Full Ecology suggests four orientations or behaviors for reclaiming yourself as one of these expressions. Each of these behaviors is fully evident in the natural world – there to show you who and what you, in your truest nature, are.

The 8 Instructions Master Lessons of Nature, Full Ecology, Ecological Naturalistic Psychology

Healing into our lives means learning to see life as a creative, passionate, messy, light-hearted dance with ourselves, with others, and with the world. Balance is achieved with daily exposure to the Natural World, living every day deeply embedded in the experience of being linked with one another.

1. CONNECTION. The Natural World is a finely tuned, dynamic and interdependent community. No lifeform can exist by itself. Life on Earth thrives thanks to a vast garden of connections. Essential interdependence. Nature and the World is our support and offers us life. The natural living of one is an unfolding outward. Overall health may be defined as the degree of cooperation between Nature, human body, and community. Every single one of us is fully and inextricably interdependent. We are a complex weave of relationships and porous, overlapping borders. Everything contains everything. Layered conversations.

2. VARIETY. Diversity in nature is the number one predictor of a system's health and resilience. The more kinds of life in the forest, the stronger that life becomes. Diversity is wealth. Diversity is key to biological creativity and sustainability. Diversity rises from relationship.

3. BALANCE. In a time when technology has outpaced relational skill, nature shows us how balancing agency (masculine) and care (feminine) is key to human procession. Healing the planet, and ourselves, means recovering the Feminine. The balance of masculine and feminine can nourish us.

4. RELATIVES. Over millions of years, humans and animals have employed similar strategies for being healthy and content. Recommitting ourselves to greater respect and compassion, a compassion that is deeply woven into our nature, allows healing of division between us and the rest of creation

5. EFFICIENCY is the evidence of natural expression. Unfussed, unscripted. As usual and uncanny as breathing in and out. Nature emphasizes efficiency. Nature loves efficiency because living beings can only capture so much of the energy available to them. In the most basic sense the purpose of life is to keep more life flowing - unfolding as much life as possible, as much as the ecosystem will allow. Every ecosystem embraces harmony, balance, and rhythm. Harmony is adjusting to move with the flow. Balance is striving for an equilibrium between energy coming in and that going out. Rhythm includes the daily, seasonal, and lifetime cycles that move us, with alternating beats of strong activity and calm restoration. An artistic infrastructure of conversation.

6. RESILIENCE. All of Nature is inclined toward recovery. Not just to survive but to thrive. Nature teaches us the art of Rising Again, despite disaster and disruption.

7. ELDERHOOD. In Nature, healing from trauma creates genetic benefits that can be passed onto future generations.

8. Voice

9. Synchrony Creating a new loyalty to all living things. Honoring Nature's lesson of interdependence.

10. Wealth. We live on a planet with Energy beyond measure.

11. UNCERTAINTY. Hearing the call forward.

12. Greater Presence

    To the extent we are able to embrace mystery, humans are able to live creatively and well with each other. Embrace stillness, quiet, wonder. Use your senses and hold a beginners mindset. Consciously weave an innate sense of wonder into every aspect of your daily life. This strengthens your sense of contentment, and enlivens your relationships, strengthens your relationship with self. Re-orient. Wander the wilds. As we expand we are able to embrace our stillpoint, our peaceful center. Seeking mystery means sailing now and then across some deep waters, free of the need to know what weather lies ahead. Reawaken our instincts of kindness toward the Natural world, toward one another and ourselves, to create within ourselves a deeper connection, a more powerful perception of and connection to place, to savor the deep joys of belonging.