PERDEV : Wholeness and Balance

Wholeness

Essentially, it is a sense of integration

Integration

It is when the different aspects of the individual's mental, emotional, physical, social, and spiritual are in harmony or balanced

Harmony or Balance

essential for self-esteem and self-actualization

Emeth & Greenhut (1991)

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

Carl Jung

• Was one of the few classical thinkers and psychologists during his time who seriously put forward the concept of wholeness in theory and practice

• Man is essentially a whole being

• Life has two opposites

• Split self → need to restore the fragmented pieces of self in hope of uniqueness

Singer. (1972), Boundaries of the Soul

• Is a path to self-knowledge

• Moves along two tracks

• Its ideal is the conscious realization and integration of all the possibilities

• Allows people to find their own direction and live according to their own sense of purpose

• Offers a way toward restoring faith in themselves as they establish their own inner values

Gestalism

• Another psychological theory that recognizes the man as a whole

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

• Man is a whole being and functioning unit 

• Soma (body)  ≠ Psyche (Mind)

Physical Development

• Points to the body and its functioning

1. Watch what you eat (Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper)

2. Keep yourself fit and strong

3. Avoid abuse of your body
   

Cognitive

Patterns of thinking which include reasoning, ability to learn, remembering, and solving problems

Remembering

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

Troop and Castellucci (2011)

1. Repetition

2. Organization

3. Mnemonics

Critical Thinking

Comes from the greek word kritikos (discerning judgment) and criterion (standards)

• Ability to reason out, infer, analyze, interpret and explain

• Discern facts and opinions

Problem Solving

Depends on critical thinking ability

Motus Anima

• Means “the spirit that moves us” (Hasson 2012)

• Latin description for Emotions 

Spiritual

• “Received faith” - beliefs taught

• soul/spiritual side

• God and the meaning of life

Physiological

Emotions involve bodily arousal

Cognitive

Refers to the subjective conscious experience

Behavioral

Outward expression of emotion