Namaste!
Saturday’s guided live session was amazing—big thanks to everyone who joined and brought their energy! I’ve received so much positive feedback about the connections that came through, and I'm grateful to have shared this experience with each of you.
A topic that comes up in every live session is overcoming doubt, which inspired me to write about it.
How to Trust Your Intuition and Spiritual Guidance: 10 Steps for Overcoming Doubt
In our journey of spiritual growth, learning to trust the messages we receive from our intuition and our spiritual guidance can be one of the biggest hurdles.
Doubt is often our constant companion.
In today's age of deception, our minds are trained to be more skeptical than ever before.
It’s natural to question what we receive through our intuition, wondering if it's all just wishful thinking or a product of our imagination.
However, building confidence in your intuitive abilities is not only possible but also empowering and very beneficial on your spiritual journey.
Here are 10 steps to overcome doubt and deepen your trust in the messages that come from your higher self, spirit guides, and the universe.
1. Understand Why Doubt Appears
Doubt arises from a natural human tendency to seek validation and logic in intuitive processes.
Our minds are conditioned to rely on what is seen, heard, and scientifically proven.
They are trained to demand explanations and seek validation.
However, our intuitive and psychic abilities work on a subtle, less tangible level that our minds can only partially grasp and explain.
Recognize that doubt is part of the process. It's not a reflection of your ability.
It's perfectly natural and helpful to be skeptical and to use your common sense to evaluate the feelings, messages, and sensations you receive.
Your spirit guides also want you to apply your own discernment of the truth.
Let's embrace our skeptical, questioning minds and thank them for being such incredible tools!
So, the goal isn't to eliminate doubt entirely.
Instead, become aware of when doubt becomes excessive or hinders your spiritual evolution.
Listen to your heart as well, and trust in your intuition.
When the mind is still, the truth resonates clearly within the heart.
Doubt will still arise… Everyone who is not fully enlightened sometimes faces doubts.
Doubt is not a sign that you’re “doing it wrong"!
Reflect on your doubts and use them to sharpen your discernment and strengthen your trust.
2. Focus on Your Grounding Practice
When you're feeling grounded, receiving and recognizing genuine intuitive messages and trusting them is much easier.
Grounding connects you with the earth's stable energy and helps you feel centered and balanced.
This foundation is critical because doubt often creeps in when we feel unsteady or disconnected.
Try grounding practices such as:
- Doing the grounding meditation from the 10-step method every day.
- Walking barefoot on natural ground (earth, grass, or sand).
- Breathing deeply and intentionally, focusing on your body and sensations.
- Yoga, Tai Chi, and every physical sports activity.
- Digital detox and spending time in nature.
Practices like breathwork or the Wim Hof Method can help ground you powerfully. The latter combines both a breathing exercise and cold exposure, each offering a very strong grounding effect.
Grounding helps to reduce overthinking, allowing you to approach spirit communication with a calm and centered mind.
3. Start with Simple Questions and Observations
When building trust in your intuition, it’s helpful to begin with simple questions or observations that don't require a lot of immediate interpretation.
Start with something straightforward instead of asking complex questions, which can lead to more doubt and confusion.
For example:
- "What does my spirit guide want me to know today?"
- "What can I do to feel more at peace?"
- "What’s the next step for my spiritual development?"
Then, observe what comes up. It might be a feeling, a random thought, an image, around, or something else.
Take note of what you receive without judgment or immediate interpretation.
If you don't receive an answer right away, give it time. The information may come to you gradually and in various forms.
4. Practice Listening with Your Heart, Not Just Your Mind
Intuitive and spiritual messages are often subtle and don’t come through the mind's logical processes.
They're more likely to resonate as a feeling in the heart, a sense in the gut, an image, a sound, or sudden clear knowing.
The heart is a powerful spiritual center that can discern a message's truth.
To practice this, try focusing on your heart during meditation.
Place your hand on your chest, close your eyes, and breathe deeply. Imagine yourself listening with your heart, allowing any messages or insights to flow through without overthinking them. Trust that your heart's wisdom will provide clarity.
5. Keep a Spirit Journal
A spirit journal can be one of your best tools for building trust in your intuition and messages from spirit guides.
When you write down your experiences, patterns become more visible, and it becomes easier to recognize genuine guidance.
In your journal, note:
- Any messages, images, or sensations you receive
- Situations where you followed your intuition and how things turned out
- Times when you doubted a message but later found it was accurate (or vice versa!)
Over time, you'll be able to look back and see how your intuition has guided you, even when doubt was present.
This evidence helps solidify your confidence and strengthens your belief in the guidance you receive.
6. Learn to Differentiate Between Intuition and Fear
It's common to mistake fear or worry for intuitive messages, especially if they seem urgent or unsettling.
A guiding principle is that genuine intuition is often calm, clear, and steady, even if it challenges us.
Fear, on the other hand, is usually loud and persistent and comes with a sense of anxiety.
you're"When you’re uncertain about a message, take a moment to center yourself, take a few deep breaths, and ask, “Is this message coming from love or fear?"
Trust that your high-level spirit guides ONLY communicate with love. Their guidance will never leave you feeling frightened or anxious.
7. Shift Focus from Outcomes to Experience
When doubt creeps in, it often centers on the outcome: Will this work? Will I get the messages I'd like? Will I connect with the spirit entity I want? Am I just making this up?
Shifting your focus from the end result to the experience itself can reduce the pressure and make your journey more fulfilling.
Instead of fixating on achieving a specific outcome, allow yourself to be present without expectations, observing what you're learning, feeling, and gaining along the way.
This shift not only eases the intensity of doubt but also opens you up to unexpected insights.
Every experience, whether or not it aligns with your goals, contributes to your growth.
By valuing the process over the result, you begin to build resilience and confidence that is not dependent on a single outcome.
To contribute to this shift, you can start by setting goals around actions rather than results, allowing each day to be a small success of its own.
Reflect on what you’ve learned and how you've grown, recognizing the value in each experience.
When we let go of rigid expectations and allow the journey itself to be the goal, we create space for amazing things to happen with the support of our spirit guides.
8. Release the Need for Perfection
Trusting your intuition and spirit messages is a learning process, and it's expected to make mistakes or misinterpret things occasionally.
The journey is about progress, not perfection.
Allow yourself to grow and trust that your ability to receive and understand guidance will improve over time.
Remember, spirit guides understand that we’re human, and they don't expect perfection.
They encourage our growth, knowing that each step we take brings us closer to the clarity we seek.
9. Validate with Action
One of the best ways to overcome doubt is to act on the guidance you receive, even in small ways.
When you take action based on an intuitive nudge or a message from a spirit guide, you get to see firsthand how things unfold. This reinforces your trust in the guidance process.
Start with small actions, like following a gut feeling or reaching out to someone when you feel prompted.
Over time, these actions build confidence, showing you that the guidance you receive is real and beneficial.
10. Be Patient and Persistent
Building trust in your intuition and spirit messages doesn't happen overnight.
It's a journey that invites patience, openness, and a willingness to explore.
Celebrate your progress along the way, even if it feels small. Each step builds upon the last, and doubt will lose its power over time.
Remember, spirit guides have endless patience with us, too, and they’re really there to support us, even when we're uncertain.
Trust in their loving presence and in your own ability to receive and interpret their messages.
Final Thoughts: Trust the Process
Whenever you feel doubt creeping in, remember that it's a natural part of the process.
Embrace it as a reminder to stay grounded, use your common sense, listen with your heart, and take things one step at a time.
Trust in yourself and the unfolding process of your spirit communication journey and spiritual awakening. 🙏🏼
With gratitude and love,
Will