What are the 8 Clair Senses? Discover Your Psychic Ability.

Have ever wondered how psychic mediums know things without having any prior knowledge of them?

Well, it is all thanks to their intuitive abilities. By tuning into their psychic, a psychic medium can receive wisdom and guidance to assist us with our lives.

These psychic abilities are called the clair senses.

So what are these psychic senses?

The 8 Clair Senses

The Clair Senses are the non-physical sense receptors that allow us to perceive information beyond the limitations of our five physical senses. These extrasensory abilities provide intuitive insights about our environment, people, animals, places, and objects around us.

There are 8 different clair senses these are Clairvoyance, Clairsentience, Clairaudience, Clairgustance, Clairalience, Clairtangency, Claircognizance, and Clairempathy. Everyone is born with these psychic abilities, they are our inner spiritual guidance system.

1. Clairvoyance: seeing images using the third eye

Clairvoyance is the psychic ability of sight which enables psychics and mediums to see the past, and the present and predict future events using their mind’s eye, the imagination. This gift allows us to perceive flashes of colors, images, symbols, and even short video clips telepathically much like a daydream.

But that is not all, clairvoyants can also receive insights, guidance, and inspiration through their dreams. Other common observations include seeing orbs, flashing lights, and spirit people.

Clairvoyance is characteristic among artists, photographers, designers, and those who are visual learners.

2. Clairsentience: sensing through the emotion

Clairsentience translates as the ability to sense subtle changes in energy through one’s own sense of feeling. It allows the medium to tap into another person’s pain, feelings, and emotions. This is the most important clair as it provides the foundation needed to become a good medium.

Although this is a common clair, it is more fine-tuned in highly-sensitive individuals and empaths.

Clairsentients follow their gut feelings and sense things around them that others fail to notice.

If you are a clairsentient, you are likely to pursue a career as a caregiver, nurse, doctor, and psychologist.

3. Clairaudience: hearing thoughts, sounds & noises

Clairaudience is the extrasensory power of hearing which enables psychics and mediums to hear words, thoughts, sounds, and even music through our inner voice. This is a calm and quiet familiar voice. It is the same voice you hear with your inner thoughts. Clairaudients may hear the name of a place, a person, a favorite song, or familiar sounds.

This type of clair sense is mostly notable in auditory learners and is characteristic in individuals with careers as musicians, singers, public speakers, or orators.  

4. Clairgustance: Sensing subtle energy through taste 

Clairgustance or clairgustience refers to the psychic sense of taste and can perceive the essence of people, animals, places, and things without having to place anything in their mouth. 

When using this psychic ability, it is perfectly normal for the salivation gland to kick in and trigger insights about past present, and future events. 

Clairgustants are usually foodies and gravitate to food-related jobs such as cooks, chefs, bakers, food tasters, or critics. 

5. Clairscent: smelling scents or odors

This clair sense has multiple names, clairessence, clairolfaction, and clairalience. Clairscent is the ability to intuitively smell fragrances or odors. This primal sense connects to our survival instinct and can help us detect when something fishy is going on. Those that possess this ability can sniff their way around a person’s life and dig up memories and emotions.

Just like the 5 basic senses, this clair is closely linked to the sense of taste and work together. Both senses may be simultaneously triggered and equally contribute to a reading.

If you have a keen sense of smell, you will likely pursue a career as a winemaker, brewer, distiller, sommelier, perfume fragrance creator, or work as florist.

If want to know more about psychic smelling, what it is like, and the top 10 scents, then you will enjoy reading ‘Psychic smelling. Clairalience, clairscent clairessence or clairolfaction’.

6. Claircognizant: The ability of knowing

Claircognizant is an intuition, an inner knowing of something that goes beyond logic. Those with this ability receive information and understand complex concepts without prior knowledge.

Information is intuitively received as an inner understanding through the mind. It is not a gut instinct. This type of knowing is characteristic of spiritual and religious leaders, business visionaries, philosophers, and scientists.

Note: This sense is common among sharp-minded and highly analytical people.

7. Clairtangency: means sensing through touch

Clairtangency means clear touch. The word tangency derives from the Latin word “Tangibilis” meaning “touchable”. Clairtangency is known by several names including psychometry or open object reading.

Clairtangency is the ability to sense information through physical contact. It can be activated by brushing past someone, holding a personal belonging, sitting in a vehicle, or touching a wall. This clair functions like a trigger and relies on the other clairs to receive information.

If this clair resonates with you, then you most likely work as an energy healer, chiropractor, physiotherapist, masseuse, painter, farmer, gardener, or carpenter.

Want to know if you too possess this ability? Then you will want to test your abilities and find out what objects work best for such readings. Enjoy our reading “What is psychometry? Practise and test the psychic ability of touch.“

8. Clairempathy: sense people’s energies within your body

Clairempathy is heightened sensitivity to energetic vibrations and can feel the emotions, thoughts, and physical ailments of people and animals. They are human detectors of physical and emotional residual pain. However, their abilities are not limited to people and animals.

Clairempaths can also connect to the energy of places and things. They can feel physical sensations within the body as if it were their own. However, due to their sensitive nature, clairempaths feel a sense of duty and want to reduce pain and suffering in the world.

For this reason, they choose careers that help people, and animals or protect the planet. Clairempaths generally work as psychologists, nurses, vets, conservationists, and animal careers.

Concluding thoughts

Psychics mediums receive wisdom, guidance and spiritual insights telepathically through the the 8 clair senses. These allow them to access subtle vibrations and gain useful information about their environment, people, animals, places and object.

To summarise the 8 clairs are as follows:

1. Clairvoyance: The psychic gift of clear seeing
2. Clairsentience: The intuitive ability of clear feeling
3. Clairaudience: The heightened sense of clear hearing
4. Clairgustance: The extra-sensory ability of clear taste
5. Clairalience: The psychic ability of clear smell
6. Clairtangency: The intuitive sense of clear touch
7. Claircognizance: The intuitive sense of clear knowingness
8. Clairempathy: The extra-sensory gift of perceiving subtle energetic changes

So, now that you know what all the clair senses mean, which sense do you most identify with?

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