You ever notice how the old is made new again--the 60's came back round for a little bit--then the 70's--I am hoping the 80's "me generation" does not make a comeback...but I am speaking of what is as old as the human race, or even older. What did man-kind have in the beginning? Nature--the textures, smells, colors, food, animals, sounds of nature... What is missing today? We never set our feet on the ground for fear of germs, we cannot smell the trees in our own yards, the water is foul, and people have lost all sense of who they are in nature.  If we can just get back to our natural state--even for minutes each day--we could not be easily swayed, our attention spinning off to nowhere...be centered in our body and who we were meant to be on this earth.

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Science now proposes that we do just that to normalize flight or freeze reactions which come from our nervous system being on high alert. Cognitive-behavioral treatment has moved from the lab, back into nature, art and music as a way to naturally balance brain bio-physiology.  Below are a few papers which describe how behavior is calmed, the self is soothed, brain systems work together rather than digging a rut in one pathway. Brain plasticity, an important theory from more than 30 years ago, has come full circle, as researchers realize brain flexibility is required for health and wholeness.