PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Institute of Global Education
Greenwich University
Portland State University
Introductory Course
ECO 501 Educating and Counseling With Nature
When problems arise, such as being ridiculed for thinking we learn to war against NIAL, or that we don't register at least 53 natural sensations, use this activity to help deal with them:
Earth as Teacher:
1. If you can, think about a real problem or question that you have about some aspect of life or your life. If no question arises, use the generic question: "What would you like to teach me?"
2. Thankfully gain permission from an attractive natural area to visit it and help you do this activity.
3. Using the same permission process, ask attractions in this area, one after the other if necessary, if they will consent to be your teacher. When one consents, thank it for befriending you.
4. With your eyes closed and then open, sense as many attractions as you can that are part of this attraction, For example, the color, motion , temperature, form, texture etc. of a rock, ( or tree, pond, etc.).
5. Make ample physical contact with the rock. Touch it with your hands and feet if possible, Keep your eyes on it.
6. Sense the essence of the rock, What one sensation resonates as being it?
7. Give that essence a name such as: Rock Mortal, Rockness, Rock Being, Rocking or Now.
8. Ask this essence, by name, the question you have. If you have no question, ask it what it would like to teach you i.e. "Rockness, what would you like to teach me?"
9. Wait for a response to appear in words or images. Say the response aloud. Write it down. Thank the essence for sharing this response with you.
10. Now imagine stepping into the essence of this natural attraction and becoming it. You are Rockness.
11. As this essence, picture yourself as you were when you asked it the question in 6. Tell that image of yourself the answer you gave it in 9. Then tell that same response to yourself as you know your self at this moment.
12. As this essence, thank your human self for honoring you by seeking you and trusting you to respond to the question.
13. Return to being yourself here and now.
14. Thank this attraction for being, for participating in your life and for teaching you.
15. Write the response of the essence down and read it after sleeping on it for one night, and then again 10 hours later.
16. If you want additional knowledge about the response you received, with it in mind, do the SEVMRATC series, or parts of it that are attractive at that time. Then repeat this activity.
17. Repeat this activity with the inner nature of person who you feel could teach you something you want to know,
CWN Connectors that add experiences to this chapter: #39
Write down the three most important things you learned from this chapter and activity.
Write down three G/G statements.
How would you feel having your ability to experience this G/G taken away?
Does this activity enhance your sense of self-worth? your trustfulness of NIAL?
Which wrangler/person, if any, does this activity identify or reeducate inside or outside you?
Share at least one sentence/person that conveys how hearing their experience has enhanced yours.
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