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. . Heart Journey Educating Counseling and and Healing With Nature: Degrees, Career Training Courses and Jobs Online. Our accredited Earth therapy studies help you gain skills and build relationships that increase personal, environmental and spiritual well being. We offer credit and grants for your prior training and life experience. We invite you to explore our interdisciplinary learning methods and books. Safely tap into and benefit from the grace, balance and restorative powers of earth's natural systems, backyard or backcountry. Add the sunlight and beauty of the natural world to your personal, social and professional relationships. Master the hands-on application of organic psychology, strengthen your energy, effectiveness and friendships. Help reduce detrimental stress through ecologically sound therapies. Increase the health wellness and spirit of people and the environment. Visit our Homepage for complete information ,   Project NatureConnect Institute of Global Education Organic Psychology Special NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council Practical distance learning to increase person/planet well being.                                                                                                     THE NATURAL HEART JOURNEY: WHO AND WHAT WE ARE We often overlook that throughout the eons it is the self-organizing flow and pulse of natural systems that has manifested itself as natural people, places and things. The balanced ways of natural systems are a major essence of who and what we are and where we've been through the ages. A great majority of the people and cultures in the world demonstrate that humanity does not instinctively destroy, violate or abuse natural systems in each other and the environment. Instead they have learned to co-create with these worldwide systems. This suggests that in we are educated by industrial society, not designed by nature, to perpetrate the horrors that create our headlines films and heartaches. We almost always attribute each act of violence, mental disorder or crime to be something we must correct "in this crazy world we live in." We suggest more laws, punishments and education to stop each violation but we seldom validate that continuing to omit an important component in our socialization is what is insane, not the world. On our homepage Project NatureConnect describes a natural systems educational process that, when added to any discipline or profession, helps us increase well being rather than further our troubles. The short report, below, from a student in our program, describes how and why that nature-connected process works.   An Organic Psychology Report from an Online Course Participant Good Morning Everyone- And, what a beautiful morning it is!! It is still cool and crisp here in the valley- but the skies are blue, the new bright green leaves are starting to re-emerge, and the tulips are opening up adding their vibrant splash of color here and there. I am feeling grateful to PNC this morning- as I attribute the fact that I am able to notice all this and relish in it- to its commitment to bringing the PNC activities to the world- and to my world in particular as I find new directions for my natural heart life journey. A couple of days ago, I woke up feeling typically overwhelmed by "the email list of classmates." My new brain thoughts ran, "What did I get myself into?" "Our fast paced lives are just ridiculous!" "How can God expect me to do all this?" and underneath it all was mostly the thought- "I just can't hack it! There is something wrong with me. Everybody else seems to be able to juggle all the balls!" It was then that I chose to go outside to do the activity. Through the permission activity, I thanked nature and received consent from my attraction there to do the activity with it. Then I proceeded to run my fingers through my hair upward- flinging these nature-disconnected, stressful "new brain" stories into the environment. As I stood there looking at the snow-capped mountains and feeling the cool breeze blow through my hair as I lifted its strands upwards- nature's wisdom began to recycle my thoughts. They helped me remember the words of wisdom that came from my sister-in-law a few months earlier when she said in response to my complaints of being overwhelmed. She said simply, "Who made the list of things that must be done?" Her words came back to me now, the activity helped me recall them and become ready to listen to them. And I realized that "I" was the one who had chosen everything on the list. And "I" didn't have to do any of it. And, guess what, God had kind of been wondering when I was going to notice that- He/She wasn't making me do any of it either. Then came the big breakthrough thought. I realized that I am doing everything on the list simply because- "I Want To!" Wow! I'm doing all this stuff because "I Want To!" The wind blew, and I felt the power of all creation flow into my being. I recognized that from this place of accountability, all there was left for me to do was either chose not to do some of the things "I want to do" or get organized so that I can do all the wonderful things that "I want to do!" For now, I am opting for the get organized option. And, perhaps most importantly I am realizing that " I am up to it!" "I can hack it!" and "I am so grateful to be involved in so many wonderful things!" Wow! Did that ever feel good to write!   I recognize that from my nature-connecting sensory studies that I am a person who feels the blood flowing through my veins nourishing my heart and mind- as rivers running down from the mountains nourish hill and valley, a person who enjoys feeling my spirit reborn as the wind blows through my hair, who relishes feeling the reassurance and empowerment that come from looking up at the mountains. The quote I liked from the RWN book: "Gently rub you hands across the top of your head and imagine that your hands are collecting your nature-separated, new-brain stories. Shake your hands in the air and discard these disconnected stories into the environment. Let its wisdom begin to recycle them." This is such a powerful activity- I write it here so that I can remember to do it often. "Now it is time for you to write this last chapter," says the RWN book. The symbolism of this quote sunk into my heart when I read it. This phrase was to me more than an assignment for the course. It felt like and invitation to live my life from a place of being accountable for what I want. And go for it as if I were writing the last chapter of my life! 2) Most Important Things Learned: I Want to be Camp Director. I Want to be a Blind Service Provider. I Want to be a Chorister. I Want to be a Mom. I Want to be a Wife. I Want to be a Daughter. I Want to be a Sister. I Want to be a Friend. I Want to be a Homemaker. I Want to be a Member of an Organic Food Co-op. I Want to be a Member of a Choir. I Want to be a Home-Business Owner. I Want to be a Project Nature Connect Graduate Student. If I didn't do PNC activities how would God (Nature) get its messages through. I would be walking around continually in the suffering of my disconnected, new brain thinking. This activity definitely increased self-esteem and trustfulness of nature. As a result of my dreams now, I wake up smiling and ready to go- because I know I want to and I can. I shared my "I Want To" realizations with my family and two of my friends. They both commented that I felt more accountable and alive. When I am willing to admit that I want my life as it is- I can be free to create it to be anything I want. Thanks, everyone, for helping me to verbalize all this. I am grateful for your supportiveness in helping me see my way on my journey.   Act now. Master Organic Psychology by doing it. Explore it from our homepage . Learn the how and why of Organic Psychology Contact us at 360-378-6313 mailto:nature@interisland.net, http://www.ecopsych.com                                     INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council PROJECT NATURECONNECT Accredited nature career holistic education and job courses, organic learning degrees and alternatives; earn extra income money and increase wellness, spirit and hope. P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com ORGANIC, ACCREDITED, APPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION The Natural Systems Thinking Process Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director send email All organization programs start with the Orientation Course contained in the books The Web of Life Imperative and Reconnecting With Nature .

Alarm! Alarm! Well-being at risk Help turn the tide! www.SaneEarth.com             "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   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. ................................................... ..................   .   Project NatureConnect Homepage Organic Psychology Search Engine Contacts Email 360-378-6313   Grant-funded, social and environemntal science accredited courses, career training and holistic organic learning degrees: alternative adult education and sustainable career training jobs online for personal and global health. Act now: student grants, scholarships loans for college online         "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." . "Truth is what stands the test of experience." - Albert Einstein.     ....................