Restoring disconnection

Most therapies, healing and learning work better and produce greater responsibility when connected to natural attractions in nature. It is no longer heresy to say that the greater a person's natural attraction desensitization or disconnection, the greater are the problems that person suffers and causes. Conversely, sensuously reconnecting with attractions in nature may be our salvation for it enables us to transform our disorders into unifying, constructive relationships (5A-E).

To repair our mentality's destructive disconnection from Nature, at the Institute of Global Education a newly researched Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) provides a missing link that does the seemingly impossible. It enables anybody to safely make thoughtful, conscious, sensory contact with natural attractions in Nature, backyard or back country. People thereby reduce their dismemberment stress and improve their thinking and ways of relating. This authentic reconnection with our natural attraction origins rejuvenates at least 53 inherent natural attraction sensitivities in us. It energizes them to register in our consciousness as attractive felt senses and logic (3)

The presence of these additional senses in our normal awareness enables us to enjoyably think and speak with them, to make more sense and thereby improve our relationships with our selves, each other and the natural systems within and around us. This becomes very attractive, therefore repeated, and thereby lasting (2).

NSTP helps anybody restore the inherent joy of their culturally suppressed natural attractions: senses of community, trust, place, compassion, reason, belonging, consciousness, global citizenship, empathy, literacy, humor, spirit, relaxation, and sustainability along with our forty-one additional natural senses. It enables us to come into balance as our thinking rationally taps into Nature's natural attraction to reason, peace, spirit, community and Higher Power.

Conclusion

It is neither sensible nor attractive for us to remain sensuously disconnected from Nature and continue to produce the destructive effects we and Earth presently suffer. To help us end this deterioration NSTP is readily available through online scholarships, courses, degree programs and training for nature-connected education, counseling and leadership. NSTP empowers caring individuals to help people, nations and religions share with each other their conscious sensory contact with natural attractions in natural areas backyard or back country This unification improves personal, social and environmental relationships and restores peace.

Further information about NSTP is available at http://www.ecopsych.com and in the book Reconnecting With Nature (Ecopress) .

References:

1. Bloom, Howard. (2000.) Global Brain. New York. John Wiley and Sons.
2. Cohen, Michael (1996) A Survey of Participants: Reactions to NSTP and Studies of Effects, Friday Harbor, WA, Institute of Global Education
3. Cohen, Michael (1997) Reconnecting With Nature: Finding Wellness Through Restoring Your Bond with the Earth, Eugene, OR, Ecopress
4. Cohen, Michael, Editor (2001) The State of Planet Earth: Results of Ecozombie Thinking (http://www.ecospsych.com/zombie2.html)
5A-5E Chard, Philip Sutton. (1994.) The Healing Earth: Nature's medicine for the troubled soul. Minnetonka MN. NorthWord Press.

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• 5E. Stilgoe, John R. (2001). Gone barefoot lately? Nature matters. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 20(3): 243-244

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Reviewed material

Other material that appears in this article is drawn from Michael J. Cohen's professionally reviewed publications in The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Journal of Environmental Education, Interpsych Journal of Mental Health, Greenwich University Journal of Science and Technology, Councelling Psychology Quarterly, Proceedings of the North American Association for Environmental Education, Journal of the Oregon Counseling Association, The Trumpeter, U.S. Department of Education Educational Resources Information Center, Outdoor Communicator, Clearing Magazine, Nature Study, Between the Species, Cooperative Learning, International Journal of Humanities and Peace.