Developing your Spiritual Abilities? What are the “Clairs”?

When a person begins to awaken to their true self and divine potential, spiritual or psychic gifts will begin to emerge and develop.

Here is some information about the different kinds of ‘Clairs’ that describe some of these abilities and a few tips to help you practice.

‘Clair’ is from the French language and means ‘clear’. There are a number of ‘Clairs’ that we all have the ability to use.

Clairvoyance

The term we all recognise the most is clairvoyance. ‘Voyance’ means ‘vision’, so clairvoyance means clear vision.

A psychic vision is a term used to describe the way that those who are clairvoyant receive messages from Spirit. It usually begins with very short periods of ‘seeing’ things.

It is possible you may be able to see a ‘picture’ and the more you develop this gift the more detailed the vision will be and the length of time you will ‘see’ it will also increase.

Clairaudience

Clairaudience means clear hearing.

Clairaudience may start when you are very young or during meditation. You may hear a voice speaking to you, or you may hear other sounds, such as music. Spirit plays me songs all the time!

This may be your guides or other angelic beings communicating with you. These sounds have been labeled astral sounds, as they originate from the astral plane.

Clairaudience often starts by hearing a voice and/or a message in your head. Some people find when they first hear noises think they are going crazy and may wonder if the mind is playing tricks!

At the start, this can be very confusing & scary. It is only with practice that you can tell which are your thoughts and which are your guides/angels.

Note: If you are unsure at all and the noises are worrying, please consult a medical practitioner to be on the safe side.

Clairsentience

Clairsentience means clear feeling. It has quite a lot in common with intuition because of a strong awareness that you feel inside yourself about the subject you are concentrating on.

Generally, the term refers to a person who can feel the vibration of other people. I read energy in this way as do a lot of Empaths.

There are many different degrees of clairsentience ranging from the perception of diseases to the thoughts or emotions of other people.

Another closely related psychic gift is psychometry. This is when you sense something about an object while touching it. If you are developing your intuition, you may find that clairsentience or psychometry develop at the same time.

Claircognizance

Claircognizance means clear knowing.

It is the ability to know something without a physical explanation as to why you know it.

For claircognizants, their higher self or Spirit put information (in the form of thought) into their mind.

This can be a whole load of information that is ‘downloaded’ into the mind or it can be smaller insights about people and situations here and there. It can also be an inspired idea.

All claircognizance is characterized by this strong sense of knowing that goes beyond logic and by the fact that the intuitive information comes into the thinking mind, not into the heart or the mind’s eye.

Clairalience

Clairalience means clear smelling. It’s also known as Clairolfaction and Clairessence

A person can pick up information by means of the sense of smell either literally or emotionally.

It’s closely related to clairgustance (clear tasting). Just like our physical senses of smell and taste are closely related, so are our intuitive or psychic senses of clear tasting and smelling.

For example, smelling the perfume of a deceased aunt or the cigar smoke of a beloved grandfather are quite common experiences.

Clairalience works in two basic ways; you can get the psychic/intuitive hit by literally smelling a scent or pungent odour or by acknowledging the feeling that something smells (emotionally) wrong.

Clairgustance

Clairgustance means clear tasting.

A person can taste a substance without putting anything in their mouth. It is claimed that those who possess this ability can perceive the essence of a substance from the spiritual or ethereal realms through taste.

The good news is that everyone can develop these gifts! You may not believe me, but remember when you said this or words to this effect?

“I should've trusted my gut."

“I had a feeling that was going to happen."

“I just know it is the right thing to do.”

You will probably find you have a dominant ability or abilities, for example, mine are Clairaudience and Clairsentience.

I worked with these a lot until I had mastered them and then the rest followed. Spirit actually took away my Clairaudience for a while so I would master Clairvoyance!

Now, they all work together really well, which is much easier for Spirit to give me information using all these different ways to communicate.

The ones I have not yet mastered are Clairalience and Clairgustance, although I am working on this at the moment and receiving lots of interesting smells and tastes!

When we follow our intuition, trust and listen for the next steps, receive attunements, heal ourselves, let go, and be present in the heart center, we will allow these abilities to open and expand.

Practicing using them helps too, as these abilities are like muscles. We all have them, but some are more defined than others depending on how much we work them out!!

Here are a couple of tips when practicing:

• Sit quietly, and start by taking some nice deep breaths in and out to calm the central nervous system

• Only practice when you are in a relaxed and open space

• Practice for 5 or 10 mins, quality over quantity!

• Only ask questions that you do not have an emotional attachment to. It is very hard to get answers for ourselves when we are attached to the outcome. Most readers also find this hard, so just leave the heavy stuff and focus on something light!

• Don’t push or force the answers

• If you start thinking and questioning what you get through, then you are in your head and you need to take a break!

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