THE PHYSICAL SELF

• Unpacking the self is the gradual unfolding, a growth process, in which the aspects that surround the self and identity develop in an integrated and healthy way.
• The self continues to unfold throughout life but it develops and unfolds essentially during adolescence when young people struggle to come to terms with their identity.
• The self includes the following six aspects: Physical, Sexual, Material, Spiritual, Political, and Digital.
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• For the beauty inside radiates outwardly.
• The Physical Self refers to the body, this marvelous container and complex, finely tuned, machine with which we interface with our environment and fellow beings.
• The Physical Self is the concrete dimension, the tangible aspect of the person that can be directly observed and examined.
• The Physical Self unfolds through stages in the lifespan or periods of development: Prenatal Development, Infancy and Toddlerhood, Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, Adolescence, Early Adulthood, Middle Adulthood, Late Adulthood, and Death and Dying.
• Conception occurs and development begins in the prenatal stage, with all of the major structures of the body forming and the health of the mother being of primary concern.
• Understanding nutrition, teratogens, and labor and delivery are primary concerns in the prenatal stage.
• The first year and a half to two years of life are ones of dramatic growth and change in the infancy and toddlerhood stage.
• A newborn, with a keen sense of hearing but very poor vision, transforms into a walking, talking toddler within a relatively short period of time in the infancy and toddlerhood stage.
• Caregivers transform from managing feeding and sleep schedules to a constantly moving guide and safety inspector for a mobile, energetic child in the infancy and toddlerhood stage.
• Early childhood, also referred to as the preschool years, consists of the years which follow toddlerhood and precede formal schooling.
• Gaining expertise in certain fields and understanding problems and finding solutions with greater efficiency is a period of late adulthood.
• Issues of housing, healthcare, and extending active life expectancy are only a few of the topics of concern for this age group.
• Physical growth and development is the product of heredity and environment.
• The origin of every human life can be traced to a single cell called zygote.
• This is the age group hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic in Africa resulting in a substantial decrease in the number of workers in those economies.
• Heredity refers to the genetic inheritance received by every individual at the time of conception.
• Late adulthood has increased in the last 100 years, particularly in industrialized countries.
• The “young old” are people between 65 and 79 and are very similar to midlife adults, still working, still relatively healthy, and still interested in being productive and active.
• Late adulthood is sometimes subdivided into two or three categories such as the “young old” and “old old” or the “young old”, “old old”, and “oldest old”.
• The “old old” or those who are 80 and older remain productive and active and the majority continues to live independently, but risks of the diseases of old age such as arteriosclerosis, cancer, and cerebral vascular disease increases substantially for this age group.
• A better way to appreciate the diversity of people in late adulthood is to go beyond chronological age and examine whether a person is experiencing optimal aging, normal aging, or impaired aging.
• Death and Dying is a topic seldom given the amount of coverage it deserves.
• Late adulthood can also be a time of becoming more realistic about possibilities in life previously considered and recognizing the difference between what is possible and what is likely.
• Conception is the formation of a new life through the union of sperm and ovum.
• Genes are the real determiners of hereditary characteristics which pass on from one generation to the other.
• The physical characteristics such as height, weight, colour of eye and skin, social and intellectual behaviour are determined by heredity.
• Environmental influences are those which act upon the organism at the earlier stages of development, i.e., before and also after birth.
• A negative or unhealthy body image can contribute to low self-esteem and cause persistent anxiety.
• People tend to judge others based on physical appearance, as evidenced by the story of the “Elevator Lady”.
• Physical appearance alone is not enough to know a person’s true character, it is important to see a person’s inner thought and feelings — one’s inner self.
• Identical twins, on the other hand, are born out of monozygotic genes and hence resemble each other more.
• Environment refers to the society, the fields of society and even the whole world, but in this context, the word environment is restricted to mean the environment within mother’s womb and just born, as well as the environment around the individual.
• Beauty is subjective, as per the idiom “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder”.