The Ground Sense Coaching for Self-Healing, Eco-Social Rehabilitation & Restoration

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Natural disaster-borne crises frequently cause people to feel that nature is cruel! However, there are other periods as well that are useful to us in promoting the idea that nature is incredibly beautiful, a source of harmony, and essential to life. Therefore, the larger goal of self-healing, eco-social healing, rehabilitation, & restoration is to first restore our faith in nature. The restoration essentially calls for eco-cultural mediation with its experiential elements, which have been lost during natural disasters or disturbances or even under a devilish temptation to take advantage of nature for temporary material gains.

I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

AMOS FERGUSON

The touchstone of this process of healing and recovery is the liberation of our inherited ecological sense from a multitude of sense disruptors. An exercise in open-mindedness is a big source of creative rehabilitation. Thus, "attention" is a means of survival and connection. Sanity is the key to survival, and being sane means being attentive, while healing is the payoff for paying attention. We learn to focus on "right now" because it's the only place we can feel safe during difficult times when the future is too scary to think about and the past is too painful to recall. Pain is what it takes to teach us to pay attention. The worst thing that can be said about a man, according to poet William Meredith, is that "he did not pay attention." It is conceivable for our relationships with the environment and ourselves to undergo creative metamorphoses. Our ecological self's creative realignment with the greater good makes this possible. In essence, we practice bringing in the inner revolution of eco-cultural nature!

Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

SHAKTI GAWAIN

Recontextualizing our interactions with interdependencies, rewriting our own narratives—self-talk, dialogues, and language expansion—and embracing it for ongoing renewal are the ways in which the practice is guided. The best way to plant the seeds for such action is to support and nurture diversity and creative dissent, nurture them to make an impact with eco-visioning media or eco media, and network and mentor them to ignite the narratives of public appreciation and deepen the memorialization of eco-cultural heritage. The Ecocultural Appreciation is the endeavor's depth and strength!

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music—the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

HENRY MILLER

We need to be able to get past suffering and creative limitations as we discover how to identify, cultivate, and safeguard our inner eco-creative genius. We can expect a deep, facilitated experience with our own eco-creative identity, including our personal antagonists, exemplars, wishes, anxieties, aspirations, expectations, and triumphs. We can hope to feel thrilled, optimistic, reflective, delighted, and eventually more free as a result of the experience. We will find ourselves defining new limits and claiming new areas based on our own needs, wants, and passions.

The eco-cultural deserts can be irrigated in a variety of ways by renewers, eco-creators, and creators of eco-cultural heritage. Therefore, let's look at the differences between eco-social education, eco-psychological education, and eco-scientific skills, and how these educational opportunities help us be better people in life and society. Furthermore, we will learn about Ground Sense Coaching, which trains us how to be happier and healthier Earth residents.

Eco-social Skills Defined

Achieving environmental sustainability requires an awareness of how to develop eco-social skills. It can be envisioned as the foundation for fostering a feeling of social ownership, communication, and teamwork that values attention to the Earth and oneself. With such abilities, individuals can contribute to collective results.

Eco-psychological Wellness

It turns out that our minds and environmental concerns can and should coexist—possibly even more so now that eco-psychological tools like mindfulness and nature connection can strengthen our connection to the environment, improving our well-being while also fascinating us. Many believe that we should care for not just ourselves but also Mother Nature!

Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

EDDIE CANTOR

Developing Eco-Scientific Life Skills

Rather than algebraic expressions alone, let us pay attention to eco-scientific life skills. Increasing our ecological literacy and learning how to apply eco-scientific knowledge in our daily lives will help us become better stewards of the earth and live in harmony with nature. From understanding climate change to recycling like a pro, increasing ecological literacy is critical to creating a more sustainable future. Learning about the world around us allows us to make informed decisions that benefit both ourselves and the environment.

Practical Applications of Eco-scientific Knowledge

Knowing is half the battle; acting is when the true magic happens. By applying our eco-scientific expertise—whether it's through composting, decreasing trash, or supporting local conservation efforts—we can influence the world in a real way and encourage others to follow suit.

Developing Eco-Psychological Awareness

With trees and chirping birds, who would need a therapist? The goal of cultivating eco-psychological awareness is to use nature's restorative powers to promote inner calm and mental health. It turns out that being in nature is beneficial for our mental and emotional health in addition to being wonderful for Instagram pictures. The eco-social dynamics of our surroundings have a significant impact on how we feel and behave, from lowering stress to increasing creativity. Nature has a mystical ability to quiet our spirits and brains. We can acquire a sense of clarity and perspective that is difficult to find in the daily grind, as well as lessen anxiety and elevate our mood, by making a connection with nature.

The Ground Sense Coaching

Ground Sense Coaching offers a distinctive method for addressing the interdependence of the eco-social, eco-psychological, and eco-scientific facets of our existence. The goal of this type of guidance is to raise awareness, encourage sustainability, and advance well-being by exploring the complex interactions between people and the environment. We may be right if we ever said to ourselves—that tree really gets me- after looking at one.

This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.  

STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH

The main goal of Ground Sense Coaching is to creatively use our strong bond with nature to guide us through the challenges of contemporary living. It's really not, but similar to other healing therapies, but with more fresh air and earth. It's about using nature as a means of creative, autonomous personal development, healing, and self-discovery. A living system has its autonomy because it is in an active and dynamic interchange with surrounding systems that are sources of meanings, according to Di Paolo et al. (2005, 2007, 2010), who expanded on the central themes of self-organization and sense-making in the “Enactive Approach” developed by Varela. What Weber and Varela (2002) said about an autonomous being is that it "does not suffer passive world encounter but fashions a world of meaning from within."  Making sense, creating a life, and creating ourselves are all parts of learning.  In that respect, it is synonymous with 'autopoiesis.”.

The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate—it is life, intensified, brilliant life.

ALAIN ARIAS-MISSON

Thus, Ground Sense Coaching might just be wonderful for you if you've ever had the feeling that your houseplant was the only one who genuinely understood you.

N.B. Let us disregard all notions that nature is not so beneficial in helping improve our well-being.

References & Readings

De Jaegher, H., Di Paolo, E., and Gallagher, S. (2010). Can social interaction constitute social cognition? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(10), 441–47.

Di Paolo E. A. , “Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, Teleology, Agency, ”Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 4(2005), 97–125

De Jaegher H. and Di Paolo E.A., “Participatory Sense-Making: An Enactive Approach to Social Cognition, ”Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 6(4) (2007), 485–507

Maturana, H., and Varela, F. (1980). Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.

Di Paolo, E. A., Rohde, M., & De Jaegher, H. (2010). “Horizons for the enactive mind: Values, social interaction, and play." In: Stewart, J., Gapenne, O. & Di Paolo, E. (eds.), Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science (pp. 33–87), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

Di Paolo, E. A., Rohde, M., & De Jaegher, H. (2007), “Participatory Sense-Making: An Enactive Approach to Social Cognition,” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 6(4), 485–507.

Varela F., “Principles of Biological Autonomy” (New York: Elsevier North Holland, 1979).

Varela F., Thompson E., and Rosch E., “The embodied mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience” (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991)

Weber, A., and Varela, F. J. (2002). “Life after Kant: Natural Purposes and the Autopoietic Foundations of Biological Individuality." Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 1, 97-125