Sociological Significance
There are similarities between you having good experiences in nature and the following incident. Do your recognize them? If you do, no matter your age, you may walk nature's path to a fulfilling livelihood, self-improvement and responsible relationships.
"In Scotland, as was their ancient custom, farmers were overturning hay bales to exterminate the rats that lived beneath them.
A trio of rats tried to flee but, unlike the other fleeing rats, these three were attracted to staying closely together which limited their ability to escape. This attracted the farmers.
Upon investigation, they found that the middle rat of the three was blind, its companions were guiding it to safety while risking their own.
Deeply moved, the farmers felt attracted to sparing the lives of these rats. Instead of killing them, in awe and unity they respected them."
ASK YOURSELF THIS IMPORTANT QUESTION:
Do you recognize that the farmers and the rats benefited from natural attractions they fulfilled?
DOES THIS MAKE SENSE TO YOU?
Our research reports show that, as the incident demonstrates, people can connect the attraction energies in themselves with attraction energies in nature and positive change results.
Through special sensory nature activities that you can use, distribute and teach, people improve their lives by using this connecting process in parks, wildlife sanctuaries or even with potted plants.
Through the activities, as with the farmers, a powerful, balancing unifier comes into play that has healing properties. This unifier is dormant in our lives simply because we live excessively disconnected from nature.
HERE'S WHAT IS NEW:
Research over the past 22 years has recently produced a powerful reconnecting process that consists of 124 sensory nature activities.
The process in each of these activities brings natural attractions into our awareness. It produces the supportive wellness, balance and environmental respect that the farmers enjoyed.
You can easily use, teach and distribute the process in your community as a part or full time livelihood.
HERE'S WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT:
In the farmers/rats incident the farmers discovered that rats had natural attractions to each other that produced responsible behavior. This attracted the farmers to spare the rats' lives.
The incident is but one of many that demonstrate in nature, including human nature, natural attractions support life, balance and unity.
This web site offers a process that helps you tap into the power of natural attractions.
You may learn how to improve the wellness of your relationships with yourself, others and Earth, and teach this process to others, too.
RELATIONSHIPS WITH NATURE
Are you still part of nature? Our society teaches us to be separate from the natural environment. On average, we learn to spend less than 12 of our 540,000 hours per lifetime in unmediated, conscious connection to nature. We spend our remaining hours in mental unawareness of nature's wisdom, balance and beauty.
That is unnatural.
Our estrangement from nature deprives us of nature's normal nurturance of our inner nature and spirit, that the farmers enjoyed. This helps explain why nature connected people(s) do not display our runaway garbage, stress, and abuse of substances, people and the environment. Like the farmers and rats, their thinking and relationships are nurtured by nature's balances.
We grow up having little conscious contact with the powerful natural energies for support, unity and balance that the farmers and the rats enjoyed. Without being conscious of these energies, we can not think or act with their balanced wisdom.
OUR NATURAL ATTRIBUTES:
Does your love for nature have unifying powers?
Do you remember, in 1989, when two whales, caught in the ice in Alaska, broke through the Iron Curtain? To save the whales, opposing nations united. So did labor and industry, corporations and environmentalists, spiritualists and scientists. Close to a billion dollars was spent to save two whales.
Does your love for nature have personal healing powers?
Consider again what people experienced through conscious sensory contact with nature as expressed in surveys. They show that sensory connection with nature nurtured wellness at every level. It made them better humans.
WHAT BASIC ELEMENT ARE WE MISSING?
Our society teaches us to conquer nature within and around us. We learn to ignore the basic element of relating to the natural environment and each other. It is this:
Thoughtful, shared, sensory connections with attractions in nature improve our thinking, relationships and spirit.
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The Basic Element Thoughtful, shared, sensory connections with attractions in nature improve our thinking, relationships and spirit.
NOTE: All the methods and materials on this site originate from participation in the basic element and are found in the book Reconnecting With Nature: finding wellness thorough restoring your bond with the Earth. |
What you can do:The Orientation Course, below, responds to 32 critical life relationship questions. They are answered by enabling you to enjoy and then share online ten authentic, sensory, Nature connected attraction experiences over a 12 day to 5-week period.
Sign the Earth Day Petition for Peace on Earth Through Peace With Earth and put to use the Earth Day Activity
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THE BEST WAY TO ENJOY AND TEACH SELF-EVIDENT ATTRACTION EXPERIENCES IS THE NATURAL SYSTEMS THINKING PROCESS:
ORIENTATION COURSE: Psychological
Elements of Global Citizenship An exciting, inexpensive ($35) blend of shared, online activity, information and training with credit optional. Learn by doing. Become a practitioner anywhere. This is a free course if it meets your needs, a transferable prerequisite for additional courses, degrees and participation. The course is our best, most complete and useful way to help nature restore the good nature of humanity in contemporary society. It opens new vistas in academics, counseling, careers, spirit and wellness, vistas that recycle and purify destructive thinking. Optional Credit $42.00
READ AND TEACH THIS ANTIDOTE FOR APATHY Einstein's World: Natural Attractions, Intelligences and Sanity A non-fiction, metaphor, book and reading course. It helps you reverse nature disconnection disorders from your home. You can take it, teach it and be paid, too. Book $15.00, Course $20.00. Optional Credit $42.00
EXPLORE THE PROCESS FREE: Our Exploratory Course online enables you to sample the Natural Systems Thinking Process to learn, first hand, its thrust and benefits. |
 APPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director send email nature@interisland.net
PLEASE NOTE:
A GIFT FOR YOU
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