Understanding The Self
Understanding The Self
Read the following site as a reading material on how to manage and deal with the sexual
urges/energies. Additional readings: A Practical Guide to Sexual Transmutation (A Complete Guide
to the Secrets of Sexual Transmutation) by Scott Jeffrey https://scottjeffrey.com/sexual-energy-
transmutation/ After reading, answer the following questions in your journal:
a. What is sexual transmutation?
b. How can you benefit from sexual transmutation?
c. How is sexual energy transformed to achieve higher spiritual development?
2. Watch the documentary of GMA 7’s I-witness “Ang Mga Dalagita ng Sapang Kawayan”
(https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2z1h7q) After watching the documentary, try to answer the
following question in a clean sheet of yellow paper:
a. What was the documentary all about?
b. How do you feel after watching the documentary?
c. What would you do if you were in that situation?
d. Why do you think these young girls take the early and difficult road to motherhood at such an early
age?
e. Is teenage pregnancy a problem in your community? How can you establish ways on how to
prevent the occurrence of this social problem in your community?
3. You will be assigned to the following additional readings on how to prevent premarital sex.
Additional readings: 50 Purity Quotes for Smart Teenagers by Dora Weithers
https://pairedlife.com/advice/Purity-Quotes-To-Grab-Your-Teenagers-Attention. Reflect by choosing
one purity quote from the readings that you like/can relate the most. Make “A Commitment Statement
on Chastity” by making a promise card using your purity quote of choice.
4. Conduct an Information Dissemination Drive in the school campus. You may have 3 groups with 5
members each group:
I. for Sexually Transmitted Infections/Diseases
II. for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/AIDS
III. for Family Planning
Each group will make any of the following: Brochures, Posters, or an Exhibit on their assigned topics.
Include types and how to prevent
6. Clip articles (could be research article) or sayings about money or material possessions and write a
one-page reflection on these articles./ Choose from the saying below and write a one- page reflection.
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7. Short-film Analysis You will watch a short film entitled Spiritual Self, created and uploaded on
YouTube by a group of freshmen students from the University of St. La Salle Bacolod. Note to
teachers: The short-video can be downloaded at https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=sZ7ROEI1Oz0&t=70s
After watching the video clip, answer in writing the following questions:
1. What do you think is the video all about?
2. How do you think the actor managed his spirituality?
3. Looking back on your similar experiences, what area of your life are you currently seeking to create
a change?
4. If so, what stage of spiritual development would you currently place yourself?
5. Is there something you think you might need to let go of or claim in order to cause this change in
your spiritual development?
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8. Song Analysis
Pay close attention to the lyrics of the song “I See You Lord” by Aiza Seguerra.
I'm so blessed my Lord I can see you
In all the lovely things
So fine and true I see you in the beauty
Of the flowers and the rain I see you between the lines
Of a sweet refrain
I'm so blessed my Lord I can see you
Even when I'm lonely and in pain
I see you in the beauty of the stars at night
I see you in my life I feel alright
I see you Lord In sorrow and in happiness
I see you in the glory
Of sweet success
I see you Lord
Every hour, every day
I can see you Lord
Whenever I pray
I'm so blessed my Lord
I can see you
In the smile of a baby
Sweet and true
I can see you in the eyes
Of my very best friends
I see you in these bonds
Just like your love that never ends
I see you Lord
In sorrow and in happiness I see…
9. Read the inspirational story below about the Carrot, the Egg and a Coffee Bean. A young woman
went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know
how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It
seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose. Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled
three pots with water. In the first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and the last she
placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word. In about twenty minute
she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out, she pulled the eggs out and placed them in a
bowl. Then she ladled the coffee into a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, “Tell me what you
see?” “Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied. She brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots.
She did and noted that they were soft. She then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off
the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee. The daughter
smiled, as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, “What’s the point, mother?” Her mother
explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity…boiling water – but each reacted
differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the
boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had
protected its liquid interior. But, after being through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water they had
changed the water. “Which are you?” she asked the daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door,
how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?” After having read the story, answer
this – “When the hours of your life are at their darkest and the trials are at their greatest, how do you
handle them? Do you choose to be the carrot? The egg? Or the coffee bean?
10. Below are passages that talk about positivity. Choose one and create a poster out of it.
1. “The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of
everything that comes our way.”
2. “When faced with a mountain I will not quit. I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass
through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine.”
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