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Does nature have restorative and regenerative healing powers?
If not, how then how does nature create and sustain its purity, balance and peace along with its optimums of diversity and life without producing any garbage?
Isn't humanity part of nature?
The core of the science this book teaches acknowledges that although we and our psyche live indoor lives, separated from nature, we and our psyche are inherently part of nature. This means that the undeniable, purifying, self-healing and recycling powers found in natural systems help us heal our injured psyche and thinking when we genuinely reconnect them with authentic nature so they are once again united.
Although contemporary thinking often scoffs at this notion, others applaud the beneficial results this significant science produces. It is important to keep in mind that the wellness of
our thinking determines our health, relationships and destiny.
Doesn't the the difference between the state of the unadulterated natural world and that of industrial society clearly show that while we suffer from warped thinking and relationships, unadulterated nature creates and sustains its own perfection that we inherit as part of nature at birth?
Think for yourself. Explain reasonably to yourself the hundreds of substantiated findings, similar to those listed below, with respect to our relationship with natural systems*.
People help rejuvenate and improve their lives by having a pet, going for a hike, keeping a garden, or vacationing in a beautiful place.
Surgical patients have shorter hospitalizations, less need for pain medications, and fewer complaints about discomfort when they have hospital windows that overlook trees rather than brick walls.
Prisoners with cells that provided views of rolling landscapes were found to make fewer sick calls than inmates whose cell windows overlooked prison courtyards.
Pets have positive effects on patients with dementia. Even patients with impaired mental abilities are able to connect with cats or dogs.
Contemporary people who live in environments that are more natural, live longer.
Post-traumatic stress victims recover by connecting in nature to "something larger than themselves." in nature.
Nature-centered people and cultures seldom display or cause the problems that undermine industrial society.
*Irvine, K and Warber, S (2002). "Greening Healthcare: Practicing as if the Natural Environment Really Mattered" reviewed in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine September/October 2002 (Volume 8, Number 5).
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