The Clairs — How to Recognize & Develop Clairaudience, Claircognizance & Other Spiritual Gifts

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Clairvoyance, Clairaudience & All the Clair's!

Intuition is a knowingness that we all have. Noticing that you are receiving information is the first step to exercising and developing an intuitive gift.  When exercised, intuitive gifts become easier to access and usefully utilize.  Clairvoyance, claircognizance, clairaudience, clairalience, clairgustance, and clairtagency are intuitive gifts individuals may tap into.  Although one may experience clairvoyance with ease, that does not rule out that their ability to tap into the other psychic gifts.  Each individual’s experience is notably different, and as spiritual development is not a linear process, one can develop any of these “clairs” at any time they feel called to. We'll be learning about: Clairvoyance Claircognizance Clairaudience Clairalience Clairgustance Clairtangency Clairsentience Discovering new intuitive gifts can be exciting as well as overwhelming.  If overstimulated by any of these gifts, consider integrating grounding practices into your daily routine.  Grounding exercises are soothing and assist in the release of excess energy in your body and aura.  Earthing, working with healing crystals and stones, yoga, EFT tapping and visualization are a few grounding exercises.  Crystals and healing stones can assist in enhancing the following intuitive gifts during development, as well as making the experience smoother and less intense. ClairvoyanceClairvoyance is the ability to receive information through visions of the past or future.  Divine information is received through the 7th chakra, or the crown chakra and processed through the 6th chakra, or the third-eye chakra.  Visual messages often come in the form of a glimpse into a moment or situation, and can take a few moments to develop like a Polaroid photograph.  Those with the gift of clairvoyance are often able to view information like a movie in their third-eye chakra.Try Working With: ‣ @Selenite@ — Call in clarity by meditating with a piece of selenite.  Selenite is beneficial for working with receiving information from the divine as well as tuning into the angelic realm.  This crystal clears energetic blockages and enhances other crystals. ‣ @Lepidolite@ — Receive information with ease by keeping a piece of lepidolite with you.  This gentle healing stone assists with the decoding of symbols in your everyday life. ClaircognizanceClaircognizance is the gift of clear knowingness.  The ability to foreshadow a situation without having any prior knowledge is an example of this gift in action.  Intuitive information may become available to these individuals through direct contact with the divine, ancestors, spirit guides or other entities.  Try Working With: ‣ @Celestite@ — Encourage a clear connection between your crown chakra and your third-eye chakra with this healing crystal.  Celestite, also known as celestine, amplifies one’s ability to “see” with their third-eye chakra, often resulting in vivid dreams. ‣ @Labradorite@ — An ancient protective stone valued by intuitives for its protective abilities.  Labradorite transmutes energies and can assist a practitioner in maintaining their energetic hygiene. ClairaudienceClairaudience enables individuals to hear audible sounds from another realm.  Ringing in one’s ears, music or singing, and hearing a voice as if someone is speaking, are forms of clairaudience.  This information is received telepathically and others are generally not able to hear it unless they are also tuned into the same frequency of being.Try Working With: ‣ @Lapis Lazuli@ — Stimulate your third-eye and throat chakras with this high-vibrational protective stone.  Ideal for working to increase clear communication, Lapis Lazuli is excellent for discerning truths and dispelling negative energy. ‣ @Angelite@ — Connect to other realms and frequencies with this calming stone.  Angelite assists one with tuning into the angelic realms for assistance and information. ClairalienceClairalience is the ability to smell odors that are not currently present in the physical realm.  An example of this would be smelling the perfume of a loved one who has passed.  This psychic tool is beneficial for noticing spirits and entities that may be occupying a space.Try Working With: ‣ @Apatite@ — Expand deeper into information being received and gain further clarity with this healing stone. ‣ @Black Tourmaline@ — Cleanse and protect your aura, while balancing the left and right hemispheres of your brain.  The grounding affect of this healing stone assists those overwhelmed with intuitive information. ClairgustanceClairgustance is the ability to taste without having indulged in anything.  Tasting chocolate when providing a past life psychic reading is a sign of clairgustance.  Experiencing the sensation of having smoked a cigar when communicating with an ancestor who indulged in smoking is another example of clairgustance.Try Working With: ‣ @Obsidian@ — Use black obsidian to sever energetic cords, protect your aura, and cleanse yourself of any lingering foreign energy.  This stone pairs well with smokey quartz. ‣ @Smoky Quartz@ — A grounding crystal that transmutes negative energy and provides stability, this piece assists those barraged with psychic information. ClairtangencyClairtangency or psychometry provides physical sensation through a clear feeling.  Those gifted with clairtagency are able to touch an item and receive information intuitively.  Information can be gleaned by handling another’s personal items such as clothing, heirlooms or vintage jewelry.  Touching the walls of a house or business as well as driving another’s automobile can also provide details.Try Working With: ‣ @Sugilite@ — Beneficial for those who experience stress in their surroundings, Sugilite’s “shield of light” helps to keep a barrier between the individual and negative energies. ‣ @Hematite@ — Ground and align your chakras by wearing a piece of hematite.  This protective healing stone collects foreign energy from the immediate environment like a magnet, keeping the wearer clear with their own energy. ClairsentienceClairsentience is the ability to receive information through a feeling in the physical body.  This gift enables the individual to experience a sensation another person is experiencing; setting boundaries and grounding is a great way to stay in your space and avoid taking on another person’s sensory experience.Try Working With: ‣ @Fluorite@ — Brings clarity and aids in discernment.  This crystal assists in the clearing of energy from the physical body as well as one’s aura. ‣ @Black Onyx@ — A powerful protection stone that creates a shield around one’s aura, discouraging negative energy from sticking.

I often joke that my ADHD brain thinks in song lyrics.  Someone will say something, and my brain will complete the thought with a corresponding song.  It’s a fun party trick and I thought it was just a quirk of my unique brain, but it turns out it’s actually one of the main ways my spirit team communicates with me.  Thinking of songs or lyrics out of nowhere, or hearing a song with exactly the right message at precisely the right time is a form of clairaudience, one of the many different spiritual gifts people can develop. 

I started to realize it wasn’t just a coincidence, especially when these perfectly placed songs or lyrics happened shortly after seeing Apollo on a sign, truck, or building.  (Apollo is the Greek god associated with art and music.  Now, when I see an Apollo plumbing truck, I queue up my music app and ask the Universe to show me what I need to hear.)

I liked this deck so much I bought a smaller deck to keep in my bag when I'm traveling or working. In fact, I had them in my bag while at the library, writing this post! Click the link to purchase your own (I will get a kickback on whatever you order).

This is the card the helped explain what to look for...

I must give credit where it is due. I had been using the regular sized deck of the above oracle cards and it was the hawk card's description that reminded me that those repeating numbers, lyrics, or animals were not just a coincidence, but a way that spirit was trying to communicate with me.

As the linked article to the left explains, all of us are imbued with intuition (some might call it a divine spark), which makes us capable of tapping into the spiritual realm.  You don’t have to be a spiritual leader or official practitioner to tap into these gifts, either.  You just have to be willing to believe that you are capable of receiving messages and then open yourself up to receiving them.

It sounds easy enough but tapping into spiritual gifts can be difficult if you grew up with religious baggage that taught that only religious leaders have access to divine wisdom, that anything other than God (as defined by that tradition) should be viewed with suspicion, or that these kinds of spiritual gifts were examples of mental illness or weakness.

Though my Virgo moon makes me extremely analytical and skeptical of anything too out of the box, my 9^th house (house of religion, travel, spirituality, and publishing) is ruled by Aries, who is all about blazing trails and trying new things.  Which kind of makes me the perfect “taste-tester” so to speak.  I am willing to try new things, but I am going to document it, test it, and make sure it actually works before sharing it with others!

You might have noticed your own spiritual gifts developing…do you often just “know” something without really understanding how you know it? That’s claircognizance!  Spiritualists will call this “receiving downloads” from Spirit, though I just think of is as “the knowing.”  The biggest challenge to this gift, I have found, is making sure your ego doesn’t co-opt the message, especially if it challenges your known experiences or current circumstances.  Trusting the knowledge and not overthinking it has been the biggest hurdle for me.

Same goes with all of these gifts; it’s essential to trust your intuition, to trust yourself and the messages you are receiving, and be willing to ignore the naysayers who will question you about them.

Each of us is unique and not all of us will have the same spiritual gifts, so if you aren’t tapping into spirit in one way, take time to pray or meditate and ask God/Spirit/The Universe to show where your gifts lie.

The more you get used to receiving spirit messages in a variety of ways, you may find you develop more gifts!