Improve Your Psychic Senses (the Clairs) with These 6 Tips!

We are all born with intuitive or psychic gifts. Over time, many of us lose touch with them—or even quiet them down—to fit in with the world around us. Yet our psychic senses never leave us. Can you remember a time you just knew something without explanation? Or when you felt that gut nudge that something wasn’t right?

The “Clair senses,” or clear senses, are the different ways we receive intuitive guidance and psychic information. Each represents a pathway for connecting to your innate wisdom and the unseen realms.

Clear or Clair Senses

By learning to understand, acknowledge, and connect with your own inherent inner wisdom, you can enhance your natural psychic abilities, essentially harnessing your Psychic Senses, the clairs.

When you deliberately attune to your clairs, you enhance your natural capacity to sense, feel, hear, and know beyond the physical realm. With practice, your awareness grows, and life becomes more enriched, connected, and aligned.

Broaden your awareness and develop each psychic sense or clair. However, my advice as a professional Psychic Medium is to embrace your strengths as they are and stop trying to 'see', 'feel', 'hear', 'know', etc., in the way psychic sensing is often depicted. There is no 'correct way' to perceive and 'receive' spiritual and psychic information.

Let’s explore the six primary psychic senses (the clairs) and how you can begin developing each one.

1. Clairvoyance (clear seeing).

Clairvoyance is also known as the psychic third eye. Clairvoyance is the most commonly recognised yet least understood among the clair senses. A clairvoyant's ability to 'see' can range from subtle visual impressions to intense visions. For some, clairvoyance might involve observing flashes of light, shapes, or brief image snapshots, while others experience detailed, movie-like visions or premonitions (as often depicted in films, though this is not the norm for most).

Tip: Practice using your imagination like a muscle, like all the Clairs you can build this muscle! Close your eyes and walk yourself through a remembered space—a room, a garden, a memory. Pay attention to the details your mind’s eye shows you. With time, this strengthens your clairvoyant sight.

Psychic Sense - Clairvoyance

2. Claircognizance (clear knowing).

This clair is all about an unexpected, undeniable sense of knowing. This form of divine guidance often comes to us through intuitive thoughts that spontaneously appear in our minds. It involves suddenly knowing something is true without any logical reasoning or factual evidence to support it. Sometimes, it manifests as a flash of insight or a persistent sense that something is not right.

Clear knowers (Claircognizant) have an innate understanding that the information they receive is accurate, without knowing how or why. It occurs when insights or truths come to you without logic, explanation, or prior knowledge. You simply know something is true.

Tip: To strengthen your clear knowing psychic sense, practice allowing your thoughts to wander until they naturally come to a halt. Let thoughts come and go. Embrace the space of nothingness that opens up for you. Breathe and continue breathing, letting your intuitive awareness emerge without interference. This requires practice, as do all such skills. Record any insights and test their accuracy. Trust enhances the claircognizant ability.

Clairaudience - psychic sense

3. Clairaudience

(clear hearing).

Clairaudience is the ability to hear beyond the physical. This type of psychic information comes in an auditory form. Clairaudients can receive intuitive sound messages with their inner or outer hearing. It can range from a voice in your head that you can clearly distinguish as not yours, right up to a disembodied voice outside your head. It’s being able to hear things other people can’t. Clairaudience involves Spirit communicating with you through sounds, music, or even words or phrases.

TIP: If you wake up with a song in your head, or one starts playing in your head while you are in the shower, take note. Notice, are you singing/hearing only part of the song or lyrics? Write them down and explore their meaning—you may be receiving a message. Spirit will send more when you notice.

4. Clairsentience (clear feeling)

This is that ‘gut feeling’ you have that intuitively tells you something isn’t as it should be. Clairsentients receive intuitive insight through physical experience. They feel and sense the world around them. They can often experience the pain, jealousy or fear associated with an event, person or a particular place. Clairsentients can actually feel the energy and emotions—this can often get very confusing - is it mine or someone else's!.

TIP:  Strengthen this clair by checking in with your body. Before entering a room, pause and notice how you feel. Step inside and sense what shifts. Write down what you experienced and compare it to the situation—it’s often more accurate than you realise.

5. Clairalience (Clear Smelling)

Clairalience is less commonly talked about, yet it’s a powerful sense. It’s the ability to psychically smell scents not physically present—like perfume, smoke, flowers, or food. These scents often carry messages from spirit or loved ones in the other realm. Smell can powerfully transport us to a place or time, easily and without us filtering the information!

Tip: When you smell something out of place, pause. Ask yourself: Who or what does this remind me of? Often, it’s a sign of presence, reassurance, or guidance.

6. Clairgustance (Clear Tasting)

Clairgustance is the psychic ability to taste something without eating it. It might be a sudden taste of sweetness, salt, metal, or even a favourite dish of a loved one in spirit. Like clairalience, it’s a subtle but meaningful way spirit communicates.

Tip: Notice unusual tastes that arise out of nowhere. Keep a journal to track patterns. Over time, you’ll learn the unique language of how spirit uses clairgustance to connect with you.

What we think when we think Psychic Senses!

Strengthening Your Clairs

Most people naturally lean into one or two dominant clairs, but all of us can strengthen each sense with practice. The more attention you give them, the more your psychic senses awaken and respond.

By tuning in, you deepen your connection to your higher self, your spirit team, and the world around you. With practice, you’ll notice life feels richer, more guided, and full of subtle signs.

Most people would say they have a dominant psychic sense that they have naturally attuned themselves to, a preferred way of receiving psychic information. Psychics, mediums, etc., usually use a range of clairs to bring through psychic information in psychic readings and mediumship readings.

As a psychic medium, I am able to receive psychic messages and information through all of the psychic senses. I am continuously working on developing my psychic muscles, working on my clair senses so that I am able to see and hear, or even smell and taste as needed.

Tuning into our natural psychic senses gives us a heightened awareness of the world in which we live. We are able to connect with our higher selves, our all-knowing version of ourselves that is rich with insight, clarity and perspective. And although some people are naturally much more intuitive than others, with a little practice we can all tap into and strengthen our psychic abilities. So, the next time you feel, hear or sense something that you 'know' is different to your everyday perception. Why not practice using your clairs or psychic senses to see where this information might lead you!

Psychic Senses are more than we know

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Your growth is your gift—and as you strengthen your clairs, you not only expand your own awareness, you also ripple healing into the world.