Clairalience, meaning “clear smelling,” is a psychic sense of smell. It is linked with clairgustation, or “clear tasting,” and these two abilities often go hand in hand. Since this power is beyond normal perception, this is often referred to as a miraculous part of the “6th sense.” Using clairalience abilities, people can invoke memory and feelings and even see future events based on the smells that they sense. If you are clairalient, you may be able to sense the presence of departed loved ones through scents that are closely linked to them, such as cigars, cigarettes or perfume. Smelling something that you can’t physically see is a sign of clairalience, and a highly developed sense of it at that! With clairalience, your intuition is heightened, and you may be able to receive messages from Angels or your spirit team in the form of scents. If you smell roses while meditating, but there are no natural roses around you, the scent likely indicates the presence of spirit or an Angel with you. Sneezing fits are also another potential sign of clairalient abilities; if you find yourself overwhelmed with sneezing, and you can’t seem to figure out why, this may indicate clairalience rather than an allergy attack.

When you experience the signature scent of a loved one in Spirit, this is often a sign that their spirit is with you, wanting you to know they’re near. Even if you find yourself smelling scents that remind you of people you had a difficult past with, it could be their spirit attempting to make things right by causing you to remember and process your feelings. When you suspect that this is happening, try to take a moment to acknowledge that you sense their spirit. Try talking to them or recalling memories that you have of them. The smell may be brief or long lasting; either way, try to see it as the gift that it is.

Clairgustance, also spelled clairgustation, is the ability to taste things beyond the physical realm, and means “clear tasting.” It is linked with clairalience, or “clear smelling,” and these two abilities often go hand in hand. People with this ability may taste things that are not physically present, such as a specific food or drink, or a metallic or bitter taste. They may also taste things in their mind or through their psychic senses, such as a taste that indicates that a spirit is present. This is a psychic ability to experience the physical sensation of taste quite randomly, without anything entering into your mouth. The odd thing about this ability is that what’s being tasted isn’t always food; it could be a tree, a place or even a dirty sock! The sense of taste is a powerful tool and can bring forth very strong emotions. It has the ability to make you feel nostalgic, sad, happy or homesick. Connecting with all your different senses is a great way to use them spiritually and to allow yourself to open up to spirits and Angels who are wanting to contact you. All our senses are important when we are wanting to open up to spirits, as they can communicate in so many different ways! 

Interestingly, many scientists believe that the majority of our sense of taste is actually our sense of smell. So, in order to develop your clairgustance, it is important to also work with your sense of smell (your clairalient skills). When you are eating, pay attention to the scents of the food. Recall smells, and the emotions that they bring, and which tastes they may go hand in hand with. 

Another way of developing your clairgustance ability is to test yourself! Have a friend tell you when they are eating, but not what they are eating. When you know they’re eating, sit down and close your eyes and focus on your friend. Imagine them in your mind, see them eating and open up the psychic bridge between you and them. Can you tune into your friend’s experiences? Can you sense a distinct taste in your mouth? What do you think they are eating? When you think you know, ask them what they were eating. Did you get it right? Don’t worry if you keep getting it wrong. This takes time, and sometimes you need to work at it to be able to connect with your friend’s sense of taste.

Claircognizance means “clear knowing” and is the ability to predict events based on a gut feeling that is consistently proven accurate. This is what makes claircognizance such a gift of truth to those who possess it. You cannot know the future through your five physical senses, but you can if you have psychic abilities. If you are claircognizant, your deep inner knowing exceeds logic and reason, and you’re able to foresee certain situations and/or outcomes. People with claircognizance often receive “downloads” of information that can feel like the knowledge is poured in through the top of their head. They appear very random and at times when you are working, watching TV, running, or otherwise, doing something completely unrelated. You may be watching the newest episode of Game of Thrones, driving in your car, or working out in the gym, when an idea or a solution to a problem just pops up in your head.

People with claircognizance have a nose for insincerity and almost nothing gets past them. Even when someone is simply being insincere with their sentiments or expressions of emotion, someone with claircognizance is able to discern this. If you are claircognizant, you may feel like a human lie detector! People with claircognizance are often able to anticipate what other people are about to say, and they sometimes respond even before the other person has finished a full sentence, because they already know what’s coming. They may also find that they’ll be thinking of someone and receive a call from that person not long after.

If you are claircognizant, it is important to pay attention to your inner knowing or intuition, as this will help you develop your self-confidence.

Clairsentience is the ability to feel or sense things beyond the physical realm. It is often referred to as “clear feeling” or “clear sensing.” People with this ability may experience physical sensations, such as pressure, heat or cold, as well as emotional and mental sensations, such as fear, love or anger. They may also have a strong sense of feeling or intuition about things, which can be difficult to explain or rationalize. Clairsentience is also known as the “6th sense,” or the sense of intuition. People who experience clairsentience are sensitive to energy and can feel energy inside and outside of themselves in a more intuitive way.

Being clairsentient means that you are aware of the flow of energetic vibrations through your own body. Such energy may include, but is not limited to, how others are feeling (even when they aren’t around) and spiritual perceptions, such as a feeling when a departed loved one or an Angel walks with you, or the brush of a tail on your legs from a beloved pet that has passed. If you are clairsentient, you can likely feel the physical pain of others. You may also be able to pick up on the feelings of Angels and spirits. Goosebumps, or Angel bumps, are a confirmation from your spirit team, letting you know that they are around and confirming any questions you have. Next time you have goosebumps, pay attention to what you were thinking or asking when you felt them.

Clairaudience is the ability to hear things beyond the physical realm, often referred to as “clear hearing.” People with this ability may hear sounds, voices or music that are not audible to others. They may also hear things internally, such as a voice in their head, or messages from spirits or guides. The voice of clairaudience is the voice of our spirit that guides us and tells us the truth. This comes from a different place than the inner critic or the old patterns of the mind that repeat the same doubts or fantasies. This is guidance! If you had an imaginary friend you talked to as a child, this could be an early sign of clairaudience. This friend may have been a spirit guide appearing in a form that made sense to you.

People with this predominant clair tend to be excellent speakers, to understand the importance of verbal communication and to want to be heard. They tend to remember conversations from their dreams very clearly. Clairaudient people are very sensitive to music, are musically inclined, and they have a deep soul connection to music and sound. Many clairaudient people are auditory learners, and will prefer listening to an audiobook instead of reading the print version, for example. Clairaudience can involve a ringing sound in the ears, which may be a call from heaven asking you to pay attention to a message they are sending you. Clairaudient people are usually highly sensitive, both emotionally and physically. This is why a lot of noise might make you feel tired and irritated, if you are clairaudient.

Clairvoyance means “clear seeing,” and it is one of the major psychic abilities. This ability allows you to tap into the knowledge of your own soul and the collective knowledge of all souls in the universe, including those past and those not yet manifest. If you are clairvoyant, you can receive intuitive information through colors, images, visions, dreams and symbols. This “inner sight” is usually very subtle and will typically happen within your mind’s eye. You may also tend to particularly appreciate the beautiful things in life and love creative hobbies, like painting, drawing or photography. This has to do with the fact that clairvoyance is strongly related to your visual senses. So, if creative hobbies rock your world, it’s a sign that you might be clairvoyant.

With clairvoyance, you likely have a strong appreciation for aesthetically pleasing, clean and neat, uncluttered spaces. A clear setting means clear seeing! You may also love being in nature, especially if it’s particularly scenic. You have a tendency to see how everything fits together before others do, and you may be a master at complex problem solving. It’s very likely that you have an especially strong imagination, connected to your flair for creativity.

While you have the ability to receive clairvoyant images, it is important that you’re also able to understand and interpret them in order to use the visions. If the images don’t make any sense to you, you can ask (silently or aloud) the Higher Spirits/Angels to clarify them. Answers from the Higher Spirits will probably come through feelings, thoughts or sounds. In the beginning, they may seem a bit vague or random. Don’t worry! This is totally normal. Just trust yourself and the Higher Spirits and repeat your question. They will send you the answer in different ways until it is totally clear for you. Additionally, keep in mind that dreams may be visions or tell stories that provide insights on what is happening in real life.

It may be that you have discredited your clairvoyant abilities as daydreams, a wandering mind, wishful thinking or simply your imagination. This is not strange at all and is in fact quite common! Our intuitive abilities manifest from the same side – the right side – of the brain that houses our creative centers, including imagination, and this imagination carries the seeds of clairvoyant visions and shapes. This means that they’ll manifest in the same way as other creative expressions of your soul: via imagery.

In order to develop your clairvoyance, it is important to focus on and strengthen the third eye chakra. This chakra is located just above your eyebrows and is claimed to be responsible for visual clairvoyant abilities, such as seeing visions, flashes and symbols. Working on opening and strengthening the third eye helps to hone and control your abilities. Doing this takes away some of the fear and anxiety that plagues the untrained psychic. This is because you’ll see most of your visions inside your mind’s eye.

Another key to working with and improving your clairvoyant abilities is to have faith and believe in what you see. If you don’t discredit your clairvoyant abilities as a daydream, wandering mind, wishful thinking or just your imagination, you can achieve so much and live according to your fullest potential.