He Saw the Future
Michael Bodine had the gift since he was a child.
He could see and hear things that others couldn’t. He could communicate with the other side. A woman came to him. She didn’t consider herself that type. She was a Christian and skeptical of psychics. But she couldn’t take her life any longer. She wanted some answers. And she wanted them now.Her questions were typical of most people who came to see him. They wanted to know about love, money, children, career, health, and sex.“When is my life going to change?” she asked.He listened quietly to the things only he could hear.“Opportunities for change are all around you,” he said. “And they have been for quite some time. But nothing outside of you is going to change until you make a choice.”“How will I know which opportunities are right for me? Which ones I should pursue?” she asked.He pointed out some opportunities that she had missed. He gave her some specifics about opportunities that he saw coming to pass.“Most people come to see me because they’re waiting for something or someone outside of themselves to change,” he said. “And sometimes the problem—the issue—is a timing thing. But the last thing in the world that people want to hear is that if they want change to happen, they’ve got to do something differently themselves.“When I look at people’s lives I see opportunities all around them, every day. The hard part about seeing so much about people is that I see how many opportunities people let slip by. Life isn’t holding them back. They’re holding themselves back by not listening to their intuition and then making a choice.”Some people call it a gut reaction. Others, intuition, or a sixth sense. There are two kinds of feelings in life: the emotional ones, and how a thing feels to us.I felt scared, hopeless, and depressed when I couldn’t find work. But it was my intuition, that sixth sense, that guided me about where to look.I was grief-stricken, crushed, nearly destroyed when my son, Shane, died. I couldn’t think of what to do next, because my grief had wiped out my rational mind. It was a quieter voice that guided me about how to get through the moments of each day.Both kinds of feelings matter. The emotional ones need to be felt and released so we can hear those quieter ones, because they’re the ones that guide us along our path.Self-care isn’t a static science.
It’s a constantly evolving art.If there’s one rule for taking care of ourselves, it’s this: struggle through things until you learn to trust yourself.
From the book: Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter
