This is the first in a series of blog posts about your psychic, intuitive or mediumistic senses and how to develop them. I use the words psychic and intuitive interchangeably when it comes to talking about these sixth senses (and there’s more than one, so perhaps they should be the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, etc. senses). Feel free to use the word that resonates most for you. I also sometimes call them clairsenses. It all means the same thing — those senses we use that are beyond our physical ones.
How do you know what your psychic or intuitive senses are?
Just as we have several physical senses — sight, sound, smell, taste and touch — we also have several psychic or intuitive senses. These include clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairgustience, clairalliance, clairsentience, claircognizance. In later posts, I’ll go deeper into each one in turn, offering you insight into that intuitive sense as well as exercises and meditations to help you develop them.
What are your dominant intuitive senses?
Some people are very visual. They primarily take in the world via their sight and have vivid dreams. Other people are extremely sensitive to smells. Or they have an excellent sense of hearing and are able to make out low voices and tell where a specific sound is coming from. One or more of our intuitive senses can tend to be dominant as well.
Here are two exercises to help you determine which of your clairsenses are the most dominant at the moment.
Clairsense Exercise 1
Sit quietly and scan the room around you. Take in all the details and feelings of the room. Now close your eyes and focus on your breath. Review in your mind what caught your attention as you scanned the room.
(Do the exercise before reading it. It works better that way.)
As you do so, notice what stood out most to you. Did you focus on the sounds in the room, or the smells? Did you get a feeling in your gut about something or someone, or a sudden insight or thought in your mind? Did you focus on an object and see it when you closed your eyes? Was there a taste in your mouth?
Clairsense Exercise 2
Sit quietly. Close your eyes. Breathe. Inhale and exhale, slowly, evenly and deeply.
Imagine a grapefruit as fully and completely as you can. Sit with this for a few moments. (Do the exercise before reading on, it just takes a moment.)
Now that you’ve done the exercise (You have, right? If not, close your eyes and do it.) What did you notice most about the grapefruit? It’s smell? The bitter taste in your mouth? Did you see the dimples on its skin or the segments in its flesh? Did you get a feeling inside your body of flow or resistance, delight or disgust? Did the grapefruit symbolize something?
Now imagine a car. Sit with this for several moments. (Really, do it again. It’s quick.)
Did you see a car? Hear its engine? Smell its exhaust? Feel the fabric of the seats or the door handle? Recall a childhood memory of sitting in or traveling in your parents’ car? Were you struck by a message or knowing of some kind about your own car?
Your dominant intuitive senses
Whichever of the clairsenses felt the strongest for you are your dominant ones at the moment.
If you recalled the pieces of furniture in the room, visualized a specific car or clearly saw the grapefruit, clairvoyance may be one of your strengths.
If you focused on the sounds in the room, the creaking of the building around you, a fan or heater, noises from outside, etc., or you heard the noises the car makes (grapefruits don’t make much noise) then you may have a heightened clairaudience.
If you smelled something wafting through the air in the room, of the grapefruit or the car (such as exhaust or an air freshener), then your abilities lend themselves to clairalience
If you got a taste in your mouth, then you may have clairgustience.
If, instead, you experienced memories, a feeling within your body or a sudden, clear knowing, then you are more dominant in clairsentience and/or claircognizance. (They are related, but have distinct characteristics.)
Whatever your most dominant intuitive senses are, it doesn’t mean they’re your only ones or that they’ll stay the same forever. You can develop and open each of your clairsenses with time and practice. And patience.
You may learn that as one or more of your other intuitive senses develops and deepens, you either don’t need another to develop or you’ll find that as you let go of expectation, that it develops more easily.
It honestly doesn’t matter which intuitive or psychic senses you have, right now or ever. They are each a gift and can be very useful, whether you’re pursuing mediumship development or just in everyday life.
If you want to keep developing your clairsenses, my latest online course, Open Your Intuitive Senses, will help you do just that.
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