One's Holistic Personal Development PDF

One’s hOlistic persOnal development How you came to be who you are today and how you can improve yourself every single day? Are you aware of your attitude with yourself, and with the people and environment around you?  Holistic Development: Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior...

One’s hOlistic persOnal development How you came to be who you are today and how you can improve yourself every single day? Are you aware of your attitude with yourself, and with the people and environment around you?  Holistic Development: Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors It was mentioned in the last lesson that attitude is composed of cognition, affect, and behavior. In this lesson, we shall discuss them in more practical terms. Cognition will be represented by thoughts; affect will be represented by feelings; and behavior represents itself. THOUGHTS ▪Thoughts usually originate from things we have learned both in a right way and a wrong way. ▪The thoughts that potentially affects our attitude negatively are commonly associated with an irrational belief represented by a statement that echoes in our heads. Statements in our heads like "I should be good-looking, "I need him in my life, "I am not enough," or "Life sucks affect us. These can be referred to as malcognitions. These root from hurtful or unpleasant experiences that lost emotional attachment through time and became statements that we act in accordance with. Other than previous experiences that hurt, these could also come from the person. ▪the self-blame cognition would affect the child's attitude regarding self that results to more maladaptive attitudes and behaviors. ▪On the opposite extreme, some kids are too praised by their parents that when they grow up, statement such as You are perfect!" may have the child think that he or she is perfect. It could end up as narcissism or a situation wherein the child will always strive to be perfect and above others not for self-attainment but to keep the "perfect image. When they fail, however, they would probably bash themselves because they have failed their parents’ statement. They could possibly become perfectionists because their perfectionistic demands to themselves will also be projected unto others. Higher expectations mean higher frustrations. ▪A therapeutic approach would be to say a positive statement about yourself every day, when you are alone in your routines. Through this method, you can consciously condition your mindset until it becomes subconscious, thus affecting your attitude and your behavior.  you can do it sizt you can do it mars you can do it tol you can do it bii you can do it meses you can do it bro  FEELINGS Since the strength of emotional stability varies among individuals, we cannot stigmatize sensitive people and compare them with stronger individuals. Everyone has a pace. What's your emotional pace? It helps to find out what your fire is so you could face it, manage it, and express it in a right way. Behavior Behavior can be overt or covert. Overt behavior is expressed consciously like replying to a friend or volunteering for class recitation. Covert behavior, however occurs beyond our awareness, in our blind spot. Mannerisms, body language, gestures, and personal tendencies fall here. Overview on the Aspects of Development ❖ Physical and Neurobiological Development COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT  transitional period between childhood and adulthood. Latin word adolescere – “to grow up” Geldard (2006) –the time in your young life where you have to move from dependency to your parents to independency. Yet, as human beings, we cannot help but be imperfect as we are. It is natural to be angry, hurt, jealous, anxious, disgusted, or happy. It is alright to feel. The hard part to fight is to what direction do we express our emotions especially if they are negative. Flow one copes with the negative and bounces back to be better is a good trait. It is also a good trait if regardless of the triumphs, an individual still corrects his or her weaknesses and is open to criticism.  Summary ▪ Thoughts affect our attitude and our lite consciously and subconsciously ▪ Emotions may bloat or minimize the perception of the thought. ▪ Behavior is the primary output of our attitude. ▪ The physical and neurobiological development is one aspect of holistic development that involves the entire body and the brain. ▪ Jean Piaget offers the Stage Theory of Intellectual Development that explains the development of our cognitive abilities from the time that we are born. ▪ Lawrence Kohlberg offers the Stages of Moral Development theory that explains the moral development on an individual. Bb. Abby