Trusting Your Intuition

How to Identify and Develop Your Unique Intuitive Style

I often hear clients say, “I want to trust my intuition.” This signals a pivotal moment in the healing journey because the deeper desire beneath that statement is: I want to trust myself. I want to feel safe. When we listen to and confidently follow our intuition, we nurture self-trust and safety from within. Trusting our inner knowing strengthens our relationship with ourselves, our people, our planet and ultimately, life itself.

We are bioenergetic beings, continuously sensing and feeling the world within and around us. Consciously or unconsciously, like an antenna we attune to the subtle and not so subtle frequencies of people and place. Through this attunement, we receive a steady stream of energetic information.

When we receive information about our environment on the physical level we are doing this through our five physical senses. However, when we receive information from the environment on an energetic level, we are engaging High Sense Perception (HSP).

HSP is how we gather energetic information from the field and intuition is the interpretation of that energetic information. Many people are using their HSP abilities without even realizing it. However, HSP is a trainable perceptual skill that we can hone over time with sustained practice.

When we engage HSP, we are tapping into our own subtle energy body and chakras, opening to a level of perception beyond the ordinary range of our five senses. Our physical senses tend to orient us outward, but when we become still and turn inward, those same senses begin to function in a new way—as if they have turned inside out. We may hear sounds with no external source or see images not with our physical eyes, but with our inner vision.

HSP is not a separate sixth sense. It is a refined extension of each of the five senses. When we intentionally withdraw our attention from the external world and enter our inner landscape (through meditation, somatic work, trance states, sound baths, breathwork, etc) we expand the bandwidth through which each physical sense can perceive.

Each of us has a unique way of plugging into the field and receiving information. Most people have one primary HSP style or “Clair”, supported by one to three secondary Clairs. My primary HSP is claircognizance, where insight arrives as a sudden knowing, without a clear origin or explanation. I am also clairsentient, gathering information through felt-sense kinesthetic awareness, with underlying clairaudience.

Each HSP style or “Clair” corresponds with a physical sense.

· Clairvoyance corresponds with seeing (visual style)

· Clairsentience corresponds with feeling/sensing (empathic style)

· Clairaudience corresponds with hearing (auditory style)

· Claircognizance corresponds with knowing (perceptual style)

· Clairolfaction corresponds with olfactory sense (when we smell scents with no physical source)

I suggest developing the Clair that comes easiest to you. Focus exclusively on developing that mode of sensing and feeling. I know so many people that are naturally talented empaths, but they miss the energetic information being transmitted to them through their body because they are fixated on trying to see.

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Which HSP are you?

Below are a few prompts to help you begin reflecting on which HSP style you most resonate with.

Clairvoyance (Visual Style)

· I must see something to understand it or remember it

· I can easily visualize people, places or objects in my mind’s eye in detail

· I sometimes see flashes of color surrounding people, plants or animals

· I have vivid nighttime dreams

Clairsentience (Feeling/Sensing/Empathic style)

· I can feel in my body the sensations that mirror what other people are feeling

· I can feel the emotional/energetic tone in a room as soon as I enter it

· I enjoy (and need) to spend a lot of time in nature

· I regularly participate in physical activities

· I often find myself confused by human relationships

Clairaudience (Auditory Style)

· I often wake up with a song in my head or have one in my head throughout the day

· I receive information and guidance verbally in my mind

· I remember and understand things better if I hear them explained to me

· If I hear someone humming or singing a tune, I pick it up easily

· I often hear noises other people don’t notice

Claircognizance (Sudden Knowing/Perceptual Style)

· I get a feeling of knowing something that seems to arise from nowhere and ends up being true

· I can sense when something is not right – when there is a “false note” in the air

· I can meet someone for the first time and instantly know things about them

· People (even strangers) open up to me and tell me their problems

· I know what type of mood my friends, spouse, clients, kids are going to be in before I see them

· A person will come to mind and a few days later they reach out to me

Clairolfaction (Psychic Scent Style)

· I pick up scents in my nighttime dreams

· I vividly remember the scents associated with memories, seasons and the events in my life

· I can smell illness in people even before they show signs of being sick

· When I get upset I get sinus headaches or congestion

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Once you identify which HSP feels most accessible to you, there are specific practices to help you cultivate it. If you’d like to explore these practices more deeply, simply reply to this email. I’d be happy to create a follow-up article with guided practices for each HSP.

If you want guidance-mentorship-coaching as you develop your Intuitive High Sense Perception you can reply to this email or find my website here.

How to Develop HSP

In this article, I’ll share practices to cultivate clairsentience and clairvoyance. Many of us are naturally empathic, meaning we access clairsentience through receiving information from our environment through the kinesthetic awareness of the body. This capacity is deeply rooted in our evolution; as mammals, our survival has depended on the body’s ability to sense and feel what is happening around us.

Clairsentience Practice

We develop our kinesthetic sense by getting out of our heads and into our bodies. Here are some clairsentient HSP practices to get you started:

1) Feel/sense/tune into (an object, person, plant, animal, food) from different parts of your body. What does your dog feel like when you are anchored in your energetic heart in the center of your chest? How about your belly? What does your child who is having a tantrum feel like when you are feeling them from your belly? Your heart? Your head?

2) Pose a question to yourself from (your head, your heart, your sex) and see if the feedback you get differs depending on which energetic center you are asking from.

3) Track physical sensations in the body and become aware of movement, flow, vibration, pressure, temperature. You are using the body as an instrument of perception. Bring attention into the body (not thinking about the body) but actually feeling the body from within. Notice raw sensation (tingling, tightness, warmth, pulsing) and allow meaning to slowly emerge from sensation.

Clairvoyance Practice

We develop our inner vision by strengthening our ability to visualize and through cultivating the third eye.

1) Visualization: With your eyes closed, using your Third Eye (your mind’s eye) visualize an empty screen (like a television screen) about one foot in front of you and just above your eyelids. Project an image of a white rose onto your mind screen. Visualize the qualities and details of the petals and stem (texture, color, density, petals open or closed, dew drops on the petals). Allow the qualities of the image to come to you rather than forcing them into existence.

2) Cultivating 3rd Eye Awareness: Place your awareness in the frontal third eye (in between the eyebrows) and engage a tactile felt-sense awareness there. Is there a tingling? Pressure? Subtle pulsing? Vibration? Warmth or coolness? Then engage your sense of visualization beginning to see a white soft feather falling toward your 3^rd eye while continuing to hold awareness in the third eye. Can you feel the tactile sense of the wispy soft feather from your 3^rd eye? Allow your 3^rd eye to become a sensory organ that feels and senses the feather.