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SELF-DISCOVERY INVENTORY
Continued from Opening
Page
During
the next six minutes on this page new professional and personal understandings
will enable you to further your deeper hopes, ideals and dreams.
First,
complete this inventory regarding valid experiences in Nature.
THE EXPERIENCES:
-had a good experience in nature
that made you feel happier to be alive?
-longed for a livelihood that
further contributed to personal and global balance rather than
exploited Earth and people?
-noticed that disorders subside
and stress fades in Nature?
-loved a pet, plant or place
that made life more worthwhile?
- treasured a rock, or totem
that helped you through troubled times?
- felt greater love for a person
or people while in a natural area? Noticed that it is easier
to build and sustain relationships there?
- felt as drawn to Mother Earth
as you would a caring human parent that you loved?
- noticed that in nature you
can think more clearly?
- had strong sensations about
connections between yourself and nature or earth that you know
are real but you can't easily explain?
- felt angry or sad about how
we injure or destroy the natural environment and/or its people
and diversity?
- noticed that counseling,
education and healing are more effective when they include quality
time in natural areas?
- read the
scientific studies that document how reconnecting ourselves to
our psychological and biological origins in Nature has beneficial
learning, healing, and environmental effects?
- can you remember
a good experience you had in Nature? What was it?
PLEASE PROCEED WITH THIS
INVENTORY:
Below are statements regarding
the Nature experiences listed above, along with reference numbers
to further information. Simply check the statements that seem
right to you:
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A. Some of the experiences, above, could have been enjoyed
by children or adults no matter their backgrounds .
( ..)
B. People are part of Nature and vice versa;
natural systems flow within, around and through us .
( ..)
C. Special training, books, or courses were not necessarily
needed in order for people to enjoy many of the experiences above.
For the most part, something within themselves and Nature connected
and produced the experience and its value .
( ..)
D. Most of the experiences make good sense and therefore
reflect the presence of an intelligence or wisdom .
( ..)
E. Origins of humanity's biology, psychology and spirit
along with inherent support for them, can be found in Nature
within and around us .
( ..)
F. On average, contemporary people learn to spend less
than one one thousandth of one percent (.001%) of their life
in tune with (in full conscious sensory contact with) natural
areas. We spend over 95% of our time indoors. .
( ..)
G. The most destructive, lasting problems that face us
(including war, environmental degradation, mental health, loneliness
and excessive stress/violence/conflict,) are seldom caused or
suffered by intact natural systems or nature connected people(s)
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( ..)
H. If disconnecting ourselves from our inherent sensory
nurturance in Nature destructively stresses our 53 natural senses,
then genuinely reconnecting these senses with nature helps us
constructively restore our inner peace and integrity .
( ..)
I. If disconnected, frustrated natural senses cannot find
responsible fulfillment they will be be open and vulnerable to
irresponsible fulfillment .
( ..)
J. A readily available, backyard or back country, nature-reconnecting
process can improve most professions and relationships by becoming
a component of them .
( ..)
K. People
who master, use and teach a sensory nature reconnecting process
have improved their happiness, income, occupation, marriage,
family, business, credibility, and global citizenship .
( ..)
L. Due to industrial society's runaway desire to economically
and socially "progress" by exploiting Nature, people
who attempt to protect natural systems around and within them
are sometimes prejudicially demeaned as "fuzzy thinkers,
tree huggers, earth muffins, immature, flakes, environmentalists,
hippies, obstructionists, etc. "
( ..)
M. SUMMARY: Nurture your felt love for Nature. Never deny
it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty
and diversity of Nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our
excessive disconnection from this love produces our hurt, greed
and destructiveness to ourselves and Nature. To regain our integrity
we must learn how to engage in an easily accessable process,
one that scientifically reconnects us to that love and restores
its peaceful voice in our thoughts and soul, for we don't fight
to save what we don't love .
Evaluation:
Four of
your six minutes are up.
Did any statements above open
a vista for you?
Forty years of research and
experience in 86 different natural systems shows each of the statements
above is usually true and can be true for you. Although our disconnection from Nature often
suppresses this truth from our thinking, a unique ecopsychology process
that enables us to genuinely reconnect with Nature frees that
truth back into our consciousness, relationships and spirit.
This process can provide a rewarding part or full time career,
job or avocation.
To explore the statements of
interest to you, select the reference number(s) in the left column
or below that correspond to the numbers that follow each statement.
Most of them may also be found via #8.
By far the best way to master,
live and teach each
statement's truth, is to
experience it by taking our online Orientation
Course (1)
Now, For your last two minutes:
Read this short
article "A Critical Move: The secret to fulfilling
your deeper ideals."
Additional
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"As part of Nature, to
preserve species, environments and our integrity we need to learn
and teach a tool, a scientific process that enables us to rejuvenate
our inherent love of nature. The nature reconnecting, program
on this website provides that tool."
SUMMARY: Does This Feel Familiar?
As a child, instinctively,
like most children, I felt more alive, free and happier in a
natural area than indoors. More intelligent, too.
As my friends and I grew up
we were surrounded by and educated into the indoor world of contemporary
society. Leaving little room for Nature, it secretly detached
our psyche from its biological and psychological origins and
spirit in nature's joy, intelligence and balance.
To fill this sensory void,
unknowingly we emotionally attached to thinking in society's
indoor ways. Unfortunately, these included the destructive trespasses
of nature and people by our scientific, economic and spiritual
dogma.
The indoor world assured me
that people only felt and related better in nature because in
nature they escaped from reality. Reality was the challenges
of home, work, and school. Escaping to nature was "recreation,"
a vacation. My theme song became "I owe, I owe, so off to
work I go."
Thirty-five years of counseling
and educational research in natural areas taught me a different
story, one of re-creation. I designed and lived in settings similar
to the "Survivor" TV series except that our goal was
not to competetively scheme and conquer and thereby win a million
dollars. Rather it was to learn to sustainably live in balance
with people and the environment. I explored and discovered how
to think and relate in ways that free our psyche from the grip
of the indoor world's invasiveness and discontents. When vacation
time arrived, nobody wanted to go home. We were home.
I have researched and packaged
a readily accessable, desparately needed, nature-connected, psychological
science. Backyared or backcountry, it restores people to their
fullness, their natural integrity and deeper ideals. My internationally
recognized Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) enables people
and the environment to co-create and grow into balance. It lets
the unifying strands
of the web of life itself help
us rejuvenate the sensory truths, honesty and loves we are born
with as part of the global life community. It is lasting because
it is rewarding personally and professionally so it sustains
itself.
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- Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D.
Director,
Department of Integrated Ecology, Institute of Global Education
...Chair, Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated
Ecology, Greenwich University
...Adjunct Faculty, Portland
State University, Extended Studies
...Faculty, International
University of Professional Studies.
...Recipient of the 1994
Distinguished World Citizen Award
...Prize winning author
of Reconnecting With Nature books.
This site is
the home of:
Psychological
Elements of Global Citizenship: a short, online, orientation course for environmentally
sound personal growth and social justice Learn the Art and Science of thinking in balance with
nature.
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Interactive
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Learn about
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The Natural Systems Thinking
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Environmentally sound personal growth and social justice
APPLIED
ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION
Education
as if Planet Earth mattered
The Millennium/Earthday
Wellness and Unity Activity: "In
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The EC0
IQ test;
check out
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EARTH DAY
ACTIVITY: LET
EARTH SPEAK A
hands-on, interactive, self-discovery highlight
The Globally
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with nature's wisdom.
WEBSTRINGS:
The nature
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through its attraction strands within and around us.
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Rehabilitation Year:
an antidote for the environmentally desensitized thinking that
produces our unsolveable problems.
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