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NSTP MODULE 6:SELF AND FILIPINO SOCIETYObjectives:At the end of the lesson, you should be able to: Define self-awareness and self-concept; Appreciate the Filipino value system; Continue developing knowledge, attitudes, values, and skills in order to act locally in building a just, peaceful, equitabl...

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NSTP MODULE 6: SELF AND FILIPINO SOCIETY Objectives: At the end of the lesson, you should be able to: 1. Define self-awareness and self-concept; 2. Appreciate the Filipino value system; 3. Continue developing knowledge, attitudes, values, and skills in order to act locally in building a just, peaceful, equitable, compassionate community; 4. Create an impact in your community; and 5. Behave in ways that fulfill your individual and social responsible goals.

Understanding the self and society helps you acquire a positive sense of self and social responsibility that will lead you to the development of your potentials and enable you to live together harmoniously in the contexts of your family, local community, and country, as well. In an increasingly globalized world, it is important that you are able to see things through the hearts, minds, and eyes of others, and understand the impact of regional and global issues on your lives and the lives of the members of your family, community, and country.

NATURE OF SELF “I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.” - Fritz Perls Your self is your basic personality or nature, especially considered in terms of what you are really like as a person. You're looking more like your usual self. A person's self is the essential part of their nature which makes them different from everyone and everything else. The self is an individual person as the object of its own reflective consciousness. Since the self is a reference by a subject to the same subject, this reference is necessarily subjective. The sense of having a self – or self-hood – should, however, do not be confused with subjectivity itself. Ostensibly, this sense is directed outward from the subject to refer inward, back to its "self" (or itself). The first-person perspective distinguishes self-hood from personal identity. Whereas "identity" is (literally) sameness and may involve categorization and labeling, self-hood implies a first-person perspective and suggests potential uniqueness. Conversely, we use "person" as a third-person reference.

A natural self is metaphysically dependent on the body from which its states emerge and upon which they supervene, and it survives no longer than the body does; but it does not have the same identity conditions as the body, and neither are the mental states of the self reducible to physical states of the body. Dimensions of self care: 1. Physical self-care involves your fitness and sleep habits. This area also includes stress management, your dental/medical check-ups. 50 minutes of physical activity helps release endorphins as well as build strength and cardiovascular endurance. In addition, physical activity has proven to help you sleep better and feel better. 2. Intellectual self-care involves your personal growth and continuous pursuit for learning. This also includes engaging in new things, practicing mindfulness, and keeping a positive mindset. Take a much needed break from the millions of thoughts you experience every day! Also, setting an attainable fitness goal such as regularly attending classes (even online), and then sticking to this goal will help with personal growth. 3. Social self-care involves having a supportive network of people. This group of people is one you can turn to when you need uplifting or guidance. Connections built help to create a sense of belonging and acceptance. 4. Spiritual self-care involves the beliefs and values that help guide your life. This includes practices that help nourish your soul, seek understanding, and explore your spiritual life. Slow down and focus. Consequently, this allows you to be in touch with each muscle group that’s working. Being in touch with your self is part of the spiritual self-care dimension. 5. Emotional self-care involves awareness. This includes awareness of your feelings and emotions and dealing with stress in a positive way. It also entails cultivating a sense of compassion, kindness, and love for yourselves and others. The simple act of working out signals the body to release endorphins and other stress-reducing hormones to be able to deal with your emotions in a more positive way.

SELF-AWARENESS AND FILIPINO VALUES As early as the time of Socrates, we have known about the importance of self-awareness. Understanding oneself is the key not only to our ability to succeed, but also to our ability to work effectively with others. Studies show that the best managers are those who are keenly aware of their strengths and weaknesses. They are able to capitalize on their own strengths and either improve their weaknesses or work with others whose qualities complement theirs. They are able to understand others – their motivation, needs, style and capabilities, and limitations – and use this information to motivate and to get results from them. Self-awareness involves paying attention to oneself and consciously knowing one's attitudes and dispositions. This mindful understanding comprises awareness of sensations, emotions, feelings, thoughts, the physical body, relationships with others, and how these interact. What is Self Awareness?

 Is having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions.  Allows you to understand other people, how they perceive you, your attitude and your responses to them at the moment.  Is the first step in creating what you want and mastering it. Where you can focus your attention, your emotions, reactions, personality and behavior determine where you go in life. Characteristics of a Person 1. Rational: Every person is a rational being. This is what distinguishes a person from all other creatures in the world. As a rational being, a person is free to think and has the capacity to reason. He can distinguish what is right and what is wrong because he has intellect. 2. Free: All human beings are born free. A person has the freedom to do or not to do a specific action. However, every person must be responsible for his own action. In other words, a person can do whatever he pleases but not to the extent of doing harm to his co-creatures. 3. Unique: Every person is unique. Every person has his own identity such that no two persons are the same. Generally speaking, human beings have the same characteristics and physical features and but no two persons are the same because every person has its own perception, has different sets of values and priorities in life. 4. Social being: Every person is intrinsically a social being. He cannot detach his being from others and all other creatures in the universe. Human nature is characterized by his togetherness and relationship towards other creatures; be it a thing, object or his fellowman. 5. Sexual: All created living things are sexual in nature but the uniqueness of expression of a person‘s sexuality makes it all different. The expression of a person‘s emotions, attitudes, feelings, actions and thoughts in sexual activity best exemplifies his uniqueness from animals. You as You 1. Know the difference between your biological or inherited traits and your environmental or acquired traits. 2. Self-awareness is an awareness of one’s own personality or individuality.  Be your own best friend and believe in yourself, so that you become the person you want to be.  You are you and you are what you think.  You are unique in your own way.  Only you can control your destiny and make a difference in your life. You as a Filipino 1.

Being aware of and remaining constantly on guard against the Filipino tendency towards negativism.

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Use your “lakas ng loob” (courage and strength) to move away from the fatalistic “gulong ng palad” (wheel of fortune) and “bahala na” (come what may) attitude.  Begin by getting involved with your own life.  Begin without expecting instant miracles.  Believe in your abilities and work unyieldingly to reach your objective.

You and Your Faith 1. 2.

Recognizing Divine Providence Filipino worship is directed towards God as a father-figure who takes care of all- “Bahala na ang Diyos”

Your self-help concepts; self-improvement teachings: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Believe in yourself. Keep your priorities straight. Take responsibility for yourself. Focus on what you want. Control stress. Do everything with love.

Your self-made wall of negative self-talk 1. It’s just no use! 2. I just know that it won’t work! 3. That’s just my luck! 4. I’m so clumsy! 5. Everything I eat goes right to my waist. 6. Today just isn’t my day! 7. I can never afford the things I want 8. I never have enough time! 9. That really makes me mad! 10. I’m too shy! 11. I never know what to say! 12. And the never ending list goes on… The Self-Management sequence 1. Life is not a matter of luck or fortune. 2. Success in self-management is always the result of something else, something that leads up to it. 3. Most of what happens to you happens because of you – something you created, directed, influenced, or allowed to happen.

Other Concepts:  Behavior means our ACTIONS:  How we act, what we do, each moment of each day will determine whether or not we will be successful that moment or that day in everything we do.  What we do or do not do.  Feelings  How we feel about something will always determine or affect what we do and how we will do it.  Our feelings will directly influence our actions.  Our feelings are created, controlled, determined, or influenced by our attitudes.  Attitudes:  Are the perspectives from which you view life.  Good attitudes are created, controlled, or influenced entirely by our beliefs. “The difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude"  Beliefs:  What we believe about anything will determine our attitudes about it, create our feelings, direct our actions, and influence us to do well or poorly, or succeed or fail.  Belief is a power to make something appear to be something different than what it really is!  Belief does not require something to be true: it only requires us to believe that it’s true. Programming: our conditioning from the day we were born has created, reinforced, and nearly permanently cemented most of what we believe about ourselves and what we believe about most of what goes on around us. Therefore; 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Programming creates beliefs. Beliefs create attitudes. Attitudes create feelings. Feelings determine actions. Actions create results.

LEVELS OF SELF- TALK Level 1 Negative Acceptance

Level 2

Recognition and need to change

 The lowest, least beneficial, and the most harmful level of selftalk  You say something bad or negative about yourself, and you accept it  “I can’t” “If only I could…”  This level is beguiling.  On the surface it looks as though it should work for us, but instead, it works against us.

Level 3

Decision change

Level 4

Better you

Level 5

Universal affirmation

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 “I need to…” “I ought…” “I would…”  Is the first level of self-talk that works for you.  You recognize the need to change, but also you make the decision to do something about it.  You state the decision in the “present tense” like “I never…” “I no longer…”  The most effective kind of self-talk.  You are painting a completed new picture of yourself.  “This is me I want myself to create” “I am…” “Yes I can.”  Self-talk which has been spoken for thousands of years.  Self-talk of “oneness” with God.  “It is……  “I am one of the universe and it is one with me. I am fit, within it, and exist as a shining spark in a firmament of divine goodness.”

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS “The harder you work, the luckier you get.” Attributed to golfer Jerry Barber in 1960

Improving your skills – a practice known as personal development – does not happen by itself. Some personal development can be a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and simply taking up opportunities. But consistent, effective personal development across a wide range of skills requires deliberate and focused effort. This topic explains the importance of planning your personal development in order to achieve your goals and ambitions in life, whether career-focused or more personal. At various points in your life, you may be presented with opportunities for personal development: perhaps the chance to work with someone particularly inspiring, or to do something new and unexpected. But it is also true to say that you make your own luck. In other words, you have to know what you need to improve to achieve a particular ambition, and then work on it. But if you do so, you will improve. And only by doing so will you have a chance of achieving that ambition. On the other hand, if you really don’t know what you need to improve, you can’t work on it. And if you don’t plan ahead to develop the skills that you need for your chosen course in life, you will not be able to achieve all that you want. The reason for planning your personal development is therefore very simple: only you know what you want to achieve, and the key to achieving it is in your hands via the actions you take. Planning what you need to do to achieve your goals is a vital step in the process.

Many people may first come across personal development plans as part of a course of study, or at work. But planning what you need to do to improve or change yourself is not just important in formal situations. It can also help in your personal life too. Elements of Your Personal Development Plan There are a number of things that you need to include in a personal development plan. 1. A clear vision of where you want to be and why: It is really helpful to think about where you want to be and what you want to do. It can be useful to think in terms of different lengths of time: for example, one month, six months, one year, five years. It is also helpful to make your vision as detailed as possible, across all spheres of life: career, where you want to live, your hobbies and even relationships. The more detail you can include, right down to how you will feel about it, the easier it will be to hold onto your vision when times are hard. 2. A good understanding of the skills you need to develop to achieve your vision: The next step to your personal development plan is to think about what skills you need to develop, and why this is important to achieving your vision. It is important to make sure that the skills you are targeting are clearly linked to a purpose, which is in turn linked to your vision. Without this clarity, your personal development efforts may fail. In particular, you may not concentrate on the right skills, or be fully aware of your timescale. 3. A clear idea of the standard you need to achieve, and how different that is from your current standard: The difference between where you are now and where you need to be tells you the magnitude of the task. It, therefore, affects how long it will take, and also how much effort you need to put in. 4. A level of priority for each area: You cannot do everything at once. Instead, you need to prioritize. One very good way to do this is to list all your areas for development, then ask yourself two questions about each one, answering on a scale of one to five:  

How important is this to me? How essential is it to develop it now?

Add together (or multiply) the scores for the two questions for each area, and you will have a much better idea of which areas to focus on first, because they are either more important, or they are more time-critical. Leave the other areas for a later date: next year, or even a few years’ time. 5. A detailed idea of how to get from where you are now fo r each skills or area, to where you want to be: It sounds obvious, but you need to know how you are going to get from (a) to (b): where you are now, to where you want to be. Just as with your vision, it can be helpful to break this down by time: in a month/six months/a year, what will you

have done on the way to your ultimate goals? This makes it easier to check your progress and keep yourself on track. One Step at a Time When you first start thinking about personal development, it can seem as if you know nothing, and have no skills. You may find this point rather overwhelming! But it is important to bear two things in mind: 1. You do have skills. You have been learning and developing all your life, and you already have many, many skills. 2. You don’t have to improve everything all at once. In fact, you’re much better off not trying to do that. Focus on just one or two areas at a time, and you will see much larger improvements, and also feel less overwhelmed.

3. Again, there is a reason why personal development is sometimes called ‘lifelong learning:’ there is no time limit on it.

ROOTS OF THE FILIPINO CHARACTER Many Faces of the Filipinos There is much good in the Filipino but there is much that needs to be changed. If we have to succeed in nation building, we must start with people-building by taking a close look at ourselves. Then we can see that many of our strong points are also source of our weakness. As a people, we are person-oriented and relationships with others are a very important part of our lives. On the other hand, our being such when carried too far makes us lose our objective. We also learn to ignore time honored rules and procedures where everyone, regardless of our relationship with them are treated equally. Our being person-oriented leads us to be concerned for people yet unfair to some. We find other contradiction in the many faces of the Filipino. Our relationship with others (pakikipagkapwa-tao) and our “to-each-his-own mentality” (kanya-kanya) live comfortably with us. We are other-oriented and capable of great empathy and yet we are fault-finders who are self serving and envious of one another. Roots of the Filipino Character The strengths and weaknesses of the Filipino have their roots in many factors such as: 1. Family & home environment: The main components of the home environment:

° Child rearing practices: Child rearing can be both difficult and rewarding at the same time. The goal of every parent is to have your child grow up to be a respectable and resourceful adult in society. Child rearing in the Filipino family is characterized by: ° High nurturance. The Filipino child grows up in an atmosphere of love and affection. Providing the children with the opportunity, means and support to pursue their goals. ° Low independence training ° Over protection Some parents act on their own needs for power and use control and coercion to ensure that they remain the dominant forces in their children’s lives. Low discipline. Attempts to maintain discipline come in the form of many "no's" and "don'ts" and a system of criticism to keep children in line. Subtle comparisons among siblings also are used by mothers to control their children. ° Family relations. In a large family where we are encouraged to get along with our siblings and other relatives, we learn pakikipagkapwa-tao. In an authoritarian setting we learn respect for age and authority; at the same time we become passive and dependent on authority. Children are taught to value family and to give it primary importance.  Family attitudes and orientation. The Filipino’s family orientation may be attributed to the colonial times when the hierarchical structure of family has been in prevalent place, where age and status demand high levels of respect, and the good of the family takes precedence over personal desires. This characteristic is still present despite modern times. 2. Social environment. The social environment of the Filipino is characterized by a feudal structure with great gaps between the rich minority and the poor majority. The main components of social environment are: social structures, social systems such as: interpersonal religions and community in...