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ARE YOU UNEASY ABOUT LEARNING TO THINK IN TUNE WITH NATURE?
To their loss, many people have lowered their self-esteem, well being and resilience by learning to feel that there was something strange or wrong about them for having nature-connected feelings. To your benefit, The Web of Life Imperative helps you reverse this syndrome in yourself and others.
"The most touching thought was when one group member said, "Therefore, if I feel the beauty of this tree, it is a part of me, part of who I am. So I am (at least in part) beauty." It took me sometime to process this thought, but after doing WLI activities, I believe it to be true."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
The co-authors of The Web of Life Imperative help you learn and use a time-tested, practical, Natural Systems Thinking Process. This organic, nature-connecting psychological tool enables you to powerfully address three crucial, but often ignored, facts of contemporary life. Do you recognize these facts and their significance?
1. Most efforts for a better tomorrow are bound to fail in the long run if they don't improve our destructive, nature-disconnected
consciousness. This is because the disconnection of our consciousness from nature's vital support and renewal makes us emotionally depend upon or addict to immediate "artificial" rewards and then suffer from their inadequacies and the harmful side effects that they often produce.
The disconnection of our psyche and thinking from natural systems goads us to seek, applaud and financially profit from questionable technologies, excessive need for money, and harmful exploitation or assaults on natural systems around and within us.
2. No matter what personal or global disorder we address we can not resolve it if we continue to use the same nature-disconnected thinking process that produces or sustains that disorder.
3. No matter how good our intentions are or how worthwhile our ideals and values, they come to naught if we do not have and use a process that enables us to implement them.
"I believe the more people use this nature-connected way of thinking the more individuals will take it upon themselves to continually make little changes in their lives. More conscious choices like this, when taken all together make significant differences in the health of our personal lives and the health of the planet."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
Our greatest thinkers have provided us with hundreds of profound ideas about what is wrong with our society and what should be done to improve our situation. What they have not provided, however, is a readily available, practical, thinking process, a tool that each of us can easily use to implement the best of these ideas.
"Intellectually I knew I was part of nature. From a feeling quality, though, I didn't, until an organic psychology activity literally snapped me into myself and my surroundings. I felt all the dissociated parts return to their right places inside, as Nature lovingly let me know I had always been perfectly acceptable just as I am."
Carol Biggs
Alaska Nature Connection
(Nature counseling and education)
"On a global scale, WLI offers the hope that if more of us deeply felt the interdependence of humans as natural beings that our ecological problems would diminish."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
The Web of Life Imperative teaches you how to use an organic reasoning process that helps you personally and globally increase your nature-connected consciousness and apply its restorative energies to your thinking, feeling and relationships.
"WLI enabled me to put the pieces of my disconnected puzzle together. I knew I was depressed but did not understand why. I knew I was anxious but could not find a reason to be. I knew I should be satisfied with my status in life but carried a huge unexplainable empty feeling with me. I had in times of very depressed moods instinctively sought relief in nature, but like someone who had lost the puzzle box cover, the pieces were just too hard to put together. I feel that I have found the lost puzzle box cover and the big picture can be seen. Pieces are falling into place quite naturally; a whole New World has been revealed."
.....-Participant's Evaluation
YOU CAN DO IT NOW.
The prime, nature-disconnected shortcoming in contemporary thinking is so simple and common that you can identify and experience it, first-hand, on the pages of the book's introduction. At the book's website you can easily become familiar with this shortcoming so you can begin to recognize and deal with it.
"The activities are deceptively simple; they are powerful and healing, a basic link between reconnecting with nature and good feelings."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
As a public service the authors have made the book's introduction describing our basic shortcoming available free, on line at The Web of Life Imperative homepage www.webstrings.org. In addition, a short, free, online course about coping with this shortcoming is available from the book's website. You can also order the $35 Web of Life Imperative book at this website and, when appropriate, obtain financial or other assistance to help you obtain it.
The Web of Life Imperative teaches you and your community a newly discovered organic antidote for the incomplete thinking that places the health of our personal and planet natural systems at risk.
"The value of WLI is enormous. Authentically reconnecting with nature is the only possible way to heal the wounds that society has inflicted on our soul. Every person would benefit from this process and, in time, nature will benefit as well."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
You can make a profound contribution to the welfare of yourself, your community and the organizations you support by learning, using and teaching the book's Natural Systems Thinking Process. This will increase your joy, self-confidence and feeling of being part of something extraordinarily worthwhile.
"The benefits of WLI applies to both intrapersonal and interpersonal relations, as well as our relationship to the natural world. The lessons taught offer satisfaction and wholeness in our lives."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
Consider the many benefits The Web of Life Imperative offers you and those you love:
It empowers you to use nature's sensory regenerative key to reducing disorders, sustaining peace and implementing your deeper ideals.
It gives you a unique, nature-connected learning tool that enables your psyche to authentically tap the profound healing powers of nature.
It provides you with a science that helps you restore 48 subdued natural
sensory intelligences back into your awareness and relationships.
It empowers you, backyard or backcountry, with a practical process to improve your health, inner-peace and self-esteem.
You learn how to let nature help you replace the destructive blocks in your thinking with rejuvenated, balanced ways of knowing.
You gain the ability to counteract your education's omission of a much needed organic personal psychology.
You can master how to genuinely reconnect your reasoning and senses to their nurturing origins in Nature's restorative vigor, sustainability and peace.
It helps you, and those close to you, benefit from the renewal that thrives in the magnificence of a beautiful day, the wisdom of an ancient tree and the fortitude of a weed.
It lets the intelligence and higher power of nature's healing energies help your thinking and emotionality transform your harmful stress, disorders and addictive bonds into the rewards of responsible personal, social and environmental relationships.
You discover how to strengthen your inborn natural genius and grow from hands-on, biophilia-in-action, classes, essays, friendships, activities, research, scholarships, ethics, counseling and healing.
You can enjoy a satisfying, Earth-friendly, job, career, internship or teaching certification as well as take advantage of online financial aid, scholarships, courses and degree programs.
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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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