Clairsentience: The Foundation of Psychic Development

By Nigel Eru – Psychic Medium, Tohunga & Spiritual Mentor

Everyone Has Psychic Ability

Psychic ability isn't reserved for the gifted few. Every one of us has the capacity to develop our intuitive senses. Receiving a gut feeling, a sudden hunch, or sensing a vibe from someone? You've already had a psychic experience. This is natural human awareness, not a supernatural anomaly. And like any skill, it can be cultivated with the right guidance.

From Physical Senses to the "Clairs"

Our psychic senses mirror our physical ones. Just as we see, hear, feel, taste, and smell in the material world, we also perceive in the spiritual realm through the intuitive extensions of these senses:

• Clairsentience (clear feeling)

• Clairvoyance (clear seeing)

• Clairaudience (clear hearing)

• Clairalience (clear smelling)

• Clairgustance (clear tasting)

Which 'clair' unfolds most naturally for you depends on your nervous system, emotional awareness, and how you experience life.

Why Clairsentience Comes First

Clairsentience is often the first clair to emerge and the cornerstone of all other psychic development. It's the extension of our ability to feel ~ physically, emotionally, and energetically.

Our skin is the largest organ in the body, and our emotions are the most accessible gateway to spiritual communication. Clairsentience allows us to feel messages from the spirit world through bodily sensations, emotions, and intuitive impressions.

How Clairsentience Works

Every experience we have is recorded through sensation. These stored memories become part of our energetic reference library ~ used by Spirit to send us intuitive messages.

Imagine:

• The joy of opening gifts as a child

• The pain of a bee sting

• The grief of losing someone close

These emotions, sensations, and responses live within you. Spirit uses these reference points to "speak" in a language you already understand.

Your auric field acts like antennae, receiving information from the environment. This energetic data travels through your chakra system and is interpreted through your clairs ~ especially clairsentience, which translates the information into a feeling, sensation, or emotion you can recognise and trust.

The Language of Energy

Clairsentients often:

• Feel what others are feeling ~ sometimes before words are spoken

• Walk into a room and immediately sense the atmosphere

• Experience sudden emotional or physical shifts that don’t seem to “belong” to them

• Feel deep fatigue, anxiety, or emotional overwhelm when boundaries aren’t strong

This is the language of energy speaking through your body.

Why Clairsentients Need Strong Spiritual Boundaries

Being clairsentient can feel like a blessing and a curse ~ especially without protection.If you’ve ever asked:

• “Why do I feel heavy for no reason?”

• “Why am I carrying everyone else’s pain?”

• “Why do I feel haunted, anxious, or off-centre?”

Clairsentients are often told they’re “too sensitive,” “overreacting,” or “too emotional.”

But what’s really happening is that you’re tuned in to frequencies most people don’t register. That’s not weakness ~ that’s a spiritual gift. You may be absorbing energetic information without knowing how to clear or contain it.

That’s why discernment and energetic boundaries are key. Without them, clairsentients often mistake spiritual signals for personal emotion, and can carry energy that doesn’t belong to them.

Clairsentience and Spirit Communication

Spirit communicates in many ways. For clairsentients, the messages are often:

• Sensations in the body (pressure, heat, tingles, tightness)

• Shifts in emotional tone (grief, agitation, compassion, love)

• Physical cues when spirit is near (goosebumps, nausea, energetic rushes)

• Vibration or heaviness in specific parts of the body

When your field is clear and your awareness is trained, these signals become language.

You’re not imagining it ~ you’re perceiving it.

Developing Clairsentience Safely

Clairsentience is the foundation of psychic and healing work. It connects us to the living, to Spirit, and to our own truth. But it must be trained and refined. This is best done in a safe environment, with strong spiritual boundaries and mentorship.

If you're ready to deepen your clairsentient ability, I invite you to explore my HomeCircle classes or spiritual development offerings.

Stay grounded. Ngā mihi 🌿

Nigel Eru – Psychic Medium, Tohunga & Spiritual Mentor