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Project NatureConnect
Institute of Global Education
Organic Psychology
Special
NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council
Practical distance learning to increase person/planet well being.
| SYNOPSIS: This field report describes a funded Mother Earth sensory science in action. It samples an organic psychology tool that helps us improve health wellness and counseling by enabling our thinking and feeling to safely tap into the nature's grace, balance and restorative powers. Participants benefit from and strengthen their inborn love of nature as they master alternative therapist coaching, stress release management and holistic spiritual psychology. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature Supportive Degrees, Career Training Courses and Jobs On Line Project NatureConnect offers nature-centered distant learning that enables you to add the benefits of nature-connecting methods and credentials to your degree program and/or your skills, interests and hobbies. We honor your prior training and life experience by providing grants and equivalent education credit for it. You may take accredited or professional CEU coursework and/or obtain a Nature-Connected Degree or Certificate in most disciplines or personal interests. A partial subject list is located at the bottom of this page.
ARTICLE: FIELD REPORT: an on line program participant, shares her results from a nature-connecting activity. IN BALANCE WITH EARTH: THE LIFE SPIRIT OF OBTAINING CONSENT OR PERMISSION TO VISIT A NATURAL AREA I know my inherent sensitivities to natural attractions are alive and well because I could enjoyably sense and feel the play between the young crows making a racket and my dog racing toward them even though they were high on the soccer net. They played along and flew away as if in great danger. It is a rather new idea to view our attractions as permission and invitations given by nature. We talk about Earth alive but this perception states that in each particular attraction, the being or community is actually greeting the particular person who has the attraction to it. I need to live with this a bit. The activity called "In Balance with Earth". This activity helps us discover immediate positive outcomes from treating the Earth community fairly, with respect, as a mother, an equal or as a friend rather than as something to further abuse or exploit. This can than be applied to all beings including ourselves. 1. Notice how you feel now and then go to somewhere natural you like and _notice_ a strong attraction to something natural. Yes, I see this is the first ability we must learn to recognize and honor. Somehow even though I feel attracted, I feel I ignore its importance even on days when I am taking time for nature. (My nature connected story tells me, "If you attended to all you're attractions, you'd be standing still. You're making too much of this.) I want to answer "it is a big deal, our wisest love is calling. I need to practice this step, the first skill in respecting Earth. 2. Thank the natural attraction for being there for you and the rewarding feeling you are experiencing. Yikes, skill number 2: thank you. When I greet my attraction is it with the enthusiasm that I feel and express upon a visit from a good friend. Still, what I notice is that I do not consciously spontaneously ask permission or thank it for the feeling. 3. Decide that you are going to obtain its consent or permission to visit with it. 4. Ask this thing to give its consent for you to be with it. After several failed attempts I was determined to do this with the celery, parsley and mint I wanted to plant in a new herb garden in a barren sun spot of our front yard. I sat down quiet for several seconds. 5. I noticed the mint especially was drooping and I felt their permission and urgency to get going. Though it was near dark, I was focused to revive everyone in the soil. It was amazing how one planting flowed to the next. It seemed the former plants easily gave way to the newcomers and designs arose naturally. I even rescued and add the chives that were suffering under a tree bench in the back. It seemed the whole area was rejoicing at the new community. But it was the smells--the healthy, healing fresh smells of thyme and sage, sweet grass and all these new members that made me feel this small footage of Earth was again happy. I had a grateful heart. 6. Again, I did not thank them consciously until my tools were away when I remembered. I want to get this nonverbal sensing into my verbal world so I will have more wholeness and integrity. I think in life I also leave a lot of gratitude to people on a nonverbal level. 7. I did notice, a subtle difference after my "sit". Gently the relationship became real, like our hearts met or as Nick said "we found each other..and moved...in what felt like companionship." I think, Mike, it is "reasonable and helpful" to greet, gain permission and thank. I want to increase this habit. I like the idea that the "the natural world uses "bio-logic." That's a good example of reinventing a word that fit our times and the corrective attitude we need. The minute one says biologic, the mind refers to nature. I believe in this old-wisdom stored in our cells, this multi sensory ability to heed each moment's natural conditions and attractions. I believe it is a invaluable gift bestowed us from our ancestors with trust. I thank Mike Cohen's Webstring Learning Model for so clearly guiding us to "the reasonableness of discovering, validating and respecting our natural sensory brain and its attraction connections to nature's wisdom, to part of creation's higher power." Act
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Organic Psychology by doing it. http://www.ecopsych.comAchieve a Degree or Certificate to strengthen your professional interests, or your hobbies or pastimes, by connecting them with nature. Implement your strongest hopes as you increase personal and global well being. Topics, subjects or leisure pursuits can include those listed below or other areas of interest: |
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