How To Develop Your Clairvoyant Abilities
Updated 2025.06.18
Opening up to your clairvoyant gifts is a fun and exciting process.
Clairvoyance does not always manifest the way you might think - as seeing something in front of your physical eyes - in your physical space, like a ghostly apparition or a flash of light.
For most, clairvoyance is the intuitive ability to clearly see.
It actually appears akin to the way a memory or an imagination is seen in your mind - it’s an inner vision.
Clairvoyance is the seeing you do with your inner spirit. It's the spiritual sight of your soul.
This ability manifests as an internal or external one through seeing within your mind.
If you can imagine a scene or replay a memory by seeing it in your mind, this is the same exact way that clairvoyance works, except often, clairvoyant gifts illuminate more of the present or even the future.
You can definitely use clairvoyance to look into situations in the past - to understand how present circumstances unfolded, but keep in mind - clairvoyant gifts operate in the psychic field and in the psychic field there is no time.
Everything that is shown, whether it occurred in the physical past or physical present, is currently influencing or factoring into the now.
While I have described this as an inner movie reel playing inside your mind, it’s often more abstract than that, and it can begin as colors, flashes of a scene, or even seeing a spirit.
It’s usually more symbolic in nature and the symbolism is key to the message.
4 Tips For Developing Clairvoyance
#4 Look into any evidence of precognitive visions.
Have you ever said or thought to someone, “I told you so?”
Think back on what happened, this could be called precognition - it can be a knowing or sensing, but usually, some level of precognition comes with all clairvoyant gifts.
There’s a possibility your ability to foresee the next steps of the situation unfolding, perhaps years in advance is not something everyone can do.
It is now known to be scientifically possible to see something for the future, even if you didn't consciously realize it.
Take a moment to recall all the things for which you saw, felt, or knew an outcome, and then it happened.
For some people precognitive clairvoyance shows itself in dreams, but for others, these precognitive visions happen in the day - like a flash of insight whilst driving or doing the dishes.
Any precognitive hunches in your past can be a gateway to developing more of your clairvoyant side.
Internally ask your inner self in meditation to receive more information like this.
#3 Pay attention to your dreams
Sometime this week, set the intention to dream of something you need the answer to. I like to ask for the solution to a problem to come to me in my sleep.
When do you dream, and subsequently wake up, write down every odd and small detail and then look for the symbols and metaphors.
Pay particular attention to the things you didn’t understand or that didn’t quite make sense - the things that didn't make sense are meant to catch your attention.
Spirit and intuition often speak to us in our dreams through metaphor.
While dreams may not make sense in a physical-logical-analytical way - they may symbolically make sense.
Interpreting the clairvoyant images you see can help you get more of them.
Simply journal your dreams upon waking and this can encourage your mind to view the information as important, inspiring you to remember more of what is revealed in your dreams.
The more you understand the symbols, the more value the wisdom clairvoyance holds and the more easily it is accessed the next time.
#2 Ask your Spirit Guides, Angels and Loved Ones to start appearing to you
Internally, telepathically ask your Spirit Team to begin making themselves known.
Once you begin to see them in dreams, meditations or as flashes of light, then the passing of the information through visions usually comes next.
Ask for a shadow to show up in your peripheral vision or for a dream visitation.
Now wait.
Your Spirit team wants to be visible to you, and you can give them your permission.
I find it is easiest to see Spirit in low light settings or on the nights surrounding a full moon.
Since there is illumination, but not enough to saturate the entire retina, it is easier to see subtle energies.
You can mimic this low light at night with candlelight, dimmers or even small room lamps.
It is this type of low light where it is easiest to see auras, too.
#1 Work with an affirmation
As you ask for appearances and practice opening up to dreams, remember to remind yourself,
“I am profoundly clairvoyant, and everything I see is safe and helpful.”
“My third eye works perfectly.”
“My inner vision tells me exactly what I need to know at exactly the right time.”
Fear is a common block to clairvoyance and one that can be cleared by trusting some of the simple visions you get.
When you trust your inner vision a few times and it works out - you’re more likely to trust more of your psychic insights.
One way to work with these affirmations is by meditating on this mantra and then, in your mind’s eye asking your Spirit Guide or Guardian Angel to step forward, see who appears.
Then ask to be shown one action to take to advance your life positively.
So to recap, 4 tips to develop clairvoyance:
Look for evidence of precognition ability
Pay more attention on your dreams
Ask to see your Spirit Team
Work with affirmation to open the third eye
With practice, you, too, can develop your clairvoyant gifts.
It’s often a matter of releasing the feeling that you can’t, then slowly, safely and securely, beginning to pay attention to what you see - in any form that starts coming to you, in a place where you feel safe.
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