TOPIC: Increase the integral
health and welfare of all
...Ph.D. Online
ECHN: The Whole Life Art and Science of
Educating
Counseling and
Healing With Nature
Disconnection breeds Discontent
Our
disconnection of our thoughts and feelings from our life-giving
contact
with nature triggers our natural senses to register a disturbance. This
disturbance alerts us that we have been disconnected from our support
by the wisdom of Organism
Earth and its integrity. For example, over
time, a lack of contact with
water
energizes one of our natural sensory attractions to water, our sense of
thirst,
into our awareness. We reasonably respond to this feeling
by drinking
water. Our
appropriate action satisfies us. We feel fulfilled and happy from
it. Again, the
same thing is true for over 50
additional natural senses that
enable us to register and eco-intelligently
relate to the world.
As
demonstrated by a quiet walk in a natural area, the grace of
nature's flow not only corrects, restores and balances life in the
natural area. While in contact with it, it also does the same
with our corrupted thoughts,
feelings and spirit.
We
suffer most or our personal, social and environmental disorders because
Industrial Society has indoctrinated us to live extremely
nature-disconnected lives.
When
we don't have nurturing contact with nature's
powerful recycling and renewing properties, the imperfections of our
substitutes
for them
leave our natural senses feeling unfulfilled. This creates in us a
natural sensation of wanting.
Again,
wanting signals that
our psyche is aware that the balanced and healing wholeness of
life is missing and that it needs it. Inherently, our psyche craves the
sanity and survival values of nature's fulfilling
equilibrium.
When
we want there is never
enough.
We come to feel that we are not
enough
because we
can't make
ourselves feel full, complete, happy and giving. Our loss of our
natural
sensory sanity makes us become greedy,
stressed and unbalanced. These disorders deteriorate
our well-being.
"Until mankind can extend the
circle of his compassion to include all living things, he will never,
himself, know peace."
-Albert
Schweitzer,
Nobel Peace Prize, l950
The
paragraphs, above, explain why even a short quiet walk in the park
helps us feel renewed. The visit is a healing re-creation and
reconnection of our psyche with its origins in nature.
It is not
just "recreation," or "an escape," or "a break from real life".
Rather, it is an authentic sensor connection to our natural
essence.
As
we habitually live, work and play in
excessively separated
ways
from nature's regenerative natural attraction flow in natural areas, we
remove our
thinking and feeling from the whole-life wisdom of Mother Earth.
To
decrease our injurious dualistic
separation, backyard
or backcountry, the accredited
Ecopsychology
science
of Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature (ECHN), enables our
thinking to, at will, make genuine, conscious, sensory
connections with nature's restorative flow through
and around us. Like a new Copernican revolution, the connections give
our psyche nature's powers; they
beneficially help us think, feel and relate like nature's balanced
perfection works.
The
ability to apply ECHN is an important and
teachable part of our daily lives. It helps us increase the integral
health and welfare of all, including the nature of our living
planet.
"If
a child in its mother's womb received an injection that addicted
it to attack its mother, the lethal effects to mother and child
would be obvious.
Similarly, as adults, our destructive addictions to exploiting
and conquering mother nature, in and around us, make us attack and
deteriorate the dance of our mother
planet, Earth, and ourselves as dancers.
Identifying
this problem is not enough. We must also learn
how to make genuine sensory contact with nature's
corrective powers and speak from them. They best
enable us
to recycle and transform
our corrupt addictions into mutually supportive
relationships with Earth and each other."
-
Michael J. Cohen
The Value of Non-Literate
Wisdom
We
are born with the natural
ability to
sense
and feel how nature's global flow supports the purity of life in
balance, in and around us.
At
birth and thereafter, Industrial
Society places tinted and warped, nature-conquering glasses over our
eyes. To our
loss, they hurtfully taint our perceptions and thinking about how
nature works and benefits us. This distortion twists our thinking and
deteriorates our
well-being. In turn, we deteriorate our society and the environment.
The
mission of this ECHN website is to empower
each visitor to help nature remove the duality
produced by the
distorted tinting and warp
in our glasses. ECHN enables us to see and act from the clear
truth of how we have been deceived and how nature's ways maintain
our
health and welfare. In addition, it gives us the ability to use
nature's wellness and recycling powers to correct our misguided
thoughts, feelings and spirituality.
"All chidren are born
geniuses. 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiflty, inadvertently,
degeniused by grown ups."
-Buckminster Fuller
Nature
is wise, but seldom literate. Unlike us, plants, animals and minerals
neither hear, read, write nor tell stories with words and other
symbols. In authentic nature, books, telephones and television are
unknown.
Our
words and stories are
abstracts. They are shortcuts we use to know/label/identify the real
natural world. For example, the word "tree" and a real Tree
are two entirely
different things. The
word "tree," as it appears on this
screen, is a representation. It does not need air, water,
food, soil and supportive
relationships to exist and it does not provide them for others. In
contrast, a real tree cannot
exist without these relationships. Similarly, we can't eat the
written word
"apple" and have it satisfy or nourish us. We also can't breathe a
dollar
bill.
We
can consciously feel and respond to the intelligence of our natural
sensation of thirst without
knowing how to read, write or spell it.
"My fake flowers died because in my imagination I forgot to water them."
-
Anonymous
Although
only 10 percent of our mentality registers and relates to the world in
literate-abstract ways, we
are trained and attached
to think,
feel and act mostly through the
words and symbols of literacy. This is un-whole and detrimental.
Literacy
consists of stories that simply describe, but also omit,
the natural attraction ability of nature to work its restorative magic
in non-literate ways. They don't include nature's ability to compost,
recycle and transform our destructive ways into balanced relationships
with the Web-of-Life and each other.
To
our loss, our words are
usually imaginary, exploitive
or
half-truth stories about the natural world. They are media, not reality. They seldom
nurture our psyche
with authentic nature's renewing powers because they are just words and
stories. They are not
nature's natural attraction eons of life-supportive relationships and
self-correcting essence.
Sensory
vs Story Ways of Knowing and
Relating
Nature
designed almost 90
percent of our mentality to
register and relate to the
world through non-literate natural attraction sensitivities,
as do
all other members of the nature's plant, animal and mineral
communities. Our
sensory way of knowing is one that we biologically inherit. It is our
unadulterated mind, a
seamless continuum of nature's regenerative and purifying
intelligence. This sensate-feeling way of knowing is
sometimes referred to as our "Mammalian" or "Horse" Brain," or the "Old
Brain." It is the attraction/love that a dog or cat experiences, how
they know and relate to the world, including us.
In
contrast, only 10 percent of our natural mentality can know and think
with
abstract word and number stories or images. This is sometimes called
our
"Neocortex" or
"New Brain."
Some
individuals define our New Brain literate thinking functions as
"intelligence."
This
suggests that the beauty of the natural attraction, pre-literate,
balanced and
self-corrective life ways of the global
web-of-life community and its eons is non-intelligent or
"stupid." Is it really? If so, how does it produce its purity, paradise
and
unique perfection? To date, our intelligence can't even produce
milk.
Our
nature-disconnected, abstract, New Brain stories seldom
gratify or inform us
in lasting and healing connectedness, as does
the authentic Old Brain natural
attraction way
that
nature works.
"I
thank God for beginning this world with the seed of natural attraction
and trusting the seed's self-organizing desire to grow attractive
relationships."
- Project NatureConnect Student
(edited)
Power
in Non-Literacy
The
essence of nature is the attraction flow of its conscious, satisfying
and nurturing, non-literate,
natural wisdom.
Wordlessly,
the flow attractively supports, balances, and
restores vigor and aliveness everywhere in every moment, as it has over
the eons. This is super-intelligent behavior if life in balance
is important.
We
often attach labels to
nature's purifying flow:
"Reiki," "Chi," "Love," "Tao," "Natural Attraction," "God." However,
it is the authentic restorative powers
of nature's flow
through our mind, body and psyche, not
just our labels and stories, that
renew, recycle
and heal what ails us.
Life
supports itself through wordless
attraction relationships, not
arguments or theories about these relationships. ENROLL
NOW
"My
client had been in a motor vehicle accident and had multiple injuries
that prevented her from getting out and about. She was in chronic
pain and was having severe anxiety attacks.
There
was a nice potted plant in her living room (I think it was a
Dieffenbachia, but I'm not sure). I described how we are in a
mutually-supportive
role with plants -- they provide us with oxygen and we provide them
with CO2. I suggested that when she was feeling anxious she
should breathe with the plant, exchanging gasses and and recognize that
they
were being mutually supportive. As she did so, I could see
her visibly relaxing. Within a few minutes she reported that her
anxiety was gone and her pain was somewhat reduced.
Over
the next few weeks she successfully used this technique whenever she
was anxious. As her physical abilities improved she began
spending time in the garden and then began gardening from her
wheelchair. Her anxiety was completely controlled without
medication.
I
don't know what she bonded to, but she developed a sense that the plant
(and later her garden) was her friend and that they were in a mutually
supportive relationship. This feeling was able to help her
overcome her anxiety."
John Scull, Ph.D. Neuropsychologist
"Through ECHN, the
fictional,
but balanced and restorative "Pandora-Na'vi" way of relating, as
portrayed in James
Cameron's AVATAR
film, is
aproachable in
reality."
Anonymous Program
Participant
Bonding
to Bias
It
is
worth repeating that the immediate ways of nature's renewing
natural attraction flow produce
nature's optimums of
life, diversity and balance.
It is
worth repeating that the
flow accomplishes this feat
without
producing garbage or pollution or our abusiveness, disorders,
isolation
and war.
We
endure and produce great problems
because, in early childhood, we
addictively bond our natural attraction senses and thinking to the bias
of our
society's
nature-conquering stories. At home and school
we disconnect our psyche from the
healing powers of nature's
flow. Our thinking becomes
addicted to
distortions and we produce many problems.
We
seldom learn, and often resist, how
to let nature genuinely touch,
no
less embrace
or
recycle, the nature-disconnected, wounded, destructive and
polluted ways that we often learn to think and feel.
A
Powerful Antidote
The
natural attraction process of Educating, Counseling and Healing with
Nature (ECHN) helps
us remedy our loss of nature's renewing grace in our senses, thinking
and feeling. It enables us to scientifically discover, sense and feel
who
we are with
respect to the whole of life and its wellness.
ECHN
empowers us, moment
by moment,
to let conscious sensory contact
with
nature's purifying flow satisfy and
strengthen our body, mind and spirit. It is an integral ecology, a
natural attraction-based
psychology that helps us enjoy our
satisfactions in ways that satisfy and sustain all of the natural
world while reversing fraud or corruption. It helps
us increase our happiness reasonably, in a good way, meaning, "To the
benefit of
all."
"The
more that the unifying touch of nature helps us think and feel in
balance, the more the world enjoys the peace
of well-being."
-
Michael J. Cohen
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