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NatureConnect
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Educating, Counseling and Healing With Natural Senses, Spirit and Love.
Online books, personal training, courses and degree programs that
improve mental-environmental wellness
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How to invite the powers of Natural Systems
to help our thinking make greater sense and increase our personal,
social and environmental well-being.
[Instructions: first read
this entire page, then return to its links and explore those of
interest.]
ABSTRACT
1.
No known substitute supercedes the perfection of intact natural
systems. They sustain their health because, through natural attraction
balancing powers, they continually correct themselves to further
support life.
2.
To be part of a natural system, or any system, a thing must be in
communication with the system, otherwise, uncorrected, it strays.
3.
We are each naturally born as part of nature and earth's natural
systems. Our senses and feelings along with the wind, hills and stars
each are parts of natural systems in action.
4.
When we are in contact with natural systems at least 53 natural senses register
these systems in our consciousness, providing communication and mental health.
5.
Each natural sensation we experience is part of the perfection of a
natural system in action within and about us. The sensations of thirst
and wetness exemplify this
with respect to water and its flow.
6.
To our loss, we live over 95 percent of our lives and thinking while
excessively disconnected from natural systems and their restorative
ways. For example,
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A
person surfboarding a wave adopts their thinking and behavior via
natural sensory communications from the sun, wind, waves, motion,
temperature, directions, water, hunger, sound, balance etc. Each
communication attracts and registers in this individual's awareness
somewhere; nature's perfection helps the surfer safely guide himself.
In
comparison, the dysfunctions we suffer result from the "normal"
separation of our thinking and being from natural systems and their
correction powers. For example, many of us are not
aware of the immedialte local weather until we hear it digested into
words for us and reported on commercially slanted news broadcasts as
"good" or "bad" weather.
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7.
Be alarmed: our thinking is our destiny.
8.
Be hopeful: it only takes two
hours to learn how to connect our thinking with natural
systems. Thereafter, it takes 5 minutes to do it, whenever it
might be helpful.
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"If
you slice off part of a ball, you make both the ball and the slice
dysfunctional; neither will roll with the same perfection as when the
ball was whole. The same holds true for our extremely nature-separated
lives and the way they split our heart, mind and spirit from our
"ball," our living planet, Earth.
Today,
a sensory mental health tool is readily available to help us reconnect our thinking
with the grace, balance and restorative powers of nature. Using Organic
Psychology, the tool enables us to increase our well-being, wholeness
and belonging, and help others do the same."
From
The Web of Life Imperative...... by Michael J. Cohen
"Personal
transformation is best cultivated by partnering with the supreme agent
of change, the Earth. Life is change, and nature is the wizard who
enlivens its magic cycles."
-Philip Sutton Chard
"Nature
is doing her best each moment to make us well."
- Henry David Thoreau
FORGET
NATURE?
Researchers
have demonstrated that by learning to habitually forget nature we cause
many of our great personal, social and environmental disorders.
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U. S. Surgeon General
Mental Health Report, 2000:
Data developed by the massive Global Burden of Disease study conducted
by the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and Harvard
University, reveals that mental illness* ranks second in the burden of
disease in established market economies such as the United States.
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A point source that causes
mental illness disorders is the nature-desensitization of contempory thinking. Mental
illness disorders are not normal in the natural systems of people and
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We
must learn to remember that we are part of nature, the vital force that
pervades the earth and universe. The precarious state of the world says
we can no longer continue to think and act in ways that forget and
injure nature, our Mother Earth and its natural systems within and
about us.
ORIGINS
Industrial
society teaches us to forget that the birth of our life is a momentous
gift from the natural systems of Earth's global community. On our first
real birth day, together, all members of
nature's global community "love" us so much that they are attracted to
physically and spiritually become us. They supportively flow their eons
of balancing life attractions, wisdom and experience through us. They
birth us out of our human mother and into the more supportive and
universal womb of Mother Nature, so that we can help it support all of
life.
We
are born as contributing planetary citizens with unique skills to
contribute to the welfare of all of life.
The
above is equally true for every member of the global life community.
DISCONNECTION
To
our loss, we spend more than 95 percent of our lifetime in buildings,
cars and offices. 99% of our thinking is disconnected from natural
systems within and around us. Our excessively nature-separated indoor
ways cause us to lose much happiness and wellness that would otherwise
be afforded us from conscious sensory contact with natural systems.
This reduces our mental health and spirit. Although Mother Earth is our "other body," society rewards us to
disconnect from, exploit and conquer her, rather than unashamedly love
her.
We
are challenged by our indoor story that tells us that the conquest of
natural systems is essential for industrial progress, personal power,
economics and happiness. Some of us recognize this story as a directive
from God, as in Genesis: "Multiply and subdue the Earth, and take
dominion over it." We posture our lives and thinking to be prejudiced
against nature.
"
From the masses to the masses'
The
most Revolutionary consciousness is to be found
Among
the most ruthlessly exploited classes:
Animals,
trees, water, air, grasses."
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Gary Snyder
Our
disconnection of our consciousness from natural systems deprives our
thinking of the extraordinary abilities of these systems in congress.
Natural systems correct dysfunctions and create optimums of diverse
life and relationships without producing garbage, undue
stress or abusiveness. Nothing is left out. This demonstrates
that nature can be seen as a unifying organic form of what might be
called "unconditional love." Although we usually omit them, we
desperately need the attractions in natural systems to be conscious
sensory parts of our lives, thoughts and relationships.
SUMMARY
Unquestionably,
because we are part of nature our psyche contains nature's vital force.
However, our education and socialization teach us that it makes sense
for us to exclude nature from 99% of our thinking. We learn that nature
is to be exploited for its resources and a profit, not loved as a
mother whose grace and rare gifts -soil, water, air, sunshine,
community, intelligence, sensation and consciousness -are life
essentials that deserve to be loved, supported and protected, not
conquered.
Our
omission of natural systems from our thinking deprives our mentality,
spirit and destiny of nature's attractive balancing and restorative
powers. Without them, we further condition our thinking to fear,
conquer and exploit nature; we lose conscious sensory contact with our
personal and collective legacy, with nature's unifying perfection,
cooperation and beauty.
WHAT
TO DO
Our
society insists that we be literate in order to know what's happening
in our culture and thereby become good citizens of it. However, we
learn to omit being literate of natural systems in this process. We
suffer our dysfunctions because we do not insist that we learn to make
direct sensory contact with the natural systems that touch our
immediate lives and to speak from that knowledge. For this reason we
lose conscious sensory contact with natural systems. Their grace,
balance and beauty don't enter and benefit our thinking and
relationship building. We lose contact with our inherent ability to be
good citizens of our planetary home and our mental health is reduced. That's our missing element.
This
omission is simply remedied. Like we daily brush our teeth, we can
daily engage in two simple
activities that immediately help us bring the beneficial
contributions of natural systems into our consciousness, thinking and
lives. This is easily accomplished. However, it is extremely
challenging to get ourselves to do it. It goes against our cultural
prejudice, our fears of nature, our norm to conquer, not embrace
natural systems. We need to help ourselves "walk our talk."
Being
severely
disconnected from nature's grace, balance and renewing ways,
is it any surprise that our thinking, and we, short circuit and suffer
serious troubles? The source of this key disconnection is identified
and rectified with nature connecting activities and support community
in the Project NatureConnect Orientation Course, EC0 500:
Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship.
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"This is the course that every civilized person
will be required to take if we are to reverse our runaway disorders."
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- Charles
Sierra, Counselor
CONSIDERATIONS
If
you are a normal citizen of contemporary society, the frenzy of your
daily existence and socialization causes your thinking, moment by
moment, to block or overlook your relationship with nature or take it
for granted. For example:
- how
often do you feel good every day because you sense nature's grace and
restorative powers that rejuvenate and renew every part of the global
community including your psyche and spirit?
- Do
you remember that when the landscape or your skin get scraped, nature
restores them?
- that
when you get sick nature helps you recover?
- that
nature constantly heals and purifies itself?
- that
nature creates and sustains unpolluted, attractive relationships?
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nature has regenerative powers?
- that
nature is and has great spirit and creative energies?
- Are
you, right now, feelingly filled with love and respect for the air that
you are looking through as you read these words, or have you learned to
overlook this air and deprive yourself these good feelings?
- Do
you feel wonderful and supported because this air before your eyes is a
gift from nature and the eons that is giving you your life and your
potential for joy? If you have forgotten this you may refresh your memory by
holding your breath for a minute. A natural sensation will arise in you
that will help you remember the gifts of air.
- Do
you realize that natural systems, in addition to the joy of breathing
air, provide 52 different additional fulfillments or satisfactions
through 53 natural senses you inherit from nature.?
- Can
you truly achieve happiness or well-being if most of your natural
senses lie frustrated within you due to their disconnection from their
rejuvenating origins in nature?
- Have
you become dependent on destructive relationships, substances,
technologies or professions because they satisfy, short-term, the
frustrations and hurt of your disconnected natural senses?
- Have
you been taught the great lie that you can't increase your well-being
by learning how to connect your senses to nature and its restorative
powers? Do you recognize that just the renewal you enjoy from a short
walk in the park refutes the great lie?
THE
TRAGEDY OF OUR OMISSION
The
excessively stress-filled, polluted, physically and emotionally sick
"normal" society that our thinking produces shows that our mentality
has learned to overlook its inborn ability to sense, register and
appreciate hundreds of nature's wise and amazing creations, like air,
sunshine and trees, along with the refreshing rewards each offers. Due
to this profound omission, our mentality has become dysfunctional
in many areas.
Why
doesn't nature repair this, and our other dysfunctions like it heals
most other natural things? Isn't it because we live extremely
nature-separated lives?
Spending
over 99 percent of our thinking out of tune with nature and over 95
percent of our time indoors, blocks, redirects, addicts or brainwashes
our mentality to obtain love from substitutes for nature, substitutes
that we are goaded or paid to invent, obsess for and crave. However,
our inventions seldom contain nature's unifying balance and
recuperative powers. Instead, they often produce detrimental side
effects like pollution, stress, disease and habitat destruction. They
deteriorate natural systems, the same systems that we consist of and
that ordinarily support our lives.
Our
knowledgeable major loss of nature's life-gifts traumatizes us into
denial. We deny that we are rewarded for fearing and exploiting, rather
than embracing, nature and its systems in people and places. We deny
that we and our happiness are psychologically addicted to
nature-disconnected thinking that produces personal, social and
environmental dysfunction.
Even
when we visit a natural area, our mind is conditioned to be elsewhere.
Instead of thinking in tune with nature, we remember past incidents or
hurts, contemplate problems, take pictures, quell fears, discuss
unrelated topics and try to physically "conquer" nature. We
philosophize or place artificial and abstract names on nature's
nameless ways.
A PARADOX
The critical question is
this: "How
can nature even begin to help our thinking improve, our psyche and body
heal, our spirit strengthen, and our relationships unify when our
thinking continually and habitually separates us from the
ability of natural systems to help us?"
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THE RESPONSE
A
maverick
genius has responded to this important question with a simple
answer. Working in natural areas for over forty years throughout the
seasons, his associates and he have created an organic psychology,
the Natural Systems Thinking Process, a readily available
nature-reconnecting tool.
This accredited, love-of-nature science helps us, while in contact with
a natural area, to rejuvenate over 45 natural senses we have numbed. By
doing this, we support and make stronger our natural ability to love
life and make sense of our lives.
Adding
this ability to our contemporary lives is so important that funded
courses, training, degree programs, jobs and
careers are available on the Internet that enable you to master this
organic form of psychology and apply it to any area of our society or
of your life that needs improvement.
If
you are aware of the value of Natural System Organic Psychology and
would like to receive training in its use, that opportunity is
available to you through these web
pages. You start with our Orientation
Course, "Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship." Upon
its completion you know, from first-hand experience what this work can
offer you and others.
The
Orientation Course works because, as mentioned, our excessive mental
disconnectedness from nature usually deadens as many as 53 natural senses we
biologically inherit. The course helps us help natural systems awaken
these senses in us. And, once awakened, these senses enable us to
reconnect our thinking with the renewing powers and beauty of natural
systems within and around us. We begin to walk our talk.
It
has been demonstrated
that we and nature reap many rewards from this process including stress
reduction, closer relationships and increased wellness. We heighten
sensitivity, critical thinking, mutual support and energy. We increase
our love of nature and our protection of what we love. We increase
nature's innate love and care of us.
The
effects of this nature-connecting art and science speak for themselves in many web
of life books and web pages. Most people
can easily learn to
use and benefit from it; they can even earn a subsidized training
certificate or degree on line that will strengthen their livelihood,
credibility and contribution to social and environmental wellness. They
may incorporate this skill in any profession or relationship.
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WHAT CAN BE DONE
Our
troubles will continue until we and our leaders engage in a mental health process
that helps our immediate lives make conscious sensory contact with
natural systems within and around us. We must commit ourselves and each
other to respectfully enlist nature and its regenerative powers to help
us improve our thinking and transform our destructive psychological
addictions into constructive relationships. A hands-on,
nature-connected learning book, the Web
of Life Imperative, gives anybody the means to accomplish
this through nature-connected education, counseling and healing. By
design, it is taught and learned as well via the Internet as it is in a
traditional or outdoor classroom. It's Organic Psychology is a
practical contribution to solving a wide range of disorders because the
Internet makes it readily available to over 600 million people. This
enables us to help heal our society as well as ourselves and each other.
A
book
review/press release about the process of nature-connected
thinking helps you follow nature's path to self, social and
environmental improvement.
Project NatureConnect
CAUSES IDENTIFIED
A
REVIEW OF FACTS ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE
NEWS CONCERNING INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND
SENSORY NATURE RELATIONSHIPS
NEWS:
The percentage of our lifetime that natural systems try to nurture and
heal people physically, emotionally and spiritually, as they do for all
of nature.
.....100%
NEWS:
The average percentage of a contemporary citizen's lifetime that is
spent indoors, separated from the supportive wholeness, balance and
restorative powers of nature and its systems.
.....95%
NEWS:
The average number of
developmental hours in nature-disconnected indoor study that are
required to obtain cultural literacy and a high school diploma.
.....18,000
hours
NEWS:
The average number of
outdoor hours studying natural systems in people and places that are
required for a high school diploma:
.....0
NEWS:
The average percentage of a contemporary citizen's thinking that is
separated from and not in tune with natural systems within and about
them:
.....99.9%
NEWS:
The average number of hours in a sixty year lifetime that our thinking
is connected to nature-disconnected cultural stories.
.....540,000
NEWS:
On average, the number of hours in a total sixty year lifetime that our
thinking may be in tune with nature.
.....11.6 hours.
NEWS:
Terms used to describe the results
of industrial society's extreme estrangement from nature and the
natural:
.....-prejudice against nature
.....-nature bigotry
.....-bewildered (wilderness-separated)
NEWS:
Terms used to describe the type
of estrangement industrial society has from natural
systems:
.....-addictive
.....-emotionally bonded
.....-habitually conditioned
.....-brainwashed
NEWS:
Terms used to describe industrial society's relationship with
nature and its systems:
.....-exploitive
.....-conquering
.....-abusive
.....-stressful
NEWS:
The estimated percentage of the U.S. population who have had at least
one beneficial or feel-good experience in nature.
.....99%
NEWS:
The percentage of the U.S. population who at some level recognize that
we are part of nature, that our basic ability to think, sense and feel
is part of our inborn inheritance from nature.
.....95%
NEWS:
The estimated percentage of the U.S. population who at some level
recognize that the separation of our mind from the wholeness and powers
of natural systems leaves us with a mental void as well as stressed or
disturbed thoughts and feelings.
.....95%
NEWS:
The percentage of the U.S. population who learn to disregard good
experiences with natural systems as an essential part of their path to
well being.
.....99%
NEWS:
The percentage of U.S. population who have used nature-connected
alternative education and counseling and have enjoyed an increase in
their well being (Visit this study).
.....95%
CONCLUSION:
As
planetary citizens, our omission of the wisdom of natural systems from
our thinking is similar to removing from our mind our ability to
reason, learn and communicate in words and numbers. Both omissions
render us unintelligent. However, prejudiciously, we call the former
"normal" and the latter "outrageous stupidity."
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OBSERVATIONS
BY EXPERTS
As
demonstrated by the quotes below and elsewhere, the mutually supportive,
renewing relationship between nature and our psyche is well recognized.
(Many others throughout history have had high "EcoIQ's." When you have
time, you can learn from theirs and check your own, too, at our Eco IQ page)
However,
almost always missing is "how
to do it," the recognition and use of a readily available enabling tool
whose process today helps us strengthen our love for nature and its healing
powers. That tool empowers us and our leadership to genuinely
connect with natural systems within and about us and unify and improve
personal, social and environmental wellness.
"The
human need for nature is linked not just to the material exploitation
of the environment but also to the influence of the natural world on
our emotional, cognitive, aesthetic, and even spiritual development."
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- Edward O. Wilson
Harvard University Pulitzer Prize
Recipient (To the American Psychological Association National
Convention) |
"It
is quite clear to me after several years in the environmental movement
that all physical problems of man's impact on the environment -
pollution of the air and waters, the desecration of the land, the
contamination of the food chain - all start within the environment of
man's mind."
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-Maurice Strong
Founder: the United Nations Environment Program
Co-Chair: U.N. Commission on Global Governance |
"Our task must be to free ourselves from (our)
prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
...-
Albert Einstein
"In
order to achieve more effective environmental protection and
conservation, internal balance within the human being himself or
herself is essential."
...- Dalai Lama
...Nobel Prize recipient
"Our
greatest problems result from the difference between how people think
and how nature works."
...- Gregory
Bateson
"Until
mankind can extend the circle of his compassion to include all living
things, he will never, himself, know peace."
...- Albert
Schweitzer
...Nobel Prize recipient
"Wilderness
is the ultimate encyclopedia, holding answers to more questions than we
have yet learned how to ask. That's the magic in you.
You've got it; let it out."
...- David Brower
"The
environmental crisis is an outward manifestation of a crisis of mind
and spirit. There could be no greater misconception of its meaning than
to believe it is concerned only with endangered wildlife, human-made
ugliness and pollution. These are part of it, but more importantly, the
crisis is concerned with the kind of creates we are and what we must
become in order to survive."
...-Lynton K Caldwell
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
"What
we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of
what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"We
have repressed far more than our sexuality: our very organic nature is
now unconscious to most of us, most of the time, and we have become
shrunken into two dimensional social or cultural beings, aware of only
five of the hundreds of senses that link us to the rich biological
nature that underlies and nourishes these more symbolic and recent
aspects of ourselves.".
...- Norman 0. Brown
...Author of Love's
Body
"We
are dysfunctional
socially and environmentally because we are cut off
and isolated from the world of nature and the natural."
...-Albert Gore, (edited)
...Senator, United States
...Author,
Earth in the Balance
"The
"Great Nest of Spirit" includes matter, nature, body, mind, soul, and
spirit, yet they're always situated in the context of the four
quadrants (of nature, systems, self and culture) and they are all
correlated with one another."
...Brad Reynolds explaining Ken Wilbur, the
"Einstein of Consciousness"
"Nurture
your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is nature's voice,
our origins in nature, the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and
diversity of natural systems sustaining us in the spirit of their
perfection and wellness."
...-from The Web of Life Imperative
"He
looked upon us as sophisticated children -- smart but not wise. We knew
many things, and much that is false. He knew nature, which is always
true."
...-Saxton T. Pope (said
of Ishi, America's last hunter-gather Native
American)
"Over
the years, I've spent a lot of time fighting. Fighting against logging,
pollution, nuclear power...as long as we fight all the time there's
going to be a winner and a loser...(we must) build bridges across to
the people who are fighting."
...- David Suzuki
"Our
religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts.
We're also sand and wind and thunder and rain and the seasons. All
those things. You learn to respect everything because you are
everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things."
...- Least Heat Moon
."At root, ecology is an erotic attitude of
closeness, relatedness and care. We have made it into a
rational/activist project and lost sight of its heart."
...-- Thomas Moore
"Sensory
experience, we might say, is the way our body binds its life to the
other lives that surround it, the way the earth couples itself to our
thoughts and our dreams. Sensory perception is the glue that binds our
separate nervous systems into the larger, encompassing ecosystem. For
the senses are our most immediate access to the more-than-human natural
world." ...-David Abram
...Author,
Spell of the Sensuous
Like
music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend
political or social boundaries.
...-Jimmy Carter
"Personal
transformation is best cultivated by partnering with the supreme agent
of change, the Earth. Life is change, and nature is the wizard who
enlivens its magic cycles."
...F-Philip Sutton Chard
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MAKING
A DIFFERENCE
How to do it:
"A small group of people
gather in a park by a river. The cottonwood trees sway in the wind and
brightly colored leaves are everywhere on this crisp autumn afternoon.
The group includes a woman recovering from chemotherapy and a man
recovering from a stroke, a poet, a community activist, a First Nations
musician, a secretary, a mental health professional, and a naturalist.
I give a brief talk based on
change and impermanence in nature from a chapter of "Reconnecting
with Nature" by Dr.
Michael J. Cohen and then explain today's activity. We
silently separate, asking permission to learn from nature. Some sit by
the river and meditate on the flowing current and standing waves,
others move into the woods and consider the trees and falling leaves.
After about 20 minutes we
gather together again and share our experiences and impressions. The
talk is profound and the listening is respectful. Everyone's experience
was different, but everyone's was the same, too. We say goodbye and
return to our separate lives, feeling safer and happier and more
connected than when we arrived.
I learned to share my
connection to nature in this way through online
courses with Dr. Cohen's Project Nature Connect. The process
was the same in the internet courses as in these nature meditations. We
read a chapter in a book, spent some quiet time doing an activity in
nature, and then shared our experiences via email. As we repeat these
brief sessions Cohen's Natural
Systems Thinking Process helps people re-establish their
connection with nature and learn to live more enriched and connected
lives. Dr. Cohen's work has made a significant
and enduring contribution to my life and to the lives of many
other members of my community."
- John Scull, Ecopsychologist
Doing Organic Psychology
online:
"Enthusiastic" is the way
Carol feels about the online orientation
course she is taking entitled "Psychological Elements of
Global Citizenship". She knows what is important in it to her because
in its prerequisite material she identified areas of interest and
results that previous course members found important for themselves.
She also tried some of the activities with friends and knows they work
well for her.
Carol reads her course
instructions online from a "base camp" web page in her The
Web of Life Imperative book. She learns
from them what activity she and her email partners, who live in many
different countries, will to do on this scheduled day in their local
park, backyard, or even with a terrarium. In general they have been
doing two activities a week.
As Carol begins this day's
activity she senses what is most attractive to her in a local natural
area at this moment. Unexpectedly, she becomes aware that the delicate
sparkle of a water droplet on a fern attracts her. She does additional
activities that reinforce this nature-connected sensation and she
becomes aware of other things that come to mind from the total
experience. They include other times she has felt its joy and meaning
as well as her past disconnection from it, what caused the
disconnection, and the effects of the loss. She discovers the droplet
being attractive to her was not an accident. It was subconsciously
attractive to parts of her that sought the fulfillment of the balanced
tenacity, brightness and refreshment it provided. Contact with the
droplet brought these parts of her into her awareness.
Carol has already read
material which helps her understand the activity she has just done and
how she might apply it to improve and further enjoy her daily
relationships with people and the environment. She closely follows the
twelve guidelines that come with the activity instructions.
Carol goes on-line and
shares with her 7-person interact group, who live in the USA and
abroad, her thoughts, feelings and reactions from her nature connecting
experience. One shared activity she receives was done with penguiins in
Antartica, another in a Hong Kong garden. She also downloads, reads,
and later reacts, to the attractions she finds and things she has
learned in all the email she receives from the group. They become the
course textbook. They convey her group member's true experiences in
nature with the same activity and readings she just did. Later she
reads their reactions to the letter she just sent to all of them.
Carol finds the course
process is enjoyable and educational. She feels relieved that
participants hold something important in common and are therefore
supportive and not bogged down in "flaming" arguments about differing
viewpoints, ideologies, religions, politics etc. She feels alive and
spirited, sustained by her email partners commonly held responses and
the group's rejuvenating reconnection to nature.
Her day brighter and
energized, Carol looks forward to applying the activity by using what
she learned to further connect with people and natural places that
attract her. They gain additional value and she becomes aware of an
often unrecognized natural self-worth in herself and others along with
new values in natural areas. She has increased confidence for she has
done the activity and known its effects. She owns it, can teach it, and
gain its rewards again at will.
The course work feels simple
and enjoyable to Carol, but explaining to others how and why it works
challenges her intellect and spirit. The process and its effects are so
steeped in nature's mutually supportive relationships that for most
people they are, like nature's perfection, beyond words. To be known
and understood by others, she must help them sense the effects first
hand, or remember them from their previous good experiences in nature.
"The Web of Life Imperative offers
more tools, knowledge and personal power for good than most therapies
and spiritualities. It's course
enables us to reverse our destructive relationships by empowering us to
make thoughtful sensory connections with genuine nature. This
connection responsibly satisfies the aching, ever-wanting hole in our
psyche that has been produced by our excessive separation from nature,
a hole that leads us astray"
-
Susan
Chernak McElroy,
Award
winning, N. Y. Times best selling author of Animals as
Teachers and Healers and Heart in the Wild.
Learn
how to participate in
this program
*[Mental
Illness: It
is important to appreciate that mental disorders leave no aspect of
human experience untouched. They include dysfunction and disorders in: Substance and People
relationships, Moods, Anxiety, Sexual and gender identity, Eating,
Sleep, Impulse-control, Adjustment, Personality, Alzheimer's,
Depression, Anger, Dependency, Attention-deficit and hyperactivity,
Bipolar, Cognitive, and include they Schizophrenia and other psychotic
disorders, Somatoforms disorders, Factitious disorders and Dissociative
disorders.]
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