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Everyone!
Module 15
Taking Care of
ONE'S HEALTH
Prepared By: Group 5
What is Health?
Health is a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being, not just
the absence of illness or weakness
Overview
Medical professionals often encourage us to avoid stress
in order to stay healthy. Stress triggers life- threatening
illness such as cancer, hypertension, heart attack, high blood
pressure and many others. It also causes an individual to make
hasty and risky decisions.
Drastic actions, whether physical or verbal, may also arise from
stress. Stress therefore, has a lot of negative
consequences.
Overview
There is need for a high level of patience and
emotional quotient in order to deal with everyday
stressors.
Solution-driven perspective and blame free attitude
accompanied by positive outlook in life are some of the
ways to maintain our well-being.
Personal Health Responsibility
Dr. Robert Steinbrook (2006) stated that
today, more than ever, personal health
responsibility or taking charge of one's
own health is an essential step in disease
prevention as well as in protocols for healing
and recovery from diseases.
Personal health responsibility involves
active participation in one's own
health and healing plan through
education and lifestyle changes.
One needs to be sensitive about the importance of good
health. Exercising everyday, avoiding alcohol, tobacco and
illegal drugs, maintaining proper hygiene, having enough rest
and sleep, eating on time and ensuring a balance diet are a
few things that one can do for the body.
Part of personal health responsibility is knowing one's family
history; this is one way to determine hereditary illnesses which
can be avoided in the future. Examples are diabetes and high blood
pressure which may be inherited from parents.
Another health responsibility is conducting research on
effective herbal medicines and food supplements.
Prescription drugs manufactured in the laboratory are made up of
chemicals which can be detrimental to people's health.
What is Stress?
Stress refers to the reaction of our physiological and
psychological self to any kind of demand or threat.
Right off the bat, one could already claim that not all stress
is negative or unwanted. Sometimes there are positive
stresses that are aptly called eustress.
2 Types of Stress
Eustress Distress
is a beneficial stress that Bad stress or distress is
can be in the form of physical, the exact opposite of
psychological and biological eustress. Distress occurs
stimuli. Literally, the Greek when there is a tension
prefix "eu" means good, build up which becomes
hence the word "eustress" unbearable and difficult
means good stress". to cope with.
What is Stressor?
A is any event that
stressor
compels a person to adjust or
change.
Below are the common stressors that are described
as unpleasant and life- threatening.
1. Catastrophic events and life-threatening experiences -
are abrupt unforeseen experience or traumas, such as natural
calamities, military combats, terrorist attacks, accidents and
physical and sexual abuses.
2. Life changes and strains - include separation of parent's illness in the
family, change of workplace, transfer of domicile and other
circumstances that demand people to adjust.
Below are the common stressors that are described
as unpleasant and life- threatening.
3 .Chronic problems -exist for a long period which includes
circumstances such as suffering from a serious illness, having
irresponsible neighbors and failure to acquire a lucrative or high
income job.
4. Everyday hassles - are irritations, pressures and annoyances
that may not be significant stressors by themselves but whose
cumulative effect can be significant. Examples are traffic congestion,
waiting in a long time to get a taxi or just a bad day when everything goes
wrong.
Coping with Stress
What is Coping?
Coping means finding ways to deal
with difficult situations or stress.
Coping with stress can be managed through different methods, which help people
handle stressful situations more effectively:
• Problem-focused coping method involves an
attempt to change or eliminate sources of stress.
The individual reduces the impact of the problem
by looking the best solutions through his or her
own effort. Example of this coping method is
confrontation, seeking social support and
undertaking careful and deliberate problem
solving.
Coping with stress can be managed through different methods, which help people
handle stressful situations more effectively:
• Emotion-focused coping method is aimed at
controlling the negative emotional consequences of
stressors. Examples of this coping methods are self-control
(keeping feelings to oneself), distancing (not thinking
about the stressors), accepting responsibility (attributing
the stress as ones' recreation), and wishful thinking
(Thinking that situation will pass).
Coping with stress can be managed through different methods, which help people
handle stressful situations more effectively:
Additional:
• Behavioral coping strategies
are actions people take to manage
stress by changing their behavior.
According to Atkinson, Smith and Bem, (2000).
The individual may use these strategies to help
people to reduce the intensity of negative
emotions. Among the behavioral techniques are
biofeedback, relaxation technique, meditation
and physical exercise.
Behavioral Techniques
• Biofeedback is a technique from medical devices and programs that
the individual can use to recognize and control the symptoms of stress
such as tension and headache.
• Relaxation techniques (deep breathing, listening to music)
• Meditation and exercise (yoga, mindfulness activities, aerobics,
swimming and jogging) can help individuals cope with everyday
stress and control stress-related health problems such as heart
disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
The Need for Self-Care
and Self-Compassion
The Need for Self-Care and Self-Compassion
One must first take care of himself or herself
before he or she can take care of others.
While it is noble to think to others before oneself,
reality pushes one to think of himself or herself
first before others.
Self-Care
What is ?
Self-care refers to all the activities a
person engages in to maintain and
improve their five dimensions of well-
being: physical, psychological,
emotional, social, and spiritual.
Five Dimension
of Self-Care
1. Physical self-care
Includes all the activities that one does to maintain and
improve his or her physical well-being like consistently
sleeping for at least eight hours, drinking eight glasses of
water, eating healthy and nutritious foods taking vitamins and
exercising.
2. Psychological self-care
includes all the activities one does to deal or
resolve mental health issues, address both positive
and negative emotions and learn to deal with negative
self-talk (self-criticism) .
3. Emotional self-care
includes all the activities one does to cope with stress and
deal with grief. Some activities are journaling to express
yourself, practicing mindfulness to reduce stress, talking to a
trusted friend or therapist for support and taking time for
self-reflection and setting personal boundaries.
4. Social self-care
includes all the activities one does to connect with people
valuable to him or her. It means spending time and having a
great time with loved ones and other valuable people including
family, friends, neighbors, schoolmates, professionals,
organizations and many more.
5. Spiritual self-care
includes all the activities one does to strengthen one's
relationship with his or her beliefs. It also includes
meditation and contemplation about one's purpose of
existence according to his or her faith.
Benefits of Self-Care
[Link] productivity - when a person distances himself or herself
from vices like drinking liquor, smoking and gambling. He or she will have
more time to focus on his or her goals in addition to improving his or her
physical well- being.
2. Improved vitality - Physical care activities like exercising, eating
the right food, drinking enough water and getting enough sleep
increase resistance to diseases. Unhealthy habits make a person
vulnerable to disease.
Benefits of Self-Care
3. Enhanced self-esteem - avoiding self-berating is very important.
Negative self-talk is damaging to how one perceives himself or herself
and may lead to anxiety and stress.
[Link] self-knowledge - after a person discovers and accepts
who or she is, it is important for him or her to know what he or
she wants and loves to do. With this, one will be able to live to the
fullest according to the purpose he or she has.
5. Mindfulness and compassion - knowing and being good to
oneself stems from goodness and compassion one directs towards
other people.
Self-Compassion
What is Self-Compassion?
Self-compassion- is defined as showing compassion to oneself.
It involves being open to and moved by one's own suffering, expressing
care and kindness towards oneself, taking an understanding and
nonjudgmental attitude toward one's inadequacies is part of the
common human experience.
Three components of self-compassion main elements:
namely self-kindness, common humanity and
mindfulness. (Neff, 2001)
Three main components of Self-Compassion
1. Self-kindness means not being physically or verbally
harsh to oneself. Self-beration is a kind of verbal abuse
directed to oneself. It involves an act where one blames himself
for his actions. This is done by stating unkind words to oneself.
On the other hand, Self harm is an act of harming oneself
through physical means which is both physically individual.
Three main components of Self-Compassion
2. Common Humanity means acceptance that one is an
imperfect being, one makes mistakes along with everyone else and
one does not always get what he or she wants.
3. Mindfulness is the practice of being fully present in the
moment. One has to turn toward his or her painful thoughts and
emotions in order to embrace himself or herself with compassion.
Any
Questions?
END OF OUR
DISCUSSION
Thank you for Listening
Group 5
Barrientos, Stephanie Nicole
Lulu, Alwyn
Naparam, Dwanne
Lapuz, Raymond Ivan
Pineda, Jesus
Maniti, Jeferson
Mercado, Tristan Dominique
Tadeo, Matt
Francisco, Odem
De Jesus, Hannah Leah
Emperante Andrew Lee