We each have our strengths. And that’s OK.
Some folks learn better by reading, rather than hearing information, for instance. Some of us are tactile learners and need to get our hands on things.
Some people have great eyesight, but poor hearing. Or the other way around. Or they’re just more perceptive with one sense than another.
The same is true for your intuitive or psychic senses.
How do you know what your psychic or intuitive senses are?
Just as we have several physical senses — sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch — we also have several psychic or intuitive senses. These include clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairgustance,
What are your dominant intuitive senses?
Some people are very visual. They primarily take in the world via their sight and have vivid dreams. Other people are extremely sensitive to smells. Or they have an excellent sense of hearing and are able to make out low voices and tell where a specific sound is coming from. One or more of our intuitive senses can tend to be dominant as well.
Here are two exercises to help you determine which of your clairsenses are the most dominant at the moment.
Psychic sense exercise: room scan
Sit quietly and scan the room around you. Take in all the details and feelings of the room. Now close your eyes and focus on your breath. Review in your mind what caught your attention as you scanned the room.
(Do the exercise before reading further. It takes only a minute and works better if you do.)
What caught your attention and stood out the most to you when you closed your eyes?
Did you focus on the sounds in the room, or the smells?
Did you get a feeling in your gut about something or someone, or a sudden insight or thought in your mind?
Did you focus on an object and see it when you closed your eyes?
Was there a taste in your mouth?
Intuitive sense exercise: the grapefruit and the car
Sit quietly. Close your eyes. Breathe. Inhale and exhale, slowly, evenly and deeply.
Imagine a grapefruit as fully and completely as you can. Sit with this for a few moments.
(Again, do the exercise before reading on. It just takes a moment.)
Now that you’ve done the exercise (You have, right? If not, close your eyes and do it), what did you notice most about the grapefruit?
Could you smell it?
Did you sense a bitter taste in your mouth?
Did you see the dimples on its skin or the segments in its flesh? What color was it?
Did you get a feeling inside your body of flow or resistance, delight or disgust? Did the grapefruit symbolize something?
Now close your eyes again and imagine a vehicle. Sit with this for several moments. (Really, do it again. It’s quick.)
Did you see a car? Or a truck? Or something else?
Hear its engine?
Smell its exhaust?
Feel the fabric of the seats or the door handle?
Recall a childhood memory of sitting in or traveling in your parents’ car?
Were you struck by a message or
Your dominant intuitive senses
Whichever of your senses that felt the strongest for you are your dominant ones at the moment.
If you recalled the pieces of furniture in the room, visualized a specific car or clearly saw the grapefruit, clairvoyance may be one of your strengths.
If you focused on the sounds in the room, the creaking of the building around you, a fan or heater, noises from outside, etc., or you heard the noises the car makes (grapefruits don’t make much noise) then you may have a heightened clairaudience.
If you smelled something wafting through the air in the room, of the grapefruit or the car (such as exhaust or an air freshener), then your abilities lend themselves to clairallience.
If you got a taste in your mouth, then you may have clairgustience.
If, instead, you experienced memories, a feeling within your body or a sudden, clear knowing, then you are more dominant in clairsentience and/or claircognizance. (They are related, but have distinct characteristics.)
Whatever your most dominant intuitive senses are, it doesn’t mean they’re your only ones or that they’ll stay the same forever. You can develop and open each of your clairsenses with time and practice. And patience.
You may learn that as one or more of your other intuitive senses develops and deepens, you either don’t need another to develop or you’ll find that as you let go of expectation, that it develops more easily.
It honestly doesn’t matter which intuitive or psychic senses you have, right now or ever. They are each a gift and can be very useful, whether you’re pursuing mediumship development or just in everyday life.
Learn to open all your intuitive senses
Want to learn more about each of your intuitive or psychic senses? My newest online class, Open Your Intuitive Senses, is now available online. Explore each of your clairsenses with guided exercises, and my years’ of teaching and practice distilled into an easy, engaging online format.
Learn more here: Open Your Intuitive Senses class
Come to find out my sense is intuitive. Thanks for the exercise, they definitely helped.