TOPIC: We are Embedded in and Nurtured by
Earth's biosphere,
ECHN: The Whole Life Art and Science of Educating
Counseling and
Healing With Nature
ECOLOGY: We are Embedded in and Nurtured by
Earth's biosphere
The
scientific fact of Ecology is that we are embedded in and nurtured by
Earth's biosphere, a 20 mile band of life that
sits above and below the land and ocean. We are as much a part of the
biosphere as is any leaf, molecule or atom, any plant, animal, mineral
or weather system.
The
discovery of the biosphere in 1929, makes as great a contribution
for good as did the finding by Copernicus, in 1536, that the
Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system.
For
the past 75 years science and society have recognized the biosphere and
its cyclic systems as the central pulsating life community and ecology
of Planet Earth.
.
"Life
prepares its own environment"
- John
Storer,
The
Web of Life (1953)
.
The
biosphere is a community. It consists of creation's
self-organizing, cooperative integration of atmosphere,
sunshine, ocean, soil, plants, animals, minerals and energy, a web of life attraction
symbiosis
that supports all of life (Gaia),
including human life. It nurtures us as we nurture it. For this reason,
for example, we are born as cat, dog and pet lovers, we are not trained
through hypnotherapy or any other process to naturally love animals or
life.
It
is natural attraction, the
love of life, that energizes and organizes how nature works.
The
essence of the biosphere and Earth is the pulsating flow of
natural systems. They are driven by natural
attractions to support life.
Wherever
or whenever that flow of ecology is stopped, life as we know it
deteriorates or dies.
Many
folks generalize the biosphere as being "star energies" or the
"Universe." This "answer" can remove their thinking from the benefits
and
destiny they might otherwise enjoy by making conscious sensory contact
with natural life and its web of life natural
attractions, the
real thing, backyard or
backcountry.
"I
did the activity that directs you to visit a natural area and
thoughtfully learn to sense it and the natural attraction flow of its
systems. You then
try to determine where nature ends and you begin. I was surprised and
grateful because in 20 minutes I discovered a new depth of who I really
am and what has happened to me."
-Project
NatureConnect Participant
"This
home schooling
activity helped me realize
that even if I'm in a natural area but I'm thinking or talking about
some rock band or the problems that face me in the classroom or with my
boss or my
girlfriend, I'm not fully connecting with my natural attractions and
nature."
-Project NatureConnect
Participant
Do the observations, above,
make sense to you? Are they attractive? Call 360-378-6313. BEGIN HERE
Natural systems
and their
flow are self-correcting
and purifying. They recycle and renew the natural deterioration of
themselves and every molecule on earth. For this reason, nature rarely
creates abuse. It seldom produces garbage, pollution or the destructive
stress and pain of our aggravated relationships.
Moment by moment,
the pulse
of natural systems and
their natural attraction power flows through all of life. This includes
the life of our
mind and spirit, of our thoughts feelings and perceptions.
Natural
attractions are a
prime
commonality and
unifier that we share with all people, places and things, past and
present. Perhaps originating in the Higgs
Boson, this commonality includes what we hold in common
with
spiritual leaders like Moses, Jesus,
Mohammad
and Buddha.
Most artificial substitutes
for natural systems
exclude the natural unifying energies and organic healing ways of
natural attractions. This
omission leaves our thinking to unknowingly produce our
conflicts, discomforts, moods or deterioration, sooner or later.
Our whole life health and
happiness ultimately
depend upon the streaming pulse of natural systems through us. But
because of the prejudicial
distortion in our leaders'
biosphere-detached thinking, in the name of "progress" "profit" or
"economic growth" our socialization teaches us to excessively separate
ourselves from, exploit and conquer nature and its attractions, as if
they
are harmful.
What we do
to nature, we do
to ourselves as part of nature. We become stressed consumers
instead of responsible and happy life-community citizens.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this
problem.
REMINDER:
To our loss, on
average, throughout our
lives we learn to disconnect 98 percent of our time, thinking and
feeling from conscious sensory attraction contact with nature and its
systems.
Our
extreme exploitation of
and disconnection from
natural systems stops their beneficial flow through our psyche. The
loss of their natural attraction vibrancy wounds our psyche. It numbs
our thinking and
feeling. It erodes our trust and our sense that we naturally belong or
have value.
Our
pain and numbing
desensitization results in
the excessive disagreements, violence, abuse, stress, hurt, disorders
wants and addictions that mark our lives.
We
are troubled because
something is missing.
We
don't know or relate to the ways of nature, in and around us, as
balanced attraction-love
life relationships, as do other natural beings.
We
seldom embrace natural
things as relatives,
attractions, loves or spirit kinships. For example, the organism that
we call a "tree," "board-feet" or "potential profit," nature-centered
people(s) might call "treeing," "tree spirit,"
"friend" or "relation."
Natural
folks are
socialized to validate their innate attractions to Earth, to trust
Mother Earth
as a true mother, not as a dead third rock from the sun. We can't
afford to overlook that these folks seldom cause the troubles we
produce.
Many of them have no word in their language for pollution,
garbage or waste. Everything belongs.
"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
Do the observations, above,
make sense to you? Are they attractive? Call 360-378-6313.
Start the ECHN Introductory Course and your
program here. Why wouldn't you want to add this important
benefit to your life and livelihood?
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