Personal Development

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Personal Development controls the opposite side

of the body.
Lesson 4: Powers of the
Mind 3. Left vs. Right
Hemisphere
Key Concepts Characteristics:

1. The Human Brain: Left Hemisphere:

- Located in the head and - Dominant in language,

protected by the skull. logic, and mathematical
computations.
- Acts as the command
center of the nervous - Processes hearing and
system, processing inputs speaking.
from sense organs and
directing outputs to - Responsible for
muscles. memorizing vocabulary
and performing
Divided into two calculations.
hemispheres:
Right Hemisphere:
Left Hemisphere: Logical
and analytical. - Handles spatial abilities,
face recognition, and
Right Hemisphere: music.
Creative and intuitive.
- Processes visual imagery
2. Split-Brain Experiment: and holistic
understanding.
- Conducted by Roger
Sperry. - Excels in creative tasks,
such as brainstorming and
- Demonstrated how the problem-solving with
two hemispheres operate visuals.
independently but work in
sync. 4. Learning Implications:

- Revealed that the brain’s Left-Brained Students:

wiring is criss-crossed,
where each hemisphere - Prefer structured,
lecture-based learning.
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Organizing Thoughts:
- Thrive in tasks requiring Helps classify and
logic, language, and structure ideas clearly.
planning.
Creativity: Promotes
- Perform well in writing brainstorming and radiant
and symbolic tasks (e.g., thinking.
memorizing vocabulary).
Right-Brained Students: Speed: Uses keywords and
symbols to link concepts
- Prefer visual aids and quickly.
hands-on activities. Overview at a Glance:
Simplifies understanding
- Struggle with verbal by allowing a visual
expression but excel in overview of a topic.
creativity.
Improved Memory: Shapes
- Require illustrations or and structures act as
diagrams to conceptualize visual triggers for recall.
problems.
Steps to Create a Mind
5. Mind Mapping: Map:

- A tool that leverages Begin in the center with an

both brain hemispheres for image or keyword.
enhanced learning and
memory. Use curved branches
connected to the central
- Developed by Tony idea.
Buzan, emphasizing visual
elements and associations. Employ colors for
emphasis and creativity.
Advantages of Mind
Mapping: Use one keyword per line
and incorporate visuals for
Balancing the Brain: clarity.
Encourages collaboration
between left and right Lesson 5: Mental Health
brain functions. and Well-Being

Key Concepts
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1. What is Mental Health? Bulimia: Binge eating

followed by purging.
- Mental health
encompasses emotional, Anorexia: Extreme food
psychological, and social restriction leading to
well-being. severe weight loss.

- Affects thoughts, Body Dysmorphia:

feelings, actions, stress Obsession with perceived
management, flaws in appearance.
relationships, and
decision-making. This mental health
problem is most common
- Mental health problems in girls and young women,
arise from changes in perhaps due to the social
thinking, mood, or pressures that they get
behavior that impair from their environment.
functioning.
ADHD: Marked by
2. Common Mental Health inattention, impulsivity,
Issues in Adolescents: hyperactivity, and
difficulty organizing tasks.
Depression:
3. Early Warning Signs of
- Symptoms include Mental Health Problems:
sadness, irritability, anger,
fatigue, and loss of o Changes in
interest. eating/sleeping patterns.

- May lead to feelings of o Withdrawal from

worthlessness, poor activities and social
concentration, and suicidal interactions.
thoughts.
o Persistent fatigue,
Anxiety Disorders: unexplained aches, and
Includes phobias, panic mood swings.
disorder, PTSD, social
anxiety, and OCD. o Increased use of
substances like alcohol or
Eating Disorders: drugs.
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o Thoughts of self-harm or Spiritual Wellness: Finding

inability to perform daily purpose and connection to
tasks. something greater.
Environmental Wellness:
Wellness Living in harmony with
your surroundings.
- is a combination of health
and happiness, thus, the 5. How to Maintain
many factors that Positive Mental Health:
contribute to being
healthy and happy will Seek professional help
likewise contribute to when needed.
being well.
Foster connections with
- In other words, wellness others and cultivate
involves a search for a positivity.
healthy balanced lifestyle.
Engage in regular physical
- It is more than just the activities and maintain
mere absence of illness, healthy sleep habits.
rather, it is an optimal
state of health. Develop coping skills to
manage stress effectively.
4. Dimensions of Wellness:
6. Holistic Wellness:
Physical Wellness:
Maintaining a healthy body - A balanced approach to
through diet, exercise, and health that integrates
sleep. mind, body, and spirit.

Emotional Wellness: - Promotes cooperative

Managing stress and care across physical,
emotions effectively. emotional, social, and
intellectual dimensions.
Social Wellness: Building
healthy relationships and Six Principles:
social networks.
 Do’s: Balanced diet,
Intellectual Wellness: exercise, and adequate
Engaging in stimulating rest/relaxation.
mental activities.
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 Don’ts: Avoid smoking, emotions.

excessive drinking, and
over/under-eating. • Use emotions
constructively
Emotional Intelligence for decisions and respect
others.
EMOTION
FACTORS THAT HELP
- is a feeling that involves MANAGE OUR EMOTIONS
thoughts, physiological
changes, and an outward Self-awareness and self-
expression of behavior, management
such as facial expressions.
- Recognize emotional
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE triggers.

- Also known as Emotional - Manage emotional

Quotient (EQ) reactions.

- The ability to understand Enough Rest: Sleep

and manage your own influences mood and
emotions and others cognition.
emotions.
Calm Down: Use
- is a person’s ability to techniques like counting or
understand their own stepping away from
emotions, the emotions of situations.
others, and to act
appropriately using these Communication: Share
emotions. feelings effectively.

- Using this awareness to IQ

manage yourself and
relationships with others - IQ measures an
individual’s information
Improving EQ: bank.

• Become emotionally - Memory, vocabulary, and

literate (label and visual motor skills.
differentiate feelings).
- IQ is set and peaks at 17
• Take responsibility for
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- Remains constant • Persist through

through adulthood. challenges.

IQ VS EQ Achieving Emotional
Control:
EQ- is not fixed and can be
fixed throughout life. • Avoid emotion-triggering
situations.
IQ- is established by mid-
teens, can’t increase, and • Reinterpret negative
predicts only 10% - 20% of situations positively.
life success.
• Substitute unreachable
Components of EQ: goals with achievable
ones.
1 Intrapersonal: Self-
regard, • Use humor to manage
emotional self-awareness. stress.

2 Interpersonal: Empathy,
social responsibility.
5 DIMENSIONS OF THE
3 Adaptability: Problem- EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
solving, flexibility. MAP:

4 Stress Management: Self-Awareness

Stress tolerance, impulse
control. COMPETENCIES:

5 General Mood: Optimism, Emotional awareness

happiness. Accurate self-assessment
Self-confidence
Characteristics of
Emotionally Intelligent Self-Management
People:
COMPETENCIES:
• Manage and express
feelings effectively. Self control
Trustworthiness
• Empathize and maintain Conscientiousness
hope. Adaptability
Innovation
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Motivation Personal Relationships

COMPETENCIES: Relationship

Achievement drive - relation between people

Commitment
Initiative - a state of connectedness
Optimism between people.

Empathy - Especially an emotional

connection.
COMPETENCIES:
Personal Relationships
Understand others
Developing others - Relationship between
Service orientation people, especially those
Leveraging diversity between friends, lovers,
Political awareness and family.

- is a form of relationship
Social Skills closely linked to a person
and which can only be
COMPETENCIES: important to that person.

Influence The Three Kinds of

Communication Personal Relationship
Conflict management
Leadership Family- defines as a “two
Change catalyst or more persons who are
Building Bonds related by birth, marriage,
Collaboration & or adoption and who live
Cooperation together as one
Team Capabilities household.”

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Friends- a close tie

between two people that is
- An ability to manage often built upon mutual
one’s own feelings; and experiences, shared
interests, proximity, and
- An ability to respond in emotional bonding.
an appropriate way.
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Partnerships- are close to accept our behavior and

relationships formed attitudes.
between two people that
are built upon affection, Sooner or later, this
trust, intimacy, and attraction turns into a love
romantic love. relationship.

Attraction Love Relationships

- are close relationships Love

formed between two
people that are built upon - is a complex concept to
affection, trust, intimacy, study.
and romantic love.
- it is too personal and too
Physical attributes- are integral to being human.
usually the first ones to
get noticed in a person but - a strong affection for
of course, others look another arising out of
beyond these to determine kinship of personalities.
attraction.
- affection based on
For this reason, physical admiration, benevolence,
attractiveness is not the and common interests.
only quality that
determines one’s feelings
towards others. A loving relationship is
intimacy, passion, and
We are likely to choose commitment between two
friends and romantic people.
partners who share similar
traits with us, such as: Sternberg’s Triangular
- age Theory of Love
- personality and
intelligence Passion
- social group: religion, Intimacy
- economic class, Commitment
education level.
A close friendship - has
Forming an intimate and intimacy, where the two
close relationship is easier people share a bond.
with people who are likely
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Love at first sight - is Two Types of Romance:

based on passion.
Selfish Romance- doing
The loveless relationship - romantic acts solely for
the feeling has passed into the purpose of gaining
intimacy and commitment, something for yourself.
but no passion. Quickly dies out.

Love truly develop Selfless Romance- doing

romantic acts for the
Stage 1: Attraction enjoyment and pleasure of
your partner. Endures
Attraction - is a positive
response to a person Stage 3: Passion
beyond friendship.
Passion
Steps of Attraction
- is the desire for another
Physical attraction- Your person, which has grown
body reacts to another into an intensity that
person. cannot be ignored.

Emotional attraction- - the relationship will

Beginning to talk to each either burn itself out or
other and get to know move on to the next stage.
each other.

Stage 2: Romance Stage 4: Intimacy

Romance Intimacy

- it is an act of trying to - it is a close association

influence or gain the favor with another person of the
of someone by giving deepest nature.
attention and/or gifts to
someone. - in this stage, there is
nothing you cannot tell the
- refers to a feeling or other person is a never-
expression of love, often in ending developing
a romantic or passionate process.
manner.
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- without intimacy, the - is a reflection of

relationship is unlikely to unconditional, enduring,
endure throughout the and devoted love.
years.
- Relies on patience,
Stage 5: Commitment kindness, and devotion.

Commitment - Honest, healthy,

empathetic, and rational
- a pledge to remain communication.
throughout the good and
bad times. - The strongest style of
love.
- it is easy when times are
good but can be extremely
difficult when times are
bad.

The Primary Love Styles

Eros- Romantic, passionate

love.

Ludos- Game-playing love

Storge- Friendship love

The Secondary Love Styles

Mania- Possessive,
dependent love

Pragma- Logical “shopping

list” love

Agape- All-giving, selfless

love

Agape
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