SAN JUAN ISLAND, Wash., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- A Spring Equinox, pre-Earth Day Facebook page from Project NatureConnect at the Akamai University Institute of Applied Ecopsychology helps people recognize that Planet Earth acts like, or actually is, a living organism that scientists call "Gaia." Postings to the Facebook page show that we are connected to all of nature, and to each other, in the same way that our fingers are connected to, and communicate with, our toes. They demonstrate that the healing ways of Organism Earth's river of life flow through and place everything, including us, in supportive contact.

New Project NatureConnect grants help the public remedy that we unreasonably and excessively seek "security" because we often feel isolated. This happens because, on average, we spend over 98 percent of our life with our thinking and feeling disconnected from Gaia, from the nurturing and restorative powers of nature's flow, in and around us.

The Akamai Institute's director, Dr. Michael Cohen, says "Our Facebook page posts the results of individuals who benefit from our courses and degree programs."

Cohen, author of "Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature," believes that our extreme disconnection from Mother Nature is similar to removing a baby from its mother's breast and replacing it with a nipple attached to a bottle of beer. The child's physical and emotional bonds to its human mother, along with its love of life, become, instead, excessively bonded or addicted to the adverse effects of the beer and bottle.

"Our Facebook page gives each visitor the opportunity to interlace their psyche with nature's recycling ways to correct their destructive thoughts and feelings," says Cohen. "It helps us connect our mind with the health and wellness powers of nature's flow, backyard or back country."

The pioneering mission of Project NatureConnect is to enable individuals to embrace the renewing intelligence of nature's ways, in and around them. The online program's low-cost, UNESCO-approved, training courses, degrees and funding empower students to make conscious sensory contact with the life-nurturing energy of the eons. Students learn how to strengthen it in themselves and others while visiting local or remote natural areas.

An Akamai University Ecopsychology student wrote: "When I started doing this nature-connecting activity I was extremely stressed out. In this natural area, however, I discovered my inherent sensitivities to natural attractions were alive and well. I could enjoyably sense and feel the breath and loving support of the outdoors. The fresh smell of the air and the dazzling beauty of the colors danced across the sky like they were blushing before they slipped behind the splendor of the snowcapped mountains. I thanked this living area and the activity for all the renewing joy it had just provided when I needed it."

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SOURCE Institute of Global Education

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