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Reconnecting w/Nature
Dr. Michael J. Cohen is an ecopsychologist who teaches that, in industrialized societies, stress and other disorders arise from our "disconnect" with Mother Earth and the natural order. Read on for more of his philosophy and information about his unique educational program to re-connect us to our natural source of wellness--Nature herself.
Date: 11/20/2006 12:12:58 AM ( 18 y ) ... viewed 1733 times INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION
Special NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council
Website: http://www.ecopsych.com/
from webpage: http://www.maverickgenius.com/nsdomission.html
We unnecessarily suffer personal, environmental and global disorders because:
ESTRANGEMENT FROM NATURE: Over 95 percent of our time and 99 percent of our thinking arises from indoor relationships that are separated from the grace, balance and restorative powers of nature. This estrangement from nature removes the wise sensory signals of over 45 natural systems from our consciousness and reasoning.
LOSS OF NATURAL INTELLIGENCE: The profound disconnection of our mind from nature prevents us from thinking and relating through the intelligence and wisdom of nature's eons. We lose their guidance and organic food for thought.
SOURCE OF OUR TROUBLES: The destructive omission of nature's ways in our consciousness and reasoning underlies our personal and global troubles. These include war and global warming. In pain, our innate sensory love for our mother planet retreats to our subconscious.
THINKING IN BALANCE: We live unbalanced lives because we don't teach ourselves to think with nature's cooperative, non-polluting ways which we inherit, and by which nature works.
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Dr. Michael J. Cohen, 360-378-6313
Email: nature@interisland.net
Website: http://www.ecopsych.com/
Counseling and Educating With Nature: We Unnecessarily Suffer Stress And Disorders Because We Are Victims Of A Convenient Lie.
In the tenth anniversary edition of "Reconnecting With Nature" (Ecopress, 2007), Dr. Michael Cohen demonstrates how a vast majority us are victims of a dangerous falsehood perpetrated by Education, Psychology and Health Professionals.
Cohen, an Ecopsychologist, at the Institute of Global Education shows that that our most trusted leaders subject us to the destructive stress and troubles we suffer by emotionally bonding us to an inaccurate early-childhood belief.
Most leaders fixate us to think that we live on the surface of Planet Earth, and we don't. We live 300 miles deep in the Earth, imbedded in its biosphere.
Since 1929, scientists have recognized that Planet Earth includes a biosphere zone that recycles and sustains all life on the planet, including our lives. The biosphere integrates Earth's atmosphere, sunlight, ocean, soil, plants animals and minerals. In mutual support (and defying the universal laws of entropy) this life community cooperatively diversifies and grows without producing garbage or pollution or our excessive stress, violence and disorders.
Natural systems are exemplified by the purifying and self-correcting flow of the water cycle locally and globally. Throughout the biosphere the grace, balance and restorative powers of natural systems regenerate and maintain the well-being of life. This includes our mental life, our thoughts, feelings and perceptions. Our health, intelligence and happiness depend upon the decontaminating flow of Earth's natural systems about and through us, including their flow through our mind.
Cohen says, "Because we are not aware of the biosphere as our planetary home, on average our thinking unreasonably detaches over 98 percent of our time, thoughts and feeling from natural systems. This extreme disconnection stops the recycling stream of Earth's systems through our psyche. Our mind stagnates and our reasoning becomes contaminated. Stress escalates and great troubles begin."
Disconnected from natural systems, like a computer unplugged from an electric socket, our thinking is neither able to repair our mind or its disorders nor re-plug itself. Our thinking is our destiny. It needs help. However, its dysfunctions prevent it from valuing a powerful antidote and preventative for our dilemma.
The remedy we seek is in the Organic Psychology of Cohen's "Reconnecting With Nature" and its companion volume "The Web of Life Imperative." The book offers us a sensory science, a practical tool that enables our thinking and feeling to improve by thoughtfully plugging into natural systems, backyard or backcountry.
Most of us know that a short walk in a natural area momentarily renews us as natural systems begin to flow through our mind. Organic Psychology provides us with the means, online, to habitually strengthen and lengthen this process. As we enjoy its benefits in our personal and professional life, we increase our well-being, locally and globally.
For further Information
Dr. Michael J. Cohen, 360-378-6313
Website: http://www.ecopsych.com/
Book: http://www.ecopsych.com/newbook2007.html
This release is also online with informative links to the points it makes:
http://www.ecopsych.com/bookhelpincome.html
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