How To Know When You're Truly Getting Something From Spirit
Updated 2025.05.22
When opening up your intuitive abilities and taking steps to receive from the Universe, it can be hard to know when you are receiving Divinely guided insights versus just wishful thinking or projections from others.
Knowing when you are in alignment with the truth, and being able to identify what that looks like, are essential keys in honoring your connection to your inner wisdom.
So in this post, we'll discuss how to know when what you sense from Spirit with your intuitive gifts is real and reliable.
If for example the insight isn’t Divine in origin, doesn’t mean it’s not real - anything that happens astrally, is happening somewhere in the Universe, on some plane of existence.
But in this article, we’re talking about intuitive, spiritual knowing.
What does intuitively perceiving look like? What am I supposed to be feeling when I receive a Divine insight? Wait, is this it? Did I make that up?
Aligning to receive messages from Spirit and intuitive guidance is a process.
During this process, there are a series of attunements that you undergo to learn what it is and what it is not an authentic connection. You may continue to tweak this process for your entire journey.
Meaning that the way you perceive spiritual insights today may be different than how you perceive them 10 years from now.
Regardless, you know when something is spiritually true in 3 ways:
1 - Notice how it feels when you receive it
In addition to any clairvoyant or clairaudient insights you may have also received,
Does it feel aligned in your heart? Does it make you feel inspired?
To know what you receive is actually in alignment with Source Energy, you will feel in alignment when it comes in. There will be a clarity or an overarching awareness. There will be no confusion or cloudiness. Intuitive, spiritual inspirations often feel certain, and good to follow.
That doesn’t always mean you want to do everything involved in these nudges. Sometimes you will feel a Divine nudge to do something, and parts of following this inspired action will be challenging and hard, but it is ultimately what’s in your best interest.
All in all, though, spiritual, intuitively received insights generally feel good, like they are in your best interest.
2 - Get external validation
If you see a mental image, what feeling or clairaudient words come along with it? If you have a prophetic dream, do the following events align with what you saw?
Usually there are other pieces of intuitive insight or outside evidence that helps to confirm your revelation. This validation doesn’t always come right away - sometimes years down the road - but it can help you identify when your gifts were “spot on,” so you can identify these moments in the future.
Validation can be received when you share intuitive impressions you received in a connected state with another trusted, loving, open person - such as a volunteer, client, a friend, or a family member.
You can get validation by sharing your impressions with a buddy, or holding onto non-necessary prophetic information for a day or two and seeing if it comes true. You can look up the symbols you receive in dreams to see if they align with what you’re experiencing.
External validation helps you notice what worked for receiving insights, so you can increase your chances of creating those successful circumstances again.
3 - Clear your energy and tune back in
Reset your energy field, clear your aura, and remove any outside energies. Realign your chakras. I like to say a connection meditation or imagine the golden energy around me.
Then tune back in. Ask your Spirit Team to show you the information another way. If it comes out the same way you sensed it before, you're likely looking into things accurately, at least for that moment.
This is just double checking - it’s like rerunning the statistics on your data, but instead, you clear your energy, ask the question again, and see if you get similar or different answers.
To recap, to identify if your spiritual gifts are perceiving things clearly, notice how your spiritual insights feel when they come in, get external validation or clear your energy and tune back in.
When you do get something intuitively right, it's often called an intuitive hit and you will get them.
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