TOPIC: We are Looking at Nature Through Distorted Eyeglasses
ECHN: The Whole Life Art and Science of Educating
Counseling and
Healing With Nature
"Most
people know that we live on the surface of Planet Earth. But do we?"
-
Reconnecting With Nature
Today,
we unnecessarily suffer dysfunction and pain because contemporary educators
psychologists and health professionals unknowingly teach us
an extremely dangerous distortion that disconnects us from nature's
supportive and healing ways.
As
children, from the time we first begin to talk we obtain adoring
rewards (social approval, food, shelter, water, air, light, love,
community, place, trust) that inextricably socialize us - that is,
emotionally bond us during childhood- to destructively
excessive parts of industrial society and its leaders.
At
an early age, like a bad habit,
whenever we think or feel, what first
comes to our mind is the McBurgered, conditioned,
nature-disconnected, "exploit and profit"
warp we have learned that shapes our thinking. We learn to register our
excessive tendencies as being normal, progress and economic
growth.
As
if we are looking through distorted eyeglasses, our leaders' distortion
makes us perceive in ways that produce much stress and conflict. Their
falsehood says that we live on
the surface of Planet Earth while, from
direct sensory experience, the wisdom of our deeper sensory selves
instinctively knows full well that we don't.
Troubles
arise when we learn to discount the truth and value of our personal
senses and experience. In this case, our natural senses of color,
motion,
distance,
consciousness, gravity, light, direction, texture and reason register
that we
live in the Earth, 300
miles below its atmosphere,
beneath its air, clouds, rain, snow, tree tops and flying creatures
above our
head. Isn't this
experience true for you? If so, why does it usually feel uneasy,
foreign or strange to say "I live in the Earth" or
"We/humanity live in, not on, the Earth? We are Earthlings."
We
think and feel conflicted because, moment by moment, our false story
separates our mind and heart from what we sense to be true. We learn to
deny the truth we experience from direct, sensory contact with our
nurturing origins in the grace
and balance of the web of life and its renewing powers.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem. BEGIN HERE
How can we
truly know who we are in our natural
relationship with life if the McBurgering bias
of our story of who
we are
gently, but powerfully,
misleads and exploits us?
Our
industrial lives are dancing to the tune of a malicious fiddler. We can
see and feel how the dance hurts Earth and us. Our thinking has been
unable to change this situation because our mentality and psyche remain
bonded to misguided information from the fiddler.
"Well-being
always increases when our stories tell us the whole truth."
- Anonymous
Do the observations, above,
make sense to you? Are they attractive? Call
360-378-6313. BEGIN HERE
When
we learn to prejudicially think stories about life that undermine
the attractive reality that we register when we experience nature's
balance and beauty,
our
psyche becomes conflicted and misled. This conflict excessively
stresses and harms us. We become
disturbed. Worst of all, we may learn to think that this disturbance is
a normal
part
of life, something like "God places us in our conflicts so that we can
learn from
the
experience."
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
The
momentous question that rocks us is this: do we simply
live on
the
Earth, or is our mind, body and spirit in and part of Earth's web
of life community?
This
is monumental.
Earth
is the biological origin and nurturing source of life as we
know it here. Our
Planet's nature is an
essential
unifying root of our thoughts, feelings and survival.
We
become
troubled and we create trouble when, from birth on, we are conflicted
or misled about this
relationship:
It makes our thoughts and
feelings lose contact with who
we really are and what and where we really are.
It makes us
dependent upon the nature-disconnected
and
exploitive "McBurger" stories of Industrial Society
that often cause, rather than resolve, problems.
Our
discord about life, and our life, stresses the depth of our natural
senses of place, trust,
community and belonging
as well as 49 additional
natural
senses. In Industrial Society, most of these senses may only express
themselves
in the safety of social work,
counseling or therapy.
Our
stressed natural senses
undermine the delight and joy of our intact mind body and spirit.
Stress erodes the integrity of whole social and environmental
relationships.
It produces the
discomforts of anxiety, depression and panic.
We feel ungrounded,
uncentered vulnerable or abandoned.
We lose our natural
negotiating
skills and can't enjoy our true ecopsychological self.
Too
often, this is how we "normally" experience ourselves.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem. BEGIN HERE
The
person-planet clash in our thinking is secretly destructive. It
troubles our natural senses and they deteriorate. Confused
and disoriented, we take
this discord for granted because we see it all around us most of the
time.
To
reverse our troubles, from our
place in the cosmos we need
familiarity,
strength and support, not
stress.
To
feel grounded, we need contact
with the healing
purity of
nature's regenerative ways to help us solve the cancer of our runaway
problems.
Our
major problem is that due to our learned prejudice
against nature, we deny that contemporary thinking and our
teachers are almost entirely disconnected from the self-correcting
power of nature's
renewing energies.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this
problem. BEGIN HERE
Do
the observations, above,
make sense to you? Are they attractive? Call
360-378-6313. BEGIN HERE
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