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For immediate release:
April 12, 2004
Contact: Mike Cohen 360-378-6313
nature@interisland.net
http://www.ecopsych.com/
Psychologists and Educators Honor Earth Day with Nature-Healing Gifts for People and Places
For Earth Day 2004, super-healing, environmentally sound nature-connected psychology tools that are ethical and transcendental have been made available to counselors, therapists, healers, educators and the public at http://www.ecopsych.com/2004earthday.html
April 10, 2004, 34 years after the first Earth Day: Because studies at this late date indicate an accelerated rise in global warming carbon dioxide levels, an increase in oceanic dead zones and soaring mental disorder costs, Dr. Michael J. Cohen, director of Project NatureConnect at the Institute of Global Education has issued a recovery proclamation for Earth Day 2004 that has been submitted to the American Psychological Association, the EPA and the National Education Association, among others. http://www.ecopsych.com/earthproclamation.html
The tools and proclamation include a new organic psychology book and several potent but easily-learned nature-connecting activities for use by the psychotherapy, healing and environmental communities to help them address the threat to life on Earth by our dysfunctional mentality. The process and training are also available to teachers and interested members of the public at http://www.ecopsych.com/2004earthday.html.
The proclamation and Earth Day page show that people and their mentality are part of nature. It also shows that when authentic nature and its renewing powers are absent in the environment of the human mind, even our best thinking leads us to behave in ways that abuse Earth's natural systems in our body, our psyche and the environment. Personal, social and environmental troubles result.
In his new book "The Web of Life Imperative" Cohen reports, "Leading experts now recognize that individuals, society and the environment suffer dysfunctions because our mentality is excessively separated from nature's balanced ways and restorative powers. It is these powers that produce the social and environmental perfections in natural life systems and nature-connected people. Now, to our benefit, Organic Psychology helps us easily restore them in our psyche."
Cohen demonstrates that over 99% of our thinking is disconnected from and out of tune with nature. He says "It is the nature-disconnected way we learn to think that is the point source of our personal dysfunctions such as stress, depression and cancers as well environmental dysfunctions such as global warming, oceanic dead zones and war. Over the eons neither nature nor nature-connected people(s) have produced these problems."
"Producing mutually supportive ecosystem bonds is an essence of how nature works," Cohen argues, "It is our mentality's sterile isolation from this process that underlies our problems for we don't fight to save what we don't love. Our activities are useful all year long and as a special nature-connecting gifts for Earth Day, Mothers Day, Valentines Day, Christmas and every other occasion."
Cohen may be contacted at 360-378-6313 or by email <nature@interisland.net> Website:http://www.ecopsych.com
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Cohen, at his Project NatureConnect website (http://www.ecopsych.com) shows that profound nature-reconnecting techniques are readily available to the counseling, psychotherapy and healing community. He said, "Their use helps us reverse our destructive trends by helping us enjoy lasting nature-connected rewards that support us and the environment. That is the same organic process practiced by the animal and plant kingdoms. Without creating pollution or garbage, that process produces and sustains nature's wellness and healing ways."
"This Earth Day is the time for concerned therapeutic and healing individuals to begin to use their special expertise to the welfare of nature and humanity," says Cohen. "To accomplish this they need the support of environmentally caring people and organizations. Through organic, nature-connecting tools, therapists can address our immediately rewarding but long-term detrimental ways of thinking to which their clients, as well as they, have become bonded. http://www.ecopsych.com/2004earthday.html.
Cohen notes that, "Environmentalists must find within themselves the wherewithal to understand and support the therapeutic community in its efforts to produce an ecologically sound mental environment. In addition environmentalists can, to their advantage, use these new mental-environment improvement tools as part of the environmental movement and education. "Today's increases in global warming and oceanic dead zones demonstrate that the nature-detached thinking we have used for the past century can not accomplish what we need to do"
Cohen says that, "Because we are part of nature, nature itself has the power to help us modify the harmful bonds or our deeply rooted conditioning, our nature-conquering prejudices and our destructive rewards. This is because we inherit our ability to build emotional, often subconscious, bonds from nature. Without enlisting nature's help to transform our detrimental bonds into constructive relationships, it may not be possible for us to produce the social and environmental wellness we need, the wellness that supports all of life."
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INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council
PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Readily available, online, natural science tools
for the health of person, planet and spiritP.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com
ORGANIC ADVANCED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION
The Natural Systems Thinking Process
Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director
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All programs start with the Orientation Course contained in the book
The Web of Life Imperative.
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