DEVELOPING

THE WHOLE
PERSON

Personal Development
Week 2
 Objectives
At the end of the lesson, you should be able to:

A. Discuss the relationship among physiological, cognitive,

psychological, spiritual and social aspects by
understanding the various aspects of holistic development;

B. Demonstrate understanding of the various aspects of

holistic development by evaluating your own thoughts,
feeling and actions;

C. Show the connection of your thoughts, feelings and

action by dealing with actual life situations.
 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 and affect.
 Aspects of your Development
Physical Self. Includes descriptions of your
height, weight, facial appearance, and quality of
skin, hair and descriptions of body areas such as

01 your neck, chest, waist, legs.

Intellectual Self. Includes here an

assessment of how well you reason and solve
problems, your capacity to learn and create, your

02 general amount of knowledge, your specific areas of

knowledge, wisdom you have acquired, and insights
you have.
 Aspects of your Development
Emotional Self. Typical feelings you have, feelings
you seldom have, feelings you try to avoid, feelings
you especially enjoy, feelings from your past and

03 present, and feelings which are associated with each

other

Sensual Self. The different ways you take an

information - through the eyes, ears, mouth, nose,
04 and skin.
 Aspects of your Development
Interactional Self. Includes descriptions of your
strengths and weaknesses in intimate
relationships and relationships to friends, family,
05 co-students and strangers in social settings.

Nutritional Self. Talks about your dislikes

06 and likes about food.
 Aspects of your Development
Contextual Self. Descriptors could be in the
areas of maintenance of your living environment:
reaction to light, temperature, space, weather,
07 colors, sound and seasons and your impact on
the environment.

Spiritual Self or Life Force. Includes your feelings about

yourself and organized religion, reactions about your
spiritual connections to others, feelings about your spiritual
08 development and history, and thought about your
metaphysical self.
 Three Basic Composition Aspect of the
Self of 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 mind
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 impacts
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.

Source: http://www.innerwisdom.com/aspect-of-the-self.htm
 HOLISTIC
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.
 HOLISM AND
GESTALT

He introduced the academic terminology for

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holism as “the tendency in nature to form
wholes which are greater than the sum of
the parts through creative evolution”
Earlier in 1890, a German philosopher and psychologist,
Christian von Ehrenfels, and later on supported by
psychologists Max Werheimer, Kurt Koffka and
Wolfgang Kohler of the Berlin School, introduced the
Concept of Gestalt.

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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
the mind: thinking, recognizing, reasoning,
analyzing, projecting, synthesizing,
recalling and assessing;
• Psychological or how thinking, feeling, and
behaving interact and happen in a person;
• Social or the manner by which an individual
interacts with other individuals or groups of
individuals; 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.
However, a recent research study (2014)
conducted by the institute of Neuroscience
and Psychology at the University of Glasgow
and published in a journal, Current Biology,
has conducted that there are only four basic
emotions, these are: happy, sad afraid or
surprised and angry or disgusted.
 EMOTIONS

Emotion is taken from the Latin verb, movare,

which means to move or be upset or agitated. It
is defined by Smith (1973) as a descriptive term
referring to variations in level of arousal,
affective state or mood, expressive movements,
and attitudes (Sanchez, Abad, and Jao 2012).
In a state of strong emotion, the person’s physical
responses include faster heartbeat, profuse sweating and
dilation of eye pupils, higher blood pressure, and
muscular tremors, affecting the nervous system in
general.

Are feelings the same as emotions? In an online article of

Scientific American titled Feeling our Emotions, the author
interviewed noted neurologist, Dr. Antonio R. Damasio
(2005) about the distinction between feelings and
emotions.
According to Dr. Damasio, from a neuron-
scientific approach, feelings arises from the brain
as it interprets an emotion, which is usually
caused by the physical sensations experienced
by the body as a reaction to a certain external
stimulus.
An example of this would be the emotion of being
afraid, which produces a feeling of fear.
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 belief 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.
 VALUES AND VIRTUES

At the core of every person

lies a system of beliefs 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 AND VIRTUES

The United Nations, for example,

listed the following universal values:
peace, freedom, social progress,
equal rights, and human dignity.

Five Core Values for the Workplace,

Dilenschneider listed the following
corporate values:
• Integrity;
• Accountability;
• Diligence;
• Perseverance ;
• Discipline.
Shalom H. Schwartz, a
psychologist and cross-cultural
researcher from the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem,
conducted a research which
covered many different peoples
and cultures to identify the ten
common values people have
regardless of their racial and
cultural backgrounds.
Shalom H. Schwartz
Schwartz wrote in his report,
Basic Human Values: Theories,
Methods and Applications the
findings of his research, which
identified the ten basic values
that can be characterized by
describing their central
motivational goals. These ten
basic values are: Shalom H. Schwartz
1. Self-Direction The motivational goals that
2. Stimulation characterize the ten values
3. Hedonism identified were:
4. Achievement 1. Openness to change;
5. Power 2. Self-transcendence;
6. Security 3. Self-enhancement; and
7.Conformity 4. Conversation
8.Tradition
9. Benevolence
10. Universalism
 VIRTUES
Values are usually nouns, while virtues are adjectives
that describe positive and desirable qualities which
usually mirror a value it presents.