Page Eight homepage The Global Community Study & Activity Continued from Page 7   Walking our talk: We put the natural systems thinking process to an acid test. We taught it to a group of "at risk" "uneducatable" students who could not handle traditional school, lived 180% below the poverty level, had been sexually or physically abused and were chemically dependent. Some were homeless, others in jail. They were considered to be uneducatable. In a few weeks these "problem" youngsters learned from the strings to consciously sense, validate and enjoy their natural sensory attractions and think with them. They learned to use the activities to make further contact with the strings in nature and each other. Their sensitivities increased, their thinking became multisensory and their lives more intelligently motivated. They sought and psychologically became part of the global life community. Tests and observation showed that their disorders and dependencies subsided significantly while their interpersonal, community and learning skills heightened. "The laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive." -Henry David Thoreau Studies of the challenged students, as with other users of the process, reflect dramatic improvement in mental health, self-esteem, sleeplessness, depression, stress management, school attendance, academic achievement, environmental awareness and community participation. Quickly, the students bonded as a community. They also bonded to a trashed natural area near their forthcoming new school. To protect the area's integrity and availability for future nature reconnecting activities, these "incapable" youngsters successfully cleaned up, weeded and replanted it with indigenous species, wrote environmental protection grants, organized the public and effectively presented their work to Education Boards and Administrators who were intent on paving the area as a parking lot. They surpassed the performances of many "normal" students, still the area was made into a parking lot. The students sensed that the trashed natural area, like their inner nature, wanted to recover from the abuse it received from our nature disconnected society. They said that, like the area, their inner nature (true self, inner child, soul) had been: "hurt, molested, invaded and trespassed," "It wanted to become healthy or die." "It felt trashed and overwhelmed." "It had no power, it needed a fix or help to recover." To a greater or lesser extent, most people have suffered similar string deterioration. Often we hide the pain from our consciousness, but it reappears when it is hooked by a relationship. The fear of once again experiencing the pain produces apathy. The students wrote: "This wilderness community is being choked by alien plants and stressed by pollution, abandonment and major loss. We, too, are being choked by drugs and alien stories that pollute our natural self. We feel abandoned by our society, treated like garbage, and cut off from nature which fills us with grief. By protecting and nurturing this ecosystem we find the strength to open our minds, hearts, and souls for the survival of our Mother Earth and ourselves (g/g)." SUMMARY H: As shown by Studies, by engaging in the Natural Systems Thinking Process disorders and dependencies subside while interpersonal, environmental and learning skills strengthen. OPTIONAL: On a piece of paper, record the SUMMARY letter above (A: B: C, etc.) along with the numbers (below) that indicate your amount of agreement with the summary statement a) as a stated truth (1-10) and b) as a 0-100 % percentage of your daily time that you think you practice this truth. Note how you feel about the difference, if there is one, between your a-score and b-score. 1.........2..........3........4.........5.........6.........7.........8..........9.........10. disagree..........................so partially agree...........................fffully agree   The Process In Action. A participant writes: "Here's an example of how the nature reconnecting process works to nurture the strings and wellness: A reconnecting activity helped me become aware of my sensory attractions to the crescent moon as it hung over two hills near my home. Soon, its mellow glow, framed by peaks and trees, embraced me in a wordless, ancient primordial scene. Timeless power, peace and unity swept me up. I just wanted to stay in that state of awe, I felt in balance with all of reality. I was simply "BEING." No tension, no pressing goal, just truly belonging to the global community. This natural energy captured my stress laden pulse and seduced it to the rhythms of Earth. The sleeping disorder I have battled all my adult life dissolved in this power. For the first time in decades, I gently fell asleep after dark and arose shortly after dawn. I celebrated the breakthrough and I thanked nature and its sensory strings within and around me. I thanked the activity, too, for it enables me to reconnect whenever I choose ." This activity let nature fulfill and nurture into consciousness the sensory strings of: time, coriolus, motion, shape, size, texture, sight, sound, color, distance, fatigue, rhythm, consciousness, language, reason, community, place and belonging (g/g). Another participant notes: "The reconnecting process improves relationships between people. Like discussing the weather, when we share our sensory nature connections, we get along better. We relate through something vital, a natural love that we hold in common and enjoy in each other. We unify because we bond to the environment, we act to protect it." Sustaining Life In Balance: Isn't it time that we get off our juggernauting destructive train by coming to our senses, by letting the strings bring us to them through a safe, effective nature reconnecting process? The strings can do this because they are natural sensory loves, an essence of life itself. D. H. Lawrence beautifully validated this when he said: "Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table." - D. H. Lawrence Today, using internet interpersonal connections, or a local interact group, people in our civilized vase learn and teach others how to let nature help us bring our subconscious strings into our awareness and change our madness to gladness. Through the natural systems thinking process, people psychologically reconnect their roots to intact natural systems. This stops the bleeding. Authentic nature nurtures our natural love strings, we move towards optimums of wellness, beauty and integrity. This constructively reroutes destructive trains of thought and action. You may begin the process now by doing a simple Attraction String Activity.   Please proceed to the Activity Page Return to beginning of Study The best way to learn and teach the Natural Systems Thinking Process is by doing it. 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