The 5 Characteristics Of The Heart

Full episode releases August 27th!

What if your heart, not your mind, holds the key to living a fulfilled life? In this enlightening episode, we sit down with Dr. Chip Dodd, the esteemed author of "The Voice of the Heart," to explore the profound idea that our emotions and spiritual nature define our true selves. Dr. Dodd breaks down the concept of the spiritual root system, explaining how our feelings shape our needs, desires, longings, and hopes. This is not just a theoretical discussion—it's grounded in both biblical teachings and modern neuroscience, offering a transformative perspective on how we engage with our emotions.

Dr. Dodd passionately discusses how recognizing and embracing our feelings can unlock deeper connections with ourselves, others, and even God. He shares how this understanding is foundational to various therapeutic practices aimed at nurturing our emotional and spiritual well-being. Whether you're familiar with Dr. Dodd's work or new to his insights, this thought-provoking conversation will challenge you to reconsider the role of the heart in your life, encouraging you to live more fully and authentically. Tune in for a journey that bridges ancient wisdom with contemporary science, offering timeless lessons for today's world.

Today's Guest: Dr. Chip Dodd

Dr. Chip Dodd has spent his entire career guiding thousands of professionals and their families through the struggles of their lives and into the lives they were created to have. In 1996, Dr. Dodd founded a treatment center in Nashville, Tennessee called The Center for Professional Excellence (CPE), and spent the next 22 years serving as its Executive Director. Since selling CPE in 2017, Dr. Dodd has worked in private practice doing consulting, mentoring, speaking, counseling, as well as writing. He began Chip Dodd Resources in 2019. In 1991, Dr. Dodd developed The Spiritual Root System (SRS). It is a simple and effective way of seeing how we are made, and integrating how we are made into the lives we desire. Dr. Dodd’s first book, The Voice of the Heart was published in 2001. This seminal work teaches the importance of feelings as tools and gifts that can assist us in living fully. This book continues to impact people’s lives all over the world. All of Dr. Dodd’s books speak to our desire to live fully, love deeply, and lead well. 

Dr. Dodd married his high school sweetheart in 1983. They have two grown sons and two precious daughters-in-law. They currently live in Middle Tennessee.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Well, dr Dodd, I am super excited to have you on the show today. Your book, the Voice of the Heart, has been very well known and well renowned in many different circles for several years and really a lot of what you talk about is so pertinent to what people are experiencing today, even though you wrote this book probably almost 25 years ago. Can you start by telling us what is the spiritual root system that you talk so much about?

Speaker 2: 0:29

Thank you, kimberly. The spiritual root system is, honestly, it's using words to talk about how we're actually created, and it turns out that human beings and neuroscience has finally validated something we've known for actually some centuries, but we run away from it the human beings that were actually born as and remain emotional and spiritual creatures, who are created to do one thing in life, and that is live fully. But we can't find full life unless we're doing so in relationship with ourselves, others and God. Well, it turns out that relationship, more than it's rooted in the mind, you know the brain relationship is actually rooted in the heart. It's a matter of the heart, and neuroscience says that you literally come out of the womb looking for who's looking for you.

Speaker 2: 1:25

The Bible says that guard your heart, or attend to your heart with great diligence, because out of it flow all the issues of life.

Speaker 2: 1:41

And so the spiritual root system is a description of five characteristics what we feel, what we need, what we desire, what we long for and what we hope, and each of those has a discerned definition.

Speaker 2: 1:56

And so everything we do in life, we feel things before we think things even, and then neuroscience is back that up. So we're feeling creatures, and unless we know our feelings, we won't know our needs, we won't know our desire, our longings or our hope, because it's the doorway into us. And so we're thinking, and we're feeling creatures who have developed the ability to think. We're not thinking creatures who have to just simply deal with feelings. So it turns out that everything we do starts with what we feel, rather than our thinking having command of us. The truth is, our feelings have more influence over us than our thinking, so we really need to attend to those things. So the spiritual root system is a foundational belief system out of which grow a lot of therapeutic theories, a lot of therapeutic techniques and so on. So we're feeling creatures and unless you know your feelings, it's going to be hard to live in fully, in relationship.

Speaker 1: 2:52

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