The scientific secret of how educating and counseling with nature helps the human race survive the destructiveness of the human race.

 

 

Institute of Global Education
Special NGO consultant to United Nations Economic and Social Council

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Increased sensory awareness improves personal and environmental relationships.

Of what use is an excellent purpose or idea if you don't have a process that implements it? The many sensible changes we yearn for often don't happen because we are psychologically addicted to our established ways, no matter their destructive effects.

You can realize your deeper goals and ideals and make a difference.
A newly researched educating and counseling with Nature process empowers individuals to outgrow their hurtful bonds by genuinely participating in the web of life.

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"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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In nature, acting destructively is abnormal. However, when you separate any organism from its natural environment you force it to act abnormally. You disconnect it from Nature's constructive ways, purity and integrity.

We live nature separated lives. Because our artificial substitutes for nature don't contain nature's eon's of relationship building wisdom their "side effects" produce the problems we often can't solve.


An essence of Nature is its self-organizing intelligence. It creates and maintains Earth's optimums of life and diversity without producing garbage, pollutants, or our forms of violence and madness, including war. It also sustains ecosystems and their members in supportive balance. Its unifying, community-building, knowledge produces wellness in people and the environment.

 


People are part of Nature. When our psyche is consciously connected to attractions in Nature we biologically, psychologically and spiritually register and can think with Nature's intelligence. We create our great personal, environmental and global troubles because we learn to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from Nature.

Our extreme separation from Nature is similar to growing up while imprisoned and brainwashed in a closet. We become as zombies with respect to sensitively supporting life in balance. Our separation desensitizes our ability to relate sensibly. It's like spending only twelve hours of our life learning how to read and write and then expecting to be proficient at it. Our disconnection deprives and pollutes our thinking. It adversely influences the way we experience most things, including people and our sense of self.
For example: we seldom recognize that in the survival of the fittest, the "fittest" are those who best build diverse, mutually supportive relationships with their surroundings. They are excellent cooperators, not competitors.
For example: Disconnection leads us to think, learn and know using only five senses. We don't nurture and exercise an additional 48 or more senses that we inherit from nature, sensitivities found throughout nature. Our thinking normally omits natural senses like:

...-thirst,
...-communication,
...-hunger,
...-community,
...-emotional and physical place,
...-trust,
...-nurturing,
...-beauty,
...-pain,
...-excessive stress,
...-intuition,
...-thankfulness
...-belonging to a larger system or organism,

and 38 other natural means of knowing and relating.

These omissions of nature's ways make us insensitive. Our sensory deprivation leads us to knowledgeably, unintelligently, trespass and exploit the environment and each other.

Our disorders continue because very few contemporary people believe we can learn to think with nature and thereby build balanced relationships. We refrain from reconnecting our psyche to its sensory origins and nurturance in ecosystems. Our thinking remains numb. As the state of the world presently shows, numb makes dumb with respect to living in respect.

Like a child separated from its mother, we psychologically hurt; we want from the loss of Mother Nature in our lives. When we want there is never enough. This makes us crave and psychologically addict to unreasonable relationships even when we know they are nonsense, destructive, or greedy.

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have
my senses put in order."

- John Burroughs

Psychological problems demand psychological solutions. There is a solution for the estrangement of our psyche. The process of educating and counseling with nature psychologically reconnects people to nature's intelligence. This nurtures and restores our natural intelligence, our 53 senses. It helps us safely transform our painful disconnections into exciting, constructive relationships.

The reconnecting process consists of using activities that help us make thoughtful sensory contacts with natural areas. It rejuvenates our senses, recycles our destructive thinking and improves us and the environment. The results speak for themselves. Truly nature-connected people seldom display our problems or cause them, nor are these problems found in natural systems.

Unfortunately, reconnecting with nature is suspect in our nature-conquering society. It is like consorting with the enemy or having an illicit affair, seldom encouraged, often disparaged. However, most people know the value of a walk in the park or a breath of sweet fresh air. They love it. That sensuous nature connecting experience makes a difference. Somewhere buried within us lies the significance of that love along with other sensory loves like the:

...-sense of belonging on a beautiful day,
...-perfection of a sunrise,
...-communicative fragrance of a flower,
...-nurturing call from a fawn's innocence,
...-self-identity in a bird's song,
...-trust that night will follow day,
...-community spirit of an ecosystem,
...-sense of place in a familiar landscape ,
...-enchantment of a forest,
...-spirit of the wind
...-soul of a snow capped mountain.

"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

To our loss, people who recognize the importance of reconnecting with nature seldom have a scientific process that enables them to reconnect, or teach others how to reconnect. Now, a readily available nature-reconnecting, psychological science, the Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) gives people this tool. It is an easily learned, teachable, social technology. It recognizes that with respect to nature and its eons of wisdom, there is no substitute for the real thing. For this reason, NSTP reconnects our thinking to authentic nature, its wordless reality, backyard or back country.

NSTP hands-on ecopsychology helps us co-create with the environment and each other. We learn to more sensibly relate to life and love. Sensitivity, responsibility and peace replace stress, disorders and conflict. We restore our personal and environmental integrity and prevent its deterioration.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Online, any caring person can take courses in NSTP. They can also obtain a B.S., MS or Ph.D degree in NSTP educating and counseling with nature.

No matter their field of interest, the NSTP program improves a person's effectiveness, marketability, and credibility. It helps them increase wellness within and around them, reduce hurtful relationships, and teach others to do the same.

NSTP distant learning degree programs and courses are inexpensive because they are
.....-online,
.....-cooperatively taught,
.....-heavily subsidized,
.....-incorporate a person's prior experiences.
Adults, students and professionals use them to impliment their deeper ideals.

For complete information visit www.ecopsych.com. It links to many free nature reconnecting activities, articles and courses.

The most efficient way to become adept at NSTP is through a 7-21 day, online Orientation Course:
Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship:
The Science of Connecting With the Web of Life;
The Art of Thinking With Nature.

The Orientation Course course helps people fulfill Albert Einstein's quest:

"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."

"Our task must be to free ourselves from (our) prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

- Albert Einstein

We desperately need education and counseling that takes us out of the box that produces our personal and global troubles. If our nature disconnected ways continue, how can we learn to live in equilibrium?

"It is difficult to get people to understand something
when their salary depends upon them not understanding it."

-Upton Sinclair

Through NSTP, you can help restore our missing link in the way we think. Thank you for considering this information,

Michael J. Cohen

Institute of Global Education
Integrated Ecology/Project NatureConnnect
Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director
Chair: Greenwich University Applied Ecopsychology
Faculty: Portland State University Extended Studies
Founder: Natural Systems Thinking Process ©copyright1996

P. O. Box 1605,
Friday Harbor, WA 98250
1-360-378-6313

www.ecopsych.com
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  REMINDER: The best way to learn the nature-reconnecting process is to engage in it through our short, online Orientation Course. From seven sessions over18 days you will know firsthand the benefits it holds for you and the world you love.

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