The Voice Of The Heart: A Call To Full Living - Hardcover

Dodd, Chip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1577362195 ISBN 13: 9781577362197

Publisher: Providence House Pub, 2001

Synopsis

Profoundly insightful, The Voice of the Heart offers a deeper understanding of how to live an abundant life. Chip Dodd teaches us how to begin to know our hearts so that we better know ourselves and are better equipped to live in relationship with others and, ultimately, with God. Included with the book is a audio compact disc. The CD is a companion presentation by Chip Dodd to supplement the material covered in the book. It provides additional teaching on the Spiritual Root System, particularly how feelings play a vital role in our emotional and spiritual maturity.

About this title

About the Author

Chip Dodd is a teacher, trainer, author, and counselor, who has been working in the field of recovery and redemption for over 25 years. It is the territory in which people can return to living the way we are created to live-where we can move from survival to living, from isolation to loving, and from controlling to leading. After receiving his PhD in counseling from the University of North Texas, he founded a treatment center, The Center for Professional Excellence (CPE) in Nashville, dedicated to helping people be who they are made to be, so they can do what they are made to do. 

In 1991, Chip developed a way of seeing and expressing one's internal experience called the Spiritual Root System©. It expresses in detail the essential makeup of the human being; feelings, needs, desire, longings, and hope. When we reawaken to this essential makeup, we are oxygenated and hydrated with the energy of living fully. We are created as emotional and spiritual creatures, created to do one thing-live fully.

From the Inside Flap

A full life is beyond our grasp without knowing the eight feelings that are stamped upon our hearts: hurt, loneliness, sadness, anger, fear, shame, guilt, and gladness. For many of us, life is only about survival. Sadly, we live lives of self-protection. We close doors to anything that might lead to hurt or disappointment, only to also shut out our hearts to relationship and all that is joyous and full.

Profoundly insightful, The Voice of the Heart offers us a deeper understanding of how to live an abundant life. Chip Dodd teaches us how to begin to know our hearts so that we better know ourselves and are better equipped to live in relationship with others and, ultimately, with God.

Included with the book is a compact disc. The CD is a companion presentation by Chip Dodd to supplement the material covered in the book, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living. It provides additional teaching on the Spiritual Root System, particularly how feelings play a vital role in our emotional and spiritual maturity.

Do you want more out of life? The Voice of the Heart is about reawakening to the dream that life really can be good, full, and rich. It's about entering into an abundant life with all of its joy, pain, and mystery.

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Spiritual Root System

These troubling questions of our hearts do not go away. No matter what we do to silence them, our hearts will not be stilled. They demand to be answered before we can live a truly fulfilled life.

Answers are not always easily found and are rarely painless when we learn them. But by avoiding these issues, we rob ourselves of the heart's true potential for joy. Instead of facing truth, we seek counterfeit solutions, trying to avoid the neediness and vulnerability so often found with the truth.

Answers do indeed exist, and they move us into a life much bigger than we have ever dared to imagine. The answers we find show us that life is about living fully. We learn that life is not simply about being happy. It's about living fully in intimate relationship with ourselves, with others, and with God, which is a joy unto itself (even in pain). To find the answers, we need to know where to look.

The Five Roots
In order to grow from spindly trees into full trees, we need to reawaken to and acknowledge our inborn Spiritual Root System. The five roots that drink in the nourishment of life are feelings, needs, desires, longings, and hope.

Edition details

• Publisher: Providence House Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1577362195
• ISBN 13: 9781577362197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 151