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Podcast 31/52 – Asking is not receiving

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Podcast recommendation 31/52 from the Good Life Project marks the return of ordinary counting in this series. I went off the deep end and named two blog posts after each other number 27… Oops. Anyway. Here I am, back on track full out, it’s week 31 and here’s the 31st podcast recommendation in this year-long series.

BoldomaticPost_When-asking-for-help-make-surSo here it is, an episode from Good Life Project with Jonathan Fields, that I listened to a couple of times yesterday, as I was picking black currants. A short riff on something that I haven’t really given a lot of thought to; the difference between asking for help, advice or assistance, and being open to receiving it.

Asking is not receiving.

As I am writing this post I am listening to it once more, and there’s something to this short story that touches me. This sequence in particular makes me pause, and reflect, looking deep within:

There comes a time when you need to stand naked and silent in the room.
To not just lower the shields, but keep them down. 

Are you open to receiving?
To standing naked and silent?
If so, the real work begins…

Seen somebody naked?

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There is a TEDx Talk by Nic Askew entitled ”How to see somebody naked?” from TEDxHennepinAve that I stumbled upon on Facebook.

I started to watch, and all went quiet. Within. Without. Such is the power of the story being told in this TEDx Talk. It’s a story about the stories that Nic makes, or perhaps the word is that he’s more of a witness and capturer of these stories. Stories of people being naked. Raw. Beyong the words. In the in-between. That which can only be heard once the layers are peeled off, so that nothing else remains, but what must come out. Naked. Raw.

Have you witnessed something like this? And, perhaps even more importantly, have you ever shared yourself like this, naked, raw?