THE VIRTUES PROJECT – an NCF Contribution - LOVE

What Is Love?
Love is a special feeling that fills your heart. You show love in a smile, a pleasant way of speaking, a thoughtful act or a hug. Love is treating people and things with special care and kindness because they mean so much to you. Love is treating other people just as you would like them to treat you – with care and respect.

Why Practise It?
Without love, people feel alone. When they don’t feel they matter to anyone, they become unhappy. Sometimes they act angry and don’t let others get close. Everyone wants to be liked. Everyone likes to be loved. When you are being loving, you help others to feel important. They become gentler and kinder. Love is contagious. It keeps spreading.

How Do You Practise It?
Love is putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and caring about what they feel. It is accepting them, loving them just as they are. You can even be loving to people you don’t know, just by caring about what happens to them and sending loving thoughts. Sharing is a way to show love. Share your belongings, you time and yourself. Love is thinking about how you want to be treated and treating others the same way.

What would Love look like if…….
•?You start to get upset with yourself about something you have done?
•?You want to do something thoughtful when your father is sick?
•?Another child is acting cranky?

•You notice a baby bird has fallen from its nest?
•You love your teacher and want to show it?
•You have a special object that you really care about?

Signs of Success
Congratulations! You are practising Love when you…..

•Treat others as you would want them to treat you
•Say kind and loving things
•Share your things and yourself
•Show affection
•Think loving thoughts
•Take good care of the things you love

Affirmation
I am a loving person. I show my love with thoughtful acts, kind words and affection. I treat others they way I want to be treated.