Understanding the Self

Physical Self

How I grew, developed, and matured physically.

Reflection: In this lesson, we discussed how we evolved and grew up physically throughout the years from childhood up to teen years. We additionally also discussed a bit on how exactly our body works. Why do we look like this? Why do we age? What are the many other factors that affect how we look?

Sexual Self

How sexuality, gender identity, and intimate relationships affect my upbringing and development as a person.

Reflection: This lesson tends to be a bit err awkward and becomes super personal… so the first time I experienced attraction was around grade 4-6? And back then love / attraction were pretty silly concepts to me. So much so that I kept trying to ignore it completely...

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Cultural Self

How culture, traditions, and values shaped my identity.

Reflection: This lesson is about how my environmental upbringing, cultural backgrounds, and traditions shape my upbringing. Culture is one of those factors that is certainly outside of my, and everyone else’s control and is guaranteed to change us.

Digital Self

How my identity changes due to social media and close interconnectedness of technology.

Reflection: The good thing about this is that my parents, relatives, and friends can contact me from all across the globe so long as they have some sort of broadband connection. So in times of emergency or if ever in times of loneliness, reaching out has never been easier with technology.

Material / Economic Self

How my possessions, resources, gifts, and my economic status affects my identity.

Reflection: I’m not a super materialistic person, but I do recognize the value and worth of what I buy and what is given to me. Most of the time I’m pretty practical about the things I buy, excluding my collection of cards or board games hahaha 😆... ⤵️

Mental Self

How cognition, intelligence, and learning processes define my identity.

Reflection: Let me recall our first and only face-to-face meeting in this subject. So I think this was the second game or so and everyone was tasked to create a circle. So the rules of the game were that you sir (professor Castillo) would count upwards starting from 1. Every time it was a multiple of 7, we would clap. So at first it was pretty easy, we had a test run and everyone seems to be managing well.

Emotional Self

How emotions, feelings, and emotional regulation affect my identity.

Reflection: We had an activity from senior high school during personal development class. We would write our names on a piece of pad paper and then two columns: positive or negative. On the positive column, you write what you think is the person’s best positive trait and on the other column, their worst negative trait. On the positive column, about 90% of people wrote chill on the positive column as my main positive trait when describing me. Though on the negative side they mostly wrote that I’m shy.

Spiritual Self

How religion, God, searching for purpose, connecting with nature affect my identity.

Reflection: I was baptized as a child and considered as a Roman Catholic. Today, I still am. My family is a big factor why I am Christian and why I should still retain my identity as a Christian. Every so often we would go to Church and practice other Catholic traditions. Such as praying the 3 o’clock prayer every day, praying after waking up and before sleeping, as well as occasionally performing the rosary every now and then. I follow these traditions most of the time though I have vastly different beliefs compared to Catholicism.