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Accredited Nature-Connecting Online Alternative and Natural Holistic Degrees Courses and Careers include life experience and prior training, independent thinking, social networking and ecological mentoring. The Mind Body Healing Process:
Nature-Connnected Healing Hands and Healing Hypnosis Techniques Enhance Personal and Global Well-Being
Synopsis The addition of educating, counseling and healing with nature activities to healing hands and healing hypnosis has strengthend these practices and increased their benefits to both client and practioner. The activities help participants consciously bring into play the spirit and natural attraction properties of nature that are an essence of all mind and body healing. This combination, at will introduces the purifying and recycling benefits of nature into the thoughts and feelings of an individual. Dr. Mark Germine, a psychiatrist and editor of the PsychoScience Journal observes "I've done healing hypnosis and other techniques and have not seen such a deeply unconscious state brought to the surface before." What appear, below are shared statements from the Journals of participants who have integrated Educating, counseling and healing with nature with their professional and/or personal restorative practices. Results of some Nature Connection Activities Done by Students of Mind Body Healing and Healing Hands Therapies. "I needed to get the halter off of the wild mare so I could turn her out into the big pasture. It took a bit to catch her. Then I needed to work with her to get to let me get close to her. When she realized I was trying to get the halter off she stood still for me. After getting the halter off I opened up the round pen into the dry lot. When I opened the gate out into the main pasture, she looked at the opening and refused to go out. Another horse went into the drylot with her and she just moved around the horse and stayed in the drylot. I had to tie open the gate to the main pasture but first I had to find something to tie the gate with. Finally got the gate tied open then chased the wild mare and her baby out. Once she got out of the dry lot she took her baby only a few steps away from the other horses. She will be a lot happier with the other horses and out in the pasture. The mare is not able to see the bigger picture. It is not easy to know what is best for us when we can not see much beyond our feet. I think many folks find the big picture of what's predicted so frightening that they can't bare to look, so they miss seeing the vibrant, effervescent, joyful possibilities of this perilous but pregnant earth time. Some of the children that we work with are not able look beyond a few hours at a time. There is a great program to help foster children after they turn 18, only you have to participate for several months before you turn 18. Many kids refuse to participate then want the funds and help. There is no help for them from this program. It is sad. We try to encourage them to join the program, however we cannot force them to attend. I can wrangle the wild mare to do want I need for her to do, sometimes I wish I could with the foster kids. The foster kids have had enough wrangling before they get to us." ^^^ "I had a fabulous time with this exercise. My ‘natural place’, with this case ‘animal’ begged me for participation. I have been away from home with work for nearly a week. During that time we had a huge storm at home and lost power for 4 days. With the terrible weather my husband did not want to go for a walk and get sweaty and come home to a cold house. Therefore, one of our dogs was almost out of her skin. When I put on my ‘walking outfit’ (clothes, boots and backpack) she was beside herself. She was following me around, prancing at the door and finally whining. I asked her if she wanted to go for a walk and she looked at me like I had horns – of course dummy, why would I be acting like this if I wanted to stay lying down in front of the fire – is what I heard. She had so much pent up energy, she pulled me around the block. STATEMENT 1: The animal in this natural area that I like is my dog Lightning. I like her because she is beautiful, energetic, attentive and full of life. STATEMENT 2: I like myself because I am beautiful, energetic, attentive and full of life. Hey, that is pretty cool. Not sure about the beautiful part but the rest seems to fit well. We always joke that people have pets that resemble them in both personality and style. Maybe so." ^^^ "I decided to go down the sledding hill which needs clearing of brambles and a few small trees that are on the edge of this swath of hill. This is where the children sled before the Solstice Celebration. I felt very welcomed here, a feeling of happiness and peace filled me. Isn't it remarkable how clearly we are able to feel whether consent is present? I marvel at how deafly and blindly I sometimes continue down a path despite the loud playing of warning signals telling me to stop and find a clear natural attraction. With a sense of the woods consent, I started pulling some of the brambles which I think are gooseberry and it was an incredible experience of connection! The roots went everywhere on the hill. I kept pulling and more and more vines of roots appeared. I have never seen such widespread strong root systems before. I felt like I was being given a physical demonstration of webstrings which made me smile happily because my Western Civilization disconnected from Nature stories are still quite prevalent much of the time. Earth really knew what I needed to learn. The roots went everywhere, up and down the hill and across and zigzagging. The soil on this hill is very loamy and there is a thick leaf cover so the sensation of pulling them up was almost like they flowed from the earth into my hands. “Pay attention” they seemed to say, “we are all connected!” After I had looped them up and hung them on a tree so I can find these long vines and make something with them, I walked further into the woods. I stopped many times to check my list and identify more than my 5 senses." ^^^ "For some, God things are not discussable. They are sensory attachments that reason alone cannot change. This stood out to me as a very important knowing. When I was young and in a religious elementary school, developmentally everything they taught me went through my senses and emotions. This was a very intellectual religion and so the form for these lessons was in intellectual phrasings as we got older. I began to be able at least to think about what seemed true or not true, but learning the Bible stories and the lessons extrapolated from them through feelings and emotions as a child, the foundation of belief was laid deeply. Gradually I have been able to expand my mind with reason and now as I open again to the level of senses and emotions, I have my new thinking to help me “discuss” (question, expand) the beliefs learned as a child. This foundation of learning through senses and emotions as a child is one of the many reasons why getting young children outside to experience Nature, to be with Earth is so important. They experience sensory attachments with Earth and they would be less vulnerable to disconnected stories that they are exposed to later. For me, the essence of Therapy is helping each client to identify and explore the love, the attraction relationships that are their unique essence. I have found that RWN as a practice for me and for a few of my clients has been a very powerful way to identify and claim this deep essence. To discover yourself in Nature and Nature in your self is very powerful and fun." ^^^ "I was drawn by lovely sparkling frost-sprinkles which drifted down through the branches of the trees yesterday morning, to review the chapter out nestled in my fallen apricot tree. So, I took a blanket and sleeping bag and created a cozy nest I'm very attracted to this nest, and can see you in it clearly there in the branches, sat quietly, and read through the chapter again, looking for attractions and insights. I read, "It is reasonable to participate in the process of tapping into nature's balanced intelligence. It is reasonable to learn to think with that intelligence since it evokes comfortable feelings and has the wisdom to avoid our runaway problems." I felt together with my apricot tree, like we were a ship sailing the seas together, all in one body. The branches tucked themselves all around me, and on every surface, little sprouts sprung out as apricots are wont to do, reaching for attractions, making new friends, and saying "Thank You" to the world around them. I felt myself with these little sprouts, reaching out in gratitude and friendship toward the tree, the sparkling frost, the sunshine, the fresh air, and to my own heart. I reflected on my sense of nature's essence as a form of spirit, affirming this most certainly; for me the spiritual nature of this essence lives fresh and present in the moment; and miracles of love happen everywhere, all the time, sometimes when we least expect them. I am continually amazed at how miracles of love spring up in the gloomiest, ickiest places, even in the dark, machine-like places far from where nature blooms and grows freely. Where there is a beating heart or a tiny growing edge of green, NIAL is there making love happen. This is what I love about life. This is why I am here." ^^^ I am quite a pessimist and have, in a way, given up on the place where I live - maybe because I was not careful enough to channel the my nature energy in the right directions because I have become too attached to the connection I feel with nature around me which can be very painful. I feel too drained by the environmental situation and all the issues I have followed over the years and in a way I would like to shut down and ignore what is happening. This course is interesting to me as it helps me gain different perspectives without giving up entirely. I can now see that this course is going to cater to many of my desires, beliefs and values. I tend to have a pretty negative outlook on the way our society functions, and wish to turn that negativity around. To me it seems as though we humans are missing the point of life and are destroying nature and pure consciousness in our wake. Since everything in the universe wants to be balanced and find equilibrium, it is strange that most people are unaware that something is very off balance. We can see this great unbalance in the numbers of Americans who suffer from endogenous anxiety and the amount of drugs and pollutants we put into our bodies and planet in order to escape form the world we live in. This demonstrates that society’s current belief systems and reliance on technology is probably not the answer. As one of my important subject areas pointed out - our planet cannot be saved with intellectual resources alone; we must have a personal connection to the natural world as well. Since most people are severely disconnected with nature, they are lacking this personal connection and feel entitled to controlling it instead. As our textbook said “all our pain, fear and stress are attractions telling us we don’t have sensory support in the moment”. Since we do not acknowledge these attractions, we loose touch with our natural course of life. If PNC has enabled students to bring environmental concepts into their consciousness that they have always felt but had trouble expressing, and has provided hope for the future, then I am excited to learn more because I have always felt that something is askew in the world but never understood what exactly. I would like to have hope for the future and see humanity turn around and embrace this beautiful, amazing world we live in. I feel as though communities are no longer united and we live in a individualistic society where personal relationships tend to be artificial. Therefore reading how participants in Dr. Cohen’s study were able to build a safe and loving community where most problems subsided such as loneliness, hostility and depression makes me believe that PNC might be the answer we are looking for. By emphasizing similarities instead of differences, communities will grow strong together and can reflect that larger faith and understanding that “I am not separate from the world around me but an integral part of it”.
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