Have you ever been called sensitive? Made to feel belittled, embarrassed or inadequate for being sensitive. Quite the opposite is true. In fact, you may have been feeling the other person’s feeling of inadequacy because they are yet to develop the extra senses. You may have become confused that those feelings were yours instead of theirs. Over and above the 5 physical senses of hearing, tasting, smelling, touching and seeing, there are clair senses.
These include:
Clair-voyance (clear seeing)
Clair-voyance is receiving extrasensory impressions and symbols in the form of mental images through the third eye. You are experiencing clair-voyance if you have vivid dreams, visions, mental images and mini-movies that flash into your inner awareness.
You may be able to see the colours of energy fields (auras) around people, plants, and animals, or perhaps you are able to see angels, disembodied spirits, or other beings. Clair-voyance may give you the ability to see the future, to clarify and illuminate the present and see the past.
Clair-audience (clear hearing)
Clair-audience is the ability to perceive sounds, words or noise from the spiritual or ethereal realm. It is receiving intuitive information with inner or outer hearing. Yes, we are talking about hearing voices (either outside of yourself or in your head)!
An example is that you’re driving to work and suddenly hear “Take the next exit.” There is no one in the vehicle with you.
However, the message was clear, and seemed to come from outside of yourself. You take the next exit instead of driving your usual route. When you arrive at work, you learn you avoided a five car pile up, which would have made you miss an important meeting.
You might lean towards clair-audience if you are naturally attuned to sounds, tones, rhythm and music. If you sing, play music, have an easy time remembering voices, or can easily hear it in someone’s voice when they are lying to you.
Clair-cognisance (clear knowing)
You experience clair-cognisance (clear knowing) when you just suddenly know something to be true, even though you didn’t see it, hear it or feel it or remember where you learned it. You just know it. It’s a stroke of instant insight or that needs no processing or interpretation.
Clair-cognisance can be experienced as a nagging idea or unrelenting thought, much like the persistent awareness that someone is lying to you when you have no physical evidence of it.
Many individuals confuse clair-cognisance (clear knowing) with clair-empathy (clear emotion) or clair-sentience (clear physical feeling) because their “knowing” is quickly followed by either a personal emotional or physical reaction to the insight. Overtime, paying attention to how the insight comes into your awareness will help you distinguish the difference.
Clair-intellect (clear thinking)
Clair-intellect happens when your thoughts manifest as your intuition. You may notice in conversation that your words come through and although seem like thoughts are words from a higher source of consciousness. This can be recognised as having ‘epiphanies’ often. You may be inclined towards clair-thinking if you are very left brained and a linear thinker.
Clair-empathy (clear emotion)
Clair-empathy is the ability to sense other people’s emotions, thoughts and symptoms. It is the awareness or perception of emotional energy. You don’t necessarily experience the feeling in your body, but you are aware of the feeling. Have you ever walked into a room after an argument and sensed the tension, anger or hurt in the room? If so, you are clair-empathic.
Clair-empathy needs self-care and psychic protection techniques to successfully manage their empathic nature and shield themselves from energetic overload. A skilled empath knows how to maintain spiritual boundaries, replenish energy and clear unwanted negative energy from their auric field.
The difference between clair-empathy and clair-sentience is that empaths sense the emotion whereas sentients experience the emotion. Empaths sense the energy, but sentients feel the energy.
Clair-sentience (clear physical feeling)
Clair-sentience obtains intuitive insight through a physical experience in your body. You have a “gut feeling” or “something doesn’t feel right,” and you experience it viscerally, as a physical sensation, in your body.
Clair-sentience is feeling (not just sensing) the experience of other people’s emotions, ailments or injuries. They can also feel the physical and emotional pain of a land or a place where tragic events have occurred such as fear, jealousy, insecurity, hatred, and pain. An example of this is that a gifted psychic medium may get an upset stomach when negative entities are nearby.
This can be confusing for those who have been receiving other people’s projections since childhood. It becomes an unravelling of what emotions are other people’s and your own.
Clair-tangency (clear touching)
Clair-tangency is the ability to perceive facts about an event or person by contact with or proximity to the object or person. This is also known as psychometry. Examples of clair-tangency is gaining formerly unknown insights when you hold someone’s watch, touch their hand, when you pick up an old antique at a market, or touch an old building
Clair-salience (clear smelling)
Clair-salient insights come through the perception of smell, such as smelling a fragrance or odour of a substance, person, place, or animal that is not in your immediate surroundings. These odours are perceived without the use of your physical nose. Other names for this are clair-scent and clair-scentency.
An example of this ability is: cleaning the house when all of a sudden you get a strong smell of the perfume your deceased grandmother used to wear. No one wears that fragrance in your home. Your grandmother is reaching out from the spirit world to communicate with you. Or, maybe lately everywhere you go, you keep smelling lilacs. Lilacs are your Mum’s favourite flower. This is a nudge to call your Mum. Experiencing scents might trigger the other senses to “see”, “hear” or “feel” what a spirit is trying to communicate.
Clair-gustance (clear tasting)
Clair-gustance (clear tasting) receives psychic information through their sense of taste, without having any physical source of that taste in their mouth. People sometimes report tasting a favourite food or drink from a loved one who has passed away. Others report that when they are problem solving they receive helpful information through an extrasensory taste in their mouths.
All of us born with these clair (extra) senses and like a muscle unless they are given attention to develop they weaken over time and become dormant. Some people cannot ignore these clair-senses later in life with situations (that maybe traumatic) occurring that reawaken them demanding attention for them to be developed. If clair-senses are being resisted or ignored, the need to develop clair senses may underlie mental health issues, illnesses, dis eases and other physical stress.
Often there will be a natural tendency and dominance towards one or more clair senses. Another way of labelling these extra senses is being an Empath. It’s interesting to read through Judith Orloff’s material from a medical perspective, as the energetic impact on the physical body is explained.
There are opportunities to undertake short personal development courses through various sources such as Crystal Shops, New Age Stores, Reiki Masters, Outer Court Covens with High Priestesses and the like which effectively lead to developing your clair senses.
Regular Reflexology and Reiki sessions at Heel to Heal, assist you to relax, balance and centre may lead to you exploring your clair-senses further.
To further your development of clair-senses and maintain your physical health, it is important to commit and maintain the detoxification of your body and stay properly hydrated.
References:
https://reikilifestyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-Clair-Senses.pdf
www.WisdomWithin.co/The-8-Clair-Senses-a-visual-guide-to-the-spiritual-psychic-senses.pdf
The Empath’s Survival Guide, Life Strategies for Sensitive People, Judith Orloff, MD, Sounds True, 2018