Ge1-Module 14-Taking Care of One's Health

TAKING CARE OF ONE’S
HEALTH
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Define Health.
• List of why self care is necessary
• Practice the ways to engage in selfcare
• Identify forms of compassion and why they are important
STRESSORS AND RESPONSES
• In fulfilling one’s goals, obstacles get in the way and the surrounding
conditions become unfavorable, then stress is very much of an invitation.
• Humprey, Yow and Bowen (2000) described stress as any factor that makes
adaption to an environment difficult for the individual to maintain a state of
equilibrium between himself and the external environment.
• It includes a physical and mental response to meet the demands of the
stressful event ( Richlin-Klonsky & Hoe, 2003).
• These events or conditions that put a strain on the individual are called
stressors ( Santrock, 2003)
• Stressors are situations that are experienced as perceived threat to one’s
well-being or position in life, with the challenge of dealing with which,
exceeds the person’s perceived available resources (Scott, 2017)
CATEGORIES OF STRESSORS
HUMAN STRESS (2017)
• Physiological ( physical)- are those that put-on strain on the body.

• Psychological stressors- are events, situations, individuals, comments, or any
thing we interpret as negative or threatening.
Moreover, scientist are now proposing that stressors can be further divided
into:
• Absolute stressors- those to which everyone exposed would interpret
as being stressful.
• Relative stressors- are those to which only some persons exposed

would interpret as being stressful.
FOLK 2017
• When danger is perceived, the body’s emergency system

automatically changes the body’s balance by producing
the stress response .
SOURCE OF COPING
Lazarous and Folkman (1984)
• The process of attempting to manage the demands created by stressful

events that are appraised as taxing or exceeding a person’s resources. Among
the coping resources to improve the ability to manage stressful events and
better health outcomes include optimism, psychological control or mastery,
self-esteem, and social support.
• Optimism refers to the outcome expectancies that good things
rather than bad things will happen to the self (Scheier et,al 1994).
• Personal control or mastery refers to whether a person feels able
to control or influence outcomes (Thompson, 1981).
• Self-esteem, that is positive and high, also protective against
adverse mental and physical health outcomes, thereby contributing
to better psychological well- being. Self-esteem is often defined as
an individual’s self perception of his/her abilities, skills, and overall
qualities that guides and/or motivates specific cognitive processes
and behaviors (McCrae and Costa, 1988).
• Social support is defined as the perception or experience that one
is loved and cared for by others, esteemed and valued, and part of
social network of mutual assistance and obligations (Wills, 1991).
THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DIMENSION OF STRESS
• Stress is meditated through culture: from the very nature of stress, to the ways we respond
to the stress.
• Culture adapts to circumstances, and we are only one of many countries with large dense
populations that have learned with the maddening crowds, complete with the noise.
• Filipinos do face many sources of stress, around work and livelihood mainly.
• Filipino women are more prone to dealing with stressful situations through “tiis” and
“kimkim”.
• Many Filipinos express their stress by complaining about recurring headache. Or abdominal
pains, accompanied by dizziness, nausea, or fatigue.
• The intriguing bangungot, those sudden death, usually at night, associated with nightmares.
• Filipino is so attached to home and hearth that we even have a term of namamahay.
THE NEED FOR SELF CARE AND COMPASSION
• Self care- is engaging in activities and behaviors that have a positive effect
on ones mental and physical health (Greene, 2017).
• She adds that there is a bit “reverse Golden Rule” aspect to the practice;
that is to treat yourself as companionate as you treat others.
REASONS WHY SELF CARE IS NECESSARY :
• It increases sense of self love, allowing appreciation and acceptance of who

a person is.
• It promote feelings of calm and relaxation serving to refocus and comeback
to daily life refreshed and daily to take on anything .
• It improves both the physical and mental health by reducing the effects of
prolonged stress on mind and body.
GERMER 2009
Compassion is wishing for that person to be free form

sufferring.
GREATER GOOD SCIENCE CENTER, 2009
Compassion literally means to “suffer again”.

VARIOUS FORMS COMPASSION
Paul Ekman 2010
• Familial Compassion- planted of caregiver-offspring bond.
• Global Compassion ( Indian tsunami 2004)- Planet earth won’t survive
without global compassion.
• Sentient Compassion- when one extends compassion towards cockroaches
or any living being.
• Heroic Compassion- Atruism with a risk.
- Immediate heroic compassion is when, without thought, one jumps onto the MRT tracks to
rescue someone.
- Considered heroic compassion isn’t done imposively. It is done with thought, and it can be
maintained for many years.

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TAKING CARE OF ONE’S

• Physiological ( physical)- are those that put-on strain on the body.

• Relative stressors- are those to which only some persons exposed

• When danger is perceived, the body’s emergency system

• The process of attempting to manage the demands created by stressful

• It increases sense of self love, allowing appreciation and acceptance of who

Compassion is wishing for that person to be free form

Compassion literally means to “suffer again”.

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