Have you ever wondered which psychic avenues your intuition is using to communicate with you? Many people perceive things that are beyond the ordinary but cannot recognize them consciously.

These psychic avenues or psychic senses, also known as clairs (plural for clair, which is French for the word “clear”), are extensions of your physical senses and can take the form of visions, sounds, sensations or even scents and tastes.

In this article, I want to help you explore your psychic perception and how it expresses itself. We’re going to explore ways of slowing down and tuning into your inner senses while entering a relaxed and mindful state.

So if you’re ready, let’s begin.

The Gateway to Knowing Which Psychic Gifts You Have

Before delving into the ways you can open to your psychic senses, it is useful to understand how these senses mirror your physical ones.

Each of your psychic “clairs” (such as clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, etc.) is linked to the physical senses that are most dominant when you perceive the world around you.

For example, if you are more of a visual person and you find it easy to visualize things, you might also use verbs like “I see” in your daily life when wanting to communicate that you understand. Or, if you listen to music and you perceive it more through sensations in your body or emotions coming up, then you are a tactile person. You can further refine which sense is your strongest by taking an online test, and don’t worry, there are plenty out there to help you with your research.

Before delving into the ways you can open to your psychic senses, it is useful to understand how these senses mirror your physical ones.

The thing to understand is this exploration will give you a hint of which of your clairs are dominant, which will help you become more aware of how your intuition is communicating with you through those clairs.

Having said that, it is safe to say, that your psychic abilities are how your intuition is trying to communicate with you, either through images, sensations, sounds or even knowledge coming out of nowhere directly into your mind, which maps out your intuition’s sensory vocabulary.

As you turn your awareness towards your inner senses, you learn this vocabulary, something that can help you facilitate a stronger relationship with your intuition, and your ability to perceive things beyond your physical five senses.

3 Reflective Ways to Know Which Psychic Gifts You Have

Imagination, sensory focus, and observation are the three gateways to discovering your unique psychic expression.

When you combine all three elements, you will understand how you intuitively interact with the energies around you and how you perceive subtle information beyond the physical.

What follows are 3 ways in which you can pinpoint which type of clair is your strongest through reflection and focused observation.

1. Immerse Yourself in Sensory Awareness to Awaken Intuitive Perception

Creating a calm environment where you can reflect by going within and using your imagination through visualization activates parts of your mind that can help you connect with the subtle energies around you.

Techniques like imagining yourself in a sensory-rich environment (especially when visualizing natural environments) and take note of what you first notice (the warmth of the sun on your skin, the lush vegetation around you, or the sound that the wind makes as it passes through the leaves of trees) can assist you in opening up to your inner senses which are the ones that carry intuitive information.

Creating a calm environment where you can reflect by going within and using your imagination through visualization activates parts of your mind that can help you connect with the subtle energies around you.

In my experience, I found out that I am more of a tactile person in perceiving energy.

When I received my first Reiki attunement, what I instantly noticed was the energy that started coursing through my hands, something that felt almost tangible. Then, when I started giving Reiki to other people, I would get intuitive flashes by receiving information out of nowhere about the person, information that hadn’t been shared with me beforehand. I could also perceive the Reiki energy with my inner vision as it moved through my or another person’s body.

These experiences placed me in the psychic categories of clairsentience, claircognizance and clairvoyance respectively.

2. Observe the Clarity of What You Perceive to Identify Your Dominant Clair

Once you have practiced enough in observing which your inner senses, using the above technique, you will have sensitized your awareness to those senses and you will open up to intuitive hits, that will come as specific sensory input, and this will show you which of your inner senses is the strongest.

In my experience, I’ve come to know which of my clairs are the strongest by doing energy work and through challenging.

By applying the above spiritual practices daily, my psychic abilities flourished naturally and were geared mostly towards clairsentience, clairvoyance and claircognizance (psychic senses connected respectively to touch, vision and receiving information directly to my mind).

3. Record and Reflect to Strengthen What You’ve Discovered

Recording any of your intuitive impressions that you receive through your psychic abilities will strengthen your ability to perceive intuitive information, and also to trust the information fully.

At the beginning of my channeling journey, where I was receiving information (through my psychic abilities of clairsentience, clairvoyance and claircognizance), I would write down everything.

In this way when I would look back at my records, I would see that most of the time the information I was receiving was correct, which turned to be a great way and a) trust the information I was receiving and b) bridge the abstract world off psychic perception with my analytical mind, so that the information that I was receiving through my psychic senses, would be of practical use.

Conclusion

Discovering how you perceive psychic information is more of a reflective practice, and it doesn’t come as a dramatic realization but more as a subtle and gradual discovery.

By setting time to reflect and visualize sensory-rich environments (thus strengthening your ability to listen to your intuition through your imagination), being conscious of when you receive an intuitive hit through your psychic senses, and by recording what you receive is a sure way for you to not only find out which psychic senses are dominant but also how to listen to them and trust them.

I hope that the above techniques can be of use to you in your journey of exploring your psychic senses and thus enriching your life.

Till next time, take care.