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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.
| SYNOPSIS: This field report describes a funded Mother Earth sensory science in action. It samples an organic psychology tool that helps us improve health wellness and counseling by enabling our thinking and feeling to safely tap into the nature's grace, balance and restorative powers. Participants benefit from and strengthen their inborn love of nature as they master alternative therapist coaching, stress release management and holistic spiritual psychology. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature Supportive Degrees, Career Training Courses and Jobs On Line Project NatureConnect offers nature-centered distant learning that enables you to add the benefits of nature-connecting methods and credentials to your degree program and/or your skills, interests and hobbies. We honor your prior training and life experience by providing grants and equivalent education credit for it. You may take accredited or professional CEU coursework and/or obtain a Nature-Connected Degree or Certificate in most disciplines or personal interests. A partial subject list is located at the bottom of this page.
ARTICLE: FIELD REPORT: an on line program participant, shares his results from a nature-connecting activity. MY MOOD DISORDER DISSOLVES AS I FEEL LIKE NATURE CAN FEEL AND LOVE I went to my spot in the forest near the college. It was shortly after a thunderstorm and with a dark overcast sky, the mood was one of heaviness (senses of pressure, humidity, form, electromagnetism), but not in a negative way at all. When I sat down, my back against a large boulder, I immediately noticed beside me an exquisitely beautiful black raven feather with water droplets on it. I felt like picking it up and taking it, but much as I wanted to, I didn't get a sense of permission to do so, so I didn't. I spent some time sensing the area non-verbally and I noted some of the natural processes that were going on around me. I have highlighted the "ing" words to indicate that nature is process, not static. There were a number of "opposites" including: death (rust-leaved pine trees) and life (all around me); stillness and movement (short gusts of wind). The thought arose that these "opposites" were part of the same continuum, that all experiences are part of an continuum of experience that includes a range of perceptions. There was nameless beauty all around me. The rain and the fertile soil were nurturing life. There was the breath of life. Plants were breathing and I breathed. We breathed each other. I could hear the background noise of traffic and aircraft, the process of industrial civilization impinging upon nature's processes. Aspen leaves were gently rocking in the wind and were quite soothing to my senses. Birds were singing their enjoyment of life. Plant life is in full bloom now, purple lupines and Jacob's ladder and pink wild roses unfolding and growing. Dead leaves, pine cones on the forest floor, dead branches and twigs and even the rocks were all transforming into something new: new life. I could feel the cycles of life and renewal. I could sense and feel the universal desire to be. I could feel love. As I felt the cool raindrops on my skin, I realized that I can feel as nature can feel. I learned that nature is a process of constant change, effortlessly adapting, changing, re-arranging, celebrating the gift of life. I am a process of constant change, effortlessly adapting, changing, re-arranging, celebrating the gift of life. Then I went out to a very large field (essentially a horse pasture) near our home. I sat under a small aspen tree in the middle of the field and was enfolded by its branches and leaves when I sat down underneath it.. The leaves touched the skin of my face and arms. The sky was overcast and to the south (where there is a mountain range), across the river, were dark storm clouds. The sky was a multi-layered dance of many senses at play: senses of form, sound, humidity, temperature, pressure, light, distance, and more. Clouds took many different forms and colors: from pure white towers of water vapor to steel grey and dark grey. Nature was in motion; I could feel the tension-relaxation pattern; I could see where some dark clouds were releasing the built-up tension by letting go of some of their moisture. There was tension-relaxation as the air around me moved from stillness (which allowed many insects to buzz around me) to gusts of wind (which blew the insects away). As I sat there, I felt profoundly connected, deeply and fully supported by Earth. I immersed my bare feet in the cool sandy soil. I held one fresh aspen leaf up to my nose and breathed with it. It smelled fresh and lovely. Huddled there under the tree, I closed my eyes for a while, opened them and repeated the process a few times. I felt completely immersed in nature. I was a continuum of the natural world; there was no separation whatsoever. I was the clouds, the wind, the sand, the leaves, the insects. I was all of these. I was all the attractions, ever-changing, transforming, building new relationships, letting go of others. I experienced deep peace. The moods and disorders of my story world dissolved and gave way to deep peace. In that moment, I knew who I was. I remember thinking, "This is who I am.". My body is the body of Earth and, at death, it is the same; my body will even more fully become Earth's body because I won't have any destructive stories anymore. I do not have to wait for physical death for my stories to die. I can allow my stories to die now and I can thus experience the deep peace that complete nameless sensory connection to nature brings. I lay down on the ground and "listened" for microbial activity. I could hear the soil as my ear touched the ground. I became even more part of the landscape. I felt the touch of sand, leaves and wind on my skin and now clothes became a barrier to complete union. I realized that microorganisms were part of the unseen intelligence that organizes and regulates life in perfect balance. I felt a new respect for them. I can't really describe the dream mood of this place in words but what I felt/thought was this: "I am awake". "I am aware". "I am Nature". "This is what it is like to be fully conscious". I am the ever-changing, ever-growing, evolving, interplay of wind, clouds, thunder, leaves, gull, horses, soil, flowers, trees, insects....................... Completely one with the aliveness of Earth, again, I knew who I was. Unfortunately, soon after I returned home, the feeling wore off. Sad. Wish I could feel that way all the time. But I will not forget that experience; it is forever imprinted on my psyche and I know exactly how to return to it. Act
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Organic Psychology by doing it. http://www.ecopsych.comAchieve 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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