Understanding the Self: Spiritual Self

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Spiritual Self

The core aspect of a person, including their personality, core values, and conscience that remain constant throughout their life. This self can be explored through introspection, analyzing deep spiritual, moral, and intellectual questions. It is the most intimate, inner subjective part of self. This is the only part of our self that is able and can experience how to argue and discriminate, have moral sensibility and conscience, and the unconquerable will.

Unique experiences

Serve as a basis for deepening spiritual identity.

Spiritual Identity

Responds to questions about life's nature, purpose, and meaning, resulting in behaviors and actions that represent an individual's core values.

Psychologist James Marcia

He believes religious beliefs are the source of human identity.

Erik Erikson

He compares faith and doubt in adults by focusing on their religion or spiritual aspects.

Spiritus

Latin word which Spirituality comes from.

Breath or Life force

Meaning of Latin word Spiritus.

Spirituality

It refers to finding meaning and purpose in one’s life, a search for wholeness, and a relationship with a transcendent being (higher being). It can be understood as a search for the sacred, a process through which people seek to discover, hold on to, and when necessary, transform whatever they hold sacred in -their lives.

Worship

One of the practices in Spirituality.

Worship

It is regarded as an essential act to realize the ultimate meaning of transcendence and human life. Acts of worship may include prayer, reading the scripture (e.g., the Bible or the Quran). Attending sacraments (e.g. mass), and doing sacrifices (e.g., fasting).

Inner Essence

The part of the self that connects the person to the sacred, the supernatural, and the universe.

Nurturing of the spiritual self

Gives a deeper purpose or meaning of one’s life.

interaction, observation, and imitation

People develop spirituality through.

Kaluluwa (Tagalog)

Referring to the physical and spiritual realities of the soul, connecting it to the body and its life.

Kadkadduwa (Ilokanos)

Refers to the union of the physical body and the soul

Kadduwa

Means constant companion or inseparable partner.

Dungan

An invisible soul that enters a human body, living with other dungans on earth, with the ability to exit the body and transform into insects.

1. Exits the body and transforms into insects.

2. Voluntary or involuntary leave:

• When a person is asleep and sees himself/herself in his/her dreams.

• When a person is abruptly awakened.

• When a body is physically maltreated or beaten

• When a child is frightened.

• When the dungan is caught by a bad spirit or engkanto.

 

Possible exits of Dungan

Dungan leaving a body

The body’s illness is considered a temporary loss of the soul, while death is permanent, involving the soul leaving the body through openings like the nose, eyes, or ears, and entering another body.

Rituals and Ceremonies

Integral to Philippine culture, involving a series of activities using gestures, words, and objects, serving various purposes such as worship, rites of passage, and preservation of customs and traditions.

Examples of Rituals and Ceremonies

1. worship rites and sacraments of organized religions and cults

2. rites of passage

3. atonement and purification rites

4. oaths of allegiance

5. dedication ceremonies

6. coronations and presidential inaugurations

7. marriages and funerals

8. school traditions

9. club meetings

10. sporting events

11. Halloween parties

12. veterans' parades

13. Christmas shopping

Address psychological and social problems, express values, preserve customs.

Purpose of Rituals

Religion

Set of cultural beliefs and practices. Organized system of ideas about the spiritual sphere or supernatural, and to know God is its central function; thus, making it connected with spirituality. A system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices involving commitment to a specific faith or observance, encompassing the service and worship of a supernatural being or deity.

Magic

Involves charms or spells believed to control natural forces or create illusions through deception or sleight of hand.

Witchcraft

Involves the use of black magic or sorcery often associated with connections to malevolent forces.

Finding and Creating Meaning

The process of identifying and developing learning competencies and skills, teaching students to find meaning in concepts and experiences through reflection and self-exploration.

Tips for Finding Meaning in Life

Unfolding the bigger picture, questioning the relation of events to one's life purpose, getting in touch with one's spiritual side, seeing objects as objects, loving more, and playing hard as ways to find meaning in life.

Unfold the Bigger Picture

This points to checking the self’s true purpose, personal mission and goals In life.

This directs one’s path so that in cases when one gets distracted and detoured, for example, experiencing negative emotions and being caught in the excitement of new things, that could always go back to their purpose, mission, and goals that were set from the very beginning.

Pop the Question

When things become unpredictable and unexpected situations arise, one must question the relation of such events to their life’s purpose and how it can help and create harmony for oneself.

There is always a need to redirects one’s course and reconnect with one’s established goals and purpose.

Get in Touch with Your Spiritual Side

The side of the aspect is connected to one’s inner world.

There is a tendency to neglect one’s spiritual self because of a busy life.

See Objects as Objects

The depth of finding meaning in life is not felt in the realities of things.

Objects are external entities that do not do much in finding one’s meaning as they tend to come and go.

Love More

To love is the ultimate answer to a human sense of longing and the source of meaning in one’s life.

Love should be direct both inside and outside in order to enrich one’s life within.

Play Hard

Playing involves opening oneself beyond and the boundaries of rules in life.

It means allowing oneself to be thrilled and captivated by the surroundings and expressing oneself freely through music, arts, childlike games, poetry, crafts and other means may lead one to find meaning in life