GE 01 UNDERSTANDING THE SELF WORKSHEET 5: FINAL OUTPUT

FINAL TERM
LESSON 9: MANAGING AND CARING FOR THE SELF

Name: Carl A. Lanuzga Class Schedule: 9:00-10:30

1. MY STRESS LIST (10 points)

STRESS is a feeling of emotional or physical tension. It can come from any event or thought that makes you feel
frustrated, angry, or nervous. Stress is your body's reaction to a challenge or demand.

Direction: List down the events or thoughts that makes you feel frustrated, angry, or nervous.

1. Slow internet connection during exams makes me nervous.

2. I feel frustrated every time I got scores below from my expectations.
3. It makes me angry when someone disturb me while I’m playing.

2. EUSTRESS VS. DISTRESS (10 points)

There are two types of Stress.

Eustress: positive, good stress that comes from situations that are enjoyable. It motivates us, focuses our energy, it is
short-term, perceived as within our coping abilities, it feels exciting and it improves our performance. (e.g., winning a
game)
Distress: Negative, bad stress that can be harmful to the body. It causes anxiety or concern, can be short- or long-term, it
is perceived as outside of our coping abilities, it feels unpleasant, it decreases performance and it can lead to mental and
physical problems. (e.g., doing poorly on a test)

Direction: Categorize your stress list into eustress and distress in the space below.

Eustress 😊 Distress ☹

1. When I have poor internet connection but still won 1. I have a headache when I don't get
in mobile games.
enough sleep.
2. The first time I ride in a ferris wheel is an
2. it's annoying when I forget what I
unexplainable emotion.
3. It makes me proud when I play a guitar and reviewed in the exam.
accidentally got the right chords of a song. 3. Many school works with the same due
dates

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3. STRESSORS AND RESPONSES (20 points)

Stressors are events or conditions in your surroundings that may trigger stress and can lead to both physical and
psychological health issues. The stress response or reaction is a normal response to the demands and changes of life-
both positive and negative. The response is individual, physiological and necessary for survival.

Direction: Think of your personal stressors and identify your common responses to stress. An example is given below.

Signs of Stress

Stressors
Physical Responses Behavioral Responses Mental Responses Emotional Responses

Deadlines Headache, Engaging in self- Excessive worrying Irritability

difficulty sleeping, destructive behavior (too
decrease appetite much alcohol
consumption)

Slow wifi headache I don’t stop playing Slightly worrying for my Irritability
connection mobile games until I rank
recover my lost games

Lack of sleep headache I use to sleep in daytime My mind is craving for I feel sorry for myself
even I have many sleep
activities to do.

long queue at Stomach ache, I use to be patient for my I’m worried about my bored
voters registration headache turn class schedule that time

Noisy neighbors Unpleasant to ears I do say bad words Can’t focus on what I’m Irritability
sometimes doing

4. MANAGING YOUR STRESS (10 points)

Direction: Think about how to cope with and prevent the distress you identified in your Stress List and the questions
above. Describe your plan for coping with distress in the space below. Follow the guide below.

I always do some kind of exercises every morning to stretch my body and keep it physically
Exercise active. My plan is to achieve my dream body by doing hard work outs.

My body’s nutrition is in good condition despite of stress I experienced. I’m eating go, grow
Nutrition and glow foods and make myself hydrated to any illness.

I’m practicing myself to sleep early at night to reach the 8 hrs of sleep needed by our body. But
Sleep sometimes I’m doing school works until late night, to recover my missed hours in sleeping I
sleep in daytime.

I prefer to make my self busy, for example playing music in my phone or playing guitar instead
Stimulants of taking stimulants drugs. Hearing my guitar’s sound is a stress reliever to me.

Sometimes I’m trying to share my problems with family and friends to ask advice what is the
best thing to do to cope my problems. Because I now they will make me happy and laugh
Support System especially my friends just to forget my problems. As a friend and member of a family I do the
same thing to them to maintain our good relationship.

Everyday in our lives we are learning new things or lesson that happened in a mistake or any
Nurture-Self experience. To nurture myself I use those lessons to improve my self and avoid making
mistakes that will lessen my stress.

On this day we are in a pandemic I easily manage my time to do my school works and other
Good time

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activities we have in our house. I tell to my family what will I do in a particular day to make
management adjustments if there is a family bonding so they can reschedule it. In a normal day I woke up in
Skill the morning and take a bath first before anything to wake up my body and mind so I can
function well.

My relaxation is simply my bed where I sleep. It is my comfort zone actually, I feel like I gained
Relax energy when I wake up to face life’s challenges again.

5. CARING FOR THE SELF AMIDST COVID AND CALAMITIES (40 Points)

Creating and following a plan helps you balance your mental, physical, behavioral and emotional needs while
reminding you of the important people in your support system and the self-care goals you wish to accomplish.

Direction: Create your own Self-Care Plan through any creative output (Example: infographics, facebook post, letter to
self, video presentation, essay, song composition, tiktok video, etc.) that will be of help to keep going amidst this
pandemic and the calamities that we have experience during this year.

Grading Rubric: Content: 20 points, Creativity and Presentation: 15 points and Practicality: 5 points

How am I progressing

I’m a gift for myself

Have my own story in a book at the shelf

It starts when I was young

All I know is to have fun

But when teenage comes

Struggles in life started to begun

How I wish I’m a child forever

That my only biggest problem is hunger

But far away from my family

I handled it gently

I realized that I’m still lucky

Still alive with a complete body

Continuously breathing

Still have chance to prove something

As of now a student with big dreams

Encouraging myself to enhance self-esteem

But don’t forget about the higher being

To ask strength because life is challenging

They said that no man is an island

So learn how to ask to others for guidance

There’s no surrender in life

Just rest, then continue to climb

Give comfort to my soul

Until I scream like I’m in football that it’s a goal!

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6. WHAT I HAVE LEARNED (10 points)

Direction: Write a short reflection on what have you learned about the course, Understanding the Self.

Understanding the self helps me to guide myself how to maintain my self-esteem in a good condition.
First from defining what self is according to own perspective and various philosophers. As I remember David
Humes said that self is based on what we experienced, I’m agree with that because there is a quotation that
supports that idea which is the experience is the best teacher. On the other hand, my knowledge in the sexual
self and even the material self also increased by associating ourselves with the things or property we have. I also
learned better the existence of a higher being that defines our religions. And the last is self -care despite of
changes as you grow, how to keep it well during stress and problems. And I read on an article If you have the
need to be loved, you commit to loving yourself: “We are never going to be in control of whether or not
someone else loves us, but we do have control over whether or not we love ourselves.”

*As a semester-ender, activities 5 and 6 shall be posted in our FB group page on December 17, 2021.

Prepared by: Ma. Glenda N. Barcelon, RPm, Course Instructor

“Your Success… Our Word!”

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