Personal Development

• Whole Person  Complete aspects of a person or his totality
• Holistic development  is a comprehensive approach in learning which aims to develop multiple facets or abilities of a human brain.
• Mind and Body Dualism

  René Descartes (1596—1650) is often credited with being the “Father of Modern Philosophy”
• Theory of Duality or understanding the nature of things in a simple, dual mode
• Holism Gestalt

  • Gen. Jan C. Smutsa South African statesman, military leader, and philosopher, wrote about holism in his book Holism and Evolution.
• Holism in general terms is the idea that all the properties of a given system cannot be determined or explained by its component parts alone, but the system as a whole determines in an important way how the parts behave.
• Holism - The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The whole contains properties that cannot be discovered through the analysis of parts.
• Christian Von Ehrehfels, in 1980 a German philosopher and psychologist and other psychologist introduced the concept of gestalt
• Gestalt is a psychology term which means "unified whole". It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. The term Gestalt may be defined as an object, idea, or experience as being more than the sum of its parts. When you put the parts together, you get the whole - in other words, you get the Gestalt.
• In understanding humans, it is important to see the person in his entirety and not just his parts
• • Physiological includes the description of your height, weight, facial appearance, and quality of skin, hair and description of body areas.
• Physical health is defined as the condition of your body, taking into consideration everything from the absence of disease to fitness level.
• Lifestyle: diet, level of physical activity, and behavior (eating unhealthy foods);
• Human biology: a person's genetics and physiology may make it easier or harder to achieve good physical health;
• Environment: our surroundings and exposure to factors such as sunlight or toxic substances; and
• Healthcare service: good healthcare can help prevent illness, as well as to detect and treat illness.
• Cognitive or the intellectual functions of the mind: thinking, recognizing, reasoning, analyzing, projecting, synthesizing, recalling and assessing;
• Cognitive development means how people think, explore, and figure things out.
• . Brain development is part of cognitive development.
• Mental abilities are developed by engaging in intellectual pursuits such as studies, work, and figuring out how best to deal with challenges-thinking, planning, organizing, evaluating, and maximizing cognitive abilities.
• Psychological/ Emotional 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;
• Social development can impact many other forms of development a person experiences.
• Spiritual or the attribute of a person’s consciousness and beliefs, including the values and virtues that guide and put meaning into a person’s life.
• In understanding an individual always consider the five aspects and what it is about that person that makes him or her unique from yourself and from others.
• Paul Ekman of University of California identified six basic emotions that human beings experience: happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, and disgust.
• Emotion is defined as a descriptive term referring to variations in level of arousal , affective state or mood, expressive movements, and attitudes. 
• Feeling arises from the brain as it interprets an emotion, which is usually caused by physical sensations experienced by the body as a reaction to a certain stimulus
• Attitudes are a person’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions about another person, object, idea, behavior, or situation.
• Behavior is a manifestation or acting out of the attitudes an individual has
• Values are principles or standards that are considered as important or desirable. 
• Virtues are qualities that are considered to be good or desirable in a person.
• “self” is an intangible entity that directs a person’s thoughts and actions. 
•  “Self” is defined as the cognitive and affective representations of one identity.
• SELF CONCEPT 

  ⦿refers to your awareness of yourself. It is a general term used to refer to how someone thinks about, evaluates and perceives themselves. 
• SELF CONCEPT

   "The individual's belief about himself or herself, including the person's attributes and who and what the self is." - Baumeister (1999)
• ⦿actual self, is the one that you actually see. It is the self that has characteristics that you were nurtured or, in some cases, born to have.
• ⦿ ideal self is the self that you aspire to be. It is the one that you hope will possess characteristics similar to that of a mentor or some other worldly figure.
• PERSONALITY

  ⦿Refers to the unique and relatively enduring set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts and motives that characterize an individual;
• Nature – refers to the inherited characteristics and tendencies that influence development.