DEVELOPING THE
WHOLE PERSON
Personal Development
Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, you should be able to:
1. discuss the relationship among physiological, cognitive,
psychological, spiritual and social aspects of development, to
understand your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors,
2. evaluate your own thoughts, feelings and actions, and
3. show the connection of your thoughts, feelings and actions to
actual life situations.
‘Man’s life is independent. He is born
not the development of the society
alone, but for the development of his
self.’
-B.R Ambedkar
ASPECTS OF THE SELF
The self-concept is represented by several aspects
of the self. It is conceived as collection of multiple,
context-dependent selves. This construct believes that
context activates particular regions of self-knowledge
and self-relevant feedback affects self-evaluation.
ASPECTS OF YOUR
DEVELOPMENT
1. Physical Self. Includes descriptions of your height,
weight, facial appearance, and quality of your skin, hair and
description of body areas such as your neck, chest, waist, legs.
2. Intellectual Self. Includes here an assessment of how
well you reason and solve problems, your capacity to learn and
create , your general amount of knowledge, your specific areas of
knowledge, wisdom you have acquired, insights you have.
ASPECTS OF YOUR
DEVELOPMENT
3. Emotional Self. Typical feelings you have, feelings
you seldom have, feelings you try to avoid, feelings you
especially enjoy, feelings from your past and present, and
feelings which your associated with each other.
4. Sensual Self. The different ways you take an
information-through the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and skin.
ASPECTS OF YOUR
DEVELOPMENT
5. Interactional Self. Includes descriptions of your
strengths and weaknesses in intimate relationships and
relationships to friends, family, co-students and strangers in
social settings. Describe the strengths and weaknesses which
your friends and family have noticed. Describe what kind of a
son/daughter, brother or sister you are.
6. Nutritional Self. Talks about your likes and dislikes
about food
ASPECTS OF YOUR
DEVELOPMENT
7. Contextual Self. Descriptors could be in the areas of
maintenance of your living environment: reaction to light,
temperature, space, weather, colors, sound and seasons and
your impact on the environment.
8. Spiritual Self or Life Force. Includes your feelings
about yourself and organized religion, reactions about your
spiritual connections to others, feelings about your spiritual
development and history, and thought about your metaphysical
self.
THREE BASIC COMPOSITION
ASPECT OF THE SELF INDIVIDUAL
Physical: tangible aspects related to the body
Intellectual and conscious aspects that is related to the mind
Emotional and intuitive aspects related to the spirit
It may be important to some that their be prominent and
well educated. The mind is important, as it is the part of the
self that directs the other two aspects. The mind learns what
to do and communicates the information to the body and the
feelings. What the mind believes, the body manifests or acts
on, and the emotions feel, or respond with. People store both
healthy and destructive thoughts and beliefs and respond to
life’s circumstances in the most prominent manner. The mind
provides access to creativity and serenity which are necessary
for such processes as prayer, forgiveness, acceptance, and
passion.
The human emotions are the most feared aspect of the
self, as individuals are reluctant and unprepared to manage
them. Managing feelings is like trying to hold water in the
palm of your hand. They are illusive and deceptive. A
decision made under emotional stress and strain usually
projects emotions negatively. Negative emotions that are not
managed are stored and repressed. Repression is destructive
to a content self since all feelings, not only negative ones are
stored away. Accessing feelings when they are needed now
becomes difficult, leaving the individual numb and hopeless.
HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT
refers to human development that is meant to
involve all the aspects of a person. This is development
designed to accommodate physical development,
intellectual growth, emotional development, social
development and spiritual development.
MIND AND BODY
DUALISM OF DESCARTES
Rene Descartes one of the modern
philosophers of our time,
influenced much of man kinds
thinking with his theory of duality
or understanding the nature of
things in a simple, dual mode.
HOLISM AND
GESTALT
In 1926, General Jan C. Smuts, a South African
statesman, military leader, and philosopher,
wrote about holism in his book Holism and
Evolution.
He introduced the academic terminology for
holism as “the tendency in nature to form wholes
which are greater than the sum of the parts
through creative evolution”.
HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT
Physical development- the process of physical growth
in which (height, length, mass, etc.) of an individual
increases including the five physical senses
HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT
Intellectual development – deals with thinking and mental
process which further divided into six classes; knowledge,
comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and
evaluation.
Emotional development – it refers to the children’s
growing ability to identify and understand their own
feelings, shape the way they behave, develop empathy for
others, build and keep good relationships with friends,
family and others.
HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT
Social development – refers to how a child develops friendship
and other relationships, as well as how a child handles conflict
with peers. It is the manner by which an individual interacts with
other individuals or group of individuals.
Spiritual development – is a process through which a child
develops proper attitudes or behaviors towards the other people in
the society, based on various things such as social and cultural
norms, laws, and rules. It is the attributes of person’s
consciousness and beliefs, including values and virtues that guide
and put meaning into a person’s life.
When you look at a person and try to understand this individual, it
is always good to consider this five aspects and what it is about this
person that makes him or her unique from yourself and from others.
Understanding a person holistically means that one aspect cannot be seen
in isolation from the whole person. One must see how the interplay of all
five aspects occurs within an individual. It is the psychological or how
thinking, feeling, and behaving interacts and happens in a person. This
holistic approach in viewing a person is emphasized in education,
medicine, spiritual development, relationships, and in one person’s overall
wellness.
Therefore, holistic development is a process of self-actualization
and learning that combines an individual’s, physical (physiological),
Mental (intellectual), social, emotional (psychological), and spiritual
growth.
When we consider human person and what various aspects
make up this complex organism, five aspects come to mind:
• Physiological or the physical attributes including the five
physical senses;
• Cognitive or the intellectual functions of mind: thinking,
recognizing, analyzing, projecting, synthesizing, recalling
and assessing;
• Psychological or how thinking, feeling, and behaving
interact and happen in a person.
When we consider human person and what various aspects
make up this complex organism, five aspects come to mind:
• Social or the manner by which an individual interacts with
other individuals or groups of individual; and
• Spiritual or the attribute of a person’s consciousness and
beliefs, including the values and virtues that guide and put
meaning into a persons life.
FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS
Feelings, moods, and emotions do not exactly mean one and
the same. Paul Ekman of the University of California
identified six basic emotions that human beings experience:
happiness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust.
Attitudes are person’s thoughts, feelings and
emotions about another person, object, idea,
behavior, or situation. Attitude is a result of a
person’s evaluation of an experience with another
person, object, idea, behavior or situation based on
his or her values and beliefs systems. Beliefs and
certain values therefore, affect the attitude of a
person.
Behavior is a manifestation or acting out
of the attitudes an individual has.
VIRTUES AND VALUES
At the core every person lies a system
belief that adheres to the highest ideals of
human existence. These ideals create meaning
and purpose in a person’s life. These ideals are
called values
Values are usually nouns, while virtues are adjectives that
describe positive and desirable qualities which usually mirror a
value presents.
VALUES VIRTUES
Peace Peaceful, Calm
Integrity Reputable, responsible, believable,
honest, trust-worthy
Love Loving, caring, compassionate,
gentle, and affectionate
Balance Objective, fair, harmonious
Respect Respect, Civil
Beauty gets the eyes but
personality gets attention.
-Anonymous-
