The Five Main Intuitive Abilities + How I Activated Mine
I don’t love the term psychic – I think it has a negative connotation for most people. I prefer the term intuitive, and my interest in intuitive abilities peaked when I had my first Akashic Record reading. In this reading I learned that we are all born with psychic gifts. I also learned that the main gift I have is claircognizance (clear knowing). I don’t know how or why I know something – I just know it. That resonated with me because it was something I knew I had all along – I just didn’t know that it was anything special or that it had a name. You probably already know that you have something like this too.
For so many of us, our intuitive abilities have been suppressed or weakened throughout our lives. Maybe you still have it but are just a little fearful of the ‘weird’ experiences or synchronicities you’ve had, because most of us weren’t taught that we are made of energy and frequency - connected to other dimensions. Even if you were brought up with faith, believe in God, and the Holy Spirit, you didn’t necessarily learn that you are also designed as a powerful, spiritual being with a unique purpose and innate gifts that you should celebrate, not suppress! Instead, through social programming, you probably just did your best to ‘fit in’, suppressing the Divine within you. Then somewhere along the road you started to trust an outside source rather than yourself. Even if you get intuitive hits or gut feelings now, trying to guide you, you might not trust yourself enough to follow those feelings quite yet. You might go against them, using your logical mind to play it safe and do what you think is supposed to make you happy or at the very least get some approval - people getting married despite having a gut feeling that says otherwise comes to mind.
It’s time to unlearn all the things we were taught to believe/not believe, or do/not do especially having the need for physical evidence, or the voice of an ‘expert’/outside authority to arrive at some sort of truth or to know what is right for you. For example, needing a doctor or science to tell you what’s healthy or not healthy for you. I always think of the recent data and claims about conventional birth control pills going around the wellness community on social media – people are rightfully upset now – but I knew 20 years ago that it wasn’t something I wanted to take the minute I felt a mood shift from it. I never took it again - I didn’t need a doctor to tell me otherwise. I trusted my own body to tell me it wasn’t right.
Your intuition, your feelings, your inner knowings are your most reliable and valuable source for every aspect of your life, so it’s time to learn how to trust yourself and develop your intuition if that’s something you desire because it’s still there, you just have to learn to trust yourself and practice re-building the muscle.
For the past several years, I practiced building one specific muscle – claircognizance, since I learned that was my dominant trait. So, it was to my surprise last week when I started smelling the scent of my summer crush out of thin air (clairsentience) with absolutely no one around. The scent would leave as quickly as it came, and it had to happen twice before I really took note and gave it a second thought – the thought that it must have some deeper energetic meaning. Meanwhile, that same weekend, I had a quick visual flash of a text message *from my summer crush* delivered to me in a dream (clairvoyance) – only to be relayed the same exact message with the exact same words in person, one day later. It was one of those magical, awe-inspiring moments because while I have always known that my dreams (yours too!) deliver important information– it was a different kind of visual and a completely different feeling to have it confirmed verbally so quickly after.
Still, I hadn’t put it together that something had been activated within me, until I got a nudge (note: nudges are your intuition too) to have a session with my go-to trusted healer, Dianne Schaver from Sacred Light Integrations. She offers a variety of services and to be honest, this time I wasn’t sure I needed any of the usual work we do, I just knew I needed to connect with her. My intuition was right once again, because we had an entirely different session than we’ve ever had, and it was through her prompts that I ended up telling her about the scents I smelled and the visuals I had seen. She confirmed for me that more of my Clair’s had been activated.
Important Side Note: All of this happened after Dianne and I had done three separate emotional clearing sessions just 1-2 weeks prior. July was busy because I felt like I had cleared more in such a short period of time than I ever have, and we have been doing these emotional DNA clearings for a couple of years. Even though there were always noticeable shifts and upgrades in my life after each one, I was still surprised by this turn of events. Dianne added that after the last session of releasing emotions, I had crossed a threshold and because I have been feeling so at ease and at peace, the information is more easily able to come through. That made sense because all those new experiences came later that same day and throughout the rest of the weekend.
All of us can tap into these non-physical senses because we are all connected by energy – it just takes a lot of practice to tune in and see beyond our physical world. It is through peeling back layers of conditioning and emotional trauma, raising your vibration, transmuting limiting beliefs and getting quiet, that you will be able to tune in more easily because it’s a frequency you have to connect to. Below are the 5 main Clair’s – each one associated with an organ and our physical senses.
THE CLAIR’s
CLAIRCOGNIZANCE – Clear Knowing (The Brain)
CLAIRVOYANCE – Clear Seeing (The Eyes)
CLAIRSALIENCE – Clear Smelling (The Nose)
CLAIRSENTIENCE – Clear Feeling (Touch)
CLAIRAUDIENCE – Clear Hearing (The Ear)
Developing intuition and psychic abilities may come more naturally to some and everyone’s entry point is different. I was a beginner who needed some guidance. Some of the tools I used to assist me are a little vague at this point, but these were some important milestones that I remember along the way:
The first step was opening my third eye (the sixth chakra), which I did through daily meditations. The ‘muscle’ was always there because I had gut feelings or lingering ‘knowings’ in the back of my mind, but once my third eye was open, dreams were clearer and messages were louder, and I started to trust it more and more. For 2-3 months, I sat in the grass after lunch and did a meditation I had found on YouTube (an exercise I was guided to by a mentor). I was guided to do a YouTube search and intuitively find the one that would work for me, so I’ll offer that same advice to you.
However, I wouldn’t have been ready for that step if I hadn’t already been actively working on raising my vibration and transmuting energy on my own. Raising your vibration can include practices like cleaning up your diet, giving up alcohol, switching to non-toxic products like fluoride-free toothpaste (fluoride blocks your third eye), and spending more time in nature, but more importantly it’s learning how to live from love and not fear - unlearning all the ways we were programmed which separated us from our true nature at a very young age. I started this work on a deeper level 2-3 years before I was guided to work on opening my third eye. This is what I help people do in one-on-one sessions, meeting people wherever they’re at and whatever they might be ready for.
I started working with several crystals. I remember working with Rainbow Moonstone, a stone known to help strengthen intuition, and at another point I worked with Labradorite. I would meditate with them and place them under my pillow when I slept at night. I also remember when my Rainbow Moonstone disappeared – never to be found again – because its job was complete.
Left: Rainbow Moonstone Right: Labradorite I started making lists to record past ‘knowings’ that later came true which helped build my confidence and learn to really trust the messages that came through.
I also learned how to slow down enough to feel into things and use discernment. I really enjoyed the book “Trust Your Vibes” by Sonia Choquette.
I feel like it’s important to say I always had pure intentions with opening my third eye and using my intuition because I had a strong desire to strengthen my God-given gifts so that I could receive better guidance and live in alignment with my soul’s purpose. I think having pure intentions with it is key because you want to make sure you are connecting with God (pure light source energy) when you are connecting with the spiritual realm.
Before sitting down to meditate and tune in for guidance, I would light a candle and clear the energy of my bedroom by setting an intention for my room to be filled with light and clear away any lower vibrations that are not in alignment with my Highest Self or God. I would also clear my own energy field. Then I would make a statement that went like this:
“My third eye is now open, and I am now open to receive clear information using my psychic abilities from the highest sources – God, my guides, my angels, and my higher self without any interference”.
It took practice to remember all of this, but I was patient with myself. I dedicated every night to this practice for a while and I’m so grateful I did because like I said, your intuition is a valuable resource and you are meant to use it!
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