PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Institute of Global Education
Special NGO consultant to the United Nations Social and Economic Council.
P. O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
360-378-6313
www.ecopsych.com
SPECIAL REPORT:
The Values, Properties and Significance of Nature Connected Attraction Experiences
Overview:
In contemporary society historically we have mostly learned to know and relate to Nature as a dirty, disease-ridden, brutish tooth and claw affair. Out of fear, society guides us to be safely separated from Nature. As previously mentioned, on average we learn to spend over 95% or our time indoors and over 99.99% of our thinking disconnected from Nature. That is less that twelve hours per lifetime.
How well could we read or write if we only spent twelve hours of our life practicing and supporting it?
People who validate their attraction experiences in natural areas have made a startling discovery. They find monumental rejuvenation, restoration and peace in these reconnections. Through a newly researched nature reconnecting process, this nurturance of our psyche and soul by Nature is readily available, backyard or back country.
We desperately need sensory reconnections with nature if we are to make headway with the many problems that arise from our disconnection and its discontents.
Anybody can learn and teach how to increasingly strengthen our conscious sensory connections to attractions in nature and thereby contribute significant benefits to themselves, society and the environment.
The Report:
THE BENEFITS OF NATURE CONNECTED ATTRACTION EXPERIENCES
Participants who connect with their attractions in local natural areas report the following benefits from this process.
NOTE: On a scale of 1-10 you may register the importance you attach to the findings reported below. In the indicator that follows each statement identify what you think is the significance of the statement.
Benefits identified:
1. An increase in being known as an interesting person and an attraction to other people who are responsibly enjoying a natural area.
..........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
2. An increased sense of holding life, sensuous relationships and survival in common with nature and humanity...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
3. A desire to share with others the joy and wonders found when in contact with attractions in natural areas...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
4. A reduction in personal stress and/or mental disturbance with regard to personal or professional problems...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
5. An increased feeling of soul, wholeness and belonging to something worthwhile...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
6. An increase in relating to attractiveness in people with whom participants have differences and an increased immunity to being vulnerable to these differences...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
7. Greater awareness and distaste for pollutants, garbage and other activities that deteriorate natural areas...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
8. An increased desire to live more in balance and sustainability with the environment and people...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
9. A spirit, holiness or belonging that extends beyond people...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
10. A greater sense of confidence and self-esteem, that they and others have been empowered to do something that makes a significant contribution...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
11. A greater connection with history and hope for the future...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
12. An observed reduction in physical and mental pain in themselves and others...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
13. An increased feeling of their true self as a purer, more beautiful being and finding this to be true of other people and species, too...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
14. A strong sense of nature being a mirror and manifestation of their deeper feelings and the divine...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
15. A pleasing increase in sensitivity, trust and respect for all forms of life, including human life...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
16. An increased feeling of finding and embracing something unifying and lasting that we hold in common with others of different views and backgrounds...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
17. An added trust in seeking information from immediate attraction moments with natural areas and/or people...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
18 The means to thoughtfully obtain non-verbal information from nature that beneficially modifies destructive stories we carry...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
19. An added, easily accessible source of higher power for recovery and increasing spirit and wellness...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
20. A feeling of being intimately involved with a cruelly misunderstood but easily accessible perfection in Nature that feels welcoming, familiar and intelligent...........1. .....2 ......3.......4........5........6........7........8........9......10
..........no importance.........somewhat important............very important
Challenges
1. We have asked many people to think of a major personal, social or global problem they were aware of. Most people agreed that if the 20 benefits above were applied to that problem it would help them and others resolve it.
2. With the consent of an accomplished typist, two letters were interchanged on the keyboard of her typewriter . A year later she still mistakenly typed the letters incorrectly whenever she was not thinking about the change, . She concluded that although we often know what should be done, our thinking, unknowingly, is carried along bonded to old ways that often continue our troubles. To release our destructive bonds we must reattach them to new, responsible rewards
"I know what I read here holds benefits for me and makes perfect sense. I also know my history. I'll not become involved in it until I'm forced to. What has so stupidly addicted me to my apathy and its discontents?
- Peter Sams
Conclusion
If you find that part of you recognizes the importance of the benefits reported above, you are a rare, valuable Nine Leg Thinker as described on the "Secrets of Nature Trail," We dedicate ourselves to help you to increase your knowledge, power and skills. Why? Because uniquely alive in you is the ability to make a vital contribution to social and environmental sanity, one that will provide you with greater satisfactions and is sorely needed to help people solve unsolveable problems.
You will enjoy exploring online the "Secrets of Nature Trail,"
There is also additional information via the
- links at the bottom of this page
- our Homepage Contents.
NOTE:
A big difference exists between a person who has only memorized an automobile driver's instruction manual and a person who, in addition has actually driven a car.A similar difference exists between just reading the articles on this website and actually participating in a course where you do nature connecting activities and share the results with others who also do them. There is an important extra benefit in the NSTP course process. You learn to learn from and unify with other people worldwide, as well as nature.
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