by Chip Dodd | Dec 18, 2018 | Hope, Keeping Heart, Spiritual Root System
I want to share something about Christmas. Before I do, however, I want to state that I have seen enough, experienced enough, learned enough, and have lived long enough to disbelieve what I say below if I were ever going to do so. But I cannot not believe it. It is in...
by Chip Dodd | Sep 20, 2018 | Desire, Keeping Heart, Leadership, Spiritual Root System
Integrity is what people who have an internal locus of control tend to express in thought and action. An internal locus of control is the term psychologists use to describe a person who behaves responsibly because it feels good and it’s good to do. Integrity...
by Chip Dodd | Sep 11, 2018 | Hope, Keeping Heart, Spiritual Root System
I It seems paradoxical, but admission of powerlessness can access great gifts. In a movie called Gladiator, Russell Crowe stars as a general named Maximus who is attempting to overthrow the grotesque abusiveness that had possessed Rome. He asks an old, cynical...
by Chip Dodd | Jun 6, 2018 | Keeping Heart, Leadership, Relationships, Spiritual Root System
Trust allows us to rely on something or someone. Trust has to do with the next step towards wherever we are headed. If I step off of solid ground on to a swinging bridge to cross a chasm, I am trusting that the bridge will hold me as I take the first and then the next...
by Chip Dodd | Apr 17, 2018 | Keeping Heart, Longings, Spiritual Root System
Sadness honors the loss that comes with change. In a world where change and loss are inevitable, the willingness to have sadness allows us to remain fully alive. Put another way, sadness is part of feeling and healing loss that allows us to risk caring and attaching...
by Chip Dodd | Apr 3, 2018 | Keeping Heart, Longings, Spiritual Root System
In short, acceptance is the courage to keep on living and loving in the face of inevitable loss. It can be faked through resignation, which means to “resign” from being bothered, hurt, disturbed, caring, or attached with one’s heart. Resignation is the act of...
by Chip Dodd | Feb 27, 2018 | Feelings, Spiritual Root System
Gladness comes to us as an outcome of being adept at the other seven feelings we carry inside of us. The other seven feelings are fear, hurt, sadness, loneliness, anger, shame, and guilt (The Voice of the Heart). Our feelings allow us to respond to life on life’s...
by Chip Dodd | Jan 30, 2018 | Feelings, Spiritual Root System
Healthy shame is the beginning of humility and risk-taking. When we awaken to how alike we are in heart and how we all carry the same inborn neediness, the healthy shame of being human awakens the following: I need you and you need me. I make mistakes and you do, too....
by Chip Dodd | Jan 29, 2018 | Feelings, Spiritual Root System
Guilt grows out of healthy shame, and healthy shame allows me to acknowledge neediness, experience humility, identify limitations, admit mistakes, weep in sadness, wish for better, and grow in empathy and conscience as a human being. Here is how healthy shame and...
by Chip Dodd | Nov 6, 2017 | Feelings, Spiritual Root System
Rage is a deeply impaired experience of fear, a fear that a person cannot and/or will not tolerate. Rage is a closed fist to ward off or destroy something or someone to eradicate vulnerability. Anger exposes us to vulnerability, because it shows the internal caring...
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