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**5 Ways to Develop Your Intuition**
by Danielle Searancke

How do you know if your intuition is correct? I know we all have experiences where we have a thought, dream, or say something, and then it becomes true. And we wonder if it was a fluke or if we are intuitive. For many of us, that's precisely how our intuitive journeys work.

Below are five tips on how to start tracking your intuition so you can learn a little more about how to understand your intuitive soul and how spirit speaks to you.

1. A Validation Journal

The number one tip you can use to test your intuition and strengthen it is to keep a validation journal.

Early on in my development process, I kept a validation journal. I was way too scared to go out and test my intuition on other people. I would sit in meditation and work with my guides because I've always felt confident in my relationship with them. I would ask them to show me something or allow me to feel something that could be validated the next day. No item was too insignificant to jot down. I would write everything. For example, I asked my guide to show me something that could be validated, and one thing I wrote down was a vintage mauve car. It was interesting because I don't think of the colour mauve very much. But when I woke up the following day, on the newspaper's front page was a story about a vintage 1950s mauve car that had been driven through the front of a convenience store by accident. That might not sound incredibly groundbreaking, but I was pretty much on my knees crying because of the validation.

Many people will do the first step (making a list) but won't go back and validate it. Make sure you go back through your validation journal - go back pages, weeks, and even months, to see if something has come to fruition.

2. Oracle Cards

Another way to work on intuition is by using oracle or tarot cards for yourself or someone else. Pull a card without reading the associate message. Feel into the card, the message it might hold, and any numbers, images, or other information on the card. Do colours pop out? Does a figure pop out? Was the card able to tell you something that's about to come up - an emotion, feeling, or situation? What thoughts come to your mind? What visions come into your third eye? Be completely vulnerable and know that the way that we receive information as intuitives, mediums, and psychics is very subtle. No information is too insignificant. Just say everything you get and how you get it. Try not to make it into a nice and tidy story because that's not always how information comes to us.

Give that message to yourself or your sitter, and then follow up to get validation.

3. Join a Development Class

I'm sure many communities out there have mediums and psychics who host intuitive development classes. I've also been teaching classes and hosting a monthly membership for years - from beginners to intermediates and those launching their own businesses.

Trust me, joining a class is great because you're learning alongside peers, creating a safe space to practice your intuition. Not only to learn more about how intuition speaks to us but to go deeper and understand how it communicates with you specifically and to meet like-minded people and practice in a safe space with the mentorship of a lovely teacher.

4. Sit with a Friend

Sit with your friends and let them know what you're doing. Tell them, 'I'm trying to build up my intuition. I'm trying to practice it and to do that I'm hoping that you would sit for me. It's very vulnerable for me to be here in this space and place, but I am interested in this. Would you sit with me and allow me to pass along any inspirations I get through my intuition and then give me honest feedback on whether you understand them or not?' Getting honest feedback is vital because, as developing intuitives, we want to be right all the time, but that's not how we learn and grow. If somebody keeps telling us that we're great, we'll never stretch ourselves.

5. Find a Mentor

Maybe you're an introvert. Perhaps the thought of sitting in a class amongst peers is so intimidating that you won't get the whole experience. That could be the case for a lot of people.

Almost every medium I know offers intuitive development - as I do. One of the things that we know about developing mediums is that our experience and knowledge are bursting out of us to share.

We want to share everything that we learn with other people. So, find a medium who will also be a mentor.

So those are the five ways: validation journal, oracle cards, practice with a friend, join an intuitive development class or find a mentor. It comes down to intuitive development: practice is the basis for developing that intuitive strength. I can't speak highly enough about general intuitive development.

I don't want you to be disappointed if you're suddenly getting a bunch of no's because you won't know what a yes feels like until you know what a no feels like. For example, in the first two years of my development, every time I would get the vision or the essence of a motorcycle, I would say, 'They must have owned a motorcycle or died on a motorcycle.' And 10 out of 10 times, I would get a no. Through practice in a safe space that lowered the pressure, it soon became apparent that every time I saw a motorcycle, it represented a car accident. Now, when I see a motorcycle, I know that that's a car accident, and I trust it every time, but it took me a lot of no's to get to that yes.

That is the reason why intuitive development classes and working with a mentor are beneficial. It takes a lot of vulnerability. It takes a lot of courage, and it's a lot of fun!

5 Ways to Develop Your Intuition