Bring Back the Earth!
Nourishing the Eco-Intelligence that Invites Whole Living

My Mentor Guide Book, Bring Back the Earth!—Nourishing the Eco-Intelligence that Invites Whole Living defies the popular mainstream culture’s unconscious approach to education which does little to recognize and nurture the needs of the whole individual and the whole earth. Studying this guide will help you to assert that you are a creative person who possesses the innate “eco-intelligence” to thrive, versus barely survive in today’s eco-challenged times. You’ll have the opportunity to identify with the “Culturally Creative” community, a community dedicated to living sustainably and acting as “the solution” to our personal and planetary ills, versus “the problem.” In this book, you’ll see how I have drawn on my experiences as a nature lover, whole foods cook, and intuitive self-healer to create an educational “meal” that has the right ingredients to stimulate your appetite for learning about eco-intelligent living. With chapters such as “Planning the Meal,” “Choosing the Ingredients,” and “Setting the Table,” the curriculum makes the process of preparing to learn about eco-intelligent living like preparing and eating a meal—colorful, balanced, satisfying, and delicious! The meal offers to nourish your whole self, and help you discover how to bring it into alignment with your highest calling as a natural born leader/Eco-Mentor. *This book, accompanied by audios, and Power Points, is currently available in e-book format (PDF text, by the chapter) when you participate in my Eco-Mentor Apprentice Training online.     

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My Discovery & Empowerment Workbook/Journal Series guides you to answer life's most pressing questions at this moment in our earth's history: "How do I live well upon the earth when wars against people and the environment rage on?" "How do I nurture my sense of belonging and purpose when, at times, I feel overwhlemed or cynical about the seemingly imperfect curcumstances on earth today? Though it's hard for many of us on planet earth to know where to turn, and what steps to take next in our lives, my six workbooks provide a six-step pathway for using life's undesirable circumstances for your perfect learning and growth. Living well on the earth today means learning, first and foremost, how to be in a healthy relationship with your personal and planetary ecology. When your relationship with these parts of your wholeness is intact, everything else will begin to fall into place. By taking care of your personal health, the earth's health will also get better, because the two are inextricably linked! In each workbook, you will find a collection of engaging, fun, and meaningful activities that serve to awaken your eco-intelligence, --as well as the other multiple intelligences you were born with, that are present within you, to help you identify your passions and support you in your process of becoming a more healthy, whole, self-actualized individual and leader. Along the path of learning, you get to entertain what kind of Eco-Mentor you will be. Will you be a mentor in your own home, who is rewarded by being a 'living example' of what you've learned? Will you be a mentor in the global community at large, who is rewarded for passing on the tools of my eco-learning legacy to others that are waiting to hear its message? *This book series, accompanied by audios, is currently available in e-book format (PDF text, download by the chapter/activity) when you participate in my Eco-Mentor Activist Training online.       

Discovery & Empowerment on the Path to Eco-Conscious Living

Discovery & Empowerment on the Path to Eco-Logical Living

Discovery & Empowerment on the Path to Eco-Sustainable Living

Discovery & Empowerment on the Path to Eco-Balanced Living

Discovery & Empowerment on the Path to Eco-Nutritional Living

Discovery & Empowerment on the Path to Eco-Spiritual Living

What You Will Learn on The Six-Step Journey to Eco-Intelligent Living:

Module One (Live Eco-Conscious)
Live with awareness of the ways in which your lifestyle, food, and health care choices hurt your health and the health of all living things; use this awareness to “wake up” to the necessity and value of making healthy, eco-friendly choices.

In a Nutshell, You Will: Become consciously aware of the ways in which industrially produced food, health, and lifestyle choices hurt your personal health and planetary well-being. Find out why humans live and eat in such a complicated way. Begin to question the status quo and stop the insanity that keeps you stuck in self-destructive living. Answer the question: How big is my ecological footprint? Understand the life lesson in our personal and planetary suffering. Write letters of apology to the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land upon which you derive life sustenance. Understand the influence of advertising on our consumer-driven culture. Learn to resist cultural pressures and lessen the impact of social smog. Take steps towards voluntary simplicity. Stop giving away your free-will choice as a consumer. Determine whether or not our culture is creative enough to birth a new and sustainable earth. Explore your heart’s desire as a global citizen. Make plans for life to go on, even if at times, you, and others, question whether or not it will.

Module Two (Live Eco-Logical)
Live with awareness of the personal and planetary relationships that are essential to fostering your personal wholeness, as well as the earth’s wholeness; use this awareness to foster the “ecology of well-being.”

In a Nutshell, You Will: Connect your needs to the needs of a living planet. Adopt a moral sensitivity for caring about life. Learn whether or not you have used your life to act as the earth’s caretaker, or its conqueror. Understand the feminine and masculine aspects of your humanity that must be in balance if we are to heal the ecological problems of our time. Grow and repair your broken bonds with the natural world. Explore the earth as a role model for how to live. Understand why the “virtual world” can never be a healthy substitute for a healthy relationship with life. Find out if you are crowding out the world with technology. Discover the physical and mental dangers of being exposed to too much technology. Get rooted in the earth’s healing electromagnetic energy. View your relationship with nature as a sacred partnership with a living, intelligent life form. Write mother earth’s resume. Give nature a voice. Give back to the land what you take from it for your survival. Show compassion to nature, animals, and ecosystems. Use your relationship with the natural world to discover your own instinctual power and beauty. Develop a “feeling” connection to nature that guides you grounds you in belonging and security. Heal the syndrome I call “eco-phobia.” Discover how your eco-intelligence inspires you to live whole. Meet the 8 multiple intelligences that support diverse learning and living.

Module Three (Live Eco-Sustainable)
Live with awareness of the basic necessities for maintaining life within your body and the earth; use this awareness to participate as a consumer in a non-toxic food system and lifestyle system that “keeps life (in your body and the earth) alive.”

In a Nutshell, You Will: Learn to view the earth’s ecosystem and your human ecosystems as an interdependent whole. Discover how and why to relate to the earth as a jointly managed enterprise. Deepen your understanding about the relationship between stress, decay, and eco-disintegration in people and the earth. Discover the necessity and value of detoxifying and regenerating your body and the earth through organic farming and organic eating. Identify the everyday household chemicals that poison your health and the earth’s health. Create do-it-yourself potpourris for eco-friendly cleaning. Explore the plight of the world’s honeybees and their message to humans. Investigate the dark side of waste disposal. Imagine a way to redesign the systems that produce our food, health, and lifestyle products. Create an activist’s strategy for living green that is fun and sexy. Cure fatalistic thinking with eco-business innovation. Define the art, science, and business of farming. Learn why to support organic agriculture and small family farms. Develop a healthy relationship with the soil that grows your food, including the wisdom for life found in compost. Learn how the bugs in your gut (the soil of your human ecology) influence your weight and wellness. Find out if you have “the guts” (the intestinal fortitude) to live well in today’s eco-challenged times. Discover ‘the potential gift’ in a generation affected by autism. Legislate for a less toxic environment.

Module Four (Live Eco-Balanced)
Live with awareness of the everyday life rituals that foster balance
in yourself and the earth, including the ritual known as eating; use your awareness about what makes food whole or un-whole to make eco-intelligent food choices.

In a Nutshell, You Will: Learn how to slow down the pace of life, to create balance and prevent disease. Find the creativity that emerges through unstructured time. Develop self-care skills that increase your self-love. Practice the art of personal care. Go on a quest to find fitness and energy. Understand the nature of balanced personal relationships. Get into the groove of personal management. Lead your taste buds from test tubes to factory farms, to identify what you know about un-whole foods. Explore whether or not the fruits, vegetables, carbohydrates, proteins, dairy products and fats you eat, are eco-friendly. Explore philosophers, leaders, and everyday citizens who promote non-violence. Make a personal and planetary wellness statement with your meals. Play the “grocery game.” Test your knowledge about nature’s traditional whole foods. See how the act of ‘feeding’ and ‘nourishing’ your eco-intelligence offers to be an effort of the heart and soul vs. a menial chore. Examine the economic biases of the USDA Food Pyramid and the food recommendations it makes, that are not eco-friendly. Examine the link between diet and allergies, as well as mood, and behavior issues. Discover the lore and legend of traditional whole foods, and celebrate the connection between food and culture. Make an acquaintance with the Eco-Intelligent Eating Model, a model that is designed to integrate our personal and planetary need for sustenance. Go in search of nature’s ‘eye candy’ at your local natural grocer. Learn to prepare dairy-free milks and meat-less burgers. Legislate for a less toxic food supply. Go on a quest for personal purpose and personal learning. Explore the path to financial fitness.

Module Five (Live Eco-Nutritional)
Live with awareness of the process by which you assimilate nourishment for your personal growth and planetary evolution; use your awareness
about your relationship with the earth to create an exchange of positive energy that supports life and healing.

In a Nutshell, You Will: Reveal your meal time mentality. Develop a strategy for eating well that goes beyond diet alone to feed and nourish your relationship with life. Become mentally nourished by a connection to the origins of your food choices; connect your taste buds to the cosmos. Remember the cookie of your childhood. Identify the cooking utensils in your kitchen that offer to turn cooking into an adventure versus a chore. Learn to cook with the right and left sides of your brain. Eat with the seasons to create ecological health balance. Identify super food heroes, the cure for modern day malnourishment. Learn ways to heal an eating disorder. Feed your “snack attacks” in a healthy way. Discover the language of health or disease that your body speaks. Learn the role your emotions play in creating health and disease. Create a “feel good” food diary. Investigate whether or not your bloodstream is a river or a swamp. Explore the difference between the Medical Model and the Natural Health Model. Identify natural, drugless health care options that support you in taking greater responsibility for your health. Understand street drugs, prescription drugs and the ‘glamour’ of suffering. Identify ancient herbs that are used to treat modern day health maladies. Increase your health and sensitivity with whole foods and pure water. Create meaningful family rituals that are centered on preparing whole foods meals together. Complement your health needs with complementary and alternative medicine therapies. Explore wellness careers that speak to the natural healer in you. Practice gratitude to cultivate inner content. Learn how your exposure to healthy people and events can raise your energetic vibration, brighten your aura. Cultivate a higher spiritual consciousness through mindfulness.

Module Six (Live Eco-Spiritual)
Live with awareness of the wholeness that lies at the heart and soul of creation, which is experienced through a healthy relationship with yourself, others, and all life; use your wholeness to serve humanity.

In a Nutshell, You Will: Discover how to nurture a ‘whole’, vs. ‘un-whole’ perception of life and release judgments about the world that do not inspire our conscious evolution. Recognize and appreciate the imperfect circumstances on earth that are perfect for your growth and spiritual maturity. Explore 101 Perspectives for unlimited health and wholeness. Organize your faith around your spirit. Nourish your heart’s hunger for meaning. Use images and story to inspire a more spiritual world. Discover your power to make a difference. Learn ways to co-create a new earth through a spirit of global interdependence. Give yourself permission to celebrate the unique differences in people that give meaning to the term wholeness. Visit religions of the world that are caring for creation. Explore what it means, to pray for a better world. Experience a sacred partnership with the earth. Cultivate and grow the relationships that fulfill your greatest human need: the need for heartfelt connection. Answer the question: “what will your legacy be?” Envision a different reality and create it, through creative action in the world. Create the whole life that you envision will meet your authentic needs. Explore Eco-Mentorship Opportunities. Make each day a holy day, by walking in a spirit of beauty. See your beauty, perfection, and wholeness in the mirror of life. Embrace your higher purpose in life, which is the heartfelt desire, to be of service. Practice radical prayer. Give thanks for everything you have. Co-create a new and sustainable earth through a relationship with life that is self-sustaining. Explore serving as an Eco-Mentor in your home or community. Honor each day as holy, and walk every day in a spirit of beauty.