The Clairs: Your Intuitive Senses

The clairs are your intuitive senses: the ways you see, feel, hear and know things beyond your five physical senses. “Clair” means clear, so clairvoyance is clear seeing, clairsentience is clear feeling, and so on.

We named Clairity School after them for a reason. Everyone has the clairs. You’re using them right now, whether you call it intuition, a gut feeling or “I just knew.” They aren’t gifts for a special few. They’re skills, and like any skill, you can develop them.

Most people have one or two that come naturally. Here’s a quick tour so you can start to recognize yours.

Clairvoyance: Clear Seeing

Clairvoyance is the ability to read and discern energy, often as images, colors or pictures in your mind. It’s seated in your third eye, and it’s the skill that lets you see why something is happening, not just feel that it is.

Clairsentience: Clear Feeling

Clairsentience is the ability to get intuitive information through your body and emotions. Gut feelings, chills, a heaviness when you walk into a room. If you’ve ever called yourself an empath, this is your clair.

Claircognizance: Clear Knowing

Claircognizance is the ability to know something without thinking it through. The answer just drops in. It’s the “aha!” moment, and it’s one of the most overlooked abilities we have.

Clairaudience: Clear Hearing

Clairaudience is the ability to hear non-physical beings, like guides, ancestors and loved ones who have passed. Sometimes it’s a clear voice. More often it’s a message you receive without fully noticing.

Telepathy

Telepathy is communication without words. You think of a friend and they call. You keep arguing with someone in your head long after the conversation ended. That’s telepathy, and most of us do it all day without realizing it.

Precognition

Precognition is the ability to sense something before it happens, through a dream, a knowing or a feeling in your body. It isn’t about predicting every event. It’s about reading where the energy is headed.

Mediumship

Mediumship is the ability to communicate with spirits, from loved ones who have crossed over to high-level healing beings. Trance mediumship takes it further, channeling those beings to bring through healing and guidance.

Which Clair Is Yours?

Ask yourself how you usually “get” things. Do you see pictures? Feel it in your body? Just know? Hear a word or a phrase? Your strongest clair is usually the one you’ve been using your whole life without a name for it.

Here’s the thing: you don’t have to pick one. Your clairs work together. Many people lead with feeling, which is a beautiful skill and also why so many sensitive people end up exhausted. Adding clairvoyance gives you a little distance, so you can see what’s going on instead of only feeling it.

Quick Answers

What are the clairs?

The clairs are intuitive or psychic senses. The main four are clairvoyance (seeing), clairsentience (feeling), claircognizance (knowing) and clairaudience (hearing). Telepathy, precognition and mediumship are related abilities.

Can you develop psychic abilities?

Yes. We believe everyone is born with all of their intuitive abilities. Openness, family programming and culture affect how much of them you use, but with practice and training anyone can develop them, like learning a language or an instrument.

What’s the difference between psychic and intuitive?

Not much. They describe the same abilities. We tend to say intuitive, because it feels more familiar, but it’s the same set of skills.

Where to Start

It depends on where you are. If you’re just starting to explore energy and want to see how it feels, Energy Essentials is a great place to begin. In five weeks, live or self-paced, you get an essential toolkit for working with energy. If you already know you’re ready to dive deep, start with Intuitive Training, our year-long program. It’s built around clairvoyance, the core skill for reading energy, and along the way you learn how your other abilities work too, like clairsentience, claircognizance and telepathy. Want a free taste first? Join our Opening Your Third Eye webinar.