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Eco-Psychology

 

 

“For me, our connection to ecology is to transform ourselves. The nature is not outside, the nature is within. Get back to your own nature, the natural state of you. Once you reach yourself, you will realize, that anything in the world is a reflection of you. It’s you, only. Then there is no need to exploit or pollute. So ecology is not something external. Ecology is something internal. How I relate with this life…”

 

We are coming to this planet, this Mother Earth, to see, to taste, to enjoy and to celebrate the life on this planet. But we got stuck in patterns of life: how we human beings are supposed to live. All our problems we are facing are because of these patterns. We are, controlled, programmed beings – robots…

 

We are all trained in how to behave. We are trained how to dress, we are trained how to relate, we are trained how to see. Everything is according to our training. Now, since we all played this role for many years we try to find justifications for it. Understanding the evolution of our emotional and material consumption, is part of understanding ourselves and our trained state: the layers with which we are covering our natural state of being.

“You are all from the wild nature, from the jungle, the wilderness… We were like that living once upon a time. I am not asking we have to go back there, we crossed long way. But I am asking you to understand: How I became like this? From what you are trying to get out of?” 

The Eco Psychology course inspires us to reflect upon our life style habits and makes us aware of the connection between our “well-trained” identity patterns, and our never ending lists of conditions to be happy and content. The habits are replacing something. When you are able to find what kind of feeling that particular habit is fulfilling, you become aware of the function of your habit.

 

Eco-psychology inspires us to become aware of our emotional, material and mind consumption, the related patterns and its underlying psychological expression. Through this course, space and opportunity is given for awareness to free from unwanted mental habits, allowing us to be present in the moment, open to celebrate every single minute of this life. By doing so, we develop values that serve the life of the planet rather than imperiling it.

Sri Vast Foundation - Sweden 2010