What is Clairsentience? How Can You Tell if You Have The Gift?

We’ve covered the concept of being an empath in a previous post, and a few readers wrote in to ask us what the definition of a “clairsentience” is — and how that specific psychic ability differs from being an empath.

Empaths and clairsentients are both types of psychics who have the ability to pick up trace energies from the world around them. In fact, they’re very similar in many ways. Many empaths are also clairsentient, and many clairsentients are also empathic  — but there is one crucial difference between the two:

• An empath is a type of psychic who reads the emotions of others. A good empath can not only pick up on the emotional state of a complete stranger, but can also “read the room” and pick up on the general emotional energies among groups of people.

• A clairsentient by contrast, gets general information via their emotions. For example, someone gifted with clairsentience might perceive that making a certain choice makes them feel inexplicably sad — or looking at an image, or standing in a specific place fills them with a certain emotion.

In most cases the clairsentient doesn’t actually understand the exact reason for their emotional response. Clairsentience is a “feeling”. Sometimes it conveys specific information, but in most cases it allows the clairsentient to have a “leaning” one way or another on an issue.

This ability to generate emotional responses to everyday actions, items, or places allows some clairsentients to make remarkably informed or predictive decisions — even though they may not understand why they made those decisions.

Other forms of clairsentience

While the traditional definition of clairsentience is based on emotional signals, some clairsentients receive signals that are not strictly emotional. For example, some clairsentient people report a hot flash, or having their hair on their skin stand up.  Still others report a ringing in their ears, or even experiencing a momentary smell, or even a headache.

As with a their emotional responses — a clairsentient person’s physical responses can be difficult to interpret, but to a gifted clairsentient person they can contribute to making remarkably “aware” choices — which seem to belie foreknowledge or precognition.

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Are you a clairsentient?

By now, you’re probably wondering if you might have some level of clairsentience. The short answer is: Probably. To some extent, many people do.

NOTE: In the movies, clairsentient people touch an object and experience a fully cinematic flashback revealing detailed events and dialogue. In reality, clairsentience is usually far more subtle.

Because clairsentience is what’s called a “blurry” signal, and is often misinterpreted, it’s likely that many people have the gift of clairsentience and simply don’t know it. We all have those moments when we experience an unexplained emotional shift, or a sense of anxiety. We’ve all experienced the onset of a new mood or a feeling of having chills.

While there’s no doubt there are often physiological reasons for those sensations, in many cases a mood-swing or an unexplained reaction to a place geographic location, may well be a sign of clairsentience.

The skill that skilled clairsentient people say is the hardest to develop, is understanding the specific causes and inputs which lead to those difficult-to-understand shifts in emotional-state.

So next time you find yourself suddenly anxious, sad, elated or experiencing any other unexplained reaction — take a moment to reach out with your feelings and try to understand what signals you may be receiving.