Nature-like and the psychological health of a person

In the light of works of John Amos Comenius, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Fourier and others, the definition and concepts of nature-like relates to educational and pedagogical questions. They are suggested to consider a person as a part of nature, as well as respect, worship, love and care about nature. Analysis of the term nature-like that the author made allows to distinguish at least three aspects: nature-like as a support in effect on a human being, on his natural qualities, and respect to their identity; nature-like as understanding, harmony and values of the external natural phenomenon and their correlation with the positions and actions of people; nature-like as attention to the social nature of a person, the search of its resources for improving the attitude to the environment. Based on these three aspects, the following ideas are described in the article: a) a person would obey the nature forever; b) he is in unity with the nature c) he dominates the nature and conquers it. Nature-like requires overcoming conflicts of interests between people and nature; it requires coherence of different aspects in their interaction. Such kind of harmony as harmony of internal and external can and should be specified in the following relationships and interactions: a) Harmony inside the physical and the psychological, spiritual world of a person, when he doesn't need to blame himself, to contradict himself, to seek in vain the arguments justifying his actions and unnatural acts. b) Harmony between a human being and nature, when neither a man, nor nature experiences discomfort in contact with each other, c) Harmony between a person and the society that accepted him grew him up with its unique culture; in this case harmony is expressed in the way of their non-confrontational adaptation to each other and to the world. The harmonic interaction of these aspects provides an important part of the sense of life and mental health. The article demonstrates some practical aspects of the problem on the ground of socio-psychological research. During the empirical analysis of the nature-like principle and psychological health 3 groups of attitudes among respondents were found out: I. Psychological health is a reality that helps people to keep calm, self-control, self-confidence, etc. - 72.9% II. Psychological health is a concept in which one can believe or not - 17.1% III. Psychological health means nothing; it is an abstract concept - 7.1% The research demonstrated significant differences in attitude to nature among people who took the extreme attitudes concerning psychological health. Those students, who admit this category, are also likely to agree with the idea that "nature is above a human being". Those students who consider psychological health an abstract concept in comparison with the first group are more likely to agree with the idea that "a human being is above nature". What makes one wonder is that students with positive ideas about psychological health often admit the positive impact of religion on attitude to nature (68.3%) than their "opponents" (48.9%).

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