What are Clair-gifts? They are psychic gifts which one may be born with or probably developed into adulthood by spiritual practices. Although, all of us can have and will be able to train ourselves to embody these clair-gifts which some may inherently be more predominant than others due to the activated gifts which one was incarnated with from birth. We have the famously known big fours, “Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Clairsentience and Claircognizance”. They are easier remembered by “Clair-Seeing, Clair-Hearing, Clair-Feeling and Clair-knowing” respectively. Many people seemed to be mistaking each type interchangeably. It is easy to get them mixed up since all of them are perceived in the mind, however, the difference although subtle to distinguish but greatly differs. Do you want to know their differences? If you are interested, let’s dive into it, right now! 

As the name suggests, Clairvoyance which is the meaning of having the “Clair-seeing or Clear-seeing” capability to see and perceive information beyond the physical eyes. It is an ability to see something in one’s mind’s eye where images or may have looked like movie clips playing in the mind whenever they are tapping into the non physical dimension. Mental images in still forms may pop up or it could also be colors, shapes or objects. Some have it more vivid than others or it could have been just fleeting images. An example when this happens will be when two person nonchalently were chatting leisurely and the conversation wasn’t too intense and suddenly one of them has images or movies played out in their mind’s eye when a subject was brought up. This could have been past life scenes which may have been triggered by the discussion and picked up psychically by that clairvoyant individual. It will be difficult to miss since the telepathic input in one’s mind is glaringly different against the backdrop of our physical perception by the 3D physical eyes. Many Akashic readers are proficient in this gift because it helps them to be able to “see” the record and interpret the images or movies which they saw in their mind’s eye to their clients.

Clairaudience means the “Clair-hearing or Clear-hearing” with which one can hear beyond the physical earth plane’s sounds, noises, tones or frequencies. An example will be when someone is doing a prayer or meditation and has asked a question in their mind, then a telepathic answer in the form of someone giving the answer by speaking will be perceived through a sense of hearing internally instead of hearing it from the physical ears. It will feel like someone speaking in another voice that is recognisably not their own, answering them from within themselves. Although it may seem subtle because it’s all in our “head”. But, it will be easily recognisable since the tone and manner which is spoken will somehow be different from how you will answer yourself. Another way of realizing it is when you ask a question in your mind and the voice will answer immediately before you even process the question. In this way, it may be your Higher self or spirit guide speaking to you in your mind’s “ear(s)”. There are many mediums who are proficient in clairaudience because they are able to “hear” from their client’s loved ones who passed into the astral plane. 

Now we have come to Clairsentience which is widely known as “Clair-feeling or Clear-feeling”, which is the explanation by which we are feeling a place or a person’s energy psychically. The example will be when you walked into a room where a big argument or fight had just ensued. Although the incident was over, nonetheless the energy of the place was deeply felt by that individual who just walked into the room and clairsentiently picked up the negative energy of that room. The low vibrational energetic feeling was felt and hard to dismiss if one is clairsentient. 

Claircognizance is rather rare in the main four clair-gifts. This is known by many as “Clair-knowing or Clear-knowing”. Though everyone can have a certain “knowing” sense just like how a mother already knew what will happen to their child across countries in times of danger. However, this type of knowing is still largely more closely related to “clair-feeling” which is clairsentience instead. Claircognizance is different in the way by which one is able to process information through the mind having an ability to know things in a way that is somewhat difficult for others to know at initial contact. It is knowing something having no reason to know it in the first place. The way that they process information through their mind is significantly noticeably different from others. The same situation can be presented to two people but the one who is claircognizant will be able to “know” the situation or things in a way which is not easily understood by others. The information will be randomly and quickly perceived in their mind. An example will be, for an individual who is claircognizant, when talking to someone, they can mentally process information pertaining to facial expressions, the choice of words used, body language, tone of voices, past experiences mentioned, past behaviors compared to present one, past subjects discussed before etc. will almost seems like a computer processor which works out the algorithm in their mind in a way which makes them “know” things. They investigatively already worked out the situation in their mind and knew the outcome. Or it can be brought up to their mind something that they have read or known 10 years ago, but they could recite word for word what others cannot even remember what they read yesterday! Their mind works like how a computer would have stored data. The knowledge comes from the various data from which they have acquired not just in past lives but in present life and will be stored in their mind and streamed “live” whenever questions are asked. They fit concepts in their mind as it automatically arranges the answer. They are able to process information quickly and remember vivid information mentioned once and was often called a “walking encyclopedia”. They will know answers others do not know because of all the data they have acquired for lifetimes which are invisibly stored in their mind like an endless and boundless storage space and all they need to do is for someone to ask and they will just “know”. Claircognizant people will understand concepts different from other types because there will be waves of information, insights and understanding which will be randomly dropped into their consciousness from higher realms akin to channeling of information. They normally do have an extreme thirst for knowledge. They are good at critical thinking and understand things and concepts very fast because as they learn more, they know more due to the tapping in of information within their mind’s “storage space”. Philosophical subjects appeal to them since they are able to understand the concepts well.

Now we have come to the lesser known and much more rarer versions. Clairtangency is the ability to touch someone or an object and be able to receive information upon the “touch”. It can be known as “Clair-touching or clear-touching”. It is also known as psychometry. This type of rare clair-gift is the only type in which psychic information is triggered by physical touch. For instance, when a Massage therapist touches a client, they immediately see images in their mind, clearly from the “touch”. This is different from Clairsentience where information is psychically picked up without any physical contact. Clairtangency is by the touch and they are able to immediately pick up information about that object. It is a sudden insight which flashes into their mind. These are the people who will have sudden “downloads” when they touch an antique of sorts and they will be able to pick up that object’s history and what had happened pertaining to that object by the means of “touch”. This type of gift is so rare that there might be only a small population of people thought to possess this psychic sense; this gift will most likely come with that individual through birth. It doesn’t mean that we cannot train ourselves to develop this rare gift, however, it’s rather difficult to do so if one does not have the preposition in this type of clair-gift. The similar but yet vastly different clairsentience will be easier to train ourselves to master through practice. This particular version of psychic ability is rather difficult to master even through repeated spiritual practices. 

Another rare type will be Clairgustance which probably will be known as “Clair-tasting or Clear-tasting”. This rarely discussed type of clair-gift usually goes hand in hand with another unusual type, which is the Clairalience also well described as “Clair-smelling or Clear-smelling”. For now, we shall just focus on this clair-tasting version to understand more of how it works. So what this rare gift does is that it is the supernatural ability to pick up taste in the mouth without anything physical in the mouth. There will be people like this who are able to taste what others had tasted before or they might be able to taste something just by looking at the food or substance. Or it may happen when they enter a room or a place and will suddenly pick up the energetic field’s information and translate it into this ability to taste something in their mouth pertaining to the information they picked up, notwithstanding usually with the accompanying smell also. It may not need to be food per se but can happen to be non-food too! Many may think that they have clairgustance since from time to time, they have different tastes in their mouth due to prior consumption of food interacting with new food intake or may be due to a different health constitution on that day because of impaired immunity hence giving a certain sort of taste in the mouth when they are going to be sick. This will be compelling for that person because it will be a sudden taste with smell which is hard to disregard. Most of the time people who are clairgustance will pick up a metallic taste in their mouth when they are near or get in touch with a negative energy, place or person. An example may be when you shake the hand of a negative individual and suddenly you taste a metallic taste in your mouth together with an odor which you smell at the same time. Well, of course not that this clair-gift cannot be independently experienced without the smelling, just that it normally goes together. An example will be a criminal psychic medium working on crime investigation, this individual will be able to detect what went on during the crime incident because of these clair-gifts of tasting and smelling and giving evidence for the crime investigation to pursue according to what they picked up. 

As briefly described above, Clairalience is also known as “Clair-smelling or Clear-smelling” where one is able to pick up the psychic smell even when there is no related substance or object giving off that particular smell. It can also be known as clairolfaction. An example will be if some criminal incident had happened in a particular location, upon entering the scene, this person who has the clairalience gift will be able to psychically pick up the crime scene’s objects smell. Most times, they can also concurrently taste something in their mouth. Many practicing mediums possess this ability too. There are others who just have a heightened sense of smell where they can be smelling something from far away or particularly sensitive to smell. These individuals will most likely be having the gift of clairalience which they may not have known. 

Lastly, we have come to this rare clair-gift of Clairempathy which means “Clair-empathy or clear-empathy” where one can, not just feel the emotions of someone else but even the physical pains involved as well. While this is similar to clairsentience where one can pick up things via feeling the place or someone’s energy, clairempathy is a notch higher up the scale of feeling things on a much pronounced and noticeable level, to an extent of even other’s afflictions, physical aches, hurt and pain. 

It will not be surprising for one to have most of these rare clair-gifts combined where they are able to tap into the astral plane with heightened levels of clairgustance + clairalience, clairempathy and may also even have clairtangency if given a chance to touch passed ones’ possession. These individuals having these rare clair-gifts are suited to consider mediumship to help process information for people who have passed loved ones on the other side. 

Regardless, it is of vital importance that these people work on raising their own vibrations first and foremost so as to have the capacity to do such work since many undesirable contacts may happen if their own vibrations are not relatively high enough to tune out if necessary. With a good understanding of the spiritual planes and not just doing spiritual practices by meditation or other means, it is necessary also to constantly work on themselves to align to the divine. This allows for the frequencial adjustment where one can adjust according to the astral inputs and yet be able to function properly on our 3D physical plane with what they are receiving and contacting. Aside from this, it is also important to learn and do psychic shieldings to protect one’s aura and energetic field. A way to lower down the unnecessary and disturbing telepathic inputs, is to imagine a “dial” in your mind’s eye and visualize the dial to be turned downwards, tuning down the input if necessary. In this way, you can still allow the functioning of the gifts to be available but yet still be able to control their intensity just by turning the imaginative dial just like how you would turn the dial of a radio. 

Having said all these, be it if you are having the rarer clair-gifts or the four main ones, or even if you have all of them, it is important that we align with the divine with the right intentions and actions so that we are on the right path helping Divine Source as a good steward of the gifts bestowed upon us. Hone it and use it to help others so as to make our life more meaningful and be the one to be able to impact and enrich others’ life through the clair-gifts with which we have. Be of good use and spread love and light to earth with the use of our good clair-gifts as a helping hand for Divine Source. Be the love who helps others and be the light who edifies others through the great gifts we have on hand.