Updates from Echo

Another life changing experience....................

2012-01-17T11:02:00.001-08:00

I had so many cool experiences this week end that I want to share with you.

Back in November, I was guided to teach a week-end seminar on the soul's perspective of life, death and life after death.

One of the perks of my gifts is that I've been communicating with souls of the living and the deceased for over forty years and they've taught me so much. I've written about alot of it in my book Echoes of the Soul, but have continued to learn from them and was excited about sharing new information.

Last week as I was mentally preparing for the weekend, I asked God to please give me as much guidance as possible over the week-end so that I could give all the participants exactly what they needed.

On Friday, I was in my office printing out some astrological reports for the seminar and I started to hear a group of men talking about the importance of talking about how we have humanized God and that it's all backwards.

These four men, who I would definitely call Elders from the other side, were having a chat session in my office and I could hear them commiserating. They were saying that most people had no clue what God is because we've humanized him.. We've projected our own humanity on him and that's why most people don't know what to think when it comes to God.

I heard one of them say "yeah, look at Moses. He had a bad temper and then projected that image onto God. Told everyone God was angry and vengeful, when in fact it was Moses that had those characteristics." They said many of the stories in the Bible were from people who imposed their own beliefs and personalities onto God and that we need to develop our own relationships with God in order to know what he/she is all about.

I loved listening to them talk, but it was time to leave for the hotel. I thanked them for sharing their insights, not knowing that I would find them all at the hotel ready to assist me throughout the week end.

The week end was a very special experience for all of us. For me, it was another one of those life changing experiences that I've had throughout my career. Those four male spirits and Lilli, the angel that works me, were all present throughout the entire week end and they continually guided me with new information.

It was a bit of a challenge for me because my right ear was constantly tuned into what they (the deceased) were saying, while my left ear was listening to the (living) people. I've done channelings before, done Gallery readings where the deceased bring messages for the living, but this was a whole other level of open communication between both plains of existence FOR THREE DAYS. It kind of felt like I was walking a tight rope at the veil.The place that separates our world from the other side. It was absolutely fascinating for me to see that I could do that for longer than a couple of hours.

Okay, so back to the messages about humanizing God.

Jesus told us that God is SPIRIT. The Bible says that we are made in God's image and likeness and I believe that is referencing our soul, not our physical body.

Many stories in the Bible make reference to God being angry, egotistical, vengeful, and jealous, all human characteristics. The guides said that we have projected our stuff onto God and we need to stop doing that. Jesus told us that God is all about love. I don't recall in any of HIS stories where he says God is angry, jealous, ego driven or punishing.

Remember a couple of blogs back where I said that the guides said we need to pay attention? Start paying attention to how you or others think or talk about God.

We need to shift away from the negativity and start to see this creator of ours as a much more loving presence in our lives.

Lost your job? A loved one die? House in foreclosure? Filing Bankruptcy?

These are not God's actions. These are life lessons we signed up to experience.

God did not snatch your loved one home, because he felt like it. He didn't give you cancer because he was having a bad day. We've got to heal this horrible image we've created of God and get on with the truth about this being.

God is a perfect balance of male and female energy, so just know that this perfect energy loves you un-conditionally. No questions asked.

It's gonna be a good year. I've already seen some of the shifting happening where we're shifting from taking care of corporations to taking care of people.

We need to become more people centered in order to shift the consciousness on the planet, so let's make it happen.

Till next time, God Bless,

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 1/17/2012

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

We Need to Pay Attention

2011-12-30T12:32:00.001-08:00

The other night in my advanced psychic class, I did a guided meditation and one of the messages that was repeated several times was to "pay close attention" to the signs from spirit guides and deceased loved ones for the next few days.

She (Lilli, the angel that works with me) also said that we will go to bed on the 31st in one energy and wake up on the 1st in a brand new energy. I felt the energy as she was talking about it and it felt light and easier.

There's so much speculation about 2012 and I'm still getting emails from people wondering if the world is coming to an end. It's not physically coming to an end, but there continues to be more and more energy shifts where institutions have to become more people centered and less money centered. Many are resisting that and they will fight the hardest to hold on to their old way of doing business. If we can NOT get involved in the craziness of it and watch how these big corporations and the people that run them, work through their fears and finally surrender to a new way of doing business and this includes politics, we'll be fine.

I would guess alot of people who are already living in fear will get even more fearful when all of this is happening but I want you to remember that YOU DO HAVE A CHOICE as to how you are going to go through the changes that we will continue to see on this planet. You can go through it remembering that in spite of how things look, everything is in divine order (Lilli said there is divine order in the chaos) or you can get caught up in all the fear that will be going on around you.

Can we all please keep reminding each other that we need this chaos in order to get to a new order of things. Our consciousness has to shift to being more people centered.

I've warned you before that my mind jumps around quickly so I'm changing subjects again. I had a very scary experience the other night after hearing Lilli say three times, "pay close attention." You know that expression that your life flashes before your eyes? I literally had that happen the other night.

I was driving down Lyndale avenue. I had the green light and was just about to turn left onto 54th and I heard a voice scream "look out." I looked to my left and a blue pick up was barreling through the red light. I slammed on my brakes so fast as did the lady in the lane next to me. It was like the girls driving that pick up had no sense of the red light or that other people were driving right in front of them. They just looked at me and this lady as we were both laying on our horns and kept on going.

It took me a long time to calm myself down. I missed her car by inches. She was flying through that intersection. I still get the creeps just thinking about it.

I wish I would have had the sense of mind to follow her and get her license plate no. When I looked at the woman in the car next to me, she just sat there looking like she was in shock. It all happened so fast.

People have been driving really crazy lately. I was at a stop light the other night with a bunch of other cars and this one car next to me didn't want to wait anymore, so even though traffic coming towards us had the right of way, he went right through the red light and the other people had to slam on their brakes. It was insane.

So I guess my final message of this Bog is PAY ATTENTION right now. Lilli said our guides and deceased loved ones are trying to get our attention during this period of time, so pay attention. Jot things down in your journal. Be aware of what's going on around you.

Stay safe tomorrow night. Be sure to listen to your inner voice when making your plans.

God Bless,

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 12/30/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

A Follow Up and More

2011-12-24T10:42:00.001-08:00

Well, haven't I become a blogger lately? (my publisher would say it's about time).

Some people have emailed or left Facebook messages to explain to me that they are not material minded people and I want to reassure you that that's not what the message was meant to say. It wasn't saying you can't have them or can't enjoy them. It was saying don't make your possessions the thing that defines you.

I just had an image of a person working on their house. It was their whole focus. All of their energy went into making their material possessions AMAZING. But they never thought about working on their soul's development. The most important work that we come here to do. Love, patience, kindness, understanding, forgiveness, always learning from our experiences. Playfulness, spontaneity, making amends if we hurt someone, living by the Golden Rule. Developing our character and becoming the person we want to be. Every experience in life is an opportunity for our soul to develop further. As we grow our reactions change and shift, we can see our growth. Change is what it's all about. Always changing and evolving.

So don't worry if you love your material possessions. Just don't let them define you. Work on the inside so that when your life is over and you're out of your body, you're not yelling "do over, do over, I want a do over." (you'll get a do over but it won't be for awhile).

On a brighter note, today is Christmas Eve day and I have that same giddy-ness I always have on this day. One of my best childhood memories of Christmas is driving to Gramma's along River Road in St. Paul, watching up in the sky for Rudolph. When I was a little girl, airplanes weren't in the skies like they are today, so every time we saw a red light, we were sure that was Rudolph and we would get so excited we could hardly stand it.

When we got home from Gramma's, if there was a brand new pair of pajama's on our bed, that meant that Santa had already stopped by once and would be coming back soon, so we needed to hurry up and eat the oyster stew with the little crackers, down about 10-12 cookies and head to bed. The excitement would be overwhelming. With all the sugar we always consumed, I'm surprised we ever got to sleep but we did. It always felt so special to put on pajama's that Santa left for us.

Santa doesn't leave me new pajama's anymore but I know he's out there. He comes in many forms and I'm so glad he's still alive in my child-like heart.

I know many of you are really struggling right now. Life can be a bitch. (yup, I said bitch). It can and it will be. That's a given. So buckle up and remember that if you tackle life one hour at a time, one day at a time, you can do it. Forget about the future. Forget about worrying about all the tomorrow's that aren't here.

Forget about all the negative things for today and tomorrow and just be in the moment. And remember that the birth of Jesus is what it's really all about. He's our older brother. He came here to show us our potential. So be excited for yourself. You have amazing potential and that's what's important. A brand new year is on the way for you to discover more cool things about yourself.

I'm excited for all of us. I love new beginnings. I wish you new pajama's on your bed tonight and the sun shining in your life.

Now tell me your favorite Christmas memory.

till next time...................

God Bless

A Christmas Meditation

2011-12-17T10:46:00.001-08:00

I need to share this experience with people. I haven't blogged lately because my thoughts are so random and all over the place.

It's a week from Christmas and I've had no desire to shop or think of presents. I gave up credit cards back in 1985 so Christmas is always a little testy when it comes to pay the bills or buy presents kind of thing. The weather has been ugly. Gray skies and brown grass and that doesn't help this old Minnesotan to get into the Christmas spirit.

Before I share the meditation experience with you, I want to give you a bit more info on what's been going on lately. I've been getting requests for healings again and that hasn't happened for awhile. I stopped seeing clients for healing work a few years ago and have been concentrating more on teaching people about their psi abilities. Whenever I think about doing healing work, I always think of Jesus because he was my main teacher. His spirit came into my office many times over the years and he would teach me healing. Those were always very special times and I've missed that.

Last night I did a guided meditation that's open to the public and it still brings tears to my eyes this morning. Two or three times yesterday I asked God to please speak through me for the meditation because I didn't want my scroogy energy to come through. I wanted it to be very special for people because it's the end of the year and the last public meditation I'm going to do until Spring.

Usuallyl during the day of a meditation I get some kind of vision of where the meditation is going to go, but yesterday I had no clue where it was going. I lit the candle up at the podium, turned on the music, closed my eyes and said silently, okay God, we're here. please speak through me.

I did the usual opening of having everyone clear their body, mind and soul and channeled the importance of healing our soul. That sometimes the sadness we feel this time of year is memory's in our soul of past life holidays.

And then into the sanctuary came the spirit of Jesus. He walked down the center aisle of the church and I almost started to cry. He always walks with such a calm confidence and it's not only calming to everyone around him, but you can feel this powerful energy that he has gotten so comfortable being.

He turned to the crowd of people and raised up his arms and said that he wanted to send healing to his brothers and sisters and when he raised his arms up, I saw this beautiful glimmery gold energy coming out of his hands, his whole being and it literally went to everyone in the room. It wrapped around them like a big snuggly blanket. I watched him look at each person individually and send healing to parts of their body, mind and soul that needed it. It was sooooooooooo powerful and I was praying that they each could feel the experience that was happening to them.

Then he talked about the electrical year that we're coming into. That we've been talking about making changes for years with little action to back it up and that now in 2012, the changes we've been praying for are actually going to take place. That the energy coming in 2012 will support those things that we have wanted in our lives. He told everyone to visualize little clay pots filled with dirt and to plant the seeds of their desires inside. He also told them to plant seeds of relationships they want to heal, of their finances to heal, of health challenges to heal. Of negative beliefs they carry about themselves. He told them to send the golden healing energy to people in their lives that were a challenge. To heal the challenges so that they could move forward. He told them to send healing to everyone that they carry on their shoulders. The people in their life that they worry about. Just before he finished he told them to send healing to their loved ones on the other side because they might need healing also.

Then he walked over to everyone of them and ran his fingers across their foreheads. He said to let go of the worry they carry. That it was doing no good.

When he finished the healing session, he said that now comes the part where they TRUST that their prayers will be answered and that God truly is working in their lives. At that point, it took everything in me not to just sit down and cry with the other people that were crying.

His words were so tender. So gentle and so powerful.

Everytime I've seen this man he is nothing but pure unconditional love and it's an amazing gift in itself just to be in his presence.

When I got home there were very nice emails from people who attended the meditation thanking me for such an incredible experience and all I can say today is that I'm just as thankful as they are.

I woke up happy, optimistic, looking forward to the new year and yes, even looking forward to Christmas.

One of the women asked me afterwards what Jesus looks like. There was an artist named Bette Myers that had a near death experience and saw Jesus. He told her it wasn't her time to go over to the other side so she came back and painted his portrait. You can google Bette Myers and see her rendition of him. It's the closest likeness I've ever seen of him.

If you're having a tough time right now, sit down, close your eyes and visualize Jesus surrounding you in golden healing light all over your body as if he's wrapping you in a big blanket of golden healing energy. Do the things suggested in this blog and see if you don't feel better.

Talk to you in the new year if not before.

God Bless,

Echo

ps. When I came out of the grocery store last night, it was snowing.
Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 12/17/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

A New Career?

2011-11-24T14:19:00.001-08:00

Thanksgiving Day, 2011

I'm busy in the kitchen today making 50 dozen ginger cookies to sell at the Cottage Christmas sale tomorrow. They are always a big hit. A couple of years ago after making a bunch to hand out to customers, many of them asked me to make them available to buy, so that's how it all got started. It's always so relaxing for me to bake anyway, so it's a very nice day here at my house.

Baking always gets me thinking and I've been thinking alot about my career lately.

I've always loved teaching psychic development to people. It's fun to see them have those "aha" moments when they understand themselves better. I don't necessarily teach the classes so that people can become professional psychics as much as it's important to me that people realize these abilities are one of the tools we were given to get help us get through life.. Religion sure screwed up on that one. Instead of teaching us about our spiritual gifts, they either dodge the whole subject or they've made the gift of prophecy a bad thing and that's very unfortunate.

But that's not what's on my mind today. Ever since that new energy arrived on the 14th, I feel like I see my life and ambitions much clearer than ever before. I'm feeling really excited about the future as I shift my work a bit.

My main desire in my work is to help us understand ourselves better and help people connect with God in a real sense. And the way to do that is to teach people about their soul. Every book I've written is really about healing the soul one way or the other. Each one of them has been guided by spirit and as I think about each one of them I see the bigger picture, rather than just pieces to the puzzle.

In January I'm going to teach a 3 day workshop on The Soul's Perspective of Life, Death and Life After Death and I want to continue to make this my focus. In September when I had my 63rd birthday, it was a reminder that I'm in the age group that's dropping like flies right now, so I better do what I came here to do.

I'll still teach psi development and living by intuition. Those are two very important tools that we were given to help us get through life and I want people to have full access to those tools. But I also want to do what I can to help people understand themselves in a much greater way so that they feel a that deep sense of accomplishment when they leave the planet.

I'm not quite sure how this is all going to take shape. I would still like to open another wonderful spiritual center here in the Twin Cities where people can come from all over the planet and get what they need to help them on their path.

That's on hold right now while I finish this book about death and what happens when we die.

It feels really nice to be at peace like this. Feels like lots of new doors will open soon, not just for me but for alot of people. 2012 is going to be quite an exciting year. Lots of un-expected changes coming all over the globe but it will be for the highest good of the planet.

Better get back to the cookies. I've still got 33 dozen to go.

Happy Thanksgiving.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 11/24/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

well, it's finally arrived.

2011-11-11T12:06:00.001-08:00

11-11-11.

What a week it's been. People have been talking about this date for quite some time and I had no idea it was going to feel this powerful.

It was an ass kicker to get here though. Wow.

Many of you have sent emails wondering why I haven't blogged lately and my good friend John, down in Tucson, sent one of his sweet nudging post cards and told me it was time to blog but I haven't been able to do it.

These last few months feel like they've been about clearing up unfinished business and I cleaned stuff up I had completely forgotten about. People came into my life I haven't seen in years. Deep issues that were buried so far down I thought they didn't exist anymore, but to my surprise, they popped their ugly heads up and I knew it was time to heal them.

I've had pounding migraines, my memory has been so awful I thought I had the beginnings of dementia. I slipped back into depression for awhile but fortunately didn't stay there long. It's been a tough year to say the least, but I can look back it now that the energy has shifted and can see reasons for all of it.

The energy shift this week has brought nothing negative at all. Quite the contrary. I feel about as clear as I've ever felt. I'm optimistic about the future. I know that 2012 is going to continue to be an ass kicker for many people, systems and institutions but it's all for the good. The old ways have to break down in order to create a better order of life here on this planet. We are going to see incredible changes everywhere in the new year and for many, they will be welcome changes. For people who are hanging on really tight to the old ways, you are going to be challenged on daily basis.

The Universe has been very good about showing me my strengths and where I need to go with my career. It's time to be a full time teacher. The desire to do readings has completely left me. I need to teach people how to do this for themselves.

There are celebrations all over the planet today about this new energy that has arrived and I feel so excited about it. I talked to someone about it yesterday who got that glassy-eyed look like "Echo, I have no idea what you're talking about" and I'm learning to discern between the people that can feel this shift and the people that can't. There's no judgement with it. Just a knowing of who can feel it and who can't and I feel bad for the folks that are not feeling anything.

Grounding is definitely the name of the game right now. We need to continue to ground ourselves. Get out in the yard and do whatever you can to feel your connection to the earth.

New beginnings everywhere. So don't be surprised if you find yourself wanting to do the holidays differently. Or if your reaction to all the political stuff changes. Or your health improves. Of a job comes along that you've been wanting.

And don't be surprised if you feel a tremendous amount of love for the people in your life. It's all a part of it.

I'm going to play outside today. Rake the leaves (again) and make a fire in the fire pit. Talk to God and enjoy this gorgeous day.

To all of you that got married today, congratulations on a brand new beginning in your relationship. To all of you born today either through physical birth or death, congratulations. You picked a great day to do this.

I'll try to be more regular with these blogs. Now that that heavy, confusing, doubtful energy has moved on, I feel so much more connected to everyone than I was feeling. It's been tough to say the least........................

and now, so much better.

Love,

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 11/11/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

An Intuitive Airline?

2011-09-18T11:26:00.000-07:00

Last night I heard a commercial for Delta Airlines. I was so taken back by the first sentence I don't remember what the rest of it said.

Delta is a new intuitive airline. WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES THAT MEAN?

Intuitive has become a trigger word for alot of things lately but do these folks even know what they're talking about? If this is true, that Delta is the new intuitive airline, that means that the board members sit and meditate together and make their decisions based on the words from within. Their decisions have nothing to do with the economy, the market, their own personal gain. It's all about what the Universe (God) feels would be best for everyone. Wow. If that's really true, sign me up.

Can you imagine what the world would be like if all companies, big and small, did that?

It's interesting to me that as we move closer to 2012, people are talking more about intuition. I'm hearing it on tv alot more than just Gibbs and his famous gut (NCIS for those of you who don't know who Gibbs is). It's almost becoming the new "IN" thing to be. Let's hope that's really the case. Let's hope that Delta is really using their intuition when making their decisions and their prices. Let's hope that all corporations become intuitive, listening to the still small voice within and making their decisions based on divine guidance and intelligence.

That's the kind of world I want to live in.

Join the Intuition Movement: www.trustthevoicewithin.com.

Help us spread the word about what intuition really is.

Let's do everything we can to live by the still small voice within. 2012 is right around the corner. We're going to continue to see the old structures breaking down and let's all visualize a world where we are all guided by the same divine voice within. It's sounds like a huge task, but if we listen to the voice within as to how to make that happen, it WILL HAPPEN.

Yes, it might sound like I'm signing off from LaLa Land, but a girl can always hope.

Love to you alllllllllll...................

Echo
Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 9/18/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Resistance Anyone????

2011-08-28T13:54:00.001-07:00

Last Thursday night at the Meditation, the guides were very focused on releasing the hurt feelings, bad memories and just plain bad stuff from our past that we're still holding onto.

Over the years, many people have asked me if their loved one will understand how much they hurt them once they die. When they get over to the other side, will they "finally see the light" and feel bad for what they did.

The question in itself is a fair question. We've all been hurt by people who seem to not care if they caused us hurt.

But the problem with the question is that for anyone hoping that their deceased loved one finally sees the light means that they are still holding on to the pain and THAT IS A BAD THING for those of us still living.

That old negative stuff can easily and often does turn into physical problems for us.

I could easily get side tracked here with all the things that old resentments, hurt, anger and hate can do to us, but I want to get back to the message from the meditation. (If you are someone who struggles with your past and feeling stuck, I would recommend getting my book '"My Big Book of Healing. It will help alot).

The guides were saying that right now is a brand new beginning for many many people and that it's important not to keep carrying that old stuff around.

There's such an interesting feeling in the air and it definitely feels like a new time. Maybe it's just Fall and the whole going back to school thing, but it feels bigger than that.

The Universe is really trying to move to the next level with consciousness (how we think about things as a whole) and it feels like the old way of running this planet is holding on for dear life. In some of the readings I've done lately, I see the word resistance over and over. People are so resistant to change and learning new things and I'm certainly guilty of that. My nephew Blake always gives me a hard time when he sees my cell phone because it's so old and there's nothing smart about it. It rings when someone calls me and keeps phone numbers for me.

My webmaster makes simple little suggestions about maybe wanting to get into the 21st century when it comes to my cell phone, but like that old lady on the tv commercial says. "they scare me."

Something that the guides always say is that as long as we're alive, we have an opportunity to change and grow and become better people. Stretch our potential and see what we're capable of and I really want to do that. I don't want to be resistant.

On Friday, the 26th of August, I launched an Intuition Movement (www.trustthevoicewithin.com) with the tremendous help of Leigh Hopkins. It's been a couple months in the making and I feel so excited about it. I hope by the time I take my last breath that millions of people will understand what their intuition is and will learn how to "hear" it and live by it. It is by far the coolest thing we've got going for us.

The next idea it's been pushing me to do is start another Center here in the Twin Cities. I want it to be a beautiful place where people can come and grow spiritually. Classes, Healers and reputable Psychics available for sessions, a retail store and a great place to congregate. I can feel it's on the way. I think the hold up has been mercury retrograde but that moved forward on the 26th, so people will start returning phone calls and making things happen.

I guess my question to anyone reading this is simply is there anything that you are resisting that is keeping you from moving forward in your own life?

thanks for visiting today. Be sure to check out www.trustthevoicewithin.com.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 8/28/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Another Mish Mash of Thoughts

2011-08-16T23:43:00.000-07:00

Oh my gosh, It's been so long since I blogged. The summer has pretty much whizzed by and I can honestly say I don't mind it. It was too hot and humid up here in North Country for this girl. I'm so looking forward to the fall and believe it or not, even looking forward to winter.

I love wearing lots of layers of clothes and snuggling up with blankets. Last winter my cat Susie and I got into a routine of taking a short nap everyday around 4:00 and I miss those days.

My new book was just released. It's called The Little Book of True Ghost Stories. It's a great little book about the real life ghostbusting adventures of my brother Michael and myself. There's been so much going on lately that I haven't given it much attention.

I'm thinking about opening up another spiritual center here in the Twin Cities. I have such an inner yearning to create a bigger place than we had before on Grand Ave. Private offices for healers and other practitioners, great classes, a retail space. I really feel the need to create a wonderful spiritual community here in the Twin Cities. A place where people can come together to grow spiritually.

I've got my eye on a building in Richfield but need to be patient, which I don't feel like being. I WANT WHAT I WANT WHEN I WANT IT and that's just not how this is going to go. There's a couple of glitches with the building so I need to take my emotions out of it and let the pieces fall into place easily.

In the meantime, I've got a great group of people taking a psychic development class from me right now and I forgot how much I love to teach. I feel totally alive every Wednesday and I feel so grateful to be back at it. I wish the class would go on forever, but the good news is that I can start another one when this one's finished.

There is a possible tv show in the works that I'm pretty excited about. I'm not going to say anything more about that until contracts are signed and it intuitively feels like it's moving forward.

And speaking of intuition, Leigh Hopkins made a beautiful website for the Intuition Movement. We are going to let people know about it when mercury goes forward on the 25th of August. We're just putting the finishing touches on all of it. But it's exciting and I have high hopes that we can get as many people aware of their intuition as possible.

I saw the movie The Help yesterday. Very good and very intense. Who the hell ever decided that black people are inferior to white people? Who, when and where did that bullshit get started? I know I shouldn't be swearing, but that's what the movie does to you. It makes you sick to your stomach to think that it was ever tolerated.

I can't even imagine what that person's karma must be like. I sure wish religion taught about karma. Boy oh boy, would the world be a different place.

This is such a mish mash of thoughts and I'm thinking maybe I should just push the delete button and go to bed.............but I don't want to let more time go by without being in touch.

If you have any cool idea's about how to promote this new book without costing me an arm and a leg which you pass them my way? That would be really cool.

One idea we came up with for the Intuition Movement is to make a "starter kit" for people to purchase if they want to start an intuition group in their area. A T-shirt that says Intuition on it, a meditation CD and a copy of my book A Still Small Voice. I have to figure out the cost of each item and am hoping to offer it to people for less than $20.00.

I'm heading to bed. Remember that if you have a healing need, you can email your name, the city you live in and the physical/mental/emotional problem you're having to healinghelper@aol.com and the coordinator will assign a healer to send you healing every day for 14 days. And it's FREE.

Heading off to lala land. I hope all is well in your world and that you're taking it one day at a time.

Sincerely,

Echo B.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 8/17/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Lots of thoughts today

2011-06-20T14:47:00.001-07:00

Before you read this blog, I want to warn you that I have a Gemini rising, which means that my thoughts are all over the place and rarely stay on one subject for too long which explains today's Blog.

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I had an interesting awareness this afternoon. A client emailed and gave me the names of several doctors she is thinking of seeing. She asked me to "tune in" to which one would best suit her needs and as I was reading her email, my inner voice had a strong reaction. I sat back and asked my inner voice what was up and I heard the word "crippled." Then the voice went on to say that if I answered that question for her rather than guiding her to ask her intuition, I would be crippling her.

It's that same thought about teaching people how to fish rather than giving them a fish. Doing psychic readings for people is definitely walking a fine line between helping or crippling them. Most of my clients are people who want help understanding their lives and their life path, but occasionally I get a person who wants me to make all their decisions for them so that they don't have to do it themselves and that's just not healthy.

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I had an interesting thought yesterday. I was reading the posts of the students in my on line psychic development class and was thinking about the various struggles people go through in developing their spiritual gifts.

I had a thought about how we physical beings carry the characteristics of our physical parents and we're not un-comfortable saying, I inherited that from my mom or my dad or my grandma did that and that's where I got that ability. We are comfortable talking in physical terms, but are uncomfortable when we talk in spiritual terms such as claiming we inherited our gifts (like the gift of prophecy) from our soul parents, God.

A dear friend of mine once told me that when I realize I have the capacity to heal myself, I will finally know my oneness with God and I've never forgotten that.

A couple of weeks ago I had quite an experience and have gone back and forth about whether or not to share it in a blog.

It was Friday night, June 3rd, about 10:00. I was sitting cutting out material to sew a patch quilt blanket and my right arm went numb. I didn't think anything of it but then I started to feel a bit odd. kind of creepy clammy. And then a pain hit the middle of chest so hard I thought I was going to pass out. I became very dis-oriented and kept grabbing my chest thinking that would make the pain stop. I called 911, sure that I was having a heart attack.

The paramedics and fire department arrived and we all thought something serious was going on................They gave me 4 baby aspirin right away. My blood pressure was very high (it's normally low) and I had a slight temperature.

The pain continued and I could barely breath. As I was just about to climb on the stretcher, the pain stopped. Absolutely STOPPED. But my body felt very strange and they insisted I go to the hospital anyway.

What was most memorable about the night was that I felt stoned out of my mind for almost three hours while I laid in the hospital. My body felt numb from the neck down and I just laid there, hardly able to speak. I asked them if they had given me any medication that would cause this totally numbed out feeling and other than the baby aspirin, they hadn't given me anything.

I remember my jaw hurting real bad and I'd get twitches of pain in my chest, but nothing else physically happened. They were concerned that I may have had another stroke because I was very confused about what day it was, where I was, what was happening, but when the results came back from the chest and brain ct scan, nothing showed up.

The reason I mention this whole experience is because I'm wondering if, while I was so out of it for those three hours, if I wasn't receiving healing and that's why everything seemed fine when they did the ct scans a couple hours after all the feeling came back into my body.

My body was literally numb from the neck down. I laid on that gurney, aware of my head and I'd look down at my body that had no feeling and wonder what was happening, but there was such a calmness with the experience, I didn't really care one way or the other.

So here's my point in all of this. If my physical mother had been there, she would have tried to comfort and heal the situation. But what about the thought that my spiritual mother/father God was there, comforting and healing me and that's why all the tests came back fine. That's a powerful thought to realize we can ask for and believe that our spiritual parent is healing us. Maybe my physical body malfunctioned and my spiritual parent stepped in and fixed the problem.

I can think of other times I've been in the hospital when I didn't get immediate healing but I also learned alot from those experiences and they were valuable to my growth.

Because I'm working on a book about Death right now, I've been thinking about it pretty much non stop lately.Death and life and "what's it all about Alfie" kind of stuff and the thought occurred to me that it's about recognizing the attributes we have of God, our soul parent. Making that our goal rather than just focusing on what we have going on physically..

Someone emailed me this morning and asked if it's possible to learn everything in one lifetime because the belief of reincarnation goes against her Christian beliefs.

I personally can't imagine learning it all in one lifetime. I remember my psychic teacher telling us that the end result of reincarnation was to sit at the right hand of God, knowing our oneness with Him/Her. Having the same wisdom, gentleness, intelligence, kindness, understanding, sensitivity, patience and love that God has, without judgements.

My hat is off to her if she can accomplish all of that in one lifetime, but I think it's impossible.

So I guess after all that, the question I pose in this Blog is, do you ever look at the spiritual attributes you've inherited from God? Do you relate to yourself more as a physical being or a spiritual being? And if you do relate more as a spiritual being than a physical being, do you ever take an inventory of the spiritual parts you inherited?

Interesting questions.

I hope this all made sense. I know what I wanted to say but am not sure I said it very well.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 6/20/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Intuition and Tornadoes

2011-05-29T12:27:00.001-07:00

Many years ago I was renting a house right in the heart of city, half a mile from one of our lakes. It was a normal day. Nothing seemed different except that there was an energy in the air. An odd, nameless sort of energy.

I had a strong desire to go visit my mom so I made plans with a friend to go see her together. About half an hour before we left, I started to get a really strong desire in my whole body to go visit sooner than planned. I started to feel a slight whirling energy in my body which I couldn't identify. I thought maybe I had drank too much caffeine. That seemed to be the only explanation for this "gotta move, gotta get out of here" kind of energy.

As soon as my girlfriend arrived, I told her we needed to go right away. I wondered if maybe my mom was sick and that was the reason for a prompt departure. I wasn't sure. I just knew everything in my body was telling me to leave.

When we went outside, I had the strongest knowing that my girlfriend should move her car even though it made no sense. There were no weather warnings out. Everything seemed unusually calm in the atmosphere and yet, it felt like beyond our atmosphere, there was something cooking.

My friend moved her car and we headed over to mom's. The further away from my house I drove, the calmer I felt, although it didn't last very long. My inner voice kept saying "just keep going."

When we got to my mom's, the whirling sensation in my body got even stronger. I felt like a caged lion. I wanted to get away from the energy but I didn't know how.

Shortly after arriving, the siren's came on which we all knew meant tornado warnings.

My mind reassured me that tornadoes never go into the city, or at least that's what my dad told me when I was little so I figured it was just another warning that would turn out to be nothing.

The whirling in my body got so strong, I started pacing back and forth. We turned on the radio (this was before the weather channel existed) and it said that a tornado had touched down at Lake Harriet, the lake I lived less than a mile from.

My body started to calm down and I started to feel somewhat normal but I had a knowing that something bad had happened. I called my landlady and she told me not to come home. That the tornado had brushed by the house and the neighborhood was a mess.

We waited for about an hour, but I had to go home and see what damage had been done. My girlfriend was also quite concerned about her car. There were police cars all over the place and they would only let me into the area if I showed I.D. that I lived there.

We came around the corner and there in the one and only spot on the street where there wasn't a downed tree sat my friends car, totally un-harmed.

I'm sharing this with you today because it was my intuition that totally guided me through that experience and kept me safe.

Last week when that tornado hit N.E. Mpls, I had that same knowingness inside all day even though there were several periods throughout the day when the sun was shining and by all appearances, things seemed fine.

I listened to my inner voice all day for any indication that I or my house was in danger and I never got the message to leave or head for the basement. Not even when the sirens came on.

I did a reading for someone this week whose 8 yr. old daughter is suffering from anxiety right now and when I asked the guides if they could shed light on it, they said that she was fearful of tornadoes because of everything she's been seeing on the news and that her mom needed to teach her to listen to that still small voice within to know when she's in danger.

And that's what brings me to the point of all of this. WE ARE GIVEN what we need. We get the messages internally to get out of harms way, and we need to LISTEN, AND TRUST IT TO DO WHAT WE FEEL GUIDED TO DO.

Back in March when I was thinking about the weather this spring and summer, I saw major tornadoes ripping their way through places they hadn't been before and it feels like it's only just begun. About an hour ago, I turned on the weather channel to see what's predicted for today and they said from Minnesota down to Nebraska and all the area's going East, there is something called a Tornado Cluster that may be happening today and especially tomorrow.

I'm not writing this to scare you. I'm writing this to let you know that if you will tune into the guidance within, you will be safe. You will be guided. And if you get the guidance to leave NOW or head for a safe place, which your intuition will also guide you to, you need to listen.

Life is full of surprises lately and they seem to coming at us fast and furious.

Please get in the habit of checking in with your intuition on a daily basis and asking it for guidance throughout the day.

And one more helpful piece here is that intuition does not have emotion. If you are feeling fearful, that is NOT intuition. It is fear.

Ask the Universe to help you release that fear so that you can hear what the still small voice is saying.

I hope you have a safe and fun memorial day week end.

I'm heading to the garden store...................

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 5/29/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

A Brain State Update

2011-05-06T09:46:00.001-07:00

A few people have emailed asking if the brain changes I went through at Neuro Strength last November have continued to improve my brain so I thought I'd write an update.

My new brain continues to surprise me. I would say the two biggest changes I've noticed in my life is that I no longer think inside the box. I can see now how stuck I was in thinking the same things over and over. How I did business the same way all the time. I never thought outside the box. I was stuck.

And my self confidence kept me in that box also. It was like no matter what I did, I kept going back to the same old ways of living my life hoping for better results.

I can say without a shadow of doubt that the work on my brain gave me a whole new outlook on life and a ton more confidence that I've ever had. I'm much bolder than I was before. Not afraid to take risks. I'm also more spontaneous which for the most part has been pretty positive.

The only downer about this experience is that I can now see how people keep themselves in little boxes and are afraid to think outside that box. Are stuck in old patterns they aren't even aware of. I see so many depressed people who just keep plugging along, trying not to think suicidal thoughts and trying to find the right pill to take the pain away. I've been there. I know how God awful depression is. I lived with it for years.

Getting my brain more balanced has made a huge difference in that department.

I can honestly say before I had my brain balanced, I was not living the life I wanted to live. In the last six months, I am living that life. I no longer box myself into situations with self doubt, low self-worth and depression.

Can you tell I highly recommend it?

Learn more about it yourself. Here in the Twin Cities, go to www.NeuroStrength.com. The two angels that work there, Alina and Paulette, are very cool women.

And for those of you outside of Minnesota, google Brain State Technologies. Read about it. Learn about Lee Gerdes, the founder of Brain State Technologies.

They have offices all over the world, so check it out.

If you're feeling stuck, please at least go in and getting evaluated. They often run specials for $49.00 for the first visit.

Thanks for visiting today.

Love,

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 5/6/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

We Need to be Gentle with Ourselves

2011-05-02T23:14:00.001-07:00

Tonight I was reflecting back on the day and wondering why I felt such a strong desire to be quiet and away from people and at the same time, felt the need to be in contact with everyone and talk, talk, talk.

I had an interesting awareness that hadn't occurred to me. Three billion people tuned in to the royal wedding on Friday and over a million people were in attendance on the grounds. Our hearts were full of love for this adorable young couple, a real life prince and princess. Most of us stayed in the glow of that beautiful wedding throughout the week-end and on Sunday night we were informed that a man who most people despised for orchestrating the death of thousands of people, had finally been killed by the United States.

Talk about a range of emotions. No wonder most of us felt drained and out of sorts today. We just went through an entire gambit of emotions this week end.

I have nothing to say about it other than that I think we need to be gentle with ourselves right now. Our hearts were still open from the wedding when we got the news about bin Laden and it can take a while for us to process that kind of emotional hit. Sleep and exercise are the two thoughts that come to me as I type this up. We need a balance of both of those things right now.

I'm going to head to bed but I wanted to share those thoughts with you in case you're wondering why you're feeling off center. We'll get back on track. We always do. But we sure have been through one heck of a roller coaster ride.

Take good care of yourself.

Echo
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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 5/3/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

What a Day

2011-05-02T12:21:00.001-07:00

Wow. What a feeling in the air today. It's very un-settling.

There's a mixture of jubilation and hatred all mixed together.

I feel like I want to crawl in a hole for about a week until all the feelings settle and people get back to normal.

I'm speaking of course, about the death of Bin Laden.

Whenever someone dies, I always check in on their soul to see how they're coping with the loss of their body and life on earth and even though I had no desire to see how he was doing, that door opened last night, and I saw his soul very confused about what was happening. It happened very fast and when I saw him on his way up..............he looked liked someone in an elevator with no idea where they were going. My sense today is that he's still in shock about what's happened.

One of my friends on Facebook said "the wicked witch is dead" and all I could hear in my head is retaliation. There are so many angry groups meeting today to talk about retaliation and I hate the feeling of it.

For all of you that are sensitive to this energy, please put on a mirror necklace or carry one in your pocket, facing outwards, so that the energy gets deflected away from you.

And for the next several months, please check in with your intuition when planning a trip. I'm not the type of person that relishes giving out bad or scary news, but this is serious business and maybe it feels so serious today because it just happened. Maybe it will all calm down, but I doubt that it will.

As you know I've been feeling compelled to get on a bandwagon and start urging everyone to listen to the guidance within for anything and everything going on in their lives.

Living with the threat of terrorism is one more reason why we need to learn to trust and rely on that still small voice within.

We don't need to be victims to people that hate us and want to destroy our lives. We will always be warned if we are in a dangerous situation........but we have to trust it and follow the guidance within.

I think about all the people that worked in the Twin Towers that were told on the morning of 9/11 not to go to work that day and how many of those people did and didn't listen. I remember asking one of the guides about the people that heard not to go to work, but went to anyway, and the guide simply said "it's a tough way to learn to trust the voice within."

Lets send lots of white light out into the Universe. Send lots of healing energy and prayers of protection to all the people on this planet cause what we're sending out is exactly what's coming back at us.

God Bless,

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 5/2/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Thinking about the Intuition Movement

2011-04-30T13:13:00.001-07:00

It's a rainy day here in the Twin Cities but it's still nice that's it's Saturday and there's no pressure to be anywhere.

I'm such a homebody.

It's fun to sit and think about this Intuitive Movement idea that came to me the other day via my intuition.

I'm not going to call it What Would Gibbs Say because I don't want to fight with CBS over "intellectual property" so my webmaster Chris LaFontaine)and I brainstormed and came up with Intuition: Trust the Voice Within.

He created a website called www.trustthevoicewithin.com which we haven't designed yet, but we have the name.

I went to a place called Cafe Press and made some t-shirts which was really fun.

And my inner voice gave me a cool idea as a way to make money for t-shirts and advertising.

Over the winter, I hand stitched 5 fleece quilts. They turned out really cool and at the time I was making them, I had no idea what I was going to do with them.

My inner voice suggested I raffle them off at events I have coming up. They are really cool. I sewed a colorful fleece heart on each square and they are toasty warm.

I'm going to keep this all very simple and yet powerful enough to get the word out about living by our inner voice.

Intuition is the voice of our higher self. Divine guidance. I think about what the world would be like if we were all listening to our internal divine guidance and it boggles my mind.

Soldiers would know when they are walking into danger.

We would intuitively know if bad weather was coming.

We would chose our wedding date on a perfect weather day.

We would intuitively know timing and make the right decisions.

We would teach our children to listen to their inner voice and therefore be safe.

I could go on and on and I plan on doing that in the coming days and weeks ahead.

If we could get people to calm down long enough to listen to the voice within, think of how different things would be.

If you are someone who wants to live this way, but struggles with knowing how to do it, get a copy of my book A Still Small Voice and read it two or three times. You can get used copies on Amazon.com.

Alot of cool people emailed me and said they want to be a part of this movement, so now I just need to listen for the next step. Get the website up and running and then.............................

not sure yet.

Love,

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 4/30/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Want to start a movement...........

2011-04-27T12:35:00.001-07:00

and I need your help.

I saw the movie I AM yesterday and it was worth seeing. I loved the part about the probes on the yogurt. If for no other reason, you need to see it for that. Talk about validation that our energy does affect others. I was in awe that they were able to measure that.

The movie touched on intuition but didn't make it a significant part of the movie so I talked to God about this last night and the idea of an intuition movement came to me today. Getting the word out all over the planet to learn to listen to, trust and live by intuition.

That inner voice we all have is divine intelligence within each one of us. The movie stresses that we are all one and I want to take it to the next step and bring the message to people that not only are we all connected to each other, nature and the animal kingdom, but that divine intelligence within each of us is connected also.

It's perhaps one of the most important discoveries we will ever make about ourselves and each other.

I was thinking of clever little names we could call the movement and the words "What would Gibbs Do" came to me. NCIS is one of the top 10 shows in the country and anyone that watches it knows that Gibbs (Mark Harmon) always goes by his gut, which of course is always right.

I've noticed other tv shows are picking up on the whole "ask your gut" idea which I think is wonderful. TV is very powerful and can get any idea out there that they want...............

so maybe we should call the movement "What Would Gibbs Do?" If nothing else, it will get people's attention.

For those of you who might not know about intuition or aren't sure what it is or what it can do, I wrote a book a few years ago called A Still Small Voice. (hmmm. Another clever name for the movement) I strongly suggest getting a copy and reading it.

It's a powerful little book that helps you understand what it is and how to live by it.

We're heading into 2012 and we need to be plugged into our source and listening for guidance.

And there's no better way to know what God is saying to us.

Are you in? Can we make this happen?

I can see the T-shirts now. What Would Gibbs Say? and then underneath in small letters Trust your Gut.

Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 4/27/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Gone to the theatre lately?

2011-04-03T14:20:00.001-07:00

I had an interesting thought today as I was baking some potato chip cookies.

I have a good friend whose going through a tough time because of life challenges that her son and grandchild are going through right now.

So many people are struggling with life right now. I wonder if it would be fair to say we seem to be going through an epidemic of challenges on the planet.

I thought about all of the emails I get daily from people searching for answers which lead me to thinking about why people turn to psychics when life starts falling apart and the conclusion that came to me is that we all want to know how it's going to turn out. We want reassurances that life is not going to change forever and that we're going to be okay in the end.

I was thinking about my friend and what she can do for her son as he goes through his struggles and a picture came to me of watching a play. Sitting in an audience watching the characters act out their parts. And I saw a picture of the Director, sitting in his chair, intently watching the play.

I heard my inner voice say that it is important for each person to act out their own role and not let others step in and act it out for them. They signed up for the part, so let them carry it out. That life's lessons are character builders and we all need them to grow.

It also said that the director is ALWAYS nearby, ready to give any guidance the actor needs and that we, the audience need to sit back, observe the play and ask the Director to let us know IF and WHEN our part comes up.

It's hard for all of us to know what our role is when we are watching the people in our life suffer. Some of us jump in and try to fix it so that our loved one doesn't have to hurt, and others avoid the whole subject so that they don't have to get involved.

Most of us fall somewhere in the middle of those two categories, wondering what we're supposed to do.

I asked my inner voice what I should tell my friend and I heard the words tell your friend to watch her son's life un-fold (like a play) knowing that his soul chose to have these experiences and tell her to ask the Director to let her know when it's time for her to step in and what is the best thing to do when she does.

I thought I'd share this with you today. It seems so simple to let others have their life challenges and grow through them but it sure isn't easy to do it.

It is reassuring to know that the Director is always nearby, isn't it?

I hope you're having a nice mellow Sunday. The snow is melting here in the Twin Cities and it's in the 50's. The chipmunks are running around which is a great sign that spring is here.

Till next time........................
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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 4/3/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

The Chaos

2011-03-22T13:23:00.001-07:00

For a couple of weeks, there was a commercial on tv that simply said Chaos is coming and it was a little alarming to see a message like that on tv.

It turns out that it was simply an ad for a new tv show called Chaos, but I found it to be quite synchronistic with the state of world right now.

As I do every night before turning out the lights, I sat on the side of my bed talking to God about the day and about everything going on in the world. I told him/her that it was easy to see why people think the world is coming to an end because there's so much scary stuff going on and once again, into my head came the words, "the old ways need to break down in order to create a new world" and I thought about Egypt and Libya.

My thought was does it have to be war? Do they have to shoot and kill each other and the thought that came in is that this is the only way they know how to resolve these issues. Peace talks don't work when people are determined to come from their ego and have their way be the only way. They will learn the hard way to surrender that ego and look at each situation from a higher perspective."

I wonder how many lifetimes that's going to take. You'd think by now that we would know bettter than to choose war as a solution, but ego is a strong motivator to win an argument.

What bothers me the most is all the people living in fear and with Uranus in Aries, that fear will be around for awhile. If you'd like to know more about that, my astrologer friend Nancy J. wrote a great piece on it and here's the link: http://www.vivainstitute.com/2011/03/introducing-astrologer-nancy-j/

In a couple of weeks, I'm going down to North Carolina for a weekend to talk to a group of young people about the soul's journey and living by our inner voice. I wish I could get the message out to all the young people about that divine voice within them. It's the absolute best tool we have for getting through our life with as little fear as possible and receiving the daily guidance that we need.

As far as the chaos, it'll be around for awhile. We are in the process of breaking down the systems that no longer work in the kind of world we want and some of the systems are doing everything they can to hold on to the old ways. Look at the lessons coming out of Japan.

A few months ago I did a reading for a lady who was going through a very tough time. The guides told her to go to a very tall hotel and look out the window. Relax, get extra sleep, and look at life from a different perspective.

When I did a follow up reading for her the other day, she told me she never went to the hotel and when we were done, II was thinking about the signifigance of the hotel and if it made a diffference in the way things turned out for her.

Into my head came the words "it was an invitation to have her look at life through God's eyes and not the limited perspective of her own eyes." That the hotel was symbolic of looking at her chaos from a spiritual perspective and not a limited human perspective.

It's great advice for all of us. Look at all the chaos from a higher perspective.

And if you can't, ask the Universe to show you the purpose of all this chaos.

and pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze, listen to that still small voice inside.

It will always caution you when you are about to step into scary, chaotic, situations.

In my book My Big Book of Healing, one of the many solutions I've got listed for getting through life on this planet is to come up with a list of people and places that you feel safe being with or at. Then when you feel scared, close your eyes to shut out the world, take a few deep relaxing breaths and imagine yourself with that person or in that place. You'd be surprised how much lower your blood pressure gets when you can visualize that perfect setting with that safe person. It's really cool.

Remember, we're not victims. We're here to learn from every one of these doggone challenges. Life can truly suck but if we can look at it from that higher perspective, we become amazing people as a result.

Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 3/22/2011

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 3/22/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

It's been a while.................

2011-03-12T11:55:00.001-08:00

Wow. It's really been quite a while since I last blogged. There's been so much going on and I keep meaning to blog about it and then the next thing comes up.

I did a psychic development workshop at Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. in February that was a great success.

There were alot of really nice people that attended and we all seemed to be in sync with each other. Whenever I go out of town to teach, I like to go in a day or two early to chill out and this was great because it was 70 degrees in Virginia and my hotel room overlooked the ocean. I haven't seen the ground since November here in Minnesota, so the ocean, sand and palm trees were beyond cool to see.

I had alot of ah ha moments that week-end and once again I thank Neuro-Strength or Brain State Technologies (BST) for my new brain. My mind was clear, there was no effort finding words as I was teaching, my memory was good and I had the energy to handle the week end. The most important shift that I continue to notice since having all the brain sessions (see previous blogs) is the level of confidence I have now that I have NEVER HAD IN MY LIFE. It's so fascinating to me that all that confidence was just sitting in my brain waiting for all my transmitters to work together. (I have no idea if what I just said is true, but that's how I've simplified it).

I've become like my own best friend. I don't nag or do all that self critical talk that I used to. Yes, I still get upset about being overweight, but that's changing also. That new feeling of safety is still there and 98% of the time feel pretty grounded.

Yesterday when I was watching CNN about the Tsunami in Japan, I felt a calmness inside while feeling a deep sadness for all the people involved. I asked the Universe for guidance as to what I could do and I got the message to send out a message to people about grounding themselves so they wouldn't get lost in a sense of hopelessness. One woman wrote on Facebook, "is the world coming to an end next year" and I had the thought that alot of people are going to be wondering that and living in that fear.

I wish everyone on the planet would go to Brain State (Neuro-Strength here in Minnesota) and get their brains balanced because we are going to be seeing alot of these kind of earth changes in 2011 and 2012 as well as other changes that affect our world and the way we do business and live our lives.

I'm going to digress here for a moment and share some thoughts/questions I'm having about the soul's journey, karma and the brain. Because it was my inner voice that guided me so strongly to do B.S.T. I've thought alot about the healing journey of the soul and what the brain imbalances have to do with the soul's recovery from lifetime patterns.

I remember several years ago being a labor coach for a friend of mine. We were in the delivery room, waiting for the baby to be born, and over in the corner of the room was the soul, waiting for his body to be born. He was standing there with 2 spirit guides and 9 suitcases. I asked him what the suitcases were for and he said that they were all the issues he was bringing with him into this lifetime to get healed!! When his body was born, I saw him put those suitcases into his body and then he entered it.

I've been thinking about that in terms of the imbalances in our brain and how they set up patterns that we need to break in order to be truly healed. Our body is our vehicle for healing. We dump all kinds of emotional baggage in the body and most people think out of sight, out of mind, but the truth is that it's just under the surface still needing to be healed. After seeing all that I've seen at BST, I'm thinking that if we were to heal the brain of all the imbalances and negative life patterns, isn't that ultimately what we're here to do? Maybe our souls plant all of our suitcases in our brains that sets up those negative life patterns with the hopes that we leave this lifetime with the brain (negative life patterns) healed.

I'm not done trying to figure this all out. The analytical Virgo in me can't help herself. I love looking at everything from the soul's perspective so naturally I'm always trying to figure it out.

Wow. This is turning out to be quite a long blog. I guess I need to do these more often because there's still so much more to tell you.

But I'll leave it all for next time.

If you get a chance, check out the new Homepage on my website www.echobodine.com. My amazing webmaster, Chris LaFontaine, is working his magic, making it more colorful and fun. Plus, we've just created two new meditation cd's that we'll be telling you about soon. very soon.

Thanks for stopping by today.

I hope it's sunny and warm wherever you are.

And no, the world is not coming to an end next year. Just preparing for a new beginning.

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 3/12/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Alcoholism.............I hate it.

2011-01-27T21:47:00.001-08:00

Alcoholism................I hate it.

Charlie Sheen, the man with the golden voice and the movie

Country Strong are all weighing heavy on my mind tonight.

I heard yesterday that Ted Williams, the homeless man with the golden voice left treatment and is out in L.A. doing tv spots. I'm not sure of the validity of the tv spots but I would imagine alot of media people are encouraging him to take advantage of all the opportunities that are coming his way right now and go to treatment later. That's how insane it gets. Money comes first, sanity comes second.

He doesn't necessarily have to go through treatment to stay sober. If he's got himself surrounded by solid AA sponsors and a home group, he'll be okay. He can keep it together.........but I suspect, or maybe fear is the right word, that that's not how this is going. I think alot of people including myself, held our breath in hopes that he'd be okay and I'm still holding out hope that he'll make it.

Tonight on the news they said Charlie Sheen's back in the hospital and that was another reminder of how cunning this disease is. I hope he doesn't have to go down the same tough road that Robt. Downey Jr. had to go. They are both so talented. It breaks my heart to see this happen to people.

Then today I saw the movie Country Strong with Gwenyth Paltrow and Tim McGraw. I did not know going into the movie that it was about an alcoholic. I thought it was about a country western singer........period.

She sure did an excellent job. I'm surprised she didn't get some kind of nomination for her role. It's one of those movies that hangs with you for hours and hours. I keep thinking back to certain scenes. Parts were very tough to watch because she reminded me so much of my own alcoholism. The belligerence. Horrible guilt and remorse. Oh yuck. I hate it.

But I do have to say she put on one heck of a concert towards the end of the movie. She was fantastic. I'd go again just to see her do that. She was great. So were all the actors in this movie. It was really good.

I've been on both ends or all ends of the alcoholism b.s. (yes, that's right. b.s.)

I've been the codependent willing to do any crazy thing in order to get the alcoholic to stop drinking or taking drugs. I've walked in the shoes of the alcoholic and always had great intentions of never drinking again, but then forgot about those intentions when the hang over was gone.

It is in insidious, sucky disease and I am eternally grateful for my sobriety and the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.

One day at a time.........................................
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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 1/27/2011

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

TIME FOR AN UPDATE ON NEURO-STRENGTH

2011-01-24T23:27:00.001-08:00

It's been two months since I did the brain balancing at Neuro-Strength (Brain State Technologies) and I wanted to give you an update. Alot of people have asked me if I continue to feel better or if I've slumped back to the "old me."

It continues to amaze me. My mind continues to be more clear. I finish my sentences without effort and I've had alot of problems with that since having a stroke a few years ago. I find words much quicker when having conversations. My memory continues to improve. The creativity I'm experiencing is also amazing me. Many people know me as a pretty creative person, but since getting my brain balanced, the creative idea's that flow through me are constant.

This new book I'm working on is almost effortless and this is a first for me. With all the problems my brain has had with memory and sentence structure, writing has not been very easy the last few years. There were many times when I sat at this computer, writing stories for Look for the Good and You'll Find God and I would cry because I could only remember significant pieces of the stories I wanted to write about. Sometimes it took days to get one story pulled together in my mind.

Now, the stories flow with very little effort on this new book.

I've decided to go back for more sessions starting next week. I have two issues that I want more help with. One is the depression that seems so deep inside my soul. For the most part, I'm a very happy person since getting the brain balancing, but I've noticed that I'm feeling that deep sadness inside again. It's nothing like it used to be, but I want to nip this in the bud once and for all. The trainers assured me that this is not uncommon when it comes to depression so I don't feel like I'm going backwards. I just feel like we've definitely peeled several layers of that depressed onion and it's time to go even deeper.

The other issue is weight loss. They now have 2 specific protocols for weight loss that I'm anxious to try out. Something that I've gotten in touch with and embarrassed to admit is that I'm afraid of this one. I've realized that as much as I hate this extra weight on my body, I'm afraid to be thin again. As I stated in the earlier blogs about my weight issues, I've successfully done just about every diet on the books. I've lost the weight. I've bought the new clothes and gotten lots of positive attention, but that's the part that always freaked me out was the attention and I'm 100% sure that's why I put it all back on.

Growing up in my family, outer beauty was a very big deal to my dad. My mom was a thin, very beautiful model for Daytons and he wanted my sister and I to be models. We went to modeling school when we were young and I was never comfortable in that role. My dad was so proud of my mom and sister because they were models. Me? I felt most comfortable with a twinkie in my mouth, staying home on a Saturday night sewing. I couldn't stand the attention on the runway and felt awful when I told my parents I didn't want to do it.

There seems to be certain expectations when you're thin. I know the patterns in my brain are messed up when it comes to weight and all that goes with it. But I also want to move past this stuck place and learn how to be comfortable in my own skin while being thin. I'm 62 years old. Since Brain State entered my life two months ago, I feel more confident than ever. The self doubt is so minimal, most of the time it doesn't seem to be there at all.

My creativity is at an all time high. My mind is clear. I've got great energy to get things done. I feel happier and more alive than I have in years. My meditative time with God is phenomenal. My work is getting stronger every day. My heart is still wide open with love. The part that would always try to sabotage the good hasn't reared it's ugly head in months. So why not tackle these last two issues in my life. If I feel vulnerable as a thin person, I can always wear big sloppy shirts until I feel comfortable. I can do this. I can learn how to do this.

I'll keep you posted.

And also, many of you have asked me for the locations of Brain State throughout the country, so here's a link to their directory. http://brainstatetech.com/locations .

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 1/25/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

The Homeless Man with the Golden Voice

2011-01-07T14:36:00.001-08:00

So many thoughts about this homeless man with the golden voice on the news.

I've watched the video of him on Good Morning America two or three times and love seeing this kind of thing happen.

I saw the second piece today. The reunion of he and his mom. Of course I wanted her to embrace him with open arms like the prodigal son, but she was guarded like anyone whose been dealing with alcoholism for many years.

I was glad to hear him say he's got two years of sobriety behind him. In the program they say it takes two years before a person has sure footing in their life, so that gives me some hope that all this fame won't send him into a binge.

I've been in recovery for 38 years come Feb. and I've seen alot of very wonderful people go back to drinking or using drugs because of life's pressures. One of the area's that seem to be lacking in their lives is the spiritual part of the program and this man, Ted Williams, definitely seems to be working that part of his program, so if he can take all of this a day at a time, I think this will be just fantastic.

In case you have no idea what I'm talking about, click on this link:

Ted Williams Golden Voice : People.com

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20455292,00.html?xid=email-peopledaily-20110106-20455292

Do me a favor. Please send some thoughts of love and protection to him so that he can stay standing and not let it all become too much. I've seen booze destroy people and I've also seen fame and money destroy them, so lets send out some good solid positive energy to this man. And how about to each other!!!

Thanks for checking in............enjoy your week-end.

Love,

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 1/7/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Clarification on last Blog

2011-01-06T11:20:00.000-08:00

The other day after posting that Blog about 2012 and psychic abilities, people emailed asking what signs they should be looking for and I wish it was that simple, but it's not.

First let me just say that I do not believe the world is coming to an end. I do believe the world as we've known it is shifting, changing and coming to an end as the world we've known for so long.

I wish I could say I don't see more catastrophe's but I do. I see alot of earth changes. It's like the weak spots of the planet are going to get exposed. And by exposed I mean eruptions, flooding, etc.

It's like the oceans are throwing up all the crap that's been thrown into them and purging them onto the earth to be cleaned up once and for all.

Weather is going to continue to be mysterious. And I don't mean just through the winter months. I mean for the next couple of years until the earth settles into a new routine in 2013.

That's why I found Nostradamus's information so compelling because his predictions looked so similar to what I've been seeing. All this shifting and changing and there's no getting around it.

But does that mean we're headed for extinction? No. It just means we need to buckle up because the ride is going to get bumpy for many people.

And it isn't just with the weather. It's people's personal lives as well. The oceans are purging and our body's are purging all the crap we've been keeping inside.

If you've been living a life you don't' like, but keep pretending it's all okay, you will get a knock at the door from the Universe to make some changes or leave.

So when I say I'm anxious to help people understand their psychic gifts and intuition, it's because we are receiving help/guidance/inspiration from the Universe all the time, but people don't' know how to read it. Developing your psychic abilities doesn't mean that you have to go out and become a professional psychic. It means utilizing your gifts to help you navigate through your life.

If you get a thought to call someone, or get a sense not to take a certain road home from work, do you pay attention? if you get a strong message to go visit your grandma, but it involves expense doing it, do you listen to the guidance or do you let your finances rule the decision?

When planning a vacation, do you listen to the internal guidance of where to go and where not to go, or do you just go ahead and plan something even though it doesn't feel right? You see something in a store window that you know your significant other would just love, but your inner voice is telling you NO, NO, NO. Do you listen or do you spend the money and an hour later, have no money to fix your broken down car?

Every day we get guidance. The Universe is constantly guiding us so that we live happy, successful lives.

This is the stuff I'm talking about when I say I'm excited to make it my #1 goal to help people understand this guidance.

One of the ways I'm going to reach people is through a blogtalkradio show that will start Thursday, Feb. 3 from 6-7:00pm central time. It's part of the Edge Life series and is called Intuitive Living, similar to the radio show I had on FM 107. I'll post more details about it as we get closer.

And the other venue is that the next ON LINE PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT CLASS begins Sunday, January 30th. If you want more info, you can go to my website www.echobodine.com and read about it right on the home page.

I love feeling connected to all of you through these blogs. I really appreciate your feedback.

Forget about the future. It's not here today. We only have to think about today and listen to the guidance for today. it makes it so much easier and that's what we all need right now. Easier.

God Bless,

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 1/6/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

I'm All Fired Up

2011-01-04T09:43:00.000-08:00

No talk of Neuro-Strength today..............

Today I'm all fired up about making it my goal for the new year to reach as many people as possible and teach them about psychic abilities and their intuition.

As I said on my Facebook page the other day, I watched this really cool program on Sunday about Nostradamus. I've seen other shows in the past about his predictions, but this show was very well put together. Greg Braden was on it as well as other experts talking about the messages and visions that Nostradamus had. It really is compelling information.

I loved what Braden said at the end of the two hour show. That many people will interpret this as the end of the world. The end of times as talked about in the Bible. But Braden said, and I firmly believe, that we are being given a choice. We can keep moving towards destroying the planet or we can make a spiritual shift and work towards saving it. These next two years feel very intense to me and I want to help people maneuver through it.

How? By teaching them to look for and identify their spiritual gifts. Their psychic abilities. And also by teaching them that their intuition is separate from their psychic abilities. That it's located in their gut and I want to teach them how to hear it and live by that still small voice.

If people can learn to read the symbols clearly and live by the voice within rather than the voice of fear in the world, we can get through these next two years relatively easy.

The biggest block to all of this is religion. Lets just put it this way. If they are telling people that psychic abilities are a product of the devil, they have been mis-informed by their teachers and they haven't ventured out on their own to find the truth.

I'm excited. It's fun to have a goal like this. Reach as many people as we can in the next few years to teach them about their own God given gifts. Set people free from the voices and fears of the world and help them live by that light within.

Thank God I have such a great team working with me or I'd never be able to make this happen: Chris LaFontaine, Leigh Hopkins, Jo An Hall, Sybil Dougherty, Cathie Ritchie, Kay Elliott, the Healing Pen Pals and of course, our Psychic Pen Pal, Cheryl Berg. It's gonna be a good year. A very good year.

Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 1/4/2011

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

4 weeks of integration

2010-12-26T13:16:00.001-08:00

12/26/10

It's hard to believe it's already been four weeks, almost five, since my last session at Neuro-Strength. People have emailed asking if it's still working and I can say without a doubt that yes, it's still working. I continue to feel like a new person. New attitudes about things. I see life, people and situations differently.

Something that's cool is that throughout the sessions, they play a sound for you. A sound that you pick out, like birds, ocean, nature, rain, etc. Then when you're done with the sessions, they give you a cd of the sound you chose and they advise you to listen to it everyday for at least 10 minutes. It helps the brain stay focused on the new changes. And boy oh boy, does it work.

About a week ago, I started to feel an old familiar feeling of depression that I used to get around the holidays. I hadn't been listening to the bird cd because I had been doing so well...............so I popped it into the cd player and twenty minutes later, I felt like the new me again. I've continued to listen to it everyday to strengthen the changes and it's going very well.

One of the most noticeable changes has been the memories that have come back to me. My memory has been shot the last few years and I've tried various things to strengthen it. Since the sessions at Neuro Strength, my memory continues to astound me. Yesterday on Christmas, I remembered more past Christmases, than I ever have. Just quick little memories pop into my mind.

I do get some of the bad memories as well. When I was a practicing alcoholic, I sobered up in Feb. '73 and December of '72 was an ass kicker as far as drinking myself into oblivion. Those memories have come back as well and believe me, those are memories I have not remembered for years. It certainly has reminded me why I quit drinking....thank God. So even the hard memories have been good to remember.

It's definitely going to be a brand new year and I'm excited.

Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 12/26/2010

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

2 weeks of Integrating

2010-12-09T22:38:00.000-08:00

My 10 sessions are over and I'm into the second week of integrating all that my brain experienced. I'm still feeling really good. Clear headed, grounded, safe, calm and very happy. Sounds too good to be true doesn't it? But it's all true and NO, THEY AREN'T PAYING ME TO SAY THESE THINGS. That's for you non-trusting souls who don't believe life can be like this.

I've wondered if a crisis came along how my mind would handle it. If I'd go into fear mode and resort back to old ways of dealing with the stress. I had an opportunity yesterday to find out.

I had a pretty tough phone call with some pretty bad news and instead of freaking out, I continued to feel calm inside and still do today. I hear my mind thinking that there's always options and answers we don't see are right around the corner and I've literally stayed out of fear and in trust.

Again, the biggest "complaint" I have is that I have to watch this happiness level. I'm happy all the time. Happy to see people. Happy to shop in crowds of people. Happy to wake up in the morning. Happy to see snow and I could care less if it's cold. It all makes me happy!!!! Gratitude just pours out of me.

I'm really looking forward to seeing all the shoppers tomorrow at the Cottage so I better get a good nights' sleep.

Thanks for checking the blogs. It's been fun to share this experience with you.

Happy Holidays,

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 12/10/2010

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

11/27/10 update on BST

2010-11-27T12:02:00.001-08:00

Yesterday was a great day to measure any difference in my brain and how I'm responding to life.

I worked at the Cottage House which is a very popular vintage shop here in the Twin Cities. Three days a month I cashier at this adorable business and for the most part, absolutely love it. I say for the most part simply because it is incredibly successful and that means we get bombarded with shoppers.

In months past, it took everything in me not to get frazzled and make mistakes on the register. I'd have blank spots in my brain where I couldn't figure out a simple sale and would get very frustrated with myself. I was also constantly trying to block myself from feeling everyone else's feelings and there were days I'd come home EXHAUSTED.

Yesterday we were beyond busy but I noticed my mind stayed steady the whole time I was there. I rang up over a hundred sales and didn't make any mistakes. I didn't feel that panicky feeling in my brain like I used to. I felt grounded and clear headed. I was physically exhausted when I came home, but mentally I was still clear headed. I was also able to detach myself psychically and did not come home with a pounding third eye headache. It was quite a different experience.

I'm still noticing this very full heart of love. I don't know what else to call it.

I feel very loving towards everyone I come in contact with and while that sounds great, there are some people that don't want to be loved or treated kindly. I'm seeing that very clearly as well.

The other noticeable change is that I'm looking forward to working today and if you've been reading any of my blogs, you'll know I've been burned out this whole year. We closed the Center a year ago and it's taken this long to get my mojo back and feel excited about work again. My psychic abilities seem much more open and clear also which makes it more fun to do readings. I'm looking forward to getting more involved with my former and current students again. It no longer feels overwhelming.

So............so far this Brain State Technologies seems to be the best choice I've made for myself in a long time. It was actually my inner voice that nudged me to do this when I was reading the article on Wynonna Judd and it wouldn't stop bugging me about it until I called for the appointment.

If you're reading this blog for the first time, scroll down and click on Neuro-Strength to read more about it.

More later...................

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 11/27/2010

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

My 10th Visit Today

2010-11-23T21:59:00.000-08:00

This morning I had my 10th session at Neuro-Strength in Bloomington and I have to say this technology really worked well for me.

Two weeks ago I began this journey, as you've read in the last few blogs and it's been a really cool experience to say the least.

We read through my goals that I filled out at the beginning of the training and I can honestly say I achieved every one of the goals with flying colors. There's only one area that's still a bit lagging in my head and that's focus and clarity. I still have some communication problems which are mainly my brain not finding the words when I'm talking.

What happens now is that they recommend letting the brain integrate all that it's been through for three weeks and if I feel I need more, I can go back for more.

Someone sent me an email today asking how my weight loss was going and I had to stop and think for a second what she was talking about. I realized that I'm not thinking of this in terms of weight loss as much as I'm seeing results in other area's of my body, mind and emotions. Yes of course I'll take the weight loss, but I'm just reveling in the fact that I feel so much calmer, safer and happier. If I'm not grinning on the outside, I'm certainly grinning on the inside. I feel like a million bucks. Happy. Content. Playful. My mind is clearer than it's been for a long time.

One of the "problems" I'm having is that I feel this tremendous love for everyone around me. I'm looking forward to doing readings again. Looking forward to seeing my advanced students more often. I'm going to get more involved in my on-line psychic development program and I've asked the Universe to show me how to express all this love in a spiritual way.

I feel this great enthusiasm about the future and am looking at how I can reach more people and teach them about their spiritual gifts and how to live by their inner voice.

It was a wonderful experience getting my brain more balanced. Alot of memories came up. I did some good emotional work. Released alot of old garbage that's just been taking up space in my brain. And now I get to learn to do my life in a more balanced way.

Thanks for going on this journey with me. Alot of you have emailed saying that you have appreciated my honesty and I want to thank you for that. We're all in this together and it felt great to be connected with people during this experience.

I will continue to give updates as my brain integrates the changes.

I wish all of you a very blessed Thanksgiving.

Sincerely,

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 11/23/2010

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

#5 I woke up feeling incredible

2010-11-20T14:42:00.000-08:00

This morning when I woke up, I felt elated and so happy that I could have hugged the whole world and still had more left to give. It was a wonderful feeling.

It scared me just a bit because it felt a little like the manic part of depression (I've been labeled manic depressive or bi-polar). I had Andrea Bocelli blasting on the cd player and felt like I could jet propel myself over to my morning appointment, but I took the car instead.

The 8th session was very nice. It evened out my manic state and I felt grounded again. Today's session was mellower. I only did one two hour session and that felt right. Like it's time to let my brain integrate everything it's been through this week.

You can see on their graphs how the brain is changing and that is so fascinating to me. I not only can feel it internally, but I can see it externally.

Overall, I'm much calmer today. Slept good last night compared to some of the other nights this week that were kind of all over the place. My dreams were mellower last night. I've had alot of dreams this week that didn't make sense. Usually I can interpret my dreams pretty good but haven't been able to with the dreams this week. Paulette and Alina both told me that this is all part of the process.

Driving is less stressful for me and that's been an issue of mine for years. I haven't driven on the freeways/highways since 1979. Talk about feeling un-safe. That is definitely one of the biggest places that I feel un-safe. If I ride with someone, I'm usually staring at the floor. I'll be anxious to see if this changes with the changes in my brain patterns. My body is still only craving protein and veggies. Sugar has definitely taken a back seat to what I'm eating.

The last protocol we did today had to do with goals and my goals have really improved this week because I no longer am feeling like I can't accomplish certain things. I set some goals for myself that I would never have set, or let's say may have set, but would not have believed I could accomplish them. The higher goals I'm setting now, I'm believing I can achieve them. It's sad to think of how many years I've wasted going in circles...........but then again, the timing had to be right on all of it and I truly believe the timing is perfect now.

Another plus is that this opens up your creativity more, so I stopped at the fabric store on the way home to sew some fleece tops. I'm feeling very creative and can't wait to get at it, so I'm going to sign off for now and will be back in touch Monday. Tomorrow is integrating day. It'll be great.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 11/20/2010

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

#4 Quite a Work-Out

2010-11-19T19:44:00.001-08:00

Remember how your body feels after you've worked out for the first time in a long time?

That's how my brain felt today after session 6. Like I had been at the brain gym all morning. They do these different protocols each time you have a session and today really felt like it stretched my brain in places it hadn't gone before. It was an odd sensation. I actually felt a bit loopy. Giggly.

After an hour break, I went back in for session 7 and the feelings inside of my head felt more grounded. More mellow.

There is no doubt in my mind something very significant and GOOD is happening in my brain, my attitude, the way I see things and definitely how I'm feeling.

I had a bunch of energy after today's sessions, so I cleaned my mom's old apartment like a mad woman. It felt great to get the exercise.

One shift I noticed this morning when I looked out at the snow us that I felt less fearful about winter. Normally I love winter. I'm a very good hibernator. I love to stay indoors and sew or bake. It's a great time to go within and spend lots of quiet time with my inner voice. Wear lots of layers of clothes and take a late afternoon nap with my cat. The older I've gotten the more I've appreciate it. But for some reason, the thought of this winter has made me feel anxious, ill at ease. I've tried reading the weather but I seem to be blocked and that's usually an indication that it's going to be a doozey of a winter.

When I came out of today's session, I noticed the fear of the chill in the air wasn't there and I've felt "even" all afternoon. That's a very noticeable change from the way I have been feeling about the weather.

I wish I could tell the whole world about this. I've been thinking about this Brain work all day and it makes so much sense to me. I've done most of the emotional work over the years in therapy, but these old patterns still creep back into my life. I try to keep an eye out for them but they've become more subtle over the years.

This brain work feels like my brain really is balancing out and these subtle little triggers are going away.

I can also report that on the sugar front, I've noticed quite a change there. I'm definitely craving protein, not sugar. Don't get me wrong. I still love my dark chocolate, but I don't think about it now which is very unusual.

Tomorrow I have session #8 and I take a break on Sunday.

I'll keep you posted on the continuing changes taking place in this brain of mine. It's really cool.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 11/19/2010

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

here is the link to the Judd article and info on BST

2010-11-19T06:59:00.000-08:00

This is the link to the article online Brain State Technologies' website. I have also attached a PDF of the 2 page article.

#3 continuation

2010-11-18T21:50:00.001-08:00

The thought occurred to me tonight that you might be wondering if I'm seeing any changes in my eating patterns or physical changes in general.

The answers are yes and yes. The program asks you to eat more protein and drink more water and I've found that I don't have to consciously make myself do either. It's just happening naturally. I crave protein for breakfast, lunch and dinner and the other thing that is most noticeable is that my sweet cravings are getting less and less.

I've noticed I am more tired since starting the training (that's what they call it) but they warned me that this might happen. They encourage me to be gentle with my body and listen to what she needs. If I need rest, I rest. If I get a build up of energy, I walk. I feel this gentle desire to treat my body differently, like a pregnant woman whose in the process of giving birth to her new self.

The other physical change I'm noticing is moments of great clarity and less brain fog. I'm finding words easier than I did before the training started and it's so nice to have conversations with people without struggling to find the words.

They give you homeopathic tablets to help your body detox while you go through this process ( they aren't mandatory) and they encourage us to drink alot of water. The only downside is that I'm in the bathroom alot more because of it but Alina assured me today that we aren't just releasing all the water we're drinking but we're releasing liquid on a cellular level. I'm not sure what she means by that and I'll ask her or Paulette tomorrow when I see them and let you know.

Physically I feel different. Happier. Calmer. Safer. Two words to end this blog:

It's working.

more tomorrow.

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 11/18/2010

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
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A Still Small Voice

#3 of the journey

2010-11-18T16:07:00.000-08:00

Wow. This is quite a present I've given myself. I had my 5th and 6th treatments today.

When I went in this morning, I had a pretty bad headache and worried for a bit that these treatments were making the headaches worse, but today's sessions completely took the headache away. I had so many awarenesses today and am feeling very free tonight.

What's making this fascinating is the memories that have flooded my conscious mind. I've had several flashbacks since my sessions yesterday of ways that I've tried to create safety for myself. When I was 23 yrs. old I got engaged to a handsome young man who was really tall (6'8") and maybe because my dad was so tall, I had the notion that David would keep me safe. At another time in my life, I got engaged to a man almost 20 years older than me because I was sure life would feel safe with him. Neither of those relationships made it to the altar because I realized neither of them could give me the safe feelings I was looking for.

This morning I had a memory of getting dressed for my wedding and remembering how excited I was that I finally met the man that I was sure would create a safe life for me. The marriage lasted four years and it created just the opposite of safe.

As I shared in yesterday's blog, I've done alot of therapy around these issues and have been aware of them for a long time, but have always gotten hung up at the safety issue as far as how to find it.

Spiritually I know God takes care of me, but it's like a deep physical craving to feel safe and grounded and I've done some wacky things over the years to try to create it. Alcohol, prescription meds, pot, food, codependency. All of it.

This journey of balancing the brain and healing the old patterns set up in the brain when I was a youngster makes so much sense. Tonight I feel like a million bucks.

I felt some huge piece shift today in my 5th session and it continued on in the 6th session. A release of alot of old feelings and memories that have been flooding my mind and body since this process started a week ago. And the memories that have come up are not bad horrible painful memories. Just memories. Simple things about my life that I have forgotten.

Happy feelings. Sad feelings. Determined to make a change feelings. The most obvious feelings are optimism and hope.

I'm half way through the sessions. They recommend 10 to get started and then you can come in and get more any time you want.

I have the article on Wynonna Judd if you want me to send it to you. Just email me Echo@echobodine.com and I'll shoot it over to you.

I'll be blogging more over the next few days.

over and out for now,

The journey begins...................

2010-11-17T10:32:00.000-08:00

Besides being grounded, the other thing that struck me about the article is that she said she feels safe for the first time in her life and doesn't feel the need to run to food when she feels afraid or overwhelmed.

The article says that the brain sets up patterns early in our life and for those of us who go through trauma, our brain patterns will be out of balance. I've been through years of therapy, several 12 step groups and worked on my spirituality since I was a little girl and have wondered why I don't feel safe about life and why food is always my comforter. When I read her words about feeling safe, I KNEW this is what I needed next.

If you've read any of my books you know that I'm open about sharing my journey and therefore know alot of what I'm about to share with you. I share this from a detached perspective because I've been through all the tears, anger and rage in therapy and groups. I'm sharing it so that you'll understand the patterns going on in my brain.

I grew up with two alcoholic parents (who both got into recovery in my teens). I was the oldest of four kids and felt responsible to take care of them. I experienced alot of sexual abuse as a little girl. A male babysitter, friends of my dad's and an elementary school teacher.

My grampa was my rock and he died when I was four. I can safely say the depression I've had all my life started when he died. My safe place was gone.

I was afraid to go to bed at night for fear of who would come into my bedroom whether it was one of my dad's drunk friends or my drunken father wanting to chat at 3:00am. I was afraid to come home from school for fear of what would be going on. I could go on and on with yucky stories but you get the picture. Life just wasn't safe for me as a little girl and the one place I found comfort was candy, cookies, cake and ice cream. It brought sweetness into my life and when I got my hands on sugar, I felt a quick respite from everything around me.

I've tried lots of diets and they've all worked. I'd work hard to lose the weight, deny myself all the foods that made me feel happy and safe and I'd always look and feel so much better. BUT my pattern has been that as soon as someone comments on my weight loss and how great I look, I start eating sugar again and slowly put the weight back on. As much as I've hated having a weight problem, it always makes me feel protected and interestingly, in control of my life. When I'm thin, I feel out of control. Like who's going to hurt me now that I'm attractive.

What I would love to accomplish is feeling safe, feeling grounded, eating healthy, feeling proud of my weight and how my body feels and looks and I'd love to maintain all of that from now until I check out of this dastardly place.

And that's why I'm doing this Neuro-Strength.

So what did I experience after the first session? A couple of weeks ago I blogged about these terrible headaches I get and fortunately, after the first session, the headaches were completely gone for 3 days. I have two spots in my head that always feel like there's a sharp knife stuck in them and for three days they were gone. They slowly crept back but I had 2 treatments yesterday and my head is much better again today.

I did have such a sense of calmness after the first session. The next day was moving day for my mom. We had been packing up her condo for a good solid 2-3 weeks and finally the day arrived to move her into assisted living. I was calm and very happy that whole day. At the end of that very long 12 hour day, my brother and I both commented on how magical the day had been. No stress. We completely went with the flow and it all worked out very well.

I've been more thirsty which is part of the deal. They tell you to drink more water and I've also been a bit more tired, but I just let my body sleep so that my brain can make these shifts. My attitude has been really good. I feel more emotional at times, but that's pretty much status quo for me. I feel everything.

Today I'm going to do my first reading since I started this process and I'm anxious to see how it goes. Like I said, I'll be blogging about this so that you can sense if this is something that would help you.

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 11/17/2010

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Starting a Journey

2010-11-16T09:09:00.001-08:00

About two weeks I read an article in People magazine about Wynonna Judd losing 55 lbs and of course was curious as to how she did it.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that it wasn't an advertisement for another diet program, but something that felt REAL to me. I had one of those experiences where you read or hear something you just KNOW it's truth. She did this program called Brain State Conditioning. It has to do with balancing the brain wave frequencies.

What really got me hooked on learning more about this was that she said she never felt grounded in her life and that these treatments did that for her, which in turn helped her with her food addiction and stress.

Grounded. I thought I was grounded until I read that article and it was like this whole scenario opened in my head and I could sense, see and feel that I don't think I've ever been truly grounded. I talked to God about it and it felt really right to do so I went on the Internet and found out there are two offices here in the Twin Ciites. (there are 33 offices in the country) I called the Bloomington office and had my first treatment last week.

All week a little voice has been telling me to blog about this experience and share it with others. I've gone back and forth about it because of sharing some pretty personal things but I've already noticed a difference just after one treatment and I'm pretty excited to see where this goes so long story short, I'm going to be blogging about this experience.

They recommend you get the treatments close together. 10 treatments are recommended and you can do more after that. Here's a list of just some of the things that people have gotten help with: Memory, think more clearly, better sleep, depression lifts, addictions such as smoking, drinking and drugs. People's sex lives improves, athletes performance improves greatly, veterans get relief from PTSD, kids with learning problems excel in school.

Here's the website: www.NeuroStrength.com

I'll blog later today. I have two sessions this afternoon and need to leave soon.

When I do blog, I'll start from the beginning so that you can understand all of this for me personally.

later.......................

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 11/16/2010

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

The movie HEREAFTER

2010-10-31T21:55:00.001-07:00

Today I saw the movie HEREAFTER with Matt Damon. It wasn't what I expected, yet I don't know what I expected.

It brought up alot of feeilngs about being a psychic. The burdens of having these abilities. The responsibility of reading the information accurately. The impact it has on people's lives. The loneliness of the gift. People's expectations of psychically gifted people.

It showed people's desperation to communcate with their deceased loved ones and that part made me cry. I cried for the people whose loved ones had died. I cried for the psychic who did not want to do this work anymore, yet he knew he could bring peace of mind to the young boy begging to talk to his deceased brother.

It showed some of the charlatans out there and that just infuriated me.

His desire to have a normal life made me cry. Never knowing when he was going to have a psychic experience and sometimes not knowing what to do with it.

The loneliness of wanting to talk about the experiences he had yet not wanting to frighten the people in his life.

I don't know if it was just the timing of seeing it right now, or if it would have impacted me no matter when I saw it. In the last week or so, I've been thinking about taking a break from doing psychic readings. I go through the same thing every time I get back into doing them. The bad headaches come back on a daily basis and it gets harder to go out in public. Friday night I had a very fun gig at the Mall of America and had to leave immediately afterwards because my head was pounding. There were so many people there and I could feel all the different vibes in the mall. The "celebrities" were invited to a free dinner at Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant for raising money for colon cancer and as much as I wanted to join everyone, my head was throbbing and I felt like every one's energy was sticking to me like velcro.

The movie sure brought up alot of feelings. I'm working on a book about death right now and for that I'm grateful that I saw the movie. I want the book to be as helpful as possible for people dealing with the loss of a loved one or their own impending death.

This gift is like being stuck between a rock and a hard place because I always feel like I want to push myself to be as good as I can be and get really good clear accurate information for people and then on the other hand, I want to shut it down and make it go away. I can't begin to count the number of times over the year that I've told myself I'm going to go get a regular job and stop all this psychic stuff............and then something happens that makes me once again grateful that I'm able to help someone with these abilities.

Maybe everyone is like this with their jobs/careers. Not satisfied with where they're at, want to push themselves to do better but then have those days where you wish you could chuck the whole thing and start over with something new. Maybe all of that is normal.

I don't have the solution tonight. Maybe it's just about feeling all the feelings and moving on. Take a break for a day or two and then go back at it.

I need to meditate!!

If you see the movie, let me know what you think.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 10/31/2010

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

A Magical Experience

2010-09-29T08:46:00.001-07:00

A Magical Experience

This last week end I put on an event here in Minneapolis called the Mega-Aurapalooza. We started having these events at the Center about 6 years ago. It was an all day affair where people could come and get readings and healing's and their aura photo's taken. (thus the name Aurapalooza). People loved connecting with other people. The events always felt really special.

About three years ago, we outgrew the Center and moved it over to Midtown Global Market where we were able to have 2-3 times the vendors we had at the Center. My business partner Carol Lowell did almost all of the planning and organizing with the help of her assistant Cathy Bender. I had very little to do with any of the planning because I'd always get overwhelmed with the meetings and all the details. I'd show up on the day of the palooza but that was about it. They took care of everything.

About three months ago when I was meditating, I was guided to put on a palooza. My first thought was that I wouldn't know where to begin and my inner voice clearly told me that it would guide me through the whole thing. Of course my human thoughts got in there and wanted to control all of it, but my inner voice told me to stay focused on IT rather than my head and that's exactly what I did.

It gave me the date. The hours. Told me to draw up a map so that the vendors could pick out their own spot. It told me to create a website to refer people to. List the vendors as they signed up so that people would know who was going to be there and it gave me the idea for a coupon book so that people would remember the vendors long after the event was over. My friend Bill Matney suggested adding 10% off coupons on their next visit.

As the palooza drew closer, I was given more great idea's. One of my favorites was the yellow t-shirts that the volunteers wore. My inner voice specifically said yellow so that people would be easy to spot in a crowd and that worked really well. Whenever I needed help with something, I looked out over the sea of people and could easily find one of them.

I was guided to put flowers on each of the tables to create a sense of community rather than "each person for themselves."

We set the tables up according to what the vendors had requested and sprayed the place with Florida water to clear any negative energy and make it nice and welcoming for the vendors and the people that participated.

Everything was intuitively guided and it went really well. If someone made a suggestion over the last three months, I would intuitively check it out. Did it go with the flow of the palooza. Was it right for the energy of the event?

98% of the event went very smooth. We were very busy that day and most of the vendors were very happy. People have emailed saying it was the most organized, easy flowing event they've ever worked at and that puts a huge smile on my face.

I found that when things didn't go smooth, someone was trying to control it. They wanted it done their way. They didn't want to go with the flow or maybe they didn't know how but they were coming strictly from their head. It was hard to stand back and watch people trying to control something that had been so beautifully guided.

I learned alot from this experience and would love to do another one next year. I've already been approached by a couple of people who have asked me to organize one for them.

I miss getting my daily guidance about the palooza. I loved receiving the fun little suggestions, the magical knowing of the Universe as to what people wanted and needed.

The Universe knew that I would need something when the palooza was over and sure enough, my publisher and I had a meeting on the phone yesterday and I'm going to write a book that I've been wanting to write for some time.

Everything always get's taken care of when we live in the flow.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 9/29/2010

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

next Saturday, Sept. 25th

2010-09-19T17:40:00.000-07:00

is going to be a very fun day at Midtown Global Market (in the old Sears Tower) on Lake and Chicago in Minneapolis.

I'm doing a mass emailing so I apologize to those of you that are out of town and to many of you who will be getting this twice (or three times, depending upon how many lists you're on).

This event is called Mega-Aurapalooza which is a goofy name we came up a few years ago when we had gatherings at the Center for aura photo's, readers, healers etc. Every year it continues to get bigger and bigger which is why we now call it the Mega-Aurapalooza.

Instead of giving you all the cool details, I'm going to direct you to the website that JoAn Hall has created for this event so that you can see the vendors that will be there as well as the speakers and what time they will be speaking.

www.megaaurapalooza.com

Admission is free. It's going to be a great day. From 10-5. Please come and join us.

Sincerely,

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 9/19/2010

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

I Found the Culprit

2010-08-26T23:59:00.001-07:00

I finally figured out why it seems like all of us are getting dementia. Yes, the 25 year- olds all the way up to the rest of us.

I cannot believe how many times in the last few years I've been to the doctor to get my thyroid checked, my hormones measured, gone through bottles of gingko and drank oodles of herbal tea, all to figure out why I had such bad brain fog.

If you've taken a class from me in the last 7 -10 years, you're probably someone who finished my sentences for me because I couldn't find the words.

The awareness of this nasty little culprit started to hit me in May when I went down to Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. to give a talk. I think if memory serves me correctly (and we all know it doesn't) when I got down to Virginia, I was mentally burned out. On the plane down there, I wondered how in the world I was going to teach a workshop on psychic development because I was having a hard time putting sentences together.

As I've already shared in former blogs, I bought John Van Auken's Jesus book the second day I was there and spent the next two days sleeping, reading and staring at the ocean. It's all I could do. It's all I wanted to do.

Something happened to me while I was down there and it's hard to put the whole impact of it into words..............but something healed inside. The burn out I had been feeling started to lift. That deep burn out that goes all the way to your soul where your soul is just plain weary and doesn't want to keep going.

That burn out started to heal and I realized something very important that I've really worked hard at remembering since coming back from that blessed week-end.

We may have memory problems from low thryoid and out of whack hormones and too much gluten in our system but I've come to believe the biggest culprit of all is ........................drum roll......................MULTI-TASKING.

Doing three things at same time and not remembering half of it.

If I had a circle with a slash through it, it would say NO MORE MULTI-TASKING.

If you're like me, you're thinking that you have to multi-task in order to get through the day but I've realized that that's just this false mis-conception we've come to believe. We don't have to do half the things we put on our daily list. We've gotten used to taking on so many things and have forgotten that we can actually stop and ask ourselves how much REALLY needs to get done.

An interesting thing happened when I started to prioritize my day and put less on the list of things to get done. My memory came back. I finished my own sentences. I could remember conversations I had had the previous week and my past was no longer one big blur.

My memory certainly isn't perfect. I don't think it ever was (can't remember!!) but it's making a comeback. There are times when my friends still have to fill in the blanks for me, but it's getting better and better as I put less stress on myself. Less expectations. And as much as I hate sounding like a cliche, I now embrace the brain fog as an indication that I've slipped back into my old ways and I get right back to prioritizing.

Remember the old slogan, Just Say No to Drugs? How about if our new slogan is Just Say No to Mult-tasking and Kiss Brain Fog Good-bye. Are you with me?

Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 8/27/2010

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Potential

2010-08-22T22:58:00.001-07:00

Last night I watched a DVD on Prophecy by John Van Auken (the author that wrote the Jesus book that I'm always raving about).

It was so fascinating to me to listen to his mind talking about all the amazing things he's studied this lifetime.

He talked about the Mayan Prophecy's. The Biblical Prophecy's. Edgar Cayce's and Nostradamus's Prophecy's. All these great people that had visions of the future. Accurate visions. Visions from hundreds of years ago that are still coming true today.

It all got me thinking today about potential. What if those people hadn't pushed themselves to keep seeking. Pushed themselves to take risks when society thought they were crazy. Nostradamus had to be very careful back in 1550 about the things he wrote. The prophecy's he had and yet here we are, 460 years later, still scouring through his prophecy's to get a glimpse of 2012.

All day I've been bugged that I haven't pushed myself to my potential. Someone sent me an email today and told me to stop apologizing for my gifts and start celebrating them. I thought the timing of that email was quite a "coincidence" after watching these prophecy's last night and then tossing and turning all night about my own potential.

I know that if I ask God to show me the next level of my potential, I will be shown and there's a part of me that's definitely afraid to take that next step. I want to keep my life nice and simple. Do the on-line classes. Do readings. Maybe open another spiritual center one day. But something happened last night while watching that DVD and I know there's no going backwards or staying the same. It's time to go to the next level of pushing myself. That's what we're here for right?

Healing the wounds of the past, discovering the Christ part of ourselves, knowing our oneness with God and partnering up with God to develop ourselves to our highest potential. That's my understanding of what this is all about.

I'm actually feeling kind of excited about it too. Stay tuned for the next part of the adventure. I'll let you know what it is when I get there.

Are you living up to your potential?

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 8/23/2010

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Being True to Ourselves.......Tough Stuff!!!!

2010-07-14T13:48:00.001-07:00

Forty-two years ago, I had the "opportunity" to marry a man I really loved but my inner voice was yelling loud and clear NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. He was everything I thought I wanted. Handsome, funny, very smart, and the "opportunity" part was that we had a baby on the way!!!!

There in front of me was the life I thought I really wanted and yet, my inner voice, the voice I had come to trust with all my life decisions, was telling me NO.

If you've read my books, you know how the story turned out. I placed our son for adoption and searched for him when he was twenty-four which turned out to be a huge blessing for all of us.

But that's not what I'm blogging about today.

I'm blogging about one of my favorite subjects which is intuition, but this time from the perspective of how to live by your inner voice when you have a significant other in your life.

Talk about "opportunities" constantly presenting themselves to us.

My son's father is still in my life. He's still handsome, still very funny, has gotten smarter over the years AND we have a great relationship. But the area that's tough is when he gives me guidance (he's got strong opinions) and my inner voice has a completely different opinion. I've learned to look at this as an "opportunity" to be true to the path I came here to walk and learn how to speak up for what's right for me...............and that has been one tough life lesson.

What brought all of this up is that I've had several conversations with people lately, men and women, who are feeling guided to do one thing, but their significant other wants them to do something else. Bottom line is, do you keep peace in the family or be true to the voice of God giving you guidance for your highest good. Many people reading this who are not in a relationship might say the answer is a no brainer, but in this world, where we have opinions coming at us from all directions, it can be quite challenging to live by our inner voice.

Something I've learned from my ex is that he gets frustrated with me when the choices I make seem stupid, un-conventional, or just plain silly, but when he watches it play out, he's always ended up respecting the decision I went with.

If you've got someone in your life who doesn't understand your need to live by your inner voice, my heart goes out to you. I know it's a tough journey, but if you can find a way to keep peace in the family and still live by that still small voice within, the rewards are so well worth it.

Honor their opinions because it comes from their love for you, but if it helps you to know which voice to listen to, remember that the still small voice within loves you just as much, if not more and knows the bigger plan. Knows what's coming and knows what the best choices are for you. It's really about us learning how to be true to ourselves and the path we came here to follow.
As always, I wish you the very best on your journey,

Echo--
Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 7/14/2010

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Sunday in Minneapolis

2010-06-27T11:30:00.001-07:00

In my last blog, I talked about this really cool book called Jesus: His Words Decoded, His Mystery Teachings Revealed by John Van Auken. Many of you have emailed to say you can't find it in the bookstores so I suggest you go to www.edgarcayce.org and go into their bookstore. A.R.E Press is the publisher of Van Auken's books. He's got another one coming out at the end of June.

I've been tossing around the idea of having a book study on Jesus but there's so much on each page, it would take forever to read it as a group. I just wish I could reach out and give you the same peace of mind, body and soul that this book has given me. As I said in the last blog, I've been on a constant search since I was a little girl to understand what Jesus really came here to do and teach us and most of the books I've read say the same thing over and over and over.

This book is different. Very different. It's wonderful. It has really helped me focus on just the day in front of me rather than the future. Living a day at a time is something I've really tried living since I joined AA, but for some reason, this book brings it home even more. Just deal with what's in front of me (us) and forget about tackling the whole picture.

I've been doing lots of readings lately for alot of really hurting people. The economy, the oil spill, the changing weather, people growing apart from their life partners, bankruptcy, suicide, depression. The list goes on and on about how shipwrecked people are feeling about their lives and this book has helped me stay focused on the calmness inside of me and bring some of that into my client's lives. It's really cool.

This is not a religious book that is trying to get you to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior so don't worry that I'm trying to cram religion down your throat. That's not my style. As a matter of fact, this week I'm going to make a video for U-Tube about the Bible and what is REALLY says about psychic abilities.(the word psychic isn't even in the Bible).

Speaking of the future and weather changes, July and August look very different to me and I'm not even sure what I mean when I say that. Intense. Quick. Things popping up quickly. So I definitely suggest when planning any kind of out door activity to check with your inner voice about the dates. Even if your weather person is saying everything's good, check your intuition anyway.

A young woman (40's) approached me a couple of months ago about helping me do on line psychic development classes and it felt really right, so now, thanks to her, the classes will be up and running at the end of July. Her name is Leigh Hopkins. Beautiful young woman who is very knowledgeable about internet, on-line stuff (thank God) and she's creating a wonderful class based on my psychic development DVD. If this is something you'd be interested in, email her leighopkins@gmail.com. and let her know.We are charging $27. per week and they class runs 8 weeks and I think I'm correct when I say you pay per week.

I guess that's it for today. I mainly wanted to let you know how you could find Van Auken's book and let you know about the on-line classes. I'm busy working on finishing up a book today. It's called My LIttle Big Book of True Life Ghost Stories. It will be out in February 2011. It's a gorgeous day here in the Twin Cities and I'm feeling grateful for just about everything going on in my life. If you were here, I'd give you a big hug and thank you for caring about what my blog says. It's just so sweet that people care about my thoughts.

For those of you out there having a tough time today, even though it doesn't seem like it, there are solutions to everything. EVERYTHING. Lilli, the angel that works with me, told one of my clients this week to go to a high rise hotel that she's never been to and get a room very high up. Look out into the world and then look at her life from a different perspective. Journal about all her thoughts and feelings from this different perspective.

This could also be symbolic of looking at your life through God's eyes and not the limited perspective of your human eyes. We need to do this from time to time. Look at our lives from a higher perspective and see what we see. It can look very different from that angle.

That's it for this week. Thanks for visiting my blog..............and now I have to get back to work.
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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 6/27/2010

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

It's Time To Get Back to Blogging

2010-06-07T20:33:00.000-07:00

I don't remember the last time I blogged. It's been an interesting 5 months since the Center closed January 1st. Winter was a good time to go through the grieving of saying good bye to such a sweet place. So many wonderful memories. So many special people came through those doors.

One thing I became aware of is how burned out I was/am, which is why you haven't heard from me in a while. I've been sleeping alot and laying low. Seeing my wonderful chiropractor, Marcie New, at least once a week to get my adrenals back to normal and learning to do things differently. Instead of constantly multi-tasking, I'm learning how to focus on one thing at a time.

I was down at Edgar Cayce's A.R.E (Association for Research and Enlightenment) three weeks ago to give a lecture and do a workshop on psychic development and found a WONDERFUL book called Jesus: His Words Decoded, HIs Mystery Teachings Revealed by John Van Auken, that has been life altering for me. For those of you that know me, you know that I can never get enough of Jesus' teachings and this book REALLY does a wonderful job of presenting his teachings to us. I've been thinking about blogging some of the cool things that Van Auken says in the book. Whenever I find something good, I always want to share it with everyone. (As I type this, there's a racoon out in the bird bath, taking a bath. It's pretty cute).

I'm also in the process of working with a young woman named Leigh Hopkins, who is going to help me put together on-line psychic development classes so that I can reach more people world wide. If this is something that you might be interested in, email me Echo@echobodine.com or Leighopkins@gmail.com and we'll get you on a list. We're shooting for July as a start date. I don't have any more details than that, but we're working on it everyday and will know more very soon.

It would be cool if we could get some kind of universal book study group going on the internet and all study Van Auken's book together. Is there such a thing?

This is on pg. 22 of the book:

"We have come to know that God Consciousness is not a profound "other" voice in our heads that tells us what to do, no. It is as the prophet Elijah so poetically told us, he found God in a still small voice within himself.. That still voice is heard more by feeling that hearing. God's spirit bears witness with our spirit. It is subtle, familiar and as near to us as our own consciousness. We are simply too close to God to hear a separate voice.

So to all of you religious teachers (I'm sure there are hundreds of you reading my blogs ) who teach your flock that the only way to God is through you, shame on you. We all have access to Gods silent voice, silent knowing.

Sleep on that and I'll be back in a few days. I need to go read some more.

Thanks for checking in and I promise, I will do better with these. Blogging still seems a bit strange to me. An on line diary that I share with the world. Hmmm. Strange indeed.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 6/7/2010

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Plan B

2010-01-03T11:31:00.001-08:00

It's the third of January, 2010 and the new year is already feeling pretty good with the exception of the frigid temperatures outside. The sun is shining, the sky is blue and I'm finally getting some guidance about Plan B.

I had a nice spiritual experience the other night at the urging of my inner voice. Wednesday was a tough day at the Center as we cleared everything out of there in the frigid weather. Thank God for Larry (Sparky), Marina, Cathy and Kay or that place would still be filled with stuff. They worked their butts off, filling their suv's with boxes upon boxes and then they delivered them all to my house.

My plan was to stay home and start organizing everything but my inner voice pushed me hard to go over to the Center and vacuum one more time which seemed odd because I had vacuumed it a couple times already, but it wouldn't leave me alone, so I went over to the Center.

I wiped the counter tops off one more time, closed up the blinds and as I walked around vacuuming, all kinds of wonderful memories came to me about when we first rented the place and completely gutted it to create our own space.

The basement carpeting was orange circles from 1977. Half of the floor was dirt and we had to bring in a cement mixer and bags and bags of 80 lb. cement bags. Bobby Sullivan has fond memories of carrying all those bags down several steps. Jorge and Fernando took over the project and before we knew it, the basement floor was even and looking good.

Chris Herzog (Truiffle) was the project manager and Carey Devers was the organizer and "mama of the project". Every day when we showed up for work, Carey was there in her orange shirt, with a list of instructions for Carol and I. Jim Tomann (bulldog) layed the floors and that alone brings back a ton of happy memories because we laughed so hard. Chris framed in offices and two new bathrooms and Carol and I learned how to sheet rock, tape, mud, prime and paint. It took us a little over three months to get the place in order and when we were finished, we were all incredibly proud of the work we had done to create "The Center." Brand new carpeting up and downstairs, beautiful bathrooms, Chris made my office his special project and put "waynes coating" (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) on the walls.

Everywhere that I vacuumed had a memory to it. The people that showed up to help us every night and on the week ends. The food that people brought in to feed the helpers. The conversations we had with people while we worked on various projects. The painting crew, the ceiling crew, the electrical crew. Every time we had a need for an expert in something ie; electrical, plumbing, etc,

they'd show up. Paul, Greg, Bill, JIm, Mike and Chris H., Bruce, Tess, Carey, Jorge, Fernando, Shannon and her friend, Kay, Julia, Julie, Nathan, Jim L., Lisa, Adam, Dennis, The Junk Squad.

Memories flooded back to me as I slowly walked around remembering all the fun times we've had in that building. The classes, the students, the potlucks and aurapalooza's. The brainstorming sessions we had.

I thanked the building for being an important part of my life and it felt like the building was thanking me/us for giving her new life. For tearing down the old and seeing all the possibilities that she had to offer people. There was a very magical feeling in that place that night as I said good-bye and turned out the lights for the last time.

So what's plan B? Well, one thing that came to the very next morning is that I'm supposed to shift my teaching gears from psychic development to spiritual development. That my focus now is to help people understand their oneness with God and the Christ part of themselves. I'm going to be renting space at Lake Harriet Church to teach my classes and do the meditations. My sense is that this big shift is about making my life easier, with less responsibility. Lightening my load and totally going where I'm guided to go.

So stay tuned for the upcoming new class based on the book Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth. I feel excited and rejuvenated about this. 2010 is going to be a good year.

And now back to the all the boxes sitting in my living room.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 1/3/2010

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

The Best Present

2009-12-22T23:21:00.001-08:00

The other day I blogged about my favorite gifts as a little girl and tonight I want to blog about my favorite gift as an adult.

I've got Christmas carols playing on the stereo (do people still use that word?). I've got really pretty colored lights on my back fence that I see every night when I'm in my office. Just about everyone I've encountered In the last week has been very friendly. As we wind down the shopping, baking and wrapping, that very old familiar feeling that my soul has felt for hundreds of years appears once again. That anticipation of something coming.

When I was a little girl, I thought it was Santa Claus. But as an adult, I've come to recognize what it is. It's the celebration of birth of the coolest man I've ever heard of. Rabbi Jeshua Ben Joseph-- (pronounced Yeshua Ben Yoseph). Teacher Jesus, son of Joseph.

Many people think of Jesus as the guy that came to die for their sins....................but to me he is so much more than that. Frankly, I don't buy that whole conept of him dying for my sins. I'm responsible for my sins, not him. That's what the Golden Rule is all about.

I've always known since I was a lttle girl that he came to be a role model for us. He came to teach us so many things but the main message that stands out to me tonight is that God is a loving God and we can go directly to Him/Her.. We don't need a "go between" to do our praying for us.

He also taught us that He is NOT the only child of God. We are all children of God and we have the same unlimited potential as Jesus did. That unlimited potential is the Christ part of all of us.

His last name is not Christ. His title is Jesus the Christ. He discovered the Christ part of himself as he was growing up. He came to understand that as a child of God, he had the same potential that God has and that what we're all striving for is to know that oneness and live in that oneness.

There is so much he taught us. He brought us freedom in so many ways.

I could go on and on about the things I've learned from him through prayer and meditation but I'm not going to.

Tonight, I'm just going to stay focused on that sweet feeling of anticipation that his birth will once again remind me to dig deeper and be more committed to living from that Christ part of myself.

As much as I bitch about the hassle of Christmas, when it's all said and done, I'm grateful for it's gentle reminder of what we're really celebrating. His courageous life and teachings. His commitment to his path and to God. His example to all of us as to what it means to live from the Christ part of ourselves. That's the best present of all.

Merry Christmas, December, 2009.

Echo

Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 12/23/2009

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
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A Still Small Voice

Tiger Woods

2009-12-15T23:31:00.001-08:00

Today I was shopping at a place that had big screen tv's and there on every screen was Tiger Woods face holding up a trophy. An odd sort of chill shot through my body and I wondered how many people are being affected by his infidelities right now.

It's actually my inner voice pushing me to write this blog. It's been bugging me for a few days and then today when I saw his face on every screen, I thought "Okay, Okay, I'll write it"

If you've read any of my books, you'll know that I usually try to find the good in whatever life challenge I'm going through so that I can get through it easier and without so much resentment about it.

What this public display of infidelity does for anyone that still has wounds from being betrayed like that is that it's a reminder that we still haven't healed completely. If you've been through this type of betrayal, it can take a long time to heal and some choose not to look at it at all. Sweep it under the rug and pretend it didn't' happen until someone famous comes along and gets caught cheating and then all those old wounds come up to the surface.

As strange as it sounds, if you are one of those people that has felt this kind of betrayal and you're still hurting either with trust issues, jealousy, hatred, anger, rage, feeling like a victim, powerlessness, self destructiveness or wanting to hurt someone else, you need to look at this as an opportunity to heal yourself and those feelings. That hurt you feel is not about Tiger Woods or any of the other people coming forward about betrayal. Their actions are a catalyst for you to continue to heal so that the day will come when you can listen to a story of betrayal and not feel personal about it. That's the goal here.

I remember a couple of years ago the astrologer Nancy Jernander told us that we were coming into a two year period where secrets would be revealed. That it was time for the light to shine on everything that was being kept in the dark and that's why we've heard so much of in the last few months. My guess is that it's not going to stop. We'll continue to hear of stories of betrayal but if we can switch gears and look at it as a barometer for our own healing process, we can see the good in it. If you're having a tough time not knowing where to go or how to go about healing, get a copy of my latest book, My Big Book of Healing. As you work your way through the book ask the Universe to help you be honest with yourself and get those feelings out on paper. This life of yours is about YOU healing . Give yourself the gift of healing for the new year. Make it your goal to get out from under all those harmful feelings that might be eating away at your good health.

We're coming into a brand new year...............And from what I've seen in readings lately, 2010 sure holds alot of promise for people. I see new beginnings everywhere.

So let's send a mental thank you card to all the people out there that are pushing our buttons and reminding us of our unresolved pain.

Happy 2010.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 12/16/2009

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Christmas Magic

2009-12-15T22:44:00.001-08:00

The other day I was baking cookies, thinking about Christmas and the memories I cherish the most.

The thought struck me that I wondered why I always reminisced about my childhood Christmases and not any of the Christmases I've had as an adult.....................

After much mulling over, I realized that as a child, there was always a magic about Christmas. The memories that came up the strongest were the plate of cookies at my grandma's house every year. She would do a cookie exchange with her church friends and it was always fun to see what was on the plate. When we were finished with dinner, gramma would give each of us a bowl of ice cream and we passed the cookie plate. It was such a fun part of the evening. I don' t have memories of any of the gifts or the conversations we had. Just gramma's big beautifully decorated dining room table where we all sat together and felt happy.

I loved driving to Grandma's on River Road because we always watched for Santa. I swear my little heart jumped out of my chest every time I saw a red light in the sky. And then when we got home we'd all run to our beds to see if Santa had left us new pajama's on our pillows because that meant he had already been there and would be back soon. One quick cup of hot chocolate and we were off to bed in our new jammies.

Favorite memories of gifts? Tiny Tears doll, a blackboard (so I could be like my 2nd grade teacher Miss Johnson), a stuffed monkey, an Easy Bake Oven and a new doll every year.

I've had wonderful Christmases as an adult. I've received beautiful presents, have had wonderful friends, nice places to live, wonderful spiritual experiences. There's been so much to be grateful for at Christmas time, and yet........................I think I will always yearn to feel that childlike innocence of believing that Santa will once again put those jammies on my pillow and that it's really Rudolph streaking across the sky on Christmas Eve. That there will always be a plate of cookies without the worry of what the gluten or dairy. Believing in the magic once again.

Those are the memories I cherish.

Part 2 tomorrow.

Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 12/16/2009

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

The Plan?

2009-12-13T10:33:00.001-08:00

I'm told that my mind jumps from one thing to the next in a matter of seconds because I have Gemini rising. Whatever the reason is, I can tell you one thing. It's very annoying (but entertaining).

So here we are, 12 days from Christmas and my mind is all over the place.

The Center is closing in 18 days. I was over there yesterday, taking things off walls, reminiscing as I held each item in my hand. Several times I caught myself wondering if this was really the next step in my life. Letting go of the Center and all that's in it. Letting go of the dreams I've had for years of creating a safe, spiritual place for people to come to. And every time I wondered, I heard my inner voice give me that quiet confirmation that I have felt so many times.

Many many times throughout my life, my inner voice has reminded me of a commitment I made to Jesus as a little girl and that was that if he ever showed up at my door, (like he did the disciples) and asked me to let go of everything and follow him, (as he did the disciples) I WOULD.

I've always lived my life with that sense that I needed to be foot loose and fancy free so to speak, in order to follow the guidance I received from within. And closing the Center is another one of those "closing the door" experiences in my life.

I remember thinking as a kid that I KNEW this was how I was supposed to live my life, no matter how much I wanted to hang on to relationships and material things that I had outgrown.

But here I am, at 61 years old (can't be) and I'm doing it again. People ask me what's next and as I've told my students many times, the new plan has not been disclosed yet. The guidance I get is finish up what's on my plate ie; close the Center, finish the new ghost book, continue to stay on top of my health (very sensitive Virgo system) do Christmas and wait.

And this is where I have trouble with my Gemini mind. It races to make a plan. Wants a plan. Thinks it will die without a plan. "Please Echo, make a plan. It's irresponsible to live without a plan. blah, blah, blah."

This is actually the magical part. The part where I tame my Gemini mind to focus on what's in front of me ie, baking, shoveling, feeding the cat, cleaning the house, blogging more, taking out the garbage, don't slip on the ice, answer my emails, set up appts., eat gluten free, call mom, write, get new tires, call my son, water the plants, feed the squirrels, birds and bunnies and watch NCIS, take a nap.

AND DON'T MAKE A PLAN. Listen for the plan. Listen.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 12/13/2009

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Listening for Plan B

2009-11-22T22:05:00.000-08:00

Changes, changes, changes.

Yesterday, we had an Open House at the Center and it was so wonderful to see so many people show up for readings, healings, massage and aura photo's, not to mention take advantage of the great sale that Moon Wisdom Gift Shop had. It was a really fun day.

My numerology chart (done by Wes@weshamilton.com) keeps saying that I get most of my energy and enthusiasm from working with other women right now and it sure is true. There was such a feeling of love and nurturing in the room and I didn't want the day to end.

Many of you know that I made a decision (with the help of the Universe) to let go of the Center as of December 31st. After the day like yesterday, I've been questioning my decision on and off all day but my inner voice keeps affirming that the decision was the right one.

I think back to all the work we put into creating it just the way we wanted it to be and there's a whole array of mixed emotions. Gratitude, sadness, excitement, pride. I have to remind myself that we had no idea what that building would lead to when we undertook the reconstruction job on the building and yet it turned out to be a blessing for many many people.

We have 5-6 weeks to get rid of everything and get it ready for the photographer that is taking over the building.

Many people have asked me what plan B is and I haven't been shown that yet. I don't know about future classes or meditations. I know there's a plan...............there's always a plan.............but until I get a clear vision of it, I have to stay out of the way and LISTEN.

Am I visualizing what I want? Have I made a Treasure Map so that the Universe will know what I want? Am I seeking the help of a life coach? No, no and no.

I listen.

Not to the voices of the world. Not to the voices of well intentioned friends. I love the input I get from my gifted friends, but the last word on anything that happens in my life comes from the still small voice inside. As tough as it is not to get in the drivers seat and figure it all out, living this way has always been the best way for me to go.

In one of the stories in Look for the Good and You'll Find God, I mention my parents taking us to a play when I was younger called Fiddler on the Roof. The main male character (can't remember his name) has constant conversations with God about his life and I remember knowing at the age of 10 that that's how I wanted my relationship with God to forever be.

Right now God's wisdom is NOT giving me Plan B because I can easily get overwhelmed with the holidays approaching and letting go of the Center.

Before I know it, Plan B will present itself and I'll be off and running on my new adventure.

Stay tuned.....................and Happy Thanksgiving.
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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 11/22/2009

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

What's with all the Demons?

2009-10-17T18:47:00.001-07:00

What in the world is going on? Lately all I hear about is demons. Demons are the cause of this or that. Demons are attaching themselves to us and making us do horrible things. Demons.

What the hell is a demon anyway?Webster says it's an evil spirit or a devil.

So suddenly we're all being taken over by these evil spirits?

C'mon folks. GET A GRIP..

And then there's all this spirit attachment.

Everyone's behavior in the last year has been excused away by spirit attachments. And again I say, GET A GRIP.

We are not a bunch of victims here.

I heard that Gary Spivey says people with Fibromyalgia have demons. I'll be sure to mention that to my sweet 80 year old mother who has the disease. I've also heard that he says demons are the root cause of all of our problems. That reminds me of an experience I had at least 30 years ago.

I was giving a talk to high school kids about un-wed pregnancy and birth control and one of the girls came up to me afterwards and said that her boyfriend told her if she ate a lot of peanut butter, she wouldn't get pregnant. She was wondering if that was true. I was torn between wanting to get mad at the young man or laughing.

And that's how I feel when I hear these ridiculous stories about demons and spirit attachment,

Lets break this down:

There is a Universal law that is Like Attracts Like and since that's the case, you have to ask yourself Why would YOU attract a demon? Why would a spirit attach itself to YOU? What's the benefit in it for them?

In order to be an evil spirit, you had to be evil in your life. Let's take Saddam Hussein. Why would he bother attaching himself to you? Why would he come into your life and make you do bad things to people? I think he's got a pretty full plate on the other side cleaning up his karma. And the same with all of the other EVIL people we have heard of throughout history. These folks are not down here on Earth attaching themselves to us. They're working their butts off (actually they don't have butts, do they?) to be able to come back to Earth someday.

I can hear you thinking "yah but what about all those ghosts in the astral plane" and that's a good question.. Something you need to understand about ghosts is that most of them are immature souls who simply do not want to move on. We've all met people like that. Maybe you're one of them yourself.

You hate change. You don't want anything in life (or death) to change, so when you die, because you have free will, you might chose to remain earth bound AND STUCK.

I'm thinking back to how many spirits I have seen over the years that have attached themselves to people and I can honestly say less than a handful. And I've had a spirit or two attach themselves to me, but when it happens, you feel weird, off balance. You can look in the mirror and not see your own eyes looking back. You feel the extra weight of something that's hanging on to you.

If you have those symptoms, you can go to a healer and get the spirit attachment off with a simple healing. It doesn't have to be some grand ritual. Don't buy into the hype that seems to be going on.

You can also tell the spirit to get off of you and go to the light.

I don't want to sound like I'm blowing off the whole spirit attachment/demon thing. Spirit attachment is real and does happen, but certainly not as much as people are saying. And I suppose there are demons out there although I've never seen one in the 42 years I've been a ghostbuster.

If you're having a problem in your life, do your inner work first before deciding it's a demon or spirit attachment. Don't buy into the crazy peanut butter stories out there.

And if you are someone who has a reoccurring problem with attachment or attracting demons, ask yourself one question. What are you getting out of it for it to be continually happening. Does it make you feel special? Is it a good excuse for not having to do your inner healing work? There's a pay off somewhere otherwise, you'd put your foot down and not allow it to happen anymore.

Demons be gone. Spirit attachments go home.

End of Blog for tonight.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 10/17/2009

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

No More Gas Station and Vitamin D

2009-09-25T10:32:00.001-07:00

Oh what a difference a week makes!!!

Last week I wrote the Blog about finding my gas station and a week later, I've let go of the entire idea. Last Saturday I spent the day at the Cottage House making popcorn for all the folks that came by to shop. It was a really fun day and I'm very glad I did it. I met some really nice people and it was fun to watch people come out of the house with their new purchases and big smiles on their faces. At least a dozen people commented that they loved coming to the Cottage because it's like stepping into a whole other world and I knew exactly what they were talking about. That's what I was hoping to create for people with my place but I realized that day just how much work was involved in putting together something like the Cottage House and that's why I let go of the idea. I just don't have the energy to keep The Center going and create a new "happy place."

Moving on to my next thought is this article that my webmaster emailed me. I really hope you will read it. This whole pandemic thing with the Swine Flu is starting to get crazy.

Monday night in class I channeled a message to the students and one of the messages is that we need to take big doses of Vitamin D and Magnesium during the next 6 months. She didn't say why and I assumed it was because there wouldn't be alot of light in winter time, but the next morning, my webmaster, Chris LaFontaine, sent me this really cool article about Vitamin D and the H1N1 virus. Here's the link:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/22/Low-Vitamin-D-Increases-Flu-Death-Risk-in-Kids.aspx

I'm so aware of how quickly our emotionally charged thoughts are manifesting these days, so please spread the word that there is a solution to this virus. We need to get the positive thoughts out there about it and counter-act all the negativity.

We don't have to be a bunch of sitting ducks wondering if we're going to get this virus. You can get Vitamin D in 5000 IU and only take one a day!!!!

I think that's it for today. It's raining here in Minneapolis this morning so I'm going to go clean the house!!!

thanks for checkin' in.

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 9/25/2009

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

I Found my Gas Station

2009-09-17T23:20:00.001-07:00

I've got a really fun story that I want to share with you.

Back in the '80's there was a movie that came out about a spiritual healer called Resurrection.

I need to tell you about the movie so that you'll understand why I'm blogging about my gas station.

The movie opens up with a young woman (Ellen Burstyn) buying a very fun, red convertible sports car for her husband for his birthday. He totally loves with his car and they take it for a spin, laughing and having a very happy time driving on windy mountain roads.

A car comes out of nowhere and they have to swerve to miss them. Their car goes over the embankment, he dies in the accident and her legs are almost paralyzed. She needs to walk with crutches and she needs to move in with her horrible fundamentalist father.

Next scene, family picnic. Her nephew gets a nose bleed and he's a hemophiliac so everyone is running around panicking about getting him to town. She asks them to bring the boy to her where upon she puts her hands on him (not knowing why) and his nose bleed stops.

Everyone kind of gasps and wonders what in the heck just happened and she has no explanation for it. The movie progresses. Word spreads. More people come by her house to get healed and slowly her fanatical father decides this is the work of Satan and tells her she has to live out in the little house out back. He doesn't want anything to do with it.

She agonizes over her "gift" quite a bit. Wonders why her hands won't heal her own legs but will heal others. Eventually she gets her legs healed. She moves into doing big tent revival healing services and people come from all over.

Enter Sam Shepard. Handsome, charming young man who sweeps her off her feet. They fall in love and get married. On a road trip that they take together, they come across a rickety old gas station in the middle of nowhere. It's the kind where they sell hard boiled eggs in those big glass jars and in one of the jars is a two headed snake. It's a cool little place. The man that runs it is a cool old man. .........

Soon after, ol' Sam starts reading his Bible alot, starts the same b.s her dad did, and starts accusing her of working for the devil.

As he gets more and more obsessed with her abilities, she is very busy doing healings on people, getting tested by the local University and going through some pretty tough stuff with her gift of healing.

One day her husband shows up to one of her tent revival healing sessions with a shot gun. He pulls out a gun to shoot her, yelling about needing to do this to kill satan or some goofy thing like that and someone in the crowd kills him instead.

The next scene in the movie, we see an RV pulling into that rickety old gas station. A young couple come out of the van with a bald,very pale little boy about 6 and you can tell right away he's very sick. Out of the gas station comes our friendly healer, carrying an old oil rag in her hand and greeting the folks as she proceeds to fill up their gas tank. She asks the mom what's going on with the little boy and she says that he has leukemia and not much longer to live so they decided to take him on a road trip across country.

The healer stoops down to the little boy and asks him if he's ever seen a two headed snake.

She asks the mom if it's okay if she shows him the snake and into the gas station they go.

As the little boy is standing admiring the snake, she puts her hands on his body and the audience knows that she is channeling a healing to him. She walks him back to the Rv, bids everyone good bye and that's the end of the story.

I remember three distinct feelings when I left the theater that day. That spiritual healing had a long way to go before it was accepted by people and I wondered if I had what it would take to travel down the road of a healer and the third thought was that if I were to walk this path as a spiritual teacher and healer, I wanted a gas station at the end of my journey where I could just heal people that came into the station without even having to tell them what it was.

Just doing God's work without all the fuss and being in a place that made me happy.

Well.....................here I am. Thirty years later. It's been a long (very long) journey and this week I found my gas station although it's not actually in the form of a gas station.

If you get my weekly emailing's about Happenings at the Center, you know that I send out a monthly reminder about a place I love to shop at called The Cottage House. I refer to it as "my happy place" because it's incredibly creative, colorful, funky, reasonably priced, and full of surprises every month.

Three days ago my landlord called to tell me that the place 2 doors down from the Center is available to rent and my intuition immediately jumped in and told me to get it.

At first I wasn't sure if it was for more class space or private offices for healers and psychics but the next morning when I woke up, I heard my inner voice tell me that this was my gas station and that I needed to create my own Cottage House.

So in usual Echo Bodine fashion, with no money in my pockets and no idea how to run that kind of business, I called my landlord and told him I wanted the place!

Now comes the magical part where I get to watch all the pieces fall into place.

So stay tuned...........................

I'll let you know when the grand opening is. Oh and the name that came to me tonight that I'm going to call it is................................................. My Happy Place.

I need to warn you though..................if you come into the store to shop and you're not feeling so good, don't be surprised if you leave with a bag full of goodies and feeling great.

I'm gonna be doin' God's work with no more hassles or drama. Just healing people when I feel led to and selling to the rest!!!

And yes, my work at the Center will continue. I'll still be doing my career things. But My Happy Place will be a whole new chapter in my life and I can't wait to share it with you.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 9/18/2009

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Scary Times???

2009-09-10T15:25:00.001-07:00

Someone emailed yesterday and asked me to write a Blog about fear. She said that with all the news about the H1N1 and all the horrible rumors about Obama, it's scary to leave the house these days.

I hate what the media does to us. I wonder when the news first started broadcasting way back when, if their intention was to find all the bad news possible and bring it to people every night when they're eating dinner or about to go to bed. Who and when was it decided that the daily news should be the daily bad news. Whatever happened to the daily good news?

This woman told me that her mother is afraid to leave the house because of all the terrible things going on in the world. I wonder if the media ever stops and thinks about all the fear they are creating or is it just about the ratings. True, they do give us that happy little story at the end of most broadcasts to give us the illusion that all is right with the world, but after listening to the first 15 minutes of murders, deaths, war, and the dreaded H1Ni that's going to make us all sick, does that one little day brightener really brighten our day?

The good news is that we do have an option and that is to flick the station when the news comes on. Turn on the weather station if you want to know the weather report, watch sports if that's your thing.....................but if you're finding yourself getting more and more fearful each day after watching the news, DON'T WATCH IT.

My dear sweet 80 year old mother said the other day that she dreads reading the paper every morning because it's so depressing but feels like she's supposed to read so that she knows what's going on in the world. And unfortunately, she too is afraid to come out of the house for fear of getting sick.

In this time when manifesting is so powerful, I wish the media understood that what they're putting out is exactly what we're going to get back. Maybe we should start sending them some thoughts that we want the news to be evenly balanced. We want as much good news as we get bad news.

As long as the world is going to be bombarded with negative thoughts, lets just do some spiritual work here and clear the planet of the negativity.

In a meditation I did for my students last week, the guides told them to visualize sending all the negative energy back to the people sending it. We can protect ourselves from the bombardment of negativity. We can ask God/Universe to clear the Universe of all this negativity 100 times a day if we have to.

A couple of weeks ago on my Facebook page, I asked everyone to visualize a white ice cream cone from Dairy Queen and visualize putting the President inside that cone. It was a visual for surrounding him in white light. Another suggestion is to visualize mirrors around our him,all facing out and anything negative being sent his way goes back to the sender.

Lets do that with the H1N1 virus. Visualize the letters surrounded in white light. We have the power to stop this damn thing. We don't have to sit around and wait for it to hit us.

With anything going on in your life, you have to the power to change it. Visualize it completely surrounded in white light energy. See yourself surrounded in white light energy.

It sounds simplistic to people that haven't tried it yet, but it works and IT'S REALLY COOL.

And now on to the next subject which drives me absolutely crazy.

OBAMA IS THE REINCARNATED HITLER??????????????? Who IN hell came up with that one???

And people are upset because he hasn't put the United States back together after NINE WHOLE MONTHS in office????

What in the world is going on? Why aren't people getting behind him?

I cannot believe that parents were up in arms about the President speaking to their children. What the hell is wrong with these people? They should be grateful that he takes the time to care about their children.

It doesn't take hours and hours of sociology classes to know that the problem boils down to one word and that is RACISM.

C'mon folks. We can change this stuff. We are living in important times. The world is changing.

We are changing. We aren't living in a Leave It To Beaver world anymore. This is the Big Leagues. We have to fight for what we believe in, we have to pray for the courage to walk through the changes, we need to send white light and protection to all our government people, to the media, to each other. Send prayers of healing to all those in the war. Both sides.

Send healing to all the families of the people in the wars. Ask for Divine Intervention in your own life if it's appearing like a train wreck.

Don't let Fear dictate who you are or how you live your life. Look it right in the eye and tell it to bug off.

YOU ARE A DIVINE CHILD OF GOD, NO MATTER WHAT RELIGION YOU BELIEVE IN. SO LETS CALL IN THE HEAVENLY TROOPS AND GET THIS PLANET ON TRACK. WE HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. SO LETS DO IT TOGETHER,

And to my dear friend John D down in Tucson, thanks for the card. It's the 20th. When's yours?

Love,

Echo

Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 9/10/2009

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through

life with your best friend in your pocket"

Echo Bodine

A Still Small Voice

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 9/10/2009

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Transgender

2009-07-27T00:24:00.000-07:00

I have a friend that's transgender and he fascinates me. He is a handsome man during the week and goes about his business as a shop owner, father and grandfather.

On the week-ends he transforms into an attractive female. He grew up with a strict, military father and always struggled with feeling female rather than male. He lived the life of a man and tried denying the female side of him that was so prevalent. He was married. Farmed the land and taught high school shop class. He's enjoyed the male roles in his life.

But internally he yearns to live the life of his female self full time.

Sometimes I listen to him talk and he's so masculine. So knowledgeable in the "man department." And yet, when I see his female side all dressed up and expressing her femininity, I'm so impressed with how well he/she is able to juggle both parts of himself with grace and dignity.

Yesterday I chatted with her briefly before she left to get her hair cut and it seemed oddly normal to be talking to this woman about hair products and her pretty outfit. Last week she and I had an interesting discussion about men and her surprise at how aggressive they can be.

Is he gay? No. He's attracted to women and she isn't interested in looking for a relationship right now.

Some of you might be wondering why I'm blogging about this and it's because I had a very interesting realization yesterday after my friend left for her hair appointment.

I was in my garden talking to God about the level of courage it must take for him/her to be true to their self and thoughts streamed into my head about God being a complete balance of male and female and that my friend is actually demonstrating what it means to embrace and fully live both sides of ourselves.

I don't think our world is ready for all of us to be outwardly embracing both our masculine and feminine side like my friend is, but I do know that one of the major goals of our souls is to be completely balanced when we finish our incarnations.

So maybe what this blog is about is honoring both sides of ourselves. Living from the male side which is practical, intellectual, strong, powerful and decisive and living from the female side which is creative, passionate, intuitive, spiritual, nurturing, emotional.

The right side of your body signifies the male side and the left side is female.

Pay attention to where most of your physical problems are. Right side or left?

If you're having alot of right side problems and pain, it could be that the male side of you is very overworked and needs some support, love and nurturing from your female side. And

vice versa. If your body pain is mainly on the left side, it could mean the female side is feeling alone, abandoned ooverwhelmed and needs more support from the male side of yourself.

Listen to the messages from your body and learn to live from both parts. Nurture your mind and support your intuition. Step into your power with your creativity.

Honor the intellect and honor the emotions. Everything is a part of you.

I'm not sure where else to go with all of this other than to say that I hope whenever I look at my dear brave friend, I will remember that my soul is striving to honor both parts of myself also and that I can do that without having to go through the tough challenges she faces.

I'm one of these people that's always trying to put the pieces to the big jigsaw puzzle of life together..............and I feel like I just received some valuable pieces and of course wanted to share them with you.

Thanks for listening.

Till next time.........................

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 7/27/2009

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Discernment

2009-07-13T14:01:00.001-07:00

Discerning the difference between truth and lies.

I've already seen some things written about Michael Jackson that feel so wrong I can't believe people write them so I want to caution you about believing everything that you read and hear about him in the weeks and months ahead. Listen to the messages, no matter who they're coming from, with your discernment and not with your head.

If you're not certain what I'm referring to, I have a very simple technique that my

teacher taught me years ago.

When you're listening to a lecture, watching tv, reading something on the internet or in a book, ask God to SHOW YOU THE TRUTH of the words you are hearing or reading. Discernment will immediately kick in and you'll know if you're receiving truth or fiction.

My inner voice just said we're not just going to be hearing alot about MJ. There's going to be alot of info coming our way in the next few months regarding all levels of life and we need to ask for discernment always. When we read something that isn't true, it affects us. We feel un-easy inside and some people even get anxiety from mis-truths.

Trust your gut first, then your head.

Short and sweet and to the point today. I'll be back soon,

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 7/13/2009

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett

2009-07-06T16:16:00.001-07:00

It's been on my mind to write a blog since the week that both Farrah and MJackson passed on to the other side but it always seems like there's a million other things to do.

Today I saw a clip from a show on Larry King where Germaine Jackson was showing people all the locks on Jackson's bedroom door and in the background you could see a spirit walking across a room. A few people have emailed asking if I thought it was Michael Jackson.

I went out in my yard to do some work and get a feel for whether or not it was Jackson and into my head I heard Jackson singing the words "I am the one" from the Billy Jean song.

At first I wasn't paying attention but as I walked around the yard singing those words over and over, I had a good chuckle when I realized what I was singing.

Then my spirit friends told me that Michael is going to be having quite a bit of fun with people, giving them signs that he's around and some of them are not going to like it. Some are going to be people that treated him cruelly.

The spirit went on to say that Jackson is an old soul who came in to this life to accomplish great things. Part of his burden for being so gifted is that he was extremely sensitive and his sense of reality was distorted by his childhood and his lifestyle.

Unfortunately he died of a broken heart. Plain and simple.

That whole business of molesting those children was so outrageous and that really took a terrible toll on him. He tried moving past it but he never got over it. The hatred and cruelty he saw in people's eyes towards him was something he couldn't handle.

The day he passed away I checked in on him to see how he was doing and he was definitely in a state of shock. He questioned whether or not he was dreaming and it took him a while to understand that he was not dreaming, but that he had moved out of his physical body. There was alot of hustle and bustle around him but they also kept him very protected while he came to terms with what was going on.

Then I checked in three days later and it was great to see that he was sitting with Elvis. I know that sounds hokey, but that's what I saw. It was very sweet. Elvis was being very gentle with Michael. He knew how sensitive the singer was. They had alot to talk about.

But the sense I got from the conversation was that Jackson was relieved that it was over.

He knew his children would be better off with his mother although he also knows that that won't last long. He knows that Debbie Rowe will fight for her children. He knew he was getting more and more eccentric and knew that it wasn't good for the children, but it was as if he was on a downward slide and he couldn't stop his behavior.

He likes the pace of heaven. It's easier over there. I'm surprised that he's so alert already. So clear on what's going on. Already back here playing jokes on people. He has alot of energy and believed in life after death, so he acclimated very quickly to how things work over there.

I'll check in on him in a couple months and see how he's progressing.

People have said how sad it is that Michael Jackson's death overshadowed Farrah's death, but when I tuned in to her, she could have cared less. She was with her mom who she loved very much and was surrounded by many female members of her family. "Her mother's clan" was what I heard.

There's a whole different vibe with Farrah. Her energy was very low and she is definitely taking her time to recover. She is in absolutely no rush to go out and about and say hello to people. She's being very well taken care of by family members and is completely focused on life on that side. She is not worrying about the people here. She did enough of that when she was here and now she is focusing on herself and getting her energy built up.

I'll check on both of them in a couple of months and see how they are doing but what I can say is that we have not heard the last of Michael Jackson and I don't even know what I mean when I say that!!!

That's it for now. Gotta get to healing class.

I hope you're enjoying summer as much as I am.

Love,

Echo

Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 7/6/2009

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

time to blog

2009-05-07T10:15:00.001-07:00

Well this one is wayyyyyyyyy overdue.

My good friend John Daltrey who lives down in Tuscon, always sends me a reminder postcard that's it's been awhile since I last blogged and I think John has now sent two or three since my last blog.

There's been so many things lately that have spurred me on to write a blog, but then I get caught up in day to day stuff and the thoughts pass.

This whole swine flu thing has been so ridiculous I thought it best not to comment since it all felt so dumb.

Many years ago there was a sugar shortage. Yes, a real life shortage on sugar because the cane crop had some problem. Don't ask me when this was. I just remember it was in my lifetime and women were freaking out because the price of sugar had skyrocketed and they were concerned about running out of sugar for baking.

I remember asking my intuition at the time why it was happening and the words I heard were "it's a distraction." It was a distraction so that we wouldn't pay attention to something else going on in the world.

Last year I heard the same thing about the gas prices and a couple of weeks ago, I heard the same thing about the Swine Flu. Distracting us from what I'm not sure..............

and I'm not one to get caught up in conspiracy theories. I hate anything that promotes paranoia, so I hesitate to even write these thoughts, but I'm going to anyway.

The subject that got my Irish ire up today (once again) is the total dis-regard for spiritual healing. It drives me crazy. I've seen more amazing miracles with spiritual healing than anything that the medical field has to offer and yet over and over people limit their health and care to medicine. I don't know what it's going to take to get the public to realize that the Gifts of the Spirit, namely spiritual healing (and the gift of prophecy) are still happening in the 21st century.

I read an article about Farrah Fawcett this morning that got this whole thing going. When she was first diagnosed, I called her agent, whom I know personally, and asked him to talk to Farrah about getting healings. I never heard back from them. The article this morning is all about her being in her dying process.

Three years ago I was at Farrah's house, filming a piece for a reality show called Chasing Farrah. I'm not breaching any confidentiality by talking about this because the whole thing was aired on tv. While I was there, Farrah was very tired and was having a tough time pulling her energy together to tape the segment. While sitting next to her on the couch, my hands heated up and I asked her if she would mind me channeling some healing energy to her.

She was more than fine with it so I channeled energy to her while giving her a reading.

After the session, she was jumping on the couch, full of energy. She felt great and she had that beautiful spark back in her eyes. Our time together was very special.

So a year later, when she found out she had cancer, why didn't they take me up on the offer? Why are people so dismissing of the healing energy? I had another case a couple weeks ago of a father whose daughter was sporadically coming for healing for a serious health problem. She had very good results with each healing, but because she only came once in awhile, the father was very dismissing of the good that the healings had done because she wasn't healed instantly.

I can't say it enough. Spiritual healing WORKS. It's amazing. God's healing energy is alive and well and available to anyone who asks for it. Some healings take awhile, some are healed instantly. The healing process is between God and the person asking for healing.

If your religion, pastor, minister, priest or rabbi tell you that spiritual healing died when Jesus died, tell them to read Corinthians. Jesus and Paul both taught spiritual healing and told the disciples to go out and teach others how to channel healing. The Gift of Healing is one of the Gifts of the Spirit and it says that these nine Gifts of the Spirit come from the Holy Spirit.

No clergy person has the right to tell us who has the gift and who doesn't. Only the Holy Spirit can do that. So if you suspect you can channel this amazing energy, go within and ask God for guidance with it. I've had so many different religions tell me that if I'm not in their religion or a member of their congregation, I can't possibly channel true healing energy and I'm here to tell you that is pure BUNK.

Thanks for listening to me rant. Now I'm taking my Irish ire outside to work in the garden.

Enjoy your day.

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 5/7/2009

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Don't Squeeze the Charmin

2009-03-08T12:17:00.001-07:00

I couldn't think of a good name for today's blog and that's what came to mind.

Holy smokes are people stressed!!! What the heck is going on?

I can just feel the frustration out there and it only seems to be getting worse.

WE ARE GOING TO GET THROUGH THIS. IT'S TEMPORARY. It's what we have to go through in order to get things straightened out. I know most of us don't like change, but we came here to do just that. To change and grow.

So lets do things for ourselves that are constructive and stop all this self destruction.

Over-eating, drinking too much, doubling up on our prescription drugs, attempting suicide. None of it is any good. It's hurting us.

If the news depresses you, don't watch it. If you hate reading the paper, stop reading it.

There are things we can control. We can get more sleep. Go for a walk. Call friends, not to complain, but to reconnect. Take up a new hobby. Change the old routine.

On last Sunday nights show, my co-host Shannon Faulkes came up with a great Top Ten signs that you are burned out/stressed out right now and I'd like to share that list with you.

Symptoms of an Over-giver-itis

Empty joy mug- the happy juice is completely missing in your life. You can't even think of the last joyful thing you did for yourself.

Floor exhaustion- you help so many people and do so many tasks through out the day, that you could dramatically fall to floor when you get to the end of the evening.

Frazzled nerves- little things set you off, and cause you to want to scream from the top of a mountain cliff.

Couch Lethargy & Blank Stare Syndrome- you've used up all your energy reserve on everyone else, that you cannot even get off the couch to do your life passions. You find yourself just blankly staring at the television set after a long day.

Fun Deprived- you realize that there is not one ounce of fun in your life, and this starts to cause you to become bitter, sour, and grumpy.

Fire-Putter-Outer- you find you are constantly putting out fires that you didn't light (friends/family/coworker dramas)

Phone-Out-of-Ear- the phone is constantly attached to one of your ears, as you listen to problems of all your friends, family, and co-workers, as they have convinced you that you are the only one that can solve their problems.

Do-it-All- you're actively the chef, maid, teacher, shuttle driver, therapist, healer, receptionist, bookkeeper, plumber, accountant, banker, nurse, handyman, homemaker, and oh yeah, don't forget the super hero of the world.

Lack of Beauty Sleep- you put in so much time and energy into everyone else, and their problems, that you actually lose precious time for your beauty sleep. You notice you don't want to even look into the mirror.

Growling and Grunts- when asked to do simple tasks, random growls, hisses, and grunts come from your mouth to let people around you know that you're exhausted.

Empty Pamper Time- seriously, you find your hair, nails, face, toes, and muscles haven't been pampered in forever. You find yourself so busy that you have to cancel your pamper appointments. You have full knowingness that you need to take care of yourself, but you continue to focus on others.

I-Wanna-Run-Away- Blues- it's that overwhelming feeling that you do it all for everyone, and no one helps you, you ignore you, and your body just can't take it anymore. This is the most serious sign that it is time to do something about your empty cup!

If this list is you, it's time to make some changes. Sit down and write out a list of all the things you wish you were doing. If you had the time and the money and the energy, what would you do?

And then I want you to get creative and find ways to make those things happen.

We don't have to be victims to the economy right now. We've got these amazing creative minds that love to find new solutions.

Shannon and I will be doing our show tonight on blogtalkradio.com/thejoycafe and after tonight, we will be taking a month off from the show. We are both getting messages from our bodies that we're worn out, so we need to pull back and re-charge. We'll send out emails and let everyone know when we go back April 19th.

And this is the kind of thing you can do also. Say NO to the things that are wearing you out.

Say no to the energy vampires in your life. And start saying yes to yourself.

C'mon Everybody. We can do this.

And the hell with Don't Squeeze the Charmin. Squeeze it all you want!!!!!

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 3/8/2009

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

terrorist attacks?

2009-02-11T22:05:00.001-08:00

I got this message today from a dear friend of mine in L.A.

I'm not one to send out alarmist messages but this message really struck me and I've been thinking about it all day.

It makes so much sense, so I want to share it with you.

If we listen to our inner voice, we won't end up at the wrong place at the wrong time, but the trick is to listen to the still small voice and not argue with it when it guides us to do something contrary to what we think we should be doing. Please read this message and instead of going into fear, go into the still small voice within for guidance ALWAYS.

Thank you,

Echo
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Subject: EMERGENCY PLANS

Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie 'Munich' was based. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard -- she appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.

In a lecture in New York City a few weeks ago, he shared information that EVERY American needs to know -- but that our government has not yet shared with us.

He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O'Reilly laughed and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show. But, unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred.

Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and the Middle East) to the Bush Administration about 9/11 a month before it occurred. His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has since hired him as a security consultant.

Now for his future predictions. He predicts the next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months.

Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down quietly again. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke -- that we have been reactionary rather than proactive in developing strategies that are truly effective.

For example:

1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal, and the new explosives are made of plastic.

2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire. Because of that, now everyone has to take off their shoes. A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked! Every strategy we have is 'reactionary.'

3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates.

Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are checking in. It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink, and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved. In Israel, security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport.

Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in America is imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate. (i. e., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as rural America this time (Wyoming, Montana, etc.).

The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas.

Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, they can simply valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away.

Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that our U. S. government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the facts.

The world is quickly going to become 'a different place', and issues like 'global warming' and political correctness will become totally irrelevant.

On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked. Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line approach. It's cheap, it's easy, it's effective; and they have an infinite abundance of young militants more than willing to 'meet their destiny'.

He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America should be most concerned, will not be coming from abroad. But will be, instead, 'homegrown' -- having attended and been educated in our own schools and universities right here in the U. S. He says to look for 'students' who frequently travel back and forth to the Middle East. These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't know/understand a thing about them.

Aviv says that, as a people, Americans are unaware and uneducated about the terroristic threats we will, inevitably, face. America still has only have a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks, and Aviv says it is critical that we change that fact SOON.

So, what can America do to protect itself?

From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence. We need to, instead, follow Israel's, Ireland's and England's hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration perspective as well as to trust 'aware' citizens to help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U. S. government continues to treat us, its citizens, 'like babies'. Our government thinks we 'can't handle the truth' and are concerned that we'll panic if we understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake.

Aviv recently created/executed a security test for our Congress, by placing an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. The results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In fact, in Chicago, someone tried to steal the briefcase!

In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by the citizens themselves. But, unfortunately, America hasn't been yet 'hurt enough' by terrorism for their government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the government to understand that it's their citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism.

Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children here in America who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, who were 'lost' without parents being able to pick them up, and about ours schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students until parents could get there. (In New York City, this was days, in some cases!)

He stresses the importance of having a plan, that's agreed upon within your family, to respond to in the event of a terroristic emergency. He urges parents to contact their children's schools and demand that the schools, too, develop plans of actions, as they do in Israel.

Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.

Aviv says that the U. S. government has in force a plan that, in the event of another terrorist attack, will immediately cut-off EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc., as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs are detonated.

How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak? You need to have a plan.

I believe that we're relatively immune 'cuz who'd wanna bomb College Station? We do have one of the larger nuclear research labs but we are relatively beyond the "big city" region. But, if we do go out of touch we, from our side will try relaying messages to you all.

If Canada gets targeted then you all have to do the same.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 2/11/2009

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A Still Small Voice

Well hello February

2009-01-31T22:37:00.000-08:00

oh man, what a week.

My mom went into the hospital on Tuesday and we were told if she didn't have surgery right away, we'd probably lose her by the end of the day. That began a roller coaster week of ups and downs with her health.

She's so fraile and doesn't have alot of energy to say much but it's nice to just sit by her side and hold her hand.

Up until Tuesday I was feeling swamped with all that's been going on since my most recent book, My Big Book of Healing was released a couple weeks ago. I didn't think I had any extra time in the day for my own life. Everything was about work. But then when mom got so sick, the importance of everything else shifted and I've been spending my time up at the hospital.

Today's been a good day. It got up to 43 degree's and the sun was out. It was nice to clean the house and pay some bills. Just take some time to get things organized while mom rested.

My brothers, sister and I all decided to catch a movie so we opted for a comedy called New in Town with Renee Zellwegger and Harry Connick Jr. It's a movie about a woman executive in Florida who gets sent to a small town in Minnesota to upgrade their town plant. It was pretty funny, but it sure doesn't portray us very well. Holy smokes, do we really talk like that? Between this movie and Fargo, I can only imagine the image that people will have of us.

If you've never been to Minnesota, I can reassure you that cows do not walk down the middle of the road here in the city. It was great fun though and I recommend it if you're looking for some good laughs.

We've made it through January and I can see the end of winter in sight. I'm still thinking March is going to be very snowy. I just see winter going out with a bang. Hopefully I'm wrong.

I guess that's it for now. I want to say hi to my dear friend John down in Tucson who always sends me a post card when I forget to Blog. Thanks for the mental telepathy tonight John. I got it.

I also want to thank all of you that have been sending prayers to my mom Mae Bodine and to our family. My brother and I were both saying that we can feel ourselves being carried through this experience.

Happy trails,

Echo
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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 2/1/2009

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The inner child is alive and well

2008-12-30T22:11:00.000-08:00

If you've read my books, you know that when I have a life experience that I think might be helpful to someone else, I usually share it.

I had one of those experiences yesterday that has to do with my inner child. For those of you not familiar with this concept, I and many others believe that there is a child within all of us. If that child is healthy and happy, you don't have to worry about the child causing problems in your life. You'll experience life through their eyes often as fun, playful, colorful, exciting.

If the child still has issues from childhood that need healing, that inner child can cause all kinds of havoc in your adult life.

I cover the Inner Child extensively in my NEW BOOK (no, not Look for the Good and You'll Find God). My brand new book just out now in the stores called My Big Book of Healing. In my work as a psychic and healer, too often I've seen the un-healed wounds of a clients inner child at the core of their physical and emotional problems and I believe that addressing those issues are really important to their healing process.

There is one sure fire way to detect if you are reacting from a wounded inner child or if the issue is more adult based. When you are going through an emotional issue, the key is to ask yourself how old do you feel? Our answers can be very surprising.

Here's an example from a current life experience:

Yesterday I found out some very disturbing news about someone in my life. Someone that I trusted not to betray me...............but they did. I felt pretty devastated last night and kept telling myself to look for the good in the situation so that I could learn from it and move on. I hated lingering in the sadness.

The adult part of me wanted to lash out but I knew it wouldn't accomplish anything. All day today, I just wanted to get away from the sadness but no matter how I was dealing with it intellectually, it just sat there like a hard rock in my stomach. I couldn't cry. I kept clearing myself but the sadness just sat there.

Tonight it dawned on me to ask myself how old I was feeling and my immediate answer was 5 years old. The light bulb went on and I realized it was my inner child that was feeling so wounded. I got out my journal and asked her to tell me how she was feeling about all of this and she had quite a bit to say. Betrayal was the word that kept coming up. Feeling betrayed by someone she has always felt loved by and safe with. That's what that horrible feeilng in the pit of my stomach has been all day. Feeling like I'm five and not understanding why that person would lie to me or chose to hurt me as bad as they did. That's the sadness. It's that simple.

So what I will do now is reassure her that I will never let that person hurt her again and I'll stay very conscious of her feelings over the next few days and give her the reassurance that she needs. My inner child has a tendency to think she did something wrong when most of the time, she had nothing to do with it. The hurt that comes from others usually has to do with their un-resolved issues. She's a tough little kid but she also needs lots of love and patience and that I can give her. We have the next few days off, so we'll play and I'll reassure her that the world is not an awful place.

So what about you? Do you a nagging hurt sitting inside the pit of your stomach about anything? Do you have a situation going on in your life that causes you to react like a child?

The good news is that WE can do something about these hurts now. We are no longer children. We're adults and we can give them the nurturing, attention and reassurance they are looking for.

Don't dismiss that sweet inner child. They're always there. And it's up to us now to give them what they need.

Over the next few days, get out and enjoy that sweet childlike part of you. Go sledding (my bones just groaned). Okay, for those of us 60 and older, maybe a cup of hot chocolate would be better. Do something fun. Laugh. Be silly. Ask your inner child what they would like to do on these days off. You might be very surprised at the anwers you get.

Happy New Year every one.

It's gonna be a rockin' year to say the least.

And if you're not busy on Sunday nights from 6:00-7:30 pm Central Time, tune into

www.blogtalkradio.com/thejoycafe. I am co-hosting a new show on the internet with my dear friend Shannon Faulkes. We do readings on the air and have a blast.

Join us if you can.

Stay safe and warm.

talk to you next year,

Echo

ps. hello to my good friend John D. down in Tuscon. Happy New Year John. Keep those postcards comin'
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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 12/30/2008

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
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Are you living up to your potential?

2008-12-14T11:01:00.000-08:00

I fee like blogging but don't know what to blog about.

It's 2 weeks before Christmas and I'm feeling completely dis-connected from it.

Christmas music helps and so does the snow. Unfortunately it's December 14th in Minnesota and it's raining. Like my friend says, "that's just not riiiiiiiiiiiiiight."

The good news is that the rain will turn to snow soon and then it will seem more like December than April.

Have you ever asked God to show you what your potential is?

I did that several weeks ago. I asked him/her to help me see what a person is capable of doing psychically and spiritually.

Ever since I was little, I've been somewhat obsessed (not sure if that's the right word) about Jesus and what he was (is) capable of doing. I truly believe that the only difference between him and us is what we've been taught to believe. We've been taught to believe we're sinners, he was taught to believe he is a son (child) of God and therefore has unlimited potential.

HIs message to us over and over is that we have the same potential he has. He is a son of God. We are sons and daughters of God. He came to free us up from the negative things we've been taught about ourselves and show us how to live up to our potential.

So it seems reasonable for us to ask to be shown our potential, isn't it?

That's going to be my goal for the new year. I want to stretch myself and live up to my potential as a child of God. I think it'll be fun. I've already had a few strange things happen since asking, so to be perfectly honest, it makes me a little nervous also.

The mental telephathy I'm experiencing with people has gotten wayyyyyyyyy spooky.

It's almost like I don't need the phone at all anymore.

I walked by my ailing television the other day (it has 3 colors. purple, green and red and they are all in places they shouldn't be) and I said to the tv, heal dammit. I don't have money to get you fixed right now. I went downstairs to do some laundry, completely forgetting my rant to the tv set and when I came back upstairs, it took almost 10 minutes of watching tv before I realized the picture was perfect. The color was fixed. (the tv has been ailing for weeks).

What's interesting though is that when I went to bed, I was doubting that it really happened. My virgo mind kept trying to analyze it (when will I learn) and the next day, it was back to the purple, green and red. I know it was the doubting thoughts that un-healed it.

And then the most bizarre thing that happened was that I was living in two realities at the same time. Echo Bodine was living here in Minneapolis Minnesota in the year 2008 and I was also a man living in England in the 1800's named John, who was a banker and had a wonderful wife and three children (that he has nothing to do with). The children were their mothers responsibility. I was continually seeing life through John's eyes. But then I was living in my life also. I could smell his home. I saw him put on his brown tweed coat and walk home from the bank every day. He deeply respected his wife. They were both quite proper. He slept in "bed clothing" (his words). I saw this thick smelly oil in their lanterns. (someone just told me yesterday they used whale oil).

What was most bizarre is that I would be standing teaching a class here in Mpls and suddenly I would see John's wife bringing him a plate of cookies that she just baked. I could smell them and his pipe. For a split second, I had left my Echo reality to be in John's reality. And then I pop back. Fortunately, my other life with John stopped last week. It was getting too distracting, so I was glad when that door closed. (shortly after that happened, I got one of the worst migraines I've ever had that lasted for days...............so this potential stuff does take a toll on the body. Another reminder of watching what we pray for).

Thank God my students are so patient with me. They are getting used to those blank spots when I teach. They sweetly remind me where I was in the discussion and we pick things back up as if nothing happened!!!!

And my dreams!!! Don't even get me started.

In two weeks we will be celebrating the birth of our older brother Jesus, who came to show us our potential as children of God. He came to show us what the Christ part of each of us is.

That is alot to celebrate.

And then we start a new year. Maybe we should start a "live up to your potential" support group for the year 2009. Anybody want to join me?

Gee, and I didn't think I had anything to say.

Be sure to tune into www.blogtalkradio.com/thejoycafe on Sunday nights 6:00-7:30pm CST.

Shannon Faulkes and I are co-hosting a new radio show. We will be doing readings, talking about various subjects having to do with the paranormal and I will end each show with a guided meditation.

Happy Holidays.

Echo

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 12/14/2008

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
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A Still Small Voice

Election Week

2008-11-09T00:19:00.000-08:00

What a Week.

Election night was so amazing. I'm so glad it's over and yet I've relived it over and over in my mind many times this week.

McCain's speech was amazing. I agreed with many people this week who said if they had seen more of THAT McCain throughout the campaign, the election might have been alot closer. His speech was straight from the heart and I'm so grateful it was only him talking. It really felt like the real John McCain was finally speaking up and it was wonderful.

When Obama came out to speak to the Nation, I sat and cried like a baby. The feelings inside were so intense. I felt incredibly grateful that he was nominated.

He truly is going to take us into the new world. It makes perfect sense to me that divine order is at work here, nominating a person who is half African American and half Caucasian. He knows life from both perspectives and we need someone with that kind of compassion.

Unfortunately there's a down side to all of this and that is all the insanity going around about him being a Nazi, the anti-Christ and a terrorist.

What the hell is wrong with the people saying these things? You can look into the man's eyes and see that this isn't true. You can see his integrity and strength. We are so blessed to have someone willing to get us out of the mess we're in and yet some people can only find fault.

The last two days I've had to pull back from the world and be in the silence. Clear myself of this negative energy and stay away from people who are saying these negative things.

I found myself worrying about the crazies out there. The KKK's of the world. The racist pigs.

The utter stupidity and judgments.

I wasn't raised by racist parents and I'm so grateful for that. It's hard for me to understand what that hatred is really about. I'm the first to admit that I have a child like view of life in many ways and when I hear people talking so negatively, I just want to turn and run away from them.

I've decided that the one thing I can do is ask God for guidance as to what I can do to be supportive of Obama and his family. The man needs a tremendous amount of support on all levels and like he says, he's not going to do it for us, we're all going to do it together.

The thought came to me the other night to visualize him surrounded in a white light of protection ALWAYS and to also see his family protected by Universal energy.

We've got some tremendous healing coming.

The world has not felt like a safe place and ever since Tuesday, there's a sense of safety that I don't remember feeling before. All of this tells me that we're on the right track as a nation.

We're on the yellow brick road and we're headed in a great direction and I am so excited about it. My prayer is to please keep he and his family safe from all the lunatics out there.

And that if there are people out there planning to do something to him (as some are saying)

please distract them from their negative intentions.

That always works wonders!!!

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 11/9/2008

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"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
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A Still Small Voice

A Step at a Time

2008-10-13T00:53:00.000-07:00

I love projects. Short projects. Not long projects (like writing books).

I get bored quickly (Gemini rising) so I like creative projects that I can start and finish within a week

This week-ends project was making a reversible fleece jacket for my sister. I had never made one before and it sounded like fun so I decided to give it a try. I observed something about myself that seemed like a perfect analogy for what I've been blogging about lately.

Because this was a brand new pattern, something I had never tried before, I kept skipping ahead in the directions so I could figure out how it was all going to come together in the end.

What was interesting was that I would get way ahead of myself and then get confused because I couldn't understand how it was all going to work. Several times I had to remind myself to go back to the step I was working on and just focus on that. Forget the outcome. Forget how I was going to get there and do what was right in front of me.

Somewhere between sewing the pockets and pinning the sleeves, it dawned on me that that is exactly what I need to do with life right now. Forget about the outcome. Forget about trying to figure out what it was going to look like when I got to the end.

Just do the step right in front of me and before I knew it, I was putting the finishing touches on it.

On a completely different note, I want to tell you about a cd called Spiritual Healing by Deuter. It's amazing. It's produced by New Earth.

A friend of mine gave it to me for my birthday last month and I absolutely love listening to it. If you can spare $12.99, I would highly recommend getting a copy of it. It is so soothing and exactly what we all need right now to remind ourselves of the peacefulness.

I'm going to sign off early tonight. I want to say a special hello to my friend John Daltrey down in Tuscon who sends me post cards from time to time to remind me to blog.

Whatever you're doing John, it's working. I love feeling connected to people again.

I'm hoping to be back tomorrow and share some thoughts about spiritual healing. I visited my friends baby in newborn ICU today and have been thinking about healing all afternoon.

But that's tomorrow. For now, the step right in front of me is bed.

nighty night.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 10/13/2008

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We Can Do This.

2008-10-11T12:16:00.000-07:00

One of the best things that came out of 9/11 is that we pulled together as a nation and it felt great. I read somewhere this week (I think it was Karen Bishops Energy Alert) that we're going back to a time when we all worked together to help each other out. Like many many years ago when a snow storm hit and everyone got out and helped each other shovel. I remember those days when I was a kid. Everyone helped each other back then.

We hardly see that anymore but we did see it for a few brief weeks after the 9/11 incident.

It felt great to be so connected to everyone. I loved the feeling of oneness with each other.

So here we are again. Another world wide crisis and we can do this. We can pull together and get through it. We have to. This is a time for us to transform once again.

There's a great poster of an older gentlemen whose been pumping iron and it says, "Getting Old Isn't for Sissies." Well living on this planet isn't for sissies either. We can do this. We can go through anything (except more political ads on tv).

It strikes me as so interesting when people say they've lost their security in the stock market. SECURITY? It's numbers for God's sake. It's not security. If we put our security in anything material, we're bound to go through this kind of thing because we can lose it all at the drop of a hat.

A message that keeps coming through in the meditations I've been doing for my students this week is to step outside of the situation and observe what's going on as a third party.

Get your fear, insecurities, anxiety and anger out of the way and observe all of this from God's eyes. Yes I know that's quite alot to ask, but if we're on a spiritual path and we're constantly striving to grow and transform, it's these kinds of situations that provide those opportunities. Look at your life and the economy through God's eyes.

And I'm not talking about a religious God. I'm talking about the real deal.

The God within you and of the world.

Take five minutes to close your eyes and sit in the silence. Focus your attention to the white light in your solar plexus (belly button area). Yes, there really is a light in there at the core of your soul. This is where your higher self (God) resides. With each breath that you take, see that white light getting bigger and bigger until it completely surrounds you and you can't see yourself anymore. Then just sit in that white light and ask God to show you his/her perspective of what is going on in your life and in the world.

It's really cool what happens. And if nothing happens, try it again later.

We need to get to the point where we can detach ourselves from the world fears, anger and anxiety and go within to the truth of our lives and ourselves. Connect to our true God self and feel that safety. That's where the real security is.

I know for some of you those are just words that you've read in new age books and it goes right over your head because you won't let yourself have the experience of finding out that it's real. Drop down from your head and let yourself start to connect with your intuition. Your inner knowing. That gut feeling that guides you. It's real. There's nothing more real that that inner wisdom and knowing.

Living on this planet is not for sissies. We have to stop focusing on all that we've lost and make ourselves focus on what we have left and go from there. We can do this guys. We can.

And I guarantee you that if you can free yourself up from putting your faith and security in material things, YOU WILL BE FREE. Freer than you thought was possible.

This horrible economy is an opportunity to start over and do things differently.

So as Larry the Cable guy says lets"git er dun."

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 10/11/2008

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Is Suicide the answer?

2008-10-09T23:05:00.000-07:00

Today I talked to a very dear friend of mine who has lost everything in the stock market.

He called to tell me that he bought a 9 millimeter gun and is having a hard time coming up with a reason not to end his life.

I do know that feeling of total desperation. I hit that point myself just before sobering up from alcoholism. I too contemplated suicide but knew intuitively that it was not the solution.

There are going to be alot of people feeling that desperation as the market continues to fall and the expression that comes to me is that this will separate the boys from the men. That applies to us women as well.

In the days and weeks ahead, it's going to take courage for many people to keep on going in spite of how things look externally. For those of us on a spiritual path, this is the time to put into practice all the things weve been learning along the way.

We're going to have to discipline ourselves to live in the now and stop dwelling on the future. Quiet all the "what if's" in our head and just concentrate on the time directly in front of us.

Tonight in my spiritual study group we talked about the importance of looking for the small things in life to remind us of joy. A sunset, the colored leaves, our families, our pets. The things we own and will not lose rather than concentrate on all that we're losing.

It's easy to have faith when we have money in the bank.............but when it's gone, is the faith gone too?

We're going to get through this time. We've gotten through worse.

This is definitely a time of change and for people afraid of change, they are going to have a particularly difficult time.

The guides told me about a month ago that we are going to see many people dying in the next few months. They also said tonight in meditation that many people will be getting sick in the next few weeks because they don't know how to process all their fear.

We need to turn off the news and stop reading the heavy articles in the paper. Stop listening to the fears of the world and go within to the pure light of hope and rejuvenation.

As they said in meditation tonight, ask God to show you these challenges through his/her eyes.

Remember that this too shall pass. We never stay stuck in one thing for too long.

Whenever I feel afraid, my mom always says to write out all my fears so that I can see clearly what I'm dealing with. She also says is that our worst fears never come true and I must say I've found that to be true.

If you're feeling hopeless and desperate, instead of buying a gun to off yourself, send an email to Sybil, our healing coordinator at healinghelper@aol.com and ask her to assign a healer to you that will send you healing for the next two weeks. You don't have to go through this by yourself There is plenty of help available to you simply for the asking. We charge no fee for this. We simply ask that you let us know how you're doing after the two weeks are up.

Thanks for checking in.

good night.

Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 10/10/2008

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It's definitely time for an update

2008-10-09T00:11:00.000-07:00

I can hardly believe my last blog was in June.

All summer I worked on finishing my latest two books and when I put the finishing touches on both of them in August, I was bummed because I thought I should wait until their publiciation dates arrived before telling you about them. And now it's October and one of the books has just been released and I CAN'T WAIT TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT.

It's called Look for the Good and You'll Find God; The Spiritual Journey of a Psychic and Healer. It has 28 real life stories in it about my search to know God and the stories are really cool. I can't take credit for them. They are "opportunities" that life presented to me and fortunately I (eventually) looked for the good in them and came to know God as the result.

There is a story in the book about a friend of mine named Roy that I had a past life relationship with and the bizarre way I discovered it. We had a great friendship in this life and unfortunately he passed away a month ago from cancer. That's another reason why you haven't heard from me for awhile. I was involved with he and his family during his dying process this summer and it was pretty tough for me emotionally. With all the knowledge I have about the dying process and life after death, it was still difficult for me to let go of his physical presence.

Another life experience that happened is that I turned 60 in September and I wasn't very happy about it. No matter how many people said 60 is the new 50, it didn't make the reality of it any easier. Sixty years seems so old to me.....................so gramma-ish.

My grandkids came to visit in September which was wonderful, but I still looked around for my mom when one of them called out "gramma." From what I hear on the news, I'm not the only baby boomer having a hard time accepting this age thing. Like everyone says, I still feel 35.

All in all, I'm grateful for everything happening in my life right now and there is a certain peacefulness that comes with 60. I've definitely noticed a change in my attitude as far as not having to prove myself anymore and that feels great.

One of the goals I have on my list for the year is that I stay in better touch with people through the blogs. I want to learn more about the Internet and what's possible out there.

There's got to be some great ways to be in touch with more people and I WILL LEARN ABOUT THEM!!!!

It's late and time to go to bed, but it feels good to be back blogging. Thanks for hanging in there with me over the summer months.

If you get a chance to read the book, please let me know what you think or better yet, make a review of it on Amazon.com. I'd still like to hear from you though, so email me at Echo@echobodine.com and tell me what you think.

Thanks so much for being out there and God Bless,

Echo

Look for my next blog when I talk about the thoughts and feelings that have come to me about the economy and the election.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 10/9/2008

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

When was the last time you....................

2008-07-26T11:49:00.000-07:00

let your inner child have their say on what you do for the day?

I know there's lots to do everyday. Work, answer emails and phone calls when you get home,

feed your family and pets, straighten up your house, get a little tv in there to shut out the day, water the garden, mow the grass, maybe visit a loved one in a nursing home or hospital, go grocery shopping, run to the post office, pick up the dry cleaning, make sure the kids or grand kids are doing good and know they're loved, celebrate birthdays, anniversary's,................

the list goes on and on. I've said it many times in these blogs that there's just too doggone much to do everyday which is why it's so important for us to prioritize every morning.

My memory's slipping today so bear with me if I've already talked about this, but I've found that if I sit with my morning coffee for at least 5 minutes and journal all the things I think I should do for the day and then close my eyes and ask God to help me prioritize all the things on list, I get very clear vision on what's important to focus on and what can wait for another day.

It's been so helpful and I'm much less stressed when I do it that way.

Somewhere along the line, I got the idea that I had to do it all in a day and that was causing way too much stress all the way around.........................

but one of the things that's been fun about doing it this way is that I have more play time.

When was the last time you did something silly that had no purpose to it other than to laugh?

Today I was clearing out a bunch of those whirlybirds in my gutters and my inner child totally took over. A job I normally dread turned into something fun. Idea's started popping into my head about the whirlybirds being dragons living in my gutters and my rake was fairies chasing them out. I totally got into it and had a blast getting those whirlybirds out of there.

When I was done, the thought dame to me that I have the ability to turn any dreaded project into something fun if I'd just let my inner child's imagination take over and have some fun.

When you were little did your imagination create fun stories? Can you remember any of them? I remember serving my dad imaginary food on my little plastic plates and he always acted like it was better than a steak. It was so much fun making things up.

What happened to those times? Did we grow up and get too serious?

Next time you have to do something you don't want to do, ask your inner child to create some kind of story about it and then let yourself just get into it and have fun.

We can make life on this planet fun again. We just need to use what we've got and give ourselves permission to be as silly as we want to be.

And the next time you have some free time on your hands, ask your inner child what they would like to do with the time. You might be surprised at their answer.

until later.....................have a really fun day.

Echo

Manifesting

2008-07-16T11:48:00.000-07:00

Yes, I was a bit crabby yesterday and even though it's actually hotter today, I don't seem to mind it so bad. Go figure!!!

I want to talk about manifesting because even though I've been reading about it and talking about it for years, now that it's continually happening, it's a little un-nerving.

I have a thought and it happens. I have a wishful thought for something and before I know it, it's sitting in my hands. I miss someone and they email or call.

I sense when someone is pulling on me psychically for a healing and find out a couple days later that I was right.

The other day an idea popped into my head for a possible new book. My first thought was that my publisher might not understand the need for a book about this particular subject and into my head came a radio program talking about this very subject and I saw a picture of my publisher listening to the program. I walked away, thinking there was no way this was happening but when I told her about my book idea, she told me she had just heard two women talking about it on the radio.

Here's an example of the kinds of manifesting that's happening. The other night I went grocery shopping and as soon as I walked into the store, I saw the most gorgeous bouquet of a dozen big yellow roses. They took my breath away, they were so beautiful.

I looked at the price tag and told myself I had too many groceries to buy and that I could not afford the roses right now. My inner voice REALLY nudged me I buy them, so I put them in my cart and complained (silently) all the while that I was shopping about spending so much on flowers.

I got up to the counter and it was obvious the young man was having a tough day. I visualized surrounding him in white light so that he could feel a bit less frazzled but he ended up making a mistake with my grocery's as well. He apologized up and down and said he had had a tough night and wanted to make it up to me by giving me the bouquet of flowers!!! All that bitching in my head and it turned out just fine.

I just looked up manifest in the dictionary and one of the definitions is to show plainly or reveal.

And that's what's happening. My thoughts are showing themselves in reality. Is that an odd way of saying that?

So my question is this. Is it the times we're living in? Are my psychic abilities simply getting stronger?

Is it because I'm learning more and more about the Christ part of myself that is capable of anything and everything? or is it all of the above?

One thing I do know for sure is that I need to keep my thoughts positive. I can't eat a cookie and have the thought that I'll gain 10 pounds from it because...............well.............you know.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject. Let me talk to my webmaster and see if I can get something on the site that you could post your thoughts on.

And speaking of your thoughts....................are they the thoughts you want creating your life? Interesting thought, huh?

Stay tuned

Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 7/16/2008

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Hot Enough for Ya?

2008-07-15T15:27:00.000-07:00

It's 94 degrees today with the humidity off the charts and I always get crabby when it's like this. I cant' stand thick heat. Give me a nice cold winter day any time. Snuggled up in three layers of clothes is much more fun than exposing my almost sixty year old body in shorts and tiny tops to stay cool. And will someone please tell me how my gramma's arms got on my body?

I didn't really come here to complain today but it was actually the heat that reminded me to share some info with you that you may or may not already know.

I had a hysterectomy at a very early age and have been on hormone replacement for almost 40 years. When I was younger, every July I would end up at my gynecologists complaining about the heat and all the hot flashes and brain fog I was having and he would give me an extra shot of hormones. Within 24-48 hours I was back to normal, my mind thinking clear again and the hot flashes no longer flashing.

One year I asked him why I was always there in July complaining about the same thing and he said that women use their hormones to cool off their bodies in the heat and we run out of hormones quicker in July and August.

It seemed logical enough and I always appreciated the extra boost of hormones to get me through July and August.

I tell you this because you might be getting crabby and forgetful during the heat and I just want you to know it's not your fault that you're crabby. It's your body doing her best to keep you cool and yet stay balanced hormonely (sp?).

(My modern day gynecologist doesn't agree with this theory so who knows who's right).

Either way...................take it easy during the heat and don't get down on yourself if you get crabby and forgetful. It'll pass and before you know it, we'll be snuggled up in our flannels.

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 7/15/2008

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

have you lost your sense of humor?

2008-06-08T12:54:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago in my spiritual study group, one of the women said

that she needed to take some time off from her job because she had lost her

sense of humor. She works for the government and said that things are quite chaotic

which I can only imagine.

With all that's going on in the world right now, I wouldn't be surprised if alot of us have lost our sense of humor. Gas, $4.00 a gallon. Not alot to laugh about there.

Tornadoes springing up everywhere and record breaking highs in the south. No, that's not funny.

There's alot going on right now on the planet that is not funny and just like the government, many things seem to be quite chaotic.......................

So this is when we need our sense of humor the most.

When was the last time you went to a card store and spent time reading funny cards? Or sent a friend a silly card just because you could.

Maybe we should start some kind of 'getting our sense of humor back" movement.

Find a way to bring laughter to someone (and ourselves) every day.

If memory serves me correctly, (now there's a laugh right there), I think I mentioned in one of my blogs about David Wagners book Life as a Daymaker which talks about changing the world by making someone's day. It's a great book and I highly recommend it. It makes you happy just reading it and also gets you thinking about how you can make someone's day.

Well, I think we should incorporate that with making someone laugh each day. Lets help each other get our sense of humor back. Wouldn't it be fun to focus on that rather than the price of gas?

Another thought I wanted to share with you today is about the importance of a spiritual study group. I am in a spiritual study group that meets every week. We are currently studying the book Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth and it's been wonderful.

We read out loud and then discuss what we read. The discussions are wonderful and it helps us to see how we're growing and changing and also the area's or old beliefs where we're still stuck.

Starting a group is not that hard. All you need is a couple of people who are interested in growing spiritually. Pick out a day that would work for everyone and then find a book that will help you s-t-r-e-t-c-h spiritually. There are so many good books out there. Before you know it, others will want to join your group because they'll want that same peacefulness and excitement that you have.

As I've already said in so many of these Blogs, the world is not Leave It To Beaver anymore.

We need to create whatever we need in order to get through these tough times.

How about a spiritual study group with a sense of humor? Couldn't get any better than that!!

Wherever you are today or whatever you're going through, I hope you can find at least one funny thing to laugh about.

Happy Trails

Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 6/8/2008

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

Stretch

2008-06-03T23:51:00.000-07:00

I was listening to a tape of a sermon by Rev. Leo Buscaglia in which he was saying that during one of his talks, a woman in the audience stood up and yelled stretch. He paused for a second and then went on with his talk. A few minutes later, the woman stood up again and yelled "Leo, S-T-R-E-T-C-H."

He said it took him awhile but he realized afterwards that the woman was telling him that the talks he was giving were the same old same old and she was asking him to stretch himself and come up with something new.

Makes you think, doesn't it? When was the last time you stretched yourself? Have you gotten stuck in the same old same old, day after day, doing and saying the same things. Believing the same old way about everything. Never stretching yourself to think or believe differently?

Obama gave an acceptance speech tonight in downtown St. Paul and I heard that it was very powerful (I was teaching). Talk about stretching. The country is stretching right now. Believing in change once again after being so weary of the same old same old. I'm feeling hopeful that we'll get back on track or better yet, that we'll start a new track for the new world coming.

I've been feeling that inner push to s-t-r-e-t-c-h myself also. Push myself to see what more I can do. I'm tired of doing the same old same old. I've been doing psychic readings for 40 years. That's a long time. And healing's for the same amount of time. Holy smokes.

I'm overdue for a s-t-r-e-t-c-h.

I'm not sure what it's going to look like, but I've been asking God to show me what's next.

I'm going to take a break from doing the Friday night Gallery readings. That definitely feels over due. I've got a great group of former students who are now doing readings as a group for people. It's unique and I think people will really enjoy this concept, so they are going to step in for me and do the Gallery's until I feel it's time to go back to them. You can get more details by clicking on the calendar at Echobodine.com and look for Gallery on Friday nights.

My inner voice told me to stop doing healing's for awhile so I'll be referring everyone to the Healing Pen Pals. Thank Goodness for them. What a great group of dedicated healers they are.

Teaching seems to be the only thing I'm going to stick with for now. Teaching others how to recognize and use their gifts in their every day life. And teaching people to live by that still small voice within. The desire to teach people those two things never goes away.

I'm thinking of teaching "Summer School", even though it will extend into October.

The last Saturday of every month I will teach a day long workshop on psychic and spiritual development from 10:30 - 5:00. I haven't figured out the schedule yet, but I think it will work well for people out of town and people who can't make a night class.

I want to stretch myself. I want to see what I'm capable of doing. I want to keep growing and learning and then I want to turn around and teach it to others. Don't you think it would be totally cool to experience yourself at your highest potential? I do.

And that's where I want to go.

You'll need to stay tuned for how this all turns out. And I'll definitely keep you posted as more becomes revealed to me. When I had my numerology chart done by Wes Hamilton, he said this was a great transitional year and I can feel it inside. I can feel big change coming and in order to make room for new things, I have to close the door on what I've become comfortable with. It's time to s-t-r-e-t-c-h.

How about you? Feel like stretching?

If you're looking for some guidance as to where you might stretch to, I would suggest contacting Wes@weshamilton.com.

He does these fantastic numerology mini readings, 15 minutes for $25. or one hour reading for $150. I highly recommend either.

Thanks for checking in. I'll be back sooner than later..................

The adventure begins.......................

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Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 6/4/2008

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice

May 1, 2008

2008-05-01T01:08:00.000-07:00

Wow. It's already May. It's hard to believe so much time has passed since my last Blog. My intention when I started this up again was that I was going to Blog every week, but it just isn't happening. Time is moving so fast.

If it wasn't for my good friend John Daltrey down in Arizona, I'd completely space out the Blogging, so thanks John, once again for the helpful nudge.

I had a cool experience that I want to share with you. I was in Fargo last week-end doing an Expo and Wes Hamilton was there doing Numerology. I had that done many many years ago and enjoyed the experience, but didn't remember much about it other than the numbers 22 and 11 being in my chart. When I walked by Wes's booth, my inner voice shouted at me to get a reading from him, so I did and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

I'm not sure if it's my age (will be 60 in September) or just the times right now, but I've been going through that age old question, what is my purpose for being here and what's the next step. I was amazed at how accurate he was, reading my life based on the numbers according to my birth name and birth date. He really gave me many pieces to the puzzle of my life and it has impacted me in ways I haven't comprehended yet. Talk about being validated. It was wonderful.

If you are wondering the same questions about your destiny and life purpose, I would highly recommend contacting him, either for a mini 15 minute for $25.00 or an hour reading for $150. You can email him at wes@weshamilton.com

He said that the next step in my life is pulling together all the things I've done, produced and written and create a system for people to learn from so that they don't have to go through it themselves.

At this point, I'm not sure what that's going to be, so I'm asking for guidance daily.

I miss the radio program and have told the Universe I would like to do something like that again except reach a larger audience.

I'm extremely excited about the release of my new book in the fall called Look for the Good and You'll Find God. It's a great compilation of spiritual experiences I've had over the years that have helped me know the real God. My publisher, New World Library, is thrilled with it and we all hope it does very well. It's just one of those projects that I have a really good feeling about.

On a personal note, I'm feeling pretty fried right now. Life is really intense these days. More so than normal and there are alot of people who are really being pushed to get on a spiritual path. Some are embracing it wholeheartedly and others are resisting like crazy. Alot of people with health challenges wanting healing and my inner voice just keeps saying that I'm not supposed to be doing healing work right now. People are scared. Angry. They aren't sure where to turn. I can't remember experiencing this kind of intensity with people before and my sense is that it's not going to be changing anytime soon.

This is all about life creating "opportunities" for people to get on a spiritual path and learn to lean on God. Learn to go within and start trusting the inner voice for guidance and for some people this is a doozey of a lesson. It's hard to watch what some people have to go through in order to get on their spiritual path.

I'm not trying to be a downer here. I'm trying to share hope by saying that in all of the tough stuff going on, there's silver linings in all of it but we have to remember to look for it.

Last night my current psychic development class graduated and one of the my students gave me the sweetest book called Life as a Daymaker by David Wagner. If you can, get yourself a copy of it. It's a very happy book to read at the end of the day before turning out the lights. Inspirational and a nice way to fall asleep.

Speaking of sleep, it's 2:30 in the morning and time to call it a day. I need to go read some more in this sweet book, have a few words with God and get some Z's.

Thanks for checking in.

I will really try to be more diligent about writing these blogs and if I forget, I look forward to hearing from my friend John D.

Good night.
Echo Bodine, echo@echobodine.com on 5/1/2008

On the web at www.echobodine.com
"Living by your inner voice is like walking through
life with your best friend in your pocket"
Echo Bodine
A Still Small Voice