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Relationship with others

Neuroscience research points out very clearly that we are connection seeking creatures. We are born to “look for who is looking for us.”

In the Voice of the Heart, which came out years before neuroscience research validated Dr Dodd’s work, he writes that we are created by God to seek life to the full, but we can only find that fulfillment in relationship with ourselves (head and heart connected), with other, and with God.

Relational fulfillment is a dictate of our emotional and spiritual genetics. This genetic makeup is so powerful that we will seek a sense of connection that relationship brings in legitimate forms or in illegitimate ways as other episodes have explained, like the recent Addiction Series, Episodes 97-110.

So much of life is about the benefits of relational fulfillment that even the word share means that you receive from others initially, so that you can offer the gifts you have to others—whether that be the flowers you have grown; the experiences you have had; or the love you have received.

We cannot give what we do not have; therefore, we must be open to all that relational fulfillment can offer us, so that we have much to offer others.

Research has shown that gratitude for receiving allows a person to increase their sense of gratitude by giving.

There exists a “child-like” willingness that a person must have to live fully, because relational fulfillment with another person requires that we be:

• Truthful enough to be trustworthy.
• Teachable enough to learn how to care well.
• Humble enough to be open to being relational.
• Brave enough to face our needs.

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