PerDev: Wholeness and Balance of Life

Wholeness

a sense of integration

Integration

different aspects of the individual—mental, emotional, physical, social, and spiritual—are in harmony or balance

Emeth and Greenhut

“individuals are all pilgrims on a journey toward wholeness and fullness of life”

Carl Jung

• concept of wholeness

  - psychological health and wellness

  - individuation process

• “man is essentially a whole being”

• life is full of opposites

• split in the self

• the need to restore the fragmented pieces of self in the hope of bringing out the uniqueness of the individual

Boundaries of the Soul

a book detailed by Singer, which is about self-knowledge

Gestaltism/Gestalt Theory

psychological distress or mental problems are significantly caused by the split self

Adelle Davis

importance of taking a good, heavy breakfast to give you energy for the day, eating in moderation at midday, and keeping your meal light at night

Cognitive

thinking patterns, reasoning, and ability to learn, remember, and solve problems

Remembering

a function of the brain that depends on short-term or long-term memory

Throop and Castelluci

the ones who list ways to improve your memory

Repetition

going over material repeatedly improves your memory

Organization

• organizing things or ideas in your head helps

• classifying things according to their standard features

Mnemonic

• aids your memory

• acronyms or rhymed words

Critical Thinking

ability to reason out (logical thinking), infer, analyze, interpret, and explain

Motus anima

• Latin description for emotions

• “the spirit that moves us”

Coon

cited Robert Plutchik’s primary emotions, which include surprise, sadness, disgust, anticipation, and acceptance

Received Faith

spiritual beliefs taught by our parents or significant people in our lives