7 Psychic Awakening Signs
The Issue: You’re experiencing strange sensations, vivid dreams, heightened sensitivity, and a knowing you can’t explain, and wondering if your psychic gifts are awakening.
The Problem: Most people suppress these signs out of fear or confusion, not realising they are natural indicators of psychic and intuitive development that have been recognised across cultures for thousands of years.
The Solution: Understand the 7 key psychic awakening signs, learn how to nurture your emerging gifts, and discover how your nervous system, cellular memory, and ancestral lineage all play a role in your intuitive awakening.
Key Insight: You were born with these gifts. The question is whether you’re ready to reclaim them.
Originally published June 2020 , updated April 2026 with expanded content on nervous system awakening and intuitive development
As children, we are all born with a ‘sixth sense’, and unless it is encouraged, we can suppress it out of fear, and often we can’t see its value or even the best way to use it. Our gifts can sit on the sidelines until there is an inner nudging that it is time. Sometimes a dramatic event can bring them to the surface; this is a psychic awakening. You may begin to know when the phone will ring, know what someone will say before they speak, have a dream come true, and experience déjà vu, having already been in the situation before.
Here are seven signs that what you’re experiencing is an awakening of your psychic abilities. You may have experienced any or all of these:
1. Tingling sensation or pressure
You may begin to develop this as your psychic abilities ramp up. This indicates that your third eye and crown chakras are opening. You may sense heat in your palms and fingers, your feet, around your heart, on your forehead, around your third eye chakra, or on the top of your head. You may also experience a sensation of moving energy or tingling.
From a naturopathic perspective, these physical sensations often correspond to increased electrical activity in the nervous system. Your body is literally rewiring itself to conduct higher frequencies of awareness. Supporting your nervous system during this time is essential to avoid overwhelm.
2. Connection with spirit
Your ability to feel or sense the presence of loved ones, spirit guides, or angels is developing. Your hearing may be heightened, see twinkles of light, or “something” out of the corner of your eye.
This heightened receptivity often increases during times of ancestral healing work. When you clear inherited patterns from your lineage, the channel between you and your ancestral guides becomes clearer and more accessible.
3. Desire to be away from negativity
You may sense or perceive that you are picking up on others’ emotions and feelings. This is known as being an empath. With this increased sensitivity, you may feel drained around negative people, in the news, or in large crowds. Crowds become overwhelming, distressing and make you feel fuzzy, spacey, off balance, psychically battered and drained. You feel immediately better in nature or out of cities.
This is your nervous system responding to energetic overload. As an empath, your system absorbs others’ emotional frequencies as if they were your own — learning to regulate and protect your energy field is a critical skill for psychic development.
4. Desire to eat healthier foods
As your gifts develop, your energetic vibration rises to a higher frequency. Craving for fresh fruit and vegetables is normal, as they help to keep your energy levels up.
This is cellular healing in action; your cells are literally requesting cleaner fuel to hold higher frequencies. Many people experiencing a psychic awakening find they naturally gravitate toward plant-based foods, herbal teas, and reduced alcohol and caffeine intake.
5. Heightened intuition
You can begin to sense when people speak, that their words don’t match their emotions, inner thoughts or energy. You can’t explain it, but you feel that conflict and find it confusing, and you have no way to prove it. Your sense of déjà vu increases, and you experience moments of having been somewhere before, reliving a conversation or performing an activity again. Your knowing about people or situations that prove to be correct, even though there is no way you could have consciously known about those things.
This is your body’s intelligence speaking before your mind can catch up. The gut-brain connection plays a powerful role here — your enteric nervous system processes psychic information through physical sensation before it reaches conscious awareness.
6. Desire to learn
Understanding more about metaphysics, healing, and meditation is part of the process of reconnecting with your soul for wisdom. You suddenly become attracted to crystals, healing arts, and spiritual tools. You may feel energy in stones, places, or people, and access impressions or information when you touch a person or an object.
This is energy alchemy calling you forward — the alchemical process of transforming ordinary awareness into multidimensional perception. Following this pull is not indulgent; it is essential to your soul’s evolution.”
7. Frequent or vivid dreams
Guidance comes through your dreams, as there is more flow and less interference from your logical mind. Your dreams become increasingly vivid and seem to contain messages, information and symbols. You remember these dreams and keep thinking about them during the day, trying to work out what they mean.
Keeping a dream journal is one of the most powerful practices for psychic development. Dreams are often where your ancestral guides and higher self communicate most clearly. The veil between worlds is thinnest during sleep.
The Nervous System and Psychic Awakening
One of the least discussed aspects of psychic awakening is the profound impact it has on your physical body — particularly your nervous system.
As your intuitive abilities expand, your nervous system is simultaneously upgrading its capacity to process and transmit energetic information. This can feel overwhelming, exhausting, or even frightening if you don’t understand what’s happening.
Common physical experiences during psychic awakening include: 🌿 Fatigue and the need for more rest than usual 🌿 Heightened sensitivity to sound, light, and electromagnetic fields 🌿 Digestive changes as your gut-brain axis recalibrates 🌿 Sleep disruptions as your dream state becomes more active 🌿 Emotional waves that seem to come from nowhere
These are not signs that something is wrong. They are signs that your cellular healing and energetic upgrade are underway. Supporting your body through this process is as important as developing your spiritual practice.
Are You Intuitively Neurodiverse?
Many people experiencing signs of psychic awakening are also what I call intuitively neurodiversE. Their nervous systems are wired to perceive reality at a deeper, more multidimensional level than conventional neurology recognises.
If you’ve ever been told you’re “too sensitive,” “too intense,” or “too much”, your gifts may have been mistaken for a diagnosis. Explore my post, “Intuitive Neurodiverse Powers,” to understand the sacred gifts that come with a sensitively wired nervous system.
Inner Psychic Tips
#1 Meditation
There are many meditation practices worldwide. Quietening your mind helps you understand that you are not your thoughts and that thoughts simply exist. By reducing mind chatter, you become receptive to messages from angels, spirit guides, departed loved ones, and the Divine to come through.
#2 Trust Your Gut
There is clear guidance that comes through when you follow your gut instinct, and that instinctive knowing is conveyed when your soul senses the right path you should take. Listen to the inner source more often to guide you towards success.
#3 Get Creative
The creative spark that exists within you is your ability to channel guided information. Tapping into your creativity allows you to be in tune with your guides, bringing through inspiration, inventions, art, words, and energy to impact the world.
#4 – Take Classes
Take classes to help you connect and develop your abilities, and find the right teacher who resonates with you. A good spiritual teacher will be able to help you navigate, better understand and develop your own special gifts and abilities.
#5 – Keep a Journal
Write down any messages from your guides, nature, music, and dreams, even if they don’t make sense; your ability to interpret the information will develop. Messages from your subconscious will surface, helping you to harness more of your psychic abilities.
#6 – Learn About Your Chakras
Chakras are energy centres within your body that can provide you with different ways to access psychic information. Keeping your energy system clear and healthy for your well-being and receptivity to higher-level guidance.
Intuitive ability and psychic awakening are a normal part of our soul’s development. Tribal cultures all recognise and celebrate this path of energy alchemy and development, and you are not alone on this journey.
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With radiant love and steady presence,
Rise, Remember, Radiate ❤️
Mariangela Parodi BAppSc, ND
Mariangela Parodi BAppSc, ND is a Naturopath & Energy Healer based in Hobart, Tasmania. Specialising in nervous system recovery for women when exhaustion, overwhelm, or depletion no longer responds to rest. With over 30 years of experience in biomedical science, naturopathy, energy medicine, and shamanic healing. She bridges science and spirit to restore the body’s innate intelligence and rewrite the cellular blueprint.
The creator of the Alkymia Method™, a sacred fusion of naturopathy, energy medicine, and shamanic healing. #1 international bestselling author of The Mystic Woman’s Compass. Mariangela guides heart-centred healers and conscious leaders to transmute exhaustion, illness, and spiritual disconnection into sovereignty, vitality, and luminous purpose.
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