How to Start Developing Your Psychic Gifts
Practical Ways to Enhance Psychic Abilities Through Everyday Activities
When you think about developing your psychic gifts, you might imagine spending hours in meditation, raising your vibration, or immediately doing readings for other people. The truth is far simpler and more accessible than that. You are always receiving messages. The challenge is not in receiving them but in learning how to differentiate when it is a message and when it is your mind.
The key to strengthening your psychic connection lies in practical, simple activities you can integrate into everyday life. These practices work whether you are a beginner just starting to explore your abilities or an advanced practitioner looking to refine your skills. Everything is connected, and when you enhance your physical senses, you simultaneously strengthen your psychic senses.
Understanding the Clairs: Your Psychic Senses
The clairs are the different senses and ways you receive psychic messages. These abilities function on a different level or vibration than your ordinary physical senses, operating through your psychic channel. While many teachings suggest you can only connect in certain ways, this is false. You can actually utilize all of the clairs and receive messages through all of them. Your mind is the only thing that limits this ability.
If you are not currently receiving messages through a particular clair, that is perfectly normal. Your higher self brings through messages in the ways you can most easily receive them right now. As you continue to develop and apply these practices, you will be able to receive messages in more and more ways.
Clairvoyance: The Ability to See Psychically
Clairvoyance is the ability to receive messages visually, to see with your third eye what is actually coming in. Many people believe clairvoyance is the most desirable psychic gift because seeing something will make them trust the message more. After years of teaching psychic development and working with students from all different walks of life, I can tell you that is false. It does not matter what gifts you have. You will always think the grass is greener on the other side until you get grounded and anchored in a very confident, clear, accurate connection.
How to Develop Clairvoyance:
The best way to strengthen your clairvoyance is by reading books and allowing yourself to build the images in your mind of what you are reading. Fiction works well for this, particularly fantasy fiction, because you are building things you have not seen before. If you are someone who does not see images in your mind when you read, this does not mean you lack access to clairvoyance.
I worked with my youngest son, who did not naturally see stories playing out in his mind when reading. We started with picture books that had minimal words, allowing him to create the story in his mind based on the images. Then we progressed to chapter books with illustrations, and eventually to chapter books without pictures. Over time, his ability to visualize strengthened significantly. This same process works for adults developing clairvoyance. 3 Things You Need to Do to Open Your Psychic Connection provides additional foundational practices to support this development.
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Clairaudience: The Ability to Hear Psychically
Clairaudience is the ability to hear messages psychically. This does not mean you will hear voices speaking to you out loud. Instead, you might hear a song lyric, catch a phrase, or notice sounds that carry meaning. The key is learning to differentiate between the constant chatter of your mind and actual messages coming through your psychic channel.
How to Develop Clairaudience:
Strengthen your clairaudience by going outside and taking a listening walk. Instead of hearing all sounds blending together, practice singling out individual sounds. Can you hear the birds? Can you differentiate between different bird calls? Can you hear the wind moving through the trees? Can you hear cars in the distance?
This practice of isolating and identifying sounds on a physical level directly translates to your ability to isolate and identify psychic messages coming through clairaudience. When you increase this sense on a physical level as a human, you also increase it on an energetic and spiritual level.
Clairsentience: The Ability to Feel Energy and Emotions
Clairsentience is the ability to sense and feel. You might feel emotions, physical sensations, or energetic shifts. This is one of the most common ways people receive psychic information, yet it is often the most dismissed because feelings can seem subjective or difficult to trust.
How to Develop Clairsentience:
Walk barefoot outside and really focus on what you are feeling. Notice the different textures beneath your feet: grass, dirt, concrete, or sand. Pay attention to temperature changes, the feeling of sun or wind on your skin. This grounding practice strengthens your ability to receive and interpret subtle energetic information.
Clairgustance: The Ability to Taste Psychically
Clairgustance is the ability to receive messages through taste. This might seem unusual, but taste can provide incredibly specific and meaningful information in psychic work.
I once had a moment in a mediumship reading where I could see a person sitting and holding a coffee cup. The cup felt significant, but it was not coffee inside. Suddenly, I could smell and taste hot chocolate. This specific detail became the validation my client needed. They immediately recognized their best friend who had passed away, because they regularly met at a coffee shop where they would drink hot chocolate instead of coffee. That single detail of taste and smell created the undeniable connection.
How to Develop Clairgustance:
Strengthen this ability by paying attention to different flavors when you eat, especially when cooking at home. When you know what ingredients and seasonings are being used, you create a buffer that makes it easier to differentiate flavors. As you eat, try to identify the different tastes present. This practice does not have to be perfect. These tiny efforts create a stronger ability because when we increase these senses on a physical level, we also increase them on an energetic and spiritual level.
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Clairalience: The Ability to Smell Psychically
Clairalience is the ability to receive messages through smell. Like clairgustance, this can provide specific, meaningful details that create powerful validation in readings or personal guidance.
How to Develop Clairalience:
Go on a smelling walk outside. Instead of smelling everything all at once, practice singling out individual smells. Can you smell flowers? Which flowers? Can you smell freshly cut grass? Can you smell car exhaust or cooking food from nearby homes? This practice of isolating scents strengthens your ability to receive specific psychic information through smell.
Claircognizance: The Gift of Clear Knowing
Claircognizance is a knowing. You just know something, and you do not know how you know it, but you just know it. You are not seeing anything. You are not hearing anything. You are not sensing feelings. You get nothing else. You just know.
This is my favorite way to receive messages because it requires the most confidence. You have nothing else to go on, just your intuition and the trust that it is right. You just say the thing. You just know it. Claircognizance is one of the easiest abilities to develop in readings because validation comes quickly, but it is also the one that requires the most courage.
How to Develop Claircognizance:
Keep a daily log in a small notebook. Write down when something drops in or when you just knew something. Maybe you are talking to a friend and you say something that makes them ask, "How did you know that?" Write those moments down. Start keeping a log so you can validate for yourself when you are actually receiving through that clear knowing.
Many people believe what they receive claircognizantly is actually coming from their mind. But they do not know anything before they know it. They have no information to back it up. It just comes in. You often do not realize just how clearly things are coming through because you are discrediting your connection and giving the power to your brain. 3 Things Preventing a Confident, Clear Psychic Connectionexplores common blocks that interfere with trusting your claircognizant downloads.
When you write down predictions or knowings, there is power in tracking both what comes true and what does not. Everyone fears getting it wrong, but you have to be willing to get it wrong to get it right. When you get something wrong, you build a picture. You start seeing the patterns develop: What ways was my energy different? How did that message come in? Where did my mind take it? You start to see the patterns, and that knowledge is power.
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Your Path Forward in Developing Your Psychic Gifts
These practical ways to develop your psychic gifts work whether you are just beginning your journey or you have been doing readings for years. Using these simple methods to enhance your own senses will actively improve your connection in readings and for yourself. The key is consistency and a willingness to practice without judgment.
Remember, developing your psychic gifts is not about reaching some elevated state that requires hours of preparation. It is about recognizing that you are always receiving messages and learning to trust what comes through. By strengthening your physical senses through these everyday practices, you simultaneously develop your psychic senses. Everything is connected, and the most profound development often comes from the simplest practices.
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Welcome to the School for Psychics podcast. I'm your host and founder, psychic medium, Crystal Moreland. Psychic work has carried stigma for long enough to in large part to people operating out of integrity and utilizing unsafe practices. More than that, so many that are operating from integrity are walking around only half confident in their gifts, which ultimately does a disservice to your clients, yourself, and the collective. I'm here to change that. Throughout this podcast, you'll hear inspiring stories from other spiritual entrepreneurs, And I'll share some of the wisdom I've gained throughout years of teaching psychic development in practical, simple ways that uphold the highest standards of integrity across the industry. If you're ready to become the confident, clear channel you came here to be and help change the psychic industry for the better, I invite you to visit my website at theschoolforspsychics.com where you'll find courses, programs, and mentorship opportunities that serve anyone, whether you're a beginner or advanced or anywhere in between. Welcome back. Today we are talking about how to develop your psychic gifts. The thing about developing your psychic gifts is that a lot of times people assume this is I've got to do readings for other people or I need to spend hours in meditation, raising my vibration, getting myself to a place where I can receive. And the truth is is that you are always receiving messages. You just don't often know how to differentiate. when it's a message and when it's your mind. If you haven't heard of them already, I'm going to introduce you to the Claire's. But if you have heard of the Claire's, you'll know what I'm talking about here. But don't let that keep you from listening to this full episode, because I'm going to give you some very tangible ways that you can enhance your Claire's, your senses, your ability to pick up on messages that you probably haven't heard in other teachings or other. spaces. The clairs are bottom line, the different senses and ways that you will receive messages. Okay, so these are going to be places where you are actively utilizing these things as a human, but they happen on a different level or a different vibration, if you will, when it's coming in through your psychic channel. The important thing is to know that everything is connected. It's all related. So when you are trying to hone your psychic connection, when you're to strengthen it, when you're trying to open it, when you're trying to develop it in whatever form or fashion, whether you're a beginner all the way to advanced, you can't discount the things that are practical, that are simple, that are things that you can do in everyday life that will actually take your connection to that next level. And that is what I'm gonna give you examples of here today. So we're gonna first talk about the one that everyone thinks is so amazing, and that's clairvoyance. This is the ability to see. There are so many more clairs than what I'm going to be talking about here today, but these are the main ones, and these are the ones that you're going to start being able to play with very easily in your everyday life. So clairvoyance is this clair, this ability to receive messages visually. and to actually see, right, see with your third eye, see psychically what is actually coming in. And I will just say off on a little tangent here that clairvoyance is not all it's cracked up to be. Most people want to have the gift of clairvoyance because they think that being able to see something will make them trust the message more. And after years of teaching psychic development and working with so many students from all different walks of life, I can tell you that is so false. It doesn't matter what gifts you have. You're always going to think the grass is greener on the other side until you actually get grounded and anchored in a very confident, clear, accurate connection. So if clairvoyance is not activated for you right now, don't fret because you have the ability to activate it. And that's another thing that I want to say before we get too deep into this is that there are teachings out there that say that there's only certain ways that you will be able to connect. And that is false. You are able to actually utilize all of the Claire's. You are able to receive messages through all of the different Claire's. It is only your mind that limits that. So if there's something that you're not receiving messages through, if there's a particular Claire that you're not receiving messages through right now, That's okay. That doesn't mean that you can't get them other ways. And what will actually happen is your higher self is going to be bringing through the messages in the ways that you can best most easily receive them right now. And as you continue to develop and as you apply yourself to these practices, you will be able to receive messages in more and more ways. So let's talk about clairvoyance. Clairvoyance is the ability to see and This is playing with your mind's imagination center. One of the best ways that you can play with clairvoyance and strengthen that connection is by reading a book and allowing yourself to build the images in your mind of what you are reading. This could be fiction. This could be nonfiction. I find that fantasy fiction is incredibly good at being able to do this because you're building things that you haven't seen before. Now, if you're someone who, when you read, you don't see the images in your mind or you don't see the story playing out, this does not mean that you don't have access to clairvoyance. In fact, I actually have my youngest son. is someone who didn't have the ability to imagine what he was reading. And the way that we worked on that was to start bringing in references of things that he'd already seen, things that he already knew what they looked like. So for me to have him imagine what a dragon looks like when he'd never seen a picture of a dragon before, he couldn't do it. He couldn't see it in his mind. His mind was blank. And then for me to say, OK, well, you've seen an elephant before, right? You've seen pictures of elephants. You've seen elephants before. He could picture it. It took a little bit longer, but he could picture it. It could start to build that image in his mind. So if you are someone that has difficulty seeing things when you are reading, or you have difficulty seeing things if you're imagining things, like if you were just like, I don't see anything when I imagine. I just know the feeling of what it is. Take something that you have already seen and make it familiar. Let it be. uh your partner's face, your favorite car, your favorite, I don't know, interior design space. It doesn't matter what it is. But the more that you can start to play with the idea of building that image in your mind, you're actually strengthening your ability to receive clairvoyantly as well. So take this from me that. Having these opportunities to daydream, to imagine, to go read your favorite novel, these are actually doing so much more than you just enjoying your time. This is you actually strengthening that gift of clairvoyance. I will also say that when it comes to clairvoyance, a lot of people think that they don't receive clairvoyantly and they come to find after developing their gifts that a lot of things that they thought was their mind making it up, those were actually messages coming through from clairvoyance. And that goes for every single one of these clairs that we're gonna walk through today. you will find that there are ways that you thought it was your brain, and it was actually your connection. And that is very powerful information to have. So let's talk about another one. Clear audience. This is the ability to hear. you're actually, it's like someone is speaking to you. And this is a beautiful way to receive as well. I mean, they all are. But it's your hearing the message come through. like someone is standing there telling you something, which is so cool. For you to practice on strengthening that and developing that sense, that ability, channel of communication, this is as simple as take your favorite person in the world. And I want you to just spend a few minutes a day imagining their voice, imagining them speaking to you. See if you can play with the volume. Can you make their voice louder? Can you make it softer? Can you hear their voice when they're laughing or when they're happy or when they're angry or when they're sad? Playing those sounds in your mind actually creates the ability for you to strengthen this muscle, this clare, this sense, this gift. Another thing that you can do is to go outside and just stand still and see if you can start isolating the noises around you. So maybe you're picking up on cars. Now try to pick up on the trees, the leaves rustling in the trees. Now see if you can pick up something in the distance. Just be open to picking up the different sounds and start to notice the individual sounds versus a lot of noise. This is going to strengthen that really quickly. Clair sentience is the ability to feel. So this is an emotional sense. This is an emotional way of communicating. This is such a powerful way to receive messages in psychic readings because you're able to tap into what the person is actually feeling. And when you can relay that in a way back to them that allows them to understand you are feeling it as well, this is something that takes your reading to the next level. And it takes your sitter, the person that you're reading for, it takes them deeper into the transmission, into the message, into the receiving of it, because it really, really ties in what they're feeling so much more than just what they're seeing or what they're experiencing. When we feel as humans, we relate our emotions to everything. It's like that favorite scent that you had of your grandpa, right? And every time you smell that, it takes you back. Our emotions link us to our physicality, our experiences. And locking into that, being aware of that, being open to receiving that information is incredibly powerful, not just for yourself and your connection, but for the people that you do readings for. So with Clair Cintiens being all about feeling and emotions, this is where you can really turn inward. This is where you can turn inward for yourself and start doing internal awareness. So when you're feeling something, and it doesn't matter what it is, from any point during any given day, sit back and start seeing what is making up this emotion. Is it just one thing or is it several things? I saw this book and I wish I could reference it for you now, but I can't. I don't know where it arrives from, but it's some sort of kind of like feelings wheel or emotional wheel, but it's not just feelings listed in a circle. It's them. starting from the center and branching out. And so it's almost like a pie, if you will. And each section of the pie, there's a feeling, an emotion towards the center. And then one that moves a little further out that's kind of on top of that in the same pie piece, it moves further out all the way until the edge of the crust. And what it shows you is that you might be feeling sadness at the edge of the crust. Right? And that's the thing that you can most easily identify and grasp onto. But that sadness is actually deriving from something else. Right? It's deriving from inner turmoil, or it's deriving from grief, or it's deriving, right? There's layers to the emotions. So being able to just sit with your feelings being very intentional about sitting with your feelings and trying to separate the emotions. Just the same as with the Clare audience, right? So separating the sounds. See if you can separate the emotions within yourself and start to examine them. And here's the thing, you're gonna wanna get it right. Your brain is going to want to make sure that you're getting it right so that you know that you're doing it correctly. And that's not what this is about. This is about you allowing yourself to explore, to be curious, to play. with your senses, with your gifts, to be able to get to that place where you can strengthen them. Even the play allows you to strengthen them. Even the play creates a deeper level of awareness within you that is only going to further your psychic development. So being willing to just sit with your emotions, even if just for a few minutes, and get curious, what else is here? What's underneath this? What does that feel like that's slightly different than this? Right? If I identified sadness, and it works the other way too. It works for excitement because excitement isn't just excitement. There's a reason that you're excited. There are feelings underneath that. So being able to sit with those and go, okay, what else am I feeling? What does the excitement feel like? Where is that feeling in my body? How does that feel? Does it have a texture, a color, a sound, whatever? What makes up this particular emotion? And what else is in there? What makes that one up? And what makes that one up? And what makes that one up? Playing with that, that's going to strengthen that. All right, there are two that are less often referred to, but I think they're really important to share here. And this is clergustance, which is taste, and clarealiance, which is smell. And I bring these up because they also activate the human senses. And they're really beautiful ways that you can receive messages that further tie in the realness, the impact, the... validation for the person that you're reading for. And let me give you an example. I had a reading once where a message was coming through for someone and this particular message was on the mediumship side, but it works the same. Okay? So whether you're doing mediumship or doing psychic, it doesn't matter. It works the same, but I was laying out the scene and I was receiving with clairvoyance. So I was seeing something. I was hearing the noise in the background. could see the layout of the space. It was actually in a uh coffee shop. I could see the person there and it was like, it was a memory that I was being shown. And this person was holding a coffee cup. We had kind of identified who this person was, but for my sitter, it's just like it is for us guys, right? People can say a lot of things and those can resonate. But when is that moment when it clicks in that, this is really, really happening. This message is for me. It's not just surface level, or it's not just somebody getting it lucky, or, know, like, oh, they happen to say something that could fit five different people, right? This was a moment of locking in. I could see this person sitting here holding a coffee cup and the coffee cup felt significant. but it wasn't coffee in the cup. And here's how I knew that, because all of a sudden I could start to smell hot chocolate. Now, this might not feel significant to me as a reader, as a person giving the reading, but the second that I said, this isn't coffee that you're drinking with this person in this memory that I'm being shown, this is hot chocolate. And immediately, my sitter knew that that message was exactly who was coming through. Because there was something significant for them in the memories that they had together. And the fact that they would go and regularly meet at this coffee shop, but they wouldn't drink coffee. They drink hot chocolate. And that was so important. And that is when my sitter locked in. That's when they realized this isn't just a possible, we've got a connection. This is it. This is the person. This is my best friend that I've been waiting to speak to that unfortunately passed away. So these are beautiful ways to tie in the deeper detail of a message. And this is why I want to share these with you. So Claire Gustin's is the ability to taste. Claire Aliens is the ability to smell. And these, much like the Clare audience, go outside for the Clare aliens for the ability to smell. Go on a smelling walk. OK. This is where you're going to start to single out the smells. And so just smelling everything at all at once. See if you can actually single out the smells that you are picking up on. Claire Gustin's you can do this when you're out and about eating at different restaurants. You could do this at home it's actually probably going to be easier at home to strengthen it because When you are creating the meals, you know, what's going in? You know, what seasonings are being used? You know what ingredients? So this kind of buffers things for you a bit. It gives you a little bit of a lake up Where when you are finally sitting down to eat? Try to differentiate the different flavors as you're eating. And it doesn't have to be perfect. But these tiny little things really help create a stronger ability because when we increase these senses on a physical level as a human, we also increase these senses on an energetic and spiritual level. And they really, really do make quick work of strengthening and developing your psychic gifts. Now there's one last one that I want to share with you. And this is my favorite. If I had to pick a favorite, this would be the favorite way to receive messages. And it's clear cognizance. And this is a knowing. So this is when you just know something, and you don't know how you know it, but you just know it. You're not seeing anything. You're not hearing anything. You're not sensing anything, like feelings. You get nothing else. You just know. And the reason why I love this, Claire, so much is because it requires the most confidence. Because you've got nothing else to go on. Just your guts and the hope that it's right. You just say the thing. You just know it. Now, claircognizance is one of those things that this is the most easily developed in readings simply because It's the hardest one to develop confidence on because you have no other information, but it also is helpful to receive validation for, okay? So when it comes to yourself, I don't want you to go out here and try to do readings for people so that you can strengthen your clear cognizance. You can do this for you. This is as simple as keeping a daily log. Keep a little notebook where you can just write down when something drops in. Or you just knew something, like maybe you're talking to a friend. and you're saying something and they're like, how did you know that? Right, write those things down. Start keeping a log so that you can start seeing and validating for yourself when you are actually receiving through that clear knowing. I have had clients come to work with me in psychic development where they are believing that what they're receiving clear cognizantly is actually coming from their mind. But they don't know anything. before they know it, right? They don't have any information to have backed that up. It just comes in. And so often, you don't realize just how clear things are coming through because you are discrediting your connection and giving the power to your brain. So this is a great way for you to just start kind of keeping a log. And it's really beautiful because over time, especially when you're writing down, oh, I think I got a download, and I think this is what's going to happen. I just know it. When you're writing those things down, if it doesn't come true or it doesn't come out, come to be the exact way that you wrote it down, there's power in that. Everyone's afraid to get it wrong, but you have to be willing to get it wrong to get it right. And when you get something wrong, you are able to build a picture. You're able to start seeing the patterns develop of what ways was my energy different? What ways did I receive that message? How did that come in? Where did my mind take it? You start to see the patterns and that knowledge is power. So these are just practical ways that you can start developing your own psychic gifts or improve them. Again, if you are not just a beginner and you've been doing readings for however long, it doesn't matter. Using these practical ways to enhance your own senses will actively improve your connection in readings and for yourself. That's a wrap on this week's episode. We'll see you back here next week. In the meantime, for all things psychic development, head to our website at theschoolforpsychics.com and check out our opportunities. You can find the link in the show notes below.
