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CAN THE THE WEB OF LIFE IMPERATIVE BE OF SERVICE TO YOU?
There is a simple way to discover if this remarkable book and the optional Organic Psychology course it contains can help you improve your thinking and relationships. Simply respond to the following questions:
Are you one of the vast majority of people who feel better after taking a walk in the park, visiting a beautiful natural place or spending time with a pet they love?
Are you aware that you feel better in these natural settings because people, including you, are part of nature?
Do you recognize that nature and its systems have the innate ability to organically "come back," to heal, renew and restore themselves?
Are you aware that this is what happens to your thinking and psyche when you visit a natural area, that nature begins to renew your psyche, to make your head clear so you feel better? Too often we take this attribute and gift of nature for granted. This same healing ability of natural systems operates in your body. It produces your immune system and your body's ability to heal a cut, bruise or infection.
When you genuinely connect your senses and thinking with nature, backyard, park or backcountry, you simply help nature's regenerative powers do what they do best.
It's not that you just get away from your problems. You get away to a natural, balanced integrity. You walk into a life system that does not let these problems form, a life system you share and whose powers you have learned to take for granted. It is for this reason that in a natural area, nature helps you heal and restore your natural psyche and thinking ability. The application of Organic Psychology to this phenomenon powerfully increases it.
The more your psyche is authentically connected to natural systems, the more your psyche becomes part of nature and benefits from the wholeness of nature's healing powers and rewards.
If you trust the good experiences you have had in nature you already know from experience that renewal happens. After all, if you can't trust your senses and experiences, just what can you trust?
"WLI profoundly and joyfully changed my life through inviting me to be more fully receptive to Nature outside and inside of myself."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
Isn't it true that the stronger, more vibrant and lasting your connection with nature, the better nature works its healing powers? The Web of Life Imperative helps you improve the wellness of your thinking and psyche because it scientifically enables you to increase the time, intensity and range of your conscious contact with nature.
"I've become more and more aware of being able to trust nature, the world, and my many friends and other beings. All are doing their powerful part as lasting sources of support, guidance and wisdom for me if I remain open in heart and mind and truly listen to the nature of each of them."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
"I was delighted to enjoy the way this book provides a doorway to the beauty that's all around us. It offers a path which helps us find our personal truth and to trust in ourselves to follow it, knowing that all the support we need to live safely and joyfully awaits us at all times."
Sarah Anne Edwards, LCSW,
Author of Finding Your Perfect Work and the Practical Dreamer's Handook.
"I am constantly reminded by WLI to act and 'be' out of a sense of deep trust: trust in the ocean waves, trust the minnow and the whale as meaningful family to me, trust in you and in the power of the starry starry night."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
CONSIDER THESE TWO SIGNIFICANT BUT OVERLOOKED FACTS OF LIFE.
ALTHOUGH PEOPLE ARE PART OF NATURE:
1. ON AVERAGE, MEMBERS OF CONTEMPORARY
SOCIETY SPEND OVER 95% OF THEIR TIME
INDOORS, SEPARATED FROM NATURE.
2. HOW WE THINK AND FEEL SHAPES OUR
DESTINY. DURING OUR LIFETIME, ON AVERAGE,
OVER 99% OF OUR SENSING, THINKING AND FEELING
IS DISCONNECTED FROM NATURE AND ITS BALANCING, RESTORATIVE POWERS.
Our daily indoor survival pleasures reward us for thinking "normally," i.e., in nature disconnected ways. What results is our ability to thoughtfully know and relate to natural systems is similar to what our ability to read and write would be after learning to do them for only twelve hours.
Our rewarded but extreme disconnection from nature's perfection and our biological
origins in its balancing and healing ways frustrates our psyche and thinking. This produces lasting and deteriorating sensory stress and resulting discontents and disorders.
For example, no matter how rich or poor they be, most people say they need about 15% more money.
The addictive nature-disconnection of our thinking and feeling helps explain the persistent health, emotional and relationship troubles we suffer. It also explains our difficulty in recovering from them and our expensive dependence on law enforcement, artificial medications and therapies and excessive consumerism.
Our excessive disconnection from nature prevents nature's powerful survival-in-balance energies from entering and healing our thinking and feeling. This produces the lack of passion that underlies our apathy, our self-destructive lack of participation in sustaining our and the environment's welfare.
"We can reawaken something within ourselves that we, as a society, have neglected or forgotten. In sharing WLI with my family, their natural senses have been reawakened as well."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
Since disconnecting from nature is a source of many troubles, the organic nature-reconnecting principles and activities in The Web of Life Imperative help you reverse these troubles. This parallels the beneficial results of organic food and gardening practices. It explains why the process this book offers enables you to increase your mental and physical wellness as well as contribute to the welfare of your friends and the environment.
"I've come to learn that my desire is not to run away from anything but rather to go towards something that is so fundamental that I wonder how people survive without doing it."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
"I find this new yet primordial way to reconnect with nature promotes self-healing for addiction and for stress-related problems amongst teenagers as they uncover the healing properties of nature with their therapist. Together they learn how to listen to the many voices of nature and to ignore the anger and frustration they so often feel and voice."
Revalyn Faba-Sack
Special Needs Intervention Coordinator and Teaching Specialist.
'I'm addicted to the "positive reward" I get from connecting to nature and have now made it a priority in my day, even if something that I used to claim as "more important" doesn't get done."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
"Great to read the text. It is easy, profound and dancing like waves into the next chapters. Thanks for your work. May god bless you."
Monika Lenz
"The level of understanding, openness, caring, and desire to grow from each single person was overwhelming."
.....- Participant's Evaluation.
The Web of Life Imperative is a giant organic step for personal and global sanity. It offers you a university developed process, science and course that has been given on-line and in real time over 125 times in the past 8 years. It has helped over 1000 people improve their thinking, health and careers. It is ready and accredited for your use.
"I wanted an ecopsychology course that had scholarship and credibility behind it. I found that here along with the college credit I needed. I liked that this organic program was primarily based on experience."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
The Web of Life Imperative enables you, at will, to genuinely reconnect the natural systems in your psyche and body with the restorative powers and integrity of natural systems around you including parks, sanctuaries and wilderness as well as potted plants or a home aquarium.
"I liked the experiential nature of learning concepts from the Earth itself...and I enjoyed very much the connections with the other participants and all that I learned from their experiences and feedback."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
IS THE ORGANIC PSYCHOLOGY IN THE WEB OF LIFE IMPERATIVE BOOK BELIEVABLE?
Think about the simple questions below. They will help you identify the natural system sensory energies that have persisted and remain alive and well in you. These and other senses and energies, when intensified and supported through The Web of Life Imperative, help your health and happiness increase:
'WLI reaffirmed my belief in the value and presence of intuition, and non-verbal communication in our lives. I learned self-empowerment, self responsibility, AND IT IS EASY"
.....- Participant's Evaluation
Have you ever
- -wanted to go to a natural outdoor area for your vacation, to the mountains, a lake or the sea?
- -had a good experience in nature that made you feel more content or happier to be alive?
- -longed for a livelihood that further contributed to personal and global balance rather than one that exploited Earth and people?
- -noticed that disorders tend to subside and stress fade when you are in nature?
- -loved a pet, plant or place that made life more worthwhile?
Have you ever:
- -treasured a rock or totem that helped you through troubled times?
- -felt greater love for a person or people while in a natural area?
- -noticed that it is easier to build and sustain
relationships while visiting natural areas?
- - felt, at times, as drawn to Mother Earth as you would a caring human parent that you loved?
- -noticed that in nature you can think and feel more clearly?
- -loved a young animal or plant?
- -wanted to help an animal in trouble?
Have you ever:
- -had strong sensations about connections between yourself and nature or Earth that you know were real but that you can't easily explain?
- -felt angry or sad about how we pollute, injure or destroy the natural environment and/or its people and diversity?
- -noticed that counseling, educating and healing are more effective when they include quality time in natural areas?
- -discovered in nature new ways if thinking or senses and sensations that that are often absent in indoors?
- -felt freer and more alive when visiting a natural area?
- -cared about a rock or crystal?
Have you ever:
- -been delighted to read the scientific studies that document how reconnecting our thinking and feeling to our psychological and biological origins in nature has beneficial learning, healing, and environmental effects?
- -felt safer and more whole from eating organic rather than non-organic food or using organic gardening rather than chemically polluting practices?
- -noticed that many "normal," "well adjusted" "successful" leaders in our environmentally and socially erosive society consider the love of nature to be fuzzy thinking or touchy-feely nonsense?
WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW:
The Web of Life Imperative empowers you to, at will, genuinely connect your thinking with natural systems and, to your benefit, more fully energize the natural qualities of your psyche, some of which are identified in the paragraphs above.
Here is a secret you may recognize: the greater your fulfillment of your inborn attractions to nature, the greater your resilience to dependencies and disorders and the greater your ability to obtain and enjoy rewards from constructive participation in responsible relationships.
"The value WLI brought to me was that no matter what your goals are in life there are simple but powerful organic things that you can do to bring those goals closer."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
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About the Book's Central 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 the International University of Professional Studies. Dr. Cohen has founded sensory environmental education programs independently and for the National Audubon Society and Lesley University, conceived the National Audubon Conference "Is the Earth a Living Organism," and is the award winning author of 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.
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CONTACT: www.ecopsych.com <nature@interisland.net>
360-378-6313, Pacific Time Zone
NOTE. Save money by ordering The Web of Life Imperative in conjunction with its companion volumes listed on the order form at http://www.ecopsych.com/orderbook.html
Is Organic Psychology for you? You can further determine this by reading more results and reactions of its participants and identifying those results that seem important for your goals.
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