
live in the Earth, 300
miles below its atmosphere,
beneath its air, clouds, rain, snow, tree tops and flying creatures
above our
head. 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. We learn to
deny the truth we experience from direct, sensory contact with our
nurturing origins in the grace
and balance of the web of life and its renewing powers.
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How can we
truly know who we are in our natural
relationship with life if the McBurgering bias
of our story of who
we are
gently, but powerfully,
misleads and exploits us?
Our
industrial lives are dancing to the tune of a malicious fiddler. We can
see and feel how the dance hurts Earth and us. Our thinking has been
unable to change this situation because our mentality and psyche remain
bonded to misguided information.
"Well-being
always increases when our stories tell us the whole truth."
- Anonymous
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When
we learn to prejudicially think stories about life that undermine
the attractive reality that we register when we experience nature's
balance and beauty,
our
psyche becomes conflicted and misled. This conflict excessively
stresses and harms us. We become
disturbed. Worst of all, we may learn to think that this disturbance is
a normal
part
of life, something like "God places us in our conflicts so that we can
learn from
the
experience."
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counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
The
momentous question that rocks us is this: do we simply
live on
the
Earth, or is our mind, body and spirit in and part of Earth's web
of life community?
This
is monumental.
Earth
is the biological origin and nurturing source of life as we
know it here. Our
Planet's nature is an
essential
unifying root of our thoughts, feelings and survival.
We
become
troubled and we create trouble when, from birth on, we are conflicted
or misled about this
relationship:
It makes our thoughts and
feelings lose contact with who
we really are and what and where we really are.
It makes us dependent upon the nature-disconnected
and
exploitive "McBurger" 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. In Industrial Society, most of these senses may only express
themselves
in the safety of social work,
counseling or therapy.
Our
stressed natural senses
undermine the delight and joy of our intact mind body and spirit.
Stress erodes 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.
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The
person-planet clash in our thinking is secretly destructive. It
troubles our natural senses and they deteriorate. Confused
and disoriented, we take
this discord for granted because we see it all around us most of the
time.
To
reverse our troubles, from our place in the cosmos we need familiarity,
strength and support, not
stress.
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, we deny that contemporary thinking and our
teachers are almost entirely disconnected from the self-correcting
power of nature's
renewing energies.
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| Ecology and the Biosphere.
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The
scientific fact of Ecology is that we are embedded 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 as great a contribution
for good as did the 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.
.
"Life
prepares its own environment"
- John Storer,
The Web of Life (1953)
.
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 attraction
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.
It
is natural attraction, the
love of life, that energizes and organizes how nature works.
The
essence of the biosphere and Earth is the pulsating flow of
natural systems. They are driven by natural
attractions to support life.
Wherever
or whenever that flow of ecology is stopped, life as we know it
deteriorates or dies.
Many
folks generalize the biosphere as being "star energies" or the
"Universe." This "answer" can remove their thinking from the benefits
and
destiny they might otherwise enjoy by making conscious sensory contact
with natural life and its web of life natural
attractions,
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 natural attraction flow of its
systems. You then
try to determine where nature ends and you begin. I was surprised and
grateful 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 my natural attractions and
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 natural attraction power flows through all of life. This includes
the life of our
mind and spirit, of our thoughts feelings and perceptions.
Natural attractions are a
prime
commonality and
unifier that we share with all people, places and things, past and
present. Perhaps originating in the Higgs Boson, this commonality includes what we hold in common with
spiritual leaders like Moses, Jesus,
Mohammad
and Buddha.
Most artificial substitutes
for natural systems
exclude the natural unifying energies and organic healing ways of
natural attractions. 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 attractions, 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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counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this
problem.
REMINDER: To our loss, on
average, throughout our
lives we learn to disconnect 98 percent of our time, thinking and
feeling from conscious sensory attraction 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 natural attraction vibrancy 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 is 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 validate their innate attractions to Earth, 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
into a rational/activist project and lost sight of its heart."
- Thomas Moore
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| Disjointed Origins of
Contemporary Thinking and Feeling.
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To be part of a system, a
thing must somehow be in
communication with that system, otherwise it unknowingly trespasses it.
We are part of nature and
its systems. Our
excessive disconnection from them prevents them from registering in our
thinking so, to our loss, we trespass them within and around us.
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We may best begin to address
our natural attraction disconnection
troubles by understanding their origins:
The fossil record
demonstrates that creation, biologically, culturally and
spiritually evolved humanity in
the tropical environment of Africa.
In that naturally attractive "Eden like" womb of the biosphere, warmth
and food were
consistently available because seasonal changes were minimal.
Natural
People: As
ancient humanity migrated into areas with dramatically changing
seasons, most cultures socialized themselves with stories that said:
"We must seek, register and respect the attractive and ever changing
sensory signals from this place and our love for it. We must respect
how its signals help us feel and think in a good way. The Great Spirit
of Mother Nature will help us survive by sensuously
communicating her fluctuations to us so that we may act appropriately
and supportively."
Natural survival depended
upon expertly sustaining
emotional sensitivity and gratitude to
life-supportive sensory-emotive communications from natural
attraction and the flow of natural
systems. For example: when a certain flower turned blue it attracted a
natural person's sense of color and signaled this was the time the
salmon were running, that food was available or that seeds should be
planted.
Tropicmakers: The
ancient groups that originated contemporary culture socialized
themselves to a different story. It said: "To survive throughout the
seasons, we must create artificial tropic-simulating 'closets.' By
living in these imitations of the tropics, we may protect ourselves
from nature's changes and enjoy a constant warmth and food supply, as
if we were in
a tropical area.
Our survival does not depend upon thinking that includes attraction
signals from
our natural senses and feelings while in contact with nature. Rather,
it depends upon our leaders' creativity and intelligence to develop
'tropic-making' techniques/technologies."
Our society programs our natural
attractions, thinking and perceptions
to be prejudiced
against
nature and, to be attracted to
artificial tropic-like substitutes.
We learn to use natural
sensitivities and systems in people and places as resources. We learn
to love and
support our leaders and their ability to produce imitations of tropical
life. They can artificially and creatively replace the tropic's natural
warmth, food supply, medicine,
food storage, entertainment, recreation and transportation that we need
for
our survival and happiness."
Today, we are increasingly
disconnected from the
beneficial sensory pulse and resonations of natural systems. The
tropicmaking thinking of contemporary people has fixated or addicted us
to excessive sensory rewards from nature-exploitive stories,
technologies, profit, power and prestige that often act as a form of
terrorism against natural systems.
Tropicmaking also addicts us
to
tranquilizing the emotionally-abusive discomfort created by these
nature-disconnected substitutes and their adverse side-effects on us,
as
well as on the environment.
It is reasonable to
recognize that we seldom
improve personal or global peace and well being because we are secretly
socialized to fight an undeclared war against nature within and about
us. To destroy our own life-support system is a form of insanity.
It underlies the stress and madness of contemporary life.
Insight from our 53 natural attraction senses and
feelings have
little value in our tropical-imitation indoor world. We learn to
train, subdue or conquer them rather than support them. Too often, to
produce a profit, we learn to think and feel like we are cultural
objects rather than as contributing sensitive members of Earth's life
community.
As tropicmakers, constant
blessings from imaginative
distant-God stories and/or technologies often replace the joy and other
supportive rewards we would ordinarily receive from the recuperative
flow of natural systems in our immediate environment. We also lose the
value of expressing our inborn, community-building gratitude to nature
and our natural attraction love
for the natural
life-spirit that we find in people,
places and things.
Tropicmakers often
experience the natural to be
"flaky, fuzzy, environmentalism, fearful, emotional, unscientific or
taboo."
The key to contemporary
survival has become
nature-disconnected thinking and its controlling stories that often
stress our senses and loves. That process deteriorates well-being.
Unfortunately, as our
fixation to these stories supports excessive
technologies, profits and industrial growth, they increase our
disorders. This occurs because disconnected stories further deteriorate
our natural systems and the common natural
attraction sense they give us.
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Delusion:
During the first six years of childhood we socialize (McBurger)
youngsters to
change from their birth as natural beings into fledgling tropicmakers.
Our tropicmaking socialization leads us to believe that the
disconnection of our thinking and feeling from its attraction to
nature's grace and
restorative powers is progress, that it is benign and that it does not
underlie the discomforting falsehoods, emotional imbalance, psychic wounds and
isolated lifestyles that stress us.
It is not possible to
amputate away the loves or
ecstasy of an organism and not have that organism suffer and want. The
organism senses that something valuable about it is missing. It never
has enough. Without the tranquilization of its discomfort, it always
wants more, if nothing else, more tranquilizers.
This is especially
true when the organism we amputate is us and what we amputate away is
our
inherent natural love of life and our planet.
Our tropicmaking mentality
today is like a
computer that has foolishly unplugged itself from its energy sources.
Without its sources, the computer is stupid. It is unable to discover
what's wrong or compute how to re-plug itself. Our excessive
disconnection of our thinking from nature's balanced natural
attraction ways is doing the
same thing to our psyche.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
Restoration: Once
we recognize the tropicmaking source of our dysfunctions, the story of
how to remedy them becomes apparent: "Learn to use a tool that helps
you replace what's missing. The tool helps you genuinely plug your
thinking and feeling into the natural attraction vibrancy
and wisdom of natural systems.
Restore their attractive flow in and through your body mind and spirit.
Enjoy the safe, lasting satisfaction and renewal this provides. If you
don't do this, your psyche will more severely express its hurt and
wanting sooner or later, for it builds up."
"We are dysfunctional
socially and environmentally because we are cut off and isolated from
the world of nature and the natural."
-Albert Gore (edited)
Vice President, USA
Author, Earth in the Balance
The positive process
along with the specific outcomes and general
outcomes of genuinely reconnecting
our thinking with natural systems speak
for themselves. Some people consider the
process and its results to
be a contemporary form of Shamanism or Pantheism.
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We seldom have the ability
to change our
socialization by industrial society for it is an accepted form of
addiction or brainwashing. We can, however,
sensibly choose to bypass
its limits and trespasses and increase well being by using tools that
connect our thinking with the transformative and recycling powers
of natural attractions and
systems. Over time, this new habit we develop helps how we
think and feel change for the better.
The Natural System Thinking
Process in Organic
Psychology says:
"Make sense by learning how
to respect and
resonate with the flow of nature's natural
attraction pulse rather than by excessively
controlling it or fortressing yourself from it.
Delight in the rewards that
come from direct
sensory connections with the energetic spirit and love of life in
natural systems and areas, rather than from stagnant indoor substitutes
for it
that have harmful side effects.
As part of family, dating or
singles life, learn
to connect directly with nature's life-spirit in natural areas,
backyard or backcountry. It sustainably helps you convert the stress
that erodes your well-being, into good feelings. This results because
sensory connections to nature trigger the release of chemicals like Dopamine and Oxytocin as well
as help you develop supportive personal and environmental
relationships you trust and enjoy. You sense and feel that you and
others belong
to something worthwhile because
you do.
Recognize that tropicmaking
science limits our
thinking by omitting the validity of natural sensory knowing. For
example, tropicmaking does not include the natural attraction sense of thirst
as a fact that is as real as water or as part of the global water
system, of the water cycle, or as one of the "five senses." Omissions
like this disconnect our thinking about thirst from
the purifying water cycle, from nature's sensory grace, balance and
recuperative ways.
Thirst is an intelligent
sensory attraction. It
informs us when we need water so we bring water into us and benefit.
Our thirst also turns off to signal us that we have enough water.
Similarly, our sense of excretion tells us to
contribute our excessive water as food and water for the welfare of
other members of the global life community. At least 51 additional natural sensory
attraction-loves serve this same supportive
purpose with regard to personal and global well being. This includes
sensations of fear, pain, anxiety, depression, death, dying and grief.
They signal that something important is missing and that we must seek
it.
We excessively suffer
because the way we learn to
think, feel and relate is too often non-sense. We use only 10% of the
natural
sensory wisdom we inherit as part of nature. This leads us to foolishly
applaud our excessive conquest of natural systems, in and around us.
Learning to
genuinely reconnect with nature, the
real thing, helps us reverse this dilemma. For example, it helps us
with dieting and weight loss as we satisfy ourselves with sensory
fulfilling food instead of excessive eating.
"Personal
transformation is best cultivated by partnering with the supreme agent
of change, the Earth. Life is change, and nature is the wizard who
enlivens its magic cycles."
- Philip Sutton Chard
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As described above, Organic
Psychology helps us
reverse our tropicmaking disorders by giving us the tools to help
natural systems and their fulfilling benefits once again flow through
and register in our psyche. It is a process that enables us to preempt
or bypass the false and destructive aspects of our socialization and
our learned prejudice
against nature. It empowers us to directly
reconnect our disconnected and wounded thoughts and
feelings with the essence of our
origins in natural systems and their healing ways. This re-connection
gives us the ability to:
Override or transform
hurtful nature-disconnecting ways
and childhood distortions that we learn in industrial society.
Become more intelligent as
we benefit from
first-hand contact with the truth and regenerative powers of natural
systems and the eons.
Build relationships based on
immediate trustable
attractions to natural systems in and around us that we hold in common,
rather than to
stories that divide us.
Increase personal and
environmental well-being by
thinking and feeling with nature rather than against it.
The core of our troubles is
that, since Aristotle
and before, our most powerful leaders, thinkers and teachers have been
rewarded while they are/were victims of our culture's nature-conquering ways. As
a result, while we are infants, our leaders prejudicially bond us to
the same
disconnecting half-truth labels and stories that they have been
conditioned to believe. As if brainwashed, we emotionally attach to a
way of thinking and relating that restricts, distorts and demeans
natural systems. It estranges us from them and the flow of their
beneficial pulse.
Out of habit, our ingrained
life science story
rejects the supportive attraction flow of natural systems in our
psyche. Our
biased thinking stops that beneficial
flow.
The deteriorating state of
natural systems
suggests that we learn to fight a prejudiced undeclared war against
them. How else can we explain that at the same time that the biosphere
and its natural systems were discovered 75 years ago, so were Scotch
tape, the jet engine, the EEG, the condom and Monopoly? Why, other than
prejudice, have the latter thrived while the health of natural systems
has dangerously declined.
Don't we suffer because we
conquer and exploit,
rather than think, feel and relate in support of natural attractions
and
their gifts for well-being? Have we not become ecozombies or
"bucket heads" to a
greater or lesser extent?
Organic Psychology gives us
a trustworthy antidote and preventative
for
our nature-disconnection problem. We can use its activities to make
thoughtful sensory contact with the transformative powers of natural
attractions and experience an elation and wisdom that our socialized
thinking ordinarily omits. We can add this process to our personal and
professional lives. Its benefits
speak for themselves.
.
"It's great. Mike Cohen is
right to make the
responsibility for living on good terms with Gaia a personal one."
- Dr. James Lovelock,
Author, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
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John Dewey noted, "We only
begin to think when
confronted by a problem." Confront yourself. Confront our leaders. Most
of them have learned to become ecozombies. If they don't correct their
biosphere and natural attraction lies and support nature-connected
learning and healing, refuse
to support them until they do. If you don't confront them, who will
make them think further? We must stop supporting leaders who
don't know what to do about an essence of our problems.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this situation.
"Illegitimus non carborundum"
- Joe Stillwell,
Four-Star American General
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Consider
the two significant 20th century observations that, among
many others, help us improve our personal and global wellness.
.
"Human behavior is rooted
most deeply in nature's
intentions and desire. The rhythms of nature underlie all of human
interaction: religious traditions, economic systems, cultural and
political organization. When these human forms betray the natural
psychic pulse, people and societies get sick, nature is exploited and
entire species are threatened."
-Stephen Aizenstat
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"Scientific
research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is
determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action
of people."
- Albert Einstein
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Industrial
society's greatest problem is that its logic often teaches us to betray
the natural psychic pulse, the pulsating natural
attraction
wave and flow of our
life-spirit.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
We
are
born as part of nature's perfection and integrity. But, as previously
mentioned, we learn to spend over 98% of our lives and thinking
separated from nature's ongoing support of our mind, psyche and spirit.
That support is readily available in natural areas, backyard or
backcountry, whenever we use Organic Psychology sensory tools to help
us
access it.
We
suffer our dysfunctions because our immediate material and economic
rewards habituate us to a cultural and spiritual bias against nature
and the natural.
Today
we are additionally stressed by our uncontrolled
stupidity. We exploit and conquer natural systems while fully aware
that they are key to our survival and to our recovery from disorders.
This way of thinking and acting is nonsense. Fortunately, the antidote
for it, Educating
Counseling and Healing With Nature, is readily
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