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.     INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council Project NatureConnect : Holistic natural system career solutions for NSD health problems and relationship troubles.   The Effects of Natural System Dysfuction (NSD)   "Most of our populace and all of our leaders are participating in a mass hallucinatory fantasy in which: the megatons of waste we dump in our rivers and bays are not poisoning the water, our body or our spirit. the hydrocarbons we pump into the air are not changing the climate of the world or deteriorating our health. overfishing is not depleting the oceans, over consumption does not hurt the environment. living estranged from nature's grace and restorative powers does not reduce our resilience or result in problems and disorders. fossil fuels will never run out, our senses and feelings are not an important part of the way our natural systems work. wars that kill masses of civilians are an appropriate way to keep our hands on what's left, we are not desperately overdrawn at the environmental or emotional bank, sensory activities that connect our thinking to nature's healing ways don't help us increase our well being, and really, although by the age of seven our kids bond to this mass hallucination and need to be drugged, they are all right." ..........- Barbara Kingsolver. (edited)   "That's the truest sign of insanity - insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy." -Nora Ephron   "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." -Voltaire   The number of monthly inquiries on one single search engine (Overture) regarding disorders we suffer: 106403  eating disorder  85020  bipolar disorder  76427  sleep disorder  44839  anxiety disorder  35559  attention deficit disorder  33868  obsessive compulsive disorder  27764  skin disorder  24804  borderline personality disorder  20715  genetic disorder  16666  personality disorder  13169  post traumatic stress disorder  13127  social anxiety disorder  12117  mental disorder  12034  eating disorder treatment  11171  blood disorder  10353  disorder  10242  oppositional defiant disorder  8844  narcissistic personality disorder  8167  mood disorder  7786  panic disorder  7438  teen bipolar disorder  6708  sleeping disorder  6697  psychological disorder  6656  attention deficit hyperactivity disorder  6611  symptom of bipolar disorder  6452  multiple personality disorder  6403  reactive attachment disorder  6119  attachment disorder  5642  generalized anxiety disorder  5460  neurological disorder  5262  dissociative identity disorder  4922  antisocial personality disorder  4795  seasonal affective disorder  4580  schizoaffective disorder  4439  conduct disorder  4061  pervasive developmental disorder  4021  thyroid disorder  3795  picture of eating disorder  3642  body dysmorphic disorder  3445  dissociative disorder  3441  mary kate olsen eating disorder  3419  digestive disorder  3373  autoimmune disorder  3247  eye disorder  3226  information on disorder  2981  oppositional defiance disorder  2909  histrionic personality disorder  2906  adult attention deficit disorder  2834  autism spectrum disorder  2814  sensory integration disorder  2704  seizure disorder  2657  general anxiety disorder  2634  binge eating disorder  2630  stress disorder  2562  brain disorder  2521  paranoid personality disorder  2463  eating disorder statistics  2450  aspergers disorder  2434  communication disorder  2361  information on eating disorder  2250  obsessive compulsive personality disorder  2224  conversion disorder  2180  metabolic disorder  2176  teen eating disorder  2163  central auditory processing disorder  2162  celebrity eating disorder  2154  endocrine disorder  2147  learning disorder  2137  pro eating disorder  2099  behavior disorder  2025  stomach disorder  2010  attention deficit disorder add  1970  auditory processing disorder  1960  mental health disorder  1947  kidney disorder  1931  avoidant personality disorder  1899  attention deficit disorder symptom  1886  somatoform disorder  1865  bipolar disorder in child  1817  major depressive disorder  1773  bulimia eating disorder  1725  bipolar disorder treatment  1708  great dane skin disorder  1681  vision of disorder  1679  human genetic disorder  1662  adjustment disorder  1641  eating disorder and the media  1639  depression and anxiety disorder  1617  liver disorder  1601  anxiety disorder symptom  1597  dysthymic disorder  1591  nerve disorder  1584  connective tissue disorder  1574  sexual disorder  1544  cause of eating disorder  1541  dependent personality disorder  1528  disease disorder  1522  picture of skin disorder  1513  speech disorder  1488  muscle disorder   The number of monthly inquiries on one single search engine (Overture) regarding excessive stress we suffer: 35226  stress management  26432  stress relief  14266  stress test  13169  post traumatic stress disorder  10087  stress symptom  6987  stress reduction  6097  stress and anxiety  5435  stress fracture  5090  stress reliever  4846  stress ball  4010  post traumatic stress syndrome  3732  post traumatic stress  3478  nuclear stress test  2795  stress management technique  2630  stress disorder  2533  coping with stress  2377  teen stress  2282  work stress  2172  stress relief game  2122  how to relieve stress  2083  definition of stress  2063  how to deal with stress  2052  stress relieving  1974  cause of stress  1941  job stress  1856  stress incontinence  1845  effects of stress  1758  thallium stress test  1756  stress article  1752  managing stress  1686  heart stress test  1676  reduce stress  1632  physical symptom of stress  1597  stress and hair loss  1584  workplace stress  1580  stress cause  1524  stress in the workplace  1486  stress health  1480  stress reducer  1457  stress and pregnancy  1451  post traumatic stress disorder symptom  1438  dealing with stress  1344  emotional stress  1337  posttraumatic stress disorder  1283  midwest center for stress and anxiety  1257  stress fracture foot  1199  cardiolite stress test  1185  stress factory  1160  repetitive stress injury  1143  sign of stress  1065  stress management article  1055  stress quote  1054  stress statistics  1051  cardiac stress test  1050  stress headache  1050  stress picture  1010  stress quiz  1002  stress depression  971  type of stress  966  exercise and stress  965  stress cartoon  956  stress reliever game  950  stress management training  941  oxidative stress  934  work related stress  923  stress testing  914  stress game  914  treadmill stress test  909  how to manage stress  895  non stress test  892  anti stress  888  stress hormone  867  shear stress  865  acute stress disorder  855  stress and college student  849  teenage stress  841  effects of stress on the body  831  stress related illness  824  child and stress  822  stress factor  819  post tramatic stress disorder  818  stress vitamin  809  heat stress  803  stress medication  797  adenosine stress test  789  anxiety stress symptom  789  stress urinary incontinence  763  woman and stress  758  stress busters  743  loading stress tensile  731  ways to relieve stress  708  club room stress  677  police stress  671  stress reduction technique  651  college stress  649  stress echo  638  stress room  637  stress during pregnancy  629  stress relief technique   Continued, please select here for the complete SPECIAL REPORT ON LEADERSHIP AND NATURAL SYSTEM DYSFUNCTION located at http://www.ecopsych.com/nsd.html   Summary Natural System Dysfunction (NSD) consists of our denial that our thinking is psychologically addicted to excessively nature disconnected ways of knowing, ways that diminish our natural health and senses, our resilience and the environment. Organic Psychology reverses NSD by thoughtfully helping our consciousness connect with and more fully register natural senses and systems. It enables us to increase our well-being by, in theory and practice, injecting the transformational balance, grace and restorative powers of nature in our thinking and relationships.     A special report on Natural System Dysfunction   Natural System Dysfunction (NSD): the disorder, its origins and remedy Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D INTRODUCING THE THIRTY PERCENT FACTOR: Learn how to correctly identify, address and treat Natural System Dysfunction troubles through Organic Psychology in just 14-40 days of part-time, online, home study. Gain the ability, by 30 percent or more, to: increase the productivity and benefits derived from other forms of counseling, education, healing, personnel management or therapy that advance citizenship or treat other disorders. . decrease present health, human service and stress management problems, costs and disorders . improve responsible, wellness, learning ability, happiness and credibility at work, home or school. . strengthen personal, social and environmental well-being. . Act now:Homepage   ABSTRACT: Overview and History: Project NatureConnect, a sub-contractor for the Institute of Global Education (IGE), a special NGO consultant to United Nations Environmental and Social Council, has identified a debilitating mental ailment, Natural System Dysfunction (NSD), as well as an antidote for it. The problems and troubles caused by Natural System Dysfunction diminishes wellness in industrial society. It deteriorates natural systems within us and this reduces our resilience to other disorders we suffer. NSD keeps us unhealthy and our health costs high. Any disorder is a condition in which there is a mental, physical, or psychological disturbance of normal functioning; one that perturbs us, makes our psyche uneasy or causes us undue distress, worry or alarm. NSD is a pervasive disorder that we suffer and usually deny. NSD produces sensory deprivation that seldom registers in our awareness. It harms us by rendering us incapable of registering and thinking with the full range of inborn protective and supportive natural senses that we inherit from natural systems within and about us. Our natural senses are vital immunity and resilience functions of our natural systems. When they are unavailable or impaired, our thinking is forced to make less sense. This produces a void in us that distresses our mind, body and spirit. It makes us more dependent on, as well as vulnerable to, detrimental products and relationships. By blocking us from enjoying our natural ability to register the grace, balance and healing ways of natural systems, NSD fuels our disorders and reduces the effectiveness of their treatment. Because NSD stops our thinking and acting from enlisting nature's recuperative powers our troubles continue. We are part of nature. NSD injures us by preventing our thinking from registering sensory messages sent by natural systems that sustain our health. Plagued by this deficit, our lives and mentality are seldom organic. To our loss, we work against nature instead of with its grace. balance and restorative powers. IGE has produced a readily available remedy for Natural System Dysfunction problems and troubles. It is an easily learned online Organic Psychology that enables us to strengthen the vigor of natural systems within and about us. It helps us bring to consciousness and revitalize deteriorated natural systems; this toughens our resilience. The theory and science of Organic Psychology empowers us to think with nature. It helps us transform our disorders and improve our health by enabling us, at will, to tap our mind into the supportive and renewing ways of natural systems within and around us. They help us compost and recycle our mind pollution, the hurt and destructive aspects of our thinking. "Nature is an ever-present power of recuperation." -Richard E. Dodge in a 1915 Journal of Geography. Act now:Homepage   "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." .    - Edward O. Wilson Harvard University Pulitzer Prize Recipient (To the American Psychological Association National Convention)      Continued, please select here for the complete SPECIAL REPORT ON LEADERSHIP AND NATURAL SYSTEM DYSFUNCTION located at http://www.ecopsych.com/nsd.html   Summary Natural System Dysfunction (NSD) consists of our denial that our thinking is psychologically addicted to excessively nature disconnected ways of knowing, ways that diminish our natural health and senses, our resilience and the environment. Organic Psychology reverses NSD by thoughtfully helping our consciousness connect with and more fully register natural senses and systems. It enables us to increase our well-being by, in theory and practice, injecting the transformational balance, grace and restorative powers of nature in our thinking and relationships.   Act now:Homepage   Empower yourself. Join the Friends of Natural Systems Organization Address our major troubles. Enjoy the well-being produced by learning to think and co-create organically with natural systems within and about you. Take a giant step for reversing dysfunctions in our psyche and the suffering they cause. Enable yourself to make a difference in industrial society Take advantage of free personal or professional holistic health education and job, internship, career, funding opportunities and discounts that support the wellness of all of life. Our society's limited ways of thinking result in social and environmental problems that unnecessarily produce suffering. Learn how to transform exploitative cultural forces that, for a profit, reduce our ability to make happy, sustainable social and environmental choices. Friends of Natural Systems supports natural health and spirit schools, courses, theory and individuals that help improve personal and professional relationships. We are a free, online, holistic, environmentally sound, remedy education group. SELECT HERE to become a participant in Friends of Natural Systems Select here to enjoy a free, transformational Organic Psychology activity online. Organic Psychology is an applied, accredited transformational form of Ecopsychology from Project NatureConnect at the Institute of Global Education. Empower yourself; enroll in the 14 - 40 day Organic Psychology online theory and practice training course Visit Organic Psychology examples of Nature's grace and restorative powers available to you. Inquire about becoming a partner in this program 360-378-6313     Help strengthen a personal and global well-being (Add your comment to an automatic email message)   About the Author Recipient of the 1994 Distinguished World Citizen Award, Ecopsychologist Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D. is a Director of the Institute of Global Education, where he coordinates its Integrated Ecology Department and Project NatureConnect. He also serves on the faculty of Portland State University, Akamai University and West Coast University. Dr. Cohen has founded sensory outdoor environmental education programs independently and for the National Audubon Society and Lesley University (AEI), conceived the National Audubon Conference "Is the Earth a Living Organism," and is the award winning author of Web of Life Imperative, Reconnecting With Nature, Einstein's World, and How Nature Works. He is an accomplished folk song artist and contra dancer who presents traditional music programs for the U.S. National Park Service and Elderhostel on San Juan Island, Washington. CONTACT: http://www.ecopsych.com/mjcohen.html nature@interisland.net 360-378-6313, Pacific Time Zone Act now:Homepage Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship an organic remedy for Natural System Dysfunction "This is the course that every civilized person will be required to take if we are to reverse our runaway disorders." - Raymond Sierra, Counselor   SELECT HERE to become a participant in Friends of Natural Systems   INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council PROJECT NATURECONNECT Holistic natural system career solutions for health problems and relationship troubles through online courses and degrees. 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 book The Web of Life Imperative. .   ,

. Web Site Navigation email Project NatureConnect Homepage (Website search engine) Grant-funded, alternative courses, human services career training and holistic jobs and degree programs online for sustainable personal and environmental health. Introduction Alternative Shortcut Holistic Overview What We Do Who We Are Learn in Nature Sustainable Purpose Program Director Site Map New/Updates Burnout Prevention Nature Jobs Nature Heals Application Forms . Act now: grants, loans scholarships Education Introduction Education Index Degrees/CEU's Certification Orientation Key Sustainable Courses Scholarships Procedures Key Financial Free Course Free Activity Information Synopsis Books Careers/Jobs Articles/News Organic Psych Sensibility References Outdoor Blog Alternative Essence Validation Outcomes Key Testimonials Key Book Contacts Email 360-378-6313 Return to Homepage Act now: student grants, scholarships loans for college online ........................................   "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." .   -Maurice Strong Founder: the United Nations Environment Program Co-Chair: U.N. Commission on Global Governance   "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       "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                 "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         "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       . Web Site Navigation email           "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           . Web Site Navigation email       "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     "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           . Web Site Navigation email       "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       . Web Site Navigation email