Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Development
• Faith (Paniniwala)
• Respect for Life (Paggalang)
• Order (Pagsunod sa mga alituntunin)
• Work (Paggawa ng Marangal)
• Concern for Family and Future Generation (Pagkalinga)
B. PAGKAMAKA-TAO
• 1. Love
• 2. Freedom
• 3. Peace
• 4. Truth
• 5. Justice
C. PAGKAMAKA-BAYAN (LOVE OF COUNTRY)
5.
KNOW TO SELF NOT KNOW TO SELF
Self-awareness opens doors to spiritual and personal growth. We have all the
answers to the question about our lives and what we have to do is to learn how we
can have an access to our wisdom.
It begins with self-awareness by paying attention to our many senses,
thoughts, feelings and intuition. We should go deep into our emotions to tap their
sources. We should see our thinking and how it creates our reality. The we can
discover our deepest essence.
WHAT IS SELF-AWARENESS?
• According to Goleman, perhaps the most important emotional
competence is self-awareness – knowing one’s internal states,
preferences, resources, and intuitions.
• Another psychotherapist puts it as “bringing to the conscious mind
our understanding of the compulsion that pushes us around”
• Marilyn vs. Savant, simply calls it, “the art of waking up”, or realizing
what you really are and why you do the things you do, in the way
you do them.
• The following poem illustrates the continuing search of man for
himself. (Palispis) Asses how you picture out yourself in this
concern.
WHO AM I?
Who am I? Who am I?
My clothes? My look? My mode?
Am I just a thing?
No!
Am I my parents? Brothers? Friends?
Am I they?
I think I am different from them
Just who am I? Am I my name?
My face? My bones? My breath?
My feelings? My thoughts? And memory?
Each of them is part of me.
But not me.
Who am I really? What is the truth?
I’m alive, enthusiastic, free and unique
Above all, like God, I live.
All this I am – my innermost being.
Who am I? who am I?
What are the key areas of self-awareness?
Human beings are complex and diverse.To become self-aware, we
should develop am understanding of ourselves in many areas
which includes the following:
• 1. Skills development;
• 2. Knowing one’s strengths and weakness;
• 3. Developing intuitive decision-making skills;
• 4. Stress management-our coping with stress effectively;
• 5. Self-motivation; and
• 6. Leadership
We can become more self-aware by using or applying the
following means:
• Human values give worthiness and respect to life. The five human
values are righteousness, peace, love, truth and non-violence. These
elevate the individual as well as the society of which one is a part.
UNDERSTANDING FILIPINO VALUES
Values are often associated with what an individual believes that he had
acquired and nurtured in life.
• a. Pakikisama is the mechanism used to maintain SIR, the use of the go-
between, and euphemism.
• b. Reciprocity or Utang na Loob which is another aspect of SIR is a
universal form of behavior.
• 2. Loseness and Security in the Family. A much vaunted trait in
the Filipino society is the so-called close family ties or family
solidarity.
• 3. Respect for Elders. A value inculcated early in the socialization
process.
• 4. Personalism. In personalism, major importance is attached to
the personal factor, which ensures intimacy, warmth and friendship
in getting things done.
• 5. Hospitality. Foreigner who come to our country often remark
about Filipino hospitality. This is shown in oue generosity and
kindness in treating our visitors.
• 6. Patient Suffering or Pagtitiis. It is shown in the attitude that
certain frustrating forces whether poverty, injustice, sickness, or
anything else or too powerful to be overcome (Bulatao, 1962:78)
• 7. Panindigan. With the emphasis on Filipino indigenousness,
Enriquez (1977:3) initiated a new way of looking at Filipino values,
which truly represent the Filipino culture. Commitment and
conviction approximate it.
VALUE FORMATION
The Christian Value formation is a lifelong process of growing
which gets its strength from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.The
following factors affect one’s value formation:
5. List down the seven intermediate values related to socialization and defines each.