TOPIC: Disconnected: The Effects of Psychic Pain
...Ph.D. Online
ECHN: The Whole Life Art and Science of Educating
Counseling and
Healing With Nature
Disconnected
from Natural Peace and Satisfactions
Nature's
absence in our lives leaves a wanting, hurting hole in our psyche, and when
we want, there is never enough. For example, in our
society, no
matter how rich or poor a person is, it is normal for them to
feel they need about 15 percent more money. To feel good about
themselves they must out-compete, or win, over others, over natural
systems and their flow in and around us..
Our
induced, insatiable wants produce our vulnerability to detrimental
temptations and weakened resilience. This destructively stresses us. It
has become a national epidemic. As mentioned, 75-90 percent of our
primary care medical advice and treatment is related to stress disorders.
We
can't resist society's
unwhole and taxing demands and lures. These include the salary we
receive for excessively doing unhappy jobs directed by leaders who massage us to
exploit natural systems and their flow.
Disconnected
from the natural peace and satisfactions provided by the ways of natural
attractions,
our
thoughts and feelings often lose their inherent life wisdom. Then they
cannot adequately help us address the detrimental expectations placed
on us by others or by
misguided parts of our thinking. As we discover this it often produces
"mid life crisis."
Too
often we forget that
nature has the profound
ability to heal itself, be
the injury a bulldozed landscape, a scraped knee or an emotional hurt. However, nature
seldom helps us correct our dysfunctions or improve our wellness
when we disconnect our time, thinking and feeling from nature's ability
to do this.
Sadly,
in our excessively nature-separated society, we are often taught to
believe that our strong attraction to nature's perfection, its
enchanting peace, nurturing, beauty, cooperation and sanity indicates
that something is wrong with us. We learn to think that we are
escapists, strange or different "hippie," "environmentalist" "earth
muffin" "flakes." This is hurtful and false. Our attractions to nature
are actually intact remains of natural systems within our
consciousness.
Natural
attractions that we
experience are often fortuitous
fitness residues that have struggled
to
survive our
excessive exploitation of nature.
The
surviving natural parts of ourselves may be stressed, but they are
resilient and trustable. They refuse to be converted, to be further
separated from nature, to be conquered or undermined. They will not
submit to the competitive madness of our society and its detrimental
ways. Instead, at risk, the hurt in these natural
attractions
trys to teach
us to find nature's peace. They emotionally signal our consciousness to
protect, seek and promote contact with the nurturing and restorative
powers of our biological and spiritual origins in natural systems. This
includes the natural powers and integrity that remains alive in our
family, neighbors
and other supportive individuals.
Project
NatureConnect dedicates itself to providing financial and technical
education assistance that helps frustrated natural attractions and
systems in us
reconnect with their nurturing origins. To this end, PNC provides an online activity or two to help you become
more aware of natural
attractions and natural systems'
flow.
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for participation instructions
On
this web site you will find many teachable Organic Psychology self-help
and other tools that assist us to meet our nature-disconnected
challenges in a good way ("good" meaning supportive of the whole). They
have value because Organic Psychology enables generations of us to
personally and professionally benefit through co-creation with natural
systems in any area of
endeavor, rather than through additional exploitation of
these systems.
"This
program helps us plant the last Truffula seed from the Lorax
in the fields of education, psychology and health."
-Project
NatureConnect Participant
Organic
Psychology is for those of us who are naturally wise enough to neither
trust nor depend upon the nature-disconnected processes of industrial
society that cause our problems, to help us remedy these same problems.
For us, it makes sense to confront this detrimental way of thinking and
transform it with recuperative assistance from natural systems. We
enable ourselves to make destructive parts of our personal and
collective lives subside.
Over
85 percent of industrial society seeks help, or uses self-help, for
their natural attraction discontents on some level. However, therapies
and
education we use that are not organic seldom solve our problems.
Instead, they move our problems to another time place and context where
we, our neighbors or our children will face them in even more
destructive forms because we have reinforced them, rather than recycled
them into cooperative relationships and well-being. By using
nature-connected education counseling and healing, any ardent person
can easily break this habit.
"A
solid approach that applies the same consistent attitudes to living
with people as it does to living with nature."
-
Environmental Education Report.
Start the ECHN Introductory Course and your
program here. Why wouldn't you want to add this important
benefit to your life and livelihood?
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