By Stashia Jeanette | Ascension With Vii
Let’s Be Real: There’s No “One Right Way” to Awaken Your Gifts
If someone tells you there’s a single, surefire way to “activate” your spiritual gifts, run.
Spiritual awakening isn’t a one-size-fits-all manual you can just follow step-by-step. It’s a journey, deeply personal and messy at times, that forces you to confront yourself at the most profound levels.
So, instead of trying to sell you a shortcut, I’m going to walk you through the real process, what I personally did to connect consciously with my spiritual abilities, how I learned to trust them, and how you can begin unlocking your own.
Step 1: Heal Before You Try to Channel
You can’t pour light into a vessel that’s still full of pain.
I learned that the hard way.
When I was on heavy medication, I was completely disconnected from myself, from my mind, body, and soul. It’s not that I wasn’t connected to God, Source, or the Universe… It’s that I couldn’t hear. My intuition was muffled. My channel was static.
We live in a world obsessed with logic. If you can’t see it, touch it, or measure it, it must not be real, right? That mindset gaslights the soul. From childhood, many of us are trained to prove our inner knowing. Teachers ask, “Show your work.” Family says, “Be realistic.” Religion says, “Don’t question.”
All of that becomes programming that buries your spiritual instincts under layers of shame, fear, and disbelief.
Healing is the Keycode
If you’re still in a state of fear, victimhood, or trauma, your spiritual gifts will stay dormant.
You need to work through your blockages, especially in your crown, third eye, throat, and heart chakras– before your gifts can safely come online. These upper chakras are the bridge between your human self and your higher self.
For me, healing looked like sitting in the dark, crying, journaling, and facing the parts of myself I didn’t want to see. It wasn’t pretty. But it was real.
I had to dig through my childhood wounds, the times I was told I was “too much,” “crazy,” or “imaginative.” I had to reclaim my right to feel and to know.
I studied the chakra system, visualized the corresponding healing lights, and went outside barefoot to ground myself daily. That’s when I started to feel myself again, not the medicated fog version, but the real me.
Step 2: Rebuild Trust With Yourself
Once the fog lifted, I revisited my spiritual practices: tarot, oracle decks, meditation, and faced the most significant question:
“Do I trust what I’m receiving?”
Initially, the messages I retrieved were uncomfortable. Some were blunt, some painful. But they were true.
And that’s when I realized that trusting my intuition wasn’t about comfort; it was about truth.
If you don’t trust yourself, you’ll never trust your gifts.
You’ll gaslight your own intuition the same way the world taught you to doubt it.
Trusting yourself means being radically honest, even when your cards call you out, even when your body signals danger, even when you can’t prove it.
Step 3: Heal Your Inner Family — The Masculine, Feminine & Inner Child
Think of your energy like a household.
Your divine masculine is the structure and discipline. Your divine feminine is the flow and intuition. And your inner child? That’s the pure, creative spark.
If those three aren’t speaking to each other, your gifts can’t function properly.
You have to bring them to the table, the emperor, the empress, and the child, and have the hard conversations. Heal the wounded masculine (control, fear, aggression). Heal the wounded feminine (people-pleasing, avoidance, victimhood). Then integrate them together.
When these energies work in harmony, your channel becomes clear. Your intuitive voice strengthens. Your higher self can actually speak through you without static.
Step 4: Recognize the Programming That’s Blocking You
Religion, culture, trauma, they all teach us who we’re “supposed” to be.
But spiritual gifts can’t thrive under someone else’s expectations.
You can’t activate psychic sight while still living by society’s logic-only framework.
You can’t channel divine truth if your heart is closed.
To awaken your gifts, you must unlearn.
Unlearn the fear of being wrong.
Unlearn the belief that you need external validation.
Unlearn the conditioning that made you feel unsafe being yourself.
That’s how you start rewriting your energetic code.
Step 5: Understand Your Gifts (The “Clairs” and Beyond)
Everyone’s abilities look different. Some of the most common spiritual gifts are:
- Clairvoyance – Clear seeing (visions, flashes, symbols)
- Clairaudience – Clear hearing (divine whispers, tones, intuitive guidance)
- Clairsentience – Clear feeling (energetic and emotional sensitivity)
- Claircognizance – Clear knowing (just knowing things without proof)
- Clairalience – Clear smelling (sensing energy through scents)
- Clairgustance – Clear tasting (energetic tastes or sensations)
- Clairtangency – Clear touching (reading energy from objects or people)
Then there are the broader categories: channeling, empathy, energy healing, telepathy, prophetic dreaming, astral travel, and mediumship.
You don’t have to master them all.
Start where you feel most drawn. Practice. Experiment. Observe how your body and energy respond.
Step 6: Practice and Document Everything
Spiritual gifts are like muscles; use them or lose them.
Start small. Do a three-card pull. Journal your dreams. Write down every intuitive nudge, even the weird ones. Test what your intuition tells you against what happens in reality, not to doubt it, but to learn your language.
For prophetic dreams, set the intention before bed:
“I will remember my dreams.”
When you wake up, write down everything, even fragments. Over time, patterns emerge.
And when you notice your energy shift in certain places or around certain people, take note. That’s your clairsentience training you to read energy.
Step 7: Sobriety and Spiritual Clarity
Let’s talk about the part people like to skip.
You can’t stay spiritually clear if you’re chemically clouded. Period.
Substances, alcohol, weed, pills, whatever- distort your frequency. They weaken your channel. Even if your gifts start activating, they’ll come through warped, like a drunk text from the divine.
Sobriety isn’t punishment; it’s purification.
When I got sober, I became a clear channel for God, Source, and the messages meant for others. I didn’t even realize how loud the interference had been until it was gone.
“Your new life will cost you your old one“.
That means saying goodbye to the habits, people, and substances that keep you from full clarity.
Step 8: Be Patient — Gifts Unfold in Divine Timing
Everyone wants instant results: “Activate my kundalini now,” “Open my third eye overnight.”
Let me be blunt: forcing spiritual activation before you’re emotionally ready is dangerous.
If your system isn’t prepared, it can throw you into a spiritual or mental spiral.
That’s why healing first is non-negotiable. You need a stable foundation before your gifts come online, or they’ll overwhelm you.
Think of it like updating your spiritual hard drive. You can’t install the new operating system while the old one’s still full of corrupted files. You’ve got to delete the outdated beliefs, patterns, and traumas to make room for divine coding.
Step 9: Dismantle Logic and Relearn Trust in the Unseen
The 3D world worships logic. But higher realms don’t play by those rules.
You can’t see energy, love, or air, but you know they’re real.
Spiritual gifts operate in that same invisible field.
The more you detach from the need for proof, the more your gifts flow. This doesn’t mean abandoning discernment; it means remembering that truth doesn’t always wear a physical form.
Step 10: Practice, Ground, Repeat
Every gift gets stronger with use.
Every time you listen to your intuition, write your dreams, feel a shift in energy, or follow a divine nudge, you’re strengthening the muscle.
You don’t need validation. You don’t need a big audience. I started my readings with zero confidence and almost zero viewers. But I kept showing up.
That’s how your gifts grow: consistency, humility, and faith.
Final Thoughts: You Are the Proof
Your spiritual gifts are not random. They’re encoded in your soul.
But they won’t fully awaken until you choose to heal, trust, and practice.
Don’t rush the process. Don’t chase shortcuts. Don’t compare your timeline to anyone else’s.
This is sacred work, and it requires discipline, surrender, and authenticity.
Because when you finally reach the point where you can hear, see, feel, and know clearly, you realize your gifts were never something you had to “find.”
They were waiting for you to remember who you are.
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