What I’ve come to notice over the years of my journey and awakening is that each and every one of us has soul senses. Just like how we how have our five physical senses, we also have soul senses.
The five soul senses are known in French as clairsentience (clear feeling), clairvoyance (clear seeing) , clairaudience (clear hearing) , clairgustance (clear smelling), and claircognizance (clear knowing).
Have you ever replayed a memory in your head or even recalled a dream that felt real? Where you can picture the moment, who you were with, the noises and voices, the smells, and what was said? Well to help you understand that soul senses exist, I have a few questions to ask.
How can you recall memories and see things in your head or minds eye if you aren’t using your physical eyes to see?
Well that’s because when you visualize something, you are using a soul sense called clairvoyance.
How can you hear your own thoughts and voice, voices of people you love from an old memory, or even hearing an old song thats been in your mind if you aren’t using your physical ears to hear?
Well that’s because when you hear something but you did not hear it using your physical ears, you are using a soul sense called clairaudiance.
Do you ever have a time where you just feel something isn’t right, either something is not right or someone is lying to you and you can feel it in your gut?
This is where the term ‘gut feeling’ can come from and it is your soul sense of feeling called clairsentience.
Everyone has all of the soul senses, however usually two to three of your soul senses will be more dominant than the other clair senses, so everyone’s experience will be different.
If you find yourself a visual person and learn well that way, or you often daydream or experience visual dreaming at night, most likely clairvoyance is one of your dominant soul senses. For someone who is a very emotional person or a deep feeler, than most likely your clairsentience is one of your dominant soul senses.
For me, I’ve found my dominant soul senses are clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience because I receive most of my information visually, audibly, and by feeling.
A lot of times people do not realize they even have soul senses because as we grow up from being children we can instinctively shut our gifts down to protect ourselves. In addition to that, in this day in age, lots of us are occupied with daily life stresses and technology which can shut the senses down to the point where they are very minimal.
Most of the time our minds are almost always occupied with something else, so for some of us, the soul senses are like an old after thought way back in the mind that is hardly even realized or made conscious to the person. Sometimes this world can be quite mentally and physically demanding so abilities like these often go unoticed and are often underestimated.
A Guide to the Five Soul Senses
Clairvoyance (Clear seeing)
Clairvoyance is the soul sense of clear seeing or spiritual sight. This gives us the ability to receive, process, and integrate information from the third eye using imagery. This soul sense assists us to visualize, dream, and receive messages and information through seeing images through the minds eye and in the physical realm.
Those who have clairvoyance as one of their dominant clairs or have developed this soul sense may also be able to see energy in air and in the physical realm. Often times this can look like transparent static in the air similiar to ‘visual snow’ and seeing spirits, auras, colors and energy around other people, animals, and even objects.
Claircognizance (Clear knowing)
Claircognizance is the soul sense of clear knowing, or receiving information from spiritual downloads. Have you ever had a thought or idea suddenly ‘pop’ in your head? Spiritual downloads typically come through the crown and third eye chakras and appear in the form of new random thoughts or inspirations, sudden ideas and possibilities, and receiving regular flashes of insights or new information.
Those who are claircognizant may have a strong knowing about something, someone, events, intentions, ideas or that something is going to happen a certain way without any prior knowledge or evidence to back it up. Despite having no information about an event, those with claircognizant abilities know and receive pieces of information that they have yet to be presented with and are proven correct by the outcome of situations. Claircognizance is when you know something to be true and you aren’t sure how you know but you just know.
Clairaudiance (Clear hearing)
Clairaudiance is the soul sense of clear hearing. This gives us the ability to receive, process, and integrate information by hearing. Clairaudiant information can be received by hearing messages internally in your mind, or externally which are noises outside of yourself.
Those who are clairaudiant will hear their ears ringing or pressurizing, hear voice(s) or messages inside their mind, hear your name being called or other voices when no one is there, hearing things that others cannot, and frequently talking to yourself. Those who are clairaudient may also notice they can communicate with animals and plants.
Clairsentience (Clear feeling)
Clairsentience is the soul sense of clear feeling. This gives us the ability to receive, process, and integrate information by feeling. This can be feeling and sensing different emotions, energies, vibrations, and sensations from other people, situations, and even spirit.
Have you ever had a strong gut feeling about someone or something? Have you ever ignored a gut feeling, only to wish later that you had listened to your gut? Those who are clairsentient may notice they often feel and pick up on the emotions and energy of other people and situations. For someone who is a very emotional person or a deep feeler, than most likely clairsentience is one of your dominant soul senses.
Clairgustance (Clear smelling)
Clairgustance is one of the more unique clairs and it is the soul sense of clear smelling. Have you ever had an overwhelming smell that can’t be explained? For an example, a strong smell of perfume or cologne, flowers, or cigarette/cigar smoke with no explanation of where the scent is coming from? A lot of times our loved ones who have passed may send us smells that can remind us of them, to let us know they are around us at that time.
It could be the smell of your grandmothers perfume, the smell of your grandfathers cigar smoke, or the scent of your mothers favorite flowers that seem to linger in the air. Maybe you are able to smell this but others in your household don’t notice. This can actually be your clairgustance picking up on spirit energy.