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Mindfulness in Nature
Mindfulness and ecotherapy are two of the most ancient and powerful approaches to healing mental distress. What happens when you bring them together? Last week-end I spoke about practicing mindfulness in nature at a conference on ‘Psychotherapy and the Natural … Continue reading
Posted in Mindfulness
Tagged connection, environment, Focusing, meditation, nature, Patterson, psychotherapy, spirituality, therapy
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Ecosomatics: An Embodied Ecology
Most people accept that our behaviour is destroying vital ecosystems, yet there’s very little being done about it. Why? There are several factors, but a key part of the problem is that we’re in denial. I find it pretty hard … Continue reading
Posted in Embodiment
Tagged connection, Ecosomatics, embodied knowing, embodiment, environment
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Make it real
Right now in a park or garden near you there are real spiders weaving real webs. If you watch this video, you’ll probably have forgotten it by this time tomorrow. If you ever watch a spider weaving a web in … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology
Tagged awareness, connection, meditation, nature, senses, wellbeing
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Pinakarri: Aboriginal deep listening
‘White Fella Dreaming’ recently posted a blog about Pinakarri, a practice from the Aboriginal Mandjilidjara Mardu people of Western Australia. Pinakarri literally means “ears standing up” and is usually translated as ‘deep listening’, a listening with the whole bodymind. It … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and spirituality
Tagged Abram, anthropology, connection, ecotherapy, Focusing, indigenous, Pagan, spirituality, therapy
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Becoming another: connected selves
My previous post critiqued the notion of humans becoming animal. I argued that humans are animals, so we can’t become animals. But there’s actually a much more interesting angle to all this. Ignoring for a moment species boundaries, what does … Continue reading
Sex, sensuality and the natural connection
I can’t help thinking that Valentine’s Day is too early in the year: Sex in the great outdoors is often as good as it gets, but not in mid-February! The Pagan celebration of sex and fertility, Beltane, falls on May … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology
Tagged connection, environment, nature, senses, sex, spirituality, wellbeing
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Cross Bones Graveyard: Honouring the Outcast
Cross Bones – an unconsecrated graveyard in south London – is the final resting place of around 15,000 bodies, mostly paupers and prostitutes. These are the outcast dead, unnamed and largely forgotten until construction workers began to unearth their bones … Continue reading
Relationship is the key: dirt and therapy
I’m just home from an event organized by my local Transition Town group that focused on soil, poetically described by Bill Logan as “dirt – the ecstatic skin of the Earth”. We watched the movie and then grounded the experience … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology
Tagged connection, counselling, environment, psychology, psychotherapy
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Focusing in Nature
Put simply, Focusing is a means of opening our awareness to the “bodily sensed knowledge” which Eugene Gendlin calls the “felt sense” (Gendlin, 1981). The term ‘felt sense’ describes those fuzzy feelings that we don’t usually pay much attention to … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology, Psychotherapy
Tagged connection, deep ecology, Focusing, Gendlin, nature
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Twyford Down
Twenty years ago protesters struggled to save Twyford Down from destruction by the M3 motorway, and although the road was built the campaign continues to have an impact. Twyford Down marked the beginning of a movement which was active at hundreds of anti-road campaigns … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology
Tagged connection, deep ecology, Eco-Paganism, embodied situated cognition, spirit of place
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