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Program
Outcomes:
Bob G., an online program participant, shares his results from
a nature-connecting activity.
THE REALITY PEOPLE TRULY
WANT
When I was in my special area
I noticed all the self-talk thoughts. I let in the tranquility
of the area and noticed that in nature all those thoughts / wranglers
go away. There was no more self consciousness, just the awareness
that nature brings my new brain awareness to an awareness that
things are in nature, for me are hard to verbalize. When I do
I burble that most of the time out thoughts are in the past or
future and worry about it what has happened our what will happen,
I can be conscious and notice and then verbalize that nature
lives in here and now and is just what is.
When I go out into some of
my favorite spots and ask for permission to be there, and then
find a attractive spot, I find my self starting to ask out loud
for permission instead of silently asking thoughtfully. Asking
out loud gives the questions more intention.
It feels good that my new brain
can validate my old brains awareness of natures self healing
capacity, for either physical or mental disorders.
I wrote a friendship or self-love
poem about labels people put on themselves and how they are not
true, and immediately people that I was talking with validated
that this was true and stated talking about how this had and
was still happening to them. We then turned the conversation
to how we can reconnect with our inner selves and not those labels
and all the people agreed that they could reconnect with their
inner selves and not the labels. This conversation went from
nature disconnection to "who is" and "what is"
in connection with webstrings.
My verbal brain is keenly aware
of the process I have recently been engaged in, that is in writing
my masters thesis on Ecotherapy. When I speak in class about
the subject matter, my verbal brain has been registering the
positive feedback I have been receiving from classmates and my
professor, and this reinforces the progress through my verbal
brain to my old sensory limbic brain.
In a relaxation class I was
conducting a few days ago I asked the participants what was there
favorite place to be for feeling of peace and relaxation. All
of them mentioned a natural setting; either the beach, a park,
the mountains, a forest, listening to birds, smelling the sea
breeze. This questioning and verbal response reinforced to me
that when people can take a time out from their habitual nature-disconnecting
thoughts and reconnect with nature this is the love and reality
people truly want.
Our authentic natural self
is who we already are. We can choose to be who we are rather
then being wrangled by thoughts that take us farther from who
we are. ( I have a habitual voice within me that keeps saying
when I do such and such... or if so and so happens...then I will
become--whatever it is I think I should become --so it is a really
important reminder for me to be in the moment with who I am and
have it be enough). I get the wisdom to responsibly overcome
powerlessness from nature and from inside myself. It is one and
the same.
Act now.
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Psychology by doing it.
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