Which is your Strongest Intuitive Gift?
Posted in Developing Psychic Abilities / The Spirit World on 10. May, 2009
If you’ve read any of my other articles you’ll probably notice I’ve been banging on about the importance of finding out your intuitive gifts. This is because intuition or psychic ability is not just one gift – it’s actually made up of four gifts – clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and claircognizance.
The chances are, you have innate abilities in one or two of these gifts. The chances also are that one or two of the above gifts you do not have yet. Your intuition will be difficult and slow to develop if you try to develop a gift that you don’t have yet and neglect the gifts you do have. So that’s why it helps to start your journey of intuitive development knowing what you’re naturally good at.
Here is a quiz to help you to find out what gifts you have:
Clairvoyance
Clairvoyance is the ability to ‘see’ Spirit
Do you dream in colour and with vivid images?
When you’re doing creative work, like designing something and deciding how you want something to look, do you get a clear image in your head of it?
When you close your eyes, can you clearly see any object of your choosing? For example, visualize a bicycle. Can you see it in your mind’s eye? (Natural clairvoyants usually have an easy time than most at visualizing).
Do you get visual solutions to problems in your mind’s eye?
Are you very visually/artistically creative?
Do you ever see lights or auras around people when you’re speaking to them?
Do you ever see things moving in the corner of your eye?
Clairaudience
Clairaudience is the ability to hear your Higher Self, Spirit Guides and other extra-sensory input
Have you ever had a voice clearly direct you to do something and it turned out to be helpful or accurate?
Have you ever heard ringing or buzzing sounds in your ears?
Do you hear voices upon waking or going to sleep?
Do you sometimes hear music playing in your head?
Do you wake up in the morning with a song in your head?
Have you ever heard anything outside of you, such as whispering, music or voices when there was no-one there?
Do you get words popping into your head fully formed which are relevant or solutions to difficulties you’re having?
Clairsentience
Clairsentience is intuition in the form of emotional input, physical feelings or gut feelings
Do you get tingling sensations on your body for no reason?
Do you feel your emotions very deeply?
Can you feel the emotions of others?
Do you need a lot of time alone to recharge your energetic batteries?
Are you sensitive and thin-skinned?
Do you have an ‘F’ in your Myers-Briggs type (F for feeling)?
Do you know what’s the right path to take according to how it feels to you?
Claircognizance
Claircognizance is when intuitive information just pops into your head
Are you very analytical and thinking-oriented?
Can you be skeptical – does your mind often have the final say in things?
Do you get lots of great ideas seemingly out of nowhere?
Are you mentally and creatively inspired on a regular basis?
Are you good at solving problems and lateral thinking?
Are you often making subtle assumptions which turn out to be true?
Are you sizing up people and knowing things without being told?
Do you know that things are going to happen ahead of time?
Do you come across as a know-it-all because you always think of an answer to the difficult questions of life?
Now add up how many times you said yes to statements in each category. Did you say ‘yes’ to some statements in one or two categories in particular?
More tips to find out which gifts you have
1. Experiment. Try exercises to awaken each clair. For starters, I have a few suggestions for what to try in each of my articles about clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and claircognizance. You may notice that one of the exercises is really easy for you and awakens something in your perception.
2. Notice where you’re already using your natural gifts. Remember the times when you actually have received some intuitive guidance – how did it come? Was it visual, auditory, emotional or kinesthetic? If you can’t really remember any such times, I’ve formulated a little quiz, which is below, to jog your memory. Note how many times you say yes to a statement in each of the four categories.
Which are the most common psychic gifts?
I offered a free mini reading for several months where I’d tell you which intuitive gift you have out of the four mentioned above. I did between 600 and 700 of these mini readings. I found that Claircognizance and clairsentience are really common gifts. The vast majority of people I read for have one of these gifts as either their primary or secondary intuitive gift. These gifts are usually classed as ‘intuition’ and they can be very subtle, which is why they can often go unnoticed.
Leave a comment if you have questions or anything to relate about your psychic gifts…
Strange – when you did my mini reading several months ago, you said I was clairsentient, but I answered “yes” to more things under clairvoyance. (Yip, I don’t want to be clairvoyant!) While I do sometimes have trouble visualising a scene in detail, I can visualise pretty easily. I remember being surprised, upon talking to fellow writers, that a lot of them don’t clearly see their characters or their characters’ houses in their head, whereas I do.
I do, however, find it difficult to hold an image in my head and try to draw it at the same time. Not sure if that’s common to artists, though.
I’ll play with exercises in both articles, though, and see how it turns out. (With any luck, I won’t see anything that’ll scare the royal pants off me – that’s what I’m most afraid of when it comes to clairvoyance. All the same, if I saw something I’d be less likely to dismiss it.) I do think my clairsentience is more likely to be better now, though. In the past I’ve been quite apathetic even when having no reason to.
Thanks heaps for this article.
(A question, though – what /is/ that ringing noise? I always hear something like very soft, distant static in my ears, or out of the blue I’ll hear ringing. People have told me that it means my hearing is damaged because of listening to something really loud, but I don’t actually get exposed to that. I hear the static is just blood going through the veins, though?)
Hi Zora,
Did I give you only your primary clair? You could be primarily clairsentient with clairvoyance as your secondary.
The ringing noise can be lots of things (I should mention that in the article that it can just be physical too). I mean, the obvious one is that it can be tinnitus if it’s ongoing. I think the important thing is how it feels to you when it happens. When I get a true clairaudient impulse, I know by how it feels to me as well, something like excitement and certainty.
I believe I`m Clairaudience. But how can I devolpe this gift to be more then just a subtle feeling.
But how can we go beyond the basics? There is a lot of information on identifying personal characteristics, but to go further?
According to the above information I’m clairsentinent; with claircognizance & perhaps a little clairaudience.
I suppose awareness is the first step. But what are the second, third & onward steps?
Hi Julie – do you mean clairsentience? That’s a subtle feeling. Clairaudience is hearing. I have written an article called developing clairsentience, which is in my archives. There are a few exercises in there to get you started. If you’re looking for something more, I am in the process of putting together a resource page of products, courses and books that I have found useful in my intuitive development, one for each clair.
Hi Mark – I’m guessing you’ve read my articles on developing each of the clairs? That’s one place to start but is not a comprehensive resource for going further. Something I’d recommend for claircognizance and clairaudience is Slade’s automatic intuition program – http://www.automaticintuition.com – a friend of mine bought this program and loved it. I also took a class with Slade a while ago and he does know his stuff.
After answering your little quiz, I’ve discovered that I’m primarily clairsentient but got the same score for clairvoyance and clairaudience as my secondary gift. Which one will I develop first?
Hi Marissa,
I reckon whichever appeals to you most is a good indication of where to go from here. Clairaudience is particularly useful to have with clairsentience.
Hello Anna, I am so excited to have found your website. Now I have a name for something I’ve been experiencing since the age of 9 – Claircognizance. My question is, can this knowing be related to your own life? Usually when I know things, they pertain to someone elses life, not my own. I also have dreams and/or visions of things. For instance, once I had a series of vivid feelings and visions that my foot was cut in half. I would feel pain and see a bunch of blood. It would last about a minute and it was horrible. I thought I was going insane. Several months later my grandmother took ill with diabetes and half of her foot was cut off in a surgery. Of course, then I knew what the visions meant. Haven’t had them since.
Hi Cathy- The knowing can be related to your life or to someone else’s life. I’m claircognizant and I pick up things about my own life and things about other people.
Hiya Anna! According to your quiz I am a clairvoyant. Why do you think clairvoyance isn’t as common as the other clairs? I have never trained my “ability” , but sometimes I get very (I mean very) vivid dreams. In the dreams i can see everyone around me, I smell all the different smells, and I can hear what the people are talking about. The dreams usually don’t last long, but the creepy part is after i have these dreams they usually come true the next day. Sometimes it can really scare me… If you have any advice I would be glad to know.
P.S. I’m very good at visualizing things.
Hi Colby.
That is a precognitive dream – I have those too. I quite like them – makes me feel like I’m in just the right place, at the right time.
Not sure why clairvoyance seems not to be too common. Maybe it’s our conditioning and education – we’ve been taught to use our heads so as a result many people are receiving info through their minds (claircognizance). Maybe if art and visual stuff was emphasized more in our education system, more people would be clairvoyant.
Hi Anna,
Grateful to find your website. I am a dancer that is currently laid up with a fairly long to recouperate knee injury. Forced to sit around alot.
Feeling drawn to get all my “stuff” back out…my crystals, energy books, etc.
I answered yes to most clairaudient, clairvoyent, clairsentient……nothing really of the third.
I was googling ” I can ‘feel’ things in other people when I touch them” looking for what to call what I am capable of…which is how I stumbled across your site.
Looking to get back to/into using my healing and intuitive abilities as a means of livelihood because of my laid-up ed ness.
I adore dancing….but something is knawing at me that it isn’t everything for me…that there is something else.
Maybe this is it…..
I don’t know if you are still offering the mini readings…..but it would be cool to have one…
If not, I will just putter around on the site and find my way.
Sincerely,
Lindsey
This is really awkward for me since I finally admitted that the things I’m experiencing is the stuff you described. After reading around and finally(and gratefully)finding this site(its really disheartening to search for answers and get hounded for money) and it seems what I’m experiencing is real. After reading this article and the one on claircognizance I’m fairly certain that’s my primary intuitive gift. The thing that confuses me is what my secondary one is, or rather is it possible to have more that one? I answered all the questions for each sense honestly and for each category the majority is yes with only one no in the mix. The thing is all the instances I can cite are mundane at best. I feel strongly about them and know that I didn’t make it up but its nothing really solid…I guess that’s why its called extra-sensory huh?
Hi Anna,
I am only 14 and I have been looking for answers to a lot of confusing things that have been happening in my life lately. I came across your website and it has proved very useful, as I now see that I am not really alone in what is happening to me.
I tried your quiz and i got 7/7 for clairvoyance, 6/7 for clairaudience, 7/7 for clairsentience and 9/9 for claircognizance. What does it mean?
I have been looking for someone to help me as I am too scared of what my parents would think if I told them, and i dont really know where to go to get a bit of help with everything.
If not you, do you know someplace/person i could talk to for some help?
Thanks
~Alesia
Hi Alesia, it sounds like you have all four skills already developed somewhat. Have you read any books or visited any forums about this? There is a good forum with a section on psychic abilities at http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums
I also found the book ‘Psychic Development for Beginners’ useful when I was starting out.
there were three catagories where I answered yes to almost all questions. Clairaudience, Clairsetience, and Claircognizance, although the later two have been the most noticeable, and the reason why I started searching about this. I have seen with my eyes spirit too, but mostly felt them touch me (could this be the “pressure” you speak of? or simply felt their presence in the room). I get pretty regular flashes of things that happen seconds later. All of the above I don’t talk about w/anyone I know except my husband, for fear that they’ll think I’m crazy! My husband believes me because he has heard some sort of presence first hand at an apartment I lived it which appeared to have a increasingly aggresive spirit hanging out. It sounds so silly, do they actually do that?
I have seen and heard things since I was a baby,and even before birth
I can walk in a room and pick up what people are feeling and thinking
and being a people person this is very hard on me at times.
I have also seen future happening and at the time had no idea what it meant
for instance when i was 9 years old for a whole year i was this woman standing in front of this window in a very tall building watching a plane coming right at me and at 9 i had never been in a large building or seen a plain that close this was in the early 70′s.
my experiences were very hard and scary for me growing up,they don’t
scare me anymore i don’t understand all these things i go through but have learned to deal with it and except it and feel i am at a point in my
life where it is time to learn more and try to help others.But i don’t know where to go from here
i can pretty much feel all 4…but my clairvoyance as the same as you im a bit scared to use it. hahahhaa makes me laugh a little.
i always wondered what i always felt was normal…..and when i would get the feeling of someone else ide be like oh yeah…and then wonder why didnt whoever else is with me not know what the other person ws thinking . weird
Hi!! Is it possible to have three natural gifts?? Because for me I am an empath, a clairsentient and a claircongnizant…well it seems like it anyway
Hi Sarah – yep definitely possible!
Thank you. I am having some trouble turning off my empathy. Any suggestions?
hi anna
i can do everything on this page just not so much the clairvoyance but still most of it.
i have such a higher understanding anna do you know what im talking about ?
Wow… I answered yes to 70-80% of those questions! Clairvoyance seemed like my strongest, then clairaudience, then claircognizance, then clairsentience. I just can’t seem to be scared of these sort of things! It seems so exciting, and I would love to help others once I develop some skills.
I was looking up soul families and came across this site. http://www.enlightenmentpathsir.com/termsofsir.htm
Here information scares me; tell me what you think. I get a bad feeling about her but maybe i am wrong.
Hi! Thank you so much for this website!!! I think i tested mostly Clairaudience and secondary Claircognizant. And that is what a psyhic told me ..so that is good to have way to verify that.I think that there might be a tad of Clairsentience too…because i usually just feel if something is right ..it just works better.
Having looked at all of the questions, I answered yes to all but two (across all sections) I have no idea what this means. I DO know that my next step will be presented when the time is right and I need to trust my intuition, so I’m not sure if I want to “force” any development to this… but I have to ask… can we choose which gifts we develop, or are we given the ones which will benefit the most, and in my case… am I receiving ALL of them?
Hi France – if you get a bad feeling from the website, then trust your gut! I haven’t had time to check it out, but in my experience – some info on star seeds is true, and some is not. A lot of it lends itself to conspiracy theories too. You’ll know which is which by how you feel when you visit the site.
Hi Jill
Yes, some people are born with an equal distribution of gifts. It’s not as common, but it happens. You can totally choose which ones you want to focus on, or spirit might choose for you.
Thanks Anna, I wasn’t sure if this blog was your current blog or not; I was just hoping someone would answer.
Hi Anna, I enjoy your articles. I also had an experience at age 7, where I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and two men in long white gowns were standing at my bedroom door, one taller than the other and the one was holding my mom’s Maxwell House coffee can in his arms and he said, “Don’t yell now, you’ll wake everyone up.” I covered up my head and when I looked again they were gone. I didn’t need to go to the bathroom after that. I never told anyone that story for 50 years. Now I do see and I haven’t had an experience that I have regreated. I only see if they want me to. The latest eposide was a young boy who was standing on a porch near my home and he was dressed in black and I took a second look and his feet were swinging back and forth. I asked my guides and I was told that he died many years ago during the war and has been at the farm I seen him at. I actually spoke to him. I find that spirits as I see physical beings, each have their own story to tell if you allow them to. I always make sure I am protected just in case. I only wish I could of developed my gifts much earlier in life and I pray that young adults think about that as they recognize their gifts. Thanks for all you insight.
Namaste, Barb
Hi Barb, Interesting! I don’t know many psychics who see spirits like they see physical people, so you must be a rare breed.
Hello Anna, I am interested in understanding if I have a psychic ability and if so which of the 4 intuitive gifts. There have have been several situations in my life where a person (whom I vaguely know) comes to mind (just popped in my head) and within seconds or minutes I receive a phone call from them. In every case I was not expecting their call, and as far as I know they didn’t even have my phone number. This gave me an uncomfortable sense of anxiety (goosebumps) to say the least.
Confused???
Um….is it a bad thing I said yes to every question in all four?
i have a “yes” for every question in all four, except for “Are you sensitive and thin-skinned?” – i was like that when i was in gymnasium (around 13 years old, now 25), but now totally not
. Which would be primary, then?… Also, the Myer-Briggs test (which got me INF J/P) was very hard – i would have been placed myself in the middle between affirmations at almost all of them, but there was no such “middle radio button”… Well?… What would that mean?…