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A Word to the Naturally Wise
"This
is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us
resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans
rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands."
-
Barack Obama
(Help him use ECHN to accomplish this goal)
Welcome,
and thank you for your strong interest in advancing the well-being of
all of life on Earth, including humanity.
Thank
you, too, for recognizing that our individual and collective well being
has deteriorated due to industrial society's insensitive and excessive
conquest of nature, within and around us.
We have
been socialized to
think that we are superior to the the web of life when we are simply an
equal part of it, and vice versa. Our thinking has learned to be
unreasonably biased
against nature and we seldom
acknowledge this. This trespass underlies most of our disorders, great
or small.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
On
personal and
political levels, our sense of reason demands that we make responsible
changes to
remedy this situation.
Any
individual who has enjoyed a good experience with nature -- in
backcountry forest or backyard garden...or at the beach...or on a park
walk...or with their pet,...or in contact with the wind, sea or stars --
recognizes that, without the use of books, teachers or lessons, sensory
attractions in nature renew us.
We
inherently enjoy and benefit from their ability to help us think and
feel better.
They
momentarily increase our bliss and wellness, our abiity to reason with
greater
clarity. We more fully enjoy our true biological and psychological
self in natural community, as did many Native Americans.
To
our profound loss, our "natural attraction
self" usually lies
buried and
frustrated in us due to our excessive, nature-exploitive, socialization
and disconnection from nature. This
stresses us. We are wanting, competitive and angry, seldom
compassionate, when our
natural senses are unfulfilled or aggravated.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
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In the present tense, try
to remember, for a few minutes, a
good experience you have had in
nature, one you would be attracted to repeat again because
it was
attractive.
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Can you sense natural colors, sounds, aromas, textures or flavors
that were part of the experience?
- Do you feel comforting
motions or attractive feelings of community, trust or place?
- Do you feel enchanted, is this experience
self-enhancing or spiritually pleasing?
- It it supportive,
peaceful or both? Does it reduce your stress?
- Does it help you feel that
you are part of a greater whole?
The above are
some of the
results that people have reported from remembering their attractive
experiences in natural areas. Their direct contact with the web of life
helped them escape their "industrial story-world" for a few moments and
sense and
feel the
true natural being that they were born. They could drink-up and think
with that
truth. They
became aware how
their natural self and their dreams had been excessively stressed
by Industrial Society's exploitation of nature within and around them.
It helped them more completely answer the question "Who am
I ?"
If you have ever had such experiences,
or you would like to have them, you are eligible to enter and benefit
from the program of
Project NatureConnect.
You may want to keep in mind that nature-centered
people and societies seldom display or cause the problems of our
nature-conquering "civilization."
State of consciousness...
Are
you aware that the contact of your psyche with the web of life
increases
well-being? Even bringing the, above, nature-connected memories to mind
for a few minutes
temporarily reduces your blood pressure. By helping you continually
make conscious sensory contact with natural systems within and around
you, the life long science of Organic Psychology enables you to
continually reap the rewards
of an
environmentally
supportive form of stress management and ecotherapy.
Too
often we take our gratifying nature-connection gift and its wonderful
powers for granted. We call it an escape from real life: recreation,
not re-creation. However, biologically and
spiritually, this gift is a momentous part of the person and community
each of us is
naturally born to be.
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"Nature
is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, Nature is but
another name for health."
"What we call wildness is a
civilization other than our own."
"Heaven is under our feet as
well as over our heads."
-Henry David Thoreau
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Project
NatureConnect
