TOPIC:

“Love of oneself”

Reporter:
VILLO, AILENE JOY V.
1st Year AB-POLSCI
 To know ourselves is to love ourselves. To
love ourselves is to acknowledge the
fundamental goodness of our nature and to
share it with others.
 It is true that loving ourselves means being
concerned with our needs. But our
preoccupation with ourselves must be
regulated by temperance.
Love is the tendency towards what is good.
Selfishness is withdrawing to ourselves,
putting ourselves ahead and above all
others. Love thrives on justice, on what is
honest and beautiful. Selfishness is the
overflowing of greed and pride.
Four aspects of Self-love:

1.Self-awareness
Self-awareness is being aware of your
thought processes: your thoughts, how they
affect your emotions, and how emotions
cause you to act.

2.Self-worth
You are born with an endless sea of
potential; You have it now and you will have
it till the day you die. Just like we cannot
create or destroy energy, we can only
explore or hide potential.
3. Self-esteem
Self-esteem results from self-worth. A high sense
of self-worth results in high self-esteem. Self-
worth is the realization that we are valuable
regardless of what we have achieved or the
qualities we may have.

4. Self-care
This aspect that has more to do with the physical
but it is not entirely physical. Self-care is all the
acts we do to keep ourselves healthy, like taking
a bath, eating a balanced diet, staying hydrated,
and doing things that we love.
As I began to love myself :
• I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”
• Today I call it “RESPECT”
• Today I call it “MATURITY”
• Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE”
• Today I call it “SIMPLICITY”
• Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF”
• Today I discovered that is “MODESTY”
• I call it “FULFILLMENT”
• Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.
• Today I know “THAT IS LIFE”!