PERSONAL

DEVELOPMENT
Quarter 1 Module 2: Developing the Whole
Person
Lesson 1 – Five Areas of Personal Development
Lesson 2 – Evaluation of One’s Thoughts, Feelings
and Behaviors; and Connections Between One’s
Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors in Actual Life
Situations
 Most Essential Learning Competencies:
At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
1. discuss the relationship among physiological, cognitive,
psychological, spiritual, and social development to understand
one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors;
2. evaluate one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; and
3. show the connections between thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors in real-life situations.
 Lesson 1: Five Areas of Personal
Development
 Human development is the way that people change and grow
across their life span.
 There are many types of development that people go through.
 As children learn problem-solving skills, their cognitive (or
thinking) development grows.
 When people age, they often develop wisdom, which means they
are better able to handle stress, a process that is part of
emotional development.
1. How do you know your personality?
2. Why is it important to know yourself better? What are the things
you want to develop and improve within yourself?
3. Is there importance in understanding and studying yourself,
especially when you feel helpless and quarantine in your own home?
Cite some reasons.
4. How do you feel for those who early give up in life such as news
about suicide, the feeling of hopelessness, and other sad news? If you
are in their position, what will you do? Explain your answer.
 5. What is the best way to describe the self? State your
belief and philosophy.
 ACTIVITY 1.1: Self-assessment (Critical
thinking, Character)

 Instruction: Assess yourself based on the following statement. The

highest rate is 5 and the lowest is 1.
Five Areas of Personal Development
PHYSIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

 Physical health is defined as the condition of

your body, taking into consideration everything
from the absence of disease to fitness level.
 Physical health is critical for overall well-being and can be
affected by:
• 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.
 It is important to take care of your body. Live
healthy, eat healthy foods, get enough sleep,
exercise regularly, and avoid drugs and
alcohol. Manage stress and go for regular
medical check-ups. Practice good hygiene.
 Self-check. Ask yourself regarding your
Physiological Development.
1. How healthy is your physical body?
2. Does it get enough rest and sleep?
3. Is it given nutritional food and sufficient water to help the physiological
system do its functions more optimally?
4. What aches and pains does your body suffer?
5. When was your last medical check-up?
6. What are the common illnesses in your family?
7. If you look into generations before, what sickness plagued your ancestors?
8. In the pandemic crisis, do you consider yourself safe from such viruses and
diseases?
 EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
 Emotional health is an important part of overall health.
 Emotionally healthy people are in control of their
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
 They can cope with life’s challenges.
 Emotions are responses that generate biochemical
reactions in our bodies, changing the physical state.
 There are many ways to improve or maintain good
emotional health.
• Be aware of your emotions and reactions. Notice what
in your life makes you sad, frustrated, or angry. Try to
address or change those things.
• Think before you act. Emotions can be powerful. Give
yourself time to think, and be calm before you say or do
something you might regret.
• Manage stress. Try to change situations, causing you
stress. Learn relaxation methods to cope with stress.
• Strive for balance. Find a healthy balance between work and play
and between activity and rest. Make time for things you enjoy.
Focus on positive things in your life.
• Take care of your physical health. Your physical health can
affect your emotional health. Exercise regularly, eat healthy meals
and get enough sleep. Do not abuse drugs or alcohol.
• Connect with others. We are social creatures. We need positive
connections with other people.
Self-check. Ask yourself regarding your
Emotional Development:
 Your own experiences when you
are___________________________
-happy -sad -afraid
-surprised -angry -disgusted
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
 Social Development refers to how people develop
social and emotional skills across the lifespan, with
particular attention to childhood and adolescence.
 Healthy social development allows us to form positive
relationships with family, friends, teachers, and other
people in our lives.
 Social development most often refers to how a person
develops friendships and other relationships and how a
person handles conflict with peers.
Why is social development important?
 Social development can impact many other forms of
development a person experiences. Healthy social
development allows us to form positive relationships
with family, friends, teachers, and other people.
Healthy social development can help you:
• Develop Communication Skills. An ability to interact with
others allows for more opportunities to practice communications
skills
• Build self-esteem. When a person is unable to make friends, it
can be frustrating or even painful. A good circle of friends
reinforces a person’s comfort level with her individuality.
• Strengthen learning skills. Studies show that children who
have a hard time getting along with classmates as early as a
preschool are more likely to experience later academic
difficulties.
• Resolve conflicts. Stronger self-esteem and better
language skills can ultimately lead to a better
ability to resolve differences with peers.
• Establish a positive attitude. A positive attitude
ultimately leads to better relationships with others
and higher levels of self-confidence.
Self-check. Ask yourself regarding your Social
Development
1. How is your relationship with your parents?
2. Do you consider yourself as friendly? Why?
3. How do you interact with other people? Are you
outgoing?
4. Do you feel belongingness in your family, school,
peers?
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
 Cognitive development means how people think, explore, and
figure things out.
 It is the development of knowledge, skills, problem-solving,
and dispositions, which helps a person to think about and
understand the world around them.
 Brain development is part of cognitive development. This
aspect of the self is enhanced when one attends school to study
and learn or engages in other mental endeavors.
 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.
 The more we study, the more we learn; while the more
we learn, the more we can study better.
Self-check. Ask yourself regarding your
Cognitive Development

1. Have you experienced mistakes in the choices

you made? How do you deal with these situations?
2. What is your attitude towards your study habits?
3. Are you doing well in your studies?
SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
 Spiritual development is defined as discovering oneself
beyond the ego known as the soul, spirit, or the “inner essence”
that is often disregarded or taken for granted (Llaneza-Ramos,
2017).
 It is when one experiences a glimpse of the “inner guide” of
one’s beliefs and values as one discovers the meaning of life.
 It also allows people to connect with a Higher Power that is
called by many names like "God, Buddha, Allah.”
 “We are Christians, we are committed to the poor, we
value people, we are partners, and are responsive.” As
we grow spiritually, our attitude toward life also
changes for the better in many ways.
 Most of our problems stem from our perceptions and
expectations of ourselves and of the world. One will
realize that this solves half the problems of our life.
 Spiritual growth and development help us to imbibe
humility. Spirituality and inner peace is a way of life.
It helps us to develop great strength and courage.
 Spiritual growth and development help to make human
beings better citizens.
Self-check. Ask yourself regarding your
Spiritual Development

1. How can you tell that you believe in “God”?

2. What are the things you do that manifest your
spiritual development?
 Activity 1.3: Personal Development Advocacy (Critical
thinking, Creativity, Communication, Character)

 Instruction: Create a video clip or a

printed pamphlet for advocacy about the
importance of developing the whole of
oneself focused on the five areas of
personal development. (A pamphlet is a
small booklet containing information or
arguments about a single subject. You may
refer to it using other words, like leaflet,
brochure, flyer, handout or booklet. )
 Post something on your social media account or give the
pamphlets to some of your friends and love one to inform them
of the significance of this developmental goal of forming
people with holistic personalities and try to get as many likes
and appreciation as possible!
 You have the freedom to choose whether you make a video clip
or a printed pamphlet. Create and Enjoy!
Assessment (Critical Thinking)
Instruction: Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word/term
being referred.
1. _________involves five aspects: physiological, emotional,
social, cognitive a
2. _________ is the innate capacity to relate with others.
3. ________When looking at a person we must consider the whole
person. What is the part of self that pertains to the inner essence,
our soul and spirit? It guides us in discovering the meaning of our
life.
4. Attitude has three components: Affective, Cognitive, and
________.
5. _________are responses that generate biochemical reactions in
our bodies, changing the physical state.
6. According to Hogg and Vaughan is defined as “a relatively
enduring organization of beliefs, feelings and behavioral
tendencies towards socially significant objects, groups, events or
symbols.”
 7. Social Development
 8. Physiological
 9. Cognitive Development
 10. Emotional Development
7. _____________ according to Cambridge dictionary it is defined
as “The quality that involves deep feelings and beliefs of a
religious nature, rather than the physical parts of life.”
8. ___________are subjective judgements that people make about
the importance of certain things or issues. A person develops
values being polite and considerate
9. _________ are the ideas that people judges to be true.
10. ____________ are qualities which typically reflect what one
prizes and are manifested in values or what one considers as
essential to his/her self.
Activity 1.4 What makes me a “Whole
Individual”?
 Instruction: Make a Collage Art Work about you as a
“whole individual”. Create your own design which
includes photos of you illustrating why you consider
yourself as a “whole individual” using different
objects, groups, events or symbols that are significant
to you. You can create it digitally using applications
on your personal computer/mobile phones or in any
kind of paper materials.
Lesson 2 Connecting Thoughts, Feelings, and
Behaviors for Evaluating One’s Self
 Personality refers to the long-standing traits and
patterns that propel individuals to consistently think,
feel, and behave in specific ways.
 Our personality is what makes us unique individuals.
Each person has an idiosyncratic pattern of enduring,
longterm characteristics, and a manner in which he or
she interacts with other individuals and the world
around them.
 Knowing that no two individuals are the same, there are
many things to consider when we talk about personality
development.
 We may look the same and may have had similar
experiences in life, but we are all unique in our ways.
Many factors have gone into the development of a
particular type of personality.
 From childhood to adulthood, we go through different
processes, experiences, and situations that contribute to
the formation of our personality.
A Story That Prove It’s Never Too Late to
Change Your Life
 "At 41, I left my boyfriend, job, condo and moved back home."
—Jill Sherer Murray, 54, Doylestown, PA
 "Even though I had everything I had ever wanted, and lived in a
great city for almost 20 years, I was being held back. My life
simply wasn't moving me forward in the direction of my dreams
or allowing me to grow in the ways I truly wanted. While my life
was good, it just wasn't good enough. There were things I
wanted to do and be and have that I knew were out there, but if I
stayed where I was, they'd remain outside of grasp.
 I wanted marriage and, after 12 years, my boyfriend still
couldn't make that commitment. In fact, I recently gave a TEDx
talk called "The Unstoppable Power of Letting Go" about how I
let go of that relationship. I also wanted to be a writer and a
speaker and a teacher, and, while I was writing a column for big
magazine, I was also stagnant in a corporate job that just didn't
move me. And while I adored Chicago, my love for a city just
wasn't enough to keep me stuck.
 So, even though it was utterly terrifying and the fear of being
alone was palpable, I left anyway. I told my boyfriend it was
over and put everything I owned into my Toyota RAV4 and a
moving truck and moved four states away to my hometown. It
was the scariest and best thing I'd ever done in my life. Within a
year of leaving, I found myself living in a bucolic artist's
community, writing a blog called 'Diary of a Writer in Mid-Life
Crisis' for a well-known literary magazine, freelance writing,
and enjoying a happy engagement to a wonderful man I thought
I'd never find."

Source: Reader’s Digest, 15 Stories That Prove It’s Never Too

Late to Change Your Life
 ACTIVITY 2.1: Changing Life Patterns
Instruction:
1. After you read the story above, think about an event/situation in your life
that really changed you.
2. In the table below, write at least three events /situations and the ways on
how you improved yourself.
 Analysis: After you realize that there are things that you must
change for the better, what do you think is the main factor that
changes a person? Check on the list below, which you think of
how human behaviors develop.
Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior
 The only things we can control in life are our thoughts,
feelings, and behaviors. If we can manage those, we
can achieve our goals and gain success in life.
 To have this level of control, we need to learn about the
science-based patterns behind our emotions and
thoughts and manage them.
How do our minds work?
 Intuitively, our mind feels like a cohesive whole. We
perceive ourselves as intentional and rational thinkers.
 The autopilot system corresponds to our emotions and
intuitions.
 This system guides our daily habits, helps us make snap
decisions, and reacts instantly to dangerous life-and-
death situations (such as saber-toothed tigers) through
the freeze, fight or flight stress response. While it helped
us survive in the past, the fight-or-flight response is not
an excellent fit for modern life.
 The intentional part of our mind is similar to a little
rider on top of a huge elephant of emotions and
intuitions.
 The intentional system reflects our rational thinking
and centers around the prefrontal cortex.
 This thinking system helps us handle more complex
mental activities, such as managing individual and
group relationships, logical reasoning, probabilistic
thinking, and learning new information and patterns of
thinking and behavior.
 While the automatic system requires no
conscious effort to function, the intentional
system takes deliberate effort to turn on, and it is
mentally tiring.
 The autopilot system is like an elephant. It is by far the
most powerful and predominant of the two systems.
 Our emotions can often overwhelm our rational
thinking.
 The intentional system is like the elephant rider. It can
guide the elephant deliberately to go in the direction
that matches that of our actual goals.
 Your rider can be an elephant whisperer. Over time, you
can use the intentional system to change your automatic
thinking, feeling, and behavioral patterns.
From the Author, Gleb Tsipursky Ph. D., April
13, 2016
 An example of such interconnection of Thoughts, Feelings, and
Behavior is when we experience the pandemic crisis.
 Surely we cannot control the things that have to happen, especially
the spread of the virus or the many deaths and cases steadily
rising.
 However, from the citations from Dr. Tsipursky, the only
manageable and controllable aspect that we can use to combat
what we are experiencing are the things that we already have.
Further, they are readily available, within your reach, within your
aspect of control.
 Our perception of stress, brought mainly by the
pandemic times, can be directed to productive use, only
if we make the necessary effort to change.
 The Personality Theory of Bandura (Bandura, 2006),
suggests that we learn mostly through observations—
observing others' actions, 20 behaviors, and the
outcome of these behaviors. The more productive and
positive the outcome of behaviors observed, the more
the behavior is highly repeated and eventually
rewarded.
 Albert Bandura’s study does not only involve
observations, but it expounds on the sphere of
influence. These include the influence of the
environment and vice-versa. Our thoughts (thinking),
feelings, and behavior influence the environment (and
those merely observing).
 People’s responses change as they encounter new
situations. Research shows that people who believe in
their capacity to excel tend to perform better.
 People with high self-efficacy view challenges as an
opportunity to be equipped.
 People with weak self-efficacy do not believe in their
ability to succeed.
 Therefore, how one sees oneself matters! What a
person believes he/she can and cannot do matters!
One’s beliefs about oneself can determine one’s future.
EVALUATING ONE’S THOUGHTS,
FEELINGS AND BEHAVIOR
 One popular kind of counseling is called cognitive-
behavioral therapy (CBT). It is based on the idea that
our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are all connected
and influence one another.
 For example, if we are feeling sad or depressed, we
might have thoughts like we are not worth much of
anything, and we might do behaviors like stay in bed all
day. On the other hand, if we are feeling happy or
excited, we might have thoughts like the future is
bright, and we might do behaviors like calling a friend
or see a movie.
Track Your Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors

 Sometimes it can be helpful to keep track of our thoughts, feelings,

and behaviors, especially if we are feeling down and want to feel
happier.

Example of Tracking
 Time: Saturday night
 Thought: I am alone. I am out of step with my friends.
 Feeling: Sadness
 Behavior: Isolating. Not calling friends. Not picking up the phone.
Whole Person Development
 Human life is complicated, consisting of many
different facets—our work life, home life, social life,
spiritual life, to name a few. Balancing is the key.
 Whole Person Development is a practice based on the
theory that different parts of our lives are intricately
connected. It views success and fulfillment as a product
of overall life balance.
Activity 2.2: Changing Behavior Effectively
 Instruction: Below are some situations, commonly
experience by teenagers like you, give your reactions on
how you can change your behavior. Ask yourself
whether you need to increase or decrease the likelihood
of doing such behaviors. Behaviors that have positive
consequences tend to increase, while behaviors that
have negative consequences tend to decrease.
 Write INCREASE /DECREASE in the third column.
Use a separate sheet of paper.
Activity 2.3: Enrichment (Critical
thinking/Collaboration, Character
Instruction: Answer the following in a separate sheet of
paper.
1. How do you feel when you experience punishment
from committing violations in school?
2. How do you feel when you receive awards in school?
3. At present, are there things you want to change within
you?
 Activity 2.4: Tracking “Myself”
(Character)
Instruction: As you continue to track your thoughts,
feelings, and behaviors, you can begin to get more
information about what thoughts and behaviors are
associated with each of your feelings. Write down how
you track your thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Make a
5-day record tracking on yourself using the table below.
 Action Step: Stop three times during your day today and write
down your thought, feeling, and behavior. Try to do this once in
the morning, once in the afternoon, and once in the evening.
Example :
 Time: Saturday night
 Thought: I’m alone. I’m out of step with my friends.
 Feeling: Sadness
 Behavior: Isolating. Not calling friends. Not picking up the
phone.