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It recognizes Earth as a living organism and that we are born with more than 53 natural senses that help us sustain personal and global well-being. Additional Article Information: =============================== 1108 Words; formatted to 65 Characters per Line Distribution Date and Time: 2008-09-09 13:00:00 Written By: Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D. Copyright: 2008 Contact Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D.'s Picture URL: http://www.ecopsych.com/mjcohen.html For more free-reprint articles by Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D., please visit: http://www.ecopsych.com/2004artnews.html AND http://www.thePhantomWriters.com/recent/author/michael-j_-cohen,-ph_d_.html ============================================= Special Notice For Publishers and Webmasters: ============================================= If you use this article on your website or in your ezine, We Want To Know About It. Use the following URL to let us know where you have used this article, and we will include a link to your website on thePhantomWriters.com: http://thephantomwriters.com/notify.php?id=6270&p=load HTML Copy-and-Paste and TEXT Copy-and-Paste Versions Of Article Are Available at: http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/db/c/53-natural-senses.shtml#get_code --------------------------------------------------------------------- Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature Via 53 Natural Senses Copyright (c) 2008 Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D. Ecopsych.com http://www.ecopsych.com In 1936, a New York City elementary school policy insisted that Michael Cohen, a left-handed, six-year old, first grader, write with his right hand. The suppression of this youngster's left-handedness depressed him and led to mild speech, posture, nail-biting and stress disorders. Over time, as he worked to overcome these difficulties, his skills led him to attain a Ph.D. in a blend of outdoor environmental science, counseling and psychology. Research with people in contact with natural areas helped Cohen, in 1965, recognize Earth to be a living organism and that from it we are born with, not just five, but more than 53 natural senses that help us sustain personal and global well-being (including a sense of left-handedness for 10-15 percent of the population). Cohen's investigation of our natural-senses brought to light that most of the personal, social and environmental disorders that we suffer - including greed, stress, violence, abuse, depression and addiction - result from an unreasonable, but profit making, prejudice against nature in Industrial Society that we seldom acknowledge. This prejudice holds an irrational disregard for nature's integrity and the callings of 53 natural senses that we inherit as part of nature. We become less sensible and we weaken our well-being due to the absence of the self-correcting and restorative ways of our natural senses. To our loss, we produce our greatest problems because we seldom learn to think sensibly by respecting our natural senses and their sensibilities. Instead, our prejudice against nature socializes us to injuriously drive these senses out of our awareness and into our subconscious where they lie hurt and frustrated. To deal with this phenomenon, Cohen produced a hands-on, nature-connecting, sensitivity tool that helps us eliminate our natural-sense deprivation. He demonstrated that his renewing educating, counseling and healing with nature process is a sensory and spiritual ecology that enables us think like nature's restorative processes work. Readily available on-line, and in his newly released book, "Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature," the process generates genuine, nature-connected learning and relating that heals and renews our injured natural senses. By learning to use it, we become more resilient and sensitive; we build more sensible relationships and many disorders subside. "Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature," is a professionally refereed, practical, environmentally-based psychology that helps our thinking co-create with nature's self-correcting and regenerative ways. Because it is an effective antidote and preventative for many dysfunctions, including Nature Deficit Disorder, it enables us to increase well-being and decrease our alarming prejudice against nature. Science and Rationale Most of us in Industrial Society have enjoyed a walk in the park or other attractive experiences in nature that have relieved our stress or cleared our thinking. Although we usually take this restoration for granted, the reason it occurs is because humanity is part of the web of life and connecting with the grace of nature's balancing and purifying powers revitalizes our psyche. We seldom learn that our body and mind consist of ten times more cells of other organisms than human cells; over 110 species live on our skin alone and every 2-7 years every atom in us is replaced by atoms from the environment. Throughout our lives the natural world becomes us and we become it. We are obviously part of Earth's web-of-life community, a seamless continuum of its flow through our body, mind and spirit. The detrimental effects of excessively disconnecting ourselves from nature's regenerative ways clearly show that the global ecosystem is the nurturing heart of our lives. What is also true is that in order to be part of any system, one must be in communication with that system. We seldom recognize that, as part of the global ecosystem, we biologically inherit the ability to communicate with it. As already noted, Earth communicates with us, as part of itself, through the intelligent sensibilities of at least 53 natural senses. For example, our sense/sensation of thirst intelligently "turns on" to attract us to drink water, to make the global water cycle flow through and sustain us. In addition, when we have enough water, thirst reasonably "turns-off" and, in balanced ways, attracts us to stop drinking. Each of our additional 52 senses is a similar attraction intelligence. Besides the sense of thirst, our love for water, these senses include our love of community, reason and trust; aroma, place and consciousness; color, taste and motion; belonging, beauty, music and gravity along with 40 additional natural sensory attractions. The web-of-life and we hold them in common while they hold us together in unity. Similar to a person's left-handed feelings being thwarted, we suffer because we have learned to excessively ignore or obstruct the peaceful and biologically balanced fulfillment of most of our 53 natural senses. Significantly, on average, Industrial Society's prejudicial need to profit by excessively exploiting nature socializes us to disconnect over 98 percent of our time, thinking and feeling from the satisfying guidance and restorative sensory callings of nature. Our extensive loss of rewarding nurturance from nature's perfection leaves us wanting. We feel that we never have enough. This spawns our excessiveness and other problems. We become destructively greedy, stressed, abusive, depressed and/or chemical and relationship dependent. Nature knows how to sustain its optimums of life, diversity, balance, purity and cooperation. It does this without producing garbage and with a minimum of greed, abusiveness and isolation. Everything in nature belongs, including us. As part of nature we inherit these natural sensibilities. In natural areas, Dr. Cohen's applied science of nature-connected psychology offers an "ecopsychology" or "ecotherapy" for many troubles that helps us increase personal, social and environmental well-being. Independent of drugs or hallucinogens, and as a modern tool for shamans, it enables us to reasonably reconnect our thinking to the healing flow of natural systems, in and around us. Backyard or backcountry, we learn to make genuine contact with authentic natural systems. This enables our thinking to help nature recycle any garbage or pollution that Industrial Society has dumped in our mind. Whenever we connect our psyche with the web of life, our restored natural senses transform our disorders into constructive relationships. The latter consist of the balance, cooperation and unconditional love that nature shares with us to sustain life in peace. "We cannot win the battle to increase the well-being of the web of life, that includes our life, without strengthening our natural senses, our emotional bonds with nature - for we will not fight to save what we do not love." * After Stephen Jay Gould and Jalaluddin Rumi Read, download or review "Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature" online, at http://www.ecopsych.com/ksanity.html or obtain a review copy of the bookstore edition through that web page. --------------------------------------------------------------------- M. J. 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