Clairaudience (clear hearing)

What is Clairaudience? – The Psychic Ability of Clear Hearing

Clairaudience (French for “clear hearing”) is the psychic ability to hear beyond the physical world. Those with this gift perceive sounds, words, voices, or music that are not audible to the normal ear. This ability allows psychics and mediums to receive messages from spirit guides, loved ones in spirit, or the higher realms.

How Clairaudience Works

A clairaudient psychic or medium may experience:
🔹 Hearing names, phrases, or guidance from spirit.
🔹 Inner voices or thoughts that feel distinct from their own.
🔹 Audible sounds, such as whispers, bells, or music from the spirit world.
🔹 Telepathic communication with guides, angels, or loved ones who have passed.

Clairaudient messages may come through as a sudden word, phrase, or full conversation—sometimes as a whisper in the mind or even an external sound. Some clairaudients hear spirit as if someone is speaking directly to them, while others receive messages internally, like an intuitive thought.

Who Has Clairaudience?

Everyone has intuitive abilities, but clairaudience is stronger in those who are naturally sensitive to energy and sound vibrations. Many psychics, mediums, and highly sensitive individuals (HSPs) develop clairaudience over time through meditation, spiritual practice, and deepening their connection to the unseen world.

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Clairaudience in Mediumship and Psychic Readings

In mediumship readings, clairaudience allows the medium to relay messages from loved ones in spirit, often including specific words or personal phrases only the recipient would recognize. In psychic readings, clairaudients may receive guidance, warnings, or insights through inner hearing.

Developing clairaudience can enhance intuition, spirit communication, and spiritual growth. If you've ever experienced an inner voice guiding you, ringing in your ears, or sudden intuitive words—you may have a natural gift for clairaudience.

Clairvoyance (Clear Seeing)

This “clair” is the one that deals with visions. Getting a mental picture in your head. This image presented in your mind’s eye its difficult to describe since it seems to vary between people. Some describe it as seeing a movie, some say it’s a series of pictures strung together, others get flashes of images, sometimes I describe it like a see through television picture.

Clairsentience (Clear Feeling)

The ability to perceive energy fields through physical sensations using Psychic senses. When you get a "gut feeling" about something, to sense things on an emotional level. clairsentience can pick up what other people are feeling it often works with precognition, which is the ability to know what is going to happen in advance.

Clairgustance (Clear Tasting)

This is the ability to perceive a fragrance or odour through Psychic senses. Someone with this ability can perceive odours that are not of a physical nature. A psychic or medium may smell the pipe tobacco of a person who smoked during life or smell the perfume that they wore.

Clairalience or Clairscent (Clear smelling)

The ability to experience tasting food without putting anything into the mouth; it may include the smell of the food as well as the ability to perceive tastes through Psychic senses.

Clairtangency (Clear Touching)

More commonly known as psychometry. It is the ability to handle an object and perceive Psychic information from the spiritual or ethereal realms using touch.

Clairempathy or Empathic (Clear Emotion)

The ability to feel the emotions of another person or spirit. If the person is depressed, sad, frustrated, happy or mischievous then the psychic will feel those emotions.

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The psychic form of empathy should not be confused with the basic human emotion of empathy. Most people can feel empathy for another person without necessarily being a psychic empath. The main difference, however, is that someone who is a psychic empath often picks up non-visual, non-verbal cues that another individual is feeling pain, fear, or joy. Sometimes this is a matter of detecting energy fields or auras, other times, it may be simply a case of "knowing" that the person is feeling a certain way, despite no obvious clues to that effect.

Claircognizance (Clear Knowing)

Is the ability to know something without receiving it through normal senses. It is a feeling of "just knowing". Often, a sensitive will claim to have the feeling that a message or situation is "right" or "wrong."