The Gift: Understand and Develop Your Psychic Abilities [Paperback]

Echo L. Bodine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 31, 2003

For 35 years, best-selling author and popular workshop leader Echo Bodine has been using her psychic powers to help people gain clarity and find healing. Now she presents an accessible guide to understanding and exploring one’s own psychic abilities. The book begins by dispelling common myths about psychics and defining the four psychic gifts. It then discusses the implications of becoming a professional psychic and offers self-protection techniques. Readers also learn four basic exercises for accessing the “third eye.”

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: New World Library (January 31, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577312058
• ISBN-13: 978-1577312055
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An eye-opening view of the psychics' work, August 16, 2005

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A Reader with Gratitude and Appreciation (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Gift: Understand and Develop Your Psychic Abilities (Paperback)

I listened to two sets of the CDs (One is opening psychic abilities and the other set is about intuition) created by Echo Bodine prior to reading this book. It is a joyful experience to listen to Echo (I tune to her radio talk show sometimes too!). Her CDs and books finally make me realize psychics are not crazy. There are con artists around just like any other professions. But not all psychics are. I met two real psychics before and they do real work to help others. They bring awareness to people's choices in life during difficult times. The true psychics help you invite love and compassion. They create a space and show you the available options by talking to your soul and spirit guides as well as your deceased loved ones.

I love the way Echo talks and write. She has a very friendly style and helped me learn that human's natural gift of seeing, hearing and sensing. I especially adore the section when she talks about the Bible, and the prophets described. It touches my heart for me to realize all along in life, I had pre-judged psychics as the evil spirits. Only then I realize all along I did not see messages clear about God, our souls, intuition and spriit guides. What she said makes sense. True prophets (Shamans, Psychics, etc) are the ones who bring information to human beings to be prepared to life challenges. Not because they can change/avoid disappointment from happening. But with such information coming ahead of time, human beings are prepared to handle life with a higher consiousness which is full of love, kindness and appreciation. It is not the disappointment itself that matters. We cannot run away just because we foresee what is coming from the future. But it is how we respond to disappointments that matters. Psychics' gift helps us learn more about ourselves, others and the life situations for the evolution of spiritual growth.

Again, I really appreciate the author writing this book. It gives me lots of comfort and now I feel honored to be around gifted individuals. Echo's books are treasures. I think one addition to develop psychic and intuition gift is about centering and breathing. I saw two real psychics doing fabulous jobs by returning to the center and return to the breath. Yes, the power of meditations, centering and breath work helps people to open up psychically. Meditations, centering and breathing helps others respond well towards psychic attacks.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Gift - Understand and Develop Your Psychic Abilities, January 14, 2005

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Linda Knorr Shafer (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gift: Understand and Develop Your Psychic Abilities (Paperback)

This is the first book I have read by Echo Bodine. I am very impressed with her writing style - very reader friendly. And out of all the books I've read on developing psychic abilities, Echo's is the best so far. I especially appreciate her chapter on what the Bible says about psychic abilities. This is something, in particular, that I have struggled with personally. She has helped me to understand where these psychic gifts are coming from and presented Biblical scripture to back it up. I look forward to reading more of Echo Bodine's books.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Gift You'll Want to Take Home, May 25, 2007

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Karen Wilson "Karen Elleise" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Gift: Understand and Develop Your Psychic Abilities (Paperback)

Struggling with psychic abilities and biblical understanding of them myself, it has been wonderful finding a book that doesn't make the process overly difficult. Echo writes beautifully on the subject matter while remaining very unasuming and down to earth. It's simplicity from the start takes you through the basics and gradually leads you through the misconceptions many people have about these abilities. She offers insight in dealing with personal gifts as well as direction for those wanting to enhance their gifts or starting a professional practice as a psychic reader.

She ventures into the topic of mediumship. This can be uncomfortable for some people, but from personal experience, when you have developed abilities, you are pretty much a telephone anyway and not just for the types of information you pick and chose. That's kind of like a lint brush picking and chosing the types of fuzz it's going to pick up. This book puts those of us who have had these types of experience at ease with an almost matter of fact type explanation of them as well as why some people in particular may have them more than others. Well done Echo!


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