We are at a time in human history when many of us are experiencing a greater awakening of our psychic talents. Here are some of the ways of supporting greater psychic awareness that have worked for me.

1.) DRINK MORE WATER! Actually, I’m not always so great at utilizing this one myself, but I have to include it because it’s both true and easy to do. I learned this from psychic medium Steven Frampton years ago when I was attending his Intuition Development Class. He taught us that staying adequately hydrated actually makes us much better conduits for receiving psychic insights.

Take advantage of this tip by regularly drinking water and keeping hydrated, but also simply by drinking a glass of water before you are about to utilize your psychic abilities (i.e., before conducting a psychic reading).

2.) OPEN YOUR FOOT CHAKRAS! Although most of us in the metaphysical community today are aware of the 7 Primary Chakras (Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart, Throat, Third-Eye, & Crown), not everyone is quite as aware of the other chakras in our energy bodies.

One of the most important chakras to have open and functional if you are trying to increase your psychic connection are the FOOT CHAKRAS! Yes, you have chakra centers in both the soles of your feet and in the palms of your hands. The foot chakras are like the sink drain for your energy body. They allow murky, toxic, or excessive energy to drain out of your energy body into Mother Earth so that she can transmute that energy back into healthy, radiant, useful energy.

If you are increasing the psychic energy running in your system, you will need a place for this influx of energy to go. You’ll also be attracting LOTS of energies from others that you will not want hanging around in your own energy field due to your heightened sensitivity. Highly psychic people are like lightning rods, and you need to be FULLY GROUNDED through your foot chakras in order to be able to receive that level of psychic energy safely.

If you want further insights about the FOOT CHAKRAS themselves and how to open them and keep them fully functional, check out this BLOG ENTRY I wrote years ago on the topic.

3.) OPEN YOUR SOUL STAR CHAKRA. Keeping with the subject of lesser-known chakras, we also have a chakra about one to two feet above the top of our heads, and it is commonly referred to as the SOUL STAR Chakra. This chakra leads the way to an entire array of chakras that likewise extend further and further above the head and out into the cosmos.

Eventually you may be able to open up and tap into the capabilities that many of these chakras provide, but first you will need to open that doorway through opening and working with the SOUL STAR Chakra. If you already have psychic insights into spirit guides, past lives, and other information that is available from the Akashic Records, then you already have an open SOUL STAR Chakra, congrats!

Whether it’s already open or not, my tip to strengthen this chakra is to do a visualization meditation wherein you begin by imagining two energy cords running from the soles of each foot down into the core of Mother Earth. I like to imagine them as Crystalline Cords that circulate in a double-helix fashion as they move down into and connect with the heart of Gaia.

Once you feel fully energetically grounded into Gaia, use your inhales and exhales to pull energy up into your chakra system, lighting up, clearing, healing and activating each of your 7 Primary Chakras.

Then, continue to pull energy up from Mother Earth on each INHALE, pulling it up to the SOLAR PLEXUS Chakra at your tummy. Once the energy is pulled into that chakra center, on the EXHALE, push that energy up through your crown chakra, then past it through the SOUL STAR chakra and BEYOND! Imagine this energy going way out into the cosmos, out into Father Sky!

You are helping to BRIDGE HEAVEN AND EARTH with this visualization process, and simultaneously you are helping to connect to greater psychic awareness while staying firmly grounded and safe.

On the next INHALE, pull energy down from Father Sky back through the SOUL STAR Chakra and down again to the SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA. The Solar Plexus is an important energy center because it is like your astral battery pack (just like your nearby abdominal muscles are the battery pack for your physical body). The Solar Plexus chakra therefore makes an excellent PUMP to keep energy flowing successfully between Mother Earth and Father Sky.

So now you will on the next EXHALE, push all that energy you’re holding in the SOLAR PLEXUS Chakra down into the core of Mother Earth. You can continue this Inhalation & Exhalation process as long as you like, continuing to activate your connections between Earth and Sky.

I hope this helps! If your SOUL STAR Chakra is not yet active, this will help to prime it for activation once it is ready. Trust the process. :) If it is already active, this meditation will help to strengthen your connections between HEAVEN and EARTH as well as your psychic ability! You are likely to have better experiences when seeking psychic insights, and they will come to you more easily and with greater clarity.

Let me know if you try this one! :)

4.) MEDITATION. I obviously just described a specific GUIDED VISUALIZATION exercise for you that can be considered a meditation, but also just a simple BREATHE MEDITATION intended to quieten the mind will be very helpful to you in your psychic journey. Why? A less distracted mind can more easily receive psychic insights. ? It’s that simple. Any sort of meditation (breathe meditation or otherwise) that serves to quieten the mind will help qualm the “monkey mind” that may interfere when you’re trying to be psychically connected.

5.) SPEND TIME IN NATURE. If you’re not great at meditation or just don’t enjoy it, another wonderful option is simply to spend time in nature. When we are in nature our minds naturally become more centered and “in the moment” than when we’re out living our modern, media-saturated lives. Nature is very healing also. The more soothed and healed we feel, the more accurate and helpful our psychic insights will be. Also, being in nature increases your changes of encountering a wonderful SPIRIT ANIMAL Guide who has a message for you!

6.) SEPARATE FEAR & HOPES FROM INTUITION. This is normally the first thing I tell people who ask me how to tap more fully into their inherent psychic intuition. We all have intuitive abilities, but often we confuse something we FEAR with an actual psychic insight. This is not to say that we cannot have a psychic awareness of something negative that exists or is about to happen (of course we can). But sometimes we can have a fear that something is going to happen and we assume it is an actual intuition. It may well JUST BE A FEAR. So until you know for sure, it is best to just take that “intuition” with a grain of salt. The same thing is true of our HOPES. We can strongly hope for something to be true, and assume it is an intuition. In this way we can strongly lead ourselves astray.

One way I’ve learned to step back from my own FEARS and HOPES when reading tarot for myself is to imagine I am reading for someone else, so that I am interpreting the cards as I would for another person. This little bit of removal from my own bias seems to help me a lot. It’s kind of like standing right in front of a pointillism painting and all you can see are different colored dots, then taking several steps backward until you can see the WHOLE PICTURE.

7.) SEEK CONFIRMATION. Once you feel you have gotten a psychic insight, it is a good idea to seek confirmation of its truth. For example, if you’re practicing tarot reading on a friend, you can ask them if what you have said is accurate. Or, let’s say you have had a glimpse into a past lifetime. Is there any way to research what you have seen about that lifetime or that period in history?

I was once doing a past-life reading for someone and saw them wearing a silver helmet that had a thin cresent-shaped adornment running front-to-back along the top of the helmet. When I researched this type of helmet, it was like those worn by Spanish Conquistadors.

Another time, I had an image of someone’s spirit guide playing a dulcimer (which is a type of stringed musical instrument normally strummed with your fingers or with a pick). I was familiar with the dulcimer as an instrument because I had an elementary-school music teacher who make child-size guitars and dulcimers for us to learn on. But in my image of this person’s spirit guide, they were holding the dulcimer up on their shoulder and playing it with a bow like someone plays a violin.

I had never known of a dulcimer to be played in this way, and it was totally out of context for what I understand a dulcimer to be. I researched this and found out that yes, in fact, dulcimers can be designed to be played in this way!

You can also ASK your guides and angels for further confirmation of something if you’re not certain it’s an accurate intuition or not.

8.) LEARN TO TRUST YOUR INTUITION! If you are practicing your intuition regularly, you will start to naturally develop greater trust. Seeking confirmation, as I described above, is one way that you will start to trust that you actually are having psychic insights and that it is not just your imagination.

You will get to the point where you will start to understand how messages are given to you and will develop greater trust that yes you ARE psychic and that you ARE receiving powerful psychic messages from spirit! Again though, if you’re getting any messages that make you feel fearful or that might be leading you to make risky decisions, you should definitely give yourself time to calm down and seek confirmation. It is easier to trust that it is REALLY your intuition if the insight comes to you at a time when you are calm vs. a time when you are already anxious or fearful.

9.) PRACTICE! Regularly practice your intuition, and it’s best that it be something you can easily confirm. For example, have a friend to close their eyes and visualize a certain color. Practice psychically “seeing” the color that they are imagining in their head. You can easily confirm this by asking your friend if you got it right! Whenever the phone rings or you hear a text come through, practice your intuition by trying to “know” who is calling before you check to see. These are very easy things to confirm. :)

10.) GROUNDING AND CLEARING. I mentioned the use of the Foot Chakras specifically earlier in this blog entry, but there are many methods of grounding and clearing and I suggest to utilize as many as you easily can. Salt baths, palo santo, and clary sage (I prefer to use clary sage essential oil in water and spray it around as a mist, but of course the more traditional method is to burn the sage itself) are excellent ways of keeping energy around you clear. Certain gemstones and crystals are also useful for this. There are countless methods available to clear energy, so see what works for you!

For staying grounded, in addition to spending time in nature and walking or sitting with your bare skin touching the earth, I like to eat BEETS! Some of you might call it “beet root” but it’s all the same. This is a great food for grounding because it is not only a root vegetable but it is also that beautiful scarlet color of the root chakra. You can drink it in a juice, eat the root raw or cooked, or take beet root capsules if you don’t like the taste. There are also many ways of staying grounded other than the ones I mentioned, so again, explore your options and see what you think you would like!

11.) PSYCHIC PROTECTION. Psychic protection is very important because as I mentioned earlier, the more you open up to these abilities the more you become a lightning rod and some of what you attract might not be in your best interest. FRANKINCENSE essential oil mixed with a carrier oil (like jojoba or coconut oil) is one of my primary methods of psychic protection. I place it on my third-eye, crown and throat chakras regularly and also my wrists.

The EVIL EYE can also be worn as a pendant, or in my case, as a TATTOO! This is a wonderful method to protect yourself.

Tourmalined quartz and many other gemstones also have protective properties.

You can also simply request protection from your guides and angels and they will be glad to assist.

EXTRA TIP: What about when you want to DECREASE your psychic intake? If you’re feeling overwhelmed, one of the things I have learned is that you can imagine warm, thick, red goop falling onto and covering all over your crown chakra. Because red is the color of the root chakra, it will help to keep your crown chakra more “earth-centered” and unavailable for psychic input. This can be especially helpful if you’re experiencing unwanted telepathic communication (you know, like the psychic equivalent of someone who keeps calling when you’ve asked them to stop? lol).

I hope you enjoyed these tips! Let me know if you have any other suggestions you would include!