Petition Insists UN Use Nature to Increase Personal, Social and Environmental Health and Wellness

Jan. 18, 2010 - PRLog -- San Juan Island, Washington: A petition to increase sustainable, health and wellness locally and globally has been initiated by Project NatureConnect, a holistic degree program at the Institute of Global Education.

The petition is a directive to the UN Secretary General and all people of good faith. Any caring person who wants to stop our madness and create greater sanity on Earth is invited to sign it and promote it.

The petition insists that we make use of a powerful social technology, one that enables us to eradicate the destructive core of the great challenges that face us. It is an integral ecology tool that offers the international community a strong conflict resolution and stress management process for peace and balance with the whole of life.

The technology is an anti-depression art and science that helps us increase personal, social and environmental well-being.  We accomplish this feat by educating, counseling and healing while our thoughts and feelings are supportively connected to nature's great powers to restore and transform.

The petition's author, Dr. Michael J. Cohen, director of the Akamai University Institute of Applied Ecopsychology claims that we suffer because we deny that our society's nature-conquering bias is a culprit that we are taught to ignore. Our bias makes the nature-separated way we learn to think believe it is superior to, and independent of, the way that nature produces the paradise of its wellness and perfection.  Because we are part of nature and its wisdom, our excessive separation from it produces a hurt, ever-wanting void in our psyche. This produces our greed, disorders and abusiveness.

Cohen says, "Conscious sensory contact with nature, backyard or backcountry creates moments that fulfill our psyche and let Earth teach us what we need to know to remedy our discontents. This helps us build mutually supportive relationships with each other and the environment."  

The pioneering mission of Project NatureConnect (PNC) is to help individuals genuinely connect their thinking and feeling with the regenerative intelligence of nature's self-correcting flow, in and around them.  The online program's low-cost, UNESCO approved, training courses and degrees at Akamai University enable students to make conscious sensory contact with the life nurturing way of the eons. They learn how to appreciate it in themselves and in local or remote natural areas.

During a field study, a PNC student wrote in her journal,  "I loved the way Sarah saw herself connected to nature as one whole and complete organism. I still struggle with the thought that nature and people are separate. What helped me re-enforce our connective-ness is when I learned to ask for a natural area's consent to visit it. At first I thought this was a silly idea, and I hoped I wouldn't have to say it out loud  but now I see that it gives nature a well deserved recognition of its preciousness and that it makes sense for me to pay my respects as I make contact.  Doing this increased this natural area's attractiveness and mine, too, as part of it. Made me feel great. Very cool."


For additional information and free materials:
http://www.ecopsych.com/
Sign and promote the Petition http://www.ecopsych.com/petition2.html
Contact Dr. Cohen http://www.ecopsych.com/mjcohen.html
360-378-6313
nature@interisland.net

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