Could the solution to most personal challenges and planetary woes have a common underlying cause--humanity’s disconnection from Nature? Could finding solutions begin with a simple walk in the park? Yes, says Ecopsychologist, Dr. Theresa Sweeney in her new book Owl Winks and Forest Songs: Finding wellness through nature’s wisdom.
“Though people are part of Nature, we suffer many discomforts and problems that aren't seen in the rest of the natural world.,” Dr. Sweeney says. “Many of us look around at Nature's world and wonder why things seem to work so beautifully in it, but not so in our daily lives. The trouble is that we spend so much time indoors, we've disconnected ourselves from Nature's love, wisdom and balance.”
Owl Winks and Forest Songs offers a simple remedy. With child-friendly text, fun exercises, and wonderful drawings, Dr. Sweeney presents a dialoging with nature process that people of all ages, and in all walks of life, can use to let Nature teach. She re-introduces us to over 48 senses that we, as part of Nature, inherited from the natural world at birth, but learned to ignore. After illustrating how our dependency on abstract word-based thinking underlies our troubles and showing the importance of including these forgotten senses in our thought-processing, Dr. Sweeney invites readers to practice the art of thinking like Nature on 16 of her realistic wildlife drawings. Because though, there can be no substitute for the real thing, she then encourages readers outside to use their nature language while in tangible contact with Nature.
“Few books of such apparent simplicity can cause you to think so deeply,” says M.A. Educator, Allison Ewoldt. “What Columbus did for the flat earth theory, Dr. Sweeney does to the myth that humans have only 5 senses. We have, in fact, more than 53! This book makes you question many things about the way we live, the way we interact with Nature, and most of all, how much time we waste on things that don't matter. Learning to think like nature has rejuvenated my life. Dr. Sweeney makes a valuable contribution to the well-being of ourselves and the earth...for we do not save what we do not love, and we do not love what we do not know."
To order a copy of Owl Winks and Forest Songs, or to contact the author, please click this link. www.callofthewilddesigns.com
"Speak to Nature and it will teach you." ~Job
"Speak to Nature for perhaps, we also teach it." ~Dr. Theresa Sweeney
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