LESSON 2 Intuitive Senses We are all born with the seed of psychic and intuitive abilities. Some are more aware of this than others. Whether you stay open to your abilities is dependent on your culture, religion and family upbringing. Babies and small children tend to be very aware and conscious of energy. They see, sense and feel many things that most adults are unaware of. More often than not as a child grows up these feelings and senses become clouded by the beliefs, mental patterns and understandings absorbed from parents and caregivers. This ultimately leads the child away from their natural intuitive self and into a more physical and ego driven reality.
Just because you are no longer in touch with your abilities does not mean they no longer exist. It is possible to reawaken your hidden senses and with practice you can expand your vision, senses and awareness to see, sense and feel on an intuitive and psychic level. Intuitive abilities or senses fall into the following categories Clairvoyance clear seeing Clairaudience clear hearing Clairsentience clear sensing Clairolfaction clear smelling Clairgustance clear tasting These senses are beyond the normal five physical senses. We can have one or all of them functioning at the same time as they are of a higher, subtler nature, which is beyond our rational minds. It is these senses, which enable you to perceive information on a subtler level.
CLAIRVOYANCE This is the ability to see pictures or images, which come into your minds inner or third eye. These pictures come as bits and pieces, visions or flashes of information. Some people see these images with their eyes closed or even with eyes open. You may be looking at a person in front of you but get other images around them. Some can be vague or ghost life, others clear and vibrant. These are bits of information about the person you are seeing, or it can be while on your own, in meditation or in a dream state. The images can come often with a thought or a message. The message can be so clear that you cannot mistake it or in some instances you may need time to decipher them. The information coming through can be in the way of objects, symbols and or colours. You may see people, scenes like small movies, lights, words, auras, past life images, loved ones crossed over, visions of the past, present or future, people or places in other spiritual dimensions. Some people see guides or angels. Everyone experiences these abilities differently. A key to working with this gift is to discover your way and to allow your way to naturally unfold, allow the images, visions and messages to come like gifts from the Divine.
Here of some examples of the way this may occur Auras / Energy Fields Individuals with a strong clairvoyant ability can see the different colours of the energy field. The aura is comprised of layers of electro-magnetic energy that flows through and around every living thing. By viewing the aura of another you are able to interpret the emotions, blockages, illnesses, etc. found within a person. For some the aura is so clear it cannot be denied, for others it is soft and flows with a rainbow like transparency. Symbols Symbols shown within a person s energy field often correspond to a feeling or an event. It is important to develop your own personal symbolic language, which will help your awareness grow with regards to the symbols shown to you in everyday life and not just in meditation. These symbols can range from a particular colour or
animal. There are many books, websites and articles dedicated to giving meaning to particular animals, colours and symbols. It is a good idea to explore those and gather as much information and knowledge as you can about them. Colours Colours are often perceived around certain emotions. For example, seeing red may mean anger to you so when seeing red in someone s energy field you may pick up on their anger. Red can also indicate vitality and increased energy so it s best to feel the colour too so that you can discern its meaning and reference. Colours do not necessarily mean the same for each person and it is important to develop your own understanding and interpretation of the colours. Again, there are many books and websites dedicated to colour meanings, research them but allow yourself to feel the interpretations rather than just going along with what someone else thinks. Pictures For some a vision or a picture can appear. Often as a brief flash, which can be a little frustrating in the beginning as one often feels like you ve lost the image. For those whose clairvoyant abilities are strong you may get a vision that lasts longer, or even a rapid series of images. Usually the
more essential aspect of the visions will stand out, accompanied by a strong feeling or sensation. It is important to remember that clairvoyant abilities pertain to anything one sees with the third eye. It becomes easier to recognize what is being communicated to you when you establish your own symbolic language. It may be helpful to communicate with your spirit guides and explain to them that you wish to establish a symbolic language as a way of communicating clearly. It is best to start simply and record all the symbols and meanings you receive in a journal to be used as a reference. Developing a relationship with your spirit guides will support you in understanding their symbolic language and the meanings of sensations, feelings and visions you receive. You will find over time that things occur spontaneously as you develop further. To develop your clairvoyant ability, it is necessary to stimulate your brow chakra. The brow is connected to your clairvoyant abilities. Meditation and energy clearing will support you in gently opening this centre. Balancing and cleansing your energy field should be a regular exercise and heighten your awareness and your spiritual gifts and abilities.
Meditation to Develop Clairvoyance Close your eyes and relax. Breathe deeply and gently. Focus your attention on balancing and clearing your energy field. Take your awareness from the top of your head down to your feet. And then move your awareness to your forehead. Envision white light moving into your brow area. Focus on cleansing this area. Focus on the chakra point in this area. Try to avoid forcing this area to open and allow it to gently unfold when it is ready. Relax and take you attention off your physical eyes. You may begin to notice swirling colours or little dots of light. Let this flow and as you do you may start to notice shapes or images in these swirls and patterns of light. During this meditation pay attention to anything that you may see, the swirling colours, symbols or it may be nothing the first few times you try. It may take time and patience, but continue to work gently on opening this area.
Don t focus on your expectations. The key is to just allow things to come to you in their own time. As you become more comfortable with this you can ask your guides to appear to help you understand what it is that you are seeing. When you are done bring yourself back into your body. Breathe deeply and gently move your hands and feet, fingers and toes. When you are ready record your progress in your journal as often the meanings become clearer as time passes. Make a note of anything significant that you see, sense or feel. More tools for developing clairvoyance Practice closing your eyes and taking note of what images and pictures float through your mind s eye. Some of what you see will be clutter from your day and some will need your attention. Make a note of them and ask yourself what they may be about. Are there unresolved or unfinished tasks that need your attention? More often than not one s mind is filled with all the things one needs to do, accomplish or complete. Write them down and take note of what steps you need to take to get them done. This will support you in becoming aware of the difference between the clutter you pick up from your
daily life and your own inner clairvoyant messages. Keeping a journal of what you see and what you feel while doing this exercise will support you in recognizing the difference between your mental clutter and clairvoyant images. Another useful practice is to spend time looking at an image or object and then visualizing it exactly in your mind s eye. Visualize it down to the very last detail. The colours, contours, size, shape and any other detail. This will help you create clearer clairvoyant images and visions. A few years ago I managed to lose my cell phone. A friend at the time laughed when I told her and jokingly suggested I use my gifts to find it. I hadn t thought about that and so sat down and visualized my phone in all its detail. I then looked to see where it was. What I saw was the phone sitting in sand and I suddenly remembered that the parking lot, where I had parked the day before, had sand on the ground. I went to that particular parking lot and asked the security guard whether he had found a phone. Thankfully he was an honest chap and said that he had handed the phone to the manager at the restaurant next door. I got my cell phone back and it was a real confirmation of what we are capable and how easy it can be.
Developing clairvoyance can take time and patience. Some see things far faster than others it doesn t mean that you don t have this ability; it just means that it is something that needs to be developed with practice. Don t fixate on developing only one ability over another, they are all equally important and it is sometimes better to start with what comes naturally to you. Blocks to Clairvoyance There are some who are natural clairvoyants but never see any evidence of their gift or ability. When this occurs it usually indicates a block or an energy leak in their third eye. This can be the result of some trauma or seeing something unexpected or unpleasant. Many individuals have a block caused by some frightening psychic experience, which affects
their intuitive abilities. Fear and or trauma around seeing spiritually weakens trust in your own perceptions and intuition, which affects your abilities. With help and support a block or a leak can be healed and released. CLAIRSENTIENCE Clairsentience is the ability to feel within your own physical body sensations of the energy around you, other people s emotions, feelings and even physical conditions such as aches, pains and illnesses. You may be able to sense the presence of people in spirit form such as relatives, guides and angels. Those who are naturally clairsentient have a natural ability to feel and interpret what others are feeling emotionally or physically. This is extremely helpful when aiding others with emotional, physical or spiritual issues. Being an empath (clairsentient) can be very rewarding when you are able to decipher what is yours and what is another s. Those who are very sensitive may find that they inadvertently take on the emotions and or physical symptoms of others. Being in large crowds or around particularly negative people and places can weigh very heavily on you when you are strongly empathetic. If you are very sensitive it is important to constantly monitor yourself and discern whether what you are feeling is yours or comes from something or
someone else. This is particularly important if you are feeling a specific emotion or physical sensation, which comes on suddenly. For example, being around a very anxious person may make you feel a lot of tension. Being around a person who is very angry or depressed may cause you to feel inexplicably low on energy, irritable, angry or sad. It is especially important for empaths to clear and balance themselves and their energy, as well as protecting themselves against having their energy drained. It is great to be able to help others but if you become so involved that you are negatively affected your balance is lost and the end result is suffering for you both. With clairsentience it can be a challenge to find that balance, but with time and effort it is definitely possible. The tools and exercises in this course will support you in maintaining your balance and clearing yourself of all that is not your won, but for it to work it is essential that you practice these skills regularly.
Developing Clairsentience Concentrate on paying attention to your feelings, both physical and emotional. During the day take note of any times when you feel a shift or change in your mood and see if you can discover why or what caused the change. Take note of how you feel in certain places. Spend time getting to know and understand your own feelings. Learn to distinguish what is yours from what you may be picking up from others. Spend time writing in a journal and working through your feelings and emotions so that you are clear on what you are feeling. Clairsentience Exercises For this exercise you will need a partner. It is better to work with someone who is willing to allow you to access their energy. Before beginning the exercise do your cleansing, grounding and protection. Ask your partner to remember something from the past. Ask them to close their eyes and really focus on that place or thing in great detail, seeing and feeling all that they can about it. When they are ready close your eyes and allow yourself to connect with the other persons energy, their feelings and sensations. When you are ready tell them what you are sensing, feeling, seeing or experiencing.
Another useful exercise is to use your sense of touch. Find a quiet place outside in the garden or somewhere peaceful in nature. Sit comfortable, closing your eyes take a few deep breaths to calm and centre yourself. When you feel relaxed start to touch the plants, trees, flowers and stones around you. Let the sensations of what you are connecting with vibrate in your hands. Feel their warmth. Perhaps you start to receive messages or thought forms from these living beings. Notice all the different sensations you experience. It s a good idea to write these experiences down so you can track your progress. CLAIRAUDIENT Clairaudient is the gift of hearing voices, music and sounds that are not audible to the normal ear and may not be physical in nature. You may psychically hear sounds, words, sentences, thoughts, tones, music and many other different sounds that come into your head. These sounds may seem to come out of nowhere but are within your head or just beside your ear. It can be difficult to distinguish the voices of spirit from your own inner voice, but as you gradually begin to awaken and develop your intuitive abilities you will learn to make the distinction. At first you may hear thoughts within yourself, which sound the same as when you
talk to yourself. As you develop this gift you may begin hearing voices speaking out loud which are not heard by others and not heard with ordinary hearing. With this ability it is important to express to your guides that you are willing to learn how to hear their messages. It s often easiest to begin with simple yes and no questions. Ask the questions and listen to your inner voice as well as the voice of your guides. At first it may be challenging to distinguish your inner voice from your guides, but with practice it becomes easier and natural. Developing Clairaudience Find a space outside where you can sit quietly and relax. Make sure it s a quite space where you can clearly hear the sounds of nature. Close your eyes and gently take a few deep breaths to relax and centre yourself. `Listen to the songs of the birds, the rustling of the leaves in the wind. Take time to connect to these sounds intuitively. The birds love to help with this exercise. When practicing this during my own development they were always ready to help. When I was trying too hard and using my mind to focus the birds would become silent and still. When allowing myself to connect with my natural abilities the birds would begin to sing and chirp loudly.
One can also practice developing this ability by carefully listening to the sounds you hear around you while lying in bed at night. Listen to the sounds of cars passing, the sounds of the night animals, people talking or the sound of music. Normally you would tune these noises out so that you may sleep, but tuning and hearing the noises will increase your perception and sensitivity. When you listen consciously to the noises you may hear many different sounds. Notice each and every sound. Make a mental note of what the sounds are. Some may be subtle and barely noticeable and others loud and intrusive. Practicing these exercises will greatly enhance your clairaudient abilities.
Clairaudient Listening To open your clairaudient ability it can help to image that you are turning on a radio and tuning into the channel of your intuition. You can also visualize yourself sitting at a table with your spirit guides. Once you are able to clearly visualize yourself seated around the table you can begin asking questions. Take note of anything that you hear or perceive in these meetings with your guides. It may take some time to hear clearly the voices of your guides and you may have to really focus. Don t give up it takes practice. Some block their clairaudience because the fear of hearing something frightening or negative. If you are afraid make sure that before you begin practice your cleansing, grounding and protection exercises. Be clear in your intentions and ask that what you hear is only that which is for your highest good. Meditation is a vital and essential tool when it comes to quieting your mind and listening to your guides. Create a space in your day or in your week where you are able to meditate to enhance your clairaudient abilities CLAIRGUSTANCE This is the ability to psychically taste the substance and or energy of something within the energy of a particular food, not the actual food itself. Sometimes while working with a client I
will begin to taste a particular food or drink and often it is either something the client has recently eaten or drunk, or wants to. Developing your sense of taste is a good way to practice your intuitive abilities. You can enhance this ability by becoming aware of everything that you taste on a daily basis. Take note of all the different flavours and open yourself to the specific taste. CLAIROLFACTION This is the ability to smell energies. An example is the smell of a particular flower or perfume that comes suddenly and from seemingly nowhere. You can develop this gift by gathering a number of different smelling objects, experiencing the scent with your eyes closed and really connecting with the smells. Take note of any feelings that are aroused while smelling the scents as these can be used for reference in the future. As the saying goes practice makes perfect. To develop your intuitive abilities you will need to practice developing each ability until they become natural and instinctive.
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