PerDev Mod 2 Notes

Personal Development
development, social development and spiritual

Quarter 1 – Module 2: development.
Developing the Whole Person
• Physical Development - the process of
Lesson 1: Various Aspects of Holistic physical growth in which (height,
Development length, mass etc.) of an individual
increases including the five physical
ASPECTS OF MY DEVELOPMENT senses.
1.) Physical Self - includes the descriptions of
your height, weight, facial appearance, and • Intellectual Development - deals with
quality of skin, hair and descriptions of body thinking and mental process which
areas such as your neck, chest, waist, legs etc. further divided into six classes;
knowledge, comprehension,
2.) Intellectual Self - include here an application, analysis, synthesis, and
assessment of how well you reason and solve evaluation.
problems, your capacity to learn and create,
your general amount of knowledge, your • Emotional Development - it refers to
specific areas of knowledge, wisdom you have the children’s growing ability to identify
acquired, and insights you have. and understand their own feelings,
accurately read and understand the
3.) Emotional Self - it is about the typical feelings of others, manage the way they
feelings you: seldom feel, try to avoid, enjoyed feel, shape the way they behave,
most, and associated with each other. develop empathy for others, and build
and keep good relationships with
4.) Sensual Self - it is about how you feel as a friends, family and others.
sensual person. What do you use most – sight,
hearing, speaking, smelling, touching? How do • Social Development - refers to how a
you feel about the different ways you take in child develops friendships and other
information - through the eyes, ears, mouth, relationships, as well as how a child
nose, pores, and skin. handles conflict with peers. It is the
manner by which an individual interacts
5.) Interactional Self - includes your with other individuals or group of
descriptions of your strengths and weaknesses individuals.
in intimate relationships and relationships to
friends, family, co- students and strangers in • Spiritual Development - is a process
social settings. Describe the strengths and through which a child develops proper
weaknesses which your friends and family have attitudes or behaviors towards the
noticed. Describe what kind of son or daughter, other people in the society, based on
brother or sister you are. various things such as social and
cultural norms, laws, and rules. It is the
6.) Nutritional Self - includes how do you attributes of a person’s consciousness
nourish yourself? What foods do you like and and beliefs, including values and virtues
dislike? What do you like and dislike about that guide and put meaning into a
these? person’s life.
7.) Contextual Self - this could be in the areas of When you look at a person and try to
maintenance of your living environment: understand this individual, it is always good to
reaction to light, temperature, space, weather, consider this five aspects and what it is about
colors, sound and seasons and your impact on this person that makes him or her unique from
the environment. yourself and from others.
8.) Spiritual Self - this could include your Understanding a person holistically means
feelings about yourself and organized religion, that one aspect cannot be seen in isolation
reactions about your spiritual connections to from the whole person. One must see how the
others, feelings about your spiritual interplay of all five aspects occurs within an
development and history, and thought about individual.
your metaphysical self.
It is the psychological or how thinking,
What is Holistic Development? feeling, and behaving interacts and happens in a
Holistic Development refers to human person. This holistic approach in viewing a
development that is meant to involve all the person is emphasized in education, medicine,
aspects of a person. This is development spiritual development, relationships, and in one
designed to accommodate physical person’s overall wellness.
development, Intellectual growth, emotional
Therefore, holistic development is a process of wolves fight for dominance over our mind and
self-actualization and learning that combines an behavior.
individual’s, physical (physiological), Mental
(intellectual), social, emotional (psychological), 3.) The “you” has the ability to decide which
and spiritual growth. wolf it will feed.
4.) Having made a choice, “you” can decide

Lesson 2: Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors for specifically how to “feed” or nurture the
Holistic Development. selected wolf.
The Power Triad: Thoughts, Feelings, and

Behavior
➢ Knowing which wolf to feed is the first
step towards recognizing you have
control over your own self. Have you
ever had thoughts, feelings or acted in
ways that were unacceptable to
yourself but felt powerless to control?
➢ The purpose of this story is to help you

find ways to manage your mind so that
you can live your life more in
accordance with what your own
judgment says is best for you. As we
grow up, we gradually become aware of
the many things in the external world
which are largely beyond our ability to
control.
➢ These include other people in general

and most events in our lives. Initially
this is difficult to accept, but a more
shocking realization is that there are
many things about ourselves that we
seem powerless to control.
➢ Some of these are our own thoughts,

feelings, and actions which
unfortunately can be the source of
much distress. It may be thoughts such
as “I cannot stop hating my teacher for
not giving me high grades.” It may
involve an emotion e.g. “My girlfriend
left me and I cannot stop feeling sad,
lonely and unloved.” It can also be in
the form of a behavior such as the
inability to control one’s craving for
food such as cakes and chocolates.”
But are we indeed really powerless to

control our own maladaptive thoughts, feelings
and actions? The grandfather’s answer “The one
you feed” is deceivingly simple. The results of
psychological research indicate that there are at
least four important concepts or ideas implied
by the answer:
1.) The mind is not the unitary entity it seems to

us but consists of different parts. For example in
the story there are the two wolves and the
“you” that chooses between them.
2.) These parts of the mind/brain can interact

and be in conflict with each other i.e. the two

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Personal Development

development, social development and spiritual

4.) Having made a choice, “you” can decide

The Power Triad: Thoughts, Feelings, and

➢ The purpose of this story is to help you

➢ These include other people in general

➢ Some of these are our own thoughts,

But are we indeed really powerless to

1.) The mind is not the unitary entity it seems to

2.) These parts of the mind/brain can interact

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