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2. Aspects of Development

The document outlines various aspects of the self, including physical, intellectual, emotional, sensual, interactional, nutritional, contextual, and spiritual selves, encouraging self-assessment in each area. It emphasizes the importance of balancing these aspects for overall well-being and highlights the challenges of managing emotions. Additionally, it poses reflective questions to guide personal development and self-improvement.

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2. Aspects of Development

The document outlines various aspects of the self, including physical, intellectual, emotional, sensual, interactional, nutritional, contextual, and spiritual selves, encouraging self-assessment in each area. It emphasizes the importance of balancing these aspects for overall well-being and highlights the challenges of managing emotions. Additionally, it poses reflective questions to guide personal development and self-improvement.

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ASPECTS OF THE

SELF
Activity: ASSESS ASPECTS OF
YOUR DEVELOPMENT
Write some descriptions of the different
aspects of yourselves as follows:
1. Physical Self: Describe yourself. Try not
to censor any thoughts which come to your
mind. Include descriptions of your height,
weight, facial appearance, and quality of
skin, hair and descriptions of body areas
such as your neck, chest, waist, legs.
2. Intellectual Self: Include 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, and
insights you have.
3. Emotional Self: Write as many
words or phrase about 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 are
associated with each other.
4. Sensual Self: Write how you feel as a
sensual person. What sense do you use
most – sight, hearing, speaking,
smelling, touching? How do you feel
about the different ways you take in
information - through the eyes, ears,
mouth, nose, and skin. In what ways do
you let information in and out of your
body?
5. Interactional Self: Include
descriptions of your strengths and
weaknesses in intimate relationships
and relationships to friends, family,
classmates and strangers in social
settings. Describe the strengths and
weaknesses which your friends and
family have noticed. Describe what kind
of son or daughter, brother or sister you
are.
6. Nutritional Self: How do you nourish
yourself? What foods do you like and
dislike? What do you like and dislike about
these?
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: Write
words or phrases which tell about how you
feel in this area. This could include 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. Think
about your inner peace and joy. Think
about your spiritual regimen or routine.
QUESTIONS:
How do you find the activity?
In which aspect you need to work
on or develop?
Do you think that you can develop all
aspects of yourself or you believe
that “one cannot have everything”?
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.
A deeper look on the different aspects of
self can identify specific areas for self-
regulation, stability and improvement.
Three (3) basic, but very
different aspects of the self:
1. physical or tangible aspects as they
relate to the body;
2. the intellectual and conscious aspects
as they relate to the mind; and the
3. emotional and intuitive aspects as
they relate to the spirit.
All three aspects of the self
work together in perfect
harmony when attention is
paid to all three
simultaneously.
Many individuals put a strong
emphasis on the physical aspect
of the self. The body is tangible,
obvious, and we respond to it
easily. More time and money is
spent on enhancing the physical
component than either of the
other two aspects.
This does not mean, however,
that the body is healthy or
strong.
The body provides a place to
house the spirit (often
experienced as feelings) and
the mind (often experienced as
thought).
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.
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.
For instance, a girl realizes that
she is giving much attention on
the physical aspects and less
attention on her intellectual self.
In this way, she can discover how
much money and time spent
maintaining her physique and its
consequences in her grades.
By this honest evaluation of
herself, she can plan effective
actions to improve her study
habits. She can start seeking
for help and for related books
to read or browse articles to
help her improve her study
habits.
QUESTIONS:
1. What are the 3 basic aspects of the
self?
2. Which do you think is the most
important aspects of the self?
3. In order for you to function well what
are you going to do in each aspect of
yourself?

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