{"id":6596,"date":"2014-06-18T12:44:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T16:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/?p=6596"},"modified":"2014-06-18T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T19:20:32","slug":"just-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2014\/06\/just-show-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Just Show Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/files\/2014\/06\/bird_white_feather_18652_h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6598\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/107\/2014\/06\/bird_white_feather_18652_h-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"bird_white_feather_18652_h\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As if by Divine invitation (what other type is there?), \u00a0I received a phone call just now from my dear friend Dr. Murray Needleman. I was thinking about him this morning, so naturally, he called. I have known Murray since the 1980&#8217;s when he hosted a weekly radio program here in the Philly area on what was then a talk station called WWDB 96.5 fm. His Friday night confab around the proverbial campfire was inspirational and in many ways, a model for my own radio program called <a title=\"It's All About Relationships\" href=\"http:\/\/vividlife.me\/ultimate\/vividlife-radio-2\/its-all-about-relationships-with-edie-weinstein\/\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s All About Relationships.<\/a> Murray can best be described as an eclectic soul who is tapped into the universal energy grid,\u00a0 heart of gold, a Philly attytood to go with it, and who has an encyclopedic knowledge of therapeutic techniques that are tried and true. He seems to have a knack for knowing what to say and how to say it, to have me responding with a &#8216;hmmmm&#8230;.&#8217; and shows up just when I need him.<\/p>\n<p>Today especially.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I was painfully aware of the ways in which I have been expecting myself to be switched ON constantly. There for my clients. There for my friends and family. Not there for me.\u00a0 As a result, I experienced a one way flow. Think\u00a0about the idea of exhaling and then not inhaling. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t that most people in my personal life were unwilling to be there for me to offer love and support. \u00a0It was that I wasn&#8217;t willing or able to receive it as it was sent.\u00a0 I deflected it, rather than absorbed it. My cardiac muscle reflected what my heart chakra (Anahata in Sanskrit)\u00a0 was feeling and an artery closed down for business, requiring a stent to open it. A new life has begun for me.<\/p>\n<p>When I contemplated my old pattern of offering therapy for my clients, I shudder when I recall a desire to\u00a0constantly be coming up with ideas and interventions, strategies and\u00a0tools to meet their needs. It was exhausting. When I shared that with Murray, he laughed and even before he said the words, I heard &#8220;Just show up.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s it. All of the abracadabra dazzling therapeutic tools don&#8217;t mean a hill of beans without full presence.\u00a0 How could I be present when I thought I was in a struggle to save or enhance their lives? How arrogant to think that I had to or even could. As I took a step back, I had a sense of peace about it.<\/p>\n<p>Murray then offered a final piece of wisdom. He said that even when I didn&#8217;t think I was on, I really was, since I was &#8216;soul powered.&#8217;\u00a0 I will remember to tap into that Source when I am deluded enough to think I can and need to do it myself.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit:\u00a0 <a title=\"Shake Your Tail Feather\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Shake Your Tail Feather\/marya\/flckr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As if by Divine invitation (what other type is there?), \u00a0I received a phone call just now from my dear friend Dr. Murray Needleman. I was thinking about him this morning, so naturally, he called. 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