4. ENVIRONMENT

Environment is our total surround. An environment can take many different forms including physical, mental, emotional, technological, and natural. We are all surrounded by range influences, situations and circumstance that directly influence the nature of our thoughts, feelings, and experiences in life. We are also creators of environments and therefore artists of cause and effect.

Creative Resilience: The Art of Authenticity

By Brian Alger on 09/01/2011

[Exploring Life] We live in an age of instantaneous global communication. We also live in an age of mass somniloquence. Each of us secretly desires the intimacy and art of a deeper more compelling conversation that authentically explores the alluring mystery of being alive. When we engage in authentic conversation we explore and exchange our [...]

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Emotional Terrain: Anger

By Brian Alger on 06/30/2011

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Emotional Terrain

[Exploring Life] Anger is a strong emotional reaction in response to a perceived provocation or injustice. The emotional reaction consists of an often unintended improvisatory abyss of displeasure, irritation, resentment, outrage, and enmity. Anger is an extreme reaction that takes our body and mind to the very edge of a threshold in which rationale thinking [...]

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Nature of Belief: Escaping Cultural Confinement

By Brian Alger on 06/16/2011

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Nature of Belief

[Exploring Life] Culture may be viewed as a universal tendency for people within stable geographic populations to create sets of beliefs, values and expectations that serve to create a sense of social coherence. It may be that culture is an offspring of the innate human need to belong. Perhaps culture originated as groups of people [...]

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Ecopsychology: The Commodification of Nature

By Brian Alger on 04/22/2011

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Ecopsychology: Reanimating Our Relationship With the Earth

[Exploring Life] Nature is a vast system of interaction between all life forms and organic material of the planet that provides the foundation for existence. From this perspective, it the destruction of the planet is equivalent to the destruction of life. Capitalism is an economic and political system that embraces the notion of private ownership [...]

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Ecopsychology: Law of Mother Earth

By Brian Alger on 04/20/2011

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Ecopsychology: Reanimating Our Relationship With the Earth

[Exploring Life] Bolivia is posed to create a law that grants nature equal right to a humans, and have also suggested that the United Nations adopt a Proposal Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. The proposal originates in an eco-sensitive set of presuppositions that redefine our relationship with the earth and dramatically alters [...]

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Ecopsychology: Redefining Sanity

By Brian Alger on 04/15/2011

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Ecopsychology: Reanimating Our Relationship With the Earth

[Exploring Life] Ecopsychology embraces the essential task of healing our relationship with the Earth and with life itself. Ecology is at its core the study of interconnectedness, the exploration of relationships, and the synthesis of belonging. Psychology is the study of the workings of the human mind and how we think, feel, and behave. Ecopsychology [...]

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Corporations: The “Health” Food Deception

By Brian Alger on 03/09/2011

[Exploring Life] One of the most basic principles of all corporations is that they are allowed to intentionally lie and deceive the public without being responsible for their actions. A great deal of this deception takes place in what we might call a gray zone, or a place in which there is some degree of [...]

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