'Nurture your felt love for nature; never deny it. It is your connection to the unifying essence that organizes, preserves and regenerates life relationships at every level. Its loss in our lives produces our imbalance and destructiveness. As our arm is attached to our body, all people are biologically and psychologically attached to, and part of, nature. However, society generally dismembers our psyche and wellness by excessively disconnecting us from nature.

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On average, we learn to spend over 95% of our time indoors.
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Over 99% of our thinking is separated from nature.

As a result, our psyche and wellness silently suffer a profound loss of contact with our sensory and sensibility roots in nature. Contemporary thinking then lacks nature's peace, wisdom and beauty. Significantly, the major problems our society face seldom exist in intact natural systems nor in nature connected people. As a twig is bent, so grows the tree.

Engaging in meditation, yoga and similar practices helps us relieve our stress and deterioration from nature disconnection. By using them in conjunction with newly researched nature connecting activities, they become powerful tools for sustaining personal and environmental wellness.

As we begin to learn about reconnecting with nature, we begin to discover why the world works beautifully, yet often does not feel that way in our lives. Nature beautifully sustains itself in balance by using 53 natural senses that we inherit. Our problem is that we learn to restrict ourselves to only five of the natural senses we are born with. The disastrous personal, social and environmental results speak for themselves. Research shows that we can choose to rejuvenate of our inborn natural sensitivities and make things better.

Our lives sometimes don't make sense and our problems flourish because industrial society does not teach us to seek, honour, and cultivate nature's contributions to our lives. We learn instead to conquer, to separate from and deny the time-tested love, intelligence, and balance found in the natural world.'

Michael Cohen
Integrated Ecology / Project Nature Connect
Institute of Global Education

Do you know that we actually have 53 senses?

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"I have had an appreciation for the "messiness" of life's process ever since I looked at the park across the street from my house one fall day and REALIZED how messy God / Mother Nature is. Leaves and branches and debris all over the place. It helped me to relax into acceptance of the messiness of my own transformation."
Jackie Martin

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