LESSON 9: SPIRITUAL SELF/ TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR SELF

ASSESSMENT: SPIRITUAL SELF (30 points)

Do you Have Your Umbrella?

Many people arrived at the church to pray for the needed rain. The pastor greeted most of
them as they filed in. As he walked to the front of the church to officially begin the meeting, he
noticed most people were chatting across the aisles and socializing with friends. When he
reached the front, his thoughts were on quieting the attendees and starting the meeting. His
eyes scanned the crowd as he asked for quiet. He noticed an eleven-year-old girl sitting quietly
in the front row. Her face was beaming with excitement. Next to her, open and ready for use,
was a very colorful and extremely large umbrella, much bigger than her in fact. The little girl's
beauty and innocence made the pastor smile as he realized how much faith she possessed. No
one else in the congregation had brought an umbrella. All came to pray for rain. But the little
girl had come expecting God.

Questions:

1. What are your learnings and realization from the discussion?

I realized that every people have different ways in taking care of themselves however,
the most important of self-care is talking to our creator. Most people relate their faith
to the physical and material wealth they receive, some may think the harder you pray,
the harder the downpour of blessings will be which is wrong.

2. What is the lesson of the story “Do you have your Umbrella?”

The lesson of the story is that depending our spiritual faith and belief in the material
wealth we may want to receive could be considered as fake faith. We should pray to
satisfy our spiritual hunger and not our materialistic desires.

3. How are you going to apply it in your daily life?

I’ll apply this to my daily life by working hard to obtain my physical needs and raise my
concerns to God to improve my spiritual self.

ACTIVITY: Taking Charge of Your Self ( 30 points)

A. What is a commitment Self Care Plan?

 A commitment self-care plan can help me enhance my health and wellbeing and
manage my stress by learning to identify activities and practices that support my
wellbeing and help me to sustain positive self-care in the long-term.

B. Create your Commitment Plan on how you will take charge of the different areas of your Self:

1. Physical Self Care

a. Start working out when I have a free time

b. Eat foods that are benificial to my body

c. Avoid habits that could potentially harm myself

2. Sexual Self Care

a. Inform myself about the consequences and effects of doing it

b. Learn what should I do once a situation like this happened

c. Consider my birth control options

3. Economic Self Care

a. Monitor my bank account

b. Track my money

c. Establish a realistic budget for things

4. Spiritual Self Care

a. Start doing meditation and yoga

b. Regulary go to the place of worship

c. Engage with our nature

5. Political Self Care

a. Be kind to people around you

b. Inform yourself about what’s happenning in our community

c. Be active in participation in activities that could help our community

6. Digital Self Care (Self Representation online)

a. Turn off useless notifications

b. Avoid engaging with online trolls

 c. Control my screen time

7. Emotional Self Care

a. Get to know my own emotional triggers

b. Set my own boundaries

c. Protect my own energy when engaging with other people

8. Social Self Care

a. Develop friendships that are supportive.

b. Keep meeting with your parents' group or other social group.

c. Joining a support group

C. Take the Berkeley Well Being Quiz. Show the results of your quiz. (10 points)

Activity on well-being: https://www.berkeleywellbeing.com/well-being-survey.html

Questions: (30 points)

1. After viewing your result. Write down your reflections about it.

a. Which areas do you need to pay more attention in improving?

I need to pay attention more in positive thinking, stress, self-confidence,

resillency, and life purpose.
 b. How do you plan to do it?

I need to start looking in things in a positive way as we need to enjoy everything

our lives has to offer.

2. List down your stressors and ways on how to cope with them:

1. My environment like the noise coming from the outside and the weather – I need to
realize that not all things could be controlled and let them all be.

2. Not spending enough time with loved ones – I should give some time for my loved
ones as they were the ones who support me in everything I do in my life.

3. The pressure of making ends meet – Things are beyond my control so I shouldn’t
pressure myself in achiving things.

4. Not enough sleep – I should start working out on how to improve my sleeping
schedule.

5. Poor time management – Organize my time by following a daily time table.