Living with Heart: From Birth to Death

Click here to read the episode highlights.  [https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1DZRLmGpOvHyurexnGSkzwO7SRWBOEscv9Xr6ewUDLs8/edit]   The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). Contact Bryan Barley for coaching at bryan@vothcenter.com [bryan@vothcenter.com].    “Living with Heart: From Birth to Death” podcast has been downloaded in 49 states and 68 countries. Thank you to all of our listeners. We are very grateful to you and also grateful that so many of you have shared this podcast with family and friends. We hope for many more listeners in the coming year because we deeply believe in what we are offering and how it can do for people.   I have never tired of or even thought I knew all the depths of The Spiritual Root System, even after all the years that I have been talking and teaching about it. We truly are created as emotional and spiritual creatures, created to find fulfillment in relationship. What seems so basic now, to almost everyone, sounded foreign to many, many people in 1991 when I began to communicate the power of surrendering to how we are created.   About 15 years ago, neuroscience research began to validate the material I have been talking about. The material I talk about is ancient, has always been true from the beginning, and is amazingly Biblical.    It is a reliable scientific material, and yet even more, it is faith-based proof of the existence and goodness of God.   We are “heart” people who have the addition of intellect that develops over time after birth.    We are born as “heart” people, and we are all created the same way.    This fact sets the stage for the actions of a loving and moral people. When I look at you, I am looking at myself, in terms of being a feeling, needing, desiring, longing, and hoping creation.    This factor allows me to recognize the benefit of practicing the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Matthew 7:12). As our sameness allows us to develop conscience, we can bless each other.    The more we deny our sameness, the more we harm each other. Of course, no matter what, we are going to still need to seek forgiveness; we are going to harm each other.    We have truly entered a new era, one of the heart.    Click here to continue reading episode highlights. [https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1DZRLmGpOvHyurexnGSkzwO7SRWBOEscv9Xr6ewUDLs8/edit]

The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). Contact Bryan Barley for coaching at bryan@vothcenter.com [bryan@vothcenter.com].    Click here to read the episode highlights. [https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1J3gt31GFcSzd0bb4lw85UGaA37UZKEySrkT9OhG-CSY/edit]   Now Available at Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/Jesse-Tree-Christmas-Devotional-Individuals/dp/B0DFN1YJ4J] The Jesse Tree: A Christmas Devotional for Individuals, Couples, & Families [https://www.amazon.com/Jesse-Tree-Christmas-Devotional-Individuals/dp/B0DFN1YJ4J] is a 24-day devotional that prepares us for the birth of Jesus. It is offered as a free eBook at chipdodd.com [http://chipdodd.com], and it can be purchased from Amazon. The Jesse Tree includes daily devotions that start with creation and end with the birth of Jesus.  Each day has a list of ideas for extending the day’s “study” and opportunity for fellowship with your family, friends, and God. Your Jesse Tree will be covered in Bible-themed ornaments that will be a daily reminder of the stories you have read and the promise of the coming Messiah. Order now, the devotional begins December 1st.   There are three books that listeners may wish to go to about gratitude:   One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp [https://www.amazon.com/One-Thousand-Gifts-Fully-Right/dp/0310321913] which I mentioned in the last episode. This wonderful book deals a lot with gratitude that can come from loss and grief.    Gratitude Works [https://www.amazon.com/Gratitude-Works-Creating-Emotional-Prosperity/dp/1118131290] and Little Book of Gratitude [https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Gratitude-happiness-wellbeing/dp/1856753654] by Robert Emmons. These two very practical books were written by Emmons, a researcher who has studied the benefits of gratitude, how to develop it, and sustain it.   When we experience life as a gift, then we, as the receivers of the gifts in life, naturally have gratitude. Emmons and others have shown that having gratitude benefits our emotional and spiritual lives, as well as our physical well-being and our prosperity. Gratitude multiplies itself with its impact. When we yield to being in need of others and God, and experience the effect of needing, we receive a yield, or a harvest of benefits.   Not only do we have an expectation of good things in our lives, we also are able to recall good things in times of trouble. For example, recalling or remembering times when we received something good can help us persevere in troubled times. We can hang on to hope because of remembering.   Click here to continue reading the episode highlights. [https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1J3gt31GFcSzd0bb4lw85UGaA37UZKEySrkT9OhG-CSY/edit]

The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). Contact Bryan Barley for coaching at bryan@vothcenter.com [bryan@vothcenter.com].    Episode highlights: [https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1YwopgYTFXwLcVchQkxpSgoJjIFJqunFOv_dYyHbjJCc/edit]   Now Available at Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/Jesse-Tree-Christmas-Devotional-Individuals/dp/B0DFN1YJ4J] The Jesse Tree: A Christmas Devotional for Individuals, Couples, & Families [https://www.amazon.com/Jesse-Tree-Christmas-Devotional-Individuals/dp/B0DFN1YJ4J] is a 24-day devotional that prepares us for the birth of Jesus. It is offered as a free eBook at chipdodd.com [http://chipdodd.com], and it can be purchased from Amazon. The Jesse Tree includes daily devotions that start with creation and end with the birth of Jesus.  Each day has a list of ideas for extending the day’s “study” and opportunity with fellowship with your family, friends, and God. Your Jesse Tree will be covered in Bible-themed ornaments that will be a daily reminder of the stories you have read and the promise of the coming Messiah. Order now, the devotional begins December 1st.   This is the first of two episodes on gratitude.   The final episode of the year will drop November 26. In this final episode, we will look back over our first year of “Living with Heart: From Birth to Death.”   We will start the new season December 31 with a new episode that focuses on New Year’s Resolutions.   What is gratitude and how do we experience it?  Three factors play a part in experiencing gratitude.   Gratitude begins with our needs. God created us with an abundance of needs.    Whether we like it or not, we are “needy” creations of God.   Having our needs addressed and fulfilled is how gratitude occurs.     Our needs cannot be fulfilled without being in need of God and others.   Gratitude is experienced through relationship.   Needs are covered in great detail in: * Needs of the Heart by Chip Dodd * “Living with Heart: From Birth to Death” podcast, episodes 2-16    The 3 factors that summarize our essential needs are: * We all desire to belong and matter. * We all seek safety and care. * We all crave to experience a full life.   Being in need or being “needy” is not a bad thing or a weakness. It is a human experience over which we are actually powerless.   We are created in ways that we cannot change. We can run from how we are made, but that does not change how we are created.    Many of us are trained to believe that having needs means you are weak.   Most people see having needs as: * a weakness. * putting yourself in danger of being rejected. * a negative experience that can keep them from belonging and mattering. * a negative experience that can keep them from being safe and cared for. * an experience that will keep them from having a full life.   Click here to continue reading the episode highlights. [https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1YwopgYTFXwLcVchQkxpSgoJjIFJqunFOv_dYyHbjJCc/edit]

Click here to read the episode highlights. [https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/105Z1-U-3Aca2q9CKa8DJhYt-5vlB_zIDSkPCqcEFu2E/edit]   The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). Contact Bryan Barley for coaching at bryan@vothcenter.com [bryan@vothcenter.com].    Congratulations to the 5 Winners of the Chip Dodd Book Bundles! Thank you to all of you who submitted a review of this podcast.   2 helpful, FREE Resources at chipdodd.com: [http://chipdodd.com] 14 Symptoms of Codependency: A Personal Inventory [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62e2d6c397d6ff1fd356ed8f/t/66f4879e8e49ed68b9eae387/1727301535060/Final+The+14+Symptoms+of+Codependency.pdf] Return to Being Human: 6 Freedoms from Birth [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62e2d6c397d6ff1fd356ed8f/t/66e5ee4fd2ea653e5b5750bd/1726344783816/Six+Freedoms+from+Bith.pdf]   The Boy & The Ogre: Finding Freedom from Codependency by Chip Dodd [https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Ogre-Finding-Freedom-Codependency/dp/B0CN16YJD3]   Now Available at Amazon The Jesse Tree: A Christmas Devotional for Individuals, Couples, & Families is a 24-day devotional that prepares us for the birth of Jesus. It is offered as a free eBook at chipdodd.com [http://chipdodd.com], and it can be purchased from Amazon. The Jesse Tree includes daily devotions that start with creation and end with the birth of Jesus.  Each day has a list of ideas for extending the day’s “study” and opportunity with fellowship with your family, friends, and God. Your Jesse Tree will be covered in Bible-themed ornaments that will be a daily reminder of the stories you have read and the promise of the coming Messiah. Order now, the devotional begins December 1st.   The reason for this podcast is because for people to have more life, more fulfillment. The things  talked about here, and the materials referred to, are about knowing the language and content of your heart, and what that can do for you. It won’t stop pain, but helps you know what to do about it. It certainly doesn’t promise perfection or even happiness. But knowing the language and content of the heart helps people develop the ability to live life on life’s terms, with all of its heartbreak and heartache that conflicts with our craving for life without tragedy.     Our goal is for people to experience time in this life as Kairos, which means to experience your life emotionally and spiritually, fully participating in living, rather than Chronos, which means just getting life over with, letting the clock run down.   If we don’t allow ourselves to live emotionally and spiritually connected, then we have to find an escape or addiction.    Without living in Kairos, we are simply on a race to the grave. Codependency recovery moves us into Kairos.    Because there has been so much misunderstanding about the proper use of feelings, there is a rising backlash against the importance of facing, feeling, and dealing with life by being able to be “response-able” with feelings.   Click here to continue reading the episode highlights. [https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/105Z1-U-3Aca2q9CKa8DJhYt-5vlB_zIDSkPCqcEFu2E/edit]

Click here to read the episode highlights. [https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sqRupj-hYjw3cXjH5ExapIkWO3KAFaLjBAp3aaW2QJM/edit]   The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). Contact Bryan Barley for coaching at bryan@vothcenter.com [bryan@vothcenter.com].    BOOK BUNDLE GIVEAWAY! We are giving away 5 FREE Chip Dodd Book Bundles! * Write a review of this podcast. * Submit the review. * Take of screenshot of the review. * Send the screenshot to bryan@vothcenter.com.     Reviews and emails must be submitted by October 31st. 5 names will be drawn and winners will be announced in November.   The book bundles include: 1. A Signed Copy of The Voice of the Heart 2. The Voice of the Heart Companion Study 3. The Boy and The Ogre: Finding Freedom from Codependency 4. The Jesse Tree: A Christmas Devotional for Individuals, Couples, and Families 5. *Bonus: A Set of Ornaments   Dr. Dodd will be leading 1 more seminar this fall:   How to Love a Woman’s Heart November 8, 2024 9:00-12:00   For more information or to register for these seminars go to chipdodd.com/seminar [http://chipdodd.com/seminar]   2 new FREE Resources at chipdodd.com [http://chipdodd.com]: 14 Symptoms of Codependency: A Personal Inventory [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62e2d6c397d6ff1fd356ed8f/t/66f4879e8e49ed68b9eae387/1727301535060/Final+The+14+Symptoms+of+Codependency.pdf] Return to Being Human: 6 Freedoms from Birth [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62e2d6c397d6ff1fd356ed8f/t/66e5ee4fd2ea653e5b5750bd/1726344783816/Six+Freedoms+from+Bith.pdf]   We offer free resources not to promote, as much as to attract people to come get something that will benefit individuals, couples, families, friendships and society itself. Now Available at Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/Jesse-Tree-Christmas-Devotional-Individuals/dp/B0DFN1YJ4J/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZJT142MAEP0K&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9MfOUv5C6MkO4QIS3OaPNAC2Uu8NJNRGeuAh8aFFzj0FZxb359IsUWkdZ6hgZqy-jQ6_ZRcfCf2mFsouP5C61Q.o9ectCLpxhTcPbzSTd6Giyb5yPZiyYoNHMAn3y9DxJM&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+jesse+tree+chip+dodd&qid=1729535681&sprefix=the+jesse+tree+chip+dod%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-1]   The Jesse Tree: A Christmas Devotional for Individuals, Couples, & Families [https://www.amazon.com/Jesse-Tree-Christmas-Devotional-Individuals/dp/B0DFN1YJ4J/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZJT142MAEP0K&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9MfOUv5C6MkO4QIS3OaPNAC2Uu8NJNRGeuAh8aFFzj0FZxb359IsUWkdZ6hgZqy-jQ6_ZRcfCf2mFsouP5C61Q.o9ectCLpxhTcPbzSTd6Giyb5yPZiyYoNHMAn3y9DxJM&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+jesse+tree+chip+dodd&qid=1729535681&sprefix=the+jesse+tree+chip+dod%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-1] is a 24-day devotional that prepare us for the birth of Jesus. It is offered as a free eBook at chipdodd.com [http://chipdodd.com] and it also can be purchased from Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/Jesse-Tree-Christmas-Devotional-Individuals/dp/B0DFN1YJ4J/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZJT142MAEP0K&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9MfOUv5C6MkO4QIS3OaPNAC2Uu8NJNRGeuAh8aFFzj0FZxb359IsUWkdZ6hgZqy-jQ6_ZRcfCf2mFsouP5C61Q.o9ectCLpxhTcPbzSTd6Giyb5yPZiyYoNHMAn3y9DxJM&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+jesse+tree+chip+dodd&qid=1729535681&sprefix=the+jesse+tree+chip+dod%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-1]. The Jesse Tree includes daily devotionals that start with creation and end with the birth of Jesus.  Each day has a list of ideas for extending the day’s “study” and opportunity for fellowship with your family, friends, and God. Order now, the devotional begins December 1st.   The reason I do this podcast is because we want people to have more life, more fulfillment. The things we talk about here and the materials we refer to are about what knowing your heart can do for you. It won’t stop pain, but helps you know what to do about it. It certainly doesn’t promise perfection or even happiness, but helps people develop the ability to live life on life’s terms with all of its heartbreak and heartache that conflicts with our craving for life without tragedy.   Click here to continue reading the episode highlights. [https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sqRupj-hYjw3cXjH5ExapIkWO3KAFaLjBAp3aaW2QJM/edit]