Project Nature Connect
A Synopsis of Natural Attraction Ecology:
Although humanity is part of nature's perfection, a remedy is urgently needed for how and why our Industrial Society deteriorates personal, social and environmental well-being. The way we presently think excessively exploits nature for profits and power. If socializes our consciousness to be prejudiced against the balanced ways of nature's web of life community, in and around us.
Industrial Society detaches, on average, over 98 percent of our time and thinking from the self-correcting ways of the web of life. The web, including us, consists of a flow of natural system attractions that, without producing any garbage, organize themselves to create the inimitable perfection of nature's self-propagating optimums of life, diversity, cooperation, beauty, community, purity and well-being.
Over decades of all-season inquiry into the renewing grace of natural areas, Project NatureConnect has designed an accredited, nature-connected education, counseling and relationship building Natural Attraction Ecology. It is a sensory form of Environmental Education, an Applied Ecopsychology or Ecotherapy process that improves personal and professional relationships. Its organic, hands-on science, backyard or backcountry, helps us reasonably:
- make conscious sensory contact with the flow and spirit of natural systems and their wisdom.
- reduce stress and disorders and increase well being by thinking with our 53 inherent natural senses.
- create moments that let Earth teach and reduce duality by feeling and thinking like nature's unity works.
- enable the healing sensitivity of our multiple natural intelligences to transform our destructive thoughts into nature's regenerative ways.
Natural Attraction Ecology enables our thinking to enlist nature's restorative powers so that we may recycle the bigoted pollution in our psyche that blocks nature's purifying flow from helping our thinking increase personal, social and environmental well being.
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Naturally Attracted : Connected with Michael J Cohen
Unknown to themselves, and perhaps to you, most people in industrial society unnecessarily cause and suffer our wide range of disorders due to a missing component in how we learn to think. This missing component is essential for personal, social and environmental well-being.
The component is readily available. We endure many disorders simply because we don't use it. You are invited to profitably incorporate it in your endeavors.
The heart of our troubles is that industrial society indoctrinates us to believe that we are a superior form of life. We believe that we think and relate better than nature works. For this reason alone, we demean the wisdom found in many sensory callings from natural systems that we hold in common with nature and each other. For example, one of these callings is the sense/sensation of thirst. In balanced ways, around and within us, it includes us in the planet's water cycle. However, we delude ourselves to the point that we don't even include thirst as one of the five senses that we inherit in order to know, learn about and relate to the world.
There are 52 additional natural senses/sensations that make up our natural common language with the web of life and each other. They exist because to be part of a system one has to be in communication with the system and we are part of the web of life's global ecosystem.
Our 53 natural senses are the sensitivities we inherit to consciously relate and participate in mutually supportive balance with the web of life. Each helps us make more sense of our personal and professional lives so we reduce our nonsense.
Our unreasonable prejudice against nature teaches our thinking to overlook that the web of life is the major revitalizing source of the well-being of all of life on Earth. This includes the well being of each of us, including the life of our mind, body and spirit.
To our loss, our bigotry teaches us to forget that Earth's web of life does not produce garbage or pollution, that it creates its own environment, its self-correcting relationships and their perfection and that each of us is an active part of the web. Due to our prejudice against it, we are deteriorating the web of life internally, locally and globally. We are reducing our well being as part of it.
Here is our monumental key solution: ATTRACTIVE FAMILIARITY ALWAYS ERADICATES PREJUDICE.
There is a practical remedy for our destructive prejudice against nature. Known as Natural Attraction Ecology, in natural areas, backyard or backcountry, its natural systems thinking process helps us create purifying sensory moments in natural areas. Each of these moments lets Earth teach us what we need to know to come into balance and increase well being.
Natural Attraction Ecology is a whole-earth science, one that empowers our present logic to become a green eco-logic so that we can each further make a difference. It enables us to reduce disorders by thinking with, not against, the regenerative ways and wisdom of natural systems in and about us.
Our greatest challenge is that most of us do not think that we can be prejudiced against nature. But we are. For example, we recognize that under the laws that we make, we give ourselves our inalienable right to our lives. However, locally and globally, we give the global source of life and its eons no such legal right to its life. This makes the web of life our slave, to do with as we might, and that's exactly what we do, to its and our demise. This alone demonstrates the astounding depth of our prejudice against nature. To our loss, there are innumerable other examples of the unwarranted deterioration of natural systems.
On average, over 98 percent of our time and thinking is separated from nature. This profound loss of sensory contact with the self-correcting and renewing ways of the web of life unbalances our psyche. It makes us want and when we want there is never enough. Our excessiveness, greed and discontents result. We continually sense and feel that something important is missing in our lives, and it is.
If we want to solve our greatest problems and increase well being, we must educate and legislate to reverse our unreasonable thinking about our citizenry in the web of life community. Natural Attraction Ecology enables us to meet this need. Can you use, or help others learn about its availability and contribution?
For Peace on Earth Through Peace with Earth,
Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D.
Institute of Global Education (10)
Special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council
Integrated Ecology/Project NatureConnnect
Special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council
Integrated Ecology/Project NatureConnnect
