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Social Network for Accredited
Nature-Connecting
Online Alternative and Natural Holistic Degrees and Courses
that include life experience and prior training, life-love
security, solving problems and professional
health and wellness goods and remedies jobs
 Project NatureConnect
Institute of Global Education
Holistic Professional and Social Network Natural
Love-In Website
Special
NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council
Practical online distance learning to increase Gaia whole earth
wellness.
EDUCATING,
COUNSELING AND
HEALING WITH NATURE AND ORGANISM EARTH
SYNOPSIS:
A
special Ecopsychology,
sensory
community, holisitic degree and course program, that includes life experience
and prior training, exchanges helpful messages
and observations on its Facebook social network Gaia communication
page. From experience, I know that its problem solving
purpose
is to heighten
natural individual and community contact and connection with authentic
nature and its powers. This helps us solve problems by strengthening
personal, social and environmental well being and awareness.
The
program's hands-on whole earth and whole life activities provide the
therapeutic opportunity to improve health and wellness through online
love-in and life-love contacts. Its education and training
through Gaia enables our
thinking and feeling to consciously be aware and connect with the
unadulterated flow
of nature's grace, balance and restorative powers, in and around us,
backyard or back country. Its problem solving professional health goods
and remedies address destructive emotional bonds and attachments that
lead to or sustain addiction. It helps you know and benefit from
additionally attaining Applied Ecopsychology degrees or nature-connected Organic
Psychology certification.
PROGRAM
DESCRIPTION:
Do you know that Project
NatureConnect
offers
a nature-centered distant learning security opportunity that enables
you to add
the benefits
of nature-connecting research, methods and credentials to your degree
program
and/or your skills, interests and hobbies?
Are
you aware that we
honor your
prior training and life experience by providing grants and
equivalent
education credit for it.
You
may take accredited or professional online CEU coursework and/or obtain
a
Nature-Connected Degree or Certificate in most disciplines or personal
interests in solving problems. A partial subject list is located at the
bottom
of this page.
- Improve
your income and
satisfaction through new independent, interdisciplinary or integrated
study
and Ecopsychology security activities.
- Help
people connect their
heart, thoughts and feelings with the self-correcting and renewing
powers
of
nature to remedy addiction and destructive attachments.
- Increase
personal social and
environmental community well being.
- Add
the self-correcting sunlight beauty and
spirit of the Organism
Earth's
natural world and to your life, job and community.
Visit
our Internet Homepage
for
complete information
Facebook Project NatureConnect Page Helps Celebrate and Strengthen Our Connectedness as Part of Organism
Earth (Gaia)
When we
recognize that Planet Earth
acts like, or is a living organism, we become aware that we are as
connected to all of nature and each other as part of Organism Earth. This is exactly like our fingers are
connected to
our toes.
We are each a natural organism. As part of ourselves, our fingers and limbs naturally communicate. For
example, We are
usually attracted to scratch our leg when it itches. In addition,
we often don't think about doing it. Sometimes we don't even realize
that we did it.
Do you know that we usually feel
isolation and seek "security" because, without realizing it, on
average, we spend over 98 percent of our life out of communication with
and
disconnected from the natural life community of Gaia?
We lose self-esteem and produce and suffer disorders because we have detached our
awareness from the flow of nature's nurturing and restorative powers,
in and around us.
The
Project NatureConnect page on Facebook is dedicated to help all of us
celebrate and strengthen our connectedness and ability to communicate
as part of Organism Earth. The page can help you enjoy and benefit from online
"natural love-in's for life" as well as courses and degree programs
based on them.
The immense separation of our psyche
from the love and intelligence of our biological origins in Gaia
produces problems. The disconnection creates our excessive
worry,
depression and stress. It also creates excessive requirements for money
to buy the necessary health goods for the sensory bonds that we
wound as we painfully sever our connections with our planet
home.
This separation from the flow of nature, within and about us, helps to explain why we can't stop being destructive or
excessive, even when we
know that it is reasonable to stop.
Our disconnection from
Mother Nature is similar to removing a baby from its mother's breast
and replacing it with a nipple attached to a bottle of beer. Until they
are restored, the child's physical and emotional bonds to its human
mother, along with its love of life, become, instead, bonded or
addicted to the beer and the bottle, along with their harmful effects.
Via
our Project NatureConnect page on Facebook, Gaia-connecting activities, degrees and
careers in educating, counseling and healing with nature help us
increase our personal, social and environmental well being. They enable
our psyche to recycle and correct our destructive thoughts and
feelings. They give us the ability to reconnect and think with the
health and
wellness powers of the flow of nature, backyard or back country.
As
long as we remain psychologically attached to the "beer nipple," we
feel that life sucks, and that we are helpless to make it
better.
This produces our anger and anxiety because we know that we don't have
the
ability to make our lives change. I know from experience, and
from my observations of others, that achieving this ability may be
accomplished through Project NatureConnect's online activities, books
and courses.
Educating, Counseling and Healing
With Nature (ECHN) provides the tools we need
to create moments that let Earth
teach and that
help nature recycle contaminates in and around us.
Are
you attracted to what you have read here? Do you sense that learning
ECHN could help you to tap into a pure source of nature's wisdom,
beauty
and love to increase personal, social and environmental well
being. If
your answer is "Yes", the first step is to enroll in our online,
accredited Orientation
Course. After completing this 10-week online course (4 hours/week), you may then
continue on in one of the subsidized training,
certification or degree program
which will further strengthen, deepen and broaden your ability to apply
the ECHN fundamentals to your practice of the healing arts.
A press release that can help you on
this Facebook path is available for your distribution or publication.
Field
Experiences:
Results from engaging in Educating Counseling
and
Healing With Nature (ECHN) Activities.
Below,
are some
field report examples and results of sensory attractions to
nature as they embrace
people, places and things. The
quotes come from students who are learning how to apply
and teach the integral ecology of educating, counseling and
healing
with nature.
Each field report is an experience and a
testimonial, a fact
and a cause for hope. Each makes a sensible community
contribution
to ECHN and
most professions.
ECHN is important
because it empowers us to create moments that let earth
teach and nature heal. It enables us to teach this skill to
others, too. It
helps
us grow, think and feel like nature's purifying and balanced perfection
works.
The quotes, below,
are taken from the field study
journals of participants in Project NatureConnect's
online courses
and degree programs. The latter are sponsored in part by
Akamai
University's Institute of Applied Ecopsychology, Portland State
University Extended Education courses, and the Institute of Global
Education.
^^^
"Today
I went to an old haunt as a teenager. We would go to this park and hang
out in the woods. I asked permission to be with nature and I opened my
trust in nature to be their for me. The woods did not hold happy
memories for me and it was hard to enter. I walked slowly I could see
old ghosts flying through the trees. I pondered the thought, how can
this natural area harbor such pain?
As
I was thinking this, I felt the wind gently blow. With each gentle wind
the ghosts flew away and I could feel nature's healing.
Nature gave me courage to face wrangles of the past. The harm of low
self esteem created by cruelty of others was removed.
What
prevents me from trusting nature love is fear of speaking up. I need to
learn to speak out in nature’s voice. I must use
nature-words, to
speak out in love, even if society or certain belief systems are not
ready to hear the words. Nature’s voice needs to be heard and I need to
speak up. Nature's essence will offer me the words, I need to listen
and pass on nature’s words of wisdom. That spirit offers positive
change.
The purity of nature’s love is the core of our inner
child. This is our sub conscious mind trying to surface. Society and
beliefs have put us at war with our inner child. Once we make a
conscious choice to acknowledge our inner child’s core as part of who
we are, then and only then will we find inner peace. Living
at
peace with ourselves within nature will provide us with ways for a
peaceful world.
Reconnecting with nature is never untrustable to
me. I think the only time nature is untrustable is when I do not trust
myself to really listen to nature's essence.
I find my trust is
weakened by where I work and the wranglers that surround me. I know if
I allow the total me to surface I would be shunned and unemployed.
Each
time my trust is weaker I have embraced my family. They have been on
this natural journey with me. I also have my students do a natural
activities and the natural inner resurfaces in them. I have found that
the course group offers me strength when I am weak. Affirmation of NIAL
as a truth. My trust and comfort increases because I am not alone in
this thought process.
My
self worth was increased through nature's healing.
It helped me discover that what I have to say holds
importance.
To trust nature I have to trust in my inner self.
The
hidden authority that this activity brought up to surface was the
message that taught me not to speak up for what is right. I have
learned that I do have a worthwhile voice."
^^^
"Clouds
were congregating in the sky and the meeting was becoming very
vocal. I headed towards a grove of extremely tall trees ˆ
Eucalyptus, Fir and Poplar. A busy day spent working on
figures
and answering emails had left me feeling exhausted, scratchy eyed and
irritated. Approaching the trees and watching them flow with
the
wind I knew that was where I needed to be. Thankfully gaining
their consent to be there I just allowed myself to meander from tree to
tree.
What relief! What comfort! What stillness! What soothing
peace! All this was washed over and through me. I know,
without a
shadow of doubt, that I trust Nature. Time and time again it
has
proved itself to me. When I am tired, stressed, and needing
restoration the soothing balm of Nature wraps around my soul and
spirit. Nature is so finely tuned to everything, that when we
come to her out of balance and out of sorts, she responds to the
imbalance with equilibrium; to the stress with wellness; and all with
love."
I discovered that trust, innocence, wisdom and
assurance are evident everywhere in Nature.Having experienced countless
positive, enriching and enlightening encounters in Nature my trust has
been absolutely authenticated. Nature is an elixir and an essential
whole in every life.
Knowing that I can trust Nature
gives me immense confidence and joy in living. Everything that brings
honesty, truth, realness, love and wisdom to life is expressing the
powers of nature's flowing essence. I discovered that trusting nature
activates love and that I am empowered and nourished by this discovery.
^^^
"This
past September I did the PNC Orientation course and knew that this
was a place for me. My growth and depth of clarity was/is tremendous
due to
my involvement with this moving and wholly life-saving work.
I am also currently doing some coursework for Teacher Certification in
Middle School Language Arts, and hope to combine the amazingness of
PNC, my love of music and healing arts, and the potency of Language and
take the whole shebang to Youngsters - sounds like fun, right?"
^^^
"I
did this activity in a park area. I know I had gained consent from this
area when a pair of chipmunks on a large desert rock stood up on their
back feet clasping their front paws together in a praying position
while facing the sun. I gave them space as I watched them. Then one
dashed away hiding under a small desert plant while the other
entertained me. I thanked chipmunk, this area and all my relations.
The
rodent in this natural area that I like is chipmunk; I like it because
when I am involved with it I feel love, it is cute, enjoys life, happy,
playful, spunky, funny, entertaining, and spontaneous.
I applied the above to myself and could honestly say "I
like myself because when I am involved with me I feel love; I am cute,
enjoy life, happy, playful, spunky, funny, entertaining, and
spontaneous."
I found that reconnecting with nature recycles your opinion
of yourself and that living in harmony with all our relations begins
with feeling love in and for our inner nature. Like nature my inner
nature is constantly
changing.
When reconnected with nature unconditional love
is anyone's for the asking and fulfillments in
nature fill a void in our inner nature. I learned how to accept
my inner nature and I recognized
and felt a deeper sense of respect for self, others, and nature. I
re-educated a voice inside me who convinces me I'm not cute.
^^^
I
went again to the Snowbells in my garden, I love to enjoy them,
because they are not there for a long time.
The little flowers were dancing in the wind, I almost could hear the
sound of little bells. I start singing with them.
I like the Snowbells at this moment, because they invited me to sing
with
them and even though the soil is hard, they came through it, even they looks
so vulnerable, shows me how strong they really are. I realized how
powerfull sunlight is, compared with the power in the wrong way
it is used by people.
Applying this to myself, I like myself, because when I show my
vulnerablity, I show also my strength of myself and hope I can inspire
others with that. So we can sing together on the hard parts in our
lives and in the communities. We are all come from the same direction;
natural birth!
I learned to enjoy the moment, even those that seem to be
short and that my vulnerability is my strength in the same moment.
I began to see the difference between power in nature and
power what people use
against people to get what they want. (more power!)
I learned that being vulnerable doesn't has to mean weak, as
was taught me.
Surviving
in this community is not only physical, but being strong
and connected with your natural senses.To show my
vulnerability is not what people are used to, or I was used
to. But to show it with the strength of my natural self can inspire
people to be themselves. To sing and dance together will bring more joy
in our lives; it is a
sharing of joy what make live valuable.
To show who I am and also in the moments of being vulnerable is
the strength to be who I am. This activity re-educated
my view on the temporary
presence of nature and to enjoy them in the moment.
Inside I re-educated my view on what I was taught:
when not showing your vulnerability, you miss a lot of
strength!
"
^^^
"This
past year, I had been under so much stress I came down with Epstein
Barr which has since morphed into Chronic Fatigue so trying to keep
everything on an even keel has taken it's toll on me. The only thing
that has helped me reduce the stress is this program. My daughter is
Bipolar and Obsessive Compulsive with a germ phobia, so I feel like I
am walking on eggshells at times. Doing this activity, while I was
sitting on a bench and
watching the ducks perform their antics and the trees gently waving in
the breeze, I looked around and it was as if all worries melted away.
Suddenly, it was as if the water, trees, and even the ducks were in
communion with me. One of the ducks came beside me and just sat there
staring out at the water as if to say, " watch the water just carry it
all away". I have felt more energy since connecting with nature more
and it has helped me not feel so torn between everyone as much. I just
want to gather all of nature and just spread it around so more people
can feel such a connection. Oh, wait, it is spread all around, so I
guess we just need to wake some people up to the connection. :)"
^^^
"I am attracted to the sentence and to the reality behind these words:
"I learned that sensory fulfillment could catalyze recovery. I had
created space that allowed NIAL, my inner desire to be more complete,
to express itself. Once I learned and applied that secret, good things
began to happen for me." I have embraced NIAL and can not imagine my
world without this connection and my awareness of it.
The cohesion activity was great and it demonstrated just how all things
are connected with myself as the hub or center of the web. I learned
and really appreciate how I feed off of my environment and how vital
that energetic connection truly is.
^^^
"I
went to one of my favorite places to do this activity. As I was walking
the shore of this uninhabited island, I kept thinking what a magical
place it was. I told it I loved it because it was magical. I wondered
what about it made me feel it was magical and if I shared any of those
qualities with it. I thought about this for a long time. Everything
seemed so seemless and easy: the trees, rocks, seaweed, shells, ocean
water, sky, wind- I marveled at how they all shared this space(without
having to talk or plan it out) to create such a beautiful
scene.
It is always a different scene when I go. Depending on where the tide
is, a different landscape is exposed. I love how it is always changing
and in the most natural and easy way. How does the tide know when to
ebb and flow or the moss know to grow on the fallen log or the waves
and rocks to transform the shells into sand? It knows just what to do
all the time. The place is magical because of it's natural
intelligence. It knows how to just be and without effort willingly take
part in the global dance. I thought of the idea of working smarter
instead of harder. I appreciated how nature works with such
ease
by following natural intelligences, where we seem to try so hard to
make things work, being willful instead of willing. I wonder if we
think we are smarter than nature? As ridiculous as it sounds, why else
would we distrust our sensory intelligences for "higher reasoning"?
I
appreciate myself for my natural intelligence. This was interesting for
me to say and hear as I do not feel confident in my ability to think
and reason. I don't often feel smart and often feel inferior to others
who have a stronger sense of logical reasoning. I have an extremely
difficult time making decisions. If I could better appreciate my
emotional/sensory intelligences, I would be able to trust myself more.
I need to remember not to try so hard to think my way through it, but
to drop the analysis and listen to my natural attraction.This leads me
back to the concept that there is a place and a purpose for me just
being in the world and increases my feelings of self worth.
I discovered that if I want to increase my feelings of self worth, I
need to get
myself outside and that I have a natural sensory intelligence inside of
me ready to inform
me, whenever I am ready to listen. Natural intelligences don't need to
be fought for, only allowed to
be."
^^^
"I
walked outside tonight and asked for permission to connect and learn.
Within seconds I heard the honking of geese flying overhead.
I
looked up and was immediately attracted by the deep inky sky displaying
a multitude of bright, twinkling stars. There was an orange one that I
was particularly attracted to and I realized it was probably a planet.
I gazed at the planet and the stars and was taken by their mystery and
beauty. I felt my being expanding; my head opening to the
welcoming and magical connection extended by the cosmos and my feet
opening to the healing and harmonic rhythms of the Earth. I
felt
vibrant and alive; a conduit between Earth and sky. I breathed in the
cool night air immersed in nature, enchanted by the beauty, feeling
part of the whole.
I was reminded that nature supports me
in trusting myself and that nature nurtures
and supports holistic relationship. Nature does not
fail us, it is we who fail nature.
I feel support and greater connection to my inner nature when trusting
the sensory experiences created by gazing at the night sky. I trust in
sensory
experiences catalyzed by my connection with nature.
and experience
enchantment with life when connecting with the stars and planets.
If I lost this, I would not feel nurtured, as if torn away
from my
home. I feel greater trust in
nature
because nature is always there for me. It has never failed to support
me."
^^^
"for this
activity i took my children and husband to the beach. my
separated husband and i have been working very hard to reconnect and
mother earth has been a great nurturing piece. ever since he has done
the wrapped hand activity with me, he has done many more and has had
many discussions with me and i have used all i have learned here with
you all, it has been an amazing growth period for us both and we are
discussing him returning home, yea!
we all stopped at the
edge of the the pavement where the sandy piece of the beach
began
and we asked permission to step on the sand and we received
the
most welcoming warm salty breeze, it was fantastic. we walked
looking
at shells and rocks. there were many we held and talked about
the
different textures on the shells and rocks. we let
mother earth
guide us and she took us to a barrier of large rocks just as we got
there we felt a pull. My son saw a smashed shell and said
"oh
my mom what's this?" i saw that this shell was a
clam shell and
was
smashed and still had the muscle with in it. i felt sad. i felt its
suffering. My husband said to all of us a seagull must have been
dropping
it to eat and must have not been able to find it after he dropped it.
we
all stayed with this clam for a little in silence and gave him love
then the feeling of suffering left us all we placed
him down
and my son said "he's not in pain mom now i hope he feeds the birds."
my
oldest daughter said "it is the circle of life and how nature
works," and my youngest said to the clam 'i love you, by."
we
had
the most amazing experiences through out the entire day.
before we left we said thank you to the beach and
all the critters birds rocks and shells on it for guiding us
for
the day. i had this incredible feeling being so connected, feeling so
intensely the unspoken overwhelming love.
i note that my
self worth and confidence is increasing and i am filed with
more love than i ever thought
possible. Thank you everyone for sharing in this adventure with me."
^^^
"Though I have always had a strong sense of
communion
with nature, the simple beauty of Mike Cohen's brilliant guidance into
both the Natural System Thinking Process, and the appealing and
effective reconnection with the 53 Natural Senses has heightened that
communion for me. I easily recognize and acknowledge in a daily
conscious way the myriad of communications that happen when we are so
intricately and intimately engaged with trees, and birds, and wind and
water, with growing, breathing, planet earth; with the understanding
that the flowers don't struggle to have their needs met comes also an
abiding understanding that there is a unifying, underlying intelligence
inherent within nature's restorative balance and beauty."
Explore your naturally attractive self.
Benefit from your natural attractions,
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1. Read some of the student reports, above, and discover
if you find them attractive. If so:
2. Do this fun and easy natural attraction activity.
If it makes sense and is attractive to you,
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certification in the organic application of ecopsychology to
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CONCLUSION
The Spin of a Turning Woman
A. When you think her extended leg goes behind her standing leg, she turns the opposite way.
B. When you think her extended leg goes in front of her standing leg, she turns the opposite.
C. Think the word "behind" as her legs cross and she turns the opposite way.
Our
thinking is so powerful, yet so misled. Whatever we learn, are
conditioned to think, or choose to think makes the woman, along with the rest of the world, turn one way or another. This includes nature-disconnected fashions, money, power, degrees, politics, literacy, government.
When we learn to think Mother Earth is dead, we treat the world with a "we really can't hurt it" spin and act accordingly.
When we learn that Earth is alive, we may relate to it in sensitive ways that help sustain its life, and therefore our own.
Do you think that the truth we learn when we discover that Earth is alive changes how we perceive and relate to the the world ?
How accurate is the nature-disconnected way we think? We assign qualities and react to the figure as it spins when it's really just a flat image that doesn't turn at all.
Do you think the ECHN process and its quoted effects connect us to the true nature of our living planet and ourselves? Does this help us turn our head around and increase personal, social and environmental well-being?
Achieve
a Degree or
Certificate to
strengthen your professional interests, or your hobbies or pastimes, by
connecting them with nature. Implement your strongest hopes as you
increase personal and global well being.
Topics,
subjects or leisure pursuits can include those listed below or other
areas of interest.
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"Human
behavior is rooted most deeply in nature's intentions and desire. The
rhythms of nature underlie all of human interaction: religious
traditions, economic systems, cultural and political organization. When
these human forms betray the natural psychic pulse, people and
societies get sick, nature is exploited and entire species are
threatened."
-Stephen
Aizenstat
In
industrial society our excessively nature-separated lives mold us to
betray the natural psychic pulse. We learn to block from our thinking
over 98 percent of the wise sensory callings and fulfillments we
normally share with natural systems and their eons of experience. Our
subconscious hurt and frustration from the severed disconnection of
these senses underlies our greatest troubles.
-Michael
J. Cohen
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Benefit
from learning to enhance the natural psychic pulse within and around
us. Add the sensory ecoscience of Organic
Psychology to
your life and livelihood.
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"Scientific
research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is
determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action
of people."
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"Truth
is what stands the
test of experience."
-
Albert Einstein
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