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IS ORGANIC PSYCHOLOGY A MISLEADING MYTH?
From The Web of Life Imperative
If you suffer from the illusion that increasing your thinking's connection with nature can not produce significant improvements in your life how do you explain the documented results of the medical and psychological studies cited below and hundreds more like them?
- Given a choice
between a scene with trees and one without, people of all ages
and ethnic groups from all countries prefer the scene with trees.
. - People rejuvenate
and renew their lives by having a pet, going for a hike, keeping
a garden, or visiting a beautiful place.
. - Surgical patients
have shorter hospitalizations, less need for pain medications,
and fewer complaints about discomfort when they have hospital
windows that overlook trees rather than brick walls.
. - Police report
lower crime rates in areas of public housing developments that
have a density of trees.
. - Prisoners
with cells that provided views of rolling landscapes were found
to need fewer sick calls than inmates whose cell windows overlooked
prison courtyards.
. - Pets have
positive effects on patients with dementia. Even patients with
impaired mental abilities connect with cats or dogs.
. - Contemporary
people who live in environments that are more natural, live longer.
. - Post-traumatic
stress victims recover by connecting in nature to "something
larger than themselves."
. - Natural green
areas increase children's attention and learning ability.
. - Nature-centered
people and cultures seldom display or cause the problems that
undermine industrial society.
- People in recovery programs from dependencies and addictions have made extraordinary progress by using nature as a source of their higher power
The Web of Life Imperative is a fully accredited Integrated Ecology and Applied Ecopsychology text and course from Project NatureConnect at the Institute of Global Education, a special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
"WLI promotes in its participants a healthy "fix." Participating in the readings and activities with other interested and involved participants gives your mind and body what it needs. Its important value is that you feel so good you naturally crave more of these experiences on your own and it makes sense rather than be harmful."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
"Being in touch with my core Essence, thus realizing my life work, is key to everything flowing with success. WLI helps with Who Am I? Why Am I Here? How do I Bring it Forward, and interact successfully with others?- This is the real gift of the book and course."
.....- Gerry Eitner
I'm at a type of limbo point in my life and without the course I might have either stayed in more feeling sorry for myself or done something destructive to forget my pain. The course helped me know that where I am is ok. By doing its simple exercises I find a clearer path.
.....- Participant's Evaluation
The Web of Life Imperative offers you an unprecedented breakthrough for sanity. It is a social and ecological "e=mc2." Because it produces few adverse environmental or social impacts it enables you to improve:
- Peace. Presents a newly researched,
potent component that helps you achieve inner, social
and international peace.
... - Health: Provides a stress
management, alternative medicine and ecological psychotherapy
that increases physical and mental health.
... - Environment: Offers a readily available
means to passionately restore the integrity of natural systems
within and around us.
... - Sustainability: Helps you live more
in rapport with the land and humanity as have people in other
cultures and times.
... - Relationships: Empowers you to enjoy
more intimate, stronger and lasting friendships and love bonds.
... - Leadership: Assists you in mastering
and teaching a profound process to reach your deeper ideals and
hopes. Entitles you to demand that our leaders engage in this
process and support its implementation at every level.
... - Belonging: Acquaints you with the principals and functions of the Ecopsychology, Ecotherapy and Systems Thinking community.
"It is up to us now to make these actions an integral part of our lives. Not only for ourselves, but for others as well. It would be pretty selfish of us to keep all of this energy, information, and attraction to ourselves."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
"This program provides a simple to use yet profound tool that is geared to assist those of us living in a fast paced consumer based culture; a culture who's side effects leave many struggling in the search to find true sustenance and a healthy sense of power. Reconnecting with nature has enriched my personal and professional life tremendously. I have seen participants in my workshops and private healing practice enthusiastically experience the intelligence and healing effects elicited through Nature's healing touch. As a witness to Nature's healing and teaching abilities I can confirm we humans are wired into a brilliant web of life that longs for us to remember home, and when we do, we not only heal ourselves we heal our planetary home."
Marlow Shami M.S.
NaturalSense Workshops
"The language and concepts of WLI stay with me on a daily basis. I notice that my connection with nature remains at the heightened level that it assumed when I was active in the courses."
.....- Participant's EvaluationI feel I have a whole new relationship with nature. I feel that the Earth is there to nurture me and also wants to be nurtured by me. I definitely feel more connected, I belong"
.....- Participant's Evaluation
HAS CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY'S EXTREMELY NATURE-DISCONNECTED THINKING AND EDUCATION SHORTCHANGED YOUR INTELLIGENCE AND WELL BEING?
Are you uneasy because your nature-disconnected socialization has taught you to ignore the simple facts, below, facts that from your experience you know to be true?
Have you learned not to trust your reasoning, senses and experiences with nature?
A. As part of nature, in order to live people need, and receive the following substances from the natural environment: water, air, food, materials, sunlight energy, soil, plants, animals, minerals.
To mentally register them and benefit from them nature also gives us many senses and sensitivities including those of sight, curiosity, reason, thirst, consciousness, place, trust, belonging, touch and community, along with 40 other natural senses.
B. In order for something to be part of a social or natural system it somehow must be in communication with the system. Otherwise it is disconnected from and can not relate to or with the system.
C. As described in A, above, people are part of nature's peace, our living global ecosystem and its balanced perfection. To be part of it we must be in communication with it and vice-versa. Do you know how we are inherently in communication with nature and it with us? Do you know how to benefit from safely strengthening, improving and increasing this communication? You can easily learn and practice this sensory skill through The Web of Life Imperative.
"As we sense nature to be part of us and vice versa, we are less likely to cause harm to our environment, for we discover and feel how we are really harming ourselves."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
D. We live in an extremely nature-disconnected, indoor society, out of sensory and intellectual communication with natural systems. Our non-organic learning and psychology seldom appreciates, seeks or teaches us balanced, nature-connected ways of thinking, learning and relating, ways that help us heal the effects of our destructive separation from nature. For example: organic thinking and practices applied to food production avoid the heath hazards and environmental immorality of techno-chemical agriculture and produce the benefits of organic gardening, organic food and other organic products. Organic thinking regarding our psyche and relationships helps us increase the wellness of our thinking and relationships with natural systems in ourselves, others and the environment.
"WLI helps me trust my instincts, intuitions, and feelings of being attracted to various parts of nature -- especially when I need an answer to an important question."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
E. As long as our thinking, learning, psychology and consciousness are disconnected from communication with natural systems, the systems and therefore we suffer the disorders caused by our disconnection.
"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
You may break this destructive cycle for yourself and help those you love. You can master the basics of Organic Psychology in 5-weeks or less through The Web of Life Imperative, or better still as part of its online, hands-on course.
"WLI is needed for all humans to become globally reconnected. It empowers us to assist in our inherent mental and physical healing capabilities."
.....- Participant's Evaluation
At the www.webstring.org web site you can:
- Order the The Web of Life Imperative book by email or phone.
- Obtain author-signed copies at no extra cost.
- Read introductory information, essays and reviews.
- Arrange to take the book as an online course with credit optional.
- Apply for online training, certification or degree programs.
- Become an authorized Ambassador for the book.
- Become acquainted with the co-authors.
- Save money by purchasing the book in conjunction with its companion books.
- Include this book and course as part of your program and transcript at a school you presently attend.
- Obtain CEU training credits by taking this course online.
- Petition to provide services in kind for partial book payment.
- Petition for financial aid in purchasing the book based on need or exceptional circumstances.
- Obtain discounts for quantity orders or special use.
- Obtain a loan copy for review or publicity purposes.
- Save money by buying the book in conjunction with online courses that further your expertise in nature-connected thinking and relating.
- Help introduce Organic Psychology to professional and lay people.
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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