In my previous post about my super powers, I spoke of harnessing the power of intuition. You may have heard of this referred to as a gut reaction, instinct, foresight or a certain knowingness about events that haven't yet taken place. Everyone has the gift of intuition. Depending on how sensitive to the signs and signals you may not even notice or pay attention to them.

Knowing that I was always different growing up, understanding certain things to be true or having different reactions or feelings to things than others, I was at least open to the concept of there being something else going on. I had often heard of psychics in the traditional sense as people who could know the outcome of a certain thing or event, or people who were able to see dead people or ghosts. Since I didn’t really fit either of those two molds, I kind of suppressed my own abilities. This, coupled with the fact that many of us who have these abilities are also empathic, intuitive, and sensitive, there are numerous reasons why we would either be conditioned to over ride our natural feelings, or desire to turn them off out of trying to “fit in.”

Like radio waves, spiritual information is constantly being broadcast around us, so it's really just a matter of learning how to tune in to it. To interpret what is being broadcast, you can tune into your five senses just like you do in your daily life. Similar to how you rely on one sense or another more to make interpretations and judgments, you have senses, or “clairs,” that are stronger for connecting with your higher self or guides.

The clair senses are types of psychic abilities that correspond with the five senses of seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting. Depending on what type of clair is more developed in you, you may use different clairs more than others or some in combination with others. To help you determine what your dominant clairs are, we can use the following from this article to explain what they are and how our preferred senses shape our lives:

Clairvoyance means clear seeing.
This is when visions past, present and future flash through our mind's eye, or third eye, much like a daydream. Many of us are highly visual and able to understand an idea best when we see it written or sketched out as an image on a computer screen or on a canvas. Visual people often choose to be artists, builders, photographers, decorators, designers and so forth. If this sounds familiar, your clairvoyance is most likely a dominant sense.

Clairaudience means clear hearing.
This is when we hear words, sounds or music in our own mind's voice. On rare occasions, spirit may be able to create audible sound, though this takes a tremendous amount of focused energy. Some of us best retain and comprehend information when we hear it spoken aloud. Our natural talents tend to lie in our auditory faculties, often making us gifted musicians, singers, writers and public speakers. If this feels right to you, clairaudience may be a leading sense for you.

Clairsentience means clear feeling.
This entails feeling a person's or spirit's emotions or feeling another's physical pain. Many of us are clairsentient without consciously being aware of it. When we get a strong "gut" feeling, positive or negative, about someone we just met or when we get the "chills" for no apparent reason, we may be tuning into the emotional energy of a person or a spirit around us. When we are highly sensitive and are in tune with not only our own feelings, but also the feelings of others, this makes us natural healers and caregivers. We often feel inspired to pursue careers as doctors, therapists, counselors, nannies and teachers. If this is you, clairsentience is at the top of your senses list.

Clairalience means clear smelling.
This is being able to smell odors that don't have any kind of physical source. Instances of this could include smelling the perfume or the cigarette smoke of a deceased relative, used as a sign of their presence around us. When our sense of smell is strong and distinct, we may find that certain smells connect us to past memories or we may be drawn to working as a florist, a wine taster or a perfume fragrance creator.

Clairgustance means clear tasting.
This is the ability to taste something that isn't actually there. This experience oftentimes comes from out of the blue when a deceased loved one is attempting to communicate a memory or association we have with a particular food or beverage that reminds us of them. If we have a heightened sense of taste, this would make us natural chefs, bakers or food critics.

Claircognizance means clear knowing.
This is when we have knowledge of people or events that we would not normally have knowledge about. Spirit impresses us with truths that simply pop into our minds from out of nowhere. An example of this would be a premonition: a forewarning of something that will happen in the future. Claircognizance requires tremendous faith because there's often no practical explanation for why we suddenly "know" something. Many philosophers, professors, doctors, scientists, religious and spiritual leaders and powerful sales and business leaders tend to be highly intuitive and seem to just know the facts with a sense of certainty. If this is you, consider claircognizance as one of your dominant senses.

I tend to focus most on Clairsentience or “clear-feeling” as it is the one that I most resonate with and according to this article it is “Perhaps the most down-to-earth of all the intuitive gifts.   It’s someone who feels things very deeply, someone who has the gift of clear sensing.  It is the ability to feel the present, past or future physical and emotional states of others, without the use of the normal 5 senses (smell, vision, touch, hearing, and taste).  People who experience clairsentience are affected by a myriad of different influences, but it all comes down to being sensitive to changes in energy.

Do you sense other people’s motives, feelings, and next moves without even greeting or interacting with them directly?   Do your loved ones see you as the person to-go-to when it comes to gut feelings?

Signs you are Clairsentience

• You tend to use the phrase, ‘I feel’ or ‘I sense that…’.

• You prefer to experience things.

• Enjoy nature, animals and wildlife. You recharge with quiet time.

• Sensitive to your environment. Sensitive to energies around you. You are capable to experience and feel both inner and outer energy in a more intuitive way.

• Get goosebumps or tingles for no apparent reason.

• Some people call you an empath. You’re very empathetic to your friends’ emotions and energies.

• Large crowds and busy places can drain or easily overwhelm you.

• Pick up on the mood of others, their emotions and thoughts. You can sense people’s intentions.

• Easily relate to others and their situations.

• Moods and emotions can be sudden, and sometimes for no apparent reason.

• You get ‘gut-feelings’ about situations, decisions, places and people. Even about buildings and outside areas, invisible to physical senses

• People say you’re too sensitive.

• You can’t buy old stuff because you have the the ability to feel or sense intuitive messages through physical touch or emotion.”