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“WHO AM I” p.t 1

 


Many years ago I remember my second graduation which was about to usher me into my secondary school education. I can still hear the Guest Speaker‘s words echoing in my ear “I AM SOMEBODY” which he had us repeating several times as though we didn’t know we were indeed individuals.  Looking back now I can totally see the depth of his rhetoric/speech as the point he was driving home was that we are all very unique beings.

 

Despite our own individual uniqueness we have aspects our personality which are common to all. Let’s explore each of them together;

1.      Physical Self

2.      Sexual Self

3.      Emotional Self

4.      Socio-Cultural Self

5.      Moral Self

6.      Spiritual Self


The Physical Self covers all parts of the body such as face, chest, arms, legs and others. The body experiences many significant changes throughout life more so during PUBERTY. During this period it is critical that individuals’ become sensitized to managing this growth and development.

 

The Sexual Self is the state of being identified by a particular gender. It is very important that individuals begin to recognize their state of sexual being because this will begin to shape the way they behave and also how they are treated by others.

 

The Emotional Self accounts for humanities predisposal to a wide array of feelings which may either be positive or negative.

Positive Emotions

Negative Emotions

Happiness

Sadness

Love

Hatred

Forgiveness

Ruthlessness

Joy

Sorrow

Sympathy/Compassion

Unsympathetic/Apathy

Empathy

Indifference

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our emotional wellbeing is critical in order for us to become well-rounded citizens of society. The successful management of our emotions in a productive way is called emotional intelligence. We begin to form our emotional intelligence by developing good HABITS. I’ll never forget my Guidance Teacher telling me that habits develop in the following;

1.      It- you do the thing once.

2.      Bit- once becomes twice or even thrice.

3.      A bit- frequently done on and off.

4.      Habit- all day every day, anywhere it doesn’t matter.           

As a way of developing our self-worth it is most critical that begin to embrace the right approaches to self-awareness because the habits we begin to develop will begin to shape who we are and will become overtime. Habits whether good or bad are totally easy to take hold of our character but very hard to break.

 

The Socio-Cultural Self – We are all social beings who live in a society that has a wide variety of ways of living (culture). Culture plays a significant role in the way we socialize with each other e.g a friend of mine once told me that while away working in a Muslim he learnt it was not encouraged for a woman to engage a man in conversion that’s not her husband or close relative.

As we begin to unfold the layers of the world we are beginning to experience it becomes dire that we access those aspects of our culture which will help us to build strong foundations making us assets to society and not liabilities.  

 

Moral Self and Spiritual Self will be discussed in part two (2) of “Who Am I”

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