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Impact on Hauora – Pro

Haroua

  1. Taha Hinegaro (Mental & emotional):
  2. Positive Impact – When you are with your friends you feel comfortable with anything you say around them.
  3. Negative Impact – You are worried you will say the wrong thing around things and you overthink.

 

  1. Taha Wairua (Spiritual):
  2. Positive Impact – Giving something to your friends that means something to them.
  3. Negative Impact – You getting worried that they might stop believing in their own religion.

 

  1. Taha Whanau (Social/Family):
  2. Positive Impact – Seeing your friends spending quality time with their family.
  3. Negative – You see your friends wanting to go out and drink instead of wanting to hangout with family.

 

  1. Taha Tinana (Physical)
  2. Positive Impact – Seeing your friends wanting to go for walks during the day.
  3. Negative Impact – Getting worried that they don’t want to go out or do something that is being outside related.

My Culture

What is your culture? – Samoa 

 

What happens in your culture when someone passes away? – 

Before we have the burial, we have the coffin in a room in a house where they lived before they passed. Families come over to the house and see the person who passed and this goes on for a few days until the day they get buried. 

 

What are some important things that happen when a person passes away? – 

Being respectful to the person who passed away, visiting the person and spending time.

 

What is something important we could learn about your culture when a person passed away? –

Being respectful

 

What are 3 ways to help cope with losing someone? – 

  1.  There can be where we can have family or someone keeping us calm.
  2. Praying they will have a wonderful life in heaven.
  3. Taking care of yourself

 

Something important that I want to share about my culture when a person passes away is that we always respect the person who passed away.

 

The 3 ways to help get through losing an important person are to…

  1. Always visiting them through your tough times.
  2. Always praying
  3. Understand that your grieving process will be unique to you.