How to strengthen your psychic abilities
My advice on developing psychic senses later on in life
(This article was originally published on my main website in March 2022)
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People will often ask me: “Jenn, how did you open your psychic abilities”? And my answer always is: “it’s complicated!”.
I wasn’t born with active psychic abilities…
I actually only started to develop my clairaudience when I was 27 which was about 5 years ago.
So if you think that just because you weren’t born being able to see auras and talk to ghosts, that you will never be able to, you are wrong (at least mostly wrong…)
It was a combination of physical factors and mental factors that helped me to develop clairaudience (which was the first psychic ability that got strong for me, clairvoyance came a bit later and I’m even starting to feel my claircognizance and clairsentience kick in a bit now!).
I’m going to tell you exactly how it happened and what someone should do if they want to develop clairaudience, voyance or any kind of “clair-ability”, but first I want to address another question I get a lot:
Does everyone have hidden psychic abilities?
Imma say this…yes, but unlocking them will be easier for some and harder for others.
If you have an open third eye/crown:
I have this theory that people who have already experienced (without really trying) “spirit world” type phenomena like sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, astral projection and seeing ghosts already have a little piece of themselves in the spirit world, therefore it’s easier for them to access it.
These people were born with sensitive nerves and will have an easier time in activating their psychic abilities, I believe.
They can get there by just using the mental factors which I mention later in this article..
If you have a closed third eye/crown:
For everyone else, there are ways to peel away the layers, so to speak, and get closer to the spirit world and it lies in doing things to allow yourself to see beyond the veil.
Consider this…some people will say that a near death experience (where they leave their body and enter a higher plane) will cause their psychic abilities to unlock permanently because a part of their soul or spirit kind of “stays” in the higher realms after that experience. So now…they can contact and connect to it whenever they want.
But like, don’t go trying to have a near death experience…try these methods instead:
Physical factors that help develop psychic abilities
The same sort of phenomenon (of leaving a piece of yourself behind in the spirit world) has been reported by people who have done extensive breathwork, plant medicine (like Ayahuasca), juice/water fasting, dark room retreats and kundalini activation…it’s like giving yourself a tiny taste of death.
It’s crazy, but some people end up establishing a permanent connection to the spirit world after only a couple sessions of these energy healing methods and it’s because they’re briefly blurring the lines between the realms.
In my opinion though, things like breathwork and ayahuasca can sometimes blast open your crown too quickly and then you’re prone to all sorts of weird, sometimes malevolent energies filtering in.
But I mean…it does work!
If you want to do it gradually though,
A short juice fast is a safer, more “gradual” way of opening up psychically and getting you a little closer to the spirit realm.
1. Fasting
Something like a short juice cleanse can definitely help you experience heightened psychic abilities pretty quickly.
It was actually a longer fast that ended up opening my psychic abilities in a big way when I was 27.
Back then, I had an acute illness where I was getting an allergic reaction to almost every type of food. This lasted for about a month and to make it stop, I started to restrict my eating. Looking back it was almost like orthorexia and was really not a “healthy thing” to be doing.
However…it DID end up getting me closer to the spirit realm, I think because I wasn’t eating any heavy foods (only pure fruits and vegetables).
I was low key ungrounding myself to the point of being closer to the spirit world than the 3D world.
***If you are going to embark on a longer juice fast or fruit fast or something along those lines, please please please do it safely and under the supervision of a professional. Everyone’s body is different and some people can handle longer cleanses whereas others need the protein/fat to balance their blood sugar. I did it (not on purpose) for about a month, but really shouldn’t have.
I would think a few days would be enough and make sure you are still consuming enough calories each day either in juice or produce.
Nowadays, I will do a 1 day juice fast, but more to just reset my digestion, not for spiritual purposes, although I do feel the spiritual effects when I do it!
So there was the fasting (by accident) and then…there was the crystals…
2. Crystals
Around 5 years ago, I started to get obsessed with crystals.
I would sometimes sleep with an amethyst under my pillow and was also gifted a huge citrine which I kept on my bedside table for a couple weeks.
Other crystals I slept with during this time: lepidolite…blue calcite…clear quartz…rose quartz
Some of the crystals I was working with made the visual quality of my dreams more clear and I believe caused me to develop clairaudience quickly by changing my vibration to match that of the beings who were trying to talk to me.
The crystals that I have found to clarify my psychic abilities the most are: lapis lazuli, alabaster, and clear quartz…but depending on how “open” you already are, you might need something different!
I find in general the white/clear, purple and blue crystals (unsurprisingly) target the upper chakras and amplify psychic abilities.
I have to mention…activating the higher chakras either with crystals or fasting can still be super ungrounding (especially if you are one of those people with an already open third eye/crown) though it’s less intense than breathwork and certain plant medicines.
Certain crystals when used in excess can make you anxious, overly sensitive, you might even feel feverish!
So, if you are already pretty open, but just want to refine or open up a little bit more, meditation is the way to go…
3. Meditation
For a gradual way to open your third eye/crown, I believe that meditation is the BEST way.
You will open up your psychic abilities at exactly the right rate because you are “gradually” clearing away gunk from your chakras.
My book “Heart-Focused Meditation” shares the meditation techniques I use for healing the heart and balancing the energy in the body in a gentle, gradual way.
I compare this more balancing form of meditation to that scene in the “Sword and the Stone”. Do you remember it? Where it’s all about, “a gentle hand will rule the land”.
When you settle into your heart space, your other chakras kind of open up naturally! Like how a flower natural blooms, slowly and gradually.
You might also choose to meditate on your womb space and use this energy to strengthen your psychic abilities.
I have a book called “Womb Space Meditation”, if you feel called to learn more about this energy:
You can also follow along with my own process of meditating in the womb here:
It’s seriously one of the most powerful energies you will ever experience, and caused one of the most insane psychic experiences of my life where I basically travelled through the portal of my womb and became a ghost in a medieval castle. Yeah I know…super crazy.
And the reason why I put meditation into the “physical” category, is because when you do it the right way, it will feel very physical, like you’re feeling and recognizing your energetic body.
Anyways…
So those are the physical ways that I believe can help people develop their psychic abilities.
Mental factors that help develop psychic abilities
So…you might not even HAVE to do any of the physical factors that I listed above, not even crystals! Although…why wouldn’t you? They’re so pretty .
If you’re one of those people who is already very “open” psychically but doesn’t know it (and the signs are that you have experienced things like astral travel, lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis, to me this means a part of you is connected to the spirit world automatically) you might only need to make a change in your thinking.
For those people who already mess with the spirit world, I will say this to you…you truly DO already have the ability to connect with these other realms and receive psychic messages, you just aren’t hip to it yet.
It’s one of those things where…”once they know you know about them”, they’re like “ok let’s do this!“.
I know this sounds crazy, but after I watch documentaries about certain wars or tragic events (especially events that have happened in recent history), I will sometimes hear from those spirits later that night kind of explaining what happened to them, how they died and what should be done to bring the perpetrators to justice.
I watched an interview on someone who survived living in North Korea and that night I heard from people who died in the internment camps there.
I won’t say exactly what they told me because it’s very depressing, but I just wanted to show you that “they know you know about them” and once you start putting the message out that you’re game to hear messages and you won’t get scared, they will be more likely to come through.
The importance of listening:
Sometimes while I’m going to sleep I will hear a voice from a spirit, inter-dimensional being go “say something“…”can you hear me“…”are you there?“…and when I say “yeah I’m here! I can hear you!” they will start to talk but will keep reminding me to “listen” as they do because when I’m not listening, they aren’t able to get through.
It’s a certain state you kind of have to learn to switch on and it’s honestly the hardest part IMO.
In my book How To Communicate With Your Spirit Guides, I go through the exact process in “listening” that has really helped me.
A note on discernment:
So…when you first start opening your psychic abilities, guess what’s gonna happen?
A whole CREW of beings, entities, spirits, ETs, fairies (yes!) are gonna jump on you like a new puppy!
I talk more about this in my spirit guides book, but generally…if you get messages that kinda weird you out, or have a creepy vibe to them, then guess what?! They’re coming from a creepy source and shouldn’t be trusted!
I also go more in depth on this here:
The more you cultivate and get familiar with the energy of your own heart, the more easily you will be able to discern between malevolent and benevolent energies.
I have shared astral travel experiences where I visit different “worlds” in 4D. If you think that there are angels looking down on us right above the clouds, you are mistaken!!
Right above us is actually the “lower astral” realm and there you will find humans who have passed, ETs, robot/computer beings…these beings are “stuck” and they have the ability to speak telepathically to us.
Luckily, my clairaudience is pretty clear, so I am able to hear differences in the voices that talk to me. Sometimes they literally sound “computer-like”, or like a robot. So in those cases, I know to ignore that.
But even if you don’t have strong clairaudience, you will be able to feel or see or know what resonates with your own energy (higher self) and what seems off.
Earthbound spirits will also come in and sound very “human” and 3D, but far from my own energy, so I know in these cases that this is just a ghost trying to get my attention and doesn’t necessarily have any advice for me specifically.
I will also sometimes get beings that do not resonate with my own frequency that do not feel human at all. They have a more “cosmic” feel to them and could be ETs from far off planets.
I’ve also heard from dolphins and whales! Which, I’m not complaining about!
But the rule of thumb is to develop and get super familiar with your own authentic energy so that you cannot be fooled by foreign spirits (unless you wanna have a chat, no harm in that I guess…)
And to do this, you want to cultivate the energy in your heart space.
Remember…YOU are the boss!
When you start opening up, you will get tested by them, it’s kinda part of the initiation process.
So…if anything feels a little shady or weird (also if a spirit seems “obsessed” with you and giving you too much information that you’re not asking for) that’s a sign to ignore.
Once they see that you’re not taking them seriously anymore, they will skip town to the next person.
So…you can see it’s very important to be able to tell the difference between different “qualities” of energies.
To develop and get familiar with the energy of your heart, follow the steps in my Heart-Focused Meditation book. For more on discernment, check out my spirit guides book.
So in general, what caused my psychic abilities to open?
When people ask this question (besides “it’s complicated”), I will usually say, I spent a good couple of months working with crystals and also accidentally fasted which caused me to open my upper chakras and connect closer to the spirit world (closer than I already was).
I also started to meditate (using this method) and then actively listened to the spirits who were wanting to talk to me (this exact process can also be found in this book) while using discernment.
Nowadays…I still use crystals to get closer to the spirit world although I definitely don’t need them. It's more to experiment.
My ET contact experience famously came through after sleeping with an alabaster statue beside my bed.
I have learned that everyone has their own capacity as to how connected to the spirit world they are.
You could literally measure it on a % scale and this percentage can be moved depending on the physical and mental factors you put into play.
So…to conclude…don’t have a near death experience 🙃, but maybe try some crystals,…meditate deeply and for long periods…do things to get closer to the spirit world, and see what happens!