Disconnection from nature is considered one of the major problems facing nature conservation. The term ‘connection to nature’ is frequently used to describe our enduring relationship with nature, including emotions, attitudes and behaviour.
Research shows that people with a greater connection to nature are more likely to behave positively towards the environment, wildlife and habitats. Developing an enduring relationship between people and nature, connecting people, may be critical for future nature conservation. There is also increasing evidence of a positive relationship between a person’s connection to nature and their health and wellbeing. Experiencing nature is thought to provide health and wellbeing benefits. This is a potential ecosystem service that could start a positive feedback loop between health, wellbeing and connection to nature that leads to benefits for biodiversity conservation. The health and wellbeing benefits of experiencing nature may be especially important to those suffering from ill health, such as dementia. Activities which assist people with dementia to engage with nature may be tools for improving their health, wellbeing and connection to nature, not only for the individual but for their carers, friends and families. However, there are many unanswered questions about how to initiate and develop a connection to nature: what activities work, who they work for, why they work and what type of connection to nature leads to positive behaviour change. RSPB is working in collaboration with teams around the UK to try and shed some light on these questions and further the understanding of connection with the aim of increasing success of conservation action. KR IRS 21 5 23 On Sat, 20 May 2023 at 18:47, Markendeya Yeddanapudi < [email protected]> wrote: > > > -- > *Mar*Emotional Truth-Vs-Cartesian Proof > > > > You feel your existence. You do not need mathematical proof of your > existence. When you do not want to feel, but search for the scientific > proof of your existence, you ditch your feelings, as more than 99% of > feelings have only abstract base, where quantification is not possible, > because no emotion can be quantified. > > You feel your existence as part of nature; develop emotional ties with > every life form, which in turn develops its emotional ties with you. You > cannot section the flow of feelings in the air, which you inhale and > exhale, and do mathematics on the sectioned and divided feelings. Can you > express your love and affection for any member of your family in quantities? > > When you are living, you look into the air or often close your eyes, to > feel more and you continuously do not look only at your body of the visible > spectrum. Actually most of your living is feeling the abstracts. Most > religious bigots, stop feeling nature, in free nature, but tie themselves > in preconceived religious texts, which often contain indefensible and very > cruel rituals, as justification for cruelty. Often sadism becomes faith. > > Religious fanatics are as, or even more cruel than the Technology > fanatics, who have been destroying nature completely dominated by economics > and also the Cartesian logic, which they adopt out of the bounded > scientific curiosity. > > Once language was feelings laden songs, tunes, musics and dances, as > response to free and lush nature. It was an extension of the emotions and > feelings radiating nature. I wonder as to how much of music, and tunes were > lost before the language of words developed among the humans. > > I do feel that new musics, tunes and songs can be developed if one teams > up emotionally with the various life forms in thick and happy forests. But > one must get rid of the feeling of separation from every other organism to > just become the scientific observer.Once,music,poetry and songs and tunes > were simply the basic ingredients of living, of the non-economic man, not > today’s phantom the economic man. He lived in musics, dances and songs, as > part of biological existence. The real man in his ordinary feelings of life > did not live any business of life. > > Emotional truths are feelings and emotions which one feels by inhaling and > exhaling as a member of the Biosphere. Cartesian proofs are the outcomes of > keeping all emotions in abeyance temporarily at the beginning but > permanently after being dominated by technology. > > Today we are destroying nature continuously. We lost our basic biological > faculty of singing, and dancing in rapture. Many of us suffer from > inhibitions developed by the shyness which modern societies create. > > There is life only in nature which is free and in rapture. Technology > ultimately creates emotional voids only. > > YM > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZopaAX0cx2yMn6N%3DkjR6F05H1kwmHE8n6pNGpS7CxwwqNg%40mail.gmail.com.
