By:  Cindy Eyler,  October 2006

Your intuitive and psychic gifts are commonly referred to as your "clairs" or your 6th Sense.  Clair stands for "clear." 

• Clairvoyance - Clear Seeing
• Clairsentience - Clear Feeling
• Clairaudience - Clear Hearing
• Claircognizance - Clear Knowing

Although they are referred to as "gifts," do not feel that only the "gifted" can access these abilities.  In fact, everyone was born with, and has full access to their clairs.  Sometimes people forget, are unaware of their ability to access them, and feel they have lost touch with their clairs or cannot utilize them.  The truth is, you probably use them in your daily life, and are unaware of it.  Taking courses to "remember" your gifts will swiftly get you back into gear with using your gifts in your daily life.  Being able to access them easily and effortlessly enables you to tap into your divine guidance at anytime to assist you in decision making in your highest and best good.  It enables you to find and follow your dreams and passions, transforming your life into an abundance of wonderfully fulfilling opportunities!

As children our gifts are easily accessible and strong!  Children tap into their intuitive senses with ease, because they are open to endless possibilities.  If you can remember what it feels like, or witness in another, "Looking through a child's eyes of wonder," everything is a new experience and exploration.

Children can often see into our dimensions easily, thereby being able to see the nature spirits, elementals such as fairies and gnomes, and other dimensions where angels, guides, and even deceased people reside.  Many times adults witness their children talking to seemingly no one, and their child may even mention a name of someone they "see" and "hear."  Parents usually label these types of events, "imaginary friends."  However, they are not imaginary at all!  They are very real!

This is where the parent's usually take one of two routes either telling their child that it is made up or "imaginary," or if the parent's are open to the world of ___________(spirituality? metaphysics?) they encourage their children to share the experiences, and acknowledge that it is very real.  Depending on the route that the parent's take many times will affect the child trusting their senses, or stopping them in their tracks because they are being told it isn't real at all.  Unfortunately, the world around children has the ability to encourage or discourage them in fully tuning into their intuition, either resulting in closing them off or opening them up to an expanded consciousness seeing the world full of wonderment, guidance, and opportunities.

Let's turn our attention to you now.  With a short explanation of each "clair" you can begin relating them to yourself, and perhaps you will find you are accessing them without consciously knowing you are.

Clairvoyance (clear seeing) can occur in different ways.  One mis-perception that many people have is, when someone says they are "seeing" you doing this or that, or perhaps seeing and angel or spirit guide, that the person is actually seeing with their physical eyes what they are describing right in front in front of them.  Seeing in this fashion can absolutely be done, however, many "seers" do not see in this fashion all the time or at all.  To see something appear right in front of you viewing it with your physical eyes you usually have to have a matching vibration for it to manifest.  This is done easily for some, not so easily for others.  Being able to attain this has much to do with your training, practice, and openness in believing you can do it.  However, I have found that many times people have this ability blocked due to horrific past life(s) (such as being hanged for being a seer) stored within their cellular memory.  People may or may not be aware of these past life memories.

The most common form of clairvoyance is using your 3rd eye (energy center known as one of your chakras located in the forehead area)  and perceiving images either in your head, or perceiving them looking into other dimensions.  Seeing images in your head seems to be the most common.  If I asked you to picture your kitchen, car, or a loved one, you would automatically see this place, item, or person in your head.  This is a typical form of clairvoyance.  We all use this on a daily basis, and may not realize that is what we are tapping into.

Using your clairvoyance by using your 3rd eye looking into other dimensions usually takes some instruction and practice to perform.  This type of clairvoyance is wonderful, as you can train yourself to see many realms of the spirit world, opening you up to endless and interesting experiences.

Clairsentience (clear feeling) in my experience in teaching others is usually the easiest for people to begin with.  People are very good at "feeling" things such as emotions, physical tightness/heaviness, dis-ease, and pain.  Most likely you are using these clair most often in your daily life.  By looking at another person you an detect how they may be feeling, but if you are empathic it is easy to see and/or speak with others and "pick up on" or "feel" what they are feeling at the moment.  For this reason, those who are empaths would do best a learning techniques to know how to "feel," and at the same time, not "take on" these feelings.  Taking on of feelings only serves to drain you of your energy, leaving you drained.

Clairaudience (clear hearing) is experienced when you actually hear a voice outside your head.  Have you ever heard your name being called only to turn around and no one was there?  Through past events it seems common to experience clairaudience when you can use a warning to get your attention fast, or an important profound message needs to be delivered.  Let's face it, if he "heard" all the time it would be hard to be in a peaceful state for any length of time!

Claircognizance (clear knowing) is when you just know.  You don't know how you know, you just know!  I'll tell you how you know!  Most likely you have reincarnated many many times, and through these lifetimes you pick up more knowledge and wisdom.  This knowledge and wisdom does not leave your soul each time you incarnate into a new lifetime.  You carry the information forward, as it is all part of your soul's lessons and guidance.  There are times that you may have a conversation with someone, and the wisdom seems to flow from your lips with ease.  After the conversation you may think to yourself, "Wow, that was good!  Where the heck did that come from!"  In teaching classes on psychic and intuitive development, those that are claircognizant appear to have the most difficulty trusting their "messages," as they can't seem to pinpoint how they are receiving the information. 

All in all, no one clair is better than the other.  The ultimate is to be able to access all your clairs using them in unison.  This can be done with some training, and once you learn how to do it with practice and validation of the information you are receiving you will soon be open to receiving messages and guidance through each day of your life.  We were born with this amazing gifts.  What a gift to self to reawaken these senses which make your life fulfilling and positively life-changing.