Understanding Clair Sense – Unlocking Your Psychic Abilities

Understanding Clair Sense - Unlocking Your Psychic Abilities

Author: LEA MORGAN

What if I told you, it is likely you have had a psychic experience and don’t even know it? Psychic experiences are available to everyone and most often occur spontaneously. And, even then, might not be recognized for what they are.

In the episode “How to Access and Listen to Your Intuitive Mind”, Chandler and I talk about the clair senses in the hopes that knowing the different ways your body can receive energetic information might help you realize that this has happened for you and allow you to use it to better your life.

Clair senses correspond to the senses you are already familiar with… seeing, hearing, feeling, knowing – even tasting and smelling. The senses you are familiar with are reading physical 3D information, while the clair senses are reading energetic information. We are all constantly surrounded by energetic information from Spirit as well as from living beings.

The four main clair senses are…

Clairvoyance: Clear Seeing

If you are familiar with any of these, this is likely the one you’ve heard of. It tends to be used as a catch-all for any psychic communication. It is actually specific to seeing and refers to seeing an image outside of yourself or in your mind.

Seeing an image outside of yourself, like an image of a loved one who has passed, is a pretty impactful experience that most people notice – even if they doubt their own eyes. But, seeing an image in your mind is often overlooked. Many psychics have learned to pay attention to these internal visual images knowing that they give them pertinent information to a situation. For most people, it will be a situation like this…You’ve lost your keys, you’ve retraced your steps and you still can’t find them. (You may even ask St. Anthony for help like I do. That guy is useful!) Suddenly you see an image in your mind of a grocery bag. You go to look in the grocery bags you brought in earlier and -- Aha! – your keys are in there.

Clairaudience: Clear Hearing

Clairaudience is the ability to hear things outside of yourself that have no obvious physical source or to hear things in your mind that usually don’t relate to your train of thought.

Have you ever heard your name called but no one is there? Or heard an alarm when no alarms were set? This is clairaudient hearing outside of yourself. It is from the Spirit world to say hi or get your attention.

Much like internal clairvoyance, internal clairaudience is often overlooked. The word “hearing” here can be confusing but it refers to a thought in your mind you “hear” much like you do when you are reading silently. You know it’s in your mind but you don’t feel like you constructed it and it often doesn’t seem to make much sense at the moment. An example of this can driving and suddenly hearing “turn left” when you don’t plan to and coming to find out that not turning left would have put you in the middle of a traffic jam.

Some musicians will actually hear music in their minds before they have written it and will tell you that it seemed to come out of nowhere.

Clairsentience: Clear Feeling

Clairsentience involves feeling emotions or physical symptoms and sensations from the living or the deceased. This happens with the living all the time. Most everyone gets a “feeling” about someone they have just met that usually turns out to be accurate. Or, your friend may be telling you all is well but you suddenly feel upset or mad only to find out that is actually how they are feeling at the moment.

We can also feel physical symptoms of those we are closest to. Once I was sitting on the sofa watching TV and my left pointer finger suddenly had a sharp pain, It turns out my friend had hit his finger with a hammer at that exact moment. I’ve also felt my aunt’s biopsy, my sister’s kidney infection and my father’s unexpected death. None of which I knew about before they happened.

Feeling the symptoms of the living can be super confusing. In none of these instances did I know where the sensation was coming from. I only knew it wasn’t mine. I later discovered all the facts and put it together. So, if you ever feel a symptom or sensation that is incongruous with your circumstances, you can ask, “Is this mine?” You will most always have a gut reaction to that question.

Claircognizance: Clear Knowing

Claircognizance is perhaps the most intriguing of the clairs. It involves a sudden and complete knowing that often feels like a download of information. It can be predictive of a future happening or, like in Chandler’s experience that we discuss in the episode, an entire plan that feels like it was plopped in your head fully formed.

We didn’t discuss it on the podcast but another fascinating clair is Clairsalience. This is clear smelling. This psychic commiunication is pretty much always from the deceased. If no one in your house smokes and you suddenly smell cigarettes, it is a sign your deceased loved one who smoked is visiting and saying hello. As a vegan, I was surprised to suddenly wake up one night smelling honey baked ham. I knew my deceased Grandmother was there and laughed knowing she got my attention.

Admittedly, sometimes clair senses can be hard to distinguish (did I suddenly hear or know?) and more than one can show up at any given time. I never want to get too bogged down in exactly how you are getting energetic information – just that you are and it can be helpful.

I also don’t feel it’s necessary to focus too much on the source. The key is it will always be reassuring, helpful and/or inspiring. In theory it could be coming from a deceased loved one, a Spirit Guide, an Angel, God, or even your Higher Self.

Also remember, intuition is really the same thing as psychic ability. Psychic has become such a loaded word in our culture and I always want you to use whatever word makes you feel most comfortable and most likely to tap into this gift.

Awareness is the key to noticing energetic information. Remember you will benefit from creating space in your life to for awareness.  If your life is cluttered, it’s hard to notice any messages.

Your logical mind will want to dismiss these communications. Consider jotting down your impressions, thoughts and feelings for a week to review later and see if they had any relevance.

Spirit will often give you repetitive messages using different clair senses. A way to figure out where these messages are pointing is recognize your behavior when you’re on your own time. What are you naturally drawn to? What are you always looking up on the internet or reading about or watching? There’s likely something in that your Higher Self wants to participate in.

I encourage you to look at what you have experienced to see where you have received energetic information and to ask for more from whomever you would like. It really is a gift we can all use.