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Christina Brittain, EcoPlace founder
says:
I delight in helping others enhance physical, mental, emotional, and
spiritual wellness and joy through deeper connections to Nature. |
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What is it exactly that called me here?
Mystery is what called me here--the answers to questions I hadn't
known yet to ask, hadn't lived yet. Something Wise knew I was
getting ready to ask those questions--and to hear the answers and it
called me in so that we could talk.
~ Star Prairie |
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EcoPlace
- A peaceful part of Nature |
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Introduction
to
EcoPlace When we live in harmonious balance with Nature, we live in health,
contentment, and joy as a vital part of a thriving, vigorous Earth. Much
of our planet’s continuing degradation, stress, and over-consumption
stems from disconnection to this universal truth. Only by reconnecting to
the guidance of our inborn senses can we reverse our debilitating
disorders, and re-establish balance with all things. And our most
trustable guide to balance is our own wisdom within us
Unfortunately, we have been conditioned
by modern society to heed only our learned
skills of language and logic rather than sensory wisdom, a form of nature’s
love that has sentiently supported all life on Earth for millions of
years. In the few hundred years we have lived indoors, our connections to this
wisdom has been lost, so much so that we have developed such
dysfunctional behaviors as alcoholism, aggression, loneliness, and
depression to cope with a nagging, unexplained ‘missingness’ in our lives.
When we take time to reconnect to our
internal wisdom, we
begin to "think like nature works” (Cohen, 1998), and relate to the world in the present
moment, bringing our inborn ‘being’ into harmony with ‘thinking,’ the skills of language and logic.
Awakening intuitive
wisdom rewards us with good feelings that can guide us on a journey to enhanced
wellness and joy.
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It is the imagination
that gives shape to the universe.
...Barry Lopez |
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Model for
EcoPlace
Natural wisdom is the model for
EcoPlace.
It is woven throughout all that
EcoPlace
does – from its core philosophy, its vision, and its mission to the
guidance for self-discovery it offers.
EcoPlace
exists to help others discover the wisdom within so they can begin to
think and act in harmony with Nature, thereby achieving balance and joy
with the Earth, others, and self.
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To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true
for you in your private heart
is true for all men-that is genius.
...R. W. Emerson |
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Foundation
of
EcoPlace
EcoPlace.
is
founded on reconnecting to our innate natural wisdom that knows how to
sustain all life through right livelihood, participatory democracy, and
balance in all things.
EcoPlace
is
intended to be a natural place of rediscovery where people can arouse
their inborn wisdom through nature for enhanced planetary and personal
wellness.
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The most beautiful emotion
we can experience
is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science.
...Albert Einstein |
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Principles of
EcoPlace
· Consensus with
all of Nature and each other
· Spirit of integration, cooperation, and community
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Reliance on Nature to help people regain their sense of place,
which allows them to overcome feelings of isolation and alienation
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Improvements in personal health and well-being leading to an
increase in the overall quality of life and ecological integrity with
Nature to reduce stress and the addictions it causes
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Improved interconnections with others
· Arousing natural wisdom to enhance
joy
· Motivation to make choices that support sustainability
of
the natural resources of Earth
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Life is not a problem
to be solved, but a mystery
to be lived.
...Thomas Merton |
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Vision
of
EcoPlace
The
vision of
EcoPlace.
is people connecting to their innate natural wisdom so as to build
responsible relationships with Earth, community, family, and self.
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Trust that the universe
is working for you
and with you.
...Sanaya Roman |
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Wisdom &
EcoPlaceAll things from
atoms to weather systems to the stars in the heavens are innately,
wordlessly seeking harmonious balance through an “intelligent pulling
together.” We share this desire for harmonious balance with all other
things, which we can
achieve by heeding our 53 and more inborn senses, such as the radiation
senses of color and season, the chemical senses of smell and taste, the
feeling senses of pressure and touch, the mental senses of emotional space,
and the sense of spirituality.
We can reconnect to the wise loving intelligence of our
intuitive senses through the wisdom of natural attractions
that flow all around and through the universe. |
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Mission
of
EcoPlace
The
mission of
EcoPlace
is to help people arouse the natural wisdom of their innate senses, and
then use that wisdom to discover what they genuinely need to enhance wellness and joy.
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Goals of
EcoPlace
New
scientific evidence indicates that all things in Nature are
self-organizing systems that continually seek harmonious balance. The
primary goal of
EcoPlace
is
to teach both adults and children that we, as part of Nature, can attain
this same balance needed for enhancing wellness in our work, relationships, and
creativity by reconnecting to our numerous inborn senses that already know
how to think and act in accord with Nature.
Our
inborn senses are our connections to the energy
that unites all things. The wisdom of our senses can show us how to satisfy our
emotional, psychological, and spiritual longings, resulting in more rewarding
relationships with others and self.
Our senses can teach us to think, feel,
and interact in conscious, sensory contact with the healing powers of
Nature’s supportive love.
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Your work is to discover
your work, and then,
with all your heart,
to give yourself to it.
...Buddha |
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EcoPlace
& Natural Thinking
Emerging evidence supports the theory that
many of our environmental, political, and personal problems result from
our deliberate separation from Nature and that this separation has
encouraged us to lose contact with inborn wisdom that helped
us stay in balance with Nature for millions of years. Disconnection from
this innate intelligence has caused us to make choices that degrade the health of the
planet.
Fortunately, there is a simple easily learned way to reconnect to our own
wisdom that knows how to achieve and maintain harmonious balance
with all other things. It is a way of thinking that can help us build
responsible balanced relationships with Nature through restorative
activities—from backyards to back country—a way of participating in
beneficial Earth-centered relationships that supported our earliest
ancestors and continue to be enjoyed today by most communal living people.
The way is to arouse
to inborn wisdom by
reconnecting to our
natural senses. In this way, we reestablish our long-dormant bonds to
Nature that can reward us with greater wellness and joy. Through our own insightful wisdom, we can increase our self-worth, lighten our ecological footprints,
reduce our rampant consumption, improve our relationships with others,
and dwell more gently within ourselves.
When we develop respectful partnerships with Nature,
we develop respectful partnerships with each other. They can help us shift our
consciousness so that desirable behavioral changes take place. They can
encourage us to
develop a love for Nature that engenders environmental and social
activism, education, and adoption of sustainable living practices.
EcoPlace
supports the concept of living
like Nature works – in harmony with all
things. Those who reconnect to Nature learn to incorporate the wisdom of their
natural senses into their daily lives. A visit
EcoPlace
in the Columbia River Gorge can help can reestablish connections to
Nature and self that will last a lifetime.
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Every thing in nature,
is a unique expression
of God.
...Anonymous
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The best remedy
for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens,
nature and God.
Because only then does one feel
that all is as it should be
and that God wishes
to see people happy
amidst the simple beauty of nature.
...Anne
Frank
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